Surely they can't have entirely run out of ideas for the Mandalorian? I actually really like the show (particularly season one and two) but its as shallow as a puddle of toad spunk! A five year old could come up with a whole bunch of storylines that wouldn't have looked out of place when compared to previous ones. If they couldn't come up with anything beyond this film then they're beyond creatively bankrupt.
I'd actually respect them a little bit more if they'd deliberately done such a bad job but I can't believe they thought it through that much. They just bought the franchise because they could, wthout understanding it or the the fans. I think that they assumed copying the MCU formula (that was admittedly working well for them at the time) and winging it without a coherent plan would be fine. Never is this more clear right at the end of The Rise of Skywalker when Palpatine says "I am all the Sith" and Ray responds "and I am all the Jedi". Its literally a copy and paste job of Iron man and Thanos in End Game "I am inevitable" "and I am Iron man!".
When I say ran out of ideas, they rejected George Lucas’ story treatment for the sequels and shelved the expanded universe stuff , following that one of the executive producers then claimed the sequels were difficult to make because they had no source material, which doesn’t make sense at all.
The first season of the Mandalorian was promising imo but dropped off after that, I haven’t bothered to watch Andor or some of the other series , lost interest .
