The Mandalorian (Star Wars Live Action Series)

[darth dennis]

That's a question I brought up recently. None of these episodes have felt like they cost $15million per episode. I'm not an auditor but I'm only comparing it to GOT episodes since that's how the budget for this show was described as.

Maybe it's an average of 15 million and the season finale is gonna be crazy! But yeah, if I'm a Disney auditor, I want to see some receipts!

 

[jye4ever]

To those complaining about the Cantina feeling super low budget cheap because of just one patron fyi I have walked into bars in HELLS KITCHEN MANHATTAN with only 1 patron inside! Ok maybe 2 or 3 lol

Not every bar every time has to be mobbed 24/7.

Now as far as the episode being too contained that?s a fair and correct assessment but it shouldn?t be a criticism because show me where it was promised that each episode would move the narrative beyond a single event for Mando.

Now underneath that perceived budget cheapness and tightly contained narrative did anyone catch the brutality on display underneath the surface, yikes.

I loved it!

AND NOT EVERYTHING looked cheap to me there was certainly some cool stuff mixed in.

I loved the 70s afro sesame street looking lady lol

The droids were well utilized this time.


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[ZE_501]

I wasn't crazy about this episode. I liked the obvious stylistic callback to '80s episodic TV, why not? But once again the acting left me puzzled. More like an old video-game cut-scene or something a lot lower budget.

It's okay to have a quieter time on that planet, why should it be busy all the time? But the whole thing felt like filler and kinda off. I'm assuming they'll ratchet up the stakes and the production value when the Imperial Remnant comes calling.

Spoiler

The shoot-out at the end was brutal. Amazed the child wasn't injured. Evidently it can move pretty quickly when it wants to.

 

[Jaycepticon]

I'm always taken out by these supporting actors too. Ever since the blue alien in the first episode, the Arctic Uber driver, the lady at the village restaurant last episode and Tracey Ullman in this episode, there's just something about how they act that take me out of any seriousness that should be in the scenes with them. And not just the dialogue they say.

 

[The Buffinator]

I'm always taken out by these supporting actors too. Ever since the blue alien in the first episode, the Arctic Uber driver, the lady at the village restaurant last episode and Tracey Ullman in this episode, there's just something about how they act that take me out of any seriousness that should be in the scenes with them. And not just the dialogue they say.

Tracey Ullman? Try Amy Sedaris.

 

[Ehollywood]

Ep5 has now replaced EP4 as my least favorite one so far lol

 

[ZE_501]

Favreau: I can hold it. Gimme more room to run.

Fans: You're too low. Pull up!

I don't think the situation's that bad.

(Erm....yet)

 

[Jaycepticon]

Favreau: I can hold it. Gimme more room to run.

Fans: You're too low. Pull up!

I don't think the situation's that bad.

(Erm....yet)

It's really not. But it's definitely getting to a point where it's very noticeable and you don't want that either. I was literally waiting for someone to say "I've got a bad feeling about this."

 

[Ramatuelle]

That's a question I brought up recently. None of these episodes have felt like they cost $15million per episode. I'm not an auditor but I'm only comparing it to GOT episodes since that's how the budget for this show was described as.

You don't think all these special effects cost? because they do. Big time.

We have outdoor/green scene action all over the place, along with big props.

Or, we could have [what felt like] hour-long episodes a la Stargate where you have two talking heads arguing in a room, and nothing ever really happens. Sci-fi that takes place indoors and consists of people arguing is a great way to have me quit watching in double-quick time. I could never tolerate SG for more than about ten minutes.

I was not watching GoT so cannot speak to that. If its anything like the books, there was a lot of people-talking-in-rooms in that, too. Which in a book is one thing, but I don't want to see that on a screen, large or small.

 

[Ramatuelle]

Ep5 has now replaced EP4 as my least favorite one so far lol

Well, they were not trying to marry Mando off in episode 5, so there's that. Which is a plus in my book.

Everyone: Settle down in this quiet backwater!

Mando: Er…. no. Thanks.

 

[Matt S]

That's a question I brought up recently. None of these episodes have felt like they cost $15million per episode. I'm not an auditor but I'm only comparing it to GOT episodes since that's how the budget for this show was described as.

I am sure that there are 'bottle' episodes - ones that cost less than say your first two and last two episodes of the season. Last week and this one may have fallen into that category though its pure guesswork on my part, but i base that guess on how spare Mos Eisley was with people and creatures compared to Ep I and 2. There was so much detail in those episodes, it was almost overwhelming.

 

[Sassafras]

Well, they were not trying to marry Mando off in episode 5, so there's that. Which is a plus in my book.

Everyone: Settle down in this quiet backwater!

Mando: Er?. no. Thanks.

