Wooooooooo lets go!

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Very, very well done first episode. I've got no problem with them continuing to lean into Western themes. Opening scene at the fight club was very well done. Happy that the returned to Tatooine. Story and action were both top notch. And Olyphant doing his Raylan Givens thing always works. And they didn't use The Child as a crutch or Deus Ex Machina.

It was fucking awesome to finally see Krayt Dragon, after reading so much about them in the expanded universe stuff that I got into. All of its appearances, especially the big battle at the end, were damn near perfectly executed.

As for the "reveal" at the end, I know the obvious answer is its Boba Fett (give than the armor is clearly is his), but I'm kind of hoping that it's just another clone. Be it Captain Rex or some other rando.

Happily all in for the season.

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But what's really great is that they took the storyline from Chuck Wendig's Aftermath trilogy where he created Cobb Vanth and his back story finding the armour. Great that we get him in live action. Interesting to see where they go with Boba but at least this creates a reason now for more story on him rather than the rumours before it just didn't make sense to see more of him. This def creates reasonable interest to see it unfold. I love that now the actor is back for this that we can also play Rex if they ever choose to bring him into the show or another.

The flying! This looked much better than it did in seaoson 1. Looked more natural this time around. That whole fight scene was crazy. Nothing to complain about.

How about that easter egg of Cobb riding alongside Mando on his man made speeder built out of 1 engine of Anakin's speed racer pod!!!! fuck yeah.




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>Interesting to see where they go with Boba but
>at least this creates a reason now for more story on him
>rather than the rumours before it just didn't make sense

Absolutely. There’s a great story waiting to happen here. Obviously Boba is going to want to go after Din to get his armor back. Whether he gives it back or not (and how) is going to depend on how Din views Boba as being Mandalorian. And they seems to be the overall major theme of this show - what is a “true” Mandalorian. Honestly the way Cobb Vanth was played in this espisode I’m wondering if Din doesn’t end up giving the armor back to him. He was using it to protect others, and fought/negotiated with honor. Once Din meets other Mandalorians from other clans like Sabine who are fine with taking off their helmets, maybe he starts to question his own view of being a Mandalorian as too narrow.

Which brings us back to Boba Fett. I’d imagine that in this story we finally get clarification on whether Jango Fett was actually a Mandalorian or if Almec from the Clone Wars was correct about him being someone “just wearing the armor”. That being said, I hope we don’t get TOO much info on Boba. I like him still having some mystery...

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The krayt dragon lived in an abandoned sarlacc pit and the marshall said he’d eaten the sarlac. Given that it takes 1000 years for the sarlac to digest something Boba was still alive in there when the krayt dragon ate it, and Boba was able to escape during the chaos.

Boba also had Sandpeople weapons in that reveal at the end, so he may have been even living among them.

There was one sand person who was sitting away just looking at Mando when he was sittting with them talking. Didnt notice it at first but that would be cool if Boba was right in front of Mando the whole time. I did think it was weird the amount of interaction they showed im those montages of Mando communicating with the sand people.


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because it felt pretty corny last season

or they just didn't know how to land lol something was off. Just felt more believable in how they moved in that episode


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gotta be the work of Sabine Wren!

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Fast forwarded the whole monster bit.

Think this is now going to be too slow. Nothing else on these days so will continue to check it out.

This was fun as fuck. Loved everything about it. The classic western opening scene!
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Wish this would've been the Halloween episode. And it was directed by Peyton Reed which was a huge plus.

The Child will eat anything even to his own detriment. Also, enjoy Dave Filoni coming back.

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but this episode woke that arachnophobia RIGHT up. Straight up nightmare fuel.

an this ep creeped me the fuck out

I still have a bit of arachniphobia, I decided to watch this episode at 4 am before heading off to work. In the dark no less, I spent the rest of the day with my skin crawling and flicking imaginary shit off me.

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like it's to the point where I can't even look at them on tv. i watch nature documentaries with remote in hand just in case there is a part where there is a spider lol.

that being said I didn't completely bitch out this episode. I think it's cause the spiders didn't have realistic faces.

overall great episode. Mando might be my favorite right now. I love the western stuff too

Loved this episode. I'm sure it adds to the story in a way most people don't see right now, especially when it looks like the frog lady creature is in another episode if you look at the main trailer for the season.


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Getting her to their destination planet.

