The Mandalorian The Mandalorian: General Thread

[Marvolo]

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Fantastic casting!

Jason Ward, you are one special man.

 

[Verbal21]

I don’t know who Carl Weathers will play but I can’t wait to see the chemistry between him and Pascal on screen.

 

[Marvolo]

I don’t know who Carl Weathers will play but I can’t wait to see the chemistry between him and Pascal on screen.

Edit: Nevermind. Misread your post.

 

[Verbal21]

According to MSW.net, Stormtroopers and Deathtroopers will make an appearance on the show. Can.Not.Wait

 

[Marvolo]

I'm going to assume, and hope I'm right, that indicates the show will take place in the Unknown Regions and we'll finally get to see some of just what the hell the Imperial Remnant was doing out there after the fled they known galaxy. I would love for Grand Admiral Sloane to make an appearance or just finding out why she isnt a part of the First Order would be nice.

 

[Aximili86]

Where's the Carl Weathers stuff coming from? Apollo in SW would be majorly rad.

Interesting about the Death Troopers, kinda assumed they might have been phased out by Jedi/post-Jedi. Not much to base that on though obviously, just because we don't see them in the OT doesn't mean they're not out there. Were they in that game recently, out of curiosity? The post-Endor/fall of the Empire story thing?

Marvolo, I think they've said The Mandalorian is more just regular Outer Rim type of thing, Tatooine-type backwaters. Doubt we'll get past that threshold into total uncharted Unknown Regions stuff, but guess it's possible. I guess I'd kinda want to keep all that stuff in the big leagues though, main story type of thing, force types having to do with all of that, rather than appearing in a lone-wolf criminal/vigilante story.

 

[Breogan]

‘Star Wars’: Pedro Pascal to Lead ‘The Mandalorian’ Series

Yes!! Awesome to have it confirmed!!

Great news.
Red Viper is the Mandalorian

Character just has to remember when going into battle, .....always wear the helmet!

 

[Breogan]

According to MSW.net, Stormtroopers and Deathtroopers will make an appearance on the show. Can.Not.Wait

Death Troopers? Are these the R1 Troopers?
I guess I thought (imagined) these were Krennic's elite Troopers, and ended with him. Hence they are absent going forward.
At least that's what I told myself to explain their logical absence throughout the OT
Now I have to rewrite my own head canon. I guess they were there all along, they just weren't used in any of the OT specific scenarios or campaigns, hence we never saw them.
Wonder if they'll also be in the R1 prequel Rebel Spy series?

 

[Aximili86]

I figured they were a rogue (well not rogue, but like his personal guys) unit answering to Krennic at the time of R1 too, yeah, but they've featured in Rebels since. So that's out the window.

The absense through the OT is more just that there's no reason to see them in the OT. They're special forces, they're not going to be the types of guys just walking guard patrols on Star Destroyers or the guys down on Tatooine etc. Makes more sense with Krennic's operations as he's the sort of cutting-edge tip-of-the-spear R&D guy. And Thrawn's sort of unconventional too, makes sense he'd have them.

Guess I just figured they may have been more an earlier Empire thing that weren't necessarily still around by the time of Endor etc. But there's no reason in-lore so far they can't be.

 

[Verbal21]

Yeah, the same thing can be said about every other Trooper variant from the OT, and since the Deathtroopers aren't environment specific like Sand/Snow/Shore/etc, it shouldn't be too hard to assume there were others spread throughout the galaxy.

 

[Breogan]

they've featured in Rebels since. So that's out the window.

Didn't know Death Troopers were appearing in Rebels, never watched it.
And yeah I'm fine and glad we'll see more of them, like I said it's an easy head-canon fix.
If anything I'd wished they had been explored more in R1, as they struck me as possibly being once wounded clone Troopers who had been altered to have mechanical aspects/limbs/organs (hence their taller, faster, etc. and mechanical voices), like robocopish or of course Vader. I even imagined them coming out of the same program that would have designed Vader's prosthetics and armor, and maybe it had all been run by Krennic, Hence the continued animosity between Vader and Krennic.
Retroactively reinforcing Vader's - "Don't be so proud of this technological terror" - attitude, ironically extending to the creation his own body which he may resent.
And why Vader might have begrudgingly had them all decommissioned at the end of R1 thus explaining why we don't see them . Of course none of that was explored in R1 LOL.
I just have to un-write that in my head.

And Thrawn's sort of unconventional too, makes sense he'd have them.

Thrawn? From the 90s Zahn novels (man I used to devour those)? I thought all that canon was thrown out by Disney? Is he somehow back in, or referenced? He was post ROTJ takes control of what's left of the Imperial Forces, so is he now instead part of the post ROTJ First Order rebuild? How/Where is he showing up?

And does this mean Mara Jade is back in ? LOL!

 

[Verbal21]

Thrawn is featured heavily in Season 3 and 4 of Rebels. He’s pretty much true to his character with little nods and references to the Thrawn books so it was definitely a fine line that Filoni and his team were able to walk.

 

[Aximili86]

Yeah. Thrawn's been brought into the new canon too, Mondragon, books and Rebels. Pretty similar to how he always was, same personality, just with the details/continuity changed.

No problem with him having the troopers.

I guess my one reservation with them here is it's been seeming the Mandalorian story here might be pretty small-scale, local, criminals & gangsters & civilians, Firefly type of deal. Not sure how they'd figure into that, but also no reason our guy can't cross paths with some ex-Imperial bigwig along the way who fields them. Just think of them as the Empire's evil SS guys as opposed to the regular garden-variety Wehrmacht guys in the white uniforms.

I wouldn't mind seeing those other black-uniform special-ops troopers from the recent videogame again either, at some point. The ones looking pretty similar to the TIE pilots, just with colored highlights.

 

[Iceman]

Great news.
Red Viper is the Mandalorian

Character just has to remember when going into battle, .....always wear the helmet!

 

[James.B]

'Star Wars': Gina Carano Joins 'The Mandalorian'

 

[Verbal21]

Give me the Gina Carano character from Fast 5 and I won't complain.

 

[Breogan]

'Star Wars': Gina Carano Joins 'The Mandalorian'

I hope she's another badass hunter, and they end up competing for the same bounty. ...sparks fly!

Favreau is shaping an interesting cast so far...

 

[Aximili86]

She's not much of an actor, but that won't matter too much. She definitely feels right at home in the Star Wars 'verse somehow, should be cool to see who she is.

 

[Marvolo]

Give me the Gina Carano character from Fast 5 and I won't complain.

Shes nothing great or even good, but I'll wait to see what she does.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Gina was pretty terrible in that F&F movie but I liked her in Haywire. I've heard that she had her lines dubbed over by another actress in that movie but I'm not sure if that's true or if Soderbergh just altered her voice digitally. Either way, she'll probably be used more for her physicality than dialogue so she should be fine.

 

[TheVileOne]

I like all this casting so far. I imagine Carano will have a role that's suitable for her talents.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

So far so good. Pedro Pascal that I "discovered" in Game of Thrones and liked very much ( his character and the guy acting ) and Gina Carano whom I was introduced to in the gif thread I think, I don't watch wrestling/mma but I like fitted/muscular women so well ...she may not have good acting skills ( yet ) but so did David Bautista when he started acting.

 

[Inhuman117]

Exclusive Video of Taika Waititi directing Star Wars: The Mandalorian's season finale! | Making Star Wars

 

[MurkeNyou]

I bet Celebration Chicago will have the pilot.