Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu - May 22, 2026

[sh9000]

As long as Jack Black and Lizzo aren't in this I'll give it a watch.

Edited September 23 by sh9000

[Big s]

49 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

As long as Jack Black and Lizzo aren't in this I'll give it a watch.

I don’t think they’d do as much to ruin the story as Bo did in season 3. 

[Thom]

Looks like it's going to be a fun ride in the Razor Crest 2!! Who else turned up the volume when the theme music played?

[Seto Kaiba]

12 hours ago, Big s said:

I don’t think they’d do as much to ruin the story as Bo did in season 3. 

You misspelled "Dave Filoni" there. 😜 Don't go puttin' that evil on the character when it's the writers and creative director who can't go two minutes without forcing at least one callback to The Clone Wars into the story.

Hell, they even brought back Jabba's chronically flatulent kid from The Clone Wars for an apparently significant role in the movie.  (I can only describe him like that because chronic flatulence was literally his only character trait.)

Edited September 23 by Seto Kaiba

[Big s]

20 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

You misspelled "Dave Filoni" there. 😜 Don't go puttin' that evil on the character when it's the writers and creative director who can't go two minutes without forcing at least one callback to The Clone Wars into the story.

Hell, they even brought back Jabba's chronically flatulent kid from The Clone Wars for an apparently significant role in the movie.  (I can only describe him like that because chronic flatulence was literally his only character trait.)

Sorry, I just feel like she ended up part of the problem, kinda like how Mando stole bobas thunder in his show. Bo just kept having to rescue mr shiny in season 3 making him a bit of a Disney princess most of the show 

[Seto Kaiba]

2 minutes ago, Big s said:

Sorry, I just feel like she ended up part of the problem, kinda like how Mando stole bobas thunder in his show. Bo just kept having to rescue mr shiny in season 3 making him a bit of a Disney princess most of the show 

You're not wrong... I'm just saying it's not the character's fault. 😜

Of course Favreau and Filoni bent over backwards to make Bo-Katan Kryze look good in The Mandalorian even at the expense of the show's own protagonist. 

Why?  Because Bo-Katan Kryze is one of Dave Filoni's OCs from The Clone Wars.  Same as season two's scene stealer Badass-By-Creator-Fiat Ahsoka Tano.

 

Din stealing the show in The Book of Boba Fett is more a problem of Boba being incredibly badly written and boring.  He's a bounty hunter who doesn't do any bounty hunting, a crime lord who does no crime, a ruler who doesn't actually rule anything, a clueless schmuck, and a Fake Mandalorian to boot.

[Thom]

6 hours ago, Big s said:

Sorry, I just feel like she ended up part of the problem, kinda like how Mando stole bobas thunder in his show. Bo just kept having to rescue mr shiny in season 3 making him a bit of a Disney princess most of the show 

My 2 pence, Mando was the best parts of BoBF. The show finally got interesting rather than maudlin. And I really like Bo-Katan so I think she was a good edition.

[Big s]

40 minutes ago, Thom said:

My 2 pence, Mando was the best parts of BoBF. The show finally got interesting rather than maudlin. And I really like Bo-Katan so I think she was a good edition.

I didn’t mind Bo second season, but they way overdid her in the third.

Mando definitely was the best part of Book of Boba, but like with bo, he completely makes Boba seem even more insignificant than he already was and ruins the entire point of him even having a show to begin with.

[Mog]

The problem with BOBF was that they made Boba a complete and utter putz.

I get the idea of going from crime underling to crime boss is a difficult transition.

But don’t tell me Boba didn’t pick up a few things and learn a few key lessons hanging around Jabba and his palace crew.

The absolute defanging of Boba was what brought that show down.

[Thom]

And that 'defanging' became even more evident when Mando showed up, showing a far better written and plotted character than Boba Fett turned out to be. 

[Roy Focker]

Boba's character assassination was result of I think them not wanting lead characters to be bad. Children are watching. We can't have him a crime lord doing criminal activity.

[Tking22]

Yeah as others have said, this just looks like an extended episode of the show, I didn't really expect anything more, but it looks like a TV show. Agreed on Bo, and I watched and loved Clone Wars and Rebels, she's a great character, but hi-jacking Mando's show was lame, and her saving the main character over and over got old fast.

Book of Boba? Yikes, what a monumental waste of a beloved legacy character, now he's a bunty hunter that doesn't bounty hunt, a criminal leader of nothing, an assassin that doesn't assassinate, a toothless gangster that doesn't do gangster things, he's nothing to nobody, he's just a lump on a throne of nothing. 

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Thom said:

And that 'defanging' became even more evident when Mando showed up, showing a far better written and plotted character than Boba Fett turned out to be. 

