The Mandalorian and Grogu should have been a mostly-puppets movie

To my endless regret, I saw The Mandalorian and Grogu. I've never seen better proof that Disney has no idea what The Mandalorian even IS, as an IP within the Star Wars IP. They have no idea how to use this shit. The Mandalorian is NOT about Pedro Pascal... it's about a cute puppet baby. The one thing that makes The Mandalorian different from every other part of the Star Wars IP, its unique draw, is that it has Baby Yoda in it. If you're going to make a Mandalorian movie, you gotta stick as much Baby Yoda in there as possible. Nevertheless, the movie is absolutely packed with adult-scale full-body Unreal-engine ass 3D animations of human people doing human people fighting and whacking large aliens on the head in underlit combat setpieces. I was watching it in a theater full of children, many of them so small that that they needed to constantly ask their parents what was going on. The kids had very little reaction to this modern blockbuster combat animation. They went CRAZY for the…