The Mandalorian (TV series)
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Isn’t it nice to have SOMETHING that the overwhelming majority of fans love for a change??
I almost forgot what that felt like to witness.
I almost forgot what that felt like to witness.
Mara Jade's Father
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Just FYI:
Although this was an intention at one point:
However, there is no canon that states that the bearded soldier in question is actually Rex.
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
I think the whole point was a slow start just to do the surprise final shot of Boba Fett. They didn’t want to introduce Bobo right away.
Mara Jade's Father
Master Member
Seeing Timothy Olyphant play a gunslinger/lawman type always makes me happy. Great casting choice and I hope we see him again.
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NakedMoleRat
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If only Jon Favreau could take over Star Trek...
HMSwolfe
Master Member
I’m pretty sure at this point Star Trek fans would almost take Michael Bay over Kurtzman & co.
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mortifactor
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Fett is surely tracking the Mandalorian... Tatooine is a whole planet, the location of the episode an unmapped backwater. He heard a Mandalorian was sighted and started investigating a few days behind. This is his catalyst for re-entering the wider Star Wars universe (maybe leaving Tatooine) I reckon. It also leads him back to his armour. Neat and tidy!
We could infer from this that the theme of Mandalorian identity is topical for Fett's story in this, otherwise what is the motive for his curiosity in the Mandalorian?
We could infer from this that the theme of Mandalorian identity is topical for Fett's story in this, otherwise what is the motive for his curiosity in the Mandalorian?
jkno
Legendary Member
The Mandalorian is the only recent Star Wars show that brings a smile to my face since Rogue One. It is not perfect, but I like it, and heck, I never even cared for Mandalorians or Fett before this. It blends the new and old Star wars in a great way, and, in the end, has that Star Wars feeling about it that I missed in the new trilogy. This is the way!
I wish the powers that be would put Filoni in charge of the Star Wars universe. Kathleen Kennedy can move along to Hallmark movies.
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Bradleyfett
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And 2-1B!Overall, a really nice start to season 2. And since others have posted about "the armor" without spoiler tags, I'll chime in (with basically a SW:SE Fett I've worked on for 2 decades standing in the corner of my bonus room.)
I feel they went above and beyond for the ROTJ Fett armor (anyone here have a hand in that? wink-wink, nudge-nudge, say no more...)
I'm guessing this is NOT original armor, but closely copied from it. The dental expander is there on the gauntlet, the Casio keypad too. 3 tubes on the right gauntlet. Additional weathering and wear OVER the pre-existing weathering patterns.
The helmet looks right to me, thank THE MAKER they didn't do an ESB bucket paint scheme. Can anyone verify the color of the kill strips on the Mandalorian ROTJ bucket though?
Han Solo's damage to the jetpack on the sail skiff (the large, dark gauge), has been "repaired" with silver metal plating, nice touch!
I asked Don Bies here years ago about the ROTJ:SE added Fett scenes, where he wore the damaged jetpack. IIRC, Bies basically said it was a quick thing one day where he ran to the LFL archives and quickly assembled the ROTJ components, then took them over to the set for the added Special Edition scenes. Including the DAMAGED ROTJ jetpack. You can see the continuity error jetpack damage in ROTJ:SE when "Bies" Fett is flirting with the dancing girls in Jabba's palace, turns to walk away from his alcove. and flashes the damage to the jetpack for a few frames. HOWEVER, you can also see the "damaged" Z-6 jetpack just BEFORE Han strikes it and causes the damage:
Is there an in-universe joke now that the Z-6 is prone to misfire when hit by a stick?
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ALSO, in the above archives Z-6 jetpack photo... I just realized that it is sitting on top of a disassembled IG-88??!!
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I would be completely fine if that little shot was all we got of Boba and that’s it, just to let us know he’s around.
And as for how he survives, this episode did a good job of basically giving us all the info we need.
Krayt dragons can eat sarlaccs apparently. Besker can survive being eaten by a krayt dragon even when covered in acid. There you go, that’s how Fett escaped.
And as for how he survives, this episode did a good job of basically giving us all the info we need.
Krayt dragons can eat sarlaccs apparently. Besker can survive being eaten by a krayt dragon even when covered in acid. There you go, that’s how Fett escaped.
B-Movie Zombie
Sr Member
A little off topic but I hope that in the near future hasbro makes a Black Series Camtono like their helmets.
