I’ll express cautious optimism. Several of the Clone Wars/Bad Batch episodes share a very similar vibe to Andor. Namely that there are actual beings living in the galaxy who are more than just the SW equivalent of redshirts.
Dave Pilomi’s name is all over these offerings.
Disclaimer: I’m gnoring the past 30 years of getting kicked in the nads by Lucasfilm.
Shamelessly stolen:
Christopher Lloyd in the Mandalorian was also the man the the DeLorean
Funny.
I’m hoping they swing back around to him at some point.
Seems to be set up for it.
Either that, or the show is turning into The Love Boat, with guest star cameos every week.
No spoilers here, but holy fuck Mando delivered the goods this week.
What he said.
That did not suck.
Just watched it. Man, there was a lot going on there. All 50 minutes.
The repurposing of IG-11 to an augmentation suit for Grogu was fantastic. Everything about it.
I saw recently someone describe human beings as just brains controlling a bone exoskeleton with meat armor. Weirdly, that makes a lot of sense.
The gundam we dreamed of was inside us all along.
With the news that there will be a movie tying these shows together, I think we can safely say they’re setting up
Grand Admiral Thrawn as the Thanos of the saga
… and I’m on board with that.
Since such a movie is 3+ years away, I wonder if that means there are at least a couple of additional seasons of Mandalorian in the works.
Filoni says S4 is already written
Favreau was on Smartless recently and IIRC he said he wants to keep doing it for years.
The interwebs had Season 4 already in production as early as August 11th of last year. Woo!
Picard S3E9:
I love getting a big dose of the D
NTTAWWT
This is the way.
The Picard finale is going to be epic.
Wildly speculative and totally without any knowledge whatsoever, my predictions for the season finale of Picard:
CBS made it clear before this season started that not everyone is going to make it to the end. I expect that there will be two of the main cast not to make it: Picard and Data. Picard because this will be his big sign off from the show and Data because he has been killed more times than Sean Bean (and resurrected more times than Phil Coulson).
Also biting the big one will be the Enterprise-D. This is because it makes sense in the grand scheme, but also because everyone was dissing the “fat” Enterprise early in the series, so she will show them all that this fat lady can still sing.
Picard is going to use his residual Borgification to tap into the collective and connect with Jack. They will use the same technique that was used in The Best of Both Worlds, where Jack implants a shut down command into the collective, and the Enterprise destroys the Borg ship with the Queen aboard. With the loss of the signal that triggered the kids to assimilate, they will all return to normal. Later, they will use the transporter to strip the Borg code from their DNA - and they might even do this to Geordi’s kids at some point during the fight.
With the Borg cube sitting way in the backfield. Our heroes will have to fight on two fronts: at Earth against the assimilated fleet and against the cube wherever it is (Jack leads them to it either willingly or unwittingly through his connection to Picard). This will mean separating the saucer section - also done in BOBW - with all the associated emotional drama of the crew splitting up, knowing that this will likely be the last time any of them see each other.
Picard and Data will take the battle section - with the warp drive - and go after the Borg cube. The others will use the saucer section to occupy the fleet for as long as they can - maybe somehow mucking the Borg signal to gain some support. Eventually, though, the saucer will be damaged to the point that it is dead in space and about to be destroyed by the fleet when Picard and Data destroy the Borg cube. They both lose their lives in this effort - perhaps by blowing up the warp core to take out the cube - but Jack somehow escapes in his shuttle to begin the adventures of Picard Jr.
Or…
As above but reversed. Dr. Crusher et al take the battle section to fight the Borg and save Jack. Picard, Data and Worf take the saucer section to fight the fleet, with Data piloting, Worf at the weapons station and Picard trying to muck the Borg signal to the kids. Worf will declare that it is a good day to die and, this time, he’s right.
I’m now thinking that this is the more likely scenario, with Jack killing the Borg Queen and destroying the cube from the inside before escaping in his shuttle.