Obviously that’s hyperbole. But Mandalorian actually felt like it was fleshing out and expanding the universe, whereas all the movies so far have felt like sad middle-aged guys playing with their old Kenner toys.

Filioni did an epic job with Star Wars Rebels. His absence is noticeable on Resistance.

I haven’t been that blown away by a Star Wars reveal since Vader telling Luke he’s his father. This series is going to be fucking great.

See, Disney? It’s not hard to make great Star Wars when you put it in the hands of people who actually understand the property and don’t try to shove 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound…

I actually got a little tired of him by the end of Rebels, despite being one of my favorite Clone Wars characters. I always knew how an episode was going to play out if Hondo was in it.

As someone with privilege, I don’t actually notice these things until it’s pointed out on the internet. Thankfully, this time, the first comment I read about it was yours being a positive reaction to noticing it, rather than the inevitable horrible ones that you tend to run across on other sites.
I also didn’t notice…

I wouldn’t be surprised to see a Hondo flashback. I think Filoni and Favreau all but confirmed a character or characters from Rebels and / or Clone Wars, and given how many times Filoni’s gone back to Hondo, I could see him doing it again.

When he takes off his helmet in the final episode it’s really Mad Mardigan.

I know this isn’t The Root, and doesn’t have much to do with adorable Yodlings, but can we talk about how wonderfully brown The Madalorian is? John Beasley (Omahaaaa), Pedro Pascal, Horatio Sanz, Carl Weathers, Omid Abtahi, Julia Jones, and Taika Waititi with Giancarlo Esposito and Ming-Na Wen soon to arrive.

I can’t…

So now I suspect the rest of the series will be the Mandalorian carrying that Yoda baby back and forth around a vaguely Icelandic landscape with a bunch of crates strapped to his back.

We have no idea of Baby Yoda’s force abilities. We just know it’s an absolutely adorable little Baby Yoda, and how do you raise a blaster to that?

“That’s why IG-11 almost kills it and why the Mandalorian kills IG-11 to save it.”

In fairness, the show did not demonstrate that the baby Yodling has any force sensitivity whatsoever. I suppose that can be inferred, but there is no on-screen evidence for it.. yet. For now it is prima facie showing us an infant version of a very rare species, which in and of itself has great value. It reminded me…

Exactly!

This.

Yeah, it’s not so much “too much SW” as, I guess “it doesn’t feel as much like the SW I’ve always had in my head.” And again, no criticism for those who like this stuff; I loved Rogue One, so I’m certainly not writing it all off just because it’s new. Solo was an example of the sort of thing I actually don’t want to…

That’s fair enough. I especially hear you on the latter two points re: Disney and streaming services. I happen to like the current direction, and I love the one-offs (Rogue One, Solo, whatever comes next) and the general de-emphasis of the Skywalker dynasty. It’s a whole goddamn universe for crying out loud, why are…

A couple things to consider: Was this hammering away done by Dave Filoni’s previous shows? If not, then you might consider that this being yet another Filoni project will be something to enjoy.

All in all, solid.  Dave Filoni is Star Wars.

The swagger?

Don’t mean this to be bitchy: