Re: The Mandalorian
22 weeks has never been about good storytelling. It’s about filling a broadcast slot with something the network is reasonably confident will perform well for the audience and advertisers who are interested in it. It has always resulted in horrible fillers like clip shows, comedy episodes (even musicals at times) and weeks when the main cast are almost entirely absent.
Streamed content is often more like a novel adaptation, telling a story from end to end. And that’s precisely what the Mandalorian is doing - cleverly, too, because the best quest tales aren’t perfectly linear. The story is being driven by the Mandalorian’s character, and that of the child, which is why they end up in scrapes sometimes only tangentially related to the story arc.
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