Temura Morrison! We doin Boba? We’re doin Boba. Fan service show and I’m more or less alright with it.
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This show always reminds me of how much of a sucker I am for Star Wars bullshit. I still can’t quite believe that this amount of money and star power is going into an old-fashioned serialized western. While I would love for them to do something more ambitious and weird it’s really nice, especially after the last two movies, to have a Star Wars thing that isn’t surrounded by a seething cultural discourse. I can just zone out and watch some cool fight scenes and a cute puppet.
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I’m just gonna post my AV Club post.
So does Mando know his Mando history well enough to point out that “the officials of Mandalore disavowed any connection to [Jango] Fett. They claimed Jango was simply a bounty hunter who somehow stole an artifact from the planet’s troubled past” and by that logic he Mando has more claim to that armor than Boba?
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Mando is extremely orthodox, but is he a dick about it?
If Jango stole the armor from Mandalorians, Boba doesn’t have any claim to it at all either. As a member of Mandalorian culture with a desire to return it to its intended place Mando absolutely has more of a claim to it.
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This link didn’t work for me. I thought they’ve been semi-retconning to make the Fetts closer to “real Mandalorians”? Maybe I missed it. But I bet they absolutely disregard that finer point of canon if they want Fett to be Wise Old Mandalorian.
It was a tweet from Pablo Hidalgo saying the Fetts aren’t Mandalorians.
Oh God, the Boba Fett Fan Club (because of course there’s one and of course its site design declares a proud pre-prequels legacy) went deep on confirming if the Fett’s are Mandalorian or not.
At this point I say Mando should just go whoop that clown even if he already has his armor. I bet it’s even a culture offense that he’s carrying those gaffi sticks.
Edit: Oh man, I just remembered that they build underground on Tatooine. The krayt dragon rolling through town must have been way worse than we saw.
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I thought Episode 2 was so so. Didn’t feel as complete as the first episode, maybe that’s where all the budget went.
This episode felt smaller in scale and was arachnophobes worst nightmare. The spider enemies were quite cool, but felt like something from Aliens. Also the ending felt a little weird with the whole showdown with the x-wings. “We have you down for a prison heist but I guess you’ve done good stuff as well. I guess you aren’t all bad Mandalorian. Okay, we took out that big spider for you, bye bye now.”
Think I would have been harder on baby yoga for chowing down on the nice frog ladies jar of eggs. Little memable brat.
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Uh yeah I was kinda surprised Mom wasn’t angrier. Last of her line and she doesn’t know how many kids she has? Alright I guess!
Really liked the part of the episode where they were trapped below the ice before they found the spiders. One of the things I like most about the Star Wars universe is that anything you can dream up “could be out there.” Spiders probably weren’t the most imaginative enemy, but I really like the idea of “I dunno wtf is on this planet, could be literally anything.”
A theory I’m humoring: What if, possibly not but let’s not kid ourselves, very definitely Boba Fett was the one who put out the info that there was a Mandolorian in Mos Pelgo so that trouble would come there and kill Timothy Olyphant’s character such that Boba could get in and get his armor back. It didn’t seem like anyone on Tatooine knew he was around without knowing who Cobb Vanth was. Well, the occupying goons thought he was Boba Fett but they’re all dead, I assume.
I loved Mando in this episode saying “may the Force be with you” without have any idea what it means, just that it’s a weird phrase the Rebels throw around.
Also the kind of logical conclusion that of course the jetpack can fly on its own. It’d have to have gyroscopes and whatnot of some sort and we’ve known since ROTJ that they’re controlled from the gauntlet.
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CW: a point that kind of mirrors real life debates about abortion
Frog Lady specifically states that she’s bringing the eggs to be fertilized, so they’re not babies yet. They’re future babies. It’s like chicken eggs at the grocery store, which aren’t about to hatch into chicks because they aren’t fertilized. We have no idea how many of those eggs will actually become viable offspring. Also there’s at least 20 or so of them, which is a number that humans can’t easily count at a quick glance; I assume the same holds true for Frog Lady. That’s probably why she didn’t immediately notice the missing eggs.
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I feel really sick after that episode. That was just awful. I don’t think even Rick & Morty would be that nasty.
Me: it’s actually lazy writing to rely on teasing the appearance of major characters from the lore
Also me: To the tune of Seven Nation Army OH AHSOKA TAAANO OH AHSOKA TAAANO
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The hallway scene in Episode 3 leaves me with one important question:
Is The Mandalorian a “himbo?”
EDIT: Having Katee Sackhoff voice Bo-Katan in the cartoons and then having her actually play Bo-Katan is one of those little details that make me really love this show.
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I liked a lot about this episode, but I think my two favourite bits were:
“They are trapped WHERE??”
The Mon Cal mechanic(featuring Janina Gavankar!). Especially the way he looks at his handiwork as he has Mando sign off.
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I’m convinced that character wasn’t even a mechanic which is why his repair method was to put a lot of fishnets everywhere 
Plus the character’s design in general. That communicated to me that the couple was already assuming that of the 20+ eggs she had only a very small number might actually survive and hatch
I really loved how the third episode began with baby Yoda’s food attempting to eat their face and ended with them being thrilled and entranced with the tadpole and all of them getting along well, felt like the character learned/matured a bit from seeing it hatch and everything.
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Turns out Mando is one of them Lakewood, NJ Mandalorians, I see… They always have problems with Reform Mandalorians.
Not sure about this Mandalorian Zionism business though. :V
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Din ‘if we Naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets’ Djarin
This episode made me realise, as if there were any doubt previously, that I’m just an absolute mark for Filoni’s Star Wars stuff.
‘it’s FREAKING Bo-Katan!’
(It was great to see Katee Sackhoff in a live-action role on a sci-fi show again, too.)
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I think Filoni has two major things working in his favor:
Thinking out loud
- Since he’s not working on the Big Numbered Trilogy movies directly, he has less oversight. Not as many producers staring over his shoulder demanding he hits particular things. No (that I’ve seen) two-hour YouTube manifestos on why Filoni’s last things are terrible that freak out the people in charge.
- He has really good Star Wars instincts. Keep it simple. Let the authors flesh out the lore; give us a little taste but keep it moving. Timothy Olyphant in Boba Fett’s armor using the jetpack missile (this one may have just been for me) but that’s only one episode. Boba Fett is probably alive but that’s probably the last we see of him for the time being. Etc. A good sense of what people want and a good sense of how much to give to them.
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