I suppose I like Star Wars as much as most of us. I’m not weird about it, but I’ve seen all the movies. Rogue One is definitely my favorite.
I have not yet seen The Mandalorian, but both my kids watch it. I know three things about it: Baby Yoda, that Mandalorians never take their helmets off, at least in public, and that his catch phrase is “This is the Way”.
Subtract baby Yoda and you have a guy who wears his mask everywhere, and is extremely emotionally and cognitively rigid and dogmatic.
Maybe I’m missing something. As I say, I have not seen the series. Just thought I would put this out there. I will most likely watch a few episodes in the Christmas “era”. Few days off here and there.
Although, for reasons not too hard to fathom, I started Netflix version of the Punisher after the Supreme Court decision. That character came out in the 70’s when most of the nations cities had fallen fully under the thrall of idiotic and cruel and anti-humanitarian left wing Mayors.
Yes: 1974. We are heading back to 1974, but it will be worse this time. Much worse.
And to state the obvious, all those characters–Dirty Harry being another–responded to a deep emotional need for order and justice.
The only Western on my shelf is “The Man who shot Liberty Valance”. The brilliance of that movie–in my view– is that it simultaneously shows the importance of the rule of law, and that rough men sometimes have to do nasty things to make it possible. It really doesn’t pick a side. You need BOTH Jimmie Stewart AND John Wayne.
And that movie encapsulates what was, I think, the common sense understanding most Americans had at that time as to the nature of justice, of right and wrong.