Star Wars: The Mandalorian

this felt like it was written by a 12 year old

Favreau has sole or co-writing credit on every ep this season, according to IMDB.

Just fyi

Mythosaur?

Well, that was an odd choice. Plz no more boring clone man.

Intriguing tangent potentially but hard to see what it's setting up. Always nice to see Coruscant by night though (and a chunk of its biggest mountain lol ok).

More like Andorlorian, amirite?

In terms of setting up, I assume Elai is still working for Moff Gideon undercover in that Amnesty place and trying to get Pershing to return to the Empire/Gideon (unless turning the Mind Flayer up to 11 is going to pulp his mind as he knows too much)]

This week’s episode did a great job of underscoring how impressive Andor was

Ha, true enough but I liked the (inadvertent?) suggestion that troublemakers get stuck in bureaucratic grind jobs no matter who is in charge.

Personally I liked this episode a lot. Great action out of the gate and then a whole lot of burning tension.

Yeah I liked it fine. My kids were bored to tears.

starting to think the new republic didn't execute a certain Moff and his troops are out there rallying

No problems with this episode, but it could have been shaved down by about 10 minutes and still have been just as fine.

This is long-game fan-canon pondering but if you've also been watching The Bad Batch like me, I think there's some clear groundwork being laid for a long-arc of secret Imperial cloning research/measures. The first season of that ended in Kamino's destruction, in essence, but keeping key scientists for further research, and there's been irregular moments and scenes throughout this season, which still has three episodes to go, have been building out something going on further with that. That series is some thirty years in the past to Mandalorian of course but there's a conceptual throughline.

I seem to remember someone making clones with force powers some decades down the line

It's pretty clear that's what's underpinning things!

I actually really liked this episode and how off course it went! Though I definitely not expect to see an episode about how The New Republic's very communist dystopia is only slightly better, but mostly the same, as the Empire's peak era in Andor.

It kinda fits in with that comment in the first episode from Carl Weathers about not wanting to be under New Republic control either. (Add in the long term stuff about how Leia has to kinda fund the Resistance on her own or whatever she ended up doing -- basically, 'winning' is messy and uneven even at the best of times.)

Caught that Bad Batch resonance too.

Funny watching this latest episode at the same time as episode 3 of Last of Us, where they both start with the main characters, shift to a verrrry long unrelated story, then go back to the main characters at the end. The difference being that Last of Us connected the middle story back to the main characters and in Mando I have no clue why it was included yet. (Possibly just payback for Mando hijacking two episodes of Boba Fett.)

On top of the obvious connection of Pedro Pascal accompanying a child on dangerous adventures

I think we’re being primed for the reappearance of the chicken man

everybody knows TIEs don't just appear out of nowhere - they have no hyperdrives. where was the imperial ship? worst. episode. ever.

Coupled with the "Mandalore was poisoned was a lie to keep us away" bit, I guess the implication could be there's an Empire base somewhere on the planet?

That's an interesting idea. Maybe just in the Mandalore System and not necessarily Mandalore itself.

I think we’re being primed for the reappearance of the chicken man

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He got blown up in Mos Eisley last night IIRC

The Chicken Man? Didn't he stay behind of the floating Lizard island?

well guess that kid that got swallowed by the big bird has got ptsd to rival grogu's now

"no jetpacks! ok, now that we've climbed up to the top, let's use our jetpacks"

cool to see Ahmed Best tho

Fun stuff this season - fx stuff has been excellent - but the lack of a villain makes these episodes feel like a whole lot of “ world building ” (yuck) and not much else.

Whereas I love a bit of world building and hadn’t even registered there wasn’t a villain

Just a bit is fine but not all of it!

I heard they blew up his droids too, Eliza

feel like the more that is revealed about mandalore mythology, the stupider it gets. it was better when we didn't know anything in season 1 except that it's cool to say 'this is the way' if you're a mandalorian.

I’m in the “ Mystery is good. “ camp but I’m old.

mythology spun out from an outfit people liked

seems everything is leading to Bo-Katan or Din Djarin riding a mythosaur this season, perhaps to defeat a rising group of Empire holdouts. The mythosaur stuff is maybe too GoT-like.

right now my theory is that bo-katan's name comes from boca raton, maybe because disney took the writers room there for a booze cruise or something

they're gonna ride the mythosaur but also the 3 dinosaur babies

looking forward to character "Mons Venus" showing up in later weeks

I for one am excite to eat all these designer treats that have been introduced in this show next time i am forced to go to disneyland

Why wait when you can make them at home?

https://www.starwars.com/news/yellow-travel-biscuit-recipe

But i want to pay 20 bux for a cookie

Mons Venus vs Mons Pubis using The Force

rose water in the travel biscuits no wonder

This show is all over the place with its runtimes, huh? about half the length of last week's

cool to see Ahmed Best tho

That's who that was! Cool indeed to see him

this was so dope. Baby Yoda bonking around for like 10 minutes plus a short Rodan movie. i love this show.

the flying rescue sequence near the end looked great for what must have been almost entirely CGI

"Hey wait you're not the guy from Rebels"

"Well I'm a guy from Rebels..."

Mandalorian Action Playset (by Kenner)

well there's our possible second reason the tie fighters were around. We loved this one. It tied into the earlier detours and raised some more questions.

This season of Bad Batch >>>> this season of Mandalorian

Are you sure it is 4 greater thans better and not just 3?

I really hesitated but yeah went with four