I believe they were originally a farming society that developed strong warrior caste when they started skirmishing with other species. Even the name Fett, originally "vhett" is Mando word for "farmer"
Bantam era gets a little repetitive as it goes on but most of it are good comfort reads.
Star Wars is more like a fairy tale with sci-fi elements than actual sci-fi.
Mandalorians suffer from people having very different ideas about what they are that don't really fit very well with each other. Going in rough publishing order:
So Boba Fett just means Bob Famer in Mando'a? Should have given Prowse the voice role, west country Fett would have been ridiculous.
This era is what broke Mandalorians for me and it is Lucas's fault since Filoni wasn't in total control at the time. The only way to explain it in the context of those episodes is that people grew disgusted by Satine's Enlightened Centrism about the Clone Wars, so more people joined Death Watch every time they saw Satine's bodyguards get completely bodied. Then when Maul pulled a Summer of Love and killed Satine, the normie robe-wearing Mandos had to join Death Watch whether they wanted to or not because Death Watch were optically the only ones that upheld the law. While the show wants us to see Satine's fall as an unjust tragedy, the events presented show her to be a weak and ineffectual leader that lost her legitimacy by failing to stop Death Watch decisively. Thus, her fall and death are morally neutral as a head of state. The greatest crime for the duchess is to lose her power.
The Imperial fleet had over a million ships and even then, they didn't have enough ships to thoroughly patrol the whole Empire. With the overwhelming majority of them being significantly smaller than, the Imperial star destroyer. As is being smaller than the Strike Cruiser which is on the longer end of the scale and ships around the size of the Millennium Falcon on the other end.
I think that was covered in X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble, but its been a couple of years since I read it, so I can't remember how much detail they put into that.
Back when I was a kid and watching TCW, it seemed to me that in every episode Satine appeared in, someone in her government always ended up betraying her, which I thought was kind of an unintentional indictment of her rule.
Probably or he memory holed it.
Imagine going back and telling people that they'd learn to appreciate what they had with the prequel trilogy and they'd yearn for that level of quality in less than two decades.
This chad was the only likeable Mando in TCW other then Pre Visla. Almec was the only one with any common sense. Maul was a much better ruler for Mandolare then they ever deserved.
I always got the sense from George that he never really cared about what is and isn't canon. That's why I'm always confused about the fights over if he considered it canon or not- did he really care about it in the first place?
I don't care if he considers it canon either. I'm just bringing it up to showcase his flip flopping nature.
I'll repeat it again: the prequels were good - not great, good - movies with very flawed execution of the story telling. When you haven't been unwarrantedly hyped by the entire media landscape to expect life-altering cinema, even Jar-Jar isn't all that bad.
It all lived in his head, and he did have some very clear ideas about things. I think he just cared less about the specifics of what EU authors got upto because he could always just say "That didn't happen" since it was his property.
Not really. Dude was fucking 60 in the Book of Blobba Fat. which don't get me wrong dude looks pretty darn good for 60, but he just very clearly could not keep up with an action TV show. He does not look like a grizzled bounty under in his 30s to 40s should look like. they needed to get someone younger in the suit and for him to not take off his fucking helmet.
All I'm seeing is there are still over a million cucked out abused ex-wives out there
That's a whole lot of brand confusion--that the show itself insisted upon--seeing as how Mandalorian show exists.
Niggercattle have gotta judge fictional characters with their lookism these days. Helmeted characters are treated like they're wearing a paper bag to hide their ugliness. It was blatantly apparent when that faggot bill burr kept pestering that silver armored Mandalorian to take his helmet off. Western media isn't anime. Hair gel and friendship isn't gonna stop a sniper from domeing you like a helmet will.
Maul didn't pull off a Summer of Love. He legally challenged the ruler and won. It's the Mando equivalent of winning an election. He's their legitimate ruler whether they like it or not. Bo-Katan's rebellion was the equivalent of all those "not my president" riots following Trump's victory in 2016.
Lucas really needed someone to tell him "George, this is a bad idea because of X, but I get what you're trying to do. Let's try Y instead" when he was writing the prequels. Unfortunately, Rick McCallum was not that man, not that it was his job anyway. As producer, his job was to do the behind the scenes stuff to make sure the movie could be made, not to hold Lucas' hand through the writing process. And based on everything I've read, anyone at Lucasfilms who tried to so stuff like saying "please tone down the slapstick of Jar Jar" or say "make R2 and 3PO be together right from the beginning of the movie instead of Anakin making him" was shown the door, rapidly.
When doing writing in a professional setting, I find that collaborative, peer systems tends to result in something stronger than just one guy doing it all and it then being edited or mandated writing from an employer. Even just two people prevents the extremes of one to go to far.
Considering what happened with David Prowse I wouldn't be surprised if it was a trust thing actually.
It's a balance between the drives and ideas of one writer, which can result in horrendous clownery; and the input and suggestions of a team, which can lead to really tepid and stupid clownshit due to design by committee. You also do need to be hired more for talent or merit rather than "to take space" or "we need one of you to make the sheet look good".
I would also say that Rat Wars is weakened from the fact that it isn't collaborative, but rather either dictatorial or just chaotic, where competing writers have no idea what anyone else is doing. Something something anarcho-tyrrany.
