You know I said a few months ago that Andor was so good it made me re-evaluate my opinion on the Mandalorian. I guess the showrunners felt the same way because that last episode reeks hard of them trying and FAILING to do political intrigue.

Just putting aside the fact that every single person in the "Amnesty Program" should have faced a firing squad: whose bright fucking idea was it to house them all together???? "Oh golly gee wiz, let's just stuck a whole bunch of space fascists and collaborators in a tiny little neighborhood. Surely nothing will go wrong!!!" I suppose its technically canonical that the new republic is incompetent as shit given how things play out with the first order but sheesh guys.

Just stick to what you know guys. More pew pew and vroom vroom. Leave the political drama to the adult writers in the room. You will never ever be as good as Andor....and that is OK.

  • Esoteir [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    what if operation paperclip was good aktuly?

    I wish, at least they would have to acknowledge that it actually happened then lmao, if that was the case they would have had the New Republic directly funding and aiding Space Mengele's cloning research

    that being said I completely agree on the andor showrunners, they need to have a scene where Baby Yoda points a blaster at Luke and has to choose between living a negative peace or entering the depths of a living hell

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      they need to have a scene where Baby Yoda points a blaster at Luke

      It doesn't even really have to be that. It could be Baby Yoda doing the training and simply deciding this shit sucks, he doesn't want to be a Jedi, and he misses Mando. Then he does an episode where he runs away - first unsuccessfully, but then more so as he learns to pursue the destiny he's really after by abandoning Force powers and actively embracing Mandolorian virtues as his tools of choice.

      Then Baby Yoda isn't just "a Yoda that happens to become a Mandalorian" but "a Yoda that finds value in the Mandolorian Way". Hell, you could even have a scene towards the end where he mutters "This is the Way" to himself as he does some tech-assisted death-defying escape maneuver.

      Baby Yoda finding purpose and growing as a character! Baby Yoda showing a degree of maturity and self-determination totally absent from the character in the prior two seasons! Baby Yoda showing that he's genuinely empathized with Mando and internalized things Mando didn't even realize he was teaching The Child. Then, Baby Yoda finding his own way back to Mando of his own accord and proving he's more than just baggage.

      • Esoteir [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        :100-com:

        Baby Yoda existing as a marketable plushie for 30 episodes instead of existing as a character in a show that is ostensibly about him is a fuckin war crime, I like the idea of him abandoning the force powers it'd be a kino arc

        • MoreAmphibians [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          I like the idea of him abandoning the force powers it’d be a kino arc

          I'd prefer to see him abandon the Jedi stuff rather than the force.

    • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      if that was the case they would have had the New Republic directly funding and aiding Space Mengele’s cloning research

      Exactly. I'm not saying I would have liked it if they had gone the route of new republic being basically interchangeable with the empire and then doing an operation paperclip....but that at least would have been sort of interesting.

      They don't do that though. He's given amnesty on the conditions that he can't continue doing his research and he's stuck doing data entry. It's just complete nonsense.