Picking up TCW after a long pause… so here is the Mandalore arc.

First of all: I can’t believe my childhood crush Darth Maul became the ruler of Mandalore.

Serious note: Satine’s pacifism is naive, not to mention that it’s build on a Star Wars equivalent

of blatant “westernization” and cultural genocide. She erased Mandalore tradition, and exiled those who refused to do it. It’s interesting that all the Mandalorians in TCW are very white (like, mid/north-european white), even though in the prequel movies that the most iconic Mandalorian, Boba and Jango Fett are PoC, and later in the Rebels, there are many (exiled) PoC Mandalorians around. Not sure if this is intentional (it would be even more problematic, so to speak, if the exiled Mandalorians are not white-white like Satine)…
but it really didn’t give me a good feeling, and for that, I still can’t see Satine as the “good guy”.

But it’s not like the Death Watch are good people either. They raid and burn civilian villages and god know what other terrible things (Didn’t they kidnap girls from the village they occupied? Of course nothing explicit is shown in the cartoon, but we all know what that implies if this happened in the real world. And after a google search, that village is obviously Chinese coded, with it being called Ming Po and it’s clearly Chinese styled clothing) It is not unfair to call them terrorists when their idea of “Mandalore tradition” is to raid and kill common people. Their way to gain power from Satine through Maul’s help was not honorable at all either. And Bo-Katan didn’t left because she thought it’s wrong, but only because she didn’t want to take order from an outsider… tell me why she can just showed up and be the ruler of Mandalore in Rebels?? She’s as bad as Pre Vizsla, and there’s nothing in TCW showed that she actually cared about the well being of Mandalore. All she cared was her power and her revenge. It’s just a big mess.