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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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;t really
A thing in the other movies. Like is Greedo a "bad" guy? We can say he& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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
There is a moral ambiguity to many of the persons we see but their actions are what frame the good/evil conflict
