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I really thought we were going to hear Grogu's first spoken word in this episode. It would've made it something other than largely a waste of ~28 minutes' time and a convenient excuse to reuse CGI elements from the last episode.
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The live action show is now the kid’s cartoon and the kid’s cartoon is now a high stakes drama. You leaned too hard in both directions, Disney. Tech is still alpha as gently caress.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:With the exception of *maybe* the Armorer, this covert are definitely the Pakleds of the loving Mandos. Bo Katan: The Armorer told me giant flying bird-monsters keep eating their Foundlings so I asked how many Foundlings they have and they said they just go to war zones and get a new Foundling afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding Foundlings to giant flying bird-monsters and then the big guy with the laser machine gun started crying.
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Mar 22, 2023 09:51
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Jerusalem posted:Bo Katan: The Armorer told me giant flying bird-monsters keep eating their Foundlings so I asked how many Foundlings they have and they said they just go to war zones and get a new Foundling afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding Foundlings to giant flying bird-monsters and then the big guy with the laser machine gun started crying. This is the way Mando was a lot of fun this week - back to Giant Monster of the Week. (Although on the bright side, they at least got rid of their giant bird problem.) Bad Batch: loved the parallels between Tantiss and Pabu, with the former being shrouded in mist and shadow while the latter was clear skies and dappled in moonlight
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I had a weird bug with my Disney+, thought I'd share how I fixed it in case it's useful for someone, someday: This week's episode would do the little Disney logo animation and then pause/freeze there. I could scan through the episodewith the little bar on the bottom but it wouldn't play, rebooting my computer didn't work. Other episodes would play fine, it was only the just-dropped one. I tried it on my phone in the app and it played... then suddenly I was able to get past the frozen part on my PC and watch it as normal on the big screen.  1st AD posted:So… Hahaha, I thought I recognised the actor but couldn't place him, but nope - not until the credits rolled, anyways! I liked the episode overall even if the main plot event had very convenient, not very logical rules. I think they've done a pretty decent job narratively setting up Bo Katan's journey to Mandalorian tradwife. Ethics_Gradient fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Mar 22, 2023 |
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Mar 22, 2023 10:16
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Did we really need to be told 4 times that they couldn't use their jetpacks because it would alert the creature? Also the idea that there would be a culture that doesn't eat together seems loving ridiculous. People would invent a special eating veil before they'd stop sharing meals. WhiskeyWhiskers fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Mar 22, 2023 |
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Mar 22, 2023 10:19
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Did we really need to be told 4 times that they couldn't use their jetpacks because it would alert the creature? Give it a minute, somebody here will ask why they just didn’t use their jet packs. People are bad at watching TV.
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Mar 22, 2023 10:20
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Did we really need to be told 4 times that they couldn't use their jetpacks because it would alert the creature? Isn't this season's subtext that the Mandos are all morons? Repetition is key
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Mar 22, 2023 10:21
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Marsupial Ape posted:Give it a minute, somebody here will ask why they just didn’t use their jet packs. People are bad at watching TV. "Those Jawas were offering two-fer-one deals on jetpack mufflers six planets back, but did we listen to them? Noooooo. 'Why would we need them?' you said. 'What are the odds we'll find a planet filled with giant monsters that we don't want to attract the attention of?' you said. Well look who's laughing now!" I was more impressed the creature didn't...immediately feed its kids. Guessed they must've just hatched, and all the previous captures were devoured by the parent?
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Mar 22, 2023 10:28
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Also, forcing people to not share meals, which is foundational to building community, is just bad speculative anthropology. Bo-Katan referenced feasting last episode, so hopefully she’ll recognize this as some bullshit.
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Mar 22, 2023 10:29
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Okay but what if you just all ate in the living waters with like a floating dining table then you could all take off your helmets.
