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Mr. Vieira
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
 
2019-12-09, 16:47

There is a way that you-know-who can be brought into the proceedings that makes a bit of sense...

Once the Mandalorian saw that some shady people might be up to something less-than-honorable with the little baby frog, didn't he snatch him, kill a bunch of people and flee to safety with his former bounty? That's kinda where things are now, correct? He didn't honor his contract, he's on the run, etc.?

What if the people who hired the Mando character to find/retrieve the baby to begin with know that the only way to go after a rogue, code-breaking bounty-hunter is to put another Mandalorian bounty hunter (with a hellacious reputation of his own) on his tail? The only person they could hire who'd remotely stand a chance of succeeding?

Just a thought.

That would solve/address three things in one move:

1) Allows this show's Mando to square off against the more known, famous one (huge, talked-about scene(s), for sure, two equally-skilled guys going at it for much of the episode; major audience satisfaction).

2) Allows this Mando to best (kill) the more known, famous one, thus removing the famous one from the mix altogether (which Disney has already shown across two feature films they have no problem doing with characters much larger/more important than some helmeted bounty hunter who barely said or did anything across two movies), thereby positioning this show's lead character as the ultimate, reigning supreme bad-ass Mandalorian ("OMG, he totally killed..."). That's how you both reintroduce, and bid farewell to, such a character...use him to make your current, new one look even better to viewers

...but...

3) You soften/make him likable because he did all this in the service of protecting/saving The Cutest Thing Ever, which just adds lots of points to the "you gotta like this guy, and follow him on further adventures" column; it's a lot easier to order up new seasons when your lead character isn't a complete, irredeemable a-hole.

You can be a tough-guy hard-case, but you don't have to be a heartless prick about it. That seems to be the best way to appeal to a wide audience.
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