The Mandalorian

[Benny]

Half of the episode is basically this:

 

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[IcEBuRN]

On 09/03/2023 at 00:22, Vulgar Monkey said:

So I wonder who the cowardly R5 belonged to back in the day. Someone, right?

 

Also:

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Was hoping for some blurb on wtf the deal was with the bizarre mutant/droid....thing.

 

It's the droid they tried to sell to Luke and Uncs at the start of A new hope, it blew a gasket or something and they took R2. It's made some other cameos as well, that I can't remember.

[SeanR]

Bad motivator

[Alex W.]

1 hour ago, IcEBuRN said:

It's the droid they tried to sell to Luke and Uncs at the start of A new hope, it blew a gasket or something and they took R2. It's made some other cameos as well, that I can't remember.

Oh for god’s sake. Not you, the decision making.

[redbloodcell]

3 hours ago, Alex W. said:

Oh for god’s sake. Not you, the decision making.

 

He's been hanging around as part of Princess Carolyn's little droid crew from the beginning! 

[IcEBuRN]

9 hours ago, Alex W. said:

Oh for god’s sake. Not you, the decision making.

Eh?

[Darwock]

Huge props to Pedro for managing to convey such strong emotions with only his voice - his reaction to Bo Katan talking about her father was impressive.

 

Not so keen on Grogu’s baby buggy having the ability to go absolutely anywhere, at any speed, without any visible means of thrust or repulsion. Makes the Mandalorian jet-pack look fairly pointless.

[JohnC]

Star Wars is full of stuff floating around.

[letsbook]

1 hour ago, JohnC said:

Star Wars is full of stuff floating around.

True

[Alex W.]

2 hours ago, IcEBuRN said:

Eh?

Star Wars tends to have the same characters, objects and places show up tonnes in a way that makes the world seem kind of small. Pet peeve.

[Darwock]

2 hours ago, letsbook said:

True

You were joking but I had actually not considered that Grogu was using self propulsion! Is he strong enough in the force to do that without making the force face at all times?

[Alex W.]

/noclip?

[IcEBuRN]

2 hours ago, Alex W. said:

Star Wars tends to have the same characters, objects and places show up tonnes in a way that makes the world seem kind of small. Pet peeve.

Ah ok sure. Came across like you were having a go at me for something.

[gone fishin]

Finally watched the first two episodes with my son. So a few minutes into the first, I said to him “why is Grogu there, didn’t Luke Skywalker take him away at the end of the second one?” Only to be reminded that in the Book of Boba Fett there was the whole section with the Mandalorian and Grogu and the chainmail. Which did make me think, if you’re watching the Mandalorian from the very start (like you’re a new subscriber) and then going from episode 2 to 3, you’d be like WTF? Why is everything back to normal again? Which gives a bit of the feeling that some have said that it maybe feels too much of the same, that there’s little danger involved with it all now.

 

That got me onto my second thoughts about this. It really feels like Miami Vice when it got to Season 3. Behind the scenes there were a few changes, like Michael Mann having less input on Miami Vice, and as a result it feels a bit like someone trying to make Miami Vice based on the “Miami Vice formula”, but they don’t quite get what actually makes that formula work. It’s still good, but it feels like something isn’t quite there. Any peril of major incidents that happened before are quietly forgotten about to get back into the weekly fan favourite formula.

 

Like in the Mandalorian Season 3 episode 2 when he goes back to Tatooine, like there’s absolutely no point in that at all apart from “here’s a fan favourite character for you from a previous series, because we wanted to shoe horn them in and it feels like they’re playing up a bit to the character, rather than having any meaningful dialogue”. They could have introduced someone new, but no, there has to be the “Mad Murdoch” type character (another 80s reference) we’ll just wheel out every other week. 

 

Maybe that’s the slight sense of disappointment, that it’s kind of just reset itself and it’s back to where it was at the very start. The Mandalorian can’t take off his helmet (despite having done it), goes on numerous fetch quests with some mid level baddies (with literally a glowing eye as the weak point) while taking Baby Yoda with him (except, why is Baby Yoda even with him now? It’s not like he has to get him anywhere, but I guess the fans want Baby Yoda).

 

[Phantoon]

18 hours ago, Darwock said:

Huge props to Pedro for managing to convey such strong emotions with only his voice - his reaction to Bo Katan talking about her father was impressive.

 

Not so keen on Grogu’s baby buggy having the ability to go absolutely anywhere, at any speed, without any visible means of thrust or repulsion. Makes the Mandalorian jet-pack look fairly pointless.

Let me introduce you to speeder bikes. And pretty much everything in Star Wars. Solo's carbonite slab for one.

