The Mandalorian Mayfeld (spoilers)

It’s like Coruscant, but there’s a Dunkin on every level.

 

The whole planet is one big Dunkin

 

And Sam Adams is a buck a beer.

 

Pak the ca in havad yad

 

Too Funny

 

The Bwaast'n system. See, cause it sounds like a guy with a Boston accent saying "Boston."

 

Bostonooine

 

I would assume it was a planet settled by people from the Core who eventually got upset about taxes and dumped a bunch of caf into hyperspace. Or something.

 

Agree? Disagree? Discuss!

 

This isn't the ST forum, but I'll quickly chip in. I don't think they were afraid Boyega/Finn would outshine Driver/Ren, I think they were afraid that Finn would outshine Rey.

And yeah, the story potential of Boyega's character being former stormtrooper who broke his "programming" (probably cause he was Force sensitive) was completely underused in the ST.

 

Rick Famuyiwa is a million times the filmmaker that milquetoast JJ is, and better executes interesting takes on the material than RJ. So yeah.

 

Disagree, because Mayfeld wasn't an ex-stormtrooper

Mod Edit: Nope. No baiting. No, Rian Johnson and Lucasfilm did not have a "moment of panic" on that matter. They didn't retcon or denigrate Finn either. Nor did they "refuse" to "repair" anything in TROS. They had an idea about Finn that you didn't like, that's it. Finn had his own arc, character-development towards being an actual resistance-hero who fought for the cause and not because it coincided with his desire to protect Rey, and he got to beat his actual nemesis from TFA: Phasma. That is perfectly suitable in itself. Though maybe it could have been done a bit better, if things were tweaked a bit, or the cut scene with Phasma had stayed in the movie.

That Rey and Ben would be the main protagonist and antagonist was already established in TFA, just like splitting Rey and Finn was.

Abrams then had a slightly different take on him, which isn't entirely surprising, considering he and Rian Johnson aren't the exact same person. Though he did pick up on the idea that Johnson came up with and then didn't end up using (Finn putting doubt into the minds of some stormtroopers when talking about what Phasma did on Starkiller Base). Not that he went fully ahead with it either. Maybe because there already was a ton of things he tried to tell and everything had to fit into a sutiable screentime, who knows.

 

Let's move on from this conversation. This is a thread about Mayfeld. Not getting upset over how the ST was done.

 

Finn and Mayfeld have more or less the same story and neither character really raises to a level above the other. Both desert. Finn becomes a rebel, Mayfeld becomes a mercenary. Both do good in the end. The difference is that Finn's character was tee'd up to be something more substantial in the end game, but nothing really came of it. He was the first hero on screen. He was the first to take Anakin's lightsaber. He landed a blow with the lightsaber on Kylo. And after that he becomes a side character.

edit: whoops. Simultaneous post to the above warning. Well i'll leave it at that.

 

One of the best developed characters in the show thus far. Burr can act.

 

Indeed he can. Can’t wait to see more of him

 

Yo he's gotta be on a spin-off show all to himself or just keep Bill Burr to once maybe twice a season appearances on Mando. I loved his 2nd episode but he was a legit bad dude in S1 so I dunno how far you can take the whole redemption thing, even though S2 was more Bill Burr-iness to Mayfield than even S1.

 

Would love to see more of him

 

I love Mayfeld and I hope we see more of him. Bill Burr isn't a Star Wars guy and, like with Harrison Ford, I think that actually works for the character's advantage because of how disillusioned and cynical Mayfeld is. I'm glad that he was more sympathetic in Season 2 while still existing in a grey area morally. He's one of those characters that you can't predict.

 

If Mayfield was a character out of a spaghetti western who would he be?


Rod Steiger or James Coburn from A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck You Sucka)???

 

Really hoping we see more of Mayfeld, once a season would be pretty cool providing there was a reason and the character is still compelling enough. I think introducing him as a father following a time-jump, which I predict there will be a 1-2 year jump when Season 3 starts.

After re-watching all of the show recently, I felt like that he was portrayed fairly differently in his two stories. S1 made use of Burr's comedy, to the point where it actually felt like 'Bill Burr in Star Wars' rather than a character (not that that was bad). S2 made use of Burr's acting, which is surprisingly good. I feel like watching his last appearance, you pretty much forget he's anything other than Migs Mayfeld. The comedy was much more subtle, which worked more, and Mayfeld's outspokenness, combined with his philosophy made him a really important character in The Mandalorian; he gives Din the final push he needs to take off the mask and challenge his OWN philosophy.

Hoping we see more of him in Season 3 and beyond. I feel he's got another appearance or two yet before the character's in danger of getting stale.