Yeah, the ruthless bounty hunter of the OT becomes basically a wannabe Robin Hood type—technically a criminal gang leader, but he will work on behalf of the people and try to be as nice as possible about it!

If you don’t mind all the Internet spoilers, you could probably just watch those episodes right before you start watching The Mandalorian S3.

I agree in retrospect that Kylo should have ordered a simultaneous ground assault on the base, but as I recall he had no reason to believe there was a way for them to escape. Even the Resistance originally believes there is only one way out, and while I don’t recall if this is made explicit, it is reasonable Kylo may…

I agree to date the TV shows have not done much to bust out of the overall timeline set by the movies. But The Acolyte, assuming it makes it all the way, is going to change that by going back way before the prequel era.

You’ll never convince me transporters/replicators are given any sort of consistent treatment in the Star Trek universe. Instead, “rules” are stated for plot convenience, then broken for plot convenience too.

Luke only showed up briefly at the end of Season 2 of The Mandalorian, which is not much different from Leia showing up briefly at the end of Rogue One. Meaning like Rogue One, it was mostly not a Skywalker story at all. And of course The Mandalorian was already a hit long before anyone knew Luke would show up.

If you want to, you can just watch the last three episodes of BoBF. Which will feel just like watching the next three episodes of The Mandalorian. So problem solved, really.

So Kylo officially takes over as Supreme Leader after Holdo pulls off her suicide mission (Kylo at the time is still contesting over Luke’s lightsaber with Rey).

So just to be clear, and spoiler alert:

Yeah, I still maintain Solo could have been pretty satisfying as a streaming series, which would have allowed the various backstory beats to be better thought out, and MUCH better paced out.

I think it COULD have made perfect sense, but not the way he apparently wanted to do it.

So Kylo isn’t really responsible for Holdo’s maneuver working. He actually is responsible for being fooled by Luke, but by that point the Resistance is (apparently) down to just a tiny group of survivors, and saving them costs Luke his life.

Recent Star Wars movies: The Force Awakens; Rogue One; The Last Jedi; Solo; The Rise of Skywalker

I think there is an argument that Filoni is pretty much doing exactly what you described.

I agree it is not good writing, but I am not sure I agree it is just fan service. Again, Ahsoka being there is important narratively because she has relationships with both Din and Luke respectively that allows her to have important conversations with them that further the story and lead up to the audience…

So I agree The Mandalorian S1 sort of leans on the (barebones) character of Boba Fett to leap right into the story without much explanation. He is a loner bounty hunter, got it, let’s go!

She also had an important narrative purpose in that she can talk to both Din and Luke in ways they couldn’t talk to each other, all of which is necessary to help explain why Luke gives Grogu the critical choice which ends the episode, and what that choice means for Grogu.

Interestingly, following that path actually makes The Mandalorian all the more a gateway to expanding a viewer’s personal experience of the Star Wars universe.  Which I am sure is part of what Filoni was hoping would happen.

Yeah, that whole sequence seemed like a heaping pile of coincidences, where both Ahsoka and Din happen to be visiting at the exact same time, which happens to be the exact same time the Academy is being built, which happens to be the exact same time Luke finally has critical conversations with Grogu (what have they…

So BoBF definitely turned into far more of just The Mandalorian Season 2.5 than I was expecting. And that is a bummer because I imagined something different and more innovative.