This is not ironic
As long as there's only like, 1 or maybe 2 lightsaber man around at a time, Star Wars is good. Star Wars is more interesting the less Jedi are involved (so I'm actually pretty hyped about some of the announced shit like Rogue Squadron, which if based off the Michael A Stackpole series, which it seems to be, could be fucking sweet) Change My Mind
I kind of disagree.
Maybe it's because I grew up with the prequels, but I really like that kind of stuff, in fact there shouldn't be just more jedi but more sith as well.I get what you are saying though, the Smuggler story in SWTOR didn't have all that many force users and I thought it was interesting (atleast in the beginning) but I also liked that there were still force wahoos running around up to stuff in the galaxy who could pop up and pose an obstacle.
Ok.
What's good is not "few lightsaber bois", what's cool is having characters that CAN be in danger. This can be done by having characters who are weak or by having said lightsaber bois being in a situation where they can't freely use their powers (which is usually because they are infiltrating someplace). Another possibility is having insanely powerful villains but that would also be an asspull (starkiller base).
Entirely agreed with most of your points, it's the basic interpretation I was going for, which is that Jedi kinda ruin the stakes in most of the stories they become involved in. They're the Superman of Star Wars: all problems can theoretically be solved by them showing up, and the only way to counter their power creep is with their distaff counterpart with Evil Enhanced Powers. I guess I'm not a huge fan of the combat oriented culture the Jedi have developed as the series has released, I like them more Monk-like than I dunno, Sword Wizard
Like another poster mentioned Corran Horn and he's a Jedi and he's one of my favorite characters, admittedly partly because he straight up rejects his heritage for a while and just keeps on being a pilot. He's a good character even as a Jedi because he has this weird Genetic deviation in his force powers which make him weak with telekinesis but strong with Illusion and mind powers, as well as energy absorbtion I guess? So he can't just solve his problems by waving his hands at them, he has to be really clever with his limitations.
I'd like to stress I didn't say Jedi aren't cool, just that they're oversaturated
Light saber man did nothing for me.
Bounty hunter man, on the other hand, did very much for me. I now understand why y'all like fanservice so much.
Fat Elvis Bounty Man is equally as entertaining as Thin Elvis Bounty Man, to the surprise of everyone.
Yep. The seeming choice to devote the next entire season to Fat Elvis makes my GenX brain go brrrrrt.
So real talk: I didn't give much credence to ret-conning the Rey movies out but after last night, I'm 100% on board. The possibilities are far more numerous if they go down the Mando path without the road eventually ending at Rey.
I think it will be the old (age wise) Mandalorian. At least, my childhood sure fucking hopes so.
They should really just see what happens if they try telling an interesting war story again
You know, guerilla warfare against an america stand in. That's where the cool story is.
The Thrawn trilogy was the real sequel trilogy in my opinion. It actually explained what happened to the Empire. The Imperial remnant actually makes far more sense than the First Order, and it's fitting to the original dialogue of A New Hope where the Grand Moffs meet on the Death Star. They basically hint that without the Emperor, the Empire would consist of Moffs acting as war lords over their individual territories and would probably have conflicts with one another (and they do). This is similar to the war lords of the Roman Empire, and it makes sense.
The Thrawn trilogy also showed that the New Republic had rampant corruption and scandals going on, and it introduced cool new characters. Thrawn himself works as a villain cause he's unlike anything else we had seen before then. And we do see him lose a few battles here and there. Garm Bel Iblis is the type of character that would've worked in the sequel trilogy, but Disney was more interested in repeating the tropes of the OT.
It's mindless fun for 30-40 min per week. I don't expect it to have anything to say about the human condition or any deeper meaning than laser swords go vrmmmmmmm wmmmmmmm. Also like the 70s lived-in junk future aesthetic
Are we talking Mandalorian? I watched like four episodes and it was boring by the numbers slop. Does it get better?
Very much depends. I enjoyed S1 more than S2, but if you're someone who enjoys seeing old characters show up, you'll probably like S2 more than S1.
Also, I like the Western/Man With No Name/Samurai formula. If you don't, it's definitely not the show for you.
