By popular demand!
I put a poll out there to see what you all would like to see more of and the Mandalorian
content won out!
So, sticking true to the poll, here ya go!
I expect that everyone will have different opinions on this.
And that is so awesome!
One of the great things about Star Wars is that it resonates with each of us differently.
So, I’m going to ask this question and I’d like to see as many comments about it as I
can.
Even if you feel like you’ve repeated what others have said, it’s your opinion and
your opinion matters to me.
Even if it differs from my own.
Actually I have 2 questions.
The first is…did you like the Mandalorian season 3?
And the second is…why do you think we are seeing so much hate against it?
Of course I’ll give my own opinion but that shouldn’t sway how you feel.
It’s just an opinion.
Hello everyone!
I’m Gerald!
Nope!
Not that Gerald!
Ahhh that’s better!
Okay, so for the first question…at the risk of some of you running away screaming, I liked
the Mandalorian season 3.
Like I said, that’s just my opinion.
Hang on!
Don’t go anywhere yet!
You have to hear my whole spiel before you condemn me to the Kessel Maelstrom.
I did like the Mandalorian season 3.
Yes!
There were some iffy moments in it but it wasn’t enough to ruin the show for me.
And we have to admit, Jack Black could have been a lot worse.
But let’s take away the fact that Jack Black was even in it and just look at him as a character.
I don’t know, put Arnold Schwarzenegger’s face on him if you have to.
I want peace for California!
Wait…never mind.
Don’t put Arnold Schwarzenegger on Jack Black.
For me, the character Jack Black was portraying actually showed the beginning cracks in the
New Republic.
Taking someone who was once an Imperial criminal and turning him so docile that he didn’t
see his utopia being actually ran by a sadistic security chief shows a stark parallel to the
way the pacifists of Mandalore lost their own control due to willing blindness.
And that maybe the reeducation tactics of the New Republic worked a little too well.
I know a lot of people don’t want it, but it also shows how it was so easy for the first
order to rise without much resistance.
This was also evident in the scenes showing how Doctor Pershing was hooked up to that
weird mind zapping thingy.
Then that crazy lady turned it up to 11.
And that brings me to my second point.
A lot of people didn’t like that we were left wondering about Doctor Pershing.
This season didn’t go back to him.
Okay, that’s fair…but look how long it took us to get an answer about the Zillo Beast.
Not all story arcs wrap up nicely in the season they are introduced.
If they did, we would have no real need for more seasons.
I actually feel like that one was a nitpick setup by people looking for something to get
mad about.
And our society is getting used to so many social platforms moving away from long form
videos because we are beginning to have the attention spans of a bag of pudding.
Yep…I meant what I said.
It seems resolutions need to be made in the first minute of an arc being introduced.
I’m sorry, that isn’t how stories are told.
But, like I said, that was probably just someone stirring up shit in order to further their
own narrative of the show.
The biggest complaint I’ve heard is that the Mandalorian season 3 moved away from the
story being about Din Djarin and Grogu and focused more on Bo-Katan Kryze.
And that brings me to the second question…why do you think there is so much hate for the
Mandalorian season 3?
And again…stick around…I have a point to all of this.
From other videos I’ve made…you know…when I predicted it would be either Boba Fett or
Bo-Katan Kryze who would become the Mand’alor?
A lot of Star Wars fans freaked out over this.
I got so many comments as to how wrong I was.
That Din Djarin or Grogu would learn to wield the Darksaber and be the reluctant leader,
like King Arthur.
My answer was, “no…Din Djarin is more of a Lancelot with the shiny armor and do
good attitude and Grogu is a freaking toddler.”
But I was called a lot of names.
Oh well!
The point is that I was right.
I noticed they didn’t return to the comments as they said they would.
Okay!
Enough of that crap!
But when Bo-Katan actually became the Mand’alor, the internet broke with hate for the Mandalorian
Season 3.
There are reasons I saw it happening.
Even from season 1 I couldn’t see Din Djarin as the leader of the Mandalorian people.
When he got the darksaber in season 2, I said the darksaber needed to be destroyed.
Not because Din Djarin had it, but because of how divisive it had been since the Clone
Wars.
It caused more harm than good.
But back to season 1 of the Mandalorian.
In the first scene, we see Din Djarin kicking ass.
He captures his prey and collects the bounty.
In the process, he kills a couple thugs in a bar.
Cool stuff!
It hooked so many of us into the show.
I mean, opening a show with a western themed bar fight!
Nice!
And throughout season 1 it’s much of the same…Din Djarin kicking ass!
But a lot of his victories were against lower thugs.
When he was faced with larger adversaries with combat skills he would come close to
losing.
Cara Dune got the better of Din Djarin, and Moff Gideon damn near killed him, if not for
IG-11.
In fact, had IG-11 not been in the battle to retrieve Baby Yoda…as he was known as
at the time…against the Nikto, he would have surely loss that fight too.
Yeah…he was outnumbered and out gunned.
Then there is the Jawa and the Mudhorn incident.
The Jawas made a joke of Din Djarin and if not for the Child…aha Baby Yoda…aka Grogu…Din
Djarin would have been killed by the beast.
It's no doubt that Din Djarin is a bad ass and skilled in his fighting style and his
weaponry.
But for his age he just seemed to lack experience against larger foes.
Din Djarin had been collecting bounties on lower thugs for most of his career prior to
meeting the client.
In season 2 there are a couple cases where Din Djarin is nearly defeated.
And no, this isn’t a bash fest against the Mandalorian bounty hunter.
I do have a point to all of this.
In the ice caves, had the two New Republic pilots not shown up, Din Djarin and Grogu
would have been killed by giant spiders.
