Star Wars: The Mandalorian

Baby Yoda's obsession with eating pickled eggs is the best thing ever, obviously.

You’d think he’d learn the consequences of his actions, but he really is an infant

I loved this episode except for the saved at the last minute from out of nowhere resolution to the spider problem.

I like the concept art with the nightmare eyes on the octispiders

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.

Opening three-minute scene of this one was so exactly what I want from this show I almost cried

Lovely episode. Peyton Reed directed, the guy really does make it all work whatever he does.

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loved the episode <3

sidebar this is very stupid but it made me lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBlBhpxW2P0

It was kind of a weird episode, but I enjoyed it. (Felt maybe a little more sci-fi than Star Wars.)

And yeah, the opening bit was great.

Is repairing a ship in a Star Wars RPG the kind of action that routinely succeeds without even a need for a dice roll?

I had similar thoughts. Can you just get from one moon to the other on scrap plus a couple of engines? Really?

mr veg remarked that mando is a pretty shit pilot, he crashes a ship almost every episode

it’s charming how spaceships in SW are like old beater cars... but even when one is hella wrecked, a brief shower of sparks seems to restore the structural integrity to blast into & through space.

Counter: Mando js a phenomenal pilot, he keeps all his passengers alive despite being forced to crash his vessel repeatedly

lol fair

What a weird ep. Frog lady seemed to come from a completely different show

I did think it was a tiny bit odd that the main joke in this episode was “my baby eats your babies, ha ha!”

Did you know? The Spiders in #Mandalorian are called Krykna and first appeared as concept art from Ralph McQuarrie for ESB, and we used in Star Wars Rebels. #ThisIsTheWay pic.twitter.com/DXOAgbyUTq

— StarWarsSteveo (@SteveoWars) November 6, 2020

Yeesh too much Amy Sedaris (again) but good episode

Dr. Mandible

actually GREAT episode what am I sayin’?

spiders creeped me the hell out
fun and breezy episode. love the Henson-esque Frog Lady and i'm still endlessly amused by the alien-speak conversations

yeah this episode was a lot of fun. also liked the muppety aspects to it.

cthulhu snow-spiders from space were creepy af

Spiders were maybe a bit much for children. Ah, well, I guess they need something to talk about on nostalgia shows in 20 years.

New episode was cracking. Very Starwarsian and some callbacks to the Clone Wars that have me looking forward to forthcoming episodes

Also the Child had some nice egg related character development

Another A+ pre-title intro

Great ep. BDH did a dope job

didn't love the spidey ep, but thought s2e3 with the roots mandos and calamari ppl was really fun.

Awesome episode!

(Someone needs to make a gif of Mando jetpacking off in the others’ faces on the boat — “PEACE OUT”)

Without getting too spoilery (within the 3-day window)—the Empire stuff was a v satisfying execution of Disney’s “make the OG elements a little deeper & darker” strategy... worked even better than Rogue One for me in that regard (at least on this smaller scale).

I appreciate this take

Star Wars has 50s diners and electronic 30s jazz and fish aliens wearing cardigans and 1890s former boom towns and absolutely shitty asshole robots and if you aren’t down to play in this space you have plenty of other options.

— Nolan “Void” McHorse (@HitlerPuncher) November 14, 2020

And yes, great episode.

Genuine lol at the pre title sequence after some of the talk upthread

This sh1t is so much better than the new movies

Fscking spiders 🕷 man

would sackhoff

i've been watching this and finding its mixture of '50s tv serial, awww relationship between mando and yoda, deliberate genre and film refs, misfit, second-hand sci-fi universe low-key v appealing. sometimes it's *so* low key that i go 'ah this is just too airy', but then there's an episode like the last one, which i just through was... well brilliant tbh. as much as anything it was the depiction of Trask that really worked for me. That industrial port crane pulling his ship out of the sea was just a brilliant depiction of a science-fiction universe, and would happily watch a short documentary on cephalopod trawler culture. the bar was nicely done as well. a slightly rough place, but clearly welcoming enough for frog couple to know the owner and eat there sometimes etc.

i'm not *actually* worried about the sort of hole that says a mandalorian can pretty much threaten an entire sea/spaceport population with crashing his ship into their town and nothing and no one gets impounded or arrested, but an imperial freighter thinks twice about ascending before they've left the port area, and I *liked* that information, i would have liked to have understood more about Trask port culture as i say (and chowder recipes and mechanisms for getting into people's bowls) because what the episode did v well was imply it was all there.

also, unlike the opener, which i found pretty dull, the ship heist was sprightly and fun. just enough dark mythos undertow to avoid the slight endless side-quests feeling you get sometimes (and again are characteristic of 50s/60s tv serials).

clearly made by people who care about the universe they're depicting and the people... uh organisms in it.

This is just The Sooty Show in space now and I'm totally on board for that.

Oh no, they said the M-word. Well, they said "M-count", which is almost the M-word. Ugh.

That’s a coincidence. 100,000 dollars is exactly the amount I charge to direct episodes of the mandalorian!

I thought it was fun they gave Carl Weathers a shot to direct an episode. Also lol that as soon as Mando gets his ship fixed up he needs to go find a laundromat.

We waited a few episodes to start in this season, so that we'd have a few, but finally just watched the first one. Pretty good! Good effects! Best of all, though, was when they introduced the Marshal, and I heard his voice, and thought, hey, it's Timothy Olyphant, that's hilarious, he's another Marshal! Then he took off his helmet and ... confirmed. And my daughter goes, wait, who is Timothy Olyphant? I rewound a bit and called down my wife, then let her watch the scene. As soon as he spoke she goes "It's Timothy Olyphant!" And my daughter goes, who is Timothy Olyphant?! And my wife says, oh, an actor we like who always plays Marshals.

cool story bro

Carl Weathers directing an action-heavy episode worked well

That canyon bit seemed long but remained tense, good timing on when things failed, etc

The kid was great and more present, good work puppeteers

Carl Weathers directing an action-heavy episode worked well

Extremely good. I never look ahead to see who directs what episode so that why I can be surprised and damn, that was some of the best action-oriented Star Wars in general. Just enough clarification on what The Big Plot is too while still leaving it just unclear enough.