The Mandalorian (TV series)

[Marv]

Man I wish I could really say I enjoy this. It just feels like a you tuber fan made film, with no substance but with some serious financial backing to present great special effects and sets. I think it had great potential by using the lawless time after the fall of the empire, but having a 'baby yoda' totally kills what it might have been. In short great eye candy but the important bits the dialogue and story are sadly really poor in my view.

 

[JLeezy23]

Man I wish I could really say I enjoy this. It just feels like a you tuber fan made film, with no substance but with some serious financial backing to present great special effects and sets. I think it had great potential by using the lawless time after the fall of the empire, but having a 'baby yoda' totally kills what it might have been. In short great eye candy but the important bits the dialogue and story are sadly really poor in my view.

It is a lawless time, gangsters are occupying what used to be occupied by the imp's, good guys are taking back tattooine after Jabba died. There are still struggles between factions but not on an epic scale like the galactic civil war. The Mandalorian is localized to just his story and vantage point. There are indeed imperial sypmathists still trying to take over territories, but here we only follow Din's story, which is a nice change from the main Skywalker line

 

[RedheadKevin]

-When they crashed the Razor Crest, I expected her to try and save Mando 15% on his insurance.
-They don't give Dave Filoni too many lines, which is okay.
-if those bugs are native to Attilon, does that mean that planet was Attilon? Or did they master space travel like the Jawas apparently did?
- I'm disappointed that planet wasn't Ilum / Starkiller Base.

 

[Laspector]

What I want to know is why finding more Mandalorians is relevant to getting the Child back to it's own kind? Why would more Mandos know anymore about this species than any other Tom Dick or Harry? I don't recall any of them knowing much about it in the first season. Seems like that bit of information just came out of nowhere.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

My only concern is we only have 6 episodes left and have been promoted Boba Fett (Though I was never a fan and could not care less) Ashoka Tano, (am a fan, looking forward to it) and more Gideon. So, why waste time with filler eps?

 

[Toadmeister]

I for one enjoy the “filler episodes”. Any walk in the SW universe is time well spent.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Any episode that features even a few minutes of Richard Simmons, and his pit droid crew, should never be considered a “filler” episode.

 

[HMSwolfe]

“Aw man, what a boring show. It doesn’t have any characters I recognize from other installments and the fate of the universe isn’t at stake. Boo hoo. I can’t enjoy a small stakes, small scale story with well-executed effects. I can’t believe we didn’t get to see more characters I know and have Mando punt baby Yoda into the sun because I don’t like that the show’s creators wanted to humanize the main character by having him protect a helpless child. It’s like a fan film because I don’t like it, even though a fan film would have included forty Jedi, a story about what happened to Luke’s macrobinoculars after he left Tatooine, and Darth Vader fighting Darth Maul.”

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Well, to be fair, some fan-made films feature smaller scale stories that are well put together (while also featuring a reasonably manicured suburban backyard as the backdrop).

The quiet, thoughtful, and nuanced moments of this fan film, below, are a prime example of what I’m talking about.

It is as The Force wills it...

 

[peterquill]

Any episode that features even a few minutes of Richard Simmons, and his pit droid crew, should never be considered a “filler” episode.

as much as i like amy sedaris, why oh why did they put richard simmons hair on her, one episode was enough, but its bothering me more and more now,

 

[HMSwolfe]

Well, to be fair, some fan-made films feature smaller scale stories that are well put together (while also featuring a reasonably manicured suburban backyard as the backdrop).

The quiet, thoughtful, and nuanced moments of this fan film, below, are a prime example of what I’m talking about.

It is as The Force wills it...

Never change, Alley.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Well, to be fair, some fan-made films feature smaller scale stories that are well put together (while also featuring a reasonably manicured suburban backyard as the backdrop).

The quiet, thoughtful, and nuanced moments of this fan film, below, are a prime example of what I’m talking about.

It is as The Force wills it...

There is no way either of them have girlfriends.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

There is no way either of them have girlfriends.

