Star Wars: The Mandalorian

n the Star Wars canon, blurrgs first appeared in "Liberty on Ryloth," an episode of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars that first aired in 2009. In the Star Wars Legends continuity, blurrgs first appeared in the 1985 television film Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.

lol beat me to it

I am so embarrassed rn.

there's also a Life Day reference in The Mandalorian episode 1

Awesome. So was the CGI reconstruction of Bea Arthur up to snuff?

too many tentacles sadly

carl weathers being a tightwad A+++

werner was kinda perfect too! as was waititi as the IG. all the casting was excellent.

series of interesting set pieces + faceless bad/good guy with eccentric bushido code + near endless stream of creative creatures and weaponry and architecture + snappy inscrutable jargon delivered with total conviction + not taking any of this shit too seriously + this goes on basically forever with only minimal character growth and a general avoidance of too much backstory = all i really wanted out of a starwars teevee show

ep 1 here delivers on everything. if favreau and co can maintain at this level, this will be a fave of the year.

Love the guy who summons landspeeder taxis with jazz flute :)

err...sorry..."jazz recorder".

Very Prometheus, that.

i thought willy wonka but hey

also: delicious blue calamari flan
https://www.theringer.com/tv/2019/11/13/20962858/the-mandalorian-star-wars-currency-credits-calamari-flan

https://i.imgur.com/KRwff8U.jpg

wouldn't it be a "jizz flute" in star wars parlance?

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/WeakWearyEuropeanfiresalamander-size_restricted.gif

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I like the bit where the flute guy goes to put it in his snout and misses, and tries again, and they kept it in the cut.

Well, they finally did it... they put a goddamn space toilet in Star Wars.

The blue guy seemed totally out of place; more Spaceballs than Star Wars. I liked the “I have spoken” guy, and the droid. So many elements from Tatooine on whatever planet he’s on for a while; it’s kind of confusing.

The final reveal was just enough to keep me watching...

Episode 2 was shit loads of fun

My 9 year old absolutely loved it

It absolutely was. Watched it twice already.

I loved the little homage to "Last Crusade" (incoming desert ledge while hanging off moving vehicle).

Oh is Ep 2 out already? Thought it was weekly from the launch date. That's good news.

That whole sequence was very Indy xp

No spoilers yet though as lots probably haven't seen it

It's every Friday from now on.

Except for when Skywalker comes out when it'll be available on the Wednesday xp

Yeah, this is great.

Ned: good call on the Lone Wolf and Cub connection; Favreau definitely used the phrase "baby cart assassin" somewhere in his pitch.

I'm gonna count that as a spoiler, lol!

If you already watched the first ep it’s not much of one

Wasn't totally sold on episode 1, but i definitely settled into the vibe with this one

Enjoying the low-stakes, compact storytelling. Plus the baby is very cute

so are all of that species strong like that or...

Ned: good call on the Lone Wolf and Cub connection

Yeah did that hunch ever play out in this one. And presumably the rest but we'll see.

What the fuck is this, anyway

Ok, yeah, that was a good episode.

I like how it captures the languorous pace of the Tatooine scenes in the first and third movies (even though, ahem, it’s still not Tatooine).

The Egg! The Egg!

I liked this episode a lot. It's always tricky to keep an audience watching when there are long stretches of no dialogue -- especially TV audiences -- so the pacing and action were well-handled.

rocket sniping jawas or whatever that was, I coulda done without. But yeah good show so far

where are we then? Dantooine?

Schmantooine, i think.

some fantastic point missing in the Atlantic review which vacillates wildly from paragraph to paragraph in terms of calling pros cons and vice versa:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/11/mandalorian-disney-review/601828

Can't believe you all paid for Disney+, can't you see that's just what they want you to do

i think you’ll find i actually torrented the first two episodes of this, thank you very much

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjwexw/disney-and-the-mandalorian-are-driving-people-back-to-torrenting

i feel so seen

Oh great. That definitely means there will be a massive crackdown on torrenting immediately. Knowing Disney, I'm guessing the first move will be the easiest: shutting down karagarga...

i think the tactic on this round of piracy is more likely to pretend its not happening. apple/disney's core audience is not ultra tech savvy and prosecuting loudly will only make people curious about downloading options; better to lose a few that likely weren't going to pay anyway rather than tempt a larger audience to explore the options. anyways, as per that vice article, the new "pirating" is using your mom's login

hmm maybe i should tell my mom about Disney plus. What mom stuff is there?

I’m an idiot who pays for an expensive verizon phone plan and got the service “free”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/11/15/why-are-we-getting-short-27-minute-episodes-of-the-mandalorian-on-disney-plus/#50c3703b6339

Disney Plus unleashed another episode of The Mandalorian today, its premium, live-action Star Wars show that is attracting good buzz and reviews from fans and critics alike. It will start premiering on Fridays for its eight episode, first season run, but if you go to play it today, you’ll notice something kind of strange.

It has a 32 minute runtime. That would be short as it is, and yet when you cut out the “previously on” scenes and four minutes of credits, the total runtime for today’s episode, The Child, is just 27 minutes.

I thought it was a little strange when the premiere episode said it was 40 minutes long, really just 36 minutes without credits. But 40 minutes is at least somewhat close to the 42-44 minutes you’d get in an hourlong network drama once you strip out commercials.

But today’s episode now has me and many other fans wondering if the entire series is going to be like this, if in addition to getting only eight episode for a season, if we’re going to be getting sub-30 minute episodes meaning the runtime of the entire first season is going to be something like 4-4.5 hours, at most.

class action lawsuit time!