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Mandalorian

The Mandalorian is a hit live-action television series set within the Star Wars universe, created by Jon Favreau and produced by Disney++. The show premiered in 2019, and it quickly gained a massive fan following. This space western stands apart from the traditional Star Wars narrative by focusing on new characters, locales, and stories while still incorporating iconic aspects of the broader Star Wars mythology.

Set five years after the fall of the Galactic Empire in "Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi," The Mandalorian follows the gritty and morally complex adventures of the titular character, a skilled Mandalorian bounty hunter named Din Djarin, portrayed by Pedro Pascal. The show follows Din as he takes on perilous bounties, navigates the seedy underbelly of the galaxy, and forges new alliances, all while grappling with his own rigid Mandalorian code and identity.

A key aspect of The Mandalorian's narrative and its success is the character affectionately referred to as 'Baby Yoda,' whose actual name is Grogu. Grogu is a force-sensitive being from the same unknown species as the iconic Jedi Master Yoda. Din encounters Grogu during a bounty mission, and their lives become inseparably intertwined. The show follows their journey together as Din seeks to protect Grogu from various forces who aim to exploit his abilities and knowledge, ultimately aiming to reunite him with the Jedi.

A distinguishing element of the show is its exploration of the society and beliefs of the Mandalorians. Hailing from the planet Mandalore, this proud and storied warrior culture is famous for their uniquely designed armor and their code of honor known as the "Way of the Mandalore." The show delves into various factions, creeds and interpretations of the Mandalorian identity, allowing viewers to piece together a more nuanced understanding of these enigmatic warriors.

The Mandalorian achieves a careful balance between respecting established Star Wars canon and expanding the universe with new characters and stories. The series incorporates numerous references, Easter eggs, and beloved characters from the movies, animated shows, and books while also introducing fresh faces and concepts. This inclusive approach has endeared both long-time Star Wars fans and newcomers alike, helping the show become a unifying chapter in Star Wars storytelling.

The Mandalorian is celebrated for its striking blend of cutting-edge visual technology, including LED-backdrop virtual sets, and practical effects reminiscent of classic Star Wars. With a myriad of talented directors at the helm, including Dave Filoni, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Taika Waititi, among others, the show consistently delivers visually impressive and thematically coherent episodes that evoke the spirit of the Star Wars galaxy.

The overwhelming success of The Mandalorian has led to a reinvigoration of the Star Wars live-action television landscape. Disney has announced multiple spin-offs focusing on characters introduced in the show and further expanding the world. With the third season of The Mandalorian currently in development, the future looks bright for this unique entry in the Star Wars universe.

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Mentions on Podcast Episodes:

"But I have not consumed any Star Wars media beyond really just the movies and I mean, Mandalorian, right?"

1. - 11 Parsecs - What is this?
"We all watched Mandalorian."

1. - 11 Parsecs - What is this?
"And then talk about Mandalorian and stuff like that where they have the whole LCD screens behind."

6. - (32 BBY) The Phantom Menace
"Is it the same people that did the Mandalorian or..."

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"that had something to do with Mandalorian, they built up a lot of cred"

8. - (29 BBY) Obi-Wan and Anakin Miniseries (4-5)
"in light of Mandalorian because you're right."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"I'm going to watch Mandalorian. I don't care if it's out of order."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"I know what it was. I was watching that episode of Mandalorian where the armor was just trashed."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"the idea that Jango isn't a Mandalorian came directly from Lucas, said Dave Filoni."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"So I had always assumed that he was an actual Mandalorian, but he's not."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"He's not a Mandalorian."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"but once Episode 2 and them happens, I'm like, oh, so he's not technically a Mandalorian, or maybe he is if he's cloned."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"But I did not realize that Jango was not a Mandalorian."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"He's not a Mandalorian."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"He's not a Mandalorian."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"and just everything from our current sort of enthrallment, is that a word, with Mandalorian."

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"You're saying if Mandalorian did not exist, would we still have rated this comic as high?"

12. - (24 BBY) Age of Republic Jango Fett
"Think about the droid, IG-88, or whatever his name was, in Mandalorian."

14. - (22 BBY) Age of Republic: Anakin Skywalker / Mace Windu Comic #1
"I really don't I kind of had the same thoughts with the what is was the the bounty hunter in Mandalorian that robot, you know, he goes through a whole character arc."

15. - (22 BBY) Mace Windu Comics #2-5
"Yeah, it's just as amazing as Mandalorian was."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"I totally agree. I put on the exact same level as Mandalorian."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"Nowadays, it's not. Well, it's different, though, because you have things like Mandalorian with 10 episodes."

16. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S2E16 'Cat & Mouse' & S1E16 'The Hidden Enemy'
"John, I know you've watched Mandalorian."

17. - (22 BBY) Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie
"What I saw in Mandalorian was all new to me."

17. - (22 BBY) Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie
"I was just kind of like, okay, because you got the Mandalorian vibes with the heads on spikes."

17. - (22 BBY) Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie
"They could have chopped it into a couple of episodes, kind of like, you know, we're getting used to with Mandalorian and"

18. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S3E1 ‘Clone Cadets’ & S3E3 ‘Supply Lines'
"Pretty positive Mandalorians have some flames coming out whenever they're doing jump packs."

20. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E5-S1E7 ‘Downfall & Duel of the Droids‘
"It's just like with Mandalorian."

20. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1E5-S1E7 ‘Downfall & Duel of the Droids‘
"So if you take away the wall aesthetic from the Mandalorian episode and this put a city down here, it does it not look like the one here?"

23. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1 E12, S1 E13 & Star Wars Visions Episode 1
"I don't think this is very spoilery, but there's a bit of the Mandalorian in it."

25. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1 E17, S1 E18 & Star Wars Visions Episode 3
"So it's you know, it's I think I think the people that were saying no, this is an episode of the Mandalorian"

25. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1 E17, S1 E18 & Star Wars Visions Episode 3
"So Boba Fett, it's actually not it's a pretty good history lesson the history lesson on the Mandalorian"

25. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1 E17, S1 E18 & Star Wars Visions Episode 3
"You know as a whole or the Mandalorians as a whole which is applicable to both shows really I"

25. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1 E17, S1 E18 & Star Wars Visions Episode 3
"I didn't know what the darksaber was. I don't I don't know any of that. So when it popped up in Mandalorian"

25. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1 E17, S1 E18 & Star Wars Visions Episode 3
"Then again, sorry spoilers, but this is really spoilers from the Mandalorian not necessarily both it"

25. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1 E17, S1 E18 & Star Wars Visions Episode 3
"It seems like it seems like the whole Mandalorian communities is a very gray area with the rules to begin with. Oh, there's always yeah"

25. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1 E17, S1 E18 & Star Wars Visions Episode 3
"There was a Mandalorian Jedi and I think he was the only Mandalorian Jedi"

25. - (22 BBY) Clone Wars S1 E17, S1 E18 & Star Wars Visions Episode 3
"See, okay, I've seen other people make we're going to spiral now. I've seen other people make that criticism about the big book of Boba, how it became like Mandalorian, you know, whatever 2.5."

26. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars S1 E19, 20, & 21
"lightsaber but thanks to the Mandalorian right where he gets the"

34. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 10, 11 and 12
"Darksaber I don't know anything about the Darksaber when I saw it Mandalorian"

34. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 10, 11 and 12
"No not at all and maybe maybe that's because it's a an old Mandalorian"

34. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 10, 11 and 12
"to overthrow the Mandalorian government yep or Duchess Satine at least yeah good"

34. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 10, 11 and 12
"don't know maybe that hints at some more Mandalorian stuff too yeah I don't know"

34. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 10, 11 and 12
"love watching this kind of stuff but you know it take the Mandalorian out of the"

34. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 10, 11 and 12
"gonna see the cool of Mandalorian City I thought that was kind of neat that was a"

34. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 10, 11 and 12
"I mean it's you know the whole Mandalorian set is just indistinguishable from real life."

34. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 10, 11 and 12
"And pretty much occupy Mandalore and of course Satine and her side of the Mandalorians don't want that at all."

35. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Eps 13 and 14, Tales of the Jedi Ep 1
"Even if we didn't have even if we didn't have the Mandalorian series."

35. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Eps 13 and 14, Tales of the Jedi Ep 1
"You really hadn't seen that much of the Mandalorians."

35. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Eps 13 and 14, Tales of the Jedi Ep 1
"what do they call the tech that they used in Mandalorian?"

35. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Eps 13 and 14, Tales of the Jedi Ep 1
"Well, let me think if I remember right because Sabine's sister is, I'm trying not to spoil anything for people that haven't seen Mandalorian,"

37. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 2 Ep 22, Season 3 Eps 5 and 6 Tales of the Jedi Ep 3
"other, and I don't, getting back to the book of Boba Fett versus Mandalorian and some other"

38. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 3 Ep 7 and 2 and Tales of the Jedi Ep 3
"You have to love the aerial battle with the, with all the Mandalorians and the, and the"

38. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 3 Ep 7 and 2 and Tales of the Jedi Ep 3
"You know, when I saw him, uh, later in Mandalorian, I genuinely thought, I don't know, Pedro Pascal."

