The Mandalorian Moff Gideon (Spoilers)

I don't really care about realism or not I just wanna know how this all fits together. That's what I'm here for.

 

I don't care about realism either - but I do value prioritizing the story that is currently being told, over a series existing purely as a means to make everything "fit together." Not every story within Star Wars has to directly connect to one another.

 

True but I don't care about that either I want the connections and the lore.

and considering this show has been willing to connect to other things then I wanna see how it connects to the big ST and be the bridge series we've all been looking for.

 

If all you want is "lore" over "story" then you're probably just better off reading a wiki. The emotional and narrative core should always come first and foremost, with focus on the central characters (in this case, Din and the Child) as the real draw. Any lore and setup for future material is can be a nice bonus, for sure, but shouldn't be the focus of the series.

The Mandalorian isn't a "bridge" series. A bridge series would be one that actually bothers to explore the New Republic and the First/Final Order/Empire 2.0 from the inside, and explores the politics that got us from point A at the end of RotJ to point Z in the Sequel Trilogy. Something like that would definitely be nice, since the Sequel Trilogy only really scraped the surface on the state that the galaxy exists in at that point in time - and I bet we do get something like that at some point. But that's just not what The Mandalorian is.

 

I like what I like and you don't know where this show is going my friend...

 

Mandalorian is bridge series tough, we wknow we will get the first order origin story and more teases and cameo's. With Filoni involved we might even get Andy Serkis back as Snoke and Thrawn.

 

When it comes to the world, a more realistic political situation is just so much more interesting to watch unfold. And it’s especially important in the long-form TV format. The TV shows that fail the most are those that dumb things down, presenting a story that’s better made for the big screen, but stretching it out to the point of extreme boredom by the third season. For Mando to hold viewers’ interest, it needs to get more complex, not less. Perhaps Gideon has a couple layers of power between him and anyone connected to the FO, or there are other warlords who’ll challenge him, including ones in touch with the FO in the Unknown Regions? Competing warlords that eventually will coalesce (likely violently) into the First Order is a much better story option for TV than “the First Order is up and running five years after ROTJ and Gideon reports directly to Palps.” That’s almost objectively bad, and I can’t see the benefits of doing it (and don’t understand why anyone would want that). If that’s the case, what’s there to look forward to? A rehash of the dynamic that already existed in TFA? But stretched across 50 hours of TV?

 

I mean we already know who has the most imperials at their disposal and it’s not Gideon that would be Sloane. However I could still see a similar situation play out either way @Bor Mullet

 

Cuz its cool for me

You can bring up objectivity and yada yada...but those words don't really mean anything to me.

One person boring is another persons interesting....everything art is subjective remember.

 

That’s why I said “almost” objectively bad.

 

But all that being said I really would wanna see another Warlord ....Like not as the main Villain (I think Gideon is our main baddy for the series) but just to compare and contrast.

Moff Gideon' army is so organized and advanced and they got the whole Proto-First Order thing going. They ALL can't be like that right.

Except maybe Rae Sloane in the Unknown Regions (She has a Super Star Destroyer )

But like...Not all the Warlords can be like this...So i think we need to see what another Non-Gideon Warlord is like in a episode just to get a good idea of what other Imp factions are like. We've heard about them, but never seen them.

 

First Order leadership goes from Sloane ever since a year after ROTJ to eventually Snoke not that long before TFA, regardless of how objectively bad this may or may not be, we've always known this to be the case. Palpatine took 20 years to complete the first Death Star, Starkiller base is a project that requires the equivalent resources of a whole bunch of Death Stars, there's pretty much nothing that can justifies it's existence, but the least they can do is make it clear that ex-Imperial forces were working on it basically the entire length of time between ROTJ and TFA.

 

@Fredrik Vallestrand Brought up a good point that Gideon could have rallied several Imperial Remnants to his own cause hence why he is so organized.

Maybe if Gideon is gone those Remnants are gonna need somewhere else to go.

 

I could totally see them joining what will become the FO. After Gideon dies. I just think all this force research will end up with the Sith eternal somehow

 

Some comic or book will almost certainly say so. But I still maintain that within the body of the show itself, it is going to have a purpose explicitly related to The Mandalorian's own narrative. Down the line, some time after Gideon dies and his remnant fractures (and the show ends) and all of his work spills out into the galaxy, then I'd imagine that it will become fair game for all of the expanded universe writers to begin making those more explicit Sequel Trilogy connections.

 

Mandalorian will keep having more ST connections we know this from Faveru.

 

I do think the Mandalorian will narratively tie into the ST. I would bet on it if I was a betting man.

 

I don't know why folks think that Mando can't stand on it's own AND have narrative ties to the ST.

Why can't it do both.

The best Star Wars stories in my mind are the ones that are able to elevate everything and tell it's own story too.

 

I agree I think both Rebels and TCW do this and I say that as someone who liked the PT before TCW.

 

I think even Resistance did this on a smaller scale, I bet Bad Batch will be a bridge between PT and OT. and explain the most important things away that we never get from PT to OT.

 

Also we know from the tv show resistance, that StarKiller as a project was used on 3 planets before they decided to pick Illum.

 

I think it can do both. And want it to do both. I just think it needs to do both in a way that’s interesting, and doesn’t reduce everything to direct, straight line connections. The post-OT, pre-ST world should have its own unique, complex, post-Imperial, fledgling New Republic flavor, while laying the foundations for the ST. It shouldn’t just ape the style of the ST.

 

The real question we need to ask ourselves is

How does THRAWN fit into all this

That's the real question in all of this.

Although funny enough the Post Endor Era is technically considered it's own era as you can see by this new timeline they cooked up

 

Right. The New Republic. And I’d like to see more of it.