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I was thinking that the child eating those eggs will come back and he'll actually have had saved them in case something happens to the rest of the frog lady's eggs. But now I'm thinking that Lil kid is bad and just eats whatever he thinks tastes good.

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Might as well make it official.

I'm so hyped off of this episode. I even forgot to mention my girl Katee, still looking awesome.

Also, BDH haters need to fall back, she can direct y'all!

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They werent kidding when they said this season is opening doors and cresting reasons for all types of side shows

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I'm still of the standpoint that Filoni should've been the one to write and possibly direct the last three films.

At this point, Disney has to see that he and JF have what it takes to make continue the franchise and take it in a new direction while giving hardcore fans what they want.

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The Mandalorian scripts are give or take especially when you have a character who speaks as minimally as possible but if he should write whatever story the next trilogy is based on and go from there. He has probably thought more about Star Wars than anyone outside of Young Lucas and having someone so committed to the canon will prevent directors and writers from cutting corners.

He should actually be writing any of the movies. He doesn’t have to write each script but he needs to be in charge of saying what happes in every show/movie. Final say on all things star wars
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Ok, might be the early lead for the best episode. I'm all the fuck in now.

And +100 for the casting, got my man Titus on the show.

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Relatively short and to the point, advanced the story and set up even more pieces. Great world building, character building, and action. I guess they're going to lean pretty hard into Clone Wars all season, which is fine, because they're making it understandable for anyone who hasn't seen it either.

Awesome half hour of TV.

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about him and the audience learning what it means to be a Mandalorian. We’re getting all these examples of different ways to be a Mandalorian - from last seasons group, to Din himself who has already somewhat changed from his upbringing in the convent, to Cobb Vanth in ep 1 who was wearing the armor and not even claiming to be Mandalorian, but earning Din’s respect (and I think that by the end of the season he’ll actually get that armor back), to Bo Katan’s group educating Din on the history hidden from him, potentially Sabine, Baby Yoda who is a foundling, and finally Boba Fett.

The end of this episode was big - with Bo Katan saying “this is the way” to Din and him responding in kind. He’s acknowledging that she is Mandalorian, ironically also acknowledging that there is more than one “way”.

Titus playing that fanatical Empire captain following Moff Gideons orders even tho who they fought for loss the war. Such awesome world building


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This is really test world building. Dave and John are hitting the right notes.

But can someone tell me how much food does the child need to eat? That little asshole stays eating something!

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>But can someone tell me how much food does the child need to
>eat? That little asshole stays eating something!

I mean we saw him take his helmet off to eat in that one episode last season, but he’s gotta be on an EXTREME intermittent fasting regimen not wanting to take his helmet off. He had that entire trip in the cockpit with Frog Lady. Does he take it off when just with the kid? Did he have a little straw or something so he can drink food packets?

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They were getting it in and he was just sitting there chilling lol.

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>But can someone tell me how much food does the child need to
>eat? That little asshole stays eating something!

Mando was heavy on his “blame the victim” shit.

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We had spider eggs hatching just like the nests in Alien last week, then the facehugger chowder AND that squid sneak attacking the kid at the end of the episode this week complete with the acid slime...

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>But can someone tell me how much food does the child need to
>eat? That little asshole stays eating something!

And how have we not gotten a hilarious scene of Mando changing baby Yoda’s diaper and being horrified?

So at this point we know Din is headed to find Ahsoka. Likely won’t see her in the next episode - since that’s directed by Carl Weathers I’d guess that Chapter 12 will be about the journey to Ahsoka, and him picking up Greef and Cara on the way. Chapter 13 is directed by Filoni - so it would make sense that Ahsoka is in that one.

The interesting thing to me is the question of where Ahsoka and Sabine are in their quest to find Ezra at this point in the timeline. It wouldn’t have been long before this that they connected to start that quest(from the Rebels finale) because it was after Endor (ROTJ). So if Bo Katan knows her exact location, are they back from finding Ezra? Something like that wouldn’t be spoiled in a subplot of the Mandalorian, so my guess is we won’t see much of Ahsoka and Sabine here so that stays a mystery. Taking that guess a step further, Ahsoka will likely not take the Child and tell Din that he belongs with him (or give him a clue to the homeworld of the species) because they wouldn’t just separate Din and the child this early in the show.

