Having fits getting The Mandalorian to load this afternoon, anyone else?
Finally stuck right before what must be the final scene.
Finally stuck right before what must be the final scene.
Star Wars Expanded Universe Thread
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This entire season is a hard sell for people who aren't diehard fans of the Star Wars mythos.
My wife was a gigantic fan of S1 and S2. Other than a few action scenes she's been kind of "meh" this year.
I don't dislike this season, but a few times it's felt like they were trying to do what Andor did but not pulling it off as well.
Love the ship battles though. I could watch that every episode. Any time I hear a tie flying in I get the giggles. But yea there have been some stinkers this season.
It’s not pulling off what Mando did in previous seasons. I thought this episode was one of the worst of the series, and the last 5 minutes was effing egregious. I’m still gonna watch and enjoy it but this season is like 70% of the standard set quality wise from previous seasons.
I could watch Din and Bo-Katan play good cop, bad cop all season.
As for worst episode this season, that would go to the Dr Purshing episode. I think they had Coruscant assets left over from Andor to justify that one.
Plazir reminds me of Naboo, but if Jack Black ran the place.
As for worst episode this season, that would go to the Dr Purshing episode. I think they had Coruscant assets left over from Andor to justify that one.
The show is definitely starting to lean into some campiness, which I’m cool with. Some of the writing seems kind of on par with a new hope
My least favorite episode that Bryce Dallas Howard has done for Star Wars. Would agree this season has gotten more into the lore for the die hard fans which I love but can understand it’s going to be hard for some more casual fans. A bit of a bummer coming of the last episode which was absolutely fantastic in my opinion
I liked that Katie Sackhoff was in a scene with robots that looked strongly like cylons.
Also the repeated "oh no, I don't have the info. you have to go over there to talk to that person" device was overused in this episode. Lizzo want good as an actress. And the sentencing of Christopher Lloyd was very abrupt.
Other than that I liked the episode.
Also the repeated "oh no, I don't have the info. you have to go over there to talk to that person" device was overused in this episode. Lizzo want good as an actress. And the sentencing of Christopher Lloyd was very abrupt.
Other than that I liked the episode.
Thought it was decent. Not the best, not awful but ok. Agree that this was Bryce's worst episode.
I thought the lizzo/jack black was very cheesy but I love jack black lol.
I thought the lizzo/jack black was very cheesy but I love jack black lol.
I'm not a die hard fan, but I'm a pretty big fan and have consumed every ounce of watchable Star Wars content there is.
I wasn't overwhelmingly thrilled with the first two seasons either, it just feels like a good show is sort of petering out while stretching a pretty shallow overall plot out as long as possible with episode filling side missions.
The Andor comparison makes some sense, but this show can't be that. Andor is in a different league of writing/acting/cinematography.
This may be a hot take, but I kind of hate how they kept Gorgu in this season. I felt that after season 2 of the Mandalorian, they completed his/her story arch. Bringing him/her back in Book of Boba Fett and this season is just a merchandise cash grab.
They also probably didn't want to give the idea to people that Gorgu was killed by Kylo Ren, but still.
They also probably didn't want to give the idea to people that Gorgu was killed by Kylo Ren, but still.
Besides, going to get Bo-Katan, he really hasn't be vital to the story this season, which, makes things interesting. Curious what Favreau and Filoni have up their sleeves.
I got the impression they're setting up Grogu (when older) to become the future of Mandalore. He gave up his Jedi path to be a foundling. He rejected Yoda's lightsaber, thus could acquire the Darksaber. He calmed beasts in the past, so could calm the Mythosaur.
The episode felt very video game-like. It was series of linked quests gating the main characters from their ultimate destination. Most of which really didn't do much outside of showcasing the new locale that the heroes found themselves in.
This series continues to draw heavily from old westerns. As such, the themes and situations are often like the description settlers gave of the Platte River, "a mile wide, an inch deep". There's a lot going on in this show, but none of it goes too much deeper than classic white hat/black hat dynamics. Sure, there's some 4-D chess going on with Moff Gideon, but knowing that a lot of it has already been seeded with other material as the rise of the First Order, the duplicitous elements are obvious to see.
This show isn't Andor. It shouldn't try to be Andor. This is meant to be their most accessible property at the moment, so by design it's going to be more basic in it's approach. It's good guy vs bad buy and pew-pews. That doesn't mean it should be 80's Saturday cartoon morning basic, but it also doesn't have to War and Peace.
This series continues to draw heavily from old westerns. As such, the themes and situations are often like the description settlers gave of the Platte River, "a mile wide, an inch deep". There's a lot going on in this show, but none of it goes too much deeper than classic white hat/black hat dynamics. Sure, there's some 4-D chess going on with Moff Gideon, but knowing that a lot of it has already been seeded with other material as the rise of the First Order, the duplicitous elements are obvious to see.
This show isn't Andor. It shouldn't try to be Andor. This is meant to be their most accessible property at the moment, so by design it's going to be more basic in it's approach. It's good guy vs bad buy and pew-pews. That doesn't mean it should be 80's Saturday cartoon morning basic, but it also doesn't have to War and Peace.
I don't get the hate for this episode. It's very much in line with the rest of the series.
True. If anything, it was a very roundabout way of just getting to the group of mercenary Mandalorians.
Yeah they still moved the "main" story forward but there was also some one off "universe building". Feel like there has been a lot of that throughout the series
I didn't hate it, but it did feel clunkier than some of the others. We spend 10 minutes with ex-Imperials waxing poetic about travel biscuits in Ep 3 and we barely get a couple of lines of motivation from a guy trying to bring down the system of a whole city. It almost felt Scooby-dooish when they captured him.