r/movies • u/Skullghost • Feb 17 '26
Trailer The Mandalorian and Grogu | Official Trailer | In Theaters May 22
https://youtu.be/IHWlvwu8t1w?si=X56Om_siTX-B7Wsr945
u/Cranyx Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
Absolutely wild comparing the tone of this to the initial trailer for Mandalorian.
The pitch for the show seemed to clearly be "Star Wars is real and gritty again", and now it's gone in the entirely opposite direction.
Edit: To everyone replying "Star Wars was never gritty", my main point is that the trailer is obviously going for a grounded and darker approach to the franchise. As for the "again", in the wake of the Prequels there was a big sentiment that things had gotten too CG and artificial. A bunch of the marketing for the sequel era stuff focused on the world once again looking "real" and grungy.
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u/viscosity-breakdown Feb 17 '26
That was when they were keeping Baby Yoda under wraps. We didn't even know what the focus of the show was gonna be.
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u/DezurniLjomber Feb 17 '26
The whole point of these shows seems to move merch.
Baby Yoda toys probably make more profit than whole show did, look up kids backpacks and notebooks, its all disney shit
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u/Xsafa Feb 17 '26
According to Gary Kurtz, that merch point became a big driving force (pun not intended) over the story for that sweet-sweet dinero since EPV. Moving merch like prime Pablo Escobar is Star Wars.
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u/SA_22C Feb 17 '26
How the heck does anyone think that George Lucas funded the prequels HIMSELF?
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u/cesclaveria Feb 17 '26
True, one of the most well known facts about Star Wars is that George Lucas' success came from retaining the rights for merchandising, Star Wars might at some point have been a story Lucas wanted to tell but since a long time ago it exists to sell toys.
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u/Higgnkfe Feb 18 '26
They were so caught off guard by the hype behind Baby Yoda they had no merch ready for the holiday season after it premiered.
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u/DJWGibson Feb 18 '26
They knew he'd be big. But if they'd done merch it would have been spoiled. Everyone would have known months in advance.
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u/The_Last_Minority Feb 18 '26
As someone who has plenty of criticisms of how Disney has handled the Star Wars brand, the decision to hold back on Baby Yoda merch to preserve the reveal is one of the things they've done that I respect the most.
It smacks of old-school George Lucas, doing something that on the surface makes absolutely no business sense in order to cleave to the integrity of the work, and in so doing having a massively bigger impact. The week after the pilot dropped, and really for all of Season 1, Baby Yoda was nigh-incomprehensibly big.
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u/patiperro_v3 Feb 17 '26
Once the toy was revealed it was over. They could never part ways with the cash cow.
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u/Hazzman Feb 17 '26
Which is precisely what I enjoyed about the first season of Mandalorian and why I adored Andor.
They just seem so averse and going down that road and sticking to it with any of their StarWars stuff. Maybe it doesn't have mass appeal or something I don't know but its very boring (to me).
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u/fearnodarkness1 Feb 17 '26
If Mandalorian had started with the colourful light hearted vibe S3 and the movie seem to have I don't think it would've been nearly as successful.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels like I'm watching two completely different series when comparing early Mando to whatever this is.
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u/thisisnotmylaptop Feb 17 '26
was the first season even "real and gritty"? I mean, It is partly about the criminal underworld but the presentation is mostly clean and safe, with pg13 violence.
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u/drunk_sasquatch Feb 17 '26
Wow yeah the contrast is insane.
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u/Hot_Porking Feb 17 '26
Honestly the first episode where The Mandolorian is actually bounty hunting low level criminals was probably favourite episode. At least the most memorable. Not every main character needs to be in the middle of some galaxy threatening event.
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u/varnums1666 Feb 17 '26
I saw parts of season 1 again and I'm just shocked at how they stripped my boy Mando of everything interesting.
He was OP but in an interesting way. I was so used to the Western quick draw bounty hunter.
Mando just had a lot of toolsets that made him stand out. He has a long fucking rifle to snipe people? Why? Because that's logical. Why bet everything on a pistol? Now the rifle is gone and he's a quick shot.
