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.

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    quasi-genocidal war that killed billions+ in universe

    i dunno if thats canon anymore (assuming kotor mandalorian war), but the pacifist mandalorians getting the can is the worst creative decision ever. bo katan (?) and her not-wear-a-helmet-all-the-time gang are not diametrically opposed to the main guy's weird cult. they disagree on the window dressing of the violent hierarchy.

    what's actually interesting is people who think prising warfare and killing is fucked up. and the pacifists are proven right. the empire wouldn't have fucked with them [ok it would've been just as interesting if the empire had genocided the pacifists & survivors retreated to warrior culture, but that is not what happened] if they weren't so belligerent & unruly. the whole idea of satine and shit was a culture reckoning with almost killing itself through honor culture (sands outside the dome-cities were implied to be due to warfare) & taking a progressive stance against the reactionary terrorists who liked the old ways.

    but pacifists dont have jetpacks and go pew-pew so the terrorists win & the cool cool space samurai get to return for y'alls's stupid tv shows

    • Smeagolicious [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      In legends the military campaign with massive casualties were the mandalorian wars (which have been adopted into canon so who knows where that stands really). In canon as you mentioned the fascist mandos did basically wipe out most of the planet so it works in either continuity.