The Mandalorian (Star Wars Live Action Series)

[chrisstbh]

Hot Toys would not even make one Cassian Andor, and y'all think we might get this guy. Smh lol

Andor made the mistake of not being in The Mandalorian.

 

[Kebron]

Not backpeddling, that quote was responding specifically this:

"No they don’t. Because they have nothing to do with it. It’s all Lucasfilm’s fault" i was stating that Luxasfilm IS owned and run by Disney. Even to the point that Bob Iger made descisions on Star Wars projects (demonstrating that Lucasfilm is a part of Disney, not a separate entity). Please do not cherry pick, remove context or strawman my arguments.

Which was a reply to your original post that it’s Disney.

Please stop trying to rewrite history of what you said. It’s literally there to see.

I haven’t strawmaned taken out of context or cherry pick anything. It’s your own words.

 

[Ramatuelle]

Andor made the mistake of not being in The Mandalorian.

Well, Andor is in the Mandalorian now....! Kidding but also kinda not.

Smart money sez we'll see Dr. Pershing HT before we ever see this Jedi OR Cassian.

 

[greygoose]

I’ve always said this is where Dave wanted Bo to be. Her arc is just basically a 360 to have her end up where he finished her in Rebels. He just needed to give her an arc to make it feel earned.

But yeah, this was always his endgame for her character.

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Works for the character. Just wanted it to be Mando up there.

 

[chrisstbh]

Works for the character. Just wanted it to be Mando up there.

Din has never given me "leadership material" vibes.

 

[Jaycepticon]

Din has never given me "leadership material" vibes.

Exactly. Has he ever even given a command to anyone outside of that small village in season 1? The guy’s totally content on just being a single dad in his small cult and going on random adventures with him. He doesn’t even seem like he cares about bounty hunting anymore either.

 

[chrisstbh]

Exactly. Has he ever even given a command to anyone outside of that small village in season 1? The guy’s totally content on just being a single dad in his small cult and going on random adventures with him. He doesn’t even seem like he cares about bounty hunting anymore either.

Could say he's just a simple man making his way through the galaxy.

 

[OmarColeccionador]

Mandalore will finally be liberated from the shadow of the Imperial. Ending scene Bo's riding the Mythosaur together with the new love of her life, the Armorer, and then they kiss...*end season 3.

probably true

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Star Wars fans are insatiable. You could give them a free buffet of prime ribs and they’d complain there aren’t enough napkins and they’d never eat there again.

I thought this episode was a fun chapter that was absolutely in the spirit of the early Season 1 & 2 “sidequest” episodes. Simple, creative, and straightforward with just enough nuggets of characters and story growth to step back and see how far some characters have grown.

It wasn’t “dumb” or “stupid”. It was just fun and simple.

… kind of like how most of us fell in love with Star Wars in the first place.

Excellent post, well said, and I agree with you 100%.

 

[wormlander]

Excellent post, well said, and I agree with you 100%.

Your mamas never told you to stay away from that Cloud City Jazz?

 

[Matt S]

I saw the new episode is 32 mins, which includes the 6 min of credits. So, I didn't even bother.

 

[slynger]

Most of the episode was just fine. But when those 3 baby dinosaur dragons crawled out of Bo's ship, completely ruined it for me.

 

[MeatHookGekko]

I saw the new episode is 32 mins, which includes the 6 min of credits. So, I didn't even bother.

I can't lie, there is a lot of stuff I don't like in TV and movies, but I just plain love The Mandalorian. I know it's not entirely rational. And Katee Sackhoff is a patently atrocious actress to boot and it is morphing a bit into The New Bo Katan Show.

But most of the time, I feel like the guy in the middle in the picture above whenever a new episode drops.

Maybe that will help some in here understand where some others are coming from. I know I'm not objective and I know The Mandalorian does have some real structural / narrative problems at times. But I love it anyway.

However, if the last one was a 33 minute episode with 7 minutes of opening credits, I'd be more prone to agree with you.

 

[ironwez20]

So this guy is a jedi? Jeez how many of them did they miss? Seems like quite a few slipped through the cracks

 

[Deeznutz6]

On the next episode of House of the Mando

 

[Ramatuelle]

Exactly. Has he ever even given a command to anyone outside of that small village in season 1? The guy’s totally content on just being a single dad in his small cult and going on random adventures with him. He doesn’t even seem like he cares about bounty hunting anymore either.

This is actually a big problem, [this post is speaking in general and not aimed at Jay specifically.] Din lost the RazorCrest, which would be a huge financial hit. Now he's here, there and all over the place with Grogu, fancy-free. How is he paying the bills? How is he even paying for fuel for his new ship? Its like every day is a vacation now. How is he not planning out how to replace the Razor Crest, which was kind of his living space, his office, his own portable jail.... how can he run his business out of that Naboo fighter? How is he going to replace his arsenal? And I dont want to hear "well he has the Darksaber now, what else does he need?" because he needs plenty.

He nearly cut his own leg off with that saber. Its an ornament right now, he cant even really wield it effectively. He needs his rifle and his whole armory back.

I mean, I could see how he could pee during long trips on the Naboo fighter, perhaps but he just cant LIVE on that thing. What stability does this provide for his ward? The kid does not even have his own bed, or was it a little hammock. It was his and now its gone. Din had a space where he could take off his helmet when Grogu was asleep, he could store stuff and eat in peace. Now he's in a cave with 50 peers looking sharp to catch him in heretical wrongdoing. UGH if I were him I would be fixing that ASAP.

All these things dont need to be spelled out specifically, of course. But Mando COULD do all those things on the Razor Crest, you didnt even think about it because Mando had a living space and you could see it right *there*. Right now he has no real home and no paying job, its just confusing.

 

[Sachiel]

So this guy is a jedi? Jeez how many of them did they miss? Seems like quite a few slipped through the cracks

Well, Obi-Wan said that Darth Vader the Inquisitors helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights.

 

[jaztermareal]

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I can't lie, there is a lot of stuff I don't like in TV and movies, but I just plain love The Mandalorian. I know it's not entirely rational. And Katee Sackhoff is a patently atrocious actress to boot and it is morphing a bit into The New Bo Katan Show.

But most of the time, I feel like the guy in the middle in the picture above whenever a new episode drops.

Maybe that will help some in here understand where some others are coming from. I know I'm not objective and I know The Mandalorian does have some real structural / narrative problems at times. But I love it anyway.

However, if the last one was a 33 minute episode with 7 minutes of opening credits, I'd be more prone to agree with you.

That is actually quite fine. I like some things like Prometheus despite the writing being atrocious. It is ok to love fast food so long as you know it is unhealthy fast food, problem is the folk who cannot admit the show has major issues in the writing. If you recognise the issues but love the show anyway it is cool


As for the writing in mando, i think a big reason the writing is so bad is due to something Matt Stone and Trey Parker spoke of in the past: "And Then"

Poorly written stories usually have progression that goes like "mandalorians are doing a ceremony, and then a big shows up and attacks, and then mando arrives and shoots it, and then he talks to the leader, and then he goes to Bo..... " etc etc which is more just a sequence of not truly connected events and setpieces.

Meanwhile good writing progresses via cause and effect. So because A happens, B occurs which leads to D and so on. The story in Andor flows this way with a simple event (killing the corporate security guys) triggering a series of events that characters react naturally to, each action having consequences that push the story forward.

 

[Khev]

Great episode, all killer, no filler. And how kind of Favreau to take the previously suicidal Best and give him a critical "Rogue One Vader" sequence that will forever be a part of SW lore going forward.

 

[Zurdo95D]

Are anyone else's doggos also excited to watch Mando?