Epic butthurt rant:
Mandalorians are useless. I am beyond disappointed with both Mandalorian live-action shows.
Everything that made them awesome in the animated shows is gone. Everything I was hoping for, from what's been shown in the Original Trilogy and the Prequel Trilogy, with The Mandalorian and Book of Boba hasn't happened and what *has* happened is 99% garbage.
Jango - badass
OG Boba - badass, quiet, but we just knew he was badass
Boba Book - boring AF and completely out of character
Din Djarin - first few episodes he was a badass, now is just boring and lame
Bo Katan (animated) - total badass
Bo Katan (live) - totally lame
Mandalorians (animated) - absolute badasses
Mandalorians (live) - totally useless, boring, and stupid
The Mandalorians - What a stupid cult. Let's be all about our clan and "this is the way" but then let's all go find a place to hide so we can take off our helmets and eat. Let's put a helmet on as a kid and then never take it off for the rest of our lives. Let's all move slowly and talk even slower and show no emotion or urgency in anything.
The Mandalorian
... What's the plan for Grogu? He's 50 and still a toddler. He'll be 150 before he's "old enough" and they'll all be dead anyway. Is he going to wear armor? That ridiculous chest thing will still take up half his chest once he's fully grown.
... The bird takes the kid and will feed it immediately when it gets back to the nest. But, let's chase it anyway and then say it always gets away, and since we're stupid we won't at least *try* and do something different to take it out, just let the kid die. Oh no, we run out of fuel, as usual, and we don't have any ships around? We don't learn from our mistakes?
... So Bo chases it, finds it's nest, then flies back to slowly and calmly tell the others, no urgency, who slowly and calmly talk about shit. Then they fly "close" so as not to let it know they're there, then take a Hobbit cross-country journey to the nest, but don't climb it, let's camp out overnight first and eat alone so nobody sees us without our hat.
... Of course, as soon as we get to the nest, it's perfect timing for the mama bird to show up and hork up the happy meal... WHO ISN'T EFFING DEAD AND SHREDDED, not to mention mama was, what, just hanging around before feeding her kids? So somehow the kid survives in there for a day and a half, and then comes out entirely whole and a-ok? WTF kind of bad joke is this?
... Let's bring home the 3 baby birds and call them "foundlings" which, presumably, means they're going to train them to be Mandalorians? Raise them to be mounts or something, that's fair, but to make them Mandalorians? WTAF?
This still doesn't cover how disappointed I've been with the majority of the live Star Wars shows. The animated ones (eg. Bad Batch) are what the live shows should be. Everyone gushing over Andor but, same thing, it's so boring and slow.