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 LunarSol wrote:
Sabine as the armorer feels cheap. Part of the everyone needs to secretly be someone rather than anyone new. At that point, I'd assume the gatling Mando must be Rex. It's possible, but not particularly exciting.

Nah, gatling Mando was Jon Favreau. Just another of the Vizla clanners. Like Pre Vizla, whom he voiced in TCW.

It's only a Star Wars thing because everyone keeps insisting it has to be a Star Wars thing. It can just... not, but then everyone loses their minds.

 insaniak wrote:

 LunarSol wrote:
Sabine as the armorer feels cheap. Part of the everyone needs to secretly be someone rather than anyone new. At that point, I'd assume the gatling Mando must be Rex. It's possible, but not particularly exciting.

And while it's a bit tired, it is a Star Wars thing. I actually went Googling cast lists after watching the last couple of Clone Wars episodes, as one of Bo-Katan's companions, who turned out to be Ursa Wren (Sabine's mother) sounded an awful]i] lot like the Armourer. Which does have me wondering if the Armourer will turn out to be either Sabine or her mother. The Armourer being Sabine [i]would be a potential avenue for introducing Ahsoka.


That being said, the way the Armourer refers to Jedi (IIRC) made it seem like they were something she had heard of but never actually encountered. So I might well be reading too much into ir, and ignoring the fact that Mando helmets distort voices.

If the Armorer had to be a known Mandalorian woman, wouldn't it make more sense for her to be Bo-Katan to plat the angle of the failled leader, dispossessed and thrown into exile who latches on to the eldest traditions of her civilisation to try to rebuild?

Personnaly, it seems the Armorer is neither. She seems a little bit too spry for Bo or Ursa who would be well in their fifties by that time and too dour to be Sabine. I guess she will be stuck being "the Armorer" for a while still and I am perfectly fine with having four known Mandalorian women in the Star Wars universe.

The armorer shouldnt be anyone but the armorer. Its cheap to put another character under the mask.

It's reassuring that Favreau seemed quite content to just have the Mandalorian be it's own thing. There are any number of places through series one where he could have inserted 'known' characters, even if just into the background of the Bounty Hunters' bar.

Even with Ahsoka coming in season 2, I suspect that trend to continue, so would agree that it's more likely that the Armourer (if she even reappears in later seasons) will remain her own character.

Although on second thought, that seems more likely if she does continue as a recurring character, so her story can be developed further in the series. If she's done with in the show, it makes it more likely that one of the EU writers will pick up her story and turn her into the lovechild of Boba Fett and one of Amidala's handmaidens...

 insaniak wrote:

 LunarSol wrote:
Sabine as the armorer feels cheap. Part of the everyone needs to secretly be someone rather than anyone new. At that point, I'd assume the gatling Mando must be Rex. It's possible, but not particularly exciting.

And while it's a bit tired, it is a Star Wars thing. I actually went Googling cast lists after watching the last couple of Clone Wars episodes, as one of Bo-Katan's companions, who turned out to be Ursa Wren (Sabine's mother) sounded an awful]i] lot like the Armourer. Which does have me wondering if the Armourer will turn out to be either Sabine or her mother. The Armourer being Sabine [i]would be a potential avenue for introducing Ahsoka.


That being said, the way the Armourer refers to Jedi (IIRC) made it seem like they were something she had heard of but never actually encountered. So I might well be reading too much into ir, and ignoring the fact that Mando helmets distort voices.

As in the clone wars epodes that are airing now?

One of Bo-Katans companions was Sabines mother? Whilst we see Sabine is on the other side of the combat? Maybe I'm confused.... If you could explain this a bit more I would be grateful.

Additionally, it could just have been re-using the same voice cast for different characters, unless Ursa Wren was specifically named.

I think you're confusing your timelines. Sabine wasn't involved in the Clone Wars, aside from being born in the middle of them.

But yes, these three:

... are Ursa, Bo-Katan, and an unidentified Nite Owl.

nite owl will be revealed to be a Satine who managed to somehow survive. just watch

 insaniak wrote:
I think you're confusing your timelines. Sabine wasn't involved in the Clone Wars, aside from being born in the middle of them.

But yes, these three:

... are Ursa, Bo-Katan, and an unidentified Nite Owl.

Wait, I didn't consider the timelines, there is a Sabine look alike in the Mandalorian throne room though in that episode, same hair and everything.

That's Rook Kast. She's a bit more gaunt and creepy looking than Sabine.

Awesome, thank you for clearing up that confusion. It was the hair colour that threw me off, I've just looked again and the face and complexion don't match up like you say.

