Kicking off its video game plotting, Episode 1 sees Mando venturing to the Outer Rim in the hopes of accomplishing his task. Having made his choice to protect the Child in Season 1, the Mandalorian has one new goal for Season 2: Return Baby Yoda to the rest of his species. Or should it be treading sand? Just look at the basic set-up for the season and how Episode 1, “Chapter 9 – The Marshall” plays into it.
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Clocking in at 52 minutes, the formerly half-hour series sets a risky precedent when it doesn’t really need to, threatening to disrupt its careful balance between stylish, high-flying adventure stories and watching an empty suit treading water. The first episode is all razzle dazzle and cutaways to Baby Yoda’s meme auditions.īut it also marks an even steeper downturn in developing the ongoing plot, while delivering an extra-long episode. This being a Disney property, and Disney being the most efficient corporate machine when it comes to repurposing its successful formulas, “The Mandalorian” Season 2 is very much more of the same.
With all the money offered by the Disney vault and working with one lead that’s mute and another that literally cannot show his emotions, “The Mandalorian” relies on compelling action, advanced visual effects, and “Star Wars” lore (aka adorable little creatures and badass space stuff) to deliver enough entertainment for subscribers to keep paying their fees for eight weeks.Īnd can you believe it? The strategy worked! “The Mandalorian” helped make Disney+ such a streaming success, the entire company has been restructured around it - right before the launch of Season 2. Favreau swapped out character-driven stories for spectacle-driven ones.
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Episodic storytelling is part of television’s foundation, but Disney’s favorite franchise starter, writer and director Jon Favreau, made a key change to the classic blueprint that helped distinguish “The Mandalorian” from a format now mainly associated with bland broadcast TV (while still playing to his story’s inherited strengths). Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Will Lead Marvel's 'Wonder Man' Disney+ SeriesĤ2 Great Films That Failed at the Box Office Mickey Mouse's Origins and Controversies Unveiled in Disney+ 'Story of a Mouse' Trailer An answer eventually arrived in the finale - ol’ Mando is tasked with reuniting Baby Yoda with “its own kind” - thus setting up a second season of weekly, galaxy-spanning adventures where an inexpressive suit of armor totes a green blob with giant black eyes from planet to planet, getting in fights, making money, and/or refusing to eat or drink anything in public.
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