Star Wars: The Mandalorian

wait, I didn't catch that. what was it?

anyway this episode was awesome

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Some more prop nerdservice with the Companion Cubes from portal (sans heart stencils) sitting around everywhere

Oh oops I got it backwards, apparently companion cubes were designed after storage crates that have been in Star Wars since a new hope

I hope they finally got to have a big ice cream party

So at 14 minutes right before the Mandalorian comes in to talk to Carl Weathers, Carl weathers dresses down some Alien and calls him a 'dust breather' and tells him to go away, and that alien says, quite clearly, "fuck you". I watched it 20 times. Tell me I'm not the only person who heard that.

also carl weathers is fucking terrible in this.

^agreed

I mean I would not call Carl weathers a Great Actor to begin with

Baby, you’ve got a stew going

Not feeling this show.

Carl Weathers saying “Mando!” is a highlight and you’re all crazy

What he said.

Extensive interview with Göransson on the music:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-mandalorians-ludwig-goransson-on-scoring-what-felt-1840006928

This is fun!

Enjoying this a bit more because I am still watching it for some reason, but the acting remains surprisingly bad. Significantly worse than Solo bad.

watching this with my kids and now glad to have "I Have Spoken" as a reasonably good-humoured way of shutting down backchat

bad acting and cheesy fx are what MAKE this a star wars show; i hope you don't go to Arby's for the ambience
third ep holding up

Yeah let’s not forget why we liked Star Wars in the first place - because it’s fun and silly and looks cool.

Amazing that a single piece of costume design has spun out into an entire TV series! This is ALL because a dude’s helmet looks cool!

don't forget the aborted action figure accessory.
http://www.jedinews.co.uk/collecting/articles/myths-rocket-firing-fett/

boba straight-up packing a big red dildo on his back

http://www.jedinews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/20cback.jpg

Guess it’s fitting that the dude fell into a belching vagina dentata.

Let us not forget the Holiday Special and its animated feature, which this show borrows from heavily (!)

So Disney's got the first batch of baby Yoda merch (or "The Child" as they're calling it)... incredibly lazy. Like slap a screenshot on mugs and Cafe Press t-shirts lazy.

https://i.imgur.com/pkYAwhq_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

http://i.imgur.com/7wxFBOo.png

well it's big universe out there and i guess they had to end up on a Stargate SG-1 type planet eventually

I was thinking more Seven Samurai meets ST: TNG first season, but hey. Still great though.

yeah it was still fun. and watching with the younger ones i'm very conscious that this isn't the 78th time they've seen that plot rehashed, and that it still works.

eyeball-on-a-stick security robot popping out of the front door at herzog's house was so deeply enjoyable; one of those tiny crumbs of nostalgia i had no idea remained to be mined

I like the idea it's the Nest of Star Wars. Or whatever those security setups are called.

of course it has a wiki page, why would i think it wouldn't have a wiki page

Anyone else remember when the Wookiepedia was available as a massive downloadable Access database file?

apparently still is? am i doing this right?
https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:Database_download
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Statistics

So now Ron Howard and Bryce Dallas Howard have both directed a Star War. I'm sure the episode directors are on a fairly short leash but nonetheless this one was well done considering it had a lot more personal interaction. I always love to see Gina Carano.

The action stuff was well-handled too. Treating the AT-ST as practically a living monster was a good choice.

There's definitely a weird effect going on now where I'm certainly looking forward to Rise of Skywalker but more heavily anticipate new Mandalorian episodes. I keep feeling like how this is this weird time for the franchise where it's almost like we're saying farewell to the movies (for three years at least) and more shifting to this approach, and the movies themselves almost become advertisements for the streaming service. (See also Marvel of course.)

My No-Prize attempt: that baby is a lazy asshole, and could totally be walking around and training like Yoda was at his age; it just likes being shuttled around.

I nailed it! LOL

well it's big universe out there and i guess they had to end up on a Stargate SG-1 type planet eventually

― umsworth (emsworth), Friday, November 29, 2019 2:06 PM

I was thinking more Seven Samurai meets ST: TNG first season, but hey. Still great though.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, November 29, 2019 2:26 PM

That’s funny, I got a strong Hercules / Xena vibe... whatever flavor you choose, this ep. totally had the look & feel of a syndicated ’90s action-fantasy show. Wish the production values were juuuuust a bit higher; but still enjoying it.

It cracks me up how they keep calling B-Yodes “the kid” (and when the “beautiful widow” says something like, “Won’t you stay here with your boy?”) — as if he’s Mando’s actual, human child.

Nice to see Pillboi from The Good Place see some action, too...

That’s funny, I got a strong Hercules / Xena vibe...

bingo

I hated this episode

Loved the baby in this one - how could you not ? - but totally felt like a '90s WB Television series with just a taaaad too much cutesy stuff. Waitress/restaurant owner was also a little too -- I dunno -- New Yawk and took me right out of that scene. Really weird jarring tonal stuff in the acting and dialogue these first few eps.
And some of the kid actors were "stop lookin' at the camera!" bad lol.

The waitress was totally “off” (like the blue guy in the first episode). I don’t know what it is that makes a performance feel “not Star Wars-y,” but some of these sure have it.

OTOH, “Cara Dune” is an excellent Star Wars Name.

One other detail I thought was funny was how the mother in the village spoke to her 6(?)-yr-old daughter like she was a toddler (“This good man will help save us from the bad ones!”).

Waitress/restaurant owner was also a little too -- I dunno -- New Yawk and took me right out of that scene. Really weird jarring tonal stuff in the acting and dialogue these first few eps.

I consider this kind of stuff part and parcel of what you sometimes get from Star Wars. Episode II has a waitress robot that says, in a straight Laverne Difazio Bronx accent, "You wanna cuppa Jawa Juice?"

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/a/a4/Off_she_rolls.png/revision/latest?cb=20180204100457

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