Star Wars: The Mandalorian

I dunno, he looks and sounds like an old man to me

52 is the new 42 and is quite young

he's five years younger than ming-na wen

Which makes all of these people about the same age as Darth Vader if he wasn’t dead. Being a Sith Lord or a Jedi Master puts some fucking miles on you, I tell ya.

xp yeah, but Ming-Na Wen is a goddamn immortal so... also they gave Boba some gnarly Mad Max-esque face makeup

I had no idea I had tuned in to an episode of Narcos: Morak

lmao

oh jeez

looks like there's a quick scene mid-credits fyi, on this finale

ngl this episode made me feel things

so, are we to assume that baby yoda is eventually murdered by kylo and the knights of ren or...

murdered by the Knights of Hen Fap

End credits, not mid. Now that was something.

choke. sniff. damn puppets and CGI and deep fakes making me teary.

In re Neanderthal's hidden text comments: I will not stand for it.

Anyway, BIG applause. Loved this series.

xpost yeah I was thinking the same thing and my soul was outraged.

Deep Fake Luke gave me young Rufus Wainwright vibes btw

There's no way that Baby Yoda isn't reunited with Mando by the end of the first episode of season 3, right?

First time i’ve not tapped thru multiple hiddens. Im startin to think theyre good not bad. 🤔

so what's the legal status of this sort of thing?

Dark troopers deploying to diplo

xbox cutscene luke was deeply underwhelming, though I salute the thought. Love the variant final music. Cracked up over fat Bib Fortuna. I was thinking they'd need to get Mando a baby wookie or something but I guess it's "Book of Boba Fett" time instead? I'm up for one more spin.

there was a girl in my elementary school class whose last name was fortuna

idg why, given the ability to summon characters and actors across decades and galaxies, they would insist on using gina carono again and again

i guess she does add a certain jankiness, if much less so than giancarlo being such a wuss

All the imperials are fey. Gina carano has an enjoyable physicality, terfiness aside, which ill be charitable and chalk up to jock head trauma (ymmv)

something wrong w my eyes,
such moisture

I thought this was a terrible ending. Cool deus ex machina from the movies?? So wack. Couldn’t they let this be self contained? I’m so mad I wasted all this time on this show

i feel bad for u son

i’ve no complaints with her physicality, and admittedly she’s given nothing but ridiculous lines. but so is everyone else — she just can’t pull it off

plus they keep setting her up

that WOOOO when they returned from their raid with apollo creed was an insult

Usually you let the characters from the show be the ones that you know meet the challenge and defeat it ... this just made it all seem pointless. And undermined their relationship

need a stormtrooper body count too

almost makes me miss the a-team

xp indeed

i mean, i’m not above being fan serviced but jeez

murder count was definitely over 100

i hate star wars and i liked this show until the last 10 minutes of this one. what a waste of time.

Those dark troopers are gonna be a real skank in the scud pie.

Loved it, btw. I’ll take a deus ex hamill any day (and obviously that was always gonna be one of the potential options, once it was clear where they were going – but I didn’t think it would be handled this well).

the final trooper mow-down scene struck me as a tip to the Vader scene in Rogue One.

some folks on Twitter making that connection as well

I thought it was funny when Mando asked... “Are you a Jedi?” That deserves an array of Al Jaffee-style “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions”

“No, I’m a cosplayer... this isn’t SDCC booth #2913?”

wasn't very happy about that deus ex machina bit.
THought he was effective though. & those black trooper thigies are quite formidable.
Is 8 a number that is turning up a lot in terms of series length. I think utopia which I'm also currently watching through has that number too.
Keep thinking of 10s so was slightly surprised when this was coming to a series denouement.

Is there a possibility of a Mandalorian without a baby yoda in, is he up to the task. Is next series going to be focused on the freeig of Mandalore. Like what are teh spinoffs of spinoffs possibilities.
Timothy Oliphant going to pop up in a new sci fi western show all of his own or anything?
I mean Star Wars teh gift that just keeps giving, double digits of SW shows at one time just must mean more to go around innit. The more the merrier.

Oh yeah just thought how loong is the conscious history of the Star Wars saga, is there much space for far pre or post the Luke Skywalker saga or is that pushing things.

Likewise slightly perplexed at deus ex machina arrival at climax. Wrote many words here:

https://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/some-thoughts-on-star-wars/

There's no way that Baby Yoda isn't reunited with Mando by the end of the first episode of season 3, right?

Nah he'll turn up with new Jedi skills to get Mando out of a tight spot in the season finale.

On the one hand the show relies way to much on DEMs and last minute rescues and it was nakedly manipulative fan service and Luke's face looked like it was going to fall off every time he spoke but on the other I was whooping with a massive grin for the whole third act.

I thought it was funny when Mando asked... “Are you a Jedi?” That deserves an array of Al Jaffee-style “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions”

One thing I liked about the final final bit was me going “That throne setup is pretty great, kinda Frazetta-does-Conan/_Princess of Mars_ stuff, wonder why I never made that connection before...” and then remembering that, duh, Jabba wasn’t in need of a throne.

There’s an undercurrent of explicitly connecting all the non-film (cartoon, Disney attraction) material to the original trilogy so.. who would show up was kind of in the cards? I was still entertained, if kind of underwhelmed, by the reveal

Moff Gideon going from smug to scared when his BRILLIANT DARK TROOPER MASTERSTROKE failed was funny

Boba the Hutt!

fwiw I'm 90% sure when Luke said "I am" that it was a callback if not the same recording as when he said "I am, like my father before me"