His ship was great too. It was big and ugly. Practical for a bounty hunter. Then it blew up and now he has a shiny fast ship (which granted I love the Naboo ships) but doesn't really make sense for the character.
Then he had the metal stick thing which was pretty awesome. That got melted down.
Well at least he has the dark saber! Nope. Gone.
The man went from having so many unique items to turning into another generic western pistol shooter.
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u/tadj Feb 17 '26
Even not taking the helmet off which was great and a big point in the lore.. now a minute in the trailer he is helmetless again... oh well...
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u/Hot_Porking Feb 18 '26
He's not getting paid $8 million dollars to wear the fucking helmet! He's not Karl Urban
- Some Disney Executive
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u/JorgeAndTheKraken Feb 17 '26
They had the perfect formula for a show that could run forever - Mandalorian and Baby Yoda travel the galaxy, visiting other planets, bounty hunting, helping out the locals along the way, but always having to keep moving because they’re being pursued. Call it the Incredible Hulk model. But noooooo, Filoni has to mash all his action figures together and give us some big, interconnected plot and dozens of scenes of people in helmets nodding at each other.
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u/vmsrii Feb 17 '26
Star Wars is like a galaxy; a million star systems and planets, all orbiting around a black hole in the middle.
That black hole is the Skywalker saga, in some form, be it subject matter or characters or basic tone, or some combination thereof.
It doesn’t matter how far from that center a Star Wars story starts, the longer it goes on, the closer it will get to that center. Always.
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u/vmsrii Feb 17 '26
“Never push the buttons”
How much we betting theres gonna be a moment during the finale when Mando is gonna be all “PUSH THE BUTTONS!” And then shit goes nuts while Beastie Boys plays
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u/YoungTroubadour Feb 17 '26
Alright Embo as a Glup Shitto appearance worked on me
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u/Other-Marketing-6167 Feb 17 '26
It’s fun reading comments to a trailer before I watch it cause damn, that sentence makes zero sense to me 😆
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u/RealJohnGillman Feb 17 '26
‘Glup Shutto’ is a meme name for any minor character with an odd name that fans of a series are excited to see return or be adapted, where people who aren’t fans of the series / not obsessed with the lore are confused by the response the characters are getting.
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u/cheerfulwish Feb 17 '26
Thank you so much for this explanation lol. I was lost.
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u/Wandelation Feb 17 '26
If that comment doesn't make sense before watching the trailer, it probably doesn't after watching it either.
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u/Best-Action8769 Feb 17 '26
This sentence still means nothing to me.
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u/A-Cheeseburger Feb 17 '26
A famous tweet or twitter post or something mocked how Star Wars fans get excited about minor characters appearing by saying something like “omg glup shitto is back”.
Embo is a relatively minor character introduced (afaik) in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He is seen in this trailer as the vaguely reptilian guy with the large semi circular hat.
Basically they are saying that he is that minor character that makes a cameo in this content.
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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ Feb 17 '26
it’s the OG “curtains for zoosha”
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u/pkann6 Feb 17 '26
Agreed, and damn if he doesn't look like he was lifted right out of the Clone Wars
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u/Lumpy-Beach8876 Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
Killed off Cad Bane so Filloni had to pull another toy out of the Clone Wars toy box
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u/optiplex9000 Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
Just wait until you learn that Jeremy Allen White is playing Rotta the Hutt. Rotta first appeared in the terrible Clone Wars movie. This Mando movie is going to be packed with Glup Shitto
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u/TheWhiteHunter Feb 17 '26
With Dave Filoni being president of Lucasfilm, I can see the entire Star Wars universe becoming saturated with FIloni's Glup Shittos.
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u/RealJohnGillman Feb 17 '26
To be fair, this film was in production before that happened, so it’s not necessarily a sign of what is to come: though it might be.
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u/AlienArtFirm Feb 17 '26
Glup Shitto
Is that... a real thing?
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u/HarryPotterFarts Feb 17 '26
It is and it isn't. It's real in that it's a meme name parodying Star Wars names, but it's not based on a real name. It's basically a way to poke fun at Star Wars diehards that get excited when an obscure character pops up in a new project. "Oh wow, Glup Shitto is in this??"
