#mandoverse

On the left, Chopper from Rebels in all 3 of his paint jobs. On the right, the 3 droids that helped Ahsoka and Rex escape Mandalore after Order 66: R7-A7, Cheep, and RG-G1.

I've also got these Mon Mothma and Melshi designs! The Mon Mothma keychain says "the death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil" and the Melshi keychain says "people have to know about this."

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This is the Way

A little bit of Mando to head into the weekend. Just a study of Din and his armour, I don't even know if I'd called this a finished piece. I may still tinker with it but for now I wanted to share.

It's not a great movie — but not in the way you think.

It really isn't a great movie. Like not the kind of film you walk out of thinking "this permanently changed my brain chemistry and I need three business days to process it" (like Project Hail Mary was at least in my case). It's by no means a masterpiece or the pinnacle of cinema — far from it.

But it's also not a bad movie. I can't even compare it to anything specific because I left with no bad impressions or any urge to nitpick, really.

It's a good movie — no more, no less… and that's okay. It's a small, fairly grounded, linear story, quite intimate and centered — surprisingly enough /s — on the Mandalorian, a.k.a. Din Djarin, and Grogu. That's it. And we got exactly what was on the poster and in the title. Did it feel like a long episode of the series? Yup. Is it a bad thing? Nope — in fact, it would have been bad if the film tried to cover everything around Din and Grogu, spreading itself too thin.

I'm a fairly undemanding casual viewer who loves grounded cinema and the found family trope, and I'm quite happy with what I got. After a hospital visit and having a huge bucket of sweet popcorn with enough sugar to send a rhino into a diabetic coma — it was genuinely enjoyable.

My thoughts about it:

After watching the movie twice and feeling like I'm experiencing withdrawal symptoms from my favorite duo, I wonder if a fourth season of the show would be worthwhile? The most obvious answer would be YES, OF COURSE IT WOULD BE. But that answer only applies to a season where the focus would be on developing the relationship between the Din family, the clan of two. Please, give me 8 episodes of father-son adventures, show me Grogu's training as a Mandalorian without abandoning his inner Jedi, give me nuances of Djarin's personality as a warrior, as a father, show me the details of their little house!!

But if the fourth season is just to prepare the ground for other characters, or to close the story of the entire Mandoverse, then just give up, forget it. Damn it, finish the arc of other characters in their designated series!! And maybe then show a cameo of the Din's in those series. If that's the directors' idea, to put all the stories in Djarin's series, interspersing them with cute scenes of the two of them, it won't work; it will be worse than the third season.

It was non stop action! Looks amazing! The score is incredible! 👌

Mando and Grogu are at their best!!! 😎

Also it feels good to see Star Wars back on the big screen! 😌