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Spookydonut posted:Okay but what if you just all ate in the living waters with like a floating dining table then you could all take off your helmets. Also comes with Mandalorian Roulette, where a random person gets eaten by the local megafauna at a random point during the meal
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Mar 22, 2023 10:38
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Ethics_Gradient posted:I had a weird bug with my Disney+, thought I'd share how I fixed it in case it's useful for someone, someday: I've experienced the same once on my PC which I only rarely use to watch or review episodes. If I see it again I'll try on the Roku where I watch primarily and have never had the problem.
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Mar 22, 2023 10:48
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Ethics_Gradient posted:Hahaha, I thought I recognised the actor but couldn't place him, but nope - not until the credits rolled, anyways! Oh poo poo that was Ahmed Best? That's loving awesome!
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Mar 22, 2023 11:10
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Rappaport posted:Isn't this season's subtext that the Mandos are all morons? Repetition is key I don't have any personal experience in the military, but when I think about the stories I've heard, and then multiply that by the stories I've heard about people who used to be in strict religious settings math checks out
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Mar 22, 2023 11:17
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Maybe the Children of the Watch should move somewhere else
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General Dog posted:Maybe the Children of the Watch should move somewhere else They need a big lake to shoot at
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Mar 22, 2023 14:07
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It felt really weird when they used a wipe transition in the middle of the initial jetpack chase with the monster bird. I get that it signaled the passage of time (since the other side of the cut shows that they'd travelled some distance and their packs had run out of fuel), but it still feels extremely unnatural to wipe from a shot of them flying to another shot of them flying over very similar terrain at a similar time of day.
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Mar 22, 2023 14:19
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I'm so crazy happy about Jedi Ahmed Best. I gasped when the door opened and it was him. Dual lightsaber wielding Ahmed Best is just...so great.
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Mar 22, 2023 14:44
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Something I really adore with The Bad Batch is the TK Trooper armor design is the original 1970's Stormtrooper design from the initial artwork sketches for Star Wars. They truly are Stormtrooper predecessors in every way  .
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Mar 22, 2023 15:14
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I can't wait to see BB at lunch today - wipe away todays Mando episode from the mind.
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Mar 22, 2023 15:20
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Ten minutes in new Mando WHY DO THEY LIVE THERE?!?!?!
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Mar 22, 2023 15:35
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For a pretty story-focused season, sure doesn’t feel like we’ve covered much story at the halfway point.
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Mar 22, 2023 15:42
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swickles posted:Ten minutes in new Mando That's also really confusing to me. The Mandalorians clearly have a huge force, are training, etc, so why don't they move out of the cave system thats surrounded by space dinosaurs and space dragons that are constantly attacking them? A lot of the comments are starting to point out how dumb the Mandalorians are and it's so undeniably true. I know they wanna stay hidden or whatever, but they could do that in a lot of places. The other thing that is sure to come about, off that episode, is that in a future one we are definitely gonna see Mandalorians riding space dragons. Really going after House of the Dragon, aren't they?
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Mandalorians have always ridden dragon looking things to be fair, including Basilisk droids. Bring those back imo.
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ShowTime posted:why don't they move out of the cave system thats surrounded by space dinosaurs and space dragons that are constantly attacking them? cheap rent, split 50 ways, for that single room cave (taken up by a furnace). It's really a no brainer in the post-Empire economic downturn
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ShowTime posted:That's also really confusing to me. The Mandalorians clearly have a huge force, are training, etc, so why don't they move out of the cave system thats surrounded by space dinosaurs and space dragons that are constantly attacking them? A lot of the comments are starting to point out how dumb the Mandalorians are and it's so undeniably true. I know they wanna stay hidden or whatever, but they could do that in a lot of places. ok, after watching the episode, mainly the first couple seconds of the end credits the crab creatures Grogu was playing with look a lot like the ones from the Rebel base in Rebels, especially in the end credits sequence. I am wondering if these are meant to be the same planet or maybe crab/spider like creatures can only have so much diversity...