Imo there's tropes that make me feel warm and fuzzy, and tropes that have me turning the channel -

Spoiler

Anyway have a bit of mixed feelings tho it was good to see an episode about Mando's badassery - from piloting skills to tracking a bounty down. Obviously there's been that before, but really liked the intro.

I also like this show continues to have scenes with "ordinary life" like the hangar, that aren't all full of drama and creatures - kind of like going to Kinko's on a slow day. It's Mos Eisley but not all full of - everything. Also shooting on location. It's more realistic, like light industrial areas in any town and side streets with tired slow businesses.

On the other hand, dunno that I see a Mandalorian - any Mandalorian - taking up that easily with anyone, or leaving baby that easily, when in the previous episode he was uncomfortable just letting the kid out with other kids, in a farming area. For me that was kind of a WTF out of character. I mean, the kid has tried to follow him every time. Also I seriously was expecting Mando to have overheard the whole conversation etc. but - nope. That felt out of character, but I guess it meant a bit more time and action vs just shooting sleazeball in desert.

Also the sleazy guy's acting was bit dubious except at the end Holy %$# wasn't expecting that. A complete 180 The actor makes a great psycho too bad he's also an idiot.

Was probably less enthused to see Mos Eisely and Tattoine than some, 'coz fan service. But whatever. The scene with the Sandpeople LOL and also liked Mando - like with IG-11 - he deals with others. Not always firmly distant uber-cool loner who's unapproachable, which is refreshing.

I'll give it a B+. Pretty enjoyable except there's some stuff I think is questionable re narrative. Or maybe not...

Spoiler

I mean, when he left the kid WAS sleeping. Not knowing the species of Baby Yoda, for all Mando knows, the kid regularly takes epic naps. He did before. Also it's nice there hasn't been some overload of Baby-Yoda-uses-the-Force which is also refreshing

Heard the phrase "filler" used but IMO excellent filler I think (hope) that this is all building to an excellent season finale, so at some point can binge watch like one big movie. D*mn I wish they would show a few preview scenes at end of episode.

 

[Sassafras]

Oh gawd plz nooooooooooooooo.....

Disney+ has announced that the penultimate episode of The Mandalorian's first season will have an "exclusive sneak peek" at the upcoming "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" film.

Spoiler

"An old rival extends an invitation for The Mandalorian to make peace," reads a Disney Plus description of the seventh episode. The title of the episode has not been announced, however "The Sin"'s Deborah Chow is returning to direct from a script by showrunner Jon Favreau.

https://www.space.com/mandalorian-rise-of-skywalker-date-changes.html

So *&^%$. *&^% Disney. Mandalorian was its own thing, it waz PURE. Like Finnish spring water. On the Outer Rim, in its own little backwater of Disney+, uncontaminated by the *&^storm of the films.

So, like, in TROS the last scene is gonna be what, baby Yoda is grown up and is there to show Rey the way? And talk about telegraphing desperation I guess

 

[ZE_501]

I was thinking...

Spoiler

When the unknown figure arrives at the end of Ep. 5 at the assassin's dead body, it's not wearing armour but there is the sound of spurs. That's a sound effect they deliberately used in ESB for Boba Fett. Obscure callback or something even more fan-service-y?

 

[ZE_501]

Oh gawd plz nooooooooooooooo.....

[...] Mandalorian was [...]

...always a corporate product. Favreau's a politician, Sassafras. They're not to be trusted.

 

[jye4ever]

I was thinking...

Spoiler

When the unknown figure arrives at the end of Ep. 5 at the assassin's dead body, it's not wearing armour but there is the sound of spurs. That's a sound effect they deliberately used in ESB for Boba Fett. Obscure callback or something even more fan-service-y?

If that was Fett

This was Khev

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[Spartan Rex]

Yes it seems Disney can?t resist screwing with the Mandos success and will attempt the first Disney/StarWars crossover in an upcoming episode.
The character will be joined by 7 Ugnaughts named after their individual emotional states and have a mine on Kessel.

Spoiler

Favrau has said bringing back Fett isn’t out of the question. The article making the rounds today made the case it’s Fett because of the spurs sound, her connection to the Hutts and the locale....or it could be the Imperial Moff the haven’t introduced yet.

 

[Sassafras]

...always a corporate product. Favreau's a politician, Sassafras. They're not to be trusted.

 

[TaliBane]

Yeah I thought it was Fett too because it's Mando's "episode V" - like ESB, that intro'ed Fett.

 

[NAZGUL-KING]

I thought the episode was good, but...

Spoiler

You'd think the last place that Mando would let the Child out of his sight and with a stranger nonetheless would be Mos Eisley.
It was kinda cool that they had Toro sitting in the same booth in the cantina where Han shot Greedo