Six years ago today , Lucasfilm revealed our very first look at The Mandalorian . How time flies! So much has happened in those last six years, and how little did we know that the series would go on to spur a boom-and-bust Star Wars TV show endurance run over the last half-decade that has given us giddy highs and dizzying lows . How little did we know that this image basically told us nothing about what the show was really going to be about! But after fellow writer and friend of the site Jordan Maison reminded me about this peculiar Star Wars anniversary on social media today , I could only remember one thing about it.
It wasn’t the nerdy joy about, oh my , is that an Amban phase-pulse rifle on his back (it was, and perhaps a sign of things to come with the show’s eventual Easter egg and cameo obsession). It wasn’t even wondering why this Mandalorian armor we were seeing looked so weirdly low key and scruffy ( nobody’s perfect , as we’d come to learn about the man we’d eventually know as Din Djarin). It was that I had to stare at this image from that fateful October day for weeks, and months, figuring out ways to re-use it over and over on this very website.
This is, of course, a very inside-baseball complaint to have. A Star Wars fan just got to look at the first ever look at the first ever live-action Star Wars TV show and go ‘whoa, cool!’ and move on with their lives. But reader, Lucasfilm would not release another official look at The Mandalorian for anoth.