The Mandalorian started out OK, but ended up as some half-baked, lazily written show that exist merely to lure parents to justify a Disney+ subscription. Kids get the usual Disney contents, moms get Baby Yoda, dads get Star Wars nerdy reference. The show almost feels like being made by a bunch of fanfiction writers with familiarity of the setting but zero sense of screen writing.
Nothing wrong with liking it, it's just the show appears to be all style and no substance.
Storyline shows no complexity at all. In fact, most of them are fillers. You can skip 4 of 8 episodes and you'll still understand the story just fine. Characters are completely uninteresting. None of them are developed. None of them had nuances: protagonists are morally good heroes; antagonists are one dimensional evils. The show relies only on a cute muppet and flashy action, but has zero substance. Had a potential great world-building with some details, but they chose to abandon it for rule of cool (and cute).
The "it's Star Wars, so it'll be simple" excuse commonly said by the series' defenders doesn't hold up if you actually consider other Star Wars titles such as Knights of the Old Republic, Republic Commando, Jedi Academy, Thrawn trilogy, the original and Tartakovsky's Clone Wars, and so on. Those titles are known for having remarkable storytelling; something that The Mandalorian doesn't have for its poverty of creative vision.
I just watched the opening credits and HOLY CRAP! This seriously looks very interesting!
Not only because its based on one of my favorite childhood tv shows, but also because at the same time its not a complete 1-on-1 copy of the tv show from the late 80ties. The characters seem much more refined.
For example in the original Huey, Dewey, and Louie were 3 exact copies of each other, with acting in the same way, often all talking in choir saying the same things, and wearing the same outfits. But if you look closely to the opening credits you can see that they all 3 have very distinct expressions and actions to different situations.
I also liked the many references to the old comic books, like for example the flying ship in the sky https://www.youtu.be/YKSU82afy1w?t=27s , which is in fact a famous story and painting made by Carl Barks (who is responsible for pretty much inventing every character in the Duck-universe) called the Flying Dutchmen www.i.imgur.com/aCiKP8q.jpg.
I love the attention of detail the opening credits have and how much information they managed to get into that 1 minute and 12 seconds. I will definitely be looking out for this one, and i can already recommend this show to anyone young and old.
