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SW is such a vast universe with so many ways to go. All you need is solid writing and strong characters and someone who understands the lore. That's all this show was! Simple episodes, simple writing, but still creative because there's such a big sandbox to play in. It certainly helped that they had an end in mind (which I think it's obvious the current saga didn't).
And it wasn't like they skimped on fan service. There were like 10-15 easter eggs an episode (maybe more). And it ended with the Darksaber, which almost made me cream myself.
Maybe the original trilogy was such a confluence of events that it's very difficult to recreate in film form. Maybe the future is streaming shows. And maybe they can take what worked here and start applying it to films. There's a HUGE list of great characters and stroylines waiting to be adapted to film.
I've never seen anything other than the movies. Never read the books or watched any of the other tv shows.
To me, the "lore" should set the rules that must be followed, but if you let the lore dictate the actual stories (at least in an obvious way), you're really limiting yourself as to the type of stories you can tell. What's really incredible about The Mandalorian is that it just told good stories, with very good characterization and great drama. It can appeal to someone who isn't even a big Star Wars fan at all -- I think my dad would have liked it, and he never watched SF. But they also blended in seamlessly stuff that appeals to the true "fanboys". That's a very tough tightrope to walk, and they did it perfectly.
I have no idea what the Darksaber is until I saw people talking about it here. But what was really cool about that scene was that the director didn't overemphasize it with closeups, etc.. I noticed it, but he didn't jam it in our faces to make it obvious that "this is really important" in a way that made me feel like I was missing something important than only obsessed fans would understand. And my guess is that its significance will be revealed organically in the telling of the story, not as some secret bit of lore that only fanboys will truly understand.
Just a fucking great show that I've already re-binged. And that scene when the other Mandalorians arrive to bail him out in Episode 3...just damn.