"Star Wars" spin-off drama "Mandalorian" once launched, it won a super high reputation, although the "Star Wars" aura added, the story is contrary to the traditional gorgeous adventure, space opera, but set in the republic outside the territory of the extralegal land, the perspective is aimed at the "Space West Cowboy" Ding Jaren's personal growth history. Compared with the worldview of "Star Wars" and the display of group portrait characters, "Mandalorian", which pays more attention to the spiritual core, is very different from the previous "Star Wars" series.
When Star Wars: A New Hope was released in 1977, George Lucas ushered in the "Star Wars era", with three canons and three prequels not only sucking up money around the world, but also forming a unique Star Wars culture. By 2015, the Star Wars series had restarted, and a new version of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens had been released, a decade in between. But during this period, the Star Wars "derivative universe" quickly blossomed, occupying a high ground in business and culture, and had a great impact on the creation of subsequent science fiction novels and science fiction movies.
The Star Wars story begins with a galactic civil war, the Demon Sith and jedi are in place, Anakin becomes the dark Darth Vader, his son Luke begins to train in the Force, and an epic picture of the Galactic Empire is slowly unfolding... "Star Wars" is actually a set of epic masterpieces pieced together with some classic adventure elements, and the early stories can see the traces of the Robin Hood legend, the Flying Gordon, and the shadow of Kurosawa's Japanese samurai drama "Warring States Hero".
In fact, after the arrival of the "golden age" of science fiction, works depicting space adventures and alien civilizations became the mainstream, based on the background of the continuous development of science and technology at that time, the science fiction works of this period described the future in large quantities, enabling people to reflect on reality from the distant future and giving authors and readers greater freedom of thought. The science fiction novels of Asimov and Arthur Clark undoubtedly inspired the creation of directors such as George Lucas and Spielberg, whether it is novels or movies, such science fiction adventure stories have to return to a motif - Odyssey.
Odýsseia is one of the epic masterpieces Homer, which, as the source of Western literature, has a profound impact on the West and even the entire human culture. "Odyssey" depicts the story of the protagonist Odysseus's sea adventures, and his self-improvement personality makes this work full of exciting tragedy. The story focuses on his victory over the round-eyed giants, his passage through Siren Demon Island, and his passage through Kabudi, showing the great spirit of human beings exerting great wisdom and courage and indomitable victory over desperate situations.
The term Odyssey has also been extended to "epic journey," a context, character, and thematic connotation that fits in with the story core of many hardcore science fiction works. If the Star Wars series has started a new wave of "science fiction odyssey", then this wave has swept the science fiction field for nearly 20 years at the fastest speed.
The year after the release of Star Wars Episode I, an ambitious series, Battlestar Galactica, began its path to creation. The story tells that after the destruction of human civilization, a group of survivors are led by the warship "Cara di Jia" to escape the disaster of extinction, and the fleet's only hope is to find a planet called "Earth".
It is an adult space drama that shows courage, with challenging themes, religion and politics. Later episodes fully explore the post-apocalyptic world, with spectacular footage of space battles. Battlestar Galactica happens to be a powerful complement to the "Sci-Fi Odyssey", but because of its shrinking worldview and the inner volume of the storyline, the vitality is far less than that of the more universal Star Wars.
The same enduring "Star Trek", although the origin is one step ahead of "Star Wars", but after 1979, the movies "Star Trek: Infinite Space" and "Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan" have been released one after another, which has set a new tone for the entire series. Instead of the subjectivity and dreaminess of Star Wars, which turned the universe into a big family, Star Trek moved the adventures of space opera to the living room.
In contrast, Star Trek's "Science Fiction Odyssey" is more about a classic humanistic fantasy, through the universe, humanity has left behind the troubles of the past, in the interstellar adventure, incidentally explore gender, race, society and other issues, and adhere to a certain core value in it. In addition, its impact on future generations is so great that fantasy and reality are merged. The world's first space shuttle was named "Enterprise", and there are technical conjectures such as warp engines, space-time distortions, and cosmic tunnels displayed in detail, which is also a best annotation to the future of "science fiction odyssey".
Star Trek clearly inherited the pioneering spirit of the American West in the 1960s, and the American pop culture of the time was full of Western Wasteland stories. After 1970, some people proposed a new pioneering spirit, shifting the boundaries of exploration and expansion from the west to space, so "Star Trek" was popular.
It is also a borrowing of corpses to return the soul with both the spirit of western exploration, and the "Star Wars" spin-off drama "Mandalorian", which was launched in 2020, sets the story background on a desolate desert planet, like a western world in space. Here, bandits, bullies, and bounty hunters appear, without morality or law, and either die or become legendary. The worldview of "Star Wars" is only used as a background for the times, when the empire has fallen, the legion has not risen, far outside the territory of the New Republic, the Mandalorian warrior Ding Jalen wanders the stars as a bounty hunter, and in the process of redemption and self-redemption, a magnificent science fiction epic is slowly unfolding.
The Odyssey is regarded as the first masterpiece in Western literature to focus on personal adventure, becoming a pioneer in the gradual evolution from a medieval legend to a modern adventure novel. "The Mandalorian" also allows the audience to follow the protagonist's perspective all the way, from a small adventure experience to the depths of human nature.
"The Mandalorian" adds the wasteland west to the future technology, jianghu chivalry and space epic, restores the aesthetic tradition of the lone hero who shoots the world with one shot, and overturns the natural struggle between black and white in "Star Wars". The character of the Mandalorian transcends the black-and-white characters of previous Star Wars and grows up in a series of adventures. In his perspective, the dualistic opposition between light and evil is ambiguous, reshaping the perception of human nature and the world in the deconstruction of the inner self again and again.
This is the most profound, human "Odyssey".
The classic line in Star Wars, "May the Force be with you," is in almost every film. The Mandalorian does not continue the tradition, but follows through with the phrase "This is the way." What is the "Mandalorian Way"? As the protagonist says, "The Mandalorians are not a race, but a creed". This sentence is directed at the Mandalorian who wanders between good and evil in search of the right path in his heart. In the same way, what can support Odysseus to ride the wind and waves is the spiritual creed he holds.
In the "post-Star Wars era", "The Mandalorian" not only surpassed the "science fiction odyssey" in the narrative mode, but also returned to the "science fiction odyssey" of the origin in its spiritual core. No matter how many adventure stories there are in the future, I believe that the inheritance and transcendence of "science fiction odyssey" will continue to be written in more science fiction epics.
Author: Duan Zi Period