Thoughts: The Mandalorian is a great show. In many ways, it captures a lot of what was great about the original trilogy that is often missed in the debates about what makes them a superior product (in my opinion) than the prequels and the newer sequel trilogy.

Personally what makes the Original Star Wars movies great is showing that Sci-Fi isn't really a separate from other genres like The Western (which are Samurai films) and the narrative is in some ways Mythic etc.

The fact that when you see A New Hope you're also just watching another version of the Hidden Fortress and there is a certain moral ambiguity that exists in this in the battle of Good and Evil in teh Star Wars Universe makes it a much more interesting place that isn't really

A thing in the other movies. Like is Greedo a "bad" guy? We can say he's bad cause he opposes Han but in the original (where he shoots first) Han certainly seems shady as well.

What makes this fun isn't that this is some deep exploration of morality, but its this idea that in the Light vs Dark/Good vs Evil battle everyone is drafted by a side whether they know it or not.

I think the Mandalorian, much like Kurosawa films play with this in very deliberate ways that we haven't seen done in The Star Wars films in a while.

There is a moral ambiguity to many of the persons we see but their actions are what frame the good/evil conflict

Even though some clearly choose that they have to side with Good sometimes their reasons are less than altruistic but also that's relatively unimportant in the grand scheme.

idk that conversation seems to be missing from the prequel and the newer trilogy, but it's half the fun

This isn't just a morality thing it's more of an understanding of how the world is seen in genre films like the Samurai/Detective/Western films and that even if you change the outward aesthetic they're really all the same