The Mandalorian (TV series)

[harrisonp]

It just strikes me as some of what I think of as “Marvel bleedover” where some of the words that characters speak don’t feel right in this universe. It’s like Poe’s crank call to Hux. That’s some Iron Man style trolling that just doesn’t fit into the dialect of the GFFA in my opinion.

 

[JLeezy23]

Unrelated and petty tangent. I didn’t care for the “flying with the windows down” line (paraphrasing) because it feels too Earth-like to me. Someone on the internet says Star Wars is full of Earth-like lines and it shouldn’t be a problem. Am I way off base here or did that line feel out of place to anyone else? I asked them if they would be okay with a character saying they “need to go to the grocery store” if Earth-like stuff is no big deal.

Sitting ducks from TPM still kills me hahahaha

 

[Strikerkc]

It just strikes me as some of what I think of as “Marvel bleedover” where some of the words that characters speak don’t feel right in this universe. It’s like Poe’s crank call to Hux. That’s some Iron Man style trolling that just doesn’t fit into the dialect of the GFFA in my opinion.

Sitting ducks from TPM still kills me hahahaha

Yea, it's a weird thing. There comes a point where story tellers have to decide if it's better do make a "mistake" or to get their point across.

You'll find plenty of examples where the a director of a show or movie had to choose between using the combination of shots that contained the best performances, even if there are continuity errors, and just hope the performance overrides the rest.

I see some of that in the language we see used in these settings. The point of "windows down" seemed to be to illustrate the kind of relationship that mando had developed with kid. That "windows down" line is a very american Dad line. so it gets used because most all of us know the context of a line like that, we've heard it, we've seen it, it means something to us (the same way the Mon Cal was wearing a fisherman's sweater, they're quick ways to convey an idea that don't bog the story down), even though it doesn't quite mesh.

The "sitting ducks" thing is similar to me; and is even a double edged sword. We want to convey that idea? Do you use stuffier language like "They'll be helpless" "It's indefensible"? Are those types of lines appropriate for the scene and character? Do you try to update the line to the setting? "They'll be flightless Porgs!", and risk confusing half your audience, and causing the other half to groan at the silly phrase? Or do you just rip off the Band-Aid, and call them "sitting ducks"?

Ironically, I feel like the "crank call" to hux makes more sense in the star wars universe, in that we don't feel like it's a thing that gets DONE in the star wars universe. It's new. It's something Hux has never heard of before. it's poe making up the idea on the spot. It's something WE as the audience can tell how it will go, but to Poe it's a major risk that this strange new idea could work; and Hux is defenseless because he's never been faced with the prospect of his refrigerator running away.

 

[harrisonp]

You make good points, and none of my critiques are “burn down the franchise” frustrations, they just feel off to me. My issue with your rationalization of the prank call is that while Hux (the idiot that he is) doesn’t realize what’s going on the officer does so it just feels weird to me. I feel a more in universe “filibuster” if you will would be Poe claiming to offer his “unconditional surrender as per penal code blah blah as set forth by blah blah” you get the point. It’s more akin to Han’s “small reactor leak give us a moment to lock it down”. Again this is all about a feeling but I’ll let it rest now because it’s way off topic and so small in the grand scheme.

 

[Usagi Pilgrim]

It's similar to the line in The Two Towers when the Orc says "Looks like meat's back on the menu boys.". That line NEVER bothered me until a friend asked how an Orc knows what a menu is.

Lol

 

[StevenBills]

I liked the new episode, although at times it felt like a high-end fan film to me. Boba Thicc was fun to see in action. Can't wait to see what happens next!

SB

 

[swgeek]

I liked the line. It's like when Leia says, "should I get out and push?" Or "will someone get this big walking carpet out of my way?" At least they're not quoting Waynes World like the *&%#@#% prequels.

 

[gobler]

I really enjoyed Temuera's pronunciation of Tatooine... Last time I heard him say it must have been 15 years ago playing Battlefront 2.

Thinking about it, Boba and Din must actually be very close to the same age (both 10ish in the Clone Wars). Boba has drawn the short straw in the looks department - I guess spending time in the belly of the almighty Sarlacc ages you 20 years.

Morrison was born in 1960, so Boba should be almost the exact same age as when he played Jango in AotC (41 in 2001 when they filmed AOTC, while Boba was "born"(?) 32 years before ANH and the Mandalorian is set 9 years after).

Boba was 12-14, (Daniel Logan was 14) years old in AotC. Would have been roughly 17 by RotS. By Mando Boba would be about 48 depending on exactly when it takes place. We all saw what 19 years on Tatooine did on ol Ben [emoji16]

 

[harrisonp]

And Ben didn’t get Sarlacced

 

[nickytea]

Sitting ducks from TPM still kills me hahahaha

Ducks have been in Star Wars since '76.

