Agree ^ Pedro Pascal doesn't look like , and maybe more importantly doesn't sound anything like Temuera Morrison. There is no way there is some lame reveal it's amnesiac Fett.
This is absolutely a different character, and Favreu made that clear from the go.
"
After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett,
another warrior emerges...."
Not sure how anyone is left still clinging to this is Fett?
That said if they want to intro at some point some bandaged horribly scarred up amnesiac wandering the desert, I'd be fine with that.
As to why people of Favreau's generation became so obsessed with Fett/ the Mandalorian, besides his obvious bad ass look and role. It's cause (and unless you were there that gen and time seeing it in the actual movies you will never understand this) ESB wasn't a closed ending film, it ended on a cliff hanger, with till then the most bad ass, cocky character Solo, being hauled off by a total mysterious stranger you knew little to nothing about.
So who the frak was that guy? ...became the topic of discussion and fueled imagination for the next three years.
You couldn't pop in the next DVD, or even video tape, or read the novel, or the comic or look on wiki, or anything, and find out what happened to Solo, or get the story on this character, anywhere.
You had to wait 3 years. And what did every kid do in those 3 years, they projected and imagined every wicked, awesome scenario and narrative they could dream up onto this character.
For those three years this character belonged to the audience, to every kid's imagination, an absolute open universe of possibilities, for this blank slate character.
Those who come to the character
after ROTJ, after everything was said and done, and are like
I don't get it, he did nothing, and he gets knocked in the hole and dies, what's the fascination?
And that's just it, they will never get it, because they never had those three years, where he pretty much did and was anything you could imagine. The character was already much greater than anything in ROTJ.
This show is for thos people tapping into that gap, . this is Favreau's three years imagining with a blank-slate Mandalorian.
You don't need it to be Fett (if you do you are looking at it all wrong) . you need him to be a blank slate.
That is who he is.
Maybe that's how the actor normally moves, I wouldn't know.
