Why is The Mandalorian so popular?

[Hawkee]

Ever since it debuted last year on Disney+ I have noticed the series The Mandalorian has garnered a huge fanbase and I can't figure out why it's so popular? Is it because a lot of Star Wars fans like it or is it trying to have a fanbase like Stranger Things and Game Of Thrones had? Because I have never seen a show like The Mandalorian get so much hype. Another thing I noticed about The Mandalorian is that the top star Baby Yoda "The Child" is also becoming popular like Groot was for Guardians Of The Galaxy and Baby Yoda toys are becoming hot most wanted toys for Christmas 2020 and Baby Yoda merchandise is also flying off store shelves as well and I can tell you that The Mandalorian will still be popular as time goes by
Bestie

[DadTheKing]

Hi, Bestie! I never watched Mandalorian. Butthanks to you I will give it a try. It sounds like a good tv show. Thank you
DTK

[DadTheKing]

Hi, Bestie! I never watched Mandalorian. Butthanks to you I will give it a try. It sounds like a good tv show. Thank you
DTK

[RetroGuy2000]

Star Wars has a built-in fan base from the era of the original three films, so any TV series was going to have an automatic audience, instead of having to build an audience, the way most TV shows have to do. I know many guys who subscribed to Disney+ just to see The Mandalorian.

[TMC]

https://lebeauleblog.com/2020/03/04/...dalorian-2019/

What definitely helps is that it has nothing to do with The Skywalker Saga. It’s not a prequel to it, not a sequel, Mando and friends have nothing to do with Luke Skywalker. Even Baby Yoda isn’t actually Yoda. It’s just a story set in the Star Wars universe, that’s all…

And I think that made people, even those fans, more open to it because it didn’t have the expectations to follow up A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back in the same way Return of the Jedi, The Prequels, or The Sequels did. It was starting an entirely new story so there was no direction the fans really wanted the story to go in because they didn’t know the story yet.

Sure they were excited to see more planets and characters explored in the Star Wars world and to see something smaller and grittier but there was otherwise no real expectation on how to take the story. There was more freedom so it was less likely for the creators to “mess up”.

So really what it all comes down to is Star Wars fans and Disney fans had expectations for the big movies the Star Wars crew and Jon Favreau and Disney were making. And, when the movie’s didn’t meet their expectations, it almost felt like a betrayal to them.

This can even be seen with The Rise of Skywalker. Again that movie was extremely divisive, not only with Star Wars fans but with critics as well. And now it’s been considered a terrible way to end the trilogy.

But The Mandalorian was a fresh slate: Jon Favreau, Disney, and the rest of the team at Star Wars had more freedom to tell what stories they wanted to tell. Because of that, they weren’t under pressure to come up with something fans would hate them for, whether it be Star Wars fans or Disney fans. And this helped them create the first Star Wars project in years that people can actually agree on.