Star Wars: The Mandalorian (Spoilers)

Nah, they'd have put an apostrophe in there if that was the case.

And are you saying Saavik's parents wanted a boy?

gonna git that pointy eared sumnabitch that named me Tu...

Well, "Tu" is not "T'" so, the pattern holds. T'Vok would be a daughter.

The Battle of Yavin was the big turning point when the Rebellion truly embraced that overthrowing the Empire was possible, and was the start of the wars that ended it all. Much like how US Independence Day marks a date before the revolutionary war broke out.

well.. that just set up the chase for the next season and a half.

of all the things that happened this ep, it was seeing what a "chain code" is in context that gave us something new to know.

Also really liking how over the last few episodes the puppet is more animated and less mcguffiny.

Two things that have come up in conversation lately...

How old is Yoda, really? We know he was a Jedi for 9 centuries, but not how long he wasn't one.

Does the species have a continuous maturation or is the little fela getting all tuckered out because he's about to cocoon or molt or something?

"When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not!"

So...Tony Stark is selling tech to The Empire.
Or is this some Justin Hammer shit?

true enough... i was remembering it as "when 900 years you reach" implying how long he'd been in the order as we know he's been teaching for 800.

now about that growth/aging cycle...

Not particularly thrilled with the return of Boba Fett.

I hate what the gawdawful prequel trilogy did with the Fetts, and Jeremy Bulloch/Jason Wingreen will always be Boba Fett to me. I didn't like that Boba Fett died like a bitch in ROTJ, but I'm also not sure if I like seeing him back in the form of Temuera Morrison.

However, it wasn't a horrible episode by any stretch, so I'm willing to see how it plays out.

While I'm complaining, it was cool to see the Dark Troopers but don't like that they're robots instead of elite soldiers, as they were in the EU.

Which bit of the EU? If you mean the ones from the Kyle Katarn Dark Forces game, they WERE robots, for the most part - there were just a few Phase III suits built for elite "pilots". Phase Zero of that project had heavily cyborgized Clone Troopers with over 70% body replacement, and these are seen in the Battlefront games.

I was thinking of these Dark Troopers that appeared in Dark Forces:



I didn't think they were robots, but my memory may be fuzzy given how old the game is.

Besides, IMO the Dark Forces Dark Troopers look way more badass than the ones we saw in The Mandalorian.

This episode fixes it.

This episode fixes it.

Howcome you're stuck on Jeremy Bullock, but not Clive Revill as 1980's version Palpatine?

Having him NOT be Temuera would fuck canon harder, wouldn't it?


I'm not saying it's a race thing, but if it's a race thing...welcome to how some black kids must have felt when Vader was unmasked, and they didn't get James Earl, but an albino looking dude.


When you TRULY learn to look past color, this shit won't bug you.

Kudos for the Mallrats ref... (and why hasn't Kevin Smith blustered his way into this show yet?)

but also, wouldn't Black Anakin have just played to shitty absentee fatherhood stereotypes?

"What's a Nubian?"

On topic...

So, I'm all caught up on The Mandalorian, but I feel like it's missing something and that it's becoming repetitive. Every episode is, essentially, Mando comes to town and gets involved in some big action set piece to accomplish some goal/attain some object. The action is good, sure, but it's feeling very formulaic, like a sequence of levels in a video game. The guest characters all feel like stock characters, without any depth.

I sorta enjoyed Boba Fett showing up, though that armor doesn't fit as well as it used to, apparently. And I like that we got an explanation of how the Fetts came by that armor.

I kind of liked the paunchiness. Made him look like one of the older clones we saw in Rebels.

Kind of glad I didn't blow the $150 on a Lego Razor Crest now.

Nope. It doesn't.

Ian McDiarmid was a good Emperor. Clive Revill was not.

Similarly, Jeremy Bulloch/Jason Wingreen were a good Boba Fett. Temuera Morrison was not.

You say that as if it's a bad thing.

I'm not FF so don't try and bait me with that crap.

Whoops!

Well, that's what you goddamned get for having a sequel name.

I'm guessing Mando will be flying the Slave I shortly.

My avatar should help with any confusion.

It's definitely the hero ship for the foreseeable future.

and so many new variations of old toys are about to be released...wonder what my first gen lego ones are worth?

Honestly though, I think that Din is going to end with Grogu's story outcome. That they've put the Rosario stamped lightsaber out there pretty much guarantees we'll be getting more of her, and probably the Ezra/Thrawn story in the next year or so. While Bo Katan and Boba could carry the title for a season or two as this prelude to the First Order story launches.

Either that or it'll become an ensemble/contemporaneous anthology showcasing several of these threads toward the same thing.

I'm sticking with my theory that Grogu is an adolescent or maybe even in early adulthood and that Yoda's species is naturally non-verbal. He acts like an immature jackass sometimes, but so did Yoda. At this point Yoda is mostly depicted as a wise Jedi master, but when he first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back, he was acting a lot like Grogu does. Before telling Luke who he was, Yoda was being all annoying, going through Luke's things, eating Luke's food, and he beat R2-D2 with his walking stick.

Somebody hasn't read their Joseph Campbell (What kind of Star Wars fan are you?) or you'd know that wasn't right. Yoda is a shaman, and despite how they're often depicted in popular culture (though Rafiki in The Lion King comes close), shamen are really fucked up people.

Granola crunchers will tell you that shamen act so fucked up because: A) They have to wrestle with the forces of darkness a lot and B) They're trying to help you by snapping your thought patterns into an entirely new direction (often as a way of preparing the hero for the next part of their journey). Anthropologists will tell you that shamen acted so fucked up because they often have a mental condition or they're a social outcast and they've gone a bit "squirrely" because of it. Popular culture tends to sanitize them and make them merely "quirky." (Aughra, in The Dark Crystal is another one that comes close, now that I think about it.) Basically, in the real world, they can flip from being Yoda one second to Loki the next and you're never quite certain of their motives.

Yoda's actions in ESB are to disabuse Luke of the idea that Yoda is a "great warrior." (He also might have gone squirrely from being alone so long.) But Kasdan and Leigh Brackett were cribbing heavily from shamanism and Zen Buddhism when they wrote the character of Yoda. So the idea is that Yoda would fuck shit up to get Luke to leave behind his preconceived notions (like Yoda was a great warrior) and see him for who he really was and recognize that some times the best way to win a battle is not to fight.

Ahsoka Tano is getting her own series. Expect these threads to continue there, not in The Mandalorian.

yes... I know. (although it still isn't officially official-despite merch)
What I'm suggesting is that it will launch out of future groundwork on Mandalorian-i.e.: another Ahsoka appearance, and that any spin off series is going to continue to be intertwined with this one.

I'm thinking either Luke or Ezra will be teased in the season finale.

two episodes left, next one is getting Mayfeld out of prison

my guess is the finale will be hooking back up with Bo Katan as both MacGuffins are in the same place. We won't be worrying about finding a jedi other than Ahsoka until they get Grogu back next season.

DenOfGeek has suggested that the Jedi who will train Grogu could be Cal Kestis from the Jedi: Fallen Order game. I dunno if there's anything behind that other than clickbaiting or fanwank, though.

Seems to be a "some fans seem convinced" without any link to fans saying this, so clickbait.

that came up in conversation here.
If it wasn't for having to age him up the 25 years between settings, KJ Apa from Riverdale would be inevitable in the part.
I'm kind of hoping for Quinlan Vos.

dear dawg, yasss!!!!