The Mandalorian Season 2 Hype

Hello and welcome back to another good blog, regrettably I didn't ever get around to properly reviewing the Mandalorian season one. But with season 2 coming out I will just say that it is the greatest show ever with a great appeal to everyone and connection to the star wars underworld it is very new and fresh. The show is much inspired by western and samurai movies which goes to the original star wars influence and it is a new genre for the stary wars. The character of the Mandalorian is able to convey so much emotion in the series even with his face covered up with a mask, as is proper. The show also had a behind the scenes series come out later which was called the gallery and it showed great details of the scenes that went on behind the action and that instead of doing the reviled green screen they shot on what they call the medium where every thing is shot in camera which means that they display the environment on a screen behind the characters and that screen can move to fit the scene. The medium definitely presents great opportunities for future of media. The musical numbers done by composer Ludwig Göransson are delightfully excellent and fit the show, they don't really lean on the old star wars themes but find their own tune and I listen to it every day.

We have a trailer for the second season that I will link below. I will also make my plot predictions based on that, the first season, my theories, as well as some reports of characters that may appear in the series. Apropos of nothing in a way in which the opposite is true I am rewatching the series Rebels now as part of my daily dose of Mandalorian season 2 preparation.

The first season of Mandalorian had several episodes that fit different genres and were very episodic what some may call filler or to be more charitable you could say that they were were individual stories. Like you would have a heist one episode and then another episode they defend a town that we never see again. In short there very several episodes without much plot importance, although more character focus. So though Dave Filoni says that this set of episodes will be more connected. We will see an episode about the pirates life going by the trailer and if I had my way a good murder mystery would be fun. I think that in season two and beyond, this show ought to focus on the wider universe but still true be true to small scale stories.

Season 2 plot guess:

Track down Jedi for the child and maybe some more of his own species, figure out the mystery, which will have the child reveal that he is not really an infant but a dignified fellow that is distinguished in his own right so he will get up and sing and dance to a jig that he wrote himself!  But remember that Moff Gideon is still after him with a vengeance and the darksaber so then the child who will be revealed to have a epic name by this point will do battle against the moff with his laser sword!

I think as the show is titled the Mandalorian they should focus on the heritage of Mandalore and the mandalorians, ask the question who has a right to rule the planet, the empire, Bo Katan, Boba Fett, or the Mandalorian himself and who has a right to the darksaber and how did it come into Moff Gideon's possession? Ashoka will help with the child and maybe fight Moff Gideon and hopefully continue her super friendship with Bo Katan and Rex.

Boba Fett should come into play as a villain fighting the Mandalorian for Mandalore and we go there, maybe I'm looking too far ahead past season 2 but we going there. I think that season 2 would do right to set Boba Fett up and tease him as more of a villain for later on. There have also been rumors of Cobb Vanth appearing, who had Boba's armor in the Aftermath books and maybe coming into conflict with Fett himself. The trailer showed a planet that looked a lot like Tatooine which is where both Cobb and Boba were last seen...hmm.

From the trailer we see some X-wings which makes me think that the Mandalorian might be working with or against the New Republic. We are sure to see more of Cara Terf and Greef Carga and of course more Baby Yoda sillies. We may get some fighting pigs in the Gammoreans. The trailer teases the Mandalorians and Jedi as enemies, so that conflict may continue on this season. And lastly we see the Mandalorian and Child on a cavernous ice planet while searching for the Jedi and we know that one planet like that is Illum where the Jedi get their Kyber crystals for lightsabers. 

The Mandalorian season 2 will premire on October 30th.

Even though I don't talk about it on my blog enough but I am about as much of a fan of Marvel as I am of Star Wars. And as we have a new trailer for Wandavision which is one of my most hyped shows and looks so creative and different which is also luckily coming later this year and I highly recommend giving the trailer a view.

Blog update: Almost every blog I make is prefaced with an update by now but in this year of our lord Satan 2020, I haven’t dedicated much energy to this blog but I have to other creative means and now much of that productivity is going down due to the dreaded return of school. But alas I do have several more blogs in the pipeline so stay connected.