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The Mandalorian - Season 2 |OT| Wherever I go, he goes [SPOILERS ON EPISODE DROP]
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I know! He was my favorite character as a kid, but really only because he looked cool. Now that he's actually competent, kid me would have been thrilled. Adult me already kind of is, anyway.
The way that mando left the jetpack in the ground and forgets about it, come on, he could save the child with it but they needed some dumb reason to take it away from him.
And is no longer stuck only being part of the worst episode of the series!
fuck yeah, Timothy Olyphant wearing some krayt leather monster hunter armor with dual blades
LOL people won't even receive it for another year after its destruction.
Din said only Mandalorians can wear armor, he recognized that because Boba is the child of one so he's a mandalorian. Boba's a mandalorian, for all intents and purposes.
Cool action episode, but the fan service just does nothing to me. It's more annoying than anything else as it just underlines how empty the show is on itself.
It needs to engage on callbacks and cool shit you'd love to see, in stead of actual story and compelling characters.
It needs to engage on callbacks and cool shit you'd love to see, in stead of actual story and compelling characters.
Since fans need to be wanked
Dude survived being eaten by a sarlacc, and even worse the utter humiliation that led him to that fate. Show the man some respect--he's earned it.
I mostly agree, but I have to admit this episode hit me the way last week's episode hit a lot of the people here who really love Clone Wars and Rebels. If it was a movie, I'd ding it more for spending so much time on the fanservice, but since it's a serialized action show with relatively simple characters who are sketched out fairly well so far, I don't mind it as much.
Maybe I'm just letting my soft spot for Boba Fett get to me the way the Child gets to Mando haha.
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Dude just should've been left dead if 'doing some cool shit and getting some slomo hero shots' was all they want to do with him. (They might still turn him into a more interesting character going forward, but I won't put my money on it with this series track record)
This one was painful to watch, the fan service is getting nauseating. The fight choreography was terrible. Mando finding Boba's armor was enough, this is overkill.
I liked it a bunch, but I really don't want a cool and badass Boba. I still enjoy the continuity of having Temuera playing him though.
Absolutely. Very handheld, kinetic style. Distinctly Robert Rodriguez. He brought "mariachi style" to Star Wars!
Bobba's club manes, goddamn brutal.
Seeing the Razorcrest get nuked was heartbreaking. Such a cool design of a ship, my favorite of the Disney era.
Also caught the Imp dropships were scaled down versions of the one from Rogue One, the one that dropped the death troopers.
Seeing the Razorcrest get nuked was heartbreaking. Such a cool design of a ship, my favorite of the Disney era.
Also caught the Imp dropships were scaled down versions of the one from Rogue One, the one that dropped the death troopers.
I am glad I'm someone that can find joy in both 'prestige TV' and fun, pulp stuff like this. They're going for different things, succeeding in their goals.
I like how you can see Mando sadness when the ship is destroyed even when he is wearing a mask
I understand that people are happy and I don't have an issue with fan service per definition. It's when it takes the center stage and becomes the point I take issue with. If this show would actually attach me to its main charactars or tell beter weekly stories, I would welcome stuff like this way more as a nod and wink.
But now it feels like it becomes the point. It's the main thing that makes you feel something. Call me old fashioned, but I want the story and characters themselves make me feel something. It's kind of exactly what JJ rightfully got shit for in TFA and TROS.
Above all, in a way it breaks the fourth wall, because as a viewer you feel your being directly adressed. I had flashbacks to that terrible 'girl power' shot from Endgame that was directly aimed at the audience, but did nothing to serve the action or story, let alone it really adressed the criticism it was an answer too.
Sometimes yes (see above). Not when it becomes the only thing that drives engagement, because the actual story and characters are so utterly lacking.
It's funny, because I'm not watching this show because slave-1 and Boba Fett are in it. I didn't even know they'd be in this episode. I'm watching it cause I enjoy Mando and the Child, and their adventures in the SW universe.
My only disappointment is that I wish the Stormtroopers were riding in
(to give Hasbro a reason to finally make one)
(to give Hasbro a reason to finally make one)
Did people think Boba wasn't going to show up at some point when they introduced his armor at the start of the season and that even if he did, it wouldn't be fanservicey? I loved it!
Bigger question: WHO THE FUCK CALLED TO GROGU AND TOLD HIM TO FORCE CHOKE STORMTROOPERS?
Bigger question: WHO THE FUCK CALLED TO GROGU AND TOLD HIM TO FORCE CHOKE STORMTROOPERS?
Totally fair, and the show does feel a bit like Favreau just playing with Star Wars toys sometimes, but I came to the show expecting something simple and fun and that's what I've gotten so far. It does feel like it's in danger of becoming "remember this thing" but I don't think it's quite drowned out the characterization of the Mando and the Child yet. I really like those characters, and I feel like it's been doing a decent job of advancing their stories while shoe-horning in all this fanservice.
This is why I don't agree when people get on the show for having "filler" episodes. Those episodes are generally the ones that focus upon the Mando and the Child having solo adventures and often provide fun character beats that help to flesh out the two of them. I definitely agree that they should remain the focus of the show and that if the show abandons the emotional core of their bond in favor of expanding upon the universe, it would lose a lot of its appeal. I'm just not quite there yet.
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Good for you. Glad you enjoy it.
For me, even as a huge Star Wars fan, it doesn't work. Star Wars to me has always been about something, with the cool action and universe on top. Mando feels utterly empty. It has the looks right and it understands that Star Wars was inspired by classic westerns, samurai films and sci fi serials, but it comletely lacks the heart imo.
Yep.
Also I called that they were Dark Troopers. Let it be known!
Favreau playing with his SW toys is exacyly how you can describe it, lol.
I don't agree that it does a good job characterising and developing the Child and Mando though. It's very flat, even for the format they choose (which I don't mind at all. I wouldn't mind if it didn't even have an overarching storyline, but was just simple adventures of the week, if it at least had good characters)
I sure hope Din isn't being an idiot and forgets to tell Ahsoka that the Empire has Grogu. She said she can't train the kid but she wouldn't let the Empire have him and she's handily the most powerful warrior in the galaxy at this point. Probably going to need her for all those Dark Troopers. 🤔