Why do sand people, jawas, droids have only the same 6-8 phrases or noises?
I truly am confused why this show gets such a pass for above TFA Level fan service...
is it cuz they inject more NEW stuff?
I mean In that episode alone we get
- Anakin’s pod (maybe?)
- boba fett armor
- every sound/yell a sand trooper has made, multiple times.
- tattoine, again. A planet where if there was a center of the universe this is the furthest from...
- crate dragon
- skiff guard guy I had as a figure when I was 8
Probably more but I’m not as versed as others...
don’t get me wrong, I like the show, but this **** is annoying.
Anyone know who does a good mando helmet cast?!? Want.
I truly am confused why this show gets such a pass for above TFA Level fan service...
is it cuz they inject more NEW stuff?
I mean In that episode alone we get
- Anakin’s pod (maybe?)
- boba fett armor
- every sound/yell a sand trooper has made, multiple times.
- tattoine, again. A planet where if there was a center of the universe this is the furthest from...
- crate dragon
- skiff guard guy I had as a figure when I was 8
Probably more but I’m not as versed as others...
don’t get me wrong, I like the show, but this **** is annoying.
Anyone know who does a good mando helmet cast?!? Want.
harrisonp
Sr Member
It’s because they don’t just literally say “whoa Luke Skywaaaaalker he’s a LeGEnD mYtH”
“ let’s go find him on the Millenium Falcon while we play with this dejarik table! Look it’s R2D2!”
there are indigenous cultures with languages consisting of only dozens of sounds, or sounds so subtly different that the unlearned can’t hear the difference. The weequay bartender isn’t actually from Jabbas skiff, he’s just a common species that we should expect to see there, just like we expect to see Rodians and Twi’leks because they exist in this universe. I’ll give you the Tatooine point but the others have at least served the story and aren’t just throwaway lines about “maybe we should consider a clone army”, “Kessel run in 14 parsecs!” “Trash compactor!”
They also had enough restraint with the pod racer not to have Vanth talk about getting it cheap from a Toydarian in Mos Espa etc.
“ let’s go find him on the Millenium Falcon while we play with this dejarik table! Look it’s R2D2!”
there are indigenous cultures with languages consisting of only dozens of sounds, or sounds so subtly different that the unlearned can’t hear the difference. The weequay bartender isn’t actually from Jabbas skiff, he’s just a common species that we should expect to see there, just like we expect to see Rodians and Twi’leks because they exist in this universe. I’ll give you the Tatooine point but the others have at least served the story and aren’t just throwaway lines about “maybe we should consider a clone army”, “Kessel run in 14 parsecs!” “Trash compactor!”
They also had enough restraint with the pod racer not to have Vanth talk about getting it cheap from a Toydarian in Mos Espa etc.
The Brahma Bull
Sr Member
Big fan of him since Deadwood. You could tell from his stands that he's all in. Hope to see more of him in the show.
Generally like the casting so far.
AnubisGuard
Master Member
Part of it, for me, is just I got used to it. I've accepted that no matter what we get from Disney, it'll always have a heaping helping of 'memberberries.
But I also give Mando a pass because Favreau and Feloni are, fundamentally, much better storytellers than Abrams and co. I understand who Mando is as a character and why he makes the decisions he does; he's somebody to relate to in a story I can get involved in. I hate the R5 callback and seeing that Jabba door knocker again and carbonite blocks and all that too, but the show pulls me in anyway because it knows how to do simple but effective and consistent characterization, and how to tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end. Compared with TFA, where it never knew what to do with FInn being a former brainwashed child soldier (you'd never know it, from the way he was characterized after the first act of that movie), or with Rey, who was a lonely orphan who just wanted to wait for mommy and daddy yet still, somehow, made all the same decisions in acts 2 and 3 that Luke did, a character who wanted the literal exact opposite of what she did. And never mind that TFA didn't just do callbacks but also copied the plot from ANH, and didn't have a real ending.
That sort of crappy writing leaves a viewer with nothing to do but focus on the stupid fanservice.
Basically, all Disney Star Wars is fanfic, but there can still be good fanfic and bad fanfic. Both types recycle and regurgitate stuff we've seen before, but the good type at least takes a deeper dive into the recycled material, while the bad only throws it in your face and says "here's that stuff you liked before!"
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