Nowhere is that more apparent than one of the most striking scenes in Mandalorian season 2, episode 2, “The Passenger,” when the Mandalorian’s ship, the Razor Crest, is pulled over by what is effectively a pair of New Republic traffic officers. And that means the Republic doesn’t always represent the good guys anymore. Fighting a war against a clearly evil fascist organization is relatively straightforward running a galaxy-wide government in the aftermath is much more difficult. The Mandalorian is better the less like Star Wars it getsīut part of that is because the New Republic itself, as a governing body, is already a very different organization than the idealistic Rebel Alliance that worked to overthrow the Empire.
