George Lucas famously said that sound is 50% of the cinematic experience.
Watching the Mandalorian, sound design is responsible for at least 70% of the experience.
Without sound design those small green screens, sound stages, 3D graphics, plastic props and foamy “metal” boxes would have no weight, no flavor, no strength. They’re not believable because they visually exist. They’re believable and enjoyable because of sound and music. Sound makes us forget their weaknesses.
Every single clickety sound for droids or spaceships, landscape ambiences, creature growls, reverbs giving a sense of space. Voice filters sending us immediately into a future that doesn’t exist. Staccato strings rising our heartbeats. Growling bass waves making us excited.
Sound is so immense.