Star Wars: The Mandalorian

There were one too many "Ok kid lets go" - Mandalorian gets blown back moments.

Even a hamster is smarter than that

lol! Yeah, you’ve gotta admire his sense of duty and love for The Kid .

Boba looks good for someone eaten by a sarlacc

To be fair to boulder stormtrooper gunner, he did reduce the boulder a lot...just not enough.

someone got really good at wielding a gaderffii while on tatooine

I didn't know if the focus on Fett killing storm troopers who are prone/unarmed was setting him up as a baddie, but I guess not.

This may get too wonky for some but it's a hell of a grand unified theory, however retconned

Thread on the end of #TheMandalorian Chapter 14 and what it says about the restoration of liberal democracy under the New Republic (no major plot spoilers, but you should probably watch the episode first) pic.twitter.com/L4hE3fTDsJ

— Yes, You're Racist (@YesYoureRacist) December 5, 2020

Great thread!

There were one too many "Ok kid lets go" - Mandalorian gets blown back moments.

Even a hamster is smarter than that

If only he'd remembered to put his jet pack back on, etc.

xps come on. It's likely those prison sentences were just jokes the prop designers made knowing only just a few people would bother to translate from split-second screen grabs, rather than an intentional indictment of the New Republic...

xp yeah that was the clumsiest bit.

xpost Thus my 'however retconned' point.

last few eps really revved my engine.

it's also draw out the gatekeepery crowd ("y'see this is REAL Star Wars kidz"), but w/e...I'm enjoying the ride a lot.

Ahshoka Tano's appearance and finding out it was Rosario Dawson was a treat.

Michael Biehn seemed like he was in a different TV show, like...that seemed like a charity gig almost.

but the Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth was pretty badass.

I didn’t like this episode too much

When is this set relative to the main film arc. I had thought it was earlier for a while but sounds like it might be slightly afterwards. Not sure what direct references there have been. Have seen pretty much all the main films but not the tv series related.

It’s five years after Return of the Jedi.

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— Paul Haine (@paul_haine) December 4, 2020

someone got really good at wielding a gaderffii while on tatooine

And also somehow had the resources to give that sharpshooter a robot stomach(?), still has his ship, etc., but couldn't find a way to take his armor back from the other dude?

This was a terrible episode IMO, just a complete bummer. Awful script (both dialogue and “plot,” such as it was). The action was dumb and didn’t feel “Star Wars”-y, whatever that means (that force field? c’mon). It felt like a cheesy syndicated sci-fi series, but not in a semi-appealing way like a few those S1 episodes.

I hear that Robert Rodriguez was a "last-minute replacement" as a director, so maybe there were issues with the episode generally?

Hey guys, did you know “the Empire is back”? Yeah – a ship tipped me off, not the 30 Stormtroopers I just got done killing.

So what you're saying is

any kleptocrat with their own stash of credits could hire a couple squads of stormtroopers and shove them in some appropriated dropships

takes some sway to have your own light cruiser

the endless discussion about how all the details of an imaginary universe either mesh correctly or contradict other imaginary details is very modern. i'm guessing it's an epiphenomenon of the general conflation of science and religion in the secularized societies. the greek myths of gods and demigods are larded with inconsistencies, but the greeks apparently didn't notice or didn't care.

you know what really chaps my ass, in space there is no sound. all of Star WArs is invalid

When you have those massive ships, with hundreds of guns firing, wouldn't even a very simple coordinated targeting be better than the tactic where every gun fires randomly?

I do enjoy the terrible security clearance system of the Empire constantly letting Rebels onto their ships with just a simple code and not much other verification

Touch ID and Face ID don't really work so great when half of everybody is wearing gloves and masks all the time

I’ve spent lots of time defending (good) Star Wars movies against charges of inconsistency, lack of realism, etc.; but this episode was not good, it was bad.

OK

well fuck that changes everything

I didn't love this one either, apart from Boba Fett's scenery-chewing, that was great. Felt more or less like it had a lot of "get this character to this place" that had to get done and it took up most of the episode

I mean you guys obviously don’t have to agree with my take (and I’ll clam up now rather than continue to be a drag), but this isn’t a case of nitpicking on my part – the episode left me deflated and bummed out. I’m a fan of the show.

I like the Rodriguez shots where someone is jumping backward off of something while shooting toward the camera

what's the upside of being a stormtrooper? is it just that you get regular meals in an uncaring universe or is there something else

One thing I liked about the Boba Fett hand-to-hand combat in this one is that it really makes you feel how cheap and plastic and splintery the stormtrooper armor is and brings home the way they're just cannon fodder to their Imperial masters, their armor there to make them feel valued but not actually very protective in practice.

It's interesting thought cos this is pre-First Order, so these are Academy kids. Maybe a sense of pride and pleasing your far-right parents?

They’re not just leftover (adult) Stormtroopers from the Galactic Civil War?

well I mean they had gone through the Academy, there's definitely not an active Academy as the Empire seems to just be remnants at this point.

so yeah probably just leftover Troopers, plus whoever showed up for work that day

There do seem to be new recruits though, like the young assistant to the new Moff dude

(Or maybe he’s not new, just not in the movies - I check myself)

it really makes you feel how cheap and plastic and splintery the stormtrooper armor is

this was already fully established by the ewoks, who vanquished many a fully armored stormtrooper using slings, arrows, stone-tipped wooden spears, stone hammers, and just plain big rocks dropped on their heads.

and psychology

The mando “ok kid” stuff vs force field throw backs almost felt like an editing error - like they filmed similar scenes with similar dialogue only meaning to use it once, yet somehow we got all the takes.

lol it totally did

Watching that, I was like – “I guess Mando’s never seen those ‘Definition of Insanity’ memes on the HoloNet”

(I know I said I’d clam up, but if you guys are discussing it... lol)

Storm troopers have like opposite armor, where any glancing shot or blow is a kill shot. They are playing the game on the insane difficulty level.

Also I’d love to see the arcane calculus behind how many stormtrooper deaths equal one unmasked death, etc. when it come to trying to keep their TV14 rating.

Seriously though. That single episode featured more murders than the entire series of Hannibal.

I wouldn’t technically call them “murders,” but it was definitely violent.

Poll: is killing a stormtrooper murder vs is it okay to punch a nazi