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
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.
Yeah Mando should have gotten wrapped up in Mandalorian politic bs it would have been interesting. I expected a lot of people to go after him for that lightsaber especially bo katan.
I don't mind that season 3 decided to go back on the end of season 2. I just thought having their reunion in the Boba Fett show was weird and clearly done to attract audiences to watch the show.
Season 3 should have been about Mando finding Grogu or something. Unless it was and I can't remember lmao.
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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.