Reports that Boba Fett will return and Temuera Morrison will play the part

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/mandalorian-finds-boba-fett-temuera-morrison-1293675

With Temuera back I wonder if any of the clones like Rex might show up in live action at some point? He would certainly fit a in an Ahsoka Tano focused show.

Where Ahsoka goes, Rex is never far behind.

Well, we know Rex took part in the Battle of Endor, but by that time he’d long been separated from Ahsoka.

Interesting that Boba Fett is to return. Honestly, I’m dubious about the idea. Beyond a cool character design, I’ve never got the Fett Worship thing.

I shouldn’t be dubious of course, as this is all overseen by Dave “Man With A Plan” Filoni.

Would far prefer Rex. I was always annoyed at Boba having his voice swapped in one of George's many increasingly inane tweaks.

Hmmmm.

A thought occurs.

Whilst Ahsoka 100% knows Anakin’s fate, did Rex ever find out on screen? I mean, he headed up the 501st, so one imagines there’s drama to be had there?

If he did, it would probably have happened before the Mandalorian is set. Otherwise, its probably a secret that Ahsoka intends to never reveal to Rex.

Canonically, it’s seemingly not a massive secret.

The novel Bloodlines deals not with people discovering who Vader actually was, but that Leia is his Daughter.

So one can presume Rex may have found out through the Grapevine, opening the door for Ahsoka to confirm or deny as she feels fit?

Also, wonder what happened to that Tactical Droid from Rebels? Where’d he go? What’d he do?

Did Ahsoka actually know about Vader prior to Twilight of the Apprentice in S2 Rebels?

If it was a surprise to her, then I would have thought that she of all people would have had enough of a connection to put two and two together.

She had a suspicion from her first encounter with Vader, when she felt his presence. She just either wasn't entirely sure, or didn't want to believe it.

I'm trying to remember when her first encounter with Vader was...

It’s during S2.

The Ghost is being pursued by Vader. Kanan and Ahsoka reach out using the Force, and she recognised Anakin.

It’s not until Malachor she’s 100%

I've posted several times in this thread about how I thought it'd be great to get Boba in this series.
In retrospect, I'm glad it didn't fully happen in Season 1 so that the Mando could stand as it's own thing.
But now that it's accomplished that with flying colors, bringing in Boba would be awesome. So glad Morrison is being cast to do it

Given the western nature of the show, bringing in Boba as a side-villian type counter to the Mando could easily fit the story in addition to being fan service.
I could easily see Gideon having hire Boba specifically to track down the child.
Gideon is clearly a Vader wannabe and Boba has dealings with the Empire before. So it's as easy fit

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hiring fett to track the child would be perfect. allow us to really get a twin engines of destruction vibe going.

First post here; the Mandalorian was amazing. Having Fett turn up would be cool too.

I’ll see how it’s done. It would be pretty amusing if Boba was just a has-been plying the convention circuit, signing copies of his book for his fanboys, with no interest in hunting bounties now that he’s “moved on up.”

Given the way Boba is portrayed in the Clone Wars cartoon, and his rather underwhelming overall presence in the movies, I've been saying since the EU was booted that it would be cool if they turned him into a bit of a fraud... He's built a reputation out of the armour, the name, and being in the right place at the right time, but is actually a bit of a screw-up just trying (and failing) to live up to dear old dad's standard.


I suspect that they'll just go with 'legendary bounty hunter' though.

 insaniak wrote:
Given the way Boba is portrayed in the Clone Wars cartoon, and his rather underwhelming overall presence in the movies, I've been saying since the EU was booted that it would be cool if they turned him into a bit of a fraud... He's built a reputation out of the armour, the name, and being in the right place at the right time, but is actually a bit of a screw-up just trying (and failing) to live up to dear old dad's standard.


I suspect that they'll just go with 'legendary bounty hunter' though.

if they did anything else the fanboy screaming would be audiable.

The Mando not being infallible is actually a major bonus for me.

I mean, he is competent, no disputing that. But that we see him get into scrapes he struggles with (Mud Horn, for instance) and barely survives? Marvellous stuff. Means the stakes are generally higher, and he’s constantly at risk of injury.

So the concept that Fett is actually a bit of a putz is highly interesting to me.

BrianDavion wrote:

 insaniak wrote:
Given the way Boba is portrayed in the Clone Wars cartoon, and his rather underwhelming overall presence in the movies, I've been saying since the EU was booted that it would be cool if they turned him into a bit of a fraud... He's built a reputation out of the armour, the name, and being in the right place at the right time, but is actually a bit of a screw-up just trying (and failing) to live up to dear old dad's standard.


I suspect that they'll just go with 'legendary bounty hunter' though.

if they did anything else the fanboy screaming would be audiable.

Sadly true but that would be an interesting approach to take.