There is no way the first full episode of Ahsoka is not directed by Filoni. I think he has said it himself in the past that for her to come to live action he would have to be doing it. At the most we get a reveal at the very end of the next episode where we all bust a nerd nut in unison. I’m going to assume they want to do a spin off show with her and Filoni will prob be in charge of it.


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>So at this point we know Din is headed to find Ahsoka. Likely
>won’t see her in the next episode - since that’s directed
>by Carl Weathers I’d guess that Chapter 12 will be about the
>journey to Ahsoka, and him picking up Greef and Cara on the
>way. Chapter 13 is directed by Filoni - so it would make sense
>that Ahsoka is in that one.

I agree on all of this Filoni, has to do the Ahsoka centric episode. The only way it would work, I mean she's his creation.

>The interesting thing to me is the question of where Ahsoka
>and Sabine are in their quest to find Ezra at this point in
>the timeline. It wouldn’t have been long before this that
>they connected to start that quest(from the Rebels finale)
>because it was after Endor (ROTJ). So if Bo Katan knows her
>exact location, are they back from finding Ezra? Something
>like that wouldn’t be spoiled in a subplot of the
>Mandalorian, so my guess is we won’t see much of Ahsoka and
>Sabine here so that stays a mystery.

It would be interesting how they would handle this since at the end of Rebels *Spoiler Alert: Ezra was with Thrawn and I assume Thrawn went to Chiss space which is beyond the Outer Rim) I figure they slightly mention it or they set it up that Ashoka can't take the child because she and Sabine are prepping to go look for Ezra.


Taking that guess a step
>further, Ahsoka will likely not take the Child and tell Din
>that he belongs with him (or give him a clue to the homeworld
>of the species) because they wouldn’t just separate Din and
>the child this early in the show.

I doubt they do anything with the child for at least two more seasons. It seems like such an important element to the story that just dropping him off would seem off.

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They should have left out to get Ezra around 5 years before this. The Mandalorian takes place 5 years after the Battle of Endor (ROTJ), and Ahsoka and Sabine left to find Ezra right after the Empire fell. So with around 4-5 years in between they definitely would have been gone, and if Bo Katan knows where Ahsoka is they must be back.

>I figure they slightly mention it or they set it up that
>Ashoka can't take the child because she and Sabine are
>prepping to go look for Ezra.

So that would mean, either they found Ezra or they didn't. Maybe she'll mention there was another but she couldn't find him or something. The fate of Ezra and Thrawn still bother me so much, I want to know what happened?

Did Thrawn just peace out on the whole empire thing and didn't link up with The First Order and took what he learned to the Chiss? Is Ezra there helping after understanding what the Chiss were trying to do since there are other dangers past the Outer Rim (no I'm not talking about the Y.V.)?

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show so they don’t spoil what happened with Ezra or Thrawn. Like I mentioned above, just a short cameo which is a back door pilot to a show covering that search.

>So that would mean, either they found Ezra or they didn't.
>Maybe she'll mention there was another but she couldn't find
>him or something. The fate of Ezra and Thrawn still bother me
>so much, I want to know what happened?
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that the planets, sets, scenes feel like they are small because of shooting in the Volume? My best description would be it that it doesn't feel like every scene is shot in a diorama

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more from the volume after shooting the first season, and increased budget for special effects. The x-wing chase from the last episode and the almost crash landing from this one were straight up blockbuster film quality effects. And some of that stuff is completely separate from using the volume for set shooting...

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Wow - one of my favorite episodes of this series so far. Carl Weathers did his thing directing this.

Random side note - I had to laugh that right after I was talking about Mando never eating we see him tilt his helmet up to slurp down some soup or something...

It really encompasses everything that defines this show. The plot of this episode is essentially a side quest that moves Mando forward in his overall mission. His quest is to get the Child to his kind. At this point he's on his was to take the Child to Ahsoka, but his ship needs to be repaired. Side quest!

But this episode takes that "side quest" vibe and is able to very successfully move the plot further in unexpected ways. We reconnect with Greef and Cara, we get some of the best worldbuilding of the series - more awareness of the status of both the Imperial remnants and the New Republic.

We get story callbacks from all over the first season, and also some nice possible foreshadowing of the future. Will Cara end up joining with the New Republic? Maybe the Resistance in the future? Now that the Empire is gone from Navaro, it's likely going to expand as a major trading post in the outer rim, with Greef in charge.

