I'm not critiquing Mando, I'm explaining why it doesn't appeal to me, from what I've heard. You cited it as an example of 'well done tie ins', and I'm of the opinion, from what I've heard, that that isn't true, at least for me. I haven't seen these scenes, I could be wrong, but there's just so many tie ins and references to other works coming up in conversations that it sounds like something I'm not interested in.
I personally do not like excessive tie ins. You may disagree on that, or my definition of 'excessive', which is fine. I'm not against them completely, but there's just so many showing up constantly in the recent works we have that they've become something I don't want to see any more without very good reasons.
New characters don't need to bump into every legacy character possible, but they also shouldn't be permitted from doing so if it makes sense and is telling an interesting story that serves to develop all the characters involved.
Agreed, but IMO they're not very good at doing that. You likely disagree. Okay. The more times it happens, though, the less plausible it becomes, and it's happening a lot.
That means the only context you have is that, it "has a thing you don't like the sound of, so it must be used in a way you don't like it being used, so that must be indicative of the majority of said thing" which is far from accurate of the examples you gave.
Maybe so. That wasn't an exhaustive list, there's just so many things like that that I cited a few to illustrate the point. I don't hate the show, I'm just not interested in it.
lso, Stormtrooper accuracy jokes are literally all over in Star Wars stuff. I'm not sure why you're picking this out – but again, this is why it's important to have watched something before you try to criticize it. Both of the times those sort of jokes occur in the series are specifically to make a juxtaposition to demonstrate the differences between the regular Stormtroopers who are essentially grunts just interested in a paycheck, from the elite military individuals like Imperial Sharpshooters & Death Troopers that were also a core component of the Imperial army.
As I understand it, the conversation goes like this:
Person: I'm an Imperial Sharpshooter.
Mando: That's not hard.
Person: I'm not a stormtrooper!
The thing is, it's also established that the Mandalorians have been purged by the empire. This likely means that the stormtroopers killed most/a lot of the Mandalorians. So the Mandalorian is cracking a joke about how ineffective the forces that slaughtered his adoptive family's ancestors are, which is absolutely awful character writing, in aid of a joke.
Maybe this is wrong, I dunno. I regard it as a bad sign, though. And there has been enough 'bad signs' to make me not interested. It could be a fantastic show, I don't know. I didn't set out to hate the show or look only for the bad things, I looked into the conversations people were having about it (including those that liked it), and they things they liked didn't interest me.
Counterpoint: Living alone in the middle of nowhere isn't the only way to hide, and Kenobi disappearing without being killed just means that the Empire and Vader would be even more interested in finding him. Drawing attention away from where he's hiding can also an important part of remaining hidden in the long-term.
Maybe. Very difficult to do well, though.
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