The Mandalorian Bo-Katan in The Mandalorian (Spoilers)

A Bo-Katan series does hold promise, depending on how it's done. She's a flawed character--which could imply that, if it's done well, the series might be some kind of complex GOT-like thing where different morally dubious factions vie for the throne of Mandalore (or something). Or the series might be about the Purge of Mandalore.

The wrong path for Disney to take, I think, would be to make yet another series that appeals to us Star Wars nerds to bitch about and that relies a lot on "lore," but I suspect that wouldn't appeal much to the general public.

BTW, we all really like Katee Sackhoff, ever since she was in Battlestar Galactica almost two decades ago, but she hasn't exactly been a box office draw since then, has she.... so casting her in her own series could be seen as a bit of a risk.

 

Call the spin off show, the return of Mandalore, and it won't simply be a Bo-Katan show.

 

Star Wars: Bo Knows

 

She was wonderful as Cara Thrace, but in everything else I’ve seen her in (including Mando) her range seems sorta limited. Maybe she’s not being challenged enough, though, as the parts have been pretty one note.

 

I think, apart from SW and BSG, I've only seen her in half an episode of Another Life.

 

Bo Katan's Arrested Development?

 

Cool. She seems character that is rather easy to do in live-action form and Katee is cool actor.
I hope it takes place mostly during OT or before it though, maybe even some TCW-era here and there could work easily. She seemed surprisingly young in Mandalorian so we can assume she remains pretty much unchanged the entire era what comes to her looks. But her ideals may change radically.

Seeing her in Kenobi seems possible as well due to her close connection to Obi-Wan. In Ahsoka she is also pretty probable.

 

I think she’s highly likely for the Ahsoka series as she is the one that knows Ahsoka whereabouts in the Mandalorian and Ahsoka references her in the episode “The Jedi”; as for the Obi-Wan series I’d be pleasantly surprised.

 

I wouldn't mind Bo in the Boba show just to give that show a jolt. It could definitely use one and Boba seemed to imply he has plenty of money to buy muscle. I would imagine Din is still around Bo and them and could just be a packaged deal for the show.

 

Bo Knows Beskar.

 

Bo Katan, the great sad tale of the wrong sister who wanted to rule and failed. Satine was better.

 

Well for a while she was really successful, but it was her rule that ended terribly. She totally was partially to blame for what happened to her people. She made them honestly so soft and weak, easy target for criminals without any morals. She was of course not wrong to try and avoid war but her naive idealism created situation in which she was unable to effectively defend her world. Corruption made it's home right in her palace. Sure it was not her fault really, but she can be blamed not to take enough precautions to ensure the security of her people. Pacifism works well when there is no war. But war and violence will eventually come anyway and then pacifism is self-defeating. It is noble but pure martyrdom and unable to save anyone.

 

Satine was in power far to soon for Mandalore, Empire would not been able to control them under Satine. And Mandalore would be better for it.

 

Mandalore would have been then destroyed under Empire anyway, even if Satine wouldn't been killed before. Just like Alderaan was. Ideological pacifism, sadly, gets you and your people easily killed in this universe where war and evil exists. Without any warriors they lack any defense against the violence.

 

Maybe in 20 sure, but Mandalore has great political power and neutral power so empire can't do it early in their regime like with Alderaan. So in 20 years Mandalore like Alderaan could help rebel against the empire.

 

Mandalore was rotting from within before the declaration of the Empire. Palpatine was salivating at the chance of a Republic takeover of the planet before Order 66. Death Watch was manipulated by the Sith (Dooku) into acting during TCW. Palpatine's effort to occupy the planet with Clone Forces was thwarted by Satine and Padme. And in the end it was a rival Sith in Maul who exploited Mandalore's weakness under Satine to take over.

 

It can be interpreted that way too, yet all become crashing down fairly quickly for her when Darth Maul took interest in her world. Her idealism created extraordinary circumstances that made it actually very easy to attack her world from the outside. She was focused on almost solely defending against the internal threat of civil war neglecting the defense from the outside.

Criminal element was already involved on Mandalore before Maul and all that however, so even if she was successful in what most leaders would not be, staying neutral in the galactic war, she did fail in underestimating the threat of completely immoral elements and she was partially responsible of all that happened. Even though she can hardly be blamed considering that she could not know all this. She did the best she could to stay true to her ideals and sure she stayed pacifist until the very end. Her tragedy was... well very tragic. She did nothing really wrong, and unjustly suffered for it... Criminals are not honorable.

Pacifism is just unable to defend against the pure evil. In Star Wars galaxy pure evil is represented by the sith. Corruption is the route for pure evil to take down otherwise working system of government. That is same what happened to the Galactic Republic. In a way it's same story all over again with Mandalore as it was with the Republic. Just in smaller scale.

Still it is true Satine succeeded for a while in something Bo-Katan never did, being an inspirational leader during hard times.

 

I was recently watching a reaction video of the Lawless episode of TCW (guilty pleasure of mine) when it occurred to me that maybe Bo never necessarily wanted the Dark Saber with her possession because it's the same blade that killed her sister. I mean all the talk about how it's like a birthright of the Mandalorians; and yet you'd think she'd still wouldn't want anything to do with it.

 

I really hope the hire Kevin McKidd to play Fenn Rau in live action for the Bo-Katan show.

 

Re-watching The Heiress and noticed that Bo-Katan says
"This armour has been in my family for three generations," which seems quite specific.
I'm wondering if the Kryze family lineage had been planned out already at that point.