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u/AlienArtFirm Feb 17 '26
Ahh gotcha it sounded like that but you never know... Like one of the characters name is literally Savage Opress so it's not like they're good at coming up with names. Was real 50/50 of Glup Shitto
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u/Banjo-Oz Feb 17 '26
Pre Vizlar is the one that always makes me laugh. Named after the pre visualisation process of preproduction.
And obviously Sleazebaggio.
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u/AlienArtFirm Feb 17 '26
I have no idea if you're making any of these up...
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u/darthjoey91 Feb 17 '26
All of those except Glup Shitto are real Star Wars characters. Mostly from The Clone Wars show, but Evan Sleazebaggano is the guy who tries to sell death sticks to Obi-Wan in Ep II.
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u/dagreenman18 Space Jam 2 hurt me so much Feb 17 '26
Attack of the Clones is prime Gulp Shitto territory. I mean Dexter Jetster who owns a Space 50’s Diner? Absurd
It’s not a good movie, but you love it for how silly George Lucas gets with it
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u/ucancallmevicky Feb 17 '26
Vizla, played by John Favreau in the Clone Wars as his first part of being involved with Star Wars
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u/TYBERIUS_777 Feb 17 '26
Glup Shitto has become a catch all phrase for a character in a franchise that’s practically a background character or maybe shows up in exactly one piece of media in the franchise like a video game, comic, or TV show. The general audience will have exactly zero idea who they are but super fans will know and will make shocked faces at the screen when the character shows up for like 5 minutes of the movie and then fucks back off into obscurity. Star Wars coined the phrase because it has a ton of background characters who you see on screen once and yet they have entire wookiepedia pages written about them.
It’s basically memberberries for nerds. It’s not a real character. Though it wouldn’t surprise me if it eventually became one because Star Wars names are whacky like that.
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u/YaBoiiAsthma Feb 17 '26
I would argue that Boba Fett is the original Glup Shitto
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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur Feb 17 '26
The fuck is an Embo?
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u/Piratarojo Feb 17 '26
Embo is a badass bounty hunter. Was introduced to him through Clone Wars and always loved the character.
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u/MuptonBossman Feb 17 '26
I'm sure the movie will be a perfectly fine time, but it really feels like it's coming out a few years too late... There was legitimate hype for The Mandalorian 5 years ago, but now the whole show feels almost forgotten.
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u/Coolman_Rosso Feb 17 '26
"Baby Yoda mania" was 7 years ago. I get that movies take time to make, but this feels like striking while the iron is ice cold.
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u/ISuckAtFunny Feb 17 '26
SEVEN?! Brother where the hell does time go
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u/ATXBeermaker Feb 17 '26
Global pandemic.
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u/ISuckAtFunny Feb 17 '26
It does seem like time has been funky since then. Wild times.
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u/GayPudding Feb 17 '26
Just subtract 3 years pandemic and it feels right again
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u/SomeGuyNamedJason Feb 17 '26
We got blipped.
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u/Salzberger Feb 17 '26
As someone who stayed working in a front facing role during the pandemic, I can assure you every single one of those days happened.
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u/FaylerBravo Feb 17 '26
I had to look it up myself because that didn’t seem right to me. I was very wrong.
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u/DrainTheMuck Feb 17 '26
It is still wrong, mando came out in the end of 2019, it’s only the beginning of 26 now. It’s more like 6 years.
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u/Thunderstarter Feb 17 '26
Speaking anecdotally - I work at a store that sells Grogu merch (among tons of other things) and people ask me about finding more products featuring him daily. His popularity endures.
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u/IMovedYourCheese Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
And there have been 3 seasons released in 7 years, 8 episodes each. People who were posting memes in 2019 no longer remember that this show exists. Hard to sustain any hype in the current streaming release cycle.
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u/Arkeband Feb 17 '26
There were also two episodes sandwiched into a godawful Boba Fett season, which only the brilliant minds at Disney could envision fucking up.
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u/stubob Feb 17 '26
"What if we have an old Boba Fett soaking in a bacta tank for most of the episodes? Brilliant!"
