Following the climactic finale of “The Mandalorian” Season 2, the hype was at an all-time high for Season 3, but after a long wait, the final product didn’t live up to expectations. Fans reacted to the latest batch of episodes with complaints rather than praise, as a number of things in Season 3 upset them. If Lucasfilm does make Season 4 into a theatrical film, it could solve many of those problems.

First and foremost, a movie would streamline the “Mandalorian” story, removing unnecessary side plots and characters while ensuring a coherent plot from start to finish. A big complaint about Season 3 was that the show spent too much time on “side missions,” like the Mandalorians hunting a giant raptor or saving Nevarro from pirates, instead of focusing on and progressing the main story. There’s less time to waste in a movie, so if Lucasfilm has Jon Favreau edit the Season 4 scripts into a film, these “side missions” would be the first to go.

Another common complaint regarding “The Mandalorian” Season 3 — and many of Disney’s other interconnected streaming shows — was the required viewing commitment needed to get the whole story. If audiences didn’t watch “The Book of Boba Fett,” they couldn’t understand how Mando and Grogu had reunited after the Season 2 finale. With Dave Filoni’s upcoming New Republic movie set to be the culmination of everything Lucasfilm has been building on Disney+, there are already more than enough episodes general audiences have to watch in preparation. Shifting “The Mandalorian” Season 4 into a movie eliminates a chunk of episodes that will surely be mandatory viewing, making it an overall more accessible experience for audiences to get the whole story.