Until Bo returned in season 3 to show that even a great character could also be written poorly.

[Seto Kaiba]

51 minutes ago, Roy Focker said:

Boba's character assassination was result of I think them not wanting lead characters to be bad. Children are watching. We can't have him a crime lord doing criminal activity.

If so, that would make the decision to green-light the show's development and production a rather idiotic move.

The entire premise of the series was "Boba Fett is back from his Disney Villain Death in Return of the Jedi and his new ambition is to take over Jabba the Hutt's criminal empire".  Why green-light a series about an explicitly villainous bounty hunter at all if he has to be Mr. Space Rogers?  If he can't be shown doing crime, why make the focus of the story his new life goal to change careers to Crime Lord and take over his old boss's criminal empire built on drug smuggling, slave trafficking, protection rackets, space piracy, and murder-for-hire?

Poor Din was the one sane man poking his head into an Idiot Plot.

 

2 minutes ago, Big s said:

Until Bo returned in season 3 to show that even a great character could also be written poorly.

That even a poorly written character could be written worse.

Bo-Katan was always rather thinly written, and the people writing her often forget she was the right-hand man to the coup leader who framed and overthrew her sister and plunged Mandalore into the chaos that led to its takeover by Maul, the one who effectively started the civil war that led to its takeover by the Empire, etc.

 

Considering how often poor Din tends to get overshadowed by characters from Filoni's past works... I'm a bit worried he's going to be playing second fiddle to the likes of Zeb and Rotta in his own movie.

[Duke Togo]

With their advertising for this, it looks to be aimed at children. Like Skeleton Crew. Which is fine, I liked that. Just makes me a little sad we're now miles away from the Space Spaghetti Western the show started as. 

[Thom]

6 hours ago, Tking22 said:

...he's just a lump on a throne of nothing. 

Ouch! But true.

The real problem being that they tied him own to a gangster who can't gangster. I only saw the show once, but didn't they have him being taken in by nomads after escaping the Sarlac pit? They should have just had him fighting for them against the far more powerful Hutts for the length of the show.

[TangledThorns]

2 hours ago, Duke Togo said:

With their advertising for this, it looks to be aimed at children. Like Skeleton Crew. Which is fine, I liked that. Just makes me a little sad we're now miles away from the Space Spaghetti Western the show started as. 

Very much for kids and is why I'm dragging mine to see it, lol. I expect lots of adults will see it too. 

[Hikuro]

George Lucas did say, this is a movie for kids when he did star wars, it's not really a movie aimed at grownups after all. Either way, I think this could be a good popcorn flick. The only question is will I be able to sit in a theater and watch this with my current health. Since it's 8 months away, who knows! I'm crossing my fingers. 

[Big s]

15 minutes ago, Hikuro said:

George Lucas did say, this is a movie for kids when he did star wars, it's not really a movie aimed at grownups after all. Either way, I think this could be a good popcorn flick. The only question is will I be able to sit in a theater and watch this with my current health. Since it's 8 months away, who knows! I'm crossing my fingers. 

Hopefully your health gets better soon, but there’s always the D+ option 

 

29 minutes ago, TangledThorns said:

Very much for kids and is why I'm dragging mine to see it, lol. I expect lots of adults will see it too. 

I’d imagine that the majority will be adults, but I wouldn’t expect a packed theater for it.

[Dynaman]

There are two kinds of kids.  Teenagers (and preteens) and children.  Mando looks to be aimed at the former (which is what I was when SW originally came out).  Skeleton Crew was aimed at the latter.

[Duke Togo]

22 hours ago, Hikuro said:

George Lucas did say, this is a movie for kids when he did star wars, it's not really a movie aimed at grownups after all. Either way, I think this could be a good popcorn flick. The only question is will I be able to sit in a theater and watch this with my current health. Since it's 8 months away, who knows! I'm crossing my fingers. 

There's a bunch of stuff in the OT that was definitely not "for kids." George was always full of crap about that.

[Hikuro]

On 9/24/2025 at 6:01 PM, Big s said:

Hopefully your health gets better soon, but there’s always the D+ option 

 

I’d imagine that the majority will be adults, but I wouldn’t expect a packed theater for it.

actually I'm canceling my account. They're doing another pricing increase, plus some other reasons personal, and well, most of the stuff they have on their site I already own. And having a tighter budget, I just don't see a point. I'm sure if I don't see it, because it's a movie, it'll eventually come out on 4K or Bluray and could buy it or something. So either way I'm not worried, there's always a way. 

 

2 hours ago, Duke Togo said:

There's a bunch of stuff in the OT that was definitely not "for kids." George was always full of crap about that.

