Star Wars: The Mandalorian

This last episode was some next level cheese. Felt embarrassed for putting it on in front of people who haven’t seen any of the show yet. I mean this isn’t high level stuff in the first place, but OTM to the Xena/Hercules comparisons. Some minimum effort TV writing.

xpost Yeeesh. Don't remind me lol

This one felt like an A-Team episode

having a “teaching a peasant village how to defend themselves” episode seems really on theme for the show imo

trying real hard on the samurai/western vibes. felt the family/kid stuff was a little flat but it’s a fine line between pulling that off and complete pandering

at least there was no kid going “shucks, mister mandalorian. do you think we’re gonna make it? i’m scared!”

Came here to name check A Team!

are you kidding me pic.twitter.com/occtAetXqs

— Glitter 🦦 (@xoGlitterTV) December 1, 2019

i am looking forward to future Kurosawa inspired episodes of the Mandalorian, including Favreau's take on Ikiru

this was by far the weakest of the bunch but it was still a lot of fun

It was a weaker plot and the directing was super-sharp last episode

bebe Yoda is basically Gizmo hairless?

https://gremlins.fandom.com/wiki/Gizmo

this episode was rubbish, ugh. get on with it.

Otm with the comparisons to early '90s SFF TV shows, but it was still fun. Liked the shot of the red eyed AT-ST creeping through the forest at night.

The early 90s SF TV show vibe made me nostalgic a bit, but overall this one was the first that kind of disappointed me. I was expecting the AT-ST thing to lead to something bigger, but nope, this group of raiders somehow got their hands on a functioning AT-ST worth probably billions of imperial credits (or whatever currency is now used) without any kind of explanation. It was blown up and now we move on to the next planet.

I am totally digging the western/samurai vibes of this series though.

I would imagine a lot of Imperial outposts were quickly abandoned, and a lot of heavy machinery left behind

there's never been a black market or kleptocracy for weapons after a government collapse

;)

Liked the shot of the red eyed AT-ST creeping through the forest at night.

Thought it was funny that by not showing its occupants (if any) they seemed to imply the AT-ST was alive or maybe automated damn since the Empire fell how many people lost their job to this

I am totally digging the western/samurai vibes of this series though.

Is this like the movie nerd equivalent of "It's a magazine not a clip!" https://t.co/1HMybXLqP3

— Social-Democratic Party of Galar (@weedlewobble) December 2, 2019

i mean they literally did the seven samurai spear training sequence with the villagers

so did they not explain what was up with that one villager who clearly knew how to shoot

There are episodes, friend

http://https%3A//images.brickset.com/news/75267-LEGO-Mandalorian-Battle-Pack_4.jpg

Are you all aware of the little Lego Mando club that's coming to a shop near you just after Xmas?

Damn image link.

https://brickset.com/article/47311/mandalorian-battle-pack-revealed

I do wonder if the Netflixification of how we watch TV has knackered people's ability to watch stuff week-by-week - like, I'm pretty sure that some stuff will get tied up in the last few episodes. It can't be 100% episodic, there has to be at least some thread connecting things.

i more bring it up not to question the plotting of the showrunners but rather to suggest that this wasn't necessarily the disconnected limited one-shot storyline one might think aka there are still unexplained mysteries with these villagers.

village lady in a jetpack will save mando from a sarlacc in season 2, book your bets now

(my money is on "some of these are bottle eps and one of the tip offs is celebrity director at the helm")

Carano's already coming back next season so...who knows?

well i'm glad to hear that! she was fun.

So I realize that I have no one to blame but myself for this, but I had a carefully worked out theory in my mind that Yoda, whatever species he is, looked the way he did because he was 900 years old, i.e. he had once been considerably taller with shorter ears and was possibly less green as well. I assumed he had lived 900 years through his supreme mastery of The Force, not because he comes from a species that regularly lives 900 years old (and btw the 50 year "babyhood" or w/e makes no fucking sense even if his species lives 900 years - most animals don't spend 5+% of their lives as infants).

You’re not alone in that first thought.

Loads of insects are grubs for months and only mature for days or hours though.

he's not really an infant tbf, he walks around and drinks soup out of bowls much more effectively than my 2 year old. baby yoda catchier than advanced toddler yoda

yeah, he's basically a 2.5 year old, which means that 900 is basically 45 which means that Yoda really should have taken better care of himself. The Force is no substitute for healthy eating and regular exercise.

all them frogs catch up with you

I’ve been comparing him to my 22 month old and thinking they’re pretty close. Baby Yoda is less messy. That thing in the first couple of episodes was a stroller, not a crib.

yeah, he's basically a 2.5 year old, which means that 900 is basically 45 which means that Yoda really should have taken better care of himself. The Force is no substitute for healthy eating and regular exercise.

― silverfish, Tuesday, December 3, 2019 2:53 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

But I mean that's still doing it proportional to human years, whereas basically no other species works that way. Tortoises live like 120 years but it doesn't take them over a year to walk.

pic.twitter.com/qcKw5tIC0K

— henno (@jrhennessy) December 3, 2019

chomsky writing flash fiction there

baby yoda shoes

baby yoda morphs into chomsky who morphs into snoke

there are species that age differently and i don't think it's so troubling that the ultra rare unknown species yoda belongs to might be one of these

or maybe this shit's all made up

imo 900-yr-old yoda is also still a baby in ref his species (clues: small, can't talk in the right order, neoteny to the max by design)

how old is yaddle?

me when i catch baby yoda pic.twitter.com/itJGE0xFQw

— ً (@moretylenol) December 4, 2019

Ain’t no laws when baby yoda drinking claws.

To end 2019 I got a tattoo of Baby Yoda drinking White Claw.

Enjoy babbbby! pic.twitter.com/jG5MoeBSME

— Baby Yoda’s Baby Daddy (@brockmclaughlin) December 4, 2019

oh dear god no

No results found for "larval blobby"

as we all know, that's because blobby's larval stage occurred outside the human conception of spacetime and attempting to render his extradimensional form as an image would shatter a human mind

it was only once he was extruded into our four-dimensional space by forces still unknown that we could experience his presence, albeit only as a fragment of his true image

Lots of fan service this week.

People seem to be making a big leap regarding that closing shot

It's always Darth Vader uh hang on.

The question is, was Amy Sedaris's hair model Sigourney Weaver or Brian May?

Diminishing returns these last two episodes. More and more cornball "guest stars" and it's beginning to feel like some hokey '70s sci fi tv show all of a sudden.
And what's with young Frankie Valli as a bounty hunter?