#my complaining

Like yes there's a lot of art but for example, genuinely the only totem pole I've seen was one white people stole (which has now thankfully been returned but still), the most we have is some Twulushootseed around, some coast salish design on a few walls around the cities, and then art across the big casinos

It's so different compared to where I grew up: walking from class to class seeing coast salish design and formline in the halls and in class rooms, totem poles around pretty commonly, many buildings to gather and educate people- when there was a gathering I could walk to it from school most of the time, that's how local a lot of this was.

first of all he absolutely does NOT have a significant amount of scars. not at all. i didnt even spend my time fighting anywhere and i've got more prominent scars. my fucking dad that got 90% of his scars from slamming his leg into table corners has more prominent scars.

and also like, okay. i have scar tissue. i've gotten very deep wounds that cluster up. but based on the shit muriel went through in the Colusium he wouldve definitely amassed Much more scar tissue, and yet he is NEVER shown to have any side effects due to these besides emotional trauma. like, no scratchiness, no limited movement, cold sweats, potential higher risk of health issues related to skin, NERVE DAMAGE??? (not an extensive list)

and just saying "wellll they have magical spells for that!!!!" feels like a lazy copout. the same argument heard in "well its a MAGICAL WORLD obviously they wouldnt have disabled people theyd just cure that with MAGIC!!!!!!!!1!1!1!1!1!1!!1!1!11!"

and, hell i even feel like his trauma from his time fighting isnt written well either as someone w/ cPtsd. but thats another rant of mine

I did. I have to say, it doesn't show that much of the series or acting, but it looks very unoffensive, if that makes sense. CGI effects are pretty mid, however, and I swear they are using green screens for any slightly complex background and it's very distracting.

However!

If this is actually Thalia's tree, I'll actually scream, because it looks like a person, and not in the good way, because the pose is literally this

with a sort of skirt mixed with this as a hairdo

Ironhide: I am P solid on his design

Hell I'm even P solid on Acidstorm, a background seeker.

But WHY CAN I NOT for the life of me imagine what Thundercracker looks like?! Why is Thundercracker the character I'm having the most trouble with?!?! He's literally just a blue seeker with thunder in his name that should give me plenty of ammo to work with. It should be straightforward and easy but for some reason TC... Just makes my brain crash.

I’ve stopped watching regularly SW: Rebels somewhere after first season, but I keep coming back for episodes about Mandalorian. The Heroes of Mandalore aren’t exception. Though most of times I wonder why the hell I still bother to do so.

To be fair, the newest episode(s) have interesting and beautiful moments, like:

new informations about mandalorian art (though I would like know more about Tojnun and the Pre-Exile Masters)

the reversed roles with Ursa (a female character; the wife & mother) is the leader & veteran warrior while her husband is the artist who, so far, did not show any combat capabilities (”My dad fights with his art”)

Bo-Katan is showed as capable warrior and leader and she is pretty good at what she is doing for past decade(s)

Sabine - and her past - once again is important part of the story

Fenn’s “show off” and in general, the evolution of his character

the ending scene of the first episode

Mandalorian for good now are visible diverse group insted of all-white TCW!version

A scene where three main female characters (all leaders & warriors in their own way) get together to discuss future of Mandalore. That alone is something pure and beautiful in so many ways, and I wouldn’t mind to get used to such scenes, really.

But though all of those points were great and fun, there is also a lot things that are, well, stupid. As in: pointless compared to the old canon/Legends. And yes, I’m biased, I know, but then again, new canon gives me time after time more reasons to be distrustful for its content. What means, I’m going to rant about Mandalorians.

The things tha pissed me off for good:

the whole Mandalorian without armor is no more than a common soldier bullshit. Seriously. You know what was great about Legends!Mando, beside how diverse they were? The armor was preciuos thing, sure, but it meant nothing, if person wearing it didn’t deserve the title of Mandalorian warrior. Just like that. Legends!Mando had saying about it: ``A warrior is more than one's armor.``

The armor is not what makes a Mandalorian. This is one of basic thing one must understands about their whole culture. Mandalorians were taught from early age to fight without it, without technology, without weapon to be strong and capable to survive if they were deprived of such things. There were even a time(s), when mandalorian ore wasn’t available to make new armours - or, like The Bounty Code mentioned: the armours were destroyed by New Mandalorian - so the warriors used other materials, like duresteel. And it was fine, no one really cared for such details. For Force’s sake, Boba Fett used durasteel armour, and even though he screwed up almost all rules of Mandalorian Code (what, btw, had only 6! conditions), he was still seen as Mando.

In short: you may deprive someone of armor, but it will not make someone less Mandalorian. Just no.

What makes the whole Sabine’s epic talk about her armour - how its part of their identity, how “it makes us, Mandalorians, who we are” is so... odd and impractical.