We continue to get absolutely amazing action scenes for a TV show. That speeder chase/tie chase/Razor Crest save was incredible - they just keep dishing out movie blockbuster level action and effects.

On top of ALL THIS, we also get major plot revelations regarding the big question from the first season - what does Gideon want with the Child. They perfectly integrated this into all of the action of the episode. We see Dr. Pershing's transmission talking about his midichlorian count (great world building to hear him call it "m-count" for short), Mando and the crew find out Moff Gideon is still alive, we see the failed experimental bodies in the tanks, we see Gideon with Dark Troopers or something, etc.

We're at the point in the season where we can REALLY see it building towards a huge climax - Gideon is tracking the Razor Crest and Mando is heading towards Ahsoka. but in addition to that we know that Bo-Katan is looking for Gideon to get the dark saber - Greef will want to be sure the Empire is completely gone, the New Republic may also get into the mix to get rid of Gideon (again showing how the spider episode was important - introducing us to Paul Sun-Hyung Lee's character and letting us know that some of those X-Wing pilots are cool and may help Mando), etc. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Mando ends up giving the Boba Fett armor back to Cobb Vanth so he also ends up helping in some way.

Last point, just a subtle example of how good of a job Carl Weathers did directing this. When Mando left his ship with Greef's crew to get repaired, the camera lingered on that one mechanic JUST the perfect amount of time. Got my attention that he may end up doing something shady, but was quick enough that I totally forgot about it until we saw him talking to Greef about the tracking device at the end. Just a beautiful setup for another setup into the next episode.

Weathers directed an excellent episode and we got some more insight into the story. The episodes just keep getting better and better honestly.

The world-building is classic Filoni stuff. He's doing what he did with Clone Wars and Rebels with this series and it shows that this can could build for multiple seasons.

Callbacks were perfect, but I want to know where the doctor was. Was he still on the planet? They just blew up the facility so did he go down with it?

The stuff with Cara Dune was nice and it opens up for them to write her character off, seeing all the backlash she's getting from the show fans for her MAGAtard tweets. I had the biggest crush on that woman and now I'm just looking at her like "you not securing ya bag with ya tweets."

Anyway, seeing that the New Republic is out there but seemingly those that are posted in the Outer Rim seem to be on their own helps explain how the First Order could rise. Not sure if the New Republic is spread thin or the Core just doesn't care cause Palpatine is dead and most of the Empire fell. But the description that the pilot gives, they just think it's scattered warlords or something paints the picture well.

Now Gideon is tracking Mando and the child, the next stop is Ashoka, so do we get an Ashoka vs Gideon stand-off? Does Mando find the tracking device in time or do we get a season-ender with all parties coming together for a big fight? I'm excited about what's next and I'm also totally fine with once-a-week episodes, it makes me relish the next one more.


So my thought is *Spoiler Alert* Moff is working on them Palpatine clones? He's a true believer in the First/Final Order and his work is to bring Palp's back. That's my only though.

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I hadn't seen the latest round of tweets. Good grief.

Man, I'd been into her since American Gladiators.

*shakes head*

Oh well.

*dusts hands off*

I'd be giving her the benefit of the doubt for a while.

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masks/my rights
"voter fraud"
'the media' deosn't decide elections
newsmaxx
conservatives are victims
vague inspiration quotes that are really about how conservatives are victims
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yeah, she's all in.

>I'd be giving her the benefit of the doubt for a while.

>So my thought is *Spoiler Alert* Moff is working on them
>Palpatine clones? He's a true believer in the First/Final
>Order and his work is to bring Palp's back. That's my only
>though.

Either Gideon is working for Palpatine and this is the beginning of the first/final order like you mentioned - that officer at the end talking to the mechanic said something like “you’ll be remembered in what is next to come which could have been shorthand for First Order. Also the officer from the last episode biting a suicide pill definitely had First Order cult vibes.

Or, Gideon is on his own trying to take power and build the next empire. His uniform looks like he’s trying to be a fake Vader. So maybe he wants to inject himself with force-sensitive blood to make himself the next Vader, with the darksaber as his weapon.

It could not have been cheap to put together.

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beyond the first episode, but it is still very good. still one of my favorite Star Wars shows/movies ever

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if you like this season better, cool. I do not. i think this is a great season, but not better than season one. you aren't wrong with your opinion, nor am i with mine.

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