The Mandalorian Chapter Sixteen Spoiler Discussion

I agree. Luke vs. Darktroopers should have been a much tougher fight than Vader vs. Rebel Fleet Troopers. IMO, the comparisons between those scenes is a flaw, not a good thing.

Personally, I thought they weren't powerful enough. I absolutely loved the one that fought Mando, but then they all turned as useless as Stormtroopers when Luke showed up.

Where is the evidence that S3 is going to be replaced by The Book of Boba Fett? They already announced Mando S3, and it makes absolutely no sense to sideline their headline show and derail the Mandalore plot they spent this whole season setting up. Boba has been set up for a separate project, as was already rumored months ago, and they kept it a secret so as not to spoil the end of the season.

 

It’s still on D+.

 

Yeah, I hope so. It’s not really standard practise so they’d have to have a good reason to take the title character out of his own show and give it to someone else who could justify their own spinoff easily. Money left on the table, or at best a strange convention that isn't going to appeal to geek collectors (like me).

Also this show is the first live action Star Wars since ESB that is universally giving people what they like/want (just going off what I'm personally seeing everyone say about it). It’s stacked with fan service done well, so it seems strange to do something that wouldn't really have any obvious benefit while having a drawback for some. People will still be tuning in but it feels like an unnecessary move, like for eg changing the name of Star Wars going forward to something else deemed cool like.... Galactic Battles.

 

I agree with them being completely useless against Luke lol. I would prefer them to be dangerous individually but for any of our named characters to be able to take between 2-4 of them out each rather than Din struggling against 1. In the numbers that were attacking them I would be happy for the assumption to be that the heroes would eventually be overwhelmed. Finally, when Luke arrived he was always going to plough through any group of super droid warriors, but I would have liked the danger to still be evident in when they miss Luke that they damage the ship or each other severely for eg. Something to show that he is dispatching an entire platoon of beast droids rather than TPM buffoon droids.

 

Lucasfilm Artist Addresses Confusion Between The Mandalorian Season 3 & Boba Fett Spinoff

 

I'm hoping that Disney has at least noticed the response that Luke's return received from this episode.

 

Look, one can only take so much Troy Denning fanboyism.

 

I was referring to how fans are still invested in the character and would likely want to see more of him in either guest appearances or on his own show.

 

Unlike the divisive reaction with Alden's portrayal of a younger Han Solo, it appears that (some) fans would be more open to recasting Luke if it was with a fan favorite choice like Sebastian Stan.

 

I will admit that seeing Luke in the finale was a pleasant surprise. And yeah, they don't need to do a show about Luke Skywalker right now. However, there's definitely a desire from fans to see Luke's adventures post ROTJ and pre TFA. Exploring those previous years wouldn't be a retread of past ideas. But we'll see on what happens later down the line.

In regards to recasting; all I'm saying is that I don't recall there ever being any support or desire from fans to see Aldrich portray Han prior to "Solo".

 

Idk....just because some people think Sebastian Stan looks like Mark Hamill doesn’t mean it’d be the same. Stan tends to play anti-heroes and unsavory types. Idk if he’d have that same sort of noble “vibe” that Mark did. Their voices aren’t alike. When a character is as synonymous with an actor as Luke is with Hamill, I think seeing anyone else would be a bit jarring.

PS, I’ve always thought Sebastian Stan looks more like ‘80s Michael Biehn than like Mark Hamill.

 

I'm really curious to see the making of for thus season. Hope they go in depth on the Luke scene. I wanna know how they did it.

 

That 3 minutes of Luke Skywalker was the Luke Skywalker that I've been waiting to see since 1983 - I suspect a lot of people felt the same.

Favreau did more justice to the character in 3 minutes than was done in all 3 of the Abrams films.

I can't believe it took Disney so long to figure this out.

 

It's funny because people seem to assume I actually want this to be the case. I would be overjoyed if Boba Fett turns out to be a separate thing, but:

• Season 3 of Mando was originally rumored for December 2021 and then clarified to be on Xmas 2021
• The vague term "the next chapter" was being thrown around rather than next season
• Then it was reported "Boba Fett" is already filming in Mando's usual slot, while the new volumes are still being built, which means Mando would have to be delayed
• Now despite a Boba spin-off not being announced at the biggest Disney investor day of the past few years
• And there not being any real spoilers in that announcement because people knew that Boba Fett was probably going to happen and nothing in Season 2 has a real impact on that
• "Book of Boba Fett" is announced now with a post-credit scene in The Mandalorian
• Being called a "book" in a show with "chapters" and not making sense for a standalone title
• But perfectly fitting for a season title, similar to the ones used in Agents of SHIELD from which Mando borrowed 5 actors
• The show is called "The Mandalorian" which opens it up to different characters related to Mandalore, which (hey) Boba Fett's connection to Mandalore was called out in the episode
• Even the logo, which added the child in S2, is built to accommodate changing characters
• And to top if off, the main arc of Grogu and Din appears to have reached a natural conclusion in the episode just before all of this happens

Now again, I don't actually want this to be true, and there's still a chance that it isn't, but it seems very weird to me to dismiss all these signs.

 

But isn't this all pretty much moot after it was previously announced that the show would be getting a third season? Plus one of the crew members also confirmed that the filming schedule for Boba's show would be different from the Mandalorian's third season.

And I think they pretty much established that next season would deal with Mando working with Bo Katan to reclaim Mandalore.

 

I'll reiterate once again that I would actually prefer for Boba Fett to be a separate thing, which makes it weird that I'm continuing this discussion, I know... In the end, I hope we'll just get a statement that Mandalorian, Boba Fett, Ahsoka and Rangers are all considered books. That's a possibility as well.

Not unless we have any insight into what stories would be next. The Book of Boba Fett is different than Ahsoka and Rangers in that regard because it wasn't announced previously and would work exactly the same if it were Season 3. The only thing that would cause is a break from Din being the main character, but with several shows building towards a big event, we'd probably see him popping up left and right anyway. In fact, that would free him up to have a bigger impact on the other shows as well.

However, soon after, Bateman deleted his first Tweet and posted a clarification that he "doesn't officially represent Lucasfilm." So that's not really a confirmation. Though he did say he thought it was more likely that it's two shows. That's fair and I do hope he's right.

Why though? They could deal with that at any point in the next years. Maybe in Season 4, the big crossover event, or potentially in Rangers of the New Republic as well, with Moff Gideon going with Cara.

 

I wasn’t expecting to see Luke and I literally shed happy tears.

 

I'm still not over all the amazing stuff we got this season. Luke, R2D2, Ahsoka, Bo-Katan, Cobb Vanth, Boba Fett, Bib Fortuna, Thrawn namedrop... Just looking at that list, it's almost impossible that none of these introductions felt forced, but that's just how well Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have done this. In addition, of course, we got a lot of returning S1 characters, a krayt dragon, spiders, stormtrooper action, a character with Nightsisters / Dathomir ties, more about the Empire after ROTJ, and a lot of Grogu goodness. I can't wait for all the Filoniverse stuff and other SW shows still to come.

 

Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have earned the right to blank cheques from Disney for anything SW related as far as I’m concerned.

 

Makes me wish they were given the task in making episodes 7-9 from the very beginning

 

Mark Hamil himself approves of Sebastian playing a young Luke, so on that alone we should go for it.

But in actuality I don't foresee Disney casting anyone. I expect Luke's future appearances (if any) to be kept at a minimum. So they will probably just stick with the deaged cgi gimmick.