10 Dumbest Things About Star Wars TV Shows
The Mandalorian's N1 Starfighter is cool fan service, but it makes no sense for him as a character.
Over the last few years in particular, Star Wars has started to really make its presence felt on the small screen.
Following on from the modern animated delights that were Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Rebels, along with a number of other micro-series adventures, Lucasfilm and Disney opted to boldly explore the live-action TV space, bringing a certain Mandalorian and his Child to Disney+ in 2019.
Then, after the unquestionable success of those first few outings for Din Djarin and the gang, even more small-screen tales centred around beloved Jedi Masters, iconic bounty hunters, a Rebellion in its early days, and a cult favourite Force-user all eventually joined the TV party, too.
But with that constant growth also comes more chances to unfortunately do something a little silly or just plain old dumb, which the various Star Wars TV shows have mostly all done to varying degrees of badness.
Ridiculous and baffling occurrences are nothing new in Star Wars, of course - the fact we've already covered the times the prequel, original, and sequel trilogy got a bit dumb highlights that.
And do these various inconsistencies, bizarre or frustrating choices, and plot holes completely ruin the experience of watching everything from epic animations to the return of an all-time Star Wars legend? Not a chance.
But each and every one of these ill-advised TV decisions still left even those most forgiving viewers' eyes briefly turning yellow and red with anger... or at the very least made them roll.
10. Leaving The Main Character On The Sidelines So Much - The Book Of Boba Fett
The moment easily the most adored bounty hunter in the history of this franchise officially returned to Star Wars on-screen in The Mandalorian's second season, viewers were crossing their fingers that a long-awaited solo Boba Fett story would soon be very much on its way, too.
A surprise spin-off was then made official during the finale of that aforementioned Mando season.
But rather than a hugely satisfying seven episodes which strictly kept the spotlight on Boba and his new role as the Daimyo of Mos Espa, the minds behind this Book of Boba Fett had other ideas.
After initially revealing precisely how the iconic sharpshooter had survived his Sarlacc fall in Episode VI - Return of the Jedi and what he'd been up to in the time before showing up in The Mandalorian - being eventually taken in by a Tusken Raider tribe after being captured by them - a few surprise appearances annoyingly took the attention away from the apparent star of the show.
Mando's reunion with Grogu, the surprise returns of Luke Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano, and the fact Fett actually disappeared for bafflingly long spells in the latter episodes ultimately ended up making the second half of this hotly anticipated Fett book feel like little more than The Mandalorian season 2.5.
If Jon Favreau and the gang didn't possess a story interesting enough to keep the titular Beskar-badass front and centre for the entire season, why bother putting his name on the thing in the first place?
Viewers likely wouldn't have been anywhere near as disappointed at the sight of Boba being sidelined for big chunks of this New Republic era show if Disney had just decided to turn this often Fett-less book into another season of The Mandalorian instead.