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I don’t get the darksaber complaints on this one He *never* wanted that loving sword, so of course he’d seize the moment to pawn it to the person who probably wanted it the most while leaving out that the weird cyborg never actually claimed the darksaber, but they don’t need to know that So that means Grogu or Din are getting it back whether they like it or not
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I wonder how much worse that Darksaber conclusion is if you skipped the "Previously on" part.
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Hah yeah, that was hilarious and bizarre. "Why are they showing a recap of this mechanical detail of the mine rescue? Who cares about that grievous spider guy and that Din was briefly in a cage and she sprung him" "oh"
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I really enjoyed this episode, but this tweet isn't entirely wrong. https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii/status/1643750591120949249?s=20
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Ratjaculation posted:Baby Yoda will be shot in the chest, where his armour will save him Mandalorians: Well that seals it, give the baby the darksaber. Bo: Haha good jok- Mandalorians: 
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I think it's an unfortunate framing problem for Star Wars that we have two shows side by side showing both how people might join and be willing to work for the Empire and how they would come out at the far end and be rehabilitated, and those shows are very different. Tony Gilroy's Star Wars denazification show probably still has Moff Gideon off to the gallows, the junior space-nazis hit with 'we could shoot you but agree to stop being nazis and for the sake of reconciliation we will hold our nose and agree you were Just Following Orders;, and Jack Blacks 'oh you always wanted to be a town planner and the only option for you was to be a space nazi town planner? Are you a good town planner? Cool', but the tone of that show would not be what we are seeing in Mandalorian.
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thrawn527 posted:I really enjoyed this episode, but this tweet isn't entirely wrong. Everything looks like absolutely garbage, lmao. It would rule if they leaned fully into the camp vibe, but the show tries to split the difference with a story and dialogue played mostly flat but delivered as if it's goofy camp. The result is something that just feels cheap and, worst of all, boring.
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Yeah the tone is just all over the place I thought this episode was fine, but this season is way way weaker than the last two It’s even worse than the episodes we got during Book of Boba Fett
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Someone quipped that Katee seemed to be better with the helmet on, and I think it has a lot to do with the fact that she seems either bored or displeased with the material she's tasked with trying to sell. I kinda felt/saw the same thing with Rosario's Ahsoka, which doesn't bode well for her show. And to echo someone else, yeah, given that they already went with the "Elder Wand" treatment, there's no way they don't bite on the "Arkenstone" thing for the Darksaber.
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I'm glad to see I was proven 100% right about the Darksaber issue, too bad it took them an additional four episodes to point it out. While you can quibble that Plaisir 15's environment design wasn't very Star Wars-y, Space Epcot was at least distinctive, and having so many planets visited that we have to bend the set-design rulebook to differentiate them is a success problem. I now await the fan art of what Jack Black's character looked like in Imperial uniform.
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Having Bo and Dinn as beat cops investigating crime is something that I did not know I wanted, but now that I've seen it, I must have more. edit: Goddamn, I somehow forgot about the literal star-crossed lovers at the start of the episode. So goofy. So good. And the captain going from floating in her tank to sitting on a chair was 
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Someone quipped that Katee seemed to be better with the helmet on, and I think it has a lot to do with the fact that she seems either bored or displeased with the material she's tasked with trying to sell. She looks like she's seconds away from bursting into laughter 
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Madurai posted:I now await the fan art of what Jack Black's character looked like in Imperial uniform. I half expected them to call him Zsinj. Vinylshadow posted:She looks like she's seconds away from bursting into laughter Grogu has a Happy Meal!
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I liked this episode in that special way where I don't think we should keep talking about it. Let's just, you know, move on.
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thrawn527 posted:I half expected them to call him Zsinj. Sir Grogu deserves a Happy Meal 
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fartknocker posted:Sir Grogu deserves a Happy Meal Every time I talk to my mother about this show she's always like "Why doesn't the Mandalorian ever feed Baby Yoda and just leaves him with all these sketchy babysitters all the time? He's a lovely dad."
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Someone quipped that Katee seemed to be better with the helmet on, and I think it has a lot to do with the fact that she seems either bored or displeased with the material she's tasked with trying to sell. I know Katee has said she enjoys acting with the helmet on because she gets to act via movement. Instead of acting with her face, she gets to express what her character is feeling via action. She said she would rush over to video village to see what it looked like on screen. Which is a bit different because Pedro is sometimes not even in the armor. He has a couple guys that wear the suit like 40% of the time.