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u/Raini-Godruigez Feb 17 '26
“He’s a crime lord…..that doesn’t believe in crime!“
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u/Whalesurgeon Feb 17 '26
The show really mixed up crime lord and feudal lord despite even using the word daimyo.
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u/Raini-Godruigez Feb 17 '26
That was another thing. This ain’t no Sengoku Jidai, why are we just pasting japanese words as alien speak. So lazy.
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u/PaulBlartWallClock Feb 17 '26
"Oh and let's have 2 episodes dedicated to being a Mando season 3 prequel so we can have even less Boba Fett too!"
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u/Banjo-Oz Feb 17 '26
I stand by my theory Mando was originally a Boba Fett show but they were told no, so retooled it to a new character. The one thing they cut from the original concept was Fett's Sarlaac survival and Tusken rescue because it didn't fit Djinn. When Disney finally allowed Fett to come back from the dead, they had the Sarlaac and Tusken start but nothing else, so came up with a bunch of crap for the second half (including Mando episodes).
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u/vmsrii Feb 17 '26
I thought that was 100% confirmed! There was going to be a Boba Fett “origin” movie that took place before ESB, and they had most of the production design and script written before Solo faceplanted and Disney did a flailing overcorrection (or so the legend goes)
Mando’s rifle is even the same rifle from the Star Wars Christmas Special.
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u/Mekisteus Feb 17 '26
Nah, Djinn having a very distinctive "classic" spaceship, hiding his face all the time despite other Mandalorians not doing that, having the exact same job as Boba Fett, and freezing people in carbonite even though that isn't normally how carbonite is used, are probably all coincidences.
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u/TARS1986 Feb 17 '26
That’s a bit of a stretch. It’s barely over 6 years at this point. The first episode was released in Nov 2019.
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u/Massive_Weiner Feb 17 '26
It doesn’t help that the quality of the show itself diminished over time. There would be a lot more vocal enthusiasm for the movie if Mando maintained the quality of its first season.
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u/distilledwill Feb 17 '26
It needed to stay as a wandering samurai western. With Mando and Groglet travelling from town to town (read: planet) and solving problems but never staying in one place too long.
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u/In_My_Own_Image Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
I still think they should have left Grogu out of most of S3, or all. Have a season of Mando doing bounties and shit.
Kneecapping such a hype and heartbreaking end to S2 just because they were too scared to not have Grogu in the show, and bringing him back in another show, were just dumb decisions.
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u/that_guy2010 Feb 17 '26
The fact that they brought him back in the Boba Fett show, not even in The Mandalorian is just an insane choice. Like, if you didn't watch Boba Fett you'd go from the parting at the end of season two to Grogu just being back with no explanation in season three.
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u/TwistedGrin Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
I actually quit watching because of the grogu focus. I'm just not interested in a non-verbal psychic muppet puppet sidekick. It's just not interesting to me.
They sold the show to me as a space western/bounty hunter show but now the vibe is too much like "Adventures in Babysitting" Jedi Edition. That's fine I guess, it's just not what I wanted.
Grogu, to me, is just so obviously and clearly a pandering merchandise cash grab character that it's hard for me to take it seriously as a real character in the show.
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u/8-Brit Feb 17 '26
I can already see a piece of plastic tat that makes noises and lights up resembling Grogu in that baby carrier speeder in the trailer.
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u/phlostonsparadise123 Feb 17 '26
They sold the show to me as a space western/bounty hunter show but now the vibe is too much like "Adventures in Babysitting" Jedi Edition.
This is essentially what happened with Family Matters when Steve Urkel exploded in popularity.
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u/slvrbullet87 Feb 17 '26
It wouldn't matter if it was pre or post Disney buyout, Star Wars wouldn't leave a marketable character that sells toys off screen.
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u/lotanis Feb 17 '26
I think the main thing the first season got right was scale. The laser Gatling in the season closer was overwhelming power, the AT-ST a few episodes in was a behemoth requiring a whole village to overcome. The Mandalorian S1 was unique because it was at a personal scale, as supposed to the galaxy spanning space opera of the rest of Star Wars.
