Because the Galaxy is very big?
Spoilers The Mandalorian Season 3
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The show's only real transgression in this area was found here.
It could go either way. Once that captured Light Cruiser makes orbit, it could be the safest trade spur on the outer rim, or the biggest target, or both. Either way if the Thrawn and/or Gideon moves directly against them, they'd have to come in force, not some little sneak attack with a few squadrons of TIEs. It'll be impossible for the New Republic to ignore if the Chimera makes an appearance. Zeb at the very least will have something to say if he sees that ship again.
Also depends on how the clans behave themselves with the locals. If they start acting like they did on Carlac, it could be a problem. It'll be up to the Children of the Watch to keep the peace if things get rowdy with the Mando mercs.
Another factor to consider is that with Pirate King Gorian Shard out of the picture, there's probably going to be a significant power vacuum in the local pirate bands, so they'll be too busy fighting amongst themselves for a while to pose a significant threat.
It all depends where you're going. Distance is less of a factor in travel times than how well charted the routes are. Coruscant unsurprisingly sits right along or near several major hyperlanes that stretch across the galaxy. So long as you can get to one of those lanes, you can get to Coruscant in very short order, even from way out on the outer rim. However, since the major lanes radiate out from the core to the rim, travelling either spinward or widdershins means a lot of fiddly minor routes and rat runs that take way longer even though you're covering less distance. That also means higher fuel consumption which means more stop-overs, which is a problem because the further you get into the outland systems, the fewer and far between safe havens get, meaning you'll have to plot routes that include the few safe stations that are there, which means even longer travel times, and so on and so forth.
Presumably Adelphi is relatively close to one of the major routes, which means the trip to the core could have been just a matter of hours. At a guess I'd say the Pirate siege went on for a few days, that's plenty of time for a round trip from Adelphi to the core, back out to planet "why would anyone one ever live here!?" and over to Nevarro.
Any yes, travel is quick, but there's a LOT of ground to cover (figuratively and literally.) Millions of settled systems. Not even the Empire could be everywhere at once, let alone in force. Also the thing about quick travel times is that it works both ways. The fuzz may be able to get across the galaxy in hours, but so can whoever they're chasing, and good luck tracking anyone that flees into the outer rim or wild space.
Also remember always; something, something, something, fantasy fairy-tale, something, something, Speed of Plot.
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Well, I think the popular assumption that all the pirate stuff is backdoor setup for Skeleton Crew.
Between the name drop of a "Pirate Nation" and Vane doing a runner, that's not an unreasonable assumption. I also wouldn't be shocked if Liberty's Misrule or even the Errant Venture shows up as part of said nation.
At least he's a participant not a McGuffin.
I thought it was a bit of a clunker, Navarro seemed to have a population of 35, the pirates have one ship and two fighters easily handled by Din and Bo Katan, hell, Teva could probably have handled them himself. The pirate troops seemed to pose zero threat to the Mandalorians. Teva apparently can just fly to Coruscant whenever he wants, is this option open to everyone? How did R5 relay their position? I usually like the Mandalorian for being an easy casual watch but it all felt so small that it was hard to enjoy the straightforward action this week.
Shields only mitigate and deflect damage, not make the ship invulnerable. That's always been the case since ANH onwards.
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The recent episode is goofy, and the prior one looked like a banal political thriller, reminding me of the prequels.
In any way, with that episode the show is going back to the roots of the franchise, i.e., the main audience consisted of children who grew up watching shows like Flash Gordon.
The problem, though, is that the franchise is experiencing the same problems as shows like the first Battlestar Galactica series, which is supposed to be for kids (hence, the boy and his pet robot dog) but is set in a very adult context (genocide, with tribes set for extinction by a relentless robot army). Which audience do you address?
Finally, what producers did to address that was go for the PG sweet spot, i.e., just show enough sex and violence for it to reach a PG level, but try to go back to the roots of the show, which is to attract children.
For the first season, that meant borrowing from spaghetti westerrns and samurai shows. That was remarkable, similar to the first movies which borrowed from pirate movies, samurai flicks, and war movies like The Dam Busters.
In any way, with that episode the show is going back to the roots of the franchise, i.e., the main audience consisted of children who grew up watching shows like Flash Gordon.
The problem, though, is that the franchise is experiencing the same problems as shows like the first Battlestar Galactica series, which is supposed to be for kids (hence, the boy and his pet robot dog) but is set in a very adult context (genocide, with tribes set for extinction by a relentless robot army). Which audience do you address?
Finally, what producers did to address that was go for the PG sweet spot, i.e., just show enough sex and violence for it to reach a PG level, but try to go back to the roots of the show, which is to attract children.
For the first season, that meant borrowing from spaghetti westerrns and samurai shows. That was remarkable, similar to the first movies which borrowed from pirate movies, samurai flicks, and war movies like The Dam Busters.
You thought Episode 4, the one where they fighting the giant bird with flashback to how Grogu survived the raid on the Jedi temple resembled a political thriller?
Damn, I guess I'm checking out all the wrong political thrillers.
Both.
What STAR WARS has done since the whole planet destroying, body burning, arm chopping off movie in the 70s. You know, for kids!
80s were definitely a different beast in what was geared 'to kids' lol.
Rambo cartoon, Robocop cartoon, hell there was a POLICE ACADEMY cartoon and that was a movie that started off as an adult comedy with a lot of sexual situations in it.
I mean, James Bond, Junior existed as a kids' cartoon. A cartoon based on an ultra-violent spy and action franchise where the lead character was until the AIDS epidemic more promiscuous than Kelvin Timeline Kirk and Prime Timeline Kirk combined.
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