Since when it's the job of a show about the Mandalorian culture to explore the racism that droids faced in the Star Wars universe? They've already wasted a lot of screen time setting up the world we see in the sequels, which is also unrelated to The Mandalorian, but at least that has an actual storyline purpose to it. Highlighting the discriminaton that droids face has no storyline purpose apart from satisfying the activist kick that a lot of Lucasfilm writers are currently on (yes, the parallels of this droid storyline and modern day issues are hardly subtle ). What's next? An episode about how space battles affect the environment of the nearby planets?
The only part of this whole episode that was remotely connected to the show's titular character (lets assume for argument's sake that it's still Din Djarin) was the way he treated the droids. Which was actually a character regression on his part because the end of season 1 taught him a valuable lesson about trusting droids. A lesson he unlearns here because Bo Katan has to be the cool headed gentle Mandalorian while he has to be the boneheaded toxic male who bullies droids.
Jon Favreau has the writing credit for this episode, and thus he should be ashamed for this abomination. And for season 3 which until now has been a concoction of random and pointless storylines. Aside from Bo Katan's of course...
The only part of this whole episode that was remotely connected to the show's titular character (lets assume for argument's sake that it's still Din Djarin) was the way he treated the droids. Which was actually a character regression on his part because the end of season 1 taught him a valuable lesson about trusting droids. A lesson he unlearns here because Bo Katan has to be the cool headed gentle Mandalorian while he has to be the boneheaded toxic male who bullies droids.
Jon Favreau has the writing credit for this episode, and thus he should be ashamed for this abomination. And for season 3 which until now has been a concoction of random and pointless storylines. Aside from Bo Katan's of course...
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