Then, when Din Djarin returns the frog lady to her husband Din Djarin and Grogu are nearly
killed by the Quarren fish dudes on the high sea.
If not for Bo-Katan Kryze and the Nite Owls, the Mandalorian series would have ended there.
But he did have some victories up to this point.
He, along with Cara Dune, the fish face guy with the ink problem, and Grief Karga took
out an Imperial installation on Navarro.
But at the end of the season was Din Djarin’s biggest victory to date.
He took on Moff Gideon in single combat and won.
In turn, the darksaber was his.
But he didn’t care about the darksaber.
Nor did he care to lead the Mandalorian people.
He only wanted his adoptive son back.
Victory!
But then we have the Book of Din Djarin…I mean the Book of Luke Skywalker…I mean the
Book of Boba Fett!
Some argue that he was the best part of that show.
The other side of the argument is that Din Djarin taking up two episodes halted the development
of Boba Fett.
But in it, Din Djarin is back to his old ways.
Yes, he defeated the Klatooinian butchers but he damn near cut off his own leg with
the darksaber in the process.
Showing he didn’t know how to wield it and couldn’t connect with it.
Where the darksaber would have likely been someone else’s primary weapon, Din Djarin
used it as a backup.
When he returned to his covert, the Children of the Watch, he was told he was a Mandalorian,
no more for removing his helmet.
If he cared to be the leader of the Mandalorian people, he would have created an executive
order that Mandalorians would be allowed to remove their helmets in certain situations.
Instead, he just said, “okay.”
Showing this developing Mandalorian was still a follower and didn’t have a leader’s
tenacity.
One could make a strong case that a lot of the trials Din Djarin either failed, or came
close to failing were part of the heroes journey.
But his mindset never changed.
He learned from his previous mistakes but he still had no interest in leading.
He only wanted to be a protective father.
But then comes the Mandalorian season 3, Din Djarin continues his quest to just be accepted
by his group, the Children of the Watch.
When traversing the mines of Mandalore, he is beaten by a giant claw machine and Bo-Katan
comes to his rescue…again!
Then giving him the out he needed from the responsibility of the darksaber.
He also gets beaten by Moff Gideon in their second faceoff.
This time Gideon has better armor and is better equipped to fight the Beskar wearing Mandalorian.
And Bo-Katan steps in to save the day yet again.
This has been happening since the Mandalorian season 2.
But this focus on Bo-Katan being the rightful leader of the Mandalorian clans ruffled quite
a few feathers in the Star Wars fandom.
Okay, that’s putting it mildly.
Star Wars fans were outraged.
How dare the show turn into a love parade for Bo-Katan.
Never mind the fact that she was Mandalorian royalty and that her family had been the leaders
of Mandalore for generations.
She herself had even been the leader in the past.
This hero’s journey was supposed to be about this character we had never seen before.
Not this hardened combat veteran who helped free Mandalore from the likes of Maul and
again from the traitorous Gar Saxon.
The one Mandalorian who trusted a former Jedi and even became her friend.
Bringing in a new way of thinking between Mandalorians and light side Force users.
But the title of the show is THE MANDALORIAN.
This is supposed to be about Din Djarin!
Well, it still was!
Had it not been for Din Djarin, the Mandalorian people would still be hiding in caves and
stinky sewers throughout the galaxy.
A main character doesn’t have to become the leader in order to be about them.
In fact, the case could be made that, if not for Din Djarin, the clans would have never
come together at all.
The same star Wars fans who are mad that a bit of the focus shifted from Din Djarin to
Bo-Katan Kryze are the same ones who thought the Book of Grogu, I mean the Book of Boba
Fett was made better when the focus shifted from Boba Fett to Din Djarin.
And that show was titled with Boba Fett’s name in it.
The Mandalorian, as this show is titled, is ambiguous.
It isn’t titled the Din Djarin show.
It isn’t titled the bounty hunter.
It’s titled the Mandalorian.
And that could be any number of them.
Or even all of them.
But be that as it may, the show is still about Din Djarin.
So, I ask again, why is there so much hate for the Mandalorian season 3?
Because we didn’t get a resolution for the Doctor Pershing arc…yet?
Because it was Bo-Katan became the Mand’alor?
I think, had Din Djarin suffered his losses yet still become the Mandalorian leader, there
would be little issue.
Or is it because Jack Black and Lizzo were in the show for about 10 minutes?
Honestly, leave comment because I really don’t get it.
To me, this entire season has been about Din Djarin growing beyond being a lone bounty
hunter.
He became a father and did everything he could to protect his child.
And that theme continued throughout the Mandalorian season 3.
It was never about Din Djarin leading the Mandalorian people.
The fact that he helped Bo-Katan Kryze return as the leader was but a chapter in his story.
Many chapters of novels are not about the titular character.
I say again, read any of the Thrawn novels.
Sometimes there are multiple chapters where Thrawn isn’t even mentioned.
But I go back to what I was saying about instant gratification and the attention span of our
society.
We want resolutions now!
Not in future seasons.
Not even in the next episode.
Most new Star Wars shows get hate before the first episode even airs.
Then when the first episode does air, the shows get even more hate.
The story of Din Djarin and the Mandalorian isn’t over.
Only 24 chapters of it.
And we know we are getting at least 8 more chapters and a movie.
Again, let me know what you think.
What were the reasons for the hate of this season?
I’d really like to know.
Thank you for hanging out with me today.
This has been Gerald, and I am a Star Wars Fanatic wishing you all great health, happiness,
and peace.
Thank you all so much for watching and remember, this is the way!
And a shared love for Star Wars is the only way!