That's how you find something when you don't know where, or exactly what, you're looking for. You go from one lead to another. And Mando of course needs plenty of cash to keep his ship fueled and operational, obtain food and lodging, information, etc. Gotta pay the bills! Given his skill set, he's going to be helping people solve certain kinds of problems wherever he goes, so he can keep on going.
The Outer Rim is something like the Third World on Earth. People improvise with whatever's on hand instead of having the shiniest and newest hardware. It's a very commerce oriented environment where you trade something of value to get something of value. Help out of the kindness of someone's heart is rare. Even Bo-Katan, who was Mandalorian, had her own priorities and wanted Mando on her team for the assault. So she didn't tell him what he needed to know right away.
This is basically the classic story of a traveling gunfighter ... in space. Which is more or less what it's been advertised as. That sequence with the music and the murals at the end of each episode is straight out of an old school western. Maybe the problem is, you're expecting something more like the Star Wars movies in series form. The upcoming Obi Wan series will probably fit that bill.
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Threadkiller (3089)
4 years ago
That's how you find something when you don't know where, or exactly what, you're looking for. You go from one lead to another.
That's fine but that doesn't excuse a very repetitive narrative structure. There could and should be more going on in between.
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chrisjdel (2714)
4 years ago
Like what? I'm just not sure what you think they should be doing instead. Do you want more of the larger plot and less of the planet-of-the-week type stuff?
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Threadkiller (3089)
4 years ago
More plot would be nice but as I've said I'm fine with simple and episodic but would like each episode to have more varied sequences of events that take place than what we're getting.
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chrisjdel (2714)
4 years ago
For instance, maybe he shows up on a planet and has a run-in with a local crime boss. The episode is taken up by Mando running for his life and then returning to take out his adversary. He frees the locals from a bad situation. He walks away with a sack of the criminal's money. Maybe some information on a crystal, or chip, or whatever they use for data storage, that helps him choose his next stop. And they're off! Something like that?
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Threadkiller (3089)
4 years ago
Whatever it is they need to be mixing it up more than what they're doing. People seem to have a lot of overwhelming goodwill towards this show but that may wear thin if they just keep giving the audience the same thing week after week.
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