TheVileOne
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I dunno, it doesn't look that different to me.
They'll never admit it in public, but this is absolutely their way of making up for the sequels. I'm sure they weren't the biggest fans of them either.
No one has to erase the sequels from canon but there is 30 years of stories that can be told before they happen. And they've got plenty of opportunities now. I hope they make the best of it.
Quoting myself like a loon, but I checked up after...
This guy did better in a couple of days, Disney.
Here you go Favreau and Filoni, I just did a fan fiction rewrite of the Darksaber plothole/retcon, free of charge:
Din Djarin: "Now...it belongs to her."
Moff Gideon: "She can't take it. It must be won in battle. In order for her to wield the Darksaber again, she would need to defeat you in combat."
Din Djarin: "I yield. It's ours."
Moff Gideon: "Oh no *maniacal laugh*. That's how she got it last time. It didn't work out well for her. First she lost the Darksaber, and then she lost Mandalore along with her credibility. The Darksaber was handed to her like a common trinket. She never won it in battle. Now, she stands before you a feckless, deposed, and incompetent ruler. She needed to beat me in order to get back the Darksaber in order to regain what's left of her pitiful standing with your broken, scattered ranks."
Din Djarin: "How do you know this?" *To Bo Katan* "Is this true?"
Moff Gideon: "Like I said Djarin, assume that I know everything!"
This is exactly what I am thinking as to why this has to go all Highlander.
Bo got it before but the "narrative" wasn't to her advantage when the various Mando factions started talking about how she didn't even win the sabre in mortal combat.
I still am DESPERATE to know Gideon's story.
Why the **** does he care about the Mandalorians so much?
This just confirms that it was the mouth & sharpness that is off on the original. I think overall they did an outstanding job, but the mouth hardly moved and the hair + face aren't sharp enough. Otherwise, it's solid.
Yup, think about it like this. The Mando ranks were behind her at the time. Then they led a stand against the Empire and lost. Not only did they lose, they lost BADLY. And on top of that, Bo Katan didn't even die a marty's death or a warrior's death. She LIVED and lost the Darksaber. Making her a pariah with the noble houses. And then and goes like as you said, "Yeah, she didn't even win it in battle. Figures."
They turn on her like a flavor of the month politician.
As for why Gideon knows so much about them, he was probably leading the forces that glassed or struck back at Mandalore during the Galactic Civil War, effectively breaking the spirit of the Mandalorians and sending them scattered in the winds for good.
This is all sounding very personal to him though.
Sure, as ISB etc. he's probably been part of any number of Imperial "pacification" ops.
But he called them "savages" when Mando confronted him. He has specific issues with the Mandalorian people, enough to go out of his way to make sure they remain scattered and in disarray by tracking down the Dark sabre.
My pet theory is that in some way shape or form we are going to learn Gideon has deep issues with the Mandos because in keeping with the themes of the show so far, he's a foundling that was raised by the Mandos but lost his way, or because in his capacity as an Imperial during the battle for Mandalore somehting happened, something that made him despise the Mandos with a bright hot passion.
Makes sense.
I can imagine there were a lot of guerrilla warfare tactics by the Mandalorians against Gideon that probably haunt his dreams.
Hmm...
Kinda wonder about his aide de camp that we kept getting some focus on...
The lover/SO of say... A son Gideon lost?
Just spitballing.
Comms Officer
I'm guessing she's just an Imperial loyalist who didn't see any worth in defecting, but didn't they kill her in the finale? Gideon had no remorse to spare for her.
This just confirms that it was the mouth & sharpness that is off on the original. I think overall they did an outstanding job, but the mouth hardly moved and the hair + face aren't sharp enough. Otherwise, it's solid.
I'm guessing Gideon had a particularly unpleasant encounter with the Death Watch at some point.
They'll never admit it in public, but this is absolutely their way of making up for the sequels. I'm sure they weren't the biggest fans of them either.
No one has to erase the sequels from canon but there is 30 years of stories that can be told before they happen. And they've got plenty of opportunities now. I hope they make the best of it.
Regardless of whether he agrees with all the choices made in the films, he's bound to have a more mature and nuanced opinion about them than the average fanboy as someone who's deep in the weeds with all this stuff. He kind of specializes in embracing all of the canon and adding new layers to it.
Cara wanted Gideon alive to be taken to New Republic Intelligence.