The Mandalorian

While I did enjoy this season, and the show itself overall. Djin is fairly bland character overall. The best part of the show has often been what happens around him, rather than what happens to him if that makes any sense.

Also Grogu has run it's course, it did a long time ago if you ask me. It's limiting the show in many ways. Also, the puppet is just awful anytime it has to move, it's too stiff. The face animations are decent but arms, and body just sucks.

I like where the show ended, him back as a bounty hunter with a home to get back to, and friends all over that he can call upon as needed. Go back to adventure of the week, I think that's the best format for this show and character.

Anyone else feel like they made jetpacks gay in that finale?

Like its always been a tool used to augment the rough and tumble fighting style of mandalorians. They use blasters, vibro knives, flame throwers, grappling hooks, rocket punches. Jet packs give them options in combat, added momentum to punches, quick jumps to get to high ground, escape options, etc. Like every fight involving a mando they show off the versatility of the jetpack in combat. They also go out of their way to show the limitations of jetpacks, running out of fuel chasing the pterodactyl earlier this season, etc.

But then axe uses his jetpack to go from a cave below the surface of mandalore to rocket through the atmosphere and reach fucking ships in orbit? Ignoring math and physics and shit about how escape velocity works and how impossible that would be, because fuck it its not science fiction its wizards in space, but seriously wtf. And he still has enough fuel left to fly away from the cruiser after setting it up to crash into the base?

Also wtf do you guys even bother with drop ships if every mando with a jetpack can just fly from space down to the planets surface and still have enough fuel to have a full own aerial melee battle like some sort of cheap anime? Wtf is the purpose of those ships? They boarded them from space in the upper atmosphere and rode them for about 5000 feet of descent and then flew the rest of the way using jetpacks. It clearly isnt about fuel conservation because jet packs only need fuel when plot says so, it isnt about maneuvering or element of surprise.

The only logical reason they use drop ships according to the rules established this episode is because their butt itches or they needed a second to adjust their armor or catch up on email or something.

My memory is a little hazy so i could be mistaken, but wasn't the plot of one of season 1 episodes, you know the episode where they introduced bo katan and axe and all them, was about a freighter heist?

Like they specifically called out the limitations of jet packs combined with the time required for a freighter to reach orbit gave them a very specific, very narrow intercept window and they needed dins help because it would take 5 mandos to pull it off, not 4?


Edit: thank you. Tony stark jet packs is exactly the idea i was circling around but failed to put into words. That finale fight looked like some avenger shit rather than mandalorians.