#that no one asked for
I’m thinking, and in the same vein as the writing style…
The Cargo
ALTA couple of years from now, Mando spots Winta in an underground slave auction, freshly purchased off a previous master (‘slave’ branded onto her wrist) and looking malnourished. He talks to her handler for information on how and where they acquired her and if there are any others. After some dealing gone wrong (because, Mando), he takes Winta with him and tries to find out more about her mother’s fate and Sorgan.
Sorgan has been swept up in the early path of the First Order, with Omera sold to a brothel in another system. Mando leaves Winta in a safe shelter and calls up Cara for a favour (to find Omera and other Sorgan survivors, and to reunite the mother and daughter). He takes off to handle the next task on his list, but suddenly gets attacked in mid flight.
Turns out, Winta has snuck on board (she has a tracker sewn under her skin) and refuses to leave the Mandalorian and the Baby. The handler’s hired goons board the Razor Crest, forcing Mando to abandon the cockpit to deal with the trespassers all the while talking Winta through the flight controls.
They exit the orbit and into an asteroid belt, and Winta successfully shakes off their pursuers while Mando spaces the goons. Mando comes up to the cockpit and spots the kids huddling each other. He awkwardly praises Winta on a job well done, and is interrupted by a call by Cara.
Cara informs him that the transport vehicle that was supposed to take Omera to the other system had been hijacked en route a couple years back. Most of the Sorgan survivors have landed on a nearby planet and were accounted for, but Omera isn’t among them. The last thing Cara is able to track is a landspeeder that the widow has stolen to a space port, possibly to get Winta back.
Mando quietly decides to reunite Winta with the other Sorgans (as the first step) and they try to deactivate her tracker along the way.
Nothing always go according to plan.
(Or single dad adopts another kid, finds his budget getting tighter, and realises he may have to fight off more wolves while the girl is more interested in piloting/ship manuals and playing with the baby brother)
Some ballad of songbirds and snakes hot takes;
So uh… Lucy Gray Baird. She was VeryManic pixie dream girl™️. I get this portrayal of her was from Snow’s POV, and the sort of twisted way he sees her, but it still irked me. I am tired of female characters w this trope.
I didn’t see a lot of depth to her and all of the characters really fell flat for me tbh. None of the characters were really memorable, like so many of the supporting characters in THG had been.
There’s a lot i didnt enjoy in this novel and lord did it drag on. There was too much unnecessary singing too imo. I felt like i was watching a musical lol. (there was a lot of unnecessary things in this novel, period)
I hate to say this, but I feel like the quality of her writing in this prolouge is a step down from the original trilogy. I don’t think she did herself much of a favour having written it in the third person, either.
