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A “QUICK!” Review of “The Mandalorian”

Season 1

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An excellent original series in The Star Wars universe!

Cool new characters with a very Western-inspired feel to the setting. Great cinematography, music score, set designs and action set pieces that make this some of the best to come out of Disney Star Wars.

This is the Way!

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Season 2

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Season 2 continues to deliver on what made the first season great. However, it unfortunately is a bit of a step down due to one big reason. It tries to connect with every other Star Wars projects.
It introduces characters from the movies and the animated shows such as Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. Thus, some the episodes just feel incredibly odd because these characters from the show are getting a spotlight over the main character. It just makes the galaxy feel incredibly small.

Fortunately, the writing is still excellent and there are some stellar moments with one of the most epic final episodes in a Star Wars show!

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Season 3

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Similar to The Book of Boba Fett, I wonder what on earth the writers and showrunners were thinking?

The main character is basically a side character this entire season! Instead, the spotlight is given to Bo-Kotan from the animated shows for some reason. They really shouldn’t have called this The Mandalorian Season 3 when in reality it is “The Book of Bo-Kotan”. Also, some episodes feel like it is from the cancelled New Republic show and shoved in here.

This season dropped the ball massively and even the writing dipped in quality. Just an all-around disappointing season…

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