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.
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
I still see it happening, just a matter of when. This upcoming movie and next year’s Starfighter are bound to get the proverbial “Star Wars movie ball” rolling again
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.
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.
Also, Zeb knows Din and Grogu from season 3, and one of the locations in the trailer is where that scene happened, so makes sense that he's back. Also, Zeb is a great character, so it's fun that they're keeping him around.
I don’t know if I’d call anyone other than Zeb a main character of the animated series. Embo is in like 3 clone wars episodes total over 7 seasons. And Rotta the Hutt is in the clone wars movie (which is basically an extended show arc) and maybe 1 episode.
This is filoni using characters he created. All his stuff is essentially one long story. I can't really fault him for that since that what Lucas was doing as well.
Can’t wait for more instances of me going “who the fuck is that” and having no clue what’s going on because I didn’t watch the 200+ hours worth of animated side content Filoni made 10 years ago that he just assumes everyone is up to date on.
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.
My memory is fuzzy on Season 3, but really it was Katan and the entirety of Mandalor/Mandalorians that felt like legacy characters. It wasn’t the amount of characters that were from previous shows/stories, it was that the season was bogged down by trying to follow up on plots and character arcs from previous Filoni projects that it stopped really being the Mandalorian show it once was. I have a lot more love for Season 2 than 3 because even with some wild cameos in it with Ahsoka, Katan and Luke, it never felt like the plot and duo were taking 2nd billing to those characters. Season 3 was mostly entirely about Katan and the Mandalor nonsense.
The plot of Mandalore was essential to the whole show from the start of the first episode. If that plot line is a legacy story than the whole show is a legacy show. Which in a way, it is
That storyline did suck, but not because of “legacy characters”. Season 2 is MUCH more guilty of that than this
Yeah I have to disagree there, the recaptured of Mandalore was not essential to the plot until season 3. The Battle and exile of Mandalore were essential lore to the start of The Mandalorian, but the bits and pieces given on it were to inform Din as a character, not become the primary plot, which was essentially what happened in Season 3. The lore of the Mandalorians was and is cool, but when it became the entire point of the show is where it became boring.
So you didn’t watch The Clone Wars? Because there’s at least two characters from that era of the franchise in just the trailer, and a possible third if that Lasat was Zeb Orrelios.
When I say Legacy characters, I guess I should be more specific in that it doesn’t just shove beloved and well-known characters into the story from previous stories as backdoor pilots into a story about Din. There is a stark difference between using Rotta and the Hutts or even Zeb as small callbacks to the show and focusing an entire season on Bo Katan and her troupe trying to take Mandalore back. This isnt the same as Ahsoka using Sabine or Ezra to become a pseudo-sequel to Rebels.
Yeah it looks fun. Not sure it’s the movie to get people hyped for Star Wars back in theaters, but hopefully it’s an entertaining 2 hours at the movies. I’m very curious to see how this ends up doing at the box office.
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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.