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Lobok posted:It doesn't seem like Sackhoff is really given a lot to work with anyway. What's her face really supposed to do when the range of Bo's character only goes from displeased to exasperated to fed up to... We haven't gotten to the parts where she gets to sneer villainously yet. I'm sure she'll do fine.
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"So, Lizzo, Jack Black, and The Doc walk into a bar" sounds like a bad setup for a bad joke, and I don't think I'm entirely incorrect.
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Lobok posted:It doesn't seem like Sackhoff is really given a lot to work with anyway. What's her face really supposed to do when the range of Bo's character only goes from displeased to exasperated to fed up to... She might also like wearing the helmet because it allows her to  with impunity.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Someone quipped that Katee seemed to be better with the helmet on, and I think it has a lot to do with the fact that she seems either bored or displeased with the material she's tasked with trying to sell. Yeah I think it's a core issue with the entire production, not any individual actor. Everything that we see looks so lazy and cheap that I can't imagine what the on-set experience is like. I'm sure everyone on the crew is doing their best but whether it's time, money, or direction from the showrunners, something is not clicking and it's infused into every aspect of the show.
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Tender Bender posted:Everything looks like absolutely garbage, lmao. It would rule if they leaned fully into the camp vibe, but the show tries to split the difference with a story and dialogue played mostly flat but delivered as if it's goofy camp. The result is something that just feels cheap and, worst of all, boring. Sadly, I have to agree with this. I thought at least when Doc was asking for forgiveness that Lizzo was going to say "one day..." then pull out a gun and blast him. A "we believe in direct democracy, but we also believe in direct justice" just to give Planet Epcot a bit of an edge. More camp, or more sense of darkness at the edges, just anything other than the odd middle ground of purest beige we ended up with. On the plus side, the hot Mandalorians are back.
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Parkingtigers posted:Can't believe they went with the whole "dead person has a book of matches from a bar, and visiting that bar breaks the case" detective story trope. But now it's a battle droid and a "spark box", but literally the same trope. There are so many similarities that I feel like it had to be an homage to the older detective shows. I thought it was cool regardless 
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ShowTime posted:I know Katee has said she enjoys acting with the helmet on because she gets to act via movement. Instead of acting with her face, she gets to express what her character is feeling via action. She said she would rush over to video village to see what it looked like on screen. The only time he's in the armor is when you see his face. Otherwise it's just VO work.
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Parkingtigers posted:On the plus side, the hot Mandalorians are back. would honestly have liked to have seen simon kassianides play boba fett in Book...i think he could have pulled it off
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Someone quipped that Katee seemed to be better with the helmet on, and I think it has a lot to do with the fact that she seems either bored or displeased with the material she's tasked with trying to sell. I don't think Katee Sackhoff is actually that great of an actor so I'm not sure what they expect. I know that sounds a bit harsh, I like her in stuff and she's fine, she suits this type of show but she's not on the level of a Pedro Pascal who can jump from this to something great on HBO or as he's mostly VO maybe a better example is Ewan McGregor who could elevate something as bad as Obi Wan Kenobi to at least semi watchable.
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Jehde posted:I think Katee Sackhoff does a good job of bringing a cartoon character to life. She's hitting the mark better than Rosario Dawson is so far, but we'll see how the She's also been playing Bo Katan for a literal decade while Dawson has shown up as Ahsoka twice now. Also I love how everyone on Twitter was crying "Why does Bo Katan get to take her helmet off when Din had to literally almost kill himself to redeem himself for the stupid cult and he can't take his off?" without realizing for a second that Pedro Pascal was in Calgary filming The Last of Us while Mando S3 was being filmed so Bo Katan gets to take her helmet off because Katee Sackhoff was literally there on set and Pedro wasn't...
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I imagine part of the writing process for this episode was stitching together a bunch of unused episode concepts and then slotting in the guest actors where necessary.
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"Alright, where are we spending the budget this time." "GUEST STARS." "What about sets." "GUEST STARS." "What about CGI." "GUEST STARS." "What about editing." "GUEST. STARS."
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Vinylshadow posted:"Alright, where are we spending the budget this time." Unless this was another stealth pilot and the Jack Black and Lizzo limited series is coming in 2026.
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Vinylshadow posted:"Alright, where are we spending the budget this time." This was the best episode of the season so far, they should continue this trend.
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DJ_Mindboggler posted:This was the best episode of the season so far, they should continue this trend.  This is the way
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DJ_Mindboggler posted:This was the best episode of the season so far, they should continue this trend. Yea it elevated the season from bad to mediocre
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