Star Wars: The Mandalorian

Yeah, enjoyed this week's.

Only one left now?

wow that ruled.

if you'da told me one of my new favorite shows would have Gus Fring, Apollo Creed,AND Bobby Munson making appearances, I'd have told you that you were talking about Mandalorian.

Very good episode indeed. Chow two for two.

Yes, one episode left a week from Friday.

(And that episode is Taika's, so I'll be interested to see how he sticks the landing of the whole thing.)

This “droid” in Chapter 6 is the jankiest guy-in-a-robot-suit ever. Even his “robotic” movements are half-assed.

And these other two-bit players... oy

This episode makes the last episode look like “The Suitcase.”

this show is really only good when Baby Yoda is on screen which luckily is most of the time. The acting across the board in every episode, even by people who are good actors (ie: not carl weathers) is stiff and weirdly off; maybe this is because the Mandalorian's lines are all dubbed in? There seems to always be an extra beat of silence.

that said the last episode was good.

also wtf Ming Na Wen is 57? Holy fuck. I went back and watched that JLo SNL after that where every sketch was about how hot she was and all I could think was "yeah but Ming Na Wen is 57!"

in one of these episodes (maybe the last one? can't remember) someone flat out calls Gina Carano a 'human'. Have they used this word in Star Wars before? My son was like "WTF they're humans????"

Yeah

haven't watched the latest episode

overall, it's probably the most "video game" film/show I've ever seen, ppl say that a lot but I don't think it's usually true. but every episode feels like a mission/quest.

it's been fun though I hope this all adds up to something

I like that on that star wars wiki page they list every appearance of humans in star wars

gus fring final battle is a good reveal
i do wish they hadn't killed REDACTED
we have a very obvious chekhov's droid / baby yoda kills a dude sequence on the way
i don't see it adding up to anything more than a cliffhanger for next season but that's been the way of the film serial since the 1910's!
this has been a naturally critic-proof and fun distraction from the end of the world, worth recommending in the way i would recommend that people eat Airheads: they're tasty and utterly nutrition-free but you're going to enjoy it.

This last episode was good

I figure that with Nick Nolte (can't remember character's name) shot, the IG-11 robot is going to come out to protect him and kill the two storm troopers who picked up baby Yoda and end up taking care of baby Yoda which will force Mando to overcome his droid racism and have a droid teammate.

um, spoilers, I guess.

Disappointed that Esposito didn't recreate his Don Eladio speech

I mean so what? There has to be a space England too

― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Wednesday, December 18, 2019 12:54 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

And space Scotland, space Germany, space Indonesia . . .

Space...in space.

mandalorian has been a boon for youtube remix culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwzt1itvW6Q

Best episode so far.

Yeah, Chapter 7 is worlds better... it feels like the original show again.

Cara Dune is pretty awesome, too

Excited for the atacc/protecc memes

they existed after the original appearance! and within that stretch he had frog snacc

Oh I was talking about IGGY

Hey, when’s the next one? I thought it would drop today...

There’s a movie out

Haha, that’s why they dropped it early? 🤣

Yup. Next/final episode is next Friday.

a Star Wars movie, wow what will they think of next

A TV serwaitaminute

Toys?

a religion? oh wait they did that too

A self-help group?

Having now seen the movie — which I’m happy to report is pretty damn rad — there is actually a “storytelling” rationale behind making the latest episode of the show available to watch first... Nice bit of synergy, actually.

is Baby Yoda the Emperor y/n

Omg my heart 💔

xp I was really hoping the epic reveal was Palpatine ghost inhabiting a Yoda clone

Agreed re synergy -- nice touch (literally). There's also something else in the movie that made me think a bit about what in the end the whole motivations for the Empire remnants being after Baby Yoda to start with could be about, but we'll see next Friday.

The local Moff knows something few do: infants of that species are delicious

The thing that had crossed my mind is that baby yoda was used either to bring Palpatine back to life (or just to keep him living) or to create Snoke(s). I guess we'll know some day.

hooded figures in TROS where you can’t see their faces? all baby yodas

Wtf spoilers thread this is not

tbf mh's is barely a spoiler, and silverfish's is something the trailer spoiled months ago

Did I miss something? What was the tie-in with the movie? (Or are we just talking about the general downfall of the empire/first order)

Baby Yoda Force-healing Apollo Creed.

Yeah. everybody thought Ivan Drago was the real victim after Creed came back from the dead and kicked his ass, but the real losers were sportsbooks, who suddenly found themselves paying out massive +500 wagers to Creed bettors

Was force healing a thing before this episode and this movie?

It apparently appeared in some SW media previously

when you're at someone's house and they have a cat pic.twitter.com/6AdLBE2Jir

— baby yodan (@DanLaChapelle) December 22, 2019

Lol this show

I mean, in an approving way, surely.

Thought it was a good way to end in terms of setting up what a continuing series will be, a continuing antagonist, fan easter eggs all the way up to the end, etc. etc. I kinda appreciate that we still don't know why Baby Yoda is wanted, though I'm with the general guesses that it's to do with clone research of some sort.