The Mandalorian (Star Wars Live Action Series)

[Otomofan]

I was so excited to see

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the lovely kicker of Boba Fett ***, the one and only Koska Reeves!! She insisted she wasn't coming back...but here she is! Awesome!

But then

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Jack Black. No. Nah. Bill Burr, yes. Jack Black? No. Not in Star Wars. Then when I realized the corpulent form next to him was Lizzo, my soul left my body. I gave it about 30 more seconds and turned it off.

WTF happened to this show???

Is this the same writer/director that gave us that awesome world-building episode of BOBF with the ringworld and Din cutting a dude in half and all that awesome stuff.....and now....this??

 

[RavenAsh]

I regularly revisit episodes of season 1 and season 2, but dang I really can't think of anything I'm going to be dying to rewatch again here.

Maybe my biggest concern is this season is making both of those seasons essentially irrelevant. Every single piece from the season 2 finale has basically been reverted back. Such a mistake.

 

[Sassafras]

Just melt down din's armor for Bo-Katan and send the man to live with that village lady from season 1 at this point LOL

At least then it would seem as if the writers gave a **** about him having some sort of story.

No hate on Bo-Katan, I like her just fine, but did we really need yet another "Bo Katan attempts to be Mandalore" story.

For real

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I'm kinda speechless over the Alice in Wonderland/tropey boy-girl detector show, all that was missing was the big smooch or naked shower scene when the boy/girl snarking devolves to fade to black hopping into the sack.
Like I'm a rabid fan of this show/characters but what is with the Filoni-ing of this series into a cartoon. The whole rather interesting tension about the Darksaber gets weakly ditched as fast as worrying about Bo-Katan's helmet and the Creed last week. Turns into barely an inconvenience, so Bo-katan can strike a live action pose a la Rebels with her pool boy by her side.
And it's all fine that Axes gets his butt kicked, blah blah, but are we going to see OTHER Mandalorians besides these?
It's not I didn't enjoy all the lavish fluff. But what happened to the head chopping Mando. WTF the Bo-Katan show now? The cheese was strong with this one. Fluffy fluff fluff. My brain hurts.

 

[Sassafras]

Is this the same writer/director that gave us that awesome world-building episode of BOBF with the ringworld and Din cutting a dude in half and all that awesome stuff.....and now....this??

I blame Filoni, and Favreau for not reining him in. Someone is behind the kid-ifying and corniness.

 

[chrisstbh]

Yeah… Jon Favreau has definitely lost it…

 

[MeatHookGekko]

No hate on Bo-Katan, I like her just fine, but did we really need yet another "Bo Katan attempts to be Mandalore" story.

Kathleen Kennedy hates all of you.

She apparently, however, doesn't hate me. I don't account that for good taste though ( look at disaster after disaster she's helmed) , I think it's just because it's hard to hate on such a great dancer.

But I surmise the rest of you are pretty screwed though.

Do I mind a diversion into Bo Katan into the main narrative? It would be easier if a better actress was cast. Keanu Reeves is somewhat on the uptake on his limitations. His biggest hit movies, he doesn't say much. He's not a particularly good actor and he knows it. Sackhoff however seems convinced she's Katherine Hepburn. Which is just plain tragic.

 

[Sassafras]

Even just little things like din's droid prejudice making an appearance. Did anyone working on this watch the previous seasons?

Ig-11 helped him confront that and we showed that growth with his eventual acceptance of the pit droids on Tatooine. Hell, he even trusted r5 to help him at the beginning of  this season.

This has been a real letdown. I regularly revisit episodes of season 1 and season 2, but dang I really can't think of anything I'm going to be dying to rewatch again here.

Yep. That particular jog backward was idiotic.

 

[Sassafras]

Huh? Darth Vader/Hayden Christensen was one of the best things about Obi-Wan Kenobi!

U mean when one of the deadliest creations in SW gets faked out by a second ship and just stands there as it takes off and does nothing? But that's ok coz looks like my boy Mando has been mutated into a rough, tough pool boy who just doesn't get social nuance compared to the noble Bo-Katan.

 

[chrisstbh]

Yep. That particular jog backward was idiotic.

It’s battle droids to be fair, they slaughtered his family.

 

[jye4ever]

Well I was a huge supporter of S3 I kept saying give it a chance, give it a chance.

We are far enough in now that I am officially done giving any more chances, I have no more ***** to give lol

Mandalorians hanging out at an open field staring at grass.

Those are supposed to be the bad *** Mandalorians?

STARING AT GRASS!!!!

 

[chrisstbh]

This might have been the worst episode of The Mandalorain so far.

