The Star Wars franchise is in a somewhat precarious place.
Having said that,The Book of Boba Fettand even more so Season 3 ofThe Mandalorianwere colossal disappointments.
A few details from thatEWreport stand out.
More on him in a minute.
Sometimes in storytelling, there are action sequences or fights for the sake of having them.
Everything is intentional, and I hope that shows on screen."
There’s no sense that he’s in any real danger.
When sequences like that soak up the runtime of weekly episodes, it can get tiresome in a hurry.
Favreau has had to sprint through the past couple seasons of shows and write scripts on the fly.
That’s inevitably harder.
The guy has a million balls in the air at once.
He’s thought about the continuation of Ahsoka’s story sinceRebelsended in 2018.
Pretty impressive for someone with such little play in live-action to date.
For those who’ve not seen the animated content, that would be none other than Anakin Skywalker.
Only this time, there’smoreroom for Christensen to play around.
Some combination of all three would be preferable.
Only time will tell."
You don’t just tee that up without a payoff!!
The patented Lucas dialogue obviously didn’t do him any favors, either.
Or that movieEWmentions,ShatteredGlass.
She was the last core cast member to be revealed if memory serves (besides Thrawn).
We see army generals being these very masculine, hard figures.
And Hera has that, but she also has this softness to her.
Don’t think you could tease a character much better than that.
Thrawn is being played by Lars Mikkelsen, who voiced the character so well inRebels.
Also relieved they didn’t show too much of him in a way.
Like several of his costars, Mikkelsen spent hours in the makeup chair getting smeared in thick paint.
‘I mean, I’m not the only one with various colors,’ Mikkelsen says.
‘There’s green and orange.
Everybody goes through it.’
‘I really wanted to see it in the camera,’ he says.
And I was quite amazed.'"
Thrawn is often several steps ahead of his opponents.
Defeating him will come down to some classic rebellious improvisation and strength in numbers.
Really though, Thrawn is setting the stage for the eventual rise of the First Order.
That’s one of the many elements that makes this largely unexplored period of Star Wars lore so fascinating.
We’re still tracking about 20 years out fromThe Force Awakensat this point.
Ahsokapremieres on August 23 with two episodes right off the bat.
I want to be frozen in carbonite until then.
There’s the chance of not even surviving the freezing process.
Let’s hope this isn’t the dark side clouding my judgment.