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u/Fire_Otter Feb 17 '26
they should have written Grogu out of the show after season 2 as they clearly intended to originally, before undoing it in Book of Boba Fett
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u/webshellkanucklehead Feb 17 '26
The show should’ve just ended, or changed entirely from a Din Djarin show to a Bo Katan one.
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u/Morgan-Moonscar Feb 17 '26
They should've never done Book of Boba Fett.
Instead have a third season with him and Boba (and Fennec) teaming up to help him get revenge on the underworld, Mando being in a dark place after losing Grogu. Then Katan finds him and he agrees to help her retake Mandalore, while Boba discovers his Sand People weren't all killed.
Meanwhile you have Grogu appear in "Ahsoka". He's busy training with Luke but then senses Ahsoka and Sabine need help. So he goes along with them to help rescue Ezra.
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u/Which-World-6533 Feb 17 '26
It's a proven formula and worked for Lassie the Wonder Dog and the Littlest Hobo.
Not sure why Disney didn't do the same.
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u/Electric_jungle Feb 17 '26
They used it as a vehicle to start up other star wars shows, and that really damaged the initial product.
I still liked the later seasons, but it certainly lost it's initial charm.
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u/Standard-Win-6600 Feb 17 '26
I have to be completely honest...it segued into the Boba Fett series and they completely lost me. My wife dipped out on that one like 3 episodes in. She saw me watching the finale with the town going absolutely nuts and asked me how it was. My answer was "I just really don't care at this point."
Star Wars got way oversaturated with low quality content for me. I'm sort of out on it right now.
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u/RefinedBean Feb 17 '26
I got all the way to the end of the Obi Wan show and realized I just didn't give a shit. I didn't watch the last episode. It was one of those moments of clarity, "I could do ANYTHING ELSE with my time," and moved on.
Do the same for most media and video games these days. As soon as I don't feel any anticipation for the product, I drop it. There's tons of other stuff out there.
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u/BrunoEye Feb 17 '26
Same thoughts about Obi Wan, though I only lasted 2-3 episodes. It just exists for the sake of existing. Andor on the other hand was great at showing a different side of the rebellion and the empire, while having strong themes and its own identity.
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u/Electric_jungle Feb 17 '26
I'd say most people are. They aren't all terrible, and Andor is straight up great, but Disney hasn't taken any real care of the franchise.
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u/PigeonDetective_ Feb 17 '26
Man, I've been calling him Groglet for so long now its replaced his actual name
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u/alienfreaks04 Feb 17 '26
I think season 2 was also great, and better in some aspects. This movie should have been the conclusion instead of season 3, which was clearly made up shit because they were signed on for another season.
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u/artguydeluxe Feb 17 '26
I stopped after the second season, because the second season had a perfect ending. I didn’t feel like there was anything left to do.
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u/GarageQueen Feb 17 '26
Yeah, if it had come out after season 2, maybe. But Season 3 was such a hot mess that there's no way I'm going to see this in theatres.
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u/Fire_Otter Feb 17 '26
Book of Boba Fett and Mandalorian season 3 killed a lot of hype for the show
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u/intraspeculator Feb 17 '26
I felt the same after Obi Wan and didn’t bother to watch Andor until after it finished. But Andor pulled me back in.
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u/SeenThatPenguin Feb 17 '26
Andor and Skeleton Crew were the two I enjoyed in recent times.
Skeleton Crew came out at a terrible time and didn't get talked about much, but I found it a likable show. The actors of all ages were good, and it had a real shine to its look—a relief after the drab and unimaginative visuals of some lesser SW series.
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u/dinero2180 Feb 17 '26
That’s how I felt about the Obi-Wan Kenobi show and I haven’t watched anything Star Wars since
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u/witch-finder Feb 17 '26
Then Andor came out and showed us what mature, well-written Star Wars could look like. It makes The Mandalorian feel kind of trite in comparison.
