Welcome back everyone it's charlie this is going to be my new mandalorian season
2 boba fett video there was a big mandalorian season 2 panel over the last
weekend where john favreau and a lot of the filmmakers were talking about the
season 2 episodes the new season 2 characters
specifically boba fett baby yoda the mandalorian character so we'll break it
all down there's also some casting news about
other really big characters that they're bringing to live action from some of the
animated series like grand admiral thrawn so i'll address that during the
video too but this is mostly going to be about boba fett and the mandalorian
season 2. if you're new to the channel be sure to
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with number five all this mandalorian season two panel stuff is from the atx
television festival they did a special pre-recorded panel because they're still
working on the mandalorian season 2 in post-production right now
they talked about a bunch of stuff during season 2 in the series in general
and the character arcs but some of the most important stuff was
clarifying why they chose to do the boba fett character especially after jon
favreau implied last year that they weren't going to do
him before season one premiered what they chose to change about the character
given the star wars timeline from the movies and the other canon tv shows like
the clone wars and confirmed some of my theories about what's going on with this
character during season two the overall themes of redemption
inherent to the series itself also through the dinjarin mandalorian
character in baby yoda so remember that idea too
redemption all about redemption boba fett's story during season two
and season three will make a little more sense too when you hear john favreau's
quote here this is one of his more important bow
effect quotes he said we all love boba fett but we never got as much of him as
we all wanted he's talking about in the
original trilogy he came to an unceremonious end in return of the jedi
we wanted somebody that could kind of live up to what we had hoped to see
when we were younger so number four what that means for boba fett in season two
is that they intend to quote redeem the character after the hilarious way he
went out in return of the jedi falling into the sarlacc pit
he was such a badass during empire strikes back he was hyped up
so much and they just went out so hilariously
during return of the jedi the most badass bounty hunter in the galaxy just
falls right into the pit because he gets knocked in the back
a lot of the inspiration for the mandalorian series in general when they
were developing it came from the boba fett character as well as because we
have dave filoni from the clone wars mandalorian storylines
but all that stuff during the clone wars spun out of the backstory that started
in the original trilogy with that boba fett character so it all goes back to
boba fett so because the boba fett character is so
important to the mandalorian series metaphorically
and practically that's why they wanted to bring him on also because they wanted
to do justice to the character the only other big boba fett stories
that we've had within the star wars universe that are still canon right now
are actually during the clone wars daniel logan who played the young boba
fett during attack of the clones came back to play a slightly older
version of the character during the clone wars animated series
and it just pushed him slowly along the path of becoming the boba fett of
present day he's jango's son
yes yes sorry about your father he was a friend and an honorable man
but it's temura morrison that's playing the older boba fett that we'll see
during the mandalorian season two because
if you want to be accurate about it boba fett was a clone of jango fett
temura morrison played jango fett he played all the clones so he would also
play boba fett in present day too but because they now confirmed the
teaser from the mandalorian episode 5 post credit scene or that end tag scene
where he's walking up inspecting mina's body it just confirms
that they're doing a version of the aftermath story which is
canon to star wars right now i know there's always a lot of questions about
what's canon what's not canon i'll get into that in a second too but for the
most part the aftermath novel just deals with the
aftermath of return of the jedi what happens after that to the empire
and what happens on tatooine after the sarlacc pit here
the reason why you don't see boba fett wearing his classic armor in the
mandalorian episode 5 here which is taking place five years after return of
the jedi is explained during the aftermath novel
because what happens is is you find a character named cobb vance who i think
is being played by timothy oliphant during the mandalorian season 2
is seen arguing with jawas over a set of mandalorian armor which just happens to
be boba fett's classic armor which
apparently the jaw was found around the sarlacc pit
they had a couple funny moments with the jawas during mandalorian season one just
to remind you that they do stuff like that they'll take
anything that they can find like they were trying to steal moff gideon's tie
fighter rip it apart with him still incited
so number three there was that report from the set that timothy oliphant was
seen wearing a version of the boba fett
mandalorian armor in his scenes so if you didn't see my last season 2
video he is playing a character during at least one episode for season 2. we
don't know which episode it's going to be but as most people have
guessed even if you haven't read the aftermath novel you may have seen people
talking about it if he's playing the cobb vance character
who gets boba fett's armor from the jawas who scavenged it from the sarlacc
pit it would explain who he's playing but
the aftermath novel doesn't tell you exactly what happens to boba fett
himself so the mandalorian season 2 is writing all that new boba fett's
story into the canon themselves and if the series is all about
redemption as john favreau says the redemption of denjarin's character
through baby yoda in john favreau references that when
talking about boba fett they also probably intend to give boba
fett a similar redemption arc during season two and if rumors are to
be believed season three right now the reports are that temura
morrison's boba fett character isn't going to be featured a lot during season
2 but he'll have more episodes during season 3.
