I really liked the trailer. Can't wait for my super fan to get home from school to show her Baby Yoda is back!
I would say though that I think getting BY home or to a good foster family is probably just one of many big plots. The trailer for Season 1 led us in one direction - bad ass loner bounty hunter having adventures and maybe tangling with the Empire, but kept us completely in the dark about BY as well as the Clandestine mandos. I would suspect this season is doing something similar with the trailer. Getting BY home or someplace like it is important, but just one of many pots on the stove.
On the subject of knowledge of the Jedi, Wookiepedia says there were about 10,000 of them at the start of Order 66. Same site says that 2 TRILLION people live on Coruscant and 400 QUADRILLION live in the entire galaxy. So you're talking about thousands of planets that have certainly never heard of the Jedi at all - entire species that have no interest past the end of their own noses/snouts/tentacles. The odds of the average being in the galaxy ever encountering a Jedi are close to zero. In the core worlds, you've probably heard of them, but do you believe it? Somewhere there are people who can do magic and control your mind and have laser swords? You'd wonder why they don't use those powers to either take over the universe or stop all the bad things in the universe.
I love the ancient Mandalore references though. If you've ever played KOTOR, it makes you think of Canderous Ordo explaining to your character about the great war and that even though they lost, it was worth fighting an worthy opponent in the Jedi.
Something else the trailer made me think of is seeing Mando back on Tatooine and the Tuskens. There was an old EU book called Tatooine Ghost that has Leia and Han back there after ROTJ - Leia finds out about Anakin slaughtering the Tusken village and how he has entered their mythology as sort of a demon/boogie man as a result, sort of what Neville becomes in the book version of "I am Legend". Mando has clearly dealt with the Tuskens before. Be really interested if they pass on some sort of similar story about the sorcerer who destroyed a whole village 40+ years ago.
can't wait to discuss these episodes with you guys.
I would say though that I think getting BY home or to a good foster family is probably just one of many big plots. The trailer for Season 1 led us in one direction - bad ass loner bounty hunter having adventures and maybe tangling with the Empire, but kept us completely in the dark about BY as well as the Clandestine mandos. I would suspect this season is doing something similar with the trailer. Getting BY home or someplace like it is important, but just one of many pots on the stove.
On the subject of knowledge of the Jedi, Wookiepedia says there were about 10,000 of them at the start of Order 66. Same site says that 2 TRILLION people live on Coruscant and 400 QUADRILLION live in the entire galaxy. So you're talking about thousands of planets that have certainly never heard of the Jedi at all - entire species that have no interest past the end of their own noses/snouts/tentacles. The odds of the average being in the galaxy ever encountering a Jedi are close to zero. In the core worlds, you've probably heard of them, but do you believe it? Somewhere there are people who can do magic and control your mind and have laser swords? You'd wonder why they don't use those powers to either take over the universe or stop all the bad things in the universe.
I love the ancient Mandalore references though. If you've ever played KOTOR, it makes you think of Canderous Ordo explaining to your character about the great war and that even though they lost, it was worth fighting an worthy opponent in the Jedi.
Something else the trailer made me think of is seeing Mando back on Tatooine and the Tuskens. There was an old EU book called Tatooine Ghost that has Leia and Han back there after ROTJ - Leia finds out about Anakin slaughtering the Tusken village and how he has entered their mythology as sort of a demon/boogie man as a result, sort of what Neville becomes in the book version of "I am Legend". Mando has clearly dealt with the Tuskens before. Be really interested if they pass on some sort of similar story about the sorcerer who destroyed a whole village 40+ years ago.
can't wait to discuss these episodes with you guys.