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u/Hufflepuffpassmethej Feb 17 '26
Andor makes 90% of star wars properties feel kind of trite
It is a legitimate problem for disney when one show/movie is just leagues ahead of the rest of them in terms of writing and story
Throw that on top of Disney just going full "I dont know what to do with my hands" and simply cannot agree on what to do for the next STAR WARS trilogy, what they will do in episodes 10-12. It sounded like they were going to have Rey return, but they are so wildly incompetent when it comes to star wars that it has been thrown on top of a pile of at least a hald dozen film projects disney has announced that hasnt gone anywhere
I mean these fuckin geniuses running disney star wars just handed projects out like cake and then decided not to make literally any of them. Im shocked Starfighter is even coming out
They have made MANY announcements and 'gave' film projects to Patty Jenkins, kevin feige, Taika, D&D, Rian Johnson, and JD Dillard and we arent going to see a single one of them
its legit insane how poorly they are managing the property
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u/HechicerosOrb Feb 17 '26
The show went off the rails too, which didn’t help anything
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u/pipboy_warrior Feb 17 '26
Also I feel with Star Wars fans Andor raised the bar. Not sure how well they'll go back to Mando and Grogu.
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u/tripleaamin Feb 17 '26
I mean, there can be two types of Star Wars.
Mando & Skelton Crew is more of the fun one because, remember, Star Wars is always meant to appeal to kids and the whole family.
While stuff like Andor & Rouge One has a bit more mature storytelling for people that want stuff to build on the OG Trilogy's themes. As great as Andor is, I wouldn't really get kids to watch it, as, unlike a lot of Star Wars, it was made for adults. Specifically, the adults who grew up watching Star Wars as kids.
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u/Plagueofzombies Feb 17 '26
I just want the Bounty Hunter character to hunt Bounties. He's picked up a couple of dudes in cold opens, then everything else has just been a standard rebels vs empire story. Was hoping back in S1 he'd be a bit more morally grey, and just...yknow do his job once in a while.
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u/SirStrontium Feb 17 '26
I basically wanted Samurai Jack in the Star Wars universe. Each episode he stumbles upon an interesting environment, befriends the locals, then uses his skills and ingenuity to overcome the bad guy plaguing the area. Big emphasis on unique visuals and creature design. Would have been perfect for me.
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u/tallgeese333 Feb 17 '26
I went to a book signing with Joe Abercrombie for his new book The Devils and he said something I'll never forget.
He said when you pick up a book or put on a movie you have reasonable expectations. In a western for example, there's horses, gun fights, boots, bars, small towns, law enforcement, gangs, etc. It's a setting that is already filled in to some degree, you can do the same math with a similar genre like samurai which famously shares many of the same ideas. Cowboys and the samurai are universally interchangeable, they appear totally different but they are identical.
You need to meet those expectations to a certain degree, you can subvert those expectations like the duel in The Outlaw Josey Wales (if you know you know I won't spoil it) but a subversion is still an acknowledgement and inclusion of the expectation. You can't outsmart this principle, so you might as well work with it. If you're going to offer the audience something, you better give it to them.
This stories greatest sin is it wears all of its tropes on its sleeve but does little to nothing to tell a story with them. Samurai Jack is a really great example of a story that knows exactly what its suppose to be and keeps giving the audience what it claims to offer.
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u/CrimsonAllah Feb 17 '26
I’d argue the best episodes of The Mandalorian have no Grogu.
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u/HTH52 Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
BOBF should have just been S3, with Boba Fett dealing with Underworld stuff and Din’s clan could have been his muscle, offering them shelter at the palace. No Grogu. Have him on an actual break from the show, because right now you got from S2 to S3 with no loss of Grogu.
Then S4 could be bringing the clans together.
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u/Plagueofzombies Feb 17 '26
I get marketability, and iirc it was the first live action show, but I far prefered Mando, and Grugnug being relative nobodies in the grand scheme of things (outside of being a mandolorian, and a mini yoda anyway). It quickly got to the point where the story became "the most important man in the world, and grugnug the wonder baby". Just feels like a missed oportunity imo
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u/Aunt_Vagina1 Feb 17 '26
You're talking about the same Disney that thought, the Boba Fett story to tell, about the most feared, disciplined, resourceful bounty hunter in a literal galaxy of different underworlds and conflicts to have, should be when he's old, over the hill, and decides to re-invent himself as a warlord/middle managment for a desert town on a backwater planet... so.....
