I’ve been waiting to see an actual headpiece for him since the rumors for Moff Gideon’s cruiser, since it’s an important part to have in my opinion. But seeing that both “Boba Fett’s Starship” and Moff Gideon’s light cruiser are both relevant to the episodes where we see Mando without the helmet I’m hoping for a head piece but every time I look at the images it looks like he has a black head. Is this intentional to throw people off? Or is it just a plain black head?
Regardless of your own personal opinion of The Last Jedi, it's a pretty objective fact that there was a massive shift in the Star Wars community after its release. Battlefront II was in the middle of a gigantic controversy, and both Solo and TROS didn't really leave a massive impact on the community (Neither positive nor negative) when it really needed something positive. Hell, maybe even negative to at least send some kind of message to the higher ups.
Furthermore, TROS straight up broke the canon's continuity because of how far it deviated from what TLJ left, leaving a lot of people confused, tired, and worn out with the franchise. I think most people can agree that it wasn't the grand "finale" that the MEGA-FRANCHISE STAR WARS deserved. Especially considering how impactful and (mostly) uniting TFA and Rogue One were.
(Truth be told, I think most people who didn't like TFA liked Rogue One, and vice versa, and then there were the people who liked both - the point being there it seemed like there was something for everyone.)
Star Wars wasn't talked about in the same way as it was before. It was always about how TLJ was either the savior or destroyer of Star Wars, how toxic fans had driven actors off the internet, or just other really negative things about our community. Furthermore, the future of Star Wars post TROS was extremely vague and unclear. It felt like our fandom wasn't excited anymore.
For the first time in 3 years, it feels so goddamn good to be a Star Wars fan again. We got Bo Katan. Boba Fett. Ahsoka Tano.
AND NOW.
LUKE M O T H E R F U C K I N G SKYWALKER!!!!!!!
The past 8 weeks of watching The Mandalorian have been the most invigorating time in the fandom in the last 3 years. Seeing everyone's reactions to their childhood dreams come true has been fulfilling and wholesome. It doesn't try to subvert your expectations for the hell of it - Every twist, turn, and shocking character introduction makes sense within the context of the story.
Sure, there's a fuck-load of fan-service, but why the fuck is that a bad thing? Are you seriously going to sit there and tell me that you didn't want to see a badass Luke Skywalker cutting through 40 fucking Dark Troopers without breaking a sweat all while genuinely showing his character?
And looking at the future of Star Wars content, seeing the slate that they have lined up for Disney+... It's just surreal to see it. It's surreal to feel this excited for Star Wars again.
I can
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- Original Release Date: December 18, 2020
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When Din Djarin takes Moff Gideon to the command bridge he is in possession of the Darksaber. Soon the Dark Troopers star boarding the ship. When the Dark Troopers are banging the door of the command bridge Din Djarin takes his blaster. Why on earth would he do that when he literally saw few minutes earlier that his blaster fire didn't cause any damage to the Dark Trooper he fought earlier? Why on earth would he do that when Bo Katan had just before the mission explained, that the Darksaber penetrates any material but pure beshkar? He has the weapon with which he could take down the entire squad and he chooses to use his blaster.
He must feel stupid when he sees how Luke chooses to deal with them soon after. This keeps amazing me. Din Djarin does not strike me as an idiot. Still, in this situation, he really acts like one.
So, in season 2 of the Mandalorian we see Ahsoka and we see that her lekku and montrals are rather short, compared to how they were portrayed in Rebels and TCW season 7, and to how other adult Torgruta are portrayed in pretty much all other media. I'll be mostly focusing on Shaak Ti here because she was also in live action. Obviously animation can be very stylized (just look at TCW Count Dooku), so that could explain why Ahsoka looks different to how she was in Rebels.
From everything that we know about Togruta, their montrals and lekku grow as they age. We don't know Shaak Ti's age, but we know that Ahsoka is 45 as of The Mandalorian. If the rate of growth is relatively standard, that would seem to indicate that Shaak Ti was much older than Ahsoka was, as of the latest time we see each of them, probably over 100 years old. Assuming that Togruta age similarly to humans, this does not appear to be the case. That means either:
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Togruta live significantly longer than humans, and Shaak Ti actually was far older than Ahsoka.
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The rate of growth of montrals and lekku can be very different between different individual Togruta.
To expand that second option, I'd like to consider the possibility that Shaak Ti and Ahsoka are two different "races" of Togruta (similar to how there are different races of humans IRL, with slightly different features.) We can see that not only are Ahsoka's montrals smaller/developing more slowly than Shaak Ti's, they are also developing in a very different shape.