38. - (21 BBY) Clone Wars Season 3 Ep 7 and 2 and Tales of the Jedi Ep 3

Mandalorian

"But I have not consumed any Star Wars media beyond really just the movies and I mean, Mandalorian, right?"

"We all watched Mandalorian."

"And then talk about Mandalorian and stuff like that where they have the whole LCD screens behind."

"Is it the same people that did the Mandalorian or..."

"that had something to do with Mandalorian, they built up a lot of cred"

"in light of Mandalorian because you're right."

"I'm going to watch Mandalorian. I don't care if it's out of order."

"I know what it was. I was watching that episode of Mandalorian where the armor was just trashed."

"the idea that Jango isn't a Mandalorian came directly from Lucas, said Dave Filoni."

"So I had always assumed that he was an actual Mandalorian, but he's not."

"He's not a Mandalorian."

"but once Episode 2 and them happens, I'm like, oh, so he's not technically a Mandalorian, or maybe he is if he's cloned."

"But I did not realize that Jango was not a Mandalorian."

"He's not a Mandalorian."

"He's not a Mandalorian."

"and just everything from our current sort of enthrallment, is that a word, with Mandalorian."

"You're saying if Mandalorian did not exist, would we still have rated this comic as high?"

"Think about the droid, IG-88, or whatever his name was, in Mandalorian."

"I really don't I kind of had the same thoughts with the what is was the the bounty hunter in Mandalorian that robot, you know, he goes through a whole character arc."

"Yeah, it's just as amazing as Mandalorian was."

"I totally agree. I put on the exact same level as Mandalorian."

"Nowadays, it's not. Well, it's different, though, because you have things like Mandalorian with 10 episodes."

"John, I know you've watched Mandalorian."

"What I saw in Mandalorian was all new to me."

"I was just kind of like, okay, because you got the Mandalorian vibes with the heads on spikes."

"They could have chopped it into a couple of episodes, kind of like, you know, we're getting used to with Mandalorian and"

"Pretty positive Mandalorians have some flames coming out whenever they're doing jump packs."

"It's just like with Mandalorian."

"So if you take away the wall aesthetic from the Mandalorian episode and this put a city down here, it does it not look like the one here?"

"I don't think this is very spoilery, but there's a bit of the Mandalorian in it."

"So it's you know, it's I think I think the people that were saying no, this is an episode of the Mandalorian"

"So Boba Fett, it's actually not it's a pretty good history lesson the history lesson on the Mandalorian"

"You know as a whole or the Mandalorians as a whole which is applicable to both shows really I"

"I didn't know what the darksaber was. I don't I don't know any of that. So when it popped up in Mandalorian"

"Then again, sorry spoilers, but this is really spoilers from the Mandalorian not necessarily both it"

"It seems like it seems like the whole Mandalorian communities is a very gray area with the rules to begin with. Oh, there's always yeah"

"There was a Mandalorian Jedi and I think he was the only Mandalorian Jedi"

"See, okay, I've seen other people make we're going to spiral now. I've seen other people make that criticism about the big book of Boba, how it became like Mandalorian, you know, whatever 2.5."

"lightsaber but thanks to the Mandalorian right where he gets the"

"Darksaber I don't know anything about the Darksaber when I saw it Mandalorian"

"No not at all and maybe maybe that's because it's a an old Mandalorian"

"to overthrow the Mandalorian government yep or Duchess Satine at least yeah good"

"don't know maybe that hints at some more Mandalorian stuff too yeah I don't know"

"love watching this kind of stuff but you know it take the Mandalorian out of the"

"gonna see the cool of Mandalorian City I thought that was kind of neat that was a"

"I mean it's you know the whole Mandalorian set is just indistinguishable from real life."

"And pretty much occupy Mandalore and of course Satine and her side of the Mandalorians don't want that at all."

"Even if we didn't have even if we didn't have the Mandalorian series."

"You really hadn't seen that much of the Mandalorians."

"what do they call the tech that they used in Mandalorian?"

"Well, let me think if I remember right because Sabine's sister is, I'm trying not to spoil anything for people that haven't seen Mandalorian,"

"other, and I don't, getting back to the book of Boba Fett versus Mandalorian and some other"

"You have to love the aerial battle with the, with all the Mandalorians and the, and the"

"You know, when I saw him, uh, later in Mandalorian, I genuinely thought, I don't know, Pedro Pascal."