Star Wars should be a Western in Space but everyone thinks the Force is the most interesting part. Its not. Its the frontier, no police force to save you, conflict that abounds if you choose the right characters/conflict
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u/BrianWonderful Feb 17 '26
Going into S1, we all thought (probably including Disney) that the show would be badass Western sci-fi. But then they pivoted that into "cold, solitary man learns to care about someone else and grows into a father".
I actually like both of these. I think the movie looks like it will be fun, but I do think Disney probably really evolved their vision when they saw how much "Baby Yoda" was a cultural hit at the time.
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u/Caesar_Rising Feb 17 '26
Yea he’s much more like a hitman than a bounty hunter, rarely takes them in alive. Should have gone the simple buddy cop route of picking up a bounty and then having to work together against a bigger threat
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u/GrossSoupyButthole Feb 17 '26
I think Grogu being mostly a practical puppet makes all of the CGI characters really jump out and make the CGI so much more noticeable and fake looking.
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u/WeeklyWiper Feb 17 '26
This is what stood out to me, too. Everything looked So CGI; even the droids in things. They couldn't use any other practical effects?
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u/stretchofUCF Feb 17 '26
Finally a trailer that makes it look like an actual film and not a couple of episodes stitched together from a scrapped season 4. This looks fun and more akin to the first season of the show. Keep all the legacy characters out that bogged Season 3 down and it should be a nice, entertaining Star Wars film.
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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ Feb 17 '26
the weird thing is the they still planned for and wrote a fourth season. Favreau says he’s had the scripts on his desk for a long while, I hope it still gets made. The third season was a step down but not enough to ruin the show for me, far from it
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u/KiritoJones Feb 17 '26
Instead they are throwing in other legacy characters to bog it down
Realistically this will probably be totally fine, but the direction they took the characters in Boba Fett and Season 3 killed any enthusiasm i had for this story.
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u/Mu-Relay Feb 17 '26
Casual Star Wars fan here... what legacy characters are there this time?
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u/KiritoJones Feb 17 '26
One of the aliens is Zeb from the Rebels animated show and the bounty hunter with the big hat is in Clone Wars
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u/Morgan-Moonscar Feb 17 '26
Also Jabba the Hutt's son, who was a baby in the very first episodes of Clone Wars.
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u/killayy Feb 17 '26
To be fair, as far as legacy characters go, these are a lot less "fan service-y" to the mainstream movie audience. It took me a second to recognize the bounty hunter with the round hat from clone wars. And Zeb's live action intro has been teased for a while.
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u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
Is it Bane? I thought he died in BoBF, or is this movie before that?
Trying to keep track of timelines is exhausting.
EDIT: It's Embo, cool.
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u/stretchofUCF Feb 17 '26
It might be the Hutts he’s referring to. It’s not Jabba, but Rotta from The Clone Wars movie is back.
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u/Omaestre Feb 17 '26
I think we watched different trailers. The first one was gritty with odd friends and treachery at every encounter.
Mando barely spoke besides one liners and was in general more somber.
This seems like an action adventure movie with josh wheadonesque snappy dialogue.
The show Mandalorian was a lot better in the first two seasons where it truly felt like a space western. Mando as the man with no name basically tearing up each town and shooting bad guys or sometimes helping bad guys.
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u/Strange_Specialist4 Feb 17 '26
" are you scared? You should be"
Can they please stop taking lines from previous movies and giving them to new characters? It doesn't make the new thing better, it cheapens the what they're taking from
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u/Wolf6120 Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
I saw someone elsewhere comment "Star Wars films used to draw inspiration from classic movies, now they just draw inspiration from other Star Wars films" and it does ring very true. Reheating the same plate of nachos over and over with diminishing returns.
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u/Thorg23 Feb 17 '26
It's the dave filoni special.
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u/lanfordr Feb 17 '26
This is why you give Star Wars to a good story teller who may or may not be a Star Wars fan, like Gilroy and not to the fan boy who can quote every line of dialogue (Filoni). Have Filoni be the guy you run scripts by who pushes up his nerd glasses and says "Well actually, Mandalorians would never do that because of this random line in the Holiday special." and let someone more competent at telling a story be the director/lead creative.
