Odd Thoughts

It strikes me as rather ludicrous to think about the fact that audiences across the world have been intensely tuned into the outer rim adventures of sci fi's most eminent heroes for damn near 50 years, but that's where we're at, and I don't think we're really sick of it yet. Only months after pearl-clutching critics decided Game of Thrones  would be the last 'event TV' show before the streaming era, Disney Plus stormed onto the field with a new show for people all over the world to tweet about simultaneously. Per usual, it took me a year to actually get around to watching it.  The Mandalorian features our titular character, a Beskar-clad super-soldier belonging to an ancient and still mysterious religious creed, as he stumbles upon a series of misadventures in Star Wars' latest major outing. Between the Sequel movies, the Clone Wars animated show, and Fallen Order, I've been consuming a lot of Star Wars media the last couple years. It's cliché, s