No...
It really didn't... Season 2 left a ton of plot threads hanging.
Maybe so, but it tied up Din and Grogu's arc in a really beautiful and human way. I don't love the first two seasons but I still appreciate what they did with these characters.
But they wrote themselves into a corner because Grogu is their mascot and they thought people would tune out if he wasn't there, so they brought him back. That's a perfect example of playing with action figures first and writing a story later.
Well that's just blatantly not what happened.
That is blatantly exactly what happened. They used the dumbest technicality to justify this after people speculated for a while how this subplot would be resolved. Textbook example of the writers just not caring anymore.
Season 3 Mando is roughly the same quality of the other two seasons. I'm not going to pretend any of the seasons are high art, but they're all enjoyable. There really wasn't this huge quality dip. People just fell out of the hype due to Star Wars overexposure.
It's like the MCU. People are so exhausted of it nowadays that even the good movies get thrown under the bus. It takes something really unique like Andor, or a big enough event like Spider Man or GotG to real people back in. Disney's biggest sin right now isn't an issue of quality, its an issue of constant streams of content exhausting moviegoers.
I don't think Mando season 3 is a huge dip in quality, but instead it has those tiny little holes that make it fall apart for me.
This is the most I thought about Mando season 3 since I watched it. I'm scrambling to remember things from it and I didn't engage with it in any way.
Also I disagree with the lack of quality thing but that's a whole different discussion