Star Wars: The Mandalorian

That was...fine.

Yeah, solid enough episode.

What, no Tangerine Dream soundtrack!?

there's still a sense of moral satisfaction when a show makes it absolutely clear that a guy is utterly terrible and should be shot only for him, inevitably, to get shot

what a ghoul

TPS reports, lol

GOOD EP

I'm surprised people seem kind of meh, I though on the level of pure Star Wars action this was maybe the best of the season! Fantastically shot and the ghoulish guy out-menaced Giancarlo Esposito which is no easy task.

yeah, that coda was pure cheese in a good way

HE'LL NEVER LOVE YOU

the bit about how much he means to Mando </3

It was pretty sweet. Doesn't put the episode over the top considering there wasn't a single shot of Grogster

I get the Tangerine Dream soundtrack I assume is a reference to Sorcerer...I came here to see if anyone was namedropping Wages of Fear. I quite liked this episode.

i've got a couple friends who i talk to about this show and I mentioned I thought the truck sequence was referencing an old french thriller they might enjoy and got some pretty hard eyerolls

Was this the first appearance of tires in the Star Wars cinematic universe?

did they discover....America?

Dug this, good combination of set pieces and melodrama for me. 👍

xp I was thinking of Wages of Fear too! Though of course the Tarantino refs overshadowed that pretty quickly

Just caught up on the first 7 episodes and I'm so impressed thus far. After the OG trilogy, Mando S2 is my next favorite SW thing. The first season had some bad episodes, and I see not everyone is hot on all the episodes this season, but all 7 have worked for me. Dawson is so perfect as Ahsoka - there's something about the writing and her acting that connects perfectly to the character in Clone Wars (haven't seen Rebels), even though so many years have passed. I thought the quiet moments between her, Mando, and the Child were wonderful

I wonder if there will be any lasting impact to Mando having to show his face

lmao the Office Space reference was unexpected

Id never seen ahsoka because not a cloner but i wish she dint have oompa loompa eyebrows

What do you get when your master's a Sith?
Was the proph-e-cy merely a myth?
When fate shuts a Windau, where can you turn next?
Can guidance be found in the Jedi text?

I don't like the look of it

Nice to hear a non-British accent on a high-ranking Imp. For a moment I thought it was Eric Roberts.

for once I'd love someone with a thick Southie accent to be an Imperial leader

is this the first time we see a Star Wars "jail"?

lol at the ED-209-esque robot security guard

since when does a blaster "click"

xpost -- Nope: following the introduction pre-title sequence a prison planet is the very first part of Rogue One. (Also in The Clone Wars there's a few episodes revolving around a jail on Coruscant or featuring it.)

I keep forgetting

We're not in love oh wait

There's the prison Finn and Rose meet Benicio Del Toro's guy in in The Last Jedi too.

Wow yea, duh!. Yea that was a silly question on my behalf!

This episode was not the best. What kind of secure facial-recognition-based terminal allows unknown faces (with a security token from a long-since-discharged criminal!) to log on and get the flight plans of its leaders? Also, the amount of people they are casually slaughtering each episode (and in this one, they were basically rightfully pissed-off villagers!) is getting pretty disturbing. There are only so many times Mando can cock his head wistfully after killing a bunch of people before I stop buying the tortured hero bit.

Is next week the finale? I'm looking forward to a kick-ass Grogu jailbreak.

they were aiming for a TLJ-esque "is the Republic really that much better than the Empire??" bit right as the pirates were being killed, which tied into Burr's 'redemption' arc. didn't fully land given what we knew about Burr's character prior to this, but....

actually i was a little confused at that part - this was a planet the New Republic didn't know about, right? so how were they responsible for what was happening here?

I think Burr was pointing out regardless of the fact that it was an unknown Imperial mining colony, as far as the citizens were concerned, they were ruled by the Republican and their lives still sucked.

but I don't think it landed real well. seemed a bit tacked on.

a little bit, but i did like the general gist of that conversation and how far Mando was willing to go against his beliefs. and of course we knew by the end of the episode Burr was gonna go straight bad or good because of the show we're watching

since when does a blaster "click"

lol otm

Yeah those little nonsensical moments like the blaster or the face scan that just serve the plot can be dumb but I guess I've accepted them as part of the package. Amy Sedaris's line delivery probably bothers me more tbh

She’s channeling Bea Arthur’s line delivery in the SW Holiday Special

I just see Jerri Blank

There’s a lot of “no sound in space” stuff in this episode - the major ones that jumped out at me was the TIE fighters strafing right along the course of the truck hauling the volatile chemicals, and the pirates approaching from the rear when they’d clearly been attacking the other trucks from the flank or the front - but it’s sci-fi TV! I am so used to that. I just want the overall plot arc to make sense, a reasonable amount of tension, and for the characters to make interesting choices. On that front this episode delivered IMHO.

Cool episode, enjoyed it!

Yeah the face scan made no sense, but whatever.

(Why didn’t Bill Burr ask to be dropped off on at a slightly more convenient planet, lol? His plan is to wander down to one of those villages? They’re gonna think he’s an Imperial dude who survived the explosion, he’ll be in deep $#%*! “No, see, it was me who blew it up... honest!)

I enjoyed this ep

honestly the only thing that bugged me is a thing that has always bugged me since I was a kid:

Slave 1 looks stupid

I have *always* hated that it lands horizontal & flies vertical, it looks like a fucking shoehorn crossed with a hairdryer & the flat plane makes no sense

it’s dumb & i hate it

THERE I SAID IT

it looks like an elephant's head

It might make more sense if we saw it vertical in space but horizontal under atmospheres. Other than that I won't hear a word against DUMBO I.

Slave 1 always gives me a mad nostalgia rush as I used to own the toy.

Why didn’t Bill Burr ask to be dropped off on at a slightly more convenient planet, lol?

I know, I'd probably rather be in prison than on my own in the middle of an alien jungle!

he's going to deliver an 11 minute improvised routine about how Morak sucks

slave 1 is just a concept car of transforming spaceships, which are seen throughout the universe; instead of tilting the thrusters for VTOL it tilts the crew cabin inside.

the face scan is not for authentication of the user, it’s for non-repudiation (https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6730/what-is-the-difference-between-authenticity-and-non-repudiation#6732) - a record keeping function so that anybody using the terminal can be positively identified after the fact.

the pirates are probably not from morak; the villagers we see are humans and the pirates’ motive seems to be controlling the empire’s access to rydonium so that they can extract fees for safe passage.

boba fett’s ship is a streetlight with stuff tacked on

as in, that is what the original model was. a lot of the other ships were made via kitbashing, where you buy a bunch of scale model car, plane, etc. kits and combine them in novel ways. combined with random crap they also glued on