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― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 November 2020 06:15 (three years ago) link
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― 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
sidebar this is very stupid but it made me lolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBlBhpxW2P0
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 November 2020 06:25 (three years ago) link
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.
― Tim Simms (morrisp), Saturday, 7 November 2020 06:42 (three years ago) link
Is repairing a ship in a Star Wars RPG the kind of action that routinely succeeds without even a need for a dice roll?
― Tim Simms (morrisp), Saturday, 7 November 2020 06:49 (three years ago) link
I had similar thoughts. Can you just get from one moon to the other on scrap plus a couple of engines? Really?
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 7 November 2020 07:14 (three years ago) link
mr veg remarked that mando is a pretty shit pilot, he crashes a ship almost every episode
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 November 2020 07:27 (three years ago) link
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.
― Tim Simms (morrisp), Saturday, 7 November 2020 07:31 (three years ago) link
Counter: Mando js a phenomenal pilot, he keeps all his passengers alive despite being forced to crash his vessel repeatedly
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 7 November 2020 07:33 (three years ago) link
lol fair
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 November 2020 07:53 (three years ago) link
What a weird ep. Frog lady seemed to come from a completely different show
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 7 November 2020 08:57 (three years ago) link
I did think it was a tiny bit odd that the main joke in this episode was “my baby eats your babies, ha ha!”
― trishyb, Saturday, 7 November 2020 10:32 (three years ago) link
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
― groovypanda, Saturday, 7 November 2020 12:40 (three years ago) link
Yeesh too much Amy Sedaris (again) but good episode
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 7 November 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
Dr. Mandible
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 7 November 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
actually GREAT episode what am I sayin’?
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 7 November 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
spiders creeped me the hell outfun and breezy episode. love the Henson-esque Frog Lady and i'm still endlessly amused by the alien-speak conversations
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 November 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
yeah this episode was a lot of fun. also liked the muppety aspects to it.
― akm, Saturday, 7 November 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
cthulhu snow-spiders from space were creepy af
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 November 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
Spiders were maybe a bit much for children. Ah, well, I guess they need something to talk about on nostalgia shows in 20 years.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Sunday, 8 November 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
New episode was cracking. Very Starwarsian and some callbacks to the Clone Wars that have me looking forward to forthcoming episodes
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 13 November 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
Also the Child had some nice egg related character development
Another A+ pre-title intro
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 14 November 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
Great ep. BDH did a dope job
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 14 November 2020 03:38 (three years ago) link
didn't love the spidey ep, but thought s2e3 with the roots mandos and calamari ppl was really fun.
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Saturday, 14 November 2020 06:09 (three years ago) link
Awesome episode!
― it's AG in your faaaace.... (morrisp), Saturday, 14 November 2020 07:00 (three years ago) link
(Someone needs to make a gif of Mando jetpacking off in the others’ faces on the boat — “PEACE OUT”)
― it's AG in your faaaace.... (morrisp), Saturday, 14 November 2020 07:02 (three years ago) link
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).
― it's AG in your faaaace.... (morrisp), Saturday, 14 November 2020 07:09 (three years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 November 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
Genuine lol at the pre title sequence after some of the talk upthread
― groovypanda, Saturday, 14 November 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
This sh1t is so much better than the new movies
― calstars, Saturday, 14 November 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
Fscking spiders 🕷 man
would sackhoff
― mookieproof, Sunday, 15 November 2020 06:20 (three years ago) link
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.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 15 November 2020 10:13 (three years ago) link
This is just The Sooty Show in space now and I'm totally on board for that.
― pedantly admonishment (aldo), Friday, 20 November 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
Oh no, they said the M-word. Well, they said "M-count", which is almost the M-word. Ugh.
― trishyb, Saturday, 21 November 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
That’s a coincidence. 100,000 dollars is exactly the amount I charge to direct episodes of the mandalorian!
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 21 November 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
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.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 21 November 2020 02:24 (three years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 November 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
cool story bro
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 21 November 2020 02:56 (three years ago) link
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
― mh, Saturday, 21 November 2020 03:13 (three years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 21 November 2020 04:18 (three years ago) link
I think the Imperial base design of corridors with doors at each intersection makes it far too easy to imfiltrate. They need to go open plan.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Saturday, 21 November 2020 09:47 (three years ago) link
I’ll be in the minority I guess but apart from the set pieces I thought this was a weak episode. Badly written, unbelievable actions from the characters, massive plot holes. I enjoyed the action but the rest was pretty dire. And I’ve loved the rest of the series for the most part.
― assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 21 November 2020 12:35 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I was a little underwhelmed. Lots of continuity errors too - just felt a bit lazy.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Saturday, 21 November 2020 12:38 (three years ago) link
I’m still not sure how a “lava tide” works.
― DJI, Saturday, 21 November 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
No I agree this was the weakest episode of the season. Dialogue extremely corny. I mean, it's Star Wars, the dialogue is *always* corny, but somehow the mark of a well-directed, well-paced episode is that you don't notice how corny the dialogue is; in this one I did.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 22 November 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
So many callbacks to the OG 77 shit, I loved the fuck out of this ep
― calstars, Sunday, 22 November 2020 02:48 (three years ago) link
Yeah, found it very enjoyable. Stormtrooper fodder levels continue to be off the charts, love it.
― Nhex, Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:50 (three years ago) link