The Mandalorian (TV series)

[kristen jones]

^yeah, his helmet this episode was WHACK! Between the missed paintup and this visor... they must have just grabbed a stunt bucket and threw it on

 

[Celtic007]

Cool to see Boba get a new paint job on his armor. He had it placed on a new flak vest too. Interesting that the jetpack has the ESB paint job, but if we pretend he got his armor painted at the same place, maybe they didn't have the blue that was on the ROTJ one, so he kept it green like his helmet/chest armor. That's my in-universe explanation

 

[joberg]

^yeah, his helmet this episode was WHACK! Between the missed paintup and this visor... they must have just grabbed a stunt bucket and threw it on

Continuity people!! That's Movie-making 101

 

[HMSwolfe]

I'm still thinking about this one 12 hours after having seen it. That's never happened with this show before.

I think this was the first time the show has ever done (overt) theming or subtext. The parallels it drew between Din's conformist Mandalorian upbringing and the implied ideological rigidity of both the old Empire and the New Republic are fascinating: what good does it do to cling to your principles when those principles stop doing you or anyone else any good? Din is slowly learning that lesson; we know from the ST that, sadly, the New Republic won't.

I hope they develop this idea more, because the notion that the Empire would return in the ST timeline because they are, at least, a functional government that people want back is a far more compelling idea than "the First Order won because of a Death Star III."

I seriously liked this episode a lot. This is the kind of stuff I’d hoped would be happening in every episode, forcing characters to rethink their beliefs, examining the bigger institutions like the Jedi, the Empire, the New Republic, and how much of what they are really is good or bad. I guess it’s more than likely I’ll just have to be content with the occasional gem rather than a consistently knockout show, but oh well.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

I seriously liked this episode a lot. This is the kind of stuff I’d hoped would be happening in every episode, forcing characters to rethink their beliefs, examining the bigger institutions like the Jedi, the Empire, the New Republic, and how much of what they are really is good or bad. I guess it’s more than likely I’ll just have to be content with the occasional gem rather than a consistently knockout show, but oh well.

So close......

You came SO close........

 

[AnubisGuard]

I wandered over to the AV Club review of this episode and got a little sad that the comments were all people high-fiving over the Office Space reference, or Boba's "they'd recognize my face" line. That's your takeaway here?

Sigh.

 

[HMSwolfe]

I wandered over to the AV Club review of this episode and got a little sad that the comments were all people high-fiving over the Office Space reference, or Boba's "they'd recognize my face" line. That's your takeaway here?

Sigh.

Like I’ve said before, most film and TV content is becoming “fan films”. Show things people know. Play with action figures. Rinse, repeat. What interests a big part of the audience isn’t character stuff, it’s setpieces, “story” progression, and references.

 

[Toadmeister]

Like I’ve said before, most film and TV content is becoming “fan films”. Show things people know. Play with action figures. Rinse, repeat. What interests a big part of the audience isn’t character stuff, it’s setpieces, “story” progression, and references.

That’s OK too you know.... there is room for both.

 

[AnubisGuard]

Like I’ve said before, most film and TV content is becoming “fan films”. Show things people know. Play with action figures. Rinse, repeat. What interests a big part of the audience isn’t character stuff, it’s setpieces, “story” progression, and references.

I know. The AV Club used to at least be a cut above on that stuff. I guess the Gawker buyout really did kill it.

 

[Psab keel]

What this episode had more so than anything thus far is depth. There was much more going on under the surface than just the action happening on screen. It's sadly an element that has been severely lacking in most Star Wars material as of late so when it does show up it feels like a breath of fresh air. It progressed the characters in a meaningful way and advanced the plot, while ratcheting up the dramatic tension. Hands down the best episode yet. I can gladly overlook cameo episodes if they keep up with this level of writing.

In fact I enjoyed it so much I rewatched it immediately after my first viewing just to take it all in. Something I've never done with any episode since I started watching the show. Rick Fumiyawa set that bar and totally crushed it. Now everyone else needs to match it. Set pieces, action, familiar characters and conflicts are good but if that's all the majority of content has going for it then it's disposable. I'd much prefer the material be elevated by good writing and the rest is just the icing on the cake.

 

[kristen jones]

Continuity people!! That's Movie-making 101

yeah... we know. Fully aware. Nevertheless we can still comment on it.

 

[Treadwell]

Boba got a little bit of wear/weathering on his new paint job awful quick.

 

[division 6]

He forgot to primer first.

 

[Toadmeister]

He forgot to primer first.

Shoulda used a lacquer based primer...

 

[Toadmeister]

What this episode had more so than anything thus far is depth. There was much more going on under the surface than just the action happening on screen. It's sadly an element that has been severely lacking in most Star Wars material as of late so when it does show up it feels like a breath of fresh air. It progressed the characters in a meaningful way and advanced the plot, while ratcheting up the dramatic tension. Hands down the best episode yet. I can gladly overlook cameo episodes if they keep up with this level of writing.

In fact I enjoyed it so much I rewatched it immediately after my first viewing just to take it all in. Something I've never done with any episode since I started watching the show. Rick Fumiyawa set that bar and totally crushed it. Now everyone else needs to match it. Set pieces, action, familiar characters and conflicts are good but if that's all the majority of content has going for it then it's disposable. I'd much prefer the material be elevated by good writing and the rest is just the icing on the cake.

You nailed it. This was a thinking mans episode.

 

[HMSwolfe]

So, any thoughts on that truck? Was it all practical, or maybe just the cab, with some digital extensions and a static set on their LED projection stage?

 

[harrisonp]

So, any thoughts on that truck? Was it all practical, or maybe just the cab, with some digital extensions and a static set on their LED projection stage?

With these last two episodes they really seem so have expanded their footprint, on location shoots, large sets with many extras, so I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that a lot of that transport was practical

 

[robn1]

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

OK, let’s talk the face scanning thing.

Computer scans your face to confirm your not on a “naughty list”? As opposed to a scan that would access an authorization database? Seems like backwards security...

I do understand it was the code cylinder that allowed access to more classified information.

Has it not occurred to anyone that maybe the Mando worked for the Empire at one point? That would explain why his face scan worked and why the bald dude gave him a funny look when it did work. In the old EU the Death Watch were sometimes Imperial collaborators.

 

[harrisonp]

Has it not occurred to anyone that maybe the Mando worked for the Empire at one point? That would explain why his face scan worked and why the bald dude gave him a funny look when it did work. In the old EU the Death Watch were sometimes Imperial collaborators.

No one has seen his face since he “Swore the creed”, which was seemingly when he was a child as he was raised in the fighting corps.

just remembered he tells Omera that no one has seen him without his helmet since he was around the age of the children in the village.