I was just following precedent when using the spoiler tags, since we have them now. Not sure how many that actually impacts.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
I actually agree that the spoiler tags should be used this close to the airdate, I goofed.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
Yeah, feel like it's pretty harmless within a couple days of a new episode.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
If it turns out to be a random clone, that's really dumb.
― Tim Simms (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
Oh agreed, which is why I'm pretty confident that's actually him.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
FWIW, here's an article with the same "maybe not..." speculation. (It points out that the clonetroopers would actually be older, due to accelerated aging - unless this one figured out how to reverse that.)
― Tim Simms (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
i think three days of spoiler tags is appropriate; how's the thread feel about that?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
I agree! They're awkward
― Tim Simms (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
They should have revealed it was Al Swearengen instead.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
perhaps sarlaac digestive juices have excellent anti ageing properties? xps
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
I didn't recognize that guy was supposed to be a clone trooper. I'll have ask the 8-year old superfan when he gets home from school if he figured that out.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
xp No, it's the other way around - assuming it's BF, the No-Prize answer for why he looks older than 41 is that he's had a rough few years. There's no scenario in which a Clonetrooper ended up in the Sarlaac (unless there's some mega-retconning going on)!
― Tim Simms (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
i'm gonna stop spoilering posts now: are we meant to assume that the sand dragon ate the sarlaac, as mando suggested, and that was Jabba's sarlaac and that somewhere betwixt lips and hips boba got out, got stripped of his armor and is now living as a ronin amidst the sand dunes?brb, got some fanfic to write
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
I believe that is the implication, yes (he escaped in the OG/"Legends" canon as well, so it's not out of the blue).
― Tim Simms (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
(And seeing Mando survive digestion by a Krayt dragon, while wearing similar armor, helps sell the idea that Fett could survive the Sarlaac.)
― Tim Simms (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
i guess the open question is what's he doing out there? why did the tusken raiders not bring him up with mando when they were talking about finding help tackling the dragon? maybe they're scared of him as the ghost of the desert and he's a TUSKEN HUNTER as potentially evidenced by his carrying a gaderffii on his back?
NB: the gaderffii is among the dumbest of the SW jerry-rigged props/action figure weapons but it sure is easily recognizable
ooh, maybe Kelly Reichardt is directing the next episode as a mandolorian/first cow crossover and boba could be stealing bantha milk and selling tatooine frybread back to the tusken commander
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
lol, i know more about this universe than i would like to admit but it's all limited to the original trilogy
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
xp We may get some of these answers! If Fett has "gone native," he may just be another weird dude in the desert to the Tuskens, and not worth mentioning (their concerns seem more... immediate). They also may not know that Fett ever wore the armor, if he ditched it soon after escaping the Sarlaac.
― Tim Simms (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
are we meant to assume that the sand dragon ate the sarlaac, as mando suggested, and that was Jabba's sarlaac and that somewhere betwixt lips and hips boba got out, got stripped of his armor and is now living as a ronin amidst the sand dunes?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
Yeah wait, I missed that part. Of course it's a different Sarlaac.
― Tim Simms (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
gotta eat more than one sarlaac to get by my friend
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
(the script does a nice job of introducing the idea of multiple Sarlaacs with a throwaway line)
― Tim Simms (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
I liked when the raiders held up the egg at the end when they were harvesting the meat
― calstars, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
sand dwellers love eggs
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses),
I kind think if you don't want spoilers don't open the thread till you've watched the episode, but maybe that's a bit harsh.
― chap, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
Not an egg, though:
https://screenrant.com/mandalorian-season-2-krayt-dragon-pearl-lightsabers-explained/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
I mean sure an EASTER egg haha wait please don't kill me
I guess there are so many levels of in-universe references, callbacks, etc., that it's miserly of me to complain about the low-hanging ones that I do "get." That's just what the show is, for better or worse (but I hope the Obi-Wan series doesn't do the same thing!).
― Tim Simms (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
I feel like the Krayt Pearl is a good example of an easter egg done right - a definite nod to the hardcore fans but doesn't distract at all from the storytelling and doesn't change the viewing experience one iota if you don't get it.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 21:23 (three years ago) link
that's an unfortunate typo
― octobeard, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
jesus, wow. sorry folks.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
put in a mod request to hopefully fix that.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
I don't think any of the easter eggs have been too glaring in this - even if you didn't twig who that was at the end episode one, a mysterious scary looking bloke tracking Mando is still a decent enough cliffhanger.
― chap, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
It’s Rex y’all
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
we've only had spoiler tags for about 3 weeks, it's cool to use 'em for things that are a bit ambigious imo
― @DennisTheePerrin (✔️) (sic), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 05:20 (three years ago) link
on another distant hilltop a second shadowy figure is observing the first shadowy figure observing the mandalorian
he turns to the camera
it is Jeremy Bulloch
― umsworth (emsworth), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 09:15 (three years ago) link
never mind the Bulloch
― @nightKarlMalone (✔️) (sic), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 09:25 (three years ago) link
...here’s the Sand People
― umsworth (emsworth), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 09:29 (three years ago) link
Very good.
― chap, Wednesday, 4 November 2020 09:56 (three years ago) link
Had to google Jeremy Bulloch, but I get the joke now. 😆
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 4 November 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
Baby Yoda's obsession with eating pickled eggs is the best thing ever, obviously.
― pedantly admonishment (aldo), Friday, 6 November 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
You’d think he’d learn the consequences of his actions, but he really is an infant
― mh, Friday, 6 November 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
I loved this episode except for the saved at the last minute from out of nowhere resolution to the spider problem.
― chap, Saturday, 7 November 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
I like the concept art with the nightmare eyes on the octispiders
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 7 November 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
I liked how they used both the droid and the X-wings as callbacks to the prison ship episode, each in a completely different way.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 7 November 2020 02:29 (three years ago) link
Opening three-minute scene of this one was so exactly what I want from this show I almost cried
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 7 November 2020 03:33 (three years ago) link
Lovely episode. Peyton Reed directed, the guy really does make it all work whatever he does.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 November 2020 04:38 (three years ago) link
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― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 November 2020 06:15 (three years ago) link
https://www.yourtango.com/sites/default/files/image_list/cotton_balls.gif
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 November 2020 06:17 (three years ago) link
loved the episode <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 November 2020 06:18 (three years ago) link