I exaggerate some what. The original 6 issue series isn’t half bad. But “underwhelming” is a good way to describe it. It moves off what works far too fast, and tosses needless complications and “mysteries” in. They clone the dynamics of some of the major comics runners way to closely. That crack about explaining why he was into redheads? They have an unrequited love story or 3 copying the whole “Logan loves Jean” thing.
And they actually introduced a character who was so similar, and where the dynamic is identical, to Sabertooth that everyone assumed it was Sabertooth. And they actually had to make an announcement that it wasn’t. The terrible film adaptation both ignored a lot of the comic, and just substituted Sabertooth.
It’s got that central mistake of being too similar to what’s gone before. What’s different than you assumed largely seems to be so purely to confound expectations. And then it moves far too fast. It’s not concerned with telling the stories it introduces. It’s concerned with moving Wolverine from point a to point b. And answering unimportant questions. When was he born, who were her parents, did he have claws!? DID THEY HAVE CLAWS!?
That bit after the train, where he talks to the squid face guys. Very much looks like a building a base move. Like Boba, via his relationship with the Tuskens controls the routes through the Dune Sea.
That makes what I mentioned before. Fett taking over by walking into an empty palace and killing one guy. Work a lot better. If he’s the Boss (as goes CRIME!) outside of town already, then he’s expanding his territory rather than popping up out of nowhere.
That’s why I suspect we aren’t done with flash backs. There’s an awful big sign of these things dovetailing at some point in that.
I also quite like that he’s a bit of a chump and the Tuskens have to train him.
Apparently it’s 5 years between ROTJ and Mandalorian season 1. I doubt he was in the Sarlacc too long, since he’s alive. And it doesn’t seem like it’s been years with the Tuskens so far.
Which is part of my issue with the flashback approach. If they’re intending to fill in the full 5 years. That’s unnecessary. The back and forth structure of the first episode is really just gonna foster that “answer questions” thing. Whereas this episode told one isolated, complete incident from that time, that has implications for that other story they’re telling.