 

The Tatooine trip makes some sense. When you have a good mechanic you use them wherever possible. The bit that bothers me is R5D4 of "Luke picks him over R2D2, but he has a bad motivator" fame becoming a character. Makes everything really small.

 

 

[Darwock]

I don’t mind the speeder bikes, carbonite slab, ball droids etc because they are never more than a few feet above the ground - I can imagine some kind of short range repulsion technology for them. But Grogu dropped several kilometres over an empty space, and then flew up the same distance.

 

However I have now settled on the fact he was using the force to move his dish. So I’m good with it.

[Phantoon]

21 hours ago, gone fishin said:

why is Baby Yoda even with him now? It’s not like he has to get him anywhere, but I guess the fans want Baby Yoda).

In this very post, you say nothing has changed, and in the same post you don't understand why Grogu is with him

 

It's because something has changed

 

Din accepts Grogu as his son. Bo-katan says as much. Din refers to the Mandalorians as "our people", our including Grogu. Din has changed as a character quite significantly.

[tejinashi]

Just heard that season 3 is only 8 episodes. Beginning to think that D+ is dying 😕

 

 

 

[Phantoon]

6 hours ago, tejinashi said:

Just heard that season 3 is only 8 episodes. Beginning to think that D+ is dying 😕

 

 

 

What, like seasons 1 and 2 then?

[tejinashi]

Er, yes. Had it in my head that they were 10 eps, for some reason. 

[Oracle]

I was confused at the start of season three. Didn’t realise we had to watch another show for it to make sense. Screw that. 

[Mogster]

42 minutes ago, Oracle said:

I was confused at the start of season three. Didn’t realise we had to watch another show for it to make sense. Screw that. 

You only really need to watch the last three episodes, two of which are basically Mandalorian episodes anyway and really good! They carry on more or less straight after season 1.

 

You can probably skip the last of those three episodes actually, despite it featuring Din and Grogu, as the important stuff happens in the previous two. 

[Oracle]

It’s still a bit rubbish, why would they assume that someone would consume every shit side show for Star Wars? 
 

 

[Alask]

An episode that has left me with many questions..

 

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1. Why is there no Mando in my mandolorian episode?

2. Am I meant to know who these other two are?

3. Do drunk people and children simply not exist on coruscant or are they just ok with 90% of them plummeting to their deaths when they catch a train?

 

 

 

[JohnC]

I liked it. Some almost Andor-esque behind the scenes of what’s happening in the galaxy with the transition. 

[Phantoon]

1 hour ago, Oracle said:

It’s still a bit rubbish, why would they assume that someone would consume every shit side show for Star Wars? 
 

 

Don't know. It's not as bad as the MCU yet, but they need to stop doing it.

[Vulgar Monkey]

An ok episode in itself, though mainly makes me wonder what the wider implications might be:

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Theyve picked up the slightly more sequel-trilogy adjacent plotlines from ages ago again; good that they havent been forgotten, although part of me was happy to just ignore those movies entirely. I still kinda hope they'll do a swerve into alternate-universe territory eventually, although that's something they could choose to do at any time really (possibly better placed to be done in Asokha?). Either way, fuck knows how they'll tie any of it back to Mando.

 

In the shorter-term, kinda interested in where that twist will go with the sleeper agent. The whole 'facilitate cloning research to lead up to snoke' thing seemed pretty cut and dry (perhaps too much so, even), but turning the guy in seems counter to any Remnant goals. Unless she's literally just engineered the whole thing to buy favour with republic brass. I almost wondered at first if the republic were gonna make him an offer like 'actually we're dead keen on all this illicit research but want it done off the books, plausible deniability', which would be nice and murky, but no, guess not.

 

Otherwise, I did sorta like how we got all the same setpiece action scene tropes we'd normally get, but from a weirdly opposite perspective. So all the chasers are in fact utterly non-threatening, all the bystanders are just pleasantly dismissive. Almost expected someone to be like 'Excuse me, Miss? Miss? You dropped your blaster'

 

 

[womblingfree]

6 hours ago, Alask said:

An episode that has left me with many questions..

 

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1. Why is there no Mando in my mandolorian episode?

2. Am I meant to know who these other two are?

3. Do drunk people and children simply not exist on coruscant or are they just ok with 90% of them plummeting to their deaths when they catch a train?

 

 

 

 

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1. He's in the epic dogfight and fundamentally important Mandalorian reunification at the beginning and end.

2. Yes, and they recapped who they were in the intro.

3. See also no guard-rails on Death Stars.

 

[JohnC]

A thing that struck me was 

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The Republic calling amnesty people by numbers instead of their names. Like the Empire did with the lower ranks. 

 

[Alask]

Well that'll teach me to skip the recap eh! I always figure it's just what happened last week and is designed for people who probably want a recap mid episode too, not for awesome people like me.

 

Dammit.