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Nostalgia, gunslingers and Baby Yoda: this is the way – Sydney Morning Herald
If the first season of The Mandalorian was a test of the audience’s appetite for Star Wars nostalgia, the second season serves up the main course.
One of the strengths of the Star Wars spin-off television series The Mandalorian, certainly by design, is its very deep sense of nostalgia for the earliest chapters of the Star Wars story. The original film, from 1977, and directed by George Lucas, was soaking in western and samurai influences. In its sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, we met bounty hunters including Boba Fett and the assassin droid IG-88. The Mandalorian is swathed in the tonal notes of both.
The Mandalorian follows a soldier of…
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