Well, remember, the Jedi are a strange and mysterious group of monastic warriors with an oath of celibacy, after all.

Perhaps this topic should be moved to the Let’s Talk All Things Star Wars thread. I don’t claim to be an expert regarding Jedi lore.

 

[harrisonp]

I’m gonna move away from my story gripes and talk technically, did anyone else this episode looked a little junky? The lighting seemed really high key, Mandos suit looked cheap which is weird to me because it always looks great for the most part.

 

[Marv]

It is a lawless time, gangsters are occupying what used to be occupied by the imp's, good guys are taking back tattooine after Jabba died. There are still struggles between factions but not on an epic scale like the galactic civil war. The Mandalorian is localized to just his story and vantage point. There are indeed imperial sypmathists still trying to take over territories, but here we only follow Din's story, which is a nice change from the main Skywalker line

Think you miss read what I said. I know the show takes place in this period. I like it has nothing to do with the original characters but the story itself feels poor and dialog is rubbish. Think it had great potential which has been missed.

 

[Jamesfett]

I’m gonna move away from my story gripes and talk technically, did anyone else this episode looked a little junky? The lighting seemed really high key, Mandos suit looked cheap which is weird to me because it always looks great for the most part.

It fit odd. Like the wearer was taller, maybe a bit wider.

 

[sztriki]

I’m gonna move away from my story gripes and talk technically, did anyone else this episode looked a little junky? The lighting seemed really high key, Mandos suit looked cheap which is weird to me because it always looks great for the most part.

It's actually the first time I thought his helmet looked like spraypainted platic instead of steel. Like in Robocop the suit never looked metal to me and I just accepted it but so far this kit looked pretty neat. Maybe the snow effect, I dunno.
I enjoyed this one too, my only gripe was that the Razor Crest was waaaaay too damaged to be credibly limping anywhere after a bit of welding here n there.
The space cops were great, schlobby pilots 3 weeks before retirement patrolling the outer rim, all it needed was a couple of empty donut bags in the cockpit.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Well, remember, the Jedi are a strange and mysterious group of monastic warriors with an oath of celibacy, after all.

Perhaps this topic should be moved to the Let’s Talk All Things Star Wars thread....

I don't think they'll have problems living up to that oath!

 

[NakedMoleRat]

I enjoyed the episode greatly. I think stand-alone stories are a great way to help push the overall narrative of the arc. I am very satisfied with the direction that this series is going. What I fear is that we may have too many stand-alone episodes and then when Fett, Tano, Gideon, etc. are revealed, it will all be squeezed into three episodes and leaves me unsatisfied as a whole.

 

[CadetTK2386]

What I want to know is why finding more Mandalorians is relevant to getting the Child back to it's own kind? Why would more Mandos know anymore about this species than any other Tom Dick or Harry? I don't recall any of them knowing much about it in the first season. Seems like that bit of information just came out of nowhere.

Well, The Armorer did tell Din "The songs of eons past tell of battles between Mandalore The Great, and an order of sorcerers called Jedi," and Din replies "You want me to return this thing to a race of enemy sorcerers?" which she affirms is the case.

It was kind of set up in the first season that Din knows virtually nothing about the Jedi or Force Users or the Force, and this explanation that the Mandalorians used to fight sorcerers Called Jedi was his first real introduction to the whole issue.* So, all he knows is that once upon a time other Mandalorians fought Jedi, perhaps he hopes other Coverts and other Mandalorians will know more about this ancient enemy, have more lore, or stories, or rumors about what happened to these old enemies. Where they lived, how they acted, that sort of thing. He might not know, but The Armorer makes it seem that other Mandos might.

*How much Din knows about Jedi and the Force being potential plot issues due to his upbringing during the Clone Wars where Jedi where the leaders of one of the armies and that he knows to say "May The Force Be With" to the New Republic pilots in this most recent episode is a whole different conversation away from why he needs to find more Mandos to find Jedi.