Thing is, sure, my comically exaggerated hate of Star Wars is a thing... but only cos I think it’s ludicrously overrated... which it undoubtedly is.. not because I think it’s all inexorable by default.
I also can’t really avoid it. Because however much you wankers whinge about it, they keep making more of it, and I’ve got to watch something! So I’ve been watching the Mandalorian since the back end of season 1 (in part because Disney + has a very small remit of interesting shows) and have so far quite easily resisted posting in this thread, or trolling anyone... because I genuinely quite enjoyed the show as a largely separate, distinct thing, entirely unto itself, made by a lot of people I really like (Favreau, Waititi, Rodriguez etc) that may have frequently dropped geeky little tit bits for the more invested than I, but which endeavoured to tell its own, welcoming, mostly procedural story....
It was exactly the kind of thing I considered to be actually good fan service; subtle enough to please both nouveau viewers and wanky obsessives.... so I feel perfectly legitimised in feeling annoyed that the ultimate denouement of the 2 season long Mando-X-Baby Yoda arc, was concluded with an indulgent bit of fan wank that doesn’t satisfactorily connect to anything within the previously contained Universe of the show...
Sure everyone knows who Luke Skywalker is...but what did him swanning in and defeating an entire army of undefeatable droids have to do with the plot of that episode?... what did it matter that Mando & his crew (who the series had built up as a tense collection of would be allies) had fought their way to that point, when ultimately a Deus Ex Lukina could’ve flown in at any moment and picked up the Child, regardless of the circumstances?... he could’ve done it before they arrived! It would’ve made no difference... and thus the entire series was pointless, when we could’ve been following him and his quest to find Grogu if that was the endgame!
The best bit of the episode was Mando removing his helmet and the little funny puppet child stroking his face... that was great!... that was something the show had actually been building to... and yet all anyone can talk about is how a weird uncanny Valleyd CGI character (that will inevitably date appallingly) from a series of films 30 years ago, appeared, and then.... left... So what!!!?
The new series of films were apparently rubbish because Rey was a Mary Sue and they didn’t respect Luke’s character enough (ironically by actually trying to give him one)... but this series is amazing because they parachuted in a character never previously mentioned in it to destroy the entire final threat in one fell swoop and utter about 6 words - How does that work!?
At what point do Star Wars fans gain the requisite self awareness to understand how damaging their baby brained obsession with nostalgia is?... cos if it’s not this, or the 40098888 other things deliberately aimed at appeasing them, that the rest of us have had to listen to them whinge about not being good enough - but which they keep getting given more of for some fecking reason!! then the franchise is just on a long prolonged death spiral to meaninglessness...
And if so, roll on that day, I say.... kill it. Kill it all... Kill it with fire! Mwa hahahaha!.. at least then the rest of us can finally move on.... or otherwise embrace a hellscape future where the Star Wars films of 2045 are still being pumped out 10 at a time, for the sole benefit of an increasingly dwindling and angry bunch of 70 year olds...
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Also who was cutting Mando’s hair? ‘Cos I feel that wasnt adequately addressed.
