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I think the crux of our problem is TCW's handling of Mandalore doesn't make any sense. Bo-Katan is introduced as Vizla's hot but two-dimensional (character-wise) sidekick, and we are given no indication about what differences she has with Vizla, if any. Then, when Maul kills Vizla and takes control, she rebels because he isn't a *real* Mandalorian, rescues Kenobi, and from then on out she's suddenly a good guy. The lack of change in attitude, combined with the fact that her clannish approach to Mandalore is treated as a good thing in Rebels while being a bad thing in TCW creates a dilemma.

We get introduced to Satine in TCW as the objective good guy. Definitely pompous, and at least initially overly-fond of huffing her own farts, but she's trying to uplift her people from their backward ways that brought their planet to ruin. Vizla's Death Watch (and by extension, Bo-Katan), are clearly painted as bad guys. They're terrorists, thugs, and they work with all the series' other villains. But then we get a second Mandalorian Civil War, and Bo-Katan and her Nite Owls (who are all just former Death Watch, remember) are suddenly the good guys. This continues through Rebels and the Mandalorian.

So what are we, the audience, to conclude? Is Satine a conservative Aesop about the dangers of abandoning a peoples' traditions and culture in the quest for "enlightenment?" Is Bo-Katan a Senator Armstrong-esque "using Mandalorian militancy to end Mandalorian militancy?" Do the writers have no idea what the fuck they're doing other than trying to ape the Klingons from Star Trek?