Dave Syndrome posted:

Liked it overall, but again some of the writing was a bit clunky.

Apart from the ethics of displaying the partially-dismembered corpse of a local hero as a statue, it's a bit weird why Mando wants IG-11 back.
I would argue that the mechanics are nothing special, and he could just get any other IG droid - maybe add a few weapons modifications, but that should be it. The thing that made IG-11 special was his programming and his memories. Now if that's gone, what's the point of going in search of a new memory core?
They could at least have explained it with "his memory and programming are still in there, but he's missing a Special Part(TM) that lets him access all of it" and the result would've been the same.

Ratjaculation posted:

IG11 is a fan favourite, and thus his meaningful sacrifice, much like Mando passing Grogu to Luke, can be made irrelevant for merchandising purposes

That said, I enjoyed the episode. Mando still feels like the definition of Star Wars

Ratjaculation posted:

Where the heck will IG11 fit in that Naboo fighter anyway???

Jerkface posted:

The Pirates were flying R-41 starchasers from Tie Fighter, which is a touch I loved

swickles posted:

I honestly thought it was a flashback scene until Mando landed the fighter. I really thought the kid was Djinn and this was his helmet ceremony and that he would at some point save the day.

FlamingLiberal posted:

The kid Mandalorian helmets looked very plasticky for some reason

I don’t really understand…they tell Mando that he needs a new part to fix the droid but then he just continues the mission anyway? Did I miss something?

Owlbear Camus posted:

she died on her way to her home planet

theflyingexecutive posted:

IG-11 exploded! He died! nobly and heroically! Jfc, why bring him back?

DJ_Mindboggler posted:

Hopefully they turn things around, I honestly didn't like bringing back Grogu in BoBF, I guess they're just gonna run this formula into the ground.

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Imagine giving birth with a helmet on that you can't take off

theflyingexecutive posted:

Don't worry, Grogu's selling backpacks and popsockets and poo poo. Even if he was at his second Jedi Academy massacre, he'd magically escape and be a nonentity for all of the sequel trilogy.

Spookydonut posted:

Don't make that comparison because henry blake was beloved and he got a happy ending of surviving in a life raft.

Arc Hammer posted:

Look Gamera just wanted to congratulate the foundling for getting his first helmet. He's a friend to all children but that just isn't good enough for some rear end in a top hat adults.

Data Graham posted:

My "favorite" space trope is how if you're flying along and your ship breaks down or you get shot or whatever, you immediately "fall out of the sky" onto a nearby planet which is always just there.

Instead of like ... okay I'm stranded 500 light years from the nearest globular cluster

Ratjaculation posted:

who the gently caress is Yaddie?!

kneelbeforezog posted:

why dont they make a luke skywalker show? luke going on adventures?

nine-gear crow posted:

Yeah, everyone he's had to interact with has been a helmeted weirdo, another CGI creation, or someone in heavy prosthetic makeup who herself is portraying an interpretation of a cartoon character. If you put creepy plastic action figure Luke up against a real human like they did with Tarkin in Rogue One it would be stomach turning.

CelticPredator posted:

It looked exactly like this

Robot Style posted:

And weirdly enough, this scene actually seems to contradict Season 1, where Mandalorian kids seem to just wear whatever helmets happen to be lying around (or maybe they're just really non-standard designs), and getting an actual Mando helmet would presumably be a rite of passage that happens during adulthood.

mistermojo posted:

the show only kind of works when they rip off Lone Wolf and Cub and old westerns. the more it becomes about the side characters and overarching plot the worse it gets.

Robot Style posted:

That would definitely make sense to bring the season full-circle, but there's no way they're going to put baby in a helmet for the rest of the series. Maybe the demands of keeping the show marketable will force Din into making some reforms so his cult doesn't require 100% helmet all the time.

Kwatz posted:

No, read Heir to the Empire before anything. It’s what functionally started the old book EU back in the 90s and Thrawn is mostly confined to that trilogy of books and you don’t have to worry about a ton of tie-ins to get everything. That being said, that’s the old canon and I have no idea what the books about Thrawn are in the new canon.

fartknocker posted:

I think they meant it started the EU in real life, since Heir to the Empire was the first major Star Wars book released in 1991 and started the EU as we know it. Truce at Bakura is one of many books set before it (Picking up immediately after Endor), but wasn’t written until 1994. If there’s anything to read that’s set post-Endor/pre-Thrawn trilogy, it’s the first seven books of the X-wing series (Corran Horn jokes aside, they’re solid action books and the Wraith Squadron trilogy is great).

