The return of the “razor crest” in “the Mandalorian and the Grogu” sucks

When Lucasfilm Surprise abandoned our very first trailer for The Mandalorian and the Grogu This week, the first thing we saw was a very familiar ship: the bulky chrome body (now decorated with yellow paint stripes) and the twin engines in the shape of a barrel jumping on each side. He had to invoke a thought to anyone who looked at the show: THE Razor crest is back.

The thing is the Razor crest was blown into bits during the highest point of The Mandalorian Season two. We do not yet know if, for months or a year later, Din Djarin managed to return to Tython and collect the whole remaining piece of his old ride to go up – probably not, considering that Boba Fett’s book Devoted an episode to DIN obtaining a new stroll in the form of a NABOO N-1 Starfighter. But whether or not whether he has found the time to come back or simply to buy another ship of the same type, a fighting helicopter St-70 is not really what the return of a ship that looks identical to that in which he used to fly.

That said above all: “This thing you know is back.” Which The Mandalorian obtained, for good or evil, very good to say; It is now a question of applying this to something that has disappeared for a season and a little television, rather than things that we know other elderly people Star Wars material. And it’s just the last of a long line of things that The MandalorianAs a show, abandoned in terms of display of all kinds of real growth for its main characters.

Now don’t get me wrong, I didn’t particularly like the new ship choice for Din either. Go from a heavy metal brick of a transport ship to a smooth and stripped Starfighter – putting aside the game of nostalgia for what was a ship that fans knew and recognize, instead of a new design like the Razor crest had been when he had been introduced – did not make sense to a character who was still trying to be the bonus hunter he had been.

The N-1 was a hero’s ship, who reflected that, for better or for worse, DIN status in the Star Wars The galaxy had changed: he was no longer the only vagabond who made his way on the sidelines of the galaxy; It was pushed into the upper levels of Star Wars“The heroes and the bad guys, rubbing their shoulders with Luke Skywalker and being the heritage of one in time, whether he wishes or not, of the inheritance of the Mandalorian people. He was recognized as recognizable and needed a ship to match this.

THE Razor crestin many ways, represented the imperfect man that we would learn during The MandalorianThe first season – this is not a cool ship, it is not adorned with hard points of bazillion weapons, it was not luxurious inside or outside, it was practical, robust, the Star Wars Equivalent to a transport truck, and that made it perfect for a premium hunter which takes place from one work to another. Replacing it with a starfighter who was clearly impracticable for the work of the premium hunting but who was also the antithesis of everything that made the razor crest felt unique, looked like the series that forced us that Din was going and accepted his new place in the galaxy, even if this new place was indebted to see something else Star Wars“Better in for the familiar.

Now in The Mandalorian and the GroguDin has kept this new status quo while returning to familiarity with this “new” ship. There is no passage or brand of his life The Mandalorian started more. Now, this unequivocal hero is more explicitly, allied with the New Republic, and brushing shoulders with familiar faces over and over. Because the razor crest itself has become something Star Wars Can exploit nostalgia, as much as we can exploit nostalgia for something that is only six years old (and which has disappeared for most of these six years). Now we can be sold all those Razor crest Play again, except that they have brands of yellow paint on it. She has a new hat!

But really it is not the ship itself which is necessarily a problem here (again, I liked what The Mandalorian said about Din through his ship of choice during his first two seasons), but what this return represents overall: The Mandalorian finds very difficult to let go of any potential opportunity of growth. THE Razor crestThe yield of the pale in comparison, narratively speaking, the number of lines of character that the series has set up, then quickly abandoned. The seasons one and two set up a convincing arc of Din coming to question the orthodoxy of his own Mandalorian Covert – and, through characters like Bo -Katan, the idea that there were other means for him to exist and to be Mandalorian outside of those who are not necessarily healthy teachings to be formed as a Jadi.

All this immediately turned in season three, which opened its doors with an almost penance arc for Din, flowing unequivocally in the arms and the teachings of secrecy with little commitment as to the reason why it should do it. And that he did it with growled by his side – a separation was resolved between the seasons in that aforementioned Boba Fett book The appearance, largely at the odious expense to poorly manage the character of Luke Skywalker, indicated even more that the spectacle could not imagine a means of following the changes of his status quo which he exposed. Din Djarin can only be the faceless member of the path; Only, he can guide the growing path, and now he can only pilot this type of ship that you know he has piloted before.

It is a strange feeling of inertia that feels shocking when Din becomes the face of Star Wars“Back to the cinema at a time when the series needs new to guide its way rather than rest on the laurels of familiarity. A few paint splashes are simply not sufficient compared to the message The Mandalorian and the GroguThe first trailer sent: this feeling of novelty has not yet been found here.

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