 

[Noeland]

Unrelated and petty tangent. I didn’t care for the “flying with the windows down” line (paraphrasing) because it feels too Earth-like to me. Someone on the internet says Star Wars is full of Earth-like lines and it shouldn’t be a problem. Am I way off base here or did that line feel out of place to anyone else? I asked them if they would be okay with a character saying they “need to go to the grocery store” if Earth-like stuff is no big deal.

It hits you how it hits you. I mean, they do have windows in the Star Wars universe, and I'm guessing some people fly with them open, or down, depending on the vehicle in question. I'm not sure how that is any more earth-like than the child eating soup out of a hand thrown bowl, or the word "helmet" or even "Laser sword". Groceries are different to me, because they don't have grocery stores that we have seen. Maybe on planets with big cities that have them though. They have diners and restaurants in the cities, so maybe grocery stores exist too.

For me, it's all about how it's portrayed in the moment, and if it works as a narrative. The line didn't hit me as wrong because it's intention was to set up a visual gag, and I thought the gag worked really well. I smiled and thought it was pretty cool.

I'm enjoying this season a whole lot. I think it's still very western. I kind of feel bad for people who are not enjoying it. I get it. Star Wars is the kind of fandom now where characters have to have the right color stitching on pants, the dent has to be in the exact right place on the helmet, the insignia has to be right, etc, or it really gets under the skin of some of us. Lots of us are very sensitive about that story canon too. It's just all part of it.

Even with mistakes and such, I think the show is a home run so far. I loved how they brought back Boba Fett, loved the character in this episode, and I'm excited to see where the story goes with him in it more.

Loved seeing Grogu fight back too. That was quite satisfying.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

I am just glad that unlike the drought between 1983 and 1999, we have Star Wars to argue about again!

 

[Strikerkc]

Anyone recognize the blaster Fett was gunslinging?

 

[Toadmeister]

I am just glad that unlike the drought between 1983 and 1999, we have Star Wars to argue about again!

It’s true. The Internet forums got very quiet after 83...

 

[harrisonp]

Anyone recognize the blaster Fett was gunslinging?

It feels like it was the same as Vanth’s sidearm which I also did not get a good look at. I’ll have to check screen caps

Decent look, there might be better
Here we go

 

[Strikerkc]

Very nice. I don't recognize it as a specific gun. I half expected it would be either his dad's, the sail barge gun, or one of he the two he's had before, but this one looks like a new take on kind of a mash of them all.

Not my favorite looking blaster, but if it means I don't have to carry a rifle around to cosplay Fett, I'll get over it

I'll dig into it more once the show has been out for another week or so, I don't need to clog up this thread with costume stuff, and I don't want to go try to start spoiler free threads about it elsewhere yet. lol

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I haven't seen anyone mention this, but after we watched this, I asked my nephew "Isn't it odd that the Empire has tiny toddler shackles?" I mean yeah they're evil, but I doubt they were ever arresting little kids so unless these are special shackles for Force users, Grogu (sp?) specifically, I wouldn't think they'd have these just laying around.

 

[harrisonp]

Very nice. I don't recognize it as a specific gun. I half expected it would be either his dad's, the sail barge gun, or one of he the two he's had before, but this one looks like a new take on kind of a mash of them all.

Not my favorite looking blaster, but if it means I don't have to carry a rifle around to cosplay Fett, I'll get over it

I'll dig into it more once the show has been out for another week or so, I don't need to clog up this thread with costume stuff, and I don't want to go try to start spoiler free threads about it elsewhere yet. lol

There’s kind of a catch all thread called something like “Mandalorian Reference” that has smaller stuff like this in it with spoilers

This one

 

[Jamesfett]

He looses all the time, nearly every episode he gets injured or has something wrecked on him, is this some peoples first episode?

J

Well not all the time but true, and I like that as it makes the hero more real but I want a beat down. I mean a true barely alive beat down. Builds character. The worst was a life threatening head injury easily fixed so that kind of cancelled the drama. Like the Razor Crest being trashed and then magically all fixed in a day.

I want him to lose limbs, go into a Sarlacc, something massively bad and he barely survives.

 

[Strikerkc]

I haven't seen anyone mention this, but after we watched this, I asked my nephew "Isn't it odd that the Empire has tiny toddler shackles?" I mean yeah they're evil, but I doubt they were ever arresting little kids so unless these are special shackles for Force users, Grogu (sp?) specifically, I wouldn't think they'd have these just laying around.

LoL. Similar thought crossed my mind. I chalk it up to there being species of all sizes and limb types that the empire has detained or imprisoned. Hence a variety of binders.