 

[Raiders March]

Kick that droid! You dont have anything else at your disposal to ‘p’ it off. Heard about Lloyd being in an episode, nice to see him on screen again

 

[MeatHookGekko]

Well I was a huge supporter of S3 I kept saying give it a chance, give it a chance.

We are far enough in now that I am officially done giving any more chances, I have no more ***** to give lol

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Kathleen Kennedy isn't even trying to be subtle about it anymore. She just hates men. The opening teaser has Admiral Ackbar's nephew being a simp. He gets told his love is a "childish fling" in his face, and he still simps. Jack Black plays a ruler who is constantly emasculated. Axe Woves predictably gets beaten without any context as to why that group of Mandalorians split off from Bo Katan in the first place. And it wasn't just not having the Dark Saber.

Then the story has to contrive getting Bo Katan the Dark Saber, but in a way where she can't beat Djarin in a straight up stand up fight. The Armorer sends Mando on what might be as suicide mission to find the "waters" because he took his helmet off, but then magically decides it's OK for Bo Katan to take her helmet off, because - Reasons. Reasons no one can understand. But it's pretty clear - One rule set for men, one different rule set for women. If the show wanted to really honor a storyline with the Night Owls faction, then show scenes involving the political conflict between Woves/Koska and Bo Katan. Instead, he's a guy, so he needs to be beat fast and simply surrender to a plot contrivance. Everyone on that field is just supposed to take it on faith that Bo Katan "earned" the Dark Saber.

If you want a Bo Katan show, then make a Bo Katan show. But Kennedy knows , like most wokesters do, that they can't create anything on their own. Just hijack world building that other people love and other people created and co-opt it into some kind of bizarre agenda. There was literally zero attempt to be transparent at all about this last episode. If you flipped flopped the roles. Made this show originally about Bo Katan, and had Djarin as the new interloper who took over S3, and if the themes and subtext was reversed and was as offensive to women, as this current slate is offensive to men, then Hollywood would be up in arms about it. Kennedy needs to make her own show, out side of the established IPs that she's killing off now. I give a pretty generous berth for this show, but this last one was pretty disgusting.

 

[ObiGlennKenobi]

I can't believe what I just seen.
This is Disney commercialism.right here!!
Whhhhy Jack Black?
Why LIZZO??
Why Doc Brown.??

S3 is such a ******* mess.
There is sooooo much the writers could call upon from the EU.
There was so much **** in this episode,I cannot call it Star Wars.
It was more Star trek to me.

So frustrated!!!

 

[Knightstalker]

Christ Almighty, that was awful. Seriously, the worst episode yet in a season of painfully banal episodes. Jack Black? Lizzo?! WTF?

 

[chrisstbh]

Christ Almighty, that was awful. Seriously, the worst episode yet in a season of painfully banal episodes. Jack Black? Lizzo?! WTF?

Might be the worst episode of all three seasons.

 

[jye4ever]

I thought they were heading into some interesting Ghost in the Shell / Blade Runner self awareness direction with the droids.

But NOPE it was a super lame super useless seperatist plot point.

 

[chrisstbh]

I hope this show gets cancelled. Finish it next season.

 

[ZE_501]

Some observations:

Almost 2 minutes of recap, over 4 minutes of end credits, plus some lag time in how the show's edited. I get letting scenes breathe and so on, but it's not so well-executed. These episodes waste time such that it's noticeable.

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• Grogu's Sith tendencies are illustrated yet again when he uses the Force to facilitate cheating at a game. Not the first time Jedi acted greasy but I still call Sith.
• Mandalorians once again kinda simple-minded idiots as regards succession and leadership. No wonder they lost an entire planet.
• The episode itself began with a huge Star Trek vibe and then shifted into Hercules/Xena mode before ending on a very Disney cartoon note, IMO.
• If Super Battle Droids could all move like that the Clone Wars may have been very different.
• Once again, the Galaxy Far, Far Away is shown to be problematic -- this time in its questionable treatment of what appears to be fully sentient AI.
• Droid bar was just goofy but it's not the biggest sin this show has committed.

I'm all for a simple, popcorn-eating, "Badass goes on adventure-of-the-week-turn-off-your-brain" vibe for this show, which it used to succeed at pretty well, uneven or not, but for me, it has now veered too far into kid's cartoon territory with cheap writing and total lack of focus for the main character and his ward.

So I'm out. Maybe when Andor comes back, if I have spare time I'll check out the conclusion of this season but right now, I just don't care and value my time.

Disney sucks the life out of a good thing, yet again.

 

[Jmek]

I haven’t seen this yet, but Lizzo!!!? What the actual feck??????