Ahsoka. Shaak Ti. This is consistent with the shape of Ahsoka's montrals in all other media she appears in as well (TCW and Rebels). In no case do her montrals appear to be developing the inwards turn that Shaak Ti's do.
Additionally, Ahsoka's skin is orange while Shaak Ti's is red. This could be another indication that they come from two different "races," just as skin color often indicates that IRL. Another different race of Togruta may be portrayed in the "Slaves of the Republic" arc of TCW, where we see that the Togruta colonists in the Kiros system have different skin colors and montral shapes to either
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Not gonna lie, I enjoyed from start to finish that S2 of the Mando.Fan service done right, for sure. But what to me stands out the most is how they treated PTSD from veterans with a lot of finesse and actually believable acting.
I'm of course talking about Migs Mayfield.
Now, full disclosure, I'm a huge Bill Burr fan and a Star Wars fan. This was never meant to be, to see Burr in SW, after his famous rant against the fandom (which is hilarious). But what started more as "the Bill Burr show" on season 1, changed drastically in a matter of seconds in the Officer Hess shooting scene of Chapter 15 episode.
I'm no vet, but I'm sure some could have identified with the character in the context of the conversation topic, the build up, the facial expressions showing obvious pain from the character...I'm not gonna lie, Burr acting right there threw me off guard. He's so good and believable. I heard him talk on his podcast about that episode and having actual Iraq/Afghanistan vets thanking him for his portrayal.
We never really got that treated right in Star Wars (Finn character development is a joke, an underwhelming arc at best, EDIT : personal and very specific opinion here, not a jab at the sequels in general. Finn is my favorite character of the sequels, but his story arc felt wasted), but I'm glad it now shows it, and from an ex-imperial soldier nonetheless. This whole episode served a great purpose, aside from Mando and his quest, and his face reveal to Migs, to finally humanize the other side, to show something different about Imps and stormtroopers in general. They still will be canon fodder and the butt of the joke in the end, but heck, even in universe, they've seen as expendables and to get a character who survived and his dealing with lots of survivor guilt and PTSD was a great moment of storytelling and world building.
What did you think?
Edit : thank you everyone for the conversation and for veterans to come and chime in on the topic. I really appreciated reading all your comments, with great constructive criticism . This is the way.
Edit 2 : Also, I rewatched the episode and Mayfield "rant" during the ride in the rhodonium transport, how he can't sleep at night, how "the Empire/New Republic it's all the same thing for these people, invaders on their land is all we are" is 100% Bill Burr would say on his podcast but also something I've read/seen vets say after coming back from deployment overseas. It's not just the final shooting sc
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Is it just me, or does everyone seen to talk about shows having "a Luke Skywalker moment" now? Everyone was saying it about WandaVision, now they're talking about the Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 5 potential cameo, no doubt it will be the same for Loki.
People are setting themselves up for L's rather than actually enjoying the content on its merits. The Luke Skywalker moment was almost like a drug that everyone is now chasing, trying to get the same feeling as that first high.
But if every show has fan service on that level (and don't get me wrong, I literally cried when Luke showed up and it totally worked in terms of the narrative, which made it feel earned) it begins the cheapen the value of such an experience. Eventually it would just be, "oh, wonder who the big surprise cameo will be."
Some people are literally saying stuff like maybe Wolverine could show up. For sure I'd freak out (username checks out) but come on guys. It's a show about Sam and Bucky and they deserve the limelight.
Luke's reveal was a great thing, it didn't overshadow Mando's arc. It worked. But let's manage our expectations and let them tell great stories without relying on thrill factor.
Eucatastrophe is a sudden turn of events at the end of a story which ensures that the protagonist does not meet some terrible, impending, and very plausible and probable doom. The writer J. R. R. Tolkien coined the word by affixing the Greek prefix eu, meaning good, to catastrophe, the word traditionally used in classically inspired literary criticism to refer to the "unraveling" or conclusion of a drama's plot. For Tolkien, the term appears to have had a thematic meaning that went beyond its literal etymological meaning in terms of form. In his definition as outlined in his 1947 essay "On Fairy-Stories", eucatastrophe is a fundamental part of his conception of mythopoeia.
This is something that the show got so right because Luke is that hope. His arrival is the turning of events in the Star Wars universe. He is the essence of eucatastrophe.
Edit: So, how is this different than Deus Ex Machina? Deus Ex Machina is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence. Luke was not unexpected or unlikely. The whole plot of the season was Din getting Grogu to the Jedi. You knew Grogu had made contact with a Jedi, you just didn’t know who. He showed up right before the Dark Troopers were about to bust through the door.
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