TREAT WILLIAMS & CARRIE FISHER on the set of The Empire Strikes Back | 1980

— "Well, Treat Williams decided he was going to come and hang out on the set, which he did, and he appeared in those ice planet scenes as one of the lieutenants or officers in the Rebel Forces. And I'm sure that there is no credit for him at all and he didn't have a character or anything, but he just said, 'Hey, this looks like a lotta fun and I'd kinda like to be a part of it, mind if I take a role of an extra?' Everybody said,

'Yeah!' So here you have this Hollywood star who just decided, for probably no salary, just to hang out for a few scenes and was quite happy with the role of an extra in Empire Strikes Back. And that was kinda the way it was."

1 - the geese in the background show that the fake coyote doesn't deter geese

In TCW, Satine appears to control the entire Mandalorian system (or at least her government does). She can claim neutrality for her system and her people, separating her government from Death Watch and their connection to the Separatists so that their actions don't incur consequences for herself and her people.

And then in Rebels, we meet Fenn Rau who claims to have actually FOUGHT in the Clone Wars on the side of the Republic. Which... radically goes against Satine's declaration of neutrality, but also doesn't align with Death Watch's more warmongering connection with the Separatists.

TCW also told us that Satine had "exiled all the warriors" to a nearby moon named Concordia, implying that anyone left in the system had agreed not to continue warrior traditions.

So how an entire group of Mandalorians managed to not just BE WARRIORS STILL but explicitly go against Satine's declaration of neutrality in order to fight for the Republic is BAFFLING. It makes no fucking sense. The only way to make any sense of it is to believe that the Protectors and Concord Dawn were never under Satine and her government's control to begin with, so her rules and her neutrality just didn't apply to them.

But they're never brought up in any of the first discussions Obi-Wan has with Satine about a Mandalorian warrior attacking a Republic vessel. You'd think if there was a known group of Mandalorians who still practiced warrior traditions that refused to acknowledge Satine as their ruler, that would be important information to bring up and consider here. Even if the Protectors are already fighting for the Republic at this point in the story, it would still be a worthwhile place to start investigating. So the only way to make sense of THAT is to assume that the Protectors had been in hiding and Satine didn't know about them yet, or they were created only AFTER Satine made her declaration of neutrality and they disagreed with it and a bunch of people ran off to make their OWN "traditional" warrior group that wasn't associated with either Satine or Death Watch in order to help the Republic in the war.

And that's... kinda interesting. The idea of a more "traditional" warrior group that didn't agree with some of Satine's rules but who had no interest in trying to overthrow her or join the Separatists in their more imperialist ways, and so they actually fought on the Republic's side in the war. There IS a way to take that and to try to use that as a bridge between Lucas's Mandos and Filoni's Mandos. ESPECIALLY if we'd seen more of a conflict between Fenn Rau and Bo-Katan, who manages to represent both the Kryze bloodline AND Death Watch, neither of which are things the Protectors should be all that impressed by.