but just because they're giving boba fett a redemption arc during the
mandalorian series doesn't mean they're suddenly going to make his alignment
lawful good they're still all about staying true to
the characters and he's a true neutral character as a bounty hunter so he's
capable of helping the mandalorian just as much as he'd sell him out to moff
gideon for a fat bounty paycheck on baby yoda but if you
got worried when you heard that boba fett would show up during season
two that he'd be some sort of gimmick or a one-and-done cameo
we'd never see him again or they kill him off like a punk all of john
favreau's comments imply that that is not the case and even
though they are developing a bunch of mandalorian series spin-offs i don't
think that they have plans to do a boba fett spin-off he could always show up
during the live-action ahsoka series that they've been talking about doing
the obi-wan kenobi series said in the past or others
but outside of future mandalorian seasons i think that's it
and he would just always be played by temuera morrison when he does show up
number two also during this big panel jon favreau confirmed the baby yoda's
character arc is meant to reflect the mandalorians personal history and how
that affected their relationship arc baby yoda being a foundling just like
the mandalorian was the mando and the armor both call him a foundling on
separate occasions and now he takes it into his care as a
father figure just like the death watch mandalorians took him in when they saved
him during the clone wars because of these themes i do like the
theory that the title of the series the mandalorian
is also a reference to baby yoda like he's the mandalorian
because they make a big deal about dinjara not being born a mandalorian he
became one through training taking their oath upholding their code of honor
following their customs so one day baby yoda could also do the
same thing in a sense as cute as it is seeing all this fan art
of him walking around with a mandalorian helmet designed for
giant yoda's species ears i don't think we'd ever see an older version of him
walking around in a giant mandalorian helmet but
metaphorically he becomes a mandalorian through his inclusion in mando's tribe
of two as the armor tells him but number one some of you were asking
me about the grand admiral thrawn casting news
so apparently it's been reported the grand admiral thrawn is going to come
into the live-action series at some point
the news reports didn't specify if the character would be appearing on the
mandalorian or if he was supposed to appear on the ahsoka series or some
other series but the character is still alive in
present day until proven otherwise so here's where we get into what's canon
and what's not canon for grand admiral thrawn if you read the thrawn novels
most of those are great but they're not canon anymore there is a new canon
thrawn novel but it's set way further in the past
before star wars rebels the last time we officially saw thrawn in its
canon was at the end of star wars rebels he was last seen being jumped into
hyperspace into the unknown regions via a giant hyperspace whale and that's it
you just have to wonder what happened to him and ezra bridger
there were also some rumors that they were planning on doing a live-action
ezra bridger on the disney plus series at some point too
that could also be for the ahsoka series so until we hear
otherwise just most people are assuming that if there is thrawn in live action
it will be for some other series it won't be for the mandalorian
right now moff gideon is still meant to be the big bad for the mandalorian
series and the other good news too is that jon
favreau reiterated that the mandalorian season 2 episodes would start being
released in october this year just like they originally planned
no big delays because the virus or anything like that
he didn't give the exact date but right now marvel is currently still releasing
Wandavision episodes in december so in order for that schedule to work
they'd have to start dropping mandalorian season two episodes by
october 9th in order to get them all out before one division starts so until
we get an official release date just pencil that in
vaguely sometime mid-october congratulations to the giveaway winner
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