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I would've laughed if the pterodactyl thing picked off a few more at night when they split up to eat. Just non stop harassment.swickles posted:Ten minutes in new Mando Welp, they got another foundling. Oh well what can you do
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I assume they live there at least in part because of the giant monsters. The armorer gave that whole speech about themselves being forged by hardships as well after all. Maybe she thought they had gone soft living on Navarro and over corrected a bit.
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Wanna know how this episode could've been great? Grogu "grabs" the space dragon mid-flight after it nabs the kid, making it panic and grab the kid in its talons even tighter, threatening his life. Paz pleads with everyone to save his son, but no one wants to risk hitting him with blaster fire. Grogu hears the kid's screams of pain and it makes him remember the culling of the Younglings. We see his angry face for the first time and it pans to the dragon and all you see is it's head snap violently to one side and a horrific *crunch*, causing it to go limp and let go of the kid, letting him be rescued. Everyone's happy the kid's safe, but now everyone *also* knows this cute little green kid can snap your neck like a goddamned twig with his mind - Bo Katan needs to calm everyone's nerves by telling them about the Force and what Jedi could do, since now more than a few in the covert see Grogu as a threat. Later on, when the Armorer is making Grogu his crest, he has another PTSD episode and we finally hear him speak for the first time, even if it's sotto voce.
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What are the Children of the Watch training for? Do they have some long term military goal, or is it just an endless cycle of “learn to fight so you can be a hired gun and make money to support the Watch”?
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Well, on top of not recognizing Beq as the voice of Jar Jar, I also didn't know the character has been the host of a kids' obstacle course show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF8mT0RMqDA
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General Dog posted:What are the Children of the Watch training for? Do they have some long term military goal, or is it just an endless cycle of “learn to fight so you can be a hired gun and make money to support the Watch”? They also seem to have forgotten the fundamental nature of the Covert; Most of them hide to stay safe while one of them goes out into the wider world/galaxy to make them some scratch (and ideally some Beskar) Bounty Hunting. Din's certainly not doing that now, so one of the others should be out making them money. Also why and how the gently caress do they not have at least a ship, considering they seem to be on an otherwise-uninhabited planet?
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swickles posted:ok, after watching the episode, mainly the first couple seconds of the end credits No idea about that, but I forgot that all of them are gradually inching closer to Grogu, until he leaves, after which they all disperse back into the water. I guess his force stuff, possibly life based (based off him healing that one time, and being reincarnated Yoda possibly), makes creatures gravitate towards him. Maybe it's just his species thing that does it. I can't really recall Jedi having a special affinity with living creatures or anything, but I'm not a big Star Wars nerd.
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The spider creatures from Rebels are based on old concept art by Ralph McQuarrie, and the design's been re-used a couple of times. They appeared in Rebels, but they've also already shown up in The Mandalorian, on the ice planet.   The crabs in the episode probably aren't supposed to be the same thing, but are subject to the Star Wars equivalent of carcinization - though instead of everything eventually evolving into a crab, everything eventually evolves into unused Ralph McQuarrie concept art.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Also why and how the gently caress do they not have at least a ship, considering they seem to be on an otherwise-uninhabited planet? Maybe their ships were
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ShowTime posted:(and being reincarnated Yoda possibly) Is this an actual thing? I struggle to believe it considering they've bent over backwards to establish he was alive contemporaneously with adult yoda for decades, but gently caress it I guess the dumbness knows no bounds
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General Dog posted:What are the Children of the Watch training for? Do they have some long term military goal, or is it just an endless cycle of “learn to fight so you can be a hired gun and make money to support the Watch”? I assume they're getting ready to go to Mandalore now that they know they can live there.
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I don't believe it myself but it's one of the prevalent fan theories. In this episode they go back to showing flashbacks of Grogu being very protected, more than any other youngling and even having an armed escort waiting to get him off planet. He's clearly special in some kind of way, but that could just be because of his species. I guess they are very powerful with the force naturally. But I think they are leading into Grogu having some kind of special background.
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Ep 1: You're in a dumb fuckin cult Din Djarin Ep 2: gently caress your stupid cult Ep 4: Hey pretty neat cult you've got here
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