The Mandalorian discussion thread

You are overthinking this. Carbonite was created with Empire Strikes Back. The actors and their reactions were going by the script written for them. They didn't have a prior refrence to Carbonite the same as The Kessel Run. All of the refrences in other books, games, movies, spinoffs etc were backing into it from that one moment. Sometimes it just doesn't have to make sense for it be understood and work in that moment.
bo-ring
anyone with a mouth can eat what is spoonfed to you
the fun in being an audience is getting to try to tie threads together that don't seem to fit
I don't care that the writers on Lost pulled the cord and jumped to safety in the 6th season - the fun is seeing if you can land the place