I know, but it's what he says, and it's what he's told cast in the past. I mean I felt more excited watching it as a kid than I did as an adult. 

[Roy Focker]

It is my opinion that Lucas and others are wrong about Star Wars being for kids. You can categorize movies for 3 audiences: kid friendly, family friendly and grownup friendly.  Of the 3 only family friendly has something that will appeal to all audiences. With the other two categorizes only the named audience will enjoy their experience. Traditionally Star Wars has been family friendly. Later sequels and prequels introduced extended sequences that were specifically kid friendly. I guess you could call this Fan Service for Children. We usually see it in the form of cute and funny creatures and droids getting into cartoonish situations. This trailer is showing a lot of that.

[TangledThorns]

STAR WARS is mostly for the kid at heart, young and old. 

 

[Big s]

5 hours ago, Duke Togo said:

There's a bunch of stuff in the OT that was definitely not "for kids." George was always full of crap about that.

There was no nudity or cussing, so it was more tame than Clash of the Titans by far, even though there wasn’t any cussing in that from what I remember. The politics were extremely simple and honestly overall it was far more child friendly than most nursery rhythms. America just got overly sensitive around things and think kids are stupider than they actually are

[Seto Kaiba]

Eh, whether Star Wars as a whole is "for kids" is kind of an academic question at this point... since even if it WAS for kids when it was new those kids are in their fifties and sixties now and still haven't let it go. 🙃

This new movie is pretty undeniably aiming for the young kids, though.  Which is fine.

[Big s]

38 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Eh, whether Star Wars as a whole is "for kids" is kind of an academic question at this point... since even if it WAS for kids when it was new those kids are in their fifties and sixties now and still haven't let it go. 🙃

This new movie is pretty undeniably aiming for the young kids, though.  Which is fine.

I’m pretty sure he meant for the og trilogy and maybe the prequels at the time of his statement 

[Big s]

I’d list things as Andor being young adult, the cartoons and Skeleton Crew as for younger kids and the rest is basic kids stuff. But adults can enjoy kids stuff as well, no need to feel shamed. Although the main audience is the aged fandom for the most part 

[Roy Focker]

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

This new movie is pretty undeniably aiming for the young kids, though.  Which is fine.

But is it fine enough to take the entire family to the theater pay full price for tickets and popcorn on the opening weekend when you can just wait for it on Disney Plus?

[Seto Kaiba]

1 hour ago, Roy Focker said:

But is it fine enough to take the entire family to the theater pay full price for tickets and popcorn on the opening weekend when you can just wait for it on Disney Plus?

Unfortunately my crystal ball is out of order. I keep asking it for next week's winning lottery numbers but it keeps connecting me to group chats with Christopher Lee and a giant flaming eyeball. 🤔

Anyway, I would personally say "probably not". But I'm definitely not representative of the sort of person who would be seriously entertaining the question in the first place. I had found the series entertaining but not particularly compelling for much of its run, so the prospect of more adventures of Din Djarin and the highly marketable mascot is not as appealing to me as it is to others. 

If you get really excited about the prospect of more of The Mandalorian, then the answer is probably yes. If not, then probably not. IMO it doesn't quite feel like a project with very broad appeal. But then, TV series epilogue movies seldom do.

[Big s]

4 hours ago, Roy Focker said:

But is it fine enough to take the entire family to the theater pay full price for tickets and popcorn on the opening weekend when you can just wait for it on Disney Plus?

I guess that really depends on how much the family loves these characters. If they loved them enough to get through season 3 and still be satisfied, then the movie will probably make everyone happy with buttery popcorn and all, but if they’re not that into it, then I’d say wait on it and save some cash for something else

[Thom]

9 hours ago, Roy Focker said:

But is it fine enough to take the entire family to the theater pay full price for tickets and popcorn on the opening weekend when you can just wait for it on Disney Plus?

I don't have a family so it would be just me, but for a good movie I'll still plop down in the semi-uncomfortable chairs with the overpriced (yet happily oversized) 'small' soda and popcorn! I'm not too critical on most movies I see and, so far, the only movies I've regretted seeing in the theater were Tank Girl, Event Horizon and Superman '25.

And since I've really liked most of the Mandalorian, unless they really F it up, I'll probably enjoy this too, just on the massive screen!😁

[Big s]

2 hours ago, Thom said:

the only movies I've regretted seeing in the theater were Tank Girl, Event Horizon and Superman '25.

I didn’t bother with the new Superman in the theater, but we were pretty let down by the Snyder one and after finally seeing the new one, I don’t think it would have been money well spent either. Totally loved Event Horizon in the theater, even though it doesn’t hold up quite as well these days and Tank Girl was fun for the time, but really cheaped  on the ending but was kinda another that totally doesn’t hold up.