Welcome to today's episode of Binge. I'm Carl Cantonilla. Real treat for us today.

John Favreau joins us, of course actor producer, but for our purposes today,

co-creator, executive producer, and writer of the Mandalorian streaming now every Wednesday on Disney Plus.

John, it's great to have you. Thanks for being with us. What a treat.

Oh, thank you for having me. My pleasure.

I was talking to the floor crew before we started and they're universally excited about this season.

Episode 1 looks amazing. Can you talk just briefly about how you see this season evolving over prior

seasons? Well we've been we've been on the air this is our third season there was also

the Book of Boba Fett which had a few episodes that dealt with these characters.

So like anything else, we, you know, the stories evolve.

We introduce more characters, so the stories become more complex over time.

And I think there are challenges that I've never faced before

in TV because the story continues on there with so many chapters unlike film that you have to really time things out especially if

there's other shows as we have a soka and skeleton crew also coming out which are in the same time

period so they all have to weave together you want to the characters, but you don't want to ever to get so complex that it demands that the audience does has to do a ton of homework before they could enjoy the characters of the stories.

So the story does get more complicated.

They go to Mandalore.

We meet other Mandalorians.

So a story that started off as a very small singular thread has now turned into a bit more of a

tapestry. It is amazing to think back to the first few episodes of season one

where it was kind of a buddy film, right?

I mean, they were these two souls together,

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