I watched the new episode of The Mandalorian and I have some questions...some of which I guess I should have had last season.

I watched it, too. Poor banthas .

Ok I don't have to spoiler font because it's weekly so non questions thoughts are:

There should have been more smof Baby Yoda's ears flippity flapping in the wind.

Also that episode was so incredibly Space Western. I kind of got distracted noting all the Western tropes.

The question is about the timeliness. For some reason I wasn't clear on when this takes place in the Star Wars timeline and also how well known Jedis were because it just seems like the armorer talked about them as a mysterious race from long ago but in the Star wars universe even though they weren't around it hadn't been that long since there were active Jedis.

Or is this more of isolation and not a lot of communication between planets.

Even when the Jedi were at the height of their numbers, there would seldom have been a reason for most people across the galaxy to ever encounter one, and they must have seemed like a weird niche cult to most people.

But then, in Revenge of the Sith, some 30 years before The Mandalorian, the Jedi were mostly wiped out by the Emperor, and all information about their religion was suppressed, so knowledge about them is even more obscure. At the time of The Mandalorian, Luke Skywalker is the only living Jedi, and he is just starting to try to revive the religion.

So it isn't that weird that Din Djarin doesn't know about the Jedi.

The Jedi and the Mandalorians have a history, though, and the Armourer ought to know more about them. Fans suspect that she does know more, and she's only telling Din Djarin what he needs to know at this point.

Also that episode was so incredibly Space Western. I kind of got distracted noting all the Western tropes.

Casting Olyphant as a marshal in anything ups the western quotient by at least 5.

So it isn't that weird that Din Djarin doesn't know about the Jedi.

Especially since there had been a genocide of the Mandalorians, so although they generally knew about the Jedi, the weird splinter-sect that Djarin is a member of may not be passing on all the old knowledge. There is some fannish interpretation that his "Tribe" is part of what was known as Death Watch, who were hard-core extremists even back in the day.

I want to know more about the Great Purge, myself, because the window for that is fairly narrow: Somewhere between -2 BBY and ROTJ, basically, since Sabine Wren went home during S3 (or 4?) of Rebels. What happened there, did the Empire kill everyone on all the Mandalorian planets, or just some of them, or what?

Also, rumor has it that Katee Sackoff will be playing Bo-Katan Kryze in either this season or next, and if that's true, then there may be rather more Mandalorians around than Djarin thinks.

Man, Star Wars has way more canon than I can keep track of. That was actually true 20 years ago but it is even more true now. But I thought the Great Purge was way earlier than that, although now I don't know why. Very likely I am conflating it with some other event.

I haven't watched Rebels at all, is it good?

Rebels, is it good?

Very good. Way less convoluted than Clone Wars.

Good to know!

Also that episode was so incredibly Space Western. I kind of got distracted noting all the Western tropes.

The only thing missing was, “You look like you came outta the South end of a Northbound sarlaac.”