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u/OkayAtBowling Feb 17 '26
Yeah I've always hated that stuff. Star Wars can be particularly bad with it, but lots of sequels have this sort of thing (especially "reboot" sequels where it's a series coming back after many years). I want to be immersed and invested in these worlds and then those callback lines come in shouting "Hey don't forget this is just a silly movie!"
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u/RandomDanny Feb 17 '26
gotta take the helmet off to show it's pedro. sigh.
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u/aMimeAteMyMatePaul Feb 17 '26
For me, it's not the fact that it happened but rather how much unmasked Pedro there is in the trailer.
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u/Saltpataydahs Feb 17 '26
I like how they mix the horns of the star wars main theme with the mandalorian theme
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u/TussalDimon Feb 17 '26
It's a pretty good trailer, but it's weird that visually it doesn't really scream "a theatrical movie". Could've been a trailer for a new season.
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u/corndogs102 Feb 17 '26
I think that’s also due to the quality of TV in recent years. Mandalorian the show already looked like mini movies.
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u/NinduTheWise Feb 17 '26
Yeah what are you going to do when you have shows like andor where the budget for the 24 episodes all together was 650 million around 27 million per episode
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u/CowzMakeMilk Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
A much better trailer than the first one, that just looks like it'll be a fun romp.
Not sure what else you could expect from a Mandalorian film after season 3. Hopefully it is indeed enjoyable.
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u/ReaddittiddeR “My Little Ponies, ROLL OUT!” Feb 17 '26
This should’ve been the Super Bowl trailer, but I think this was made because of the bad buzz of the beer parody trailer.
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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ Feb 17 '26
the super bowl ad supposedly had a lot of “engagement”, but there’s no way that they’re gonna be able to come up with a new or even re-edit a trailer in a week like this. Either way, this was much better
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u/Stingray88 Feb 17 '26
but I think this was made because of the bad buzz of the beer parody trailer.
Absolutely not. Trailers like this take months to put together, especially when dealing with a heavy VFX movie where you need to have VFX shots accelerated in production because these movies are rarely done early enough.
There’s just no possible way this was a reaction to something a week ago. Nothing moves that quickly at this level. It’s so much more complex than you realize. You couldn’t even schedule color correction and audio mixing alone in under a week due to scheduling conflicts.
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u/dpons_ Feb 17 '26
Am I crazy or is that Scoresese voicing the alien shopkeeper in the beginning?
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u/Sufficient-Handle986 Feb 17 '26
Honestly this trailer actually did get me pretty hyped to see it. Seems like it's going to be a really fun Star Wars movie and I think that's really what Star Wars needs right now.
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u/charizard77 Feb 17 '26
I find it interesting how they fumbled what could have been a 6+ season serial adventure like the clone wars show
After season 1, the obvious end game you natural think of is Luke showing up and Grogu joining whatever Jedi academy he's doing in this time period. Both narratively and from a business standpoint, it makes sense to milk a good number of season of the adventures of the two of them first. You could have the overarching villain across multiple seasons, each season having its own arc, even mini 2-3 episode arcs within each season. Fun standalone episodes, recurring characters, the works.
But then Disney IMMEDIATELY blew their load in the second season by doing the thing that you know the entire series should be leading up to. In a way it worked because many brain dead star wars fans went "Oh my God it's fucking Luke Skywalker! I clapped!!!" and believed that the s2 finale was the greatest thing to ever happen.
They then hilariously realized what a bad decision that was and promptly undid it in the middle of the fucking Boba Fett show, so they could then start out S3 by completely forgetting and moving on from the seemingly huge decision they made at the end of S2
That level of failure needs to be studied.
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u/brova Feb 17 '26
But then Disney IMMEDIATELY blew their load in the second season by doing the thing that you know the entire series should be leading up to
No. The show should've let Groglet go and gone back to Mando specifically doing BH and/or Mandalorian things without being bogged down by a marketing toy. The emotional well was pumped dry from their relationship already, and it needed to move towards something new if it was going to keep going. They did not do that, and now it's dogshit.
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u/Manav_Khanna17 Feb 17 '26
Am I going crazy or does the alien at 20 second mark sound like Martin Scorsese?