All that said, there are a pair of Thrawn trilogies set in the New EU. The first, consisting of Thrawn, Thrawn: Alliances, and Thrawn: Treason is set kinda around Rebels with some flashback to Clone Wars-era stuff and is okay but nothing special. The other, the Thrawn: Ascendancy trilogy, is basically his backstory/origin tale in the Chiss military and better and pretty cool, being written in such a way that it could really work in either the old EU or the new one, but neither is required to understand him whether you’re watching Rebels or going into Heir to the Empire.

Also, I’ll make my legally required “Give me Wraith Squadron, you bastards!” post.

BIG HEADLINE posted:

Luke is a goddamned disaster romantically. He knows his "parents" aren't his parents, it's pretty clear he's aged out of whatever primary/secondary education system exists on Tatooine, and he lives in the literal boonies, so he probably has the same exposure to girls his own age as a kid in an Arab/Subcontinental society. Unless "getting power converters at Tosche Station" was Tatooine teenage slang for "gonna go try and get laid/hit up a brothel."

Vinylshadow posted:

Romantic couples on Tatooine learn to hate sand, because it's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it. Gets. Everywhere.

Y'wanna take your take on a trip to the dune sea? Too bad, sand has gotten into the engine block and corroded the motivator, so have fun walking into town to get a new one for your date!

No Mods No Masters posted:

To put it another way, it's been underappreciated that the prequels are the work of a massively divorced man, to an extent perhaps not surpassed in the public eye until modern day elon musk. I feel like george's stance was quite plausibly lowkey 'the initial tragedy was the love ban wasn't obeyed'

fartknocker posted:

Just do a Wraith Squadron show, you bastards! I demand the adventures of Lieutenant Kettch!

Vinylshadow posted:

Bo could say she won it from him and Din literally doesn't want the drat thing so he'd simply nod and say "yep she totally kicked my rear end while we on Mandalore and I got the bruises to prove it"

ShowTime posted:

In this episode didn't she just claim it? The previous owner (Din) was defeated by creepy cyborg, who was then defeated by Bo-Katan. They've already established it doesn't have to be a killing. Or does the first loss not count because the cyborg won by submission and not a brawl?

Edit: NVM, I read up a bit. lovely and doesn't make sense.

site posted:

yeah i was kinda confused how that works but maybe it's like, some classes of ship have that built in to their systems but a naboo starfighter is designed to have an astromech co-pilot so that capability is offloaded onto them instead

it is dumb and that's why their whole thing is such a mess even going back to the factioning in rebels, but between her getting a whole scene of wielding it properly and saving din's rear end twice i have to believe she's gonna get it back for real soon

Sash! posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lgpOdRXXu0

theflyingexecutive posted:

It'd be p funny if Luke only thought Tatooine was a backwater shithole because he never goes to the cities, like he's living in an Amish village 60 miles from Philly but thinks the entire US is a featureless void.

theflyingexecutive posted:

The only places we see in Mos Espa are a junkyard, slave quarters, and the podrace arena though. (E: forgot BoBF was Espa) And Mos Eisley/Espa/ a couple shanty towns are the only settlements we see too. Luke's family is coded as dirt poor despite the decently sized house and garage, but he still has a speeder and a T-16. Imagine what the middle class has.

BIG HEADLINE posted:

My guess is "always wearing the armor is a good way to allow her to not have to spend months getting in 'movie shape' for a streaming show."

Probably the same for Pedro in that respect.

theflyingexecutive posted:

Nobody's buying an Action Gardening Bo Katan toy.

And I 100% doubt Pedro is in that suit any more than 15% of the time.

Also just realized the reason they downgraded Mando's ride to a space Miata is because it's easier to do reshoots when the whole ship fits in the Volume. Fuckin Disney.

Infinitum posted:

I also recently got what they were going for with the Hover Vespa's

They were mods modding themselves
That's the joke


Christ what a bland nothingburger of a series.

Xelkelvos posted:

Buckler Lightsaber where the blade is short and splayed out wide or spinning at an anlge

Vinylshadow posted:

swickles posted:

How else am I going to learn about Sarlaac titties?

LividLiquid posted:

My grandfather was a projectionist. My father was a projectionist. I was a projectionist.

This joke fucks.

Ethics_Gradient posted:

This episode makes me want to see a "Tales from..." anthology.