The Mandalorian

Kaige said:

I don't mind side stories, but that was too long of a side story. I could go with that if they broke it up into pieces and spread it out over a few episodes, but doing a big bulky injection into the middle of a Mando adventure is pretty annoying.

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I think that's a fair comment to be honest.

As the episode was around 20 mins longer than the previous I wonder if we still had similar amounts of Mando screentime though.

Chuk is the real life version of Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino.

Furry said:

What I learned about Coruscant is that it has fucking terrible CGI. This shit is last decade. Get out of here. Yet it looked so good in andor.

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Andor used sets, with CGI to augment them. As far as I know, Mando is still a fully Volume shot show, so its mostly CGI with little bits of real things to augment that.

Cybsled said:

Regard Bo-Katan, I think she will leverage the mythosaur to try to gain power over the group. Since they are ultra traditional, she could easily use that to cement a place of power

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I couldn't tell in episode 2, but I assume Bo-Katan gave Mando the darksaber back. It wasn't obvious even though I watched the episode twice. Seemed she could have taken it back as he lost it in combat and she won it back? Now that they've shown she's lost all her followers, even the few she had in S2, I'm sure she sees the coven as an opportunity potentially and her wheels are now spinning after being accepted. Her despair at the scattering of the Mandalore people may now have hope, especially with the darksaber right next to her and the knowledge of the Mythosaur and how the coven/cult would react to its existence on a planet that is actual habitable.

Ranak said:

I couldn't tell in episode 2, but I assume Bo-Katan gave Mando the darksaber back. It wasn't obvious even though I watched the episode twice. Seemed she could have taken it back as he lost it in combat and she won it back? Now that they've shown she's lost all her followers, even the few she had in S2, I'm sure she sees the coven as an opportunity potentially and her wheels are now spinning after being accepted. Her despair at the scattering of the Mandalore people may now have hope, especially with the darksaber right next to her and the knowledge of the Mythosaur and how the coven/cult would react to its existence on a planet that is actual habitable.

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technically she won the darksaber already when the robot spider thing took it off Mando and she bested the robot spider, basically that dumb contrivance they used in Harry Potter.

Animosity said:

Chuk is the real life version of Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino.

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yes, i have the sin of noticing things. i dont sit around my house wiuth a baby yoda doll in my lap while i cry to an episode of Andor. i'm a real person.

Killing Pershing would have been easier, but instead they used eliminating him to keep an imbedded mole in the organization

If he was flat out murdered, then there would presumably have been a bigger investigation than “shit, this imperial tech fried this dude’s brains. Chalk up another bit of imperial tech we need to scrap”

Tuco said:

I don't care that much and I'm probably in the minority on this but if a TV show is going to have a POV character that doesn't interact with the main POV character I'd much prefer they occupy a large contiguous space in an episode instead of flipping between characters. Such that I'd prefer they get 45 minutes of a single episode like in episode 3 instead of being split up into several 15 minute clips in multiple episodes. Even if they do a good job of the POV change (and don't use it like a 90s drama series commercial break and change POVs at peak tension), you're always going to have a POV you prefer and changing from that POV to one you don't is irritating.

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I think one of the things The Wire does better then any other film is the way they interweave stories. Tons of containerized stories and one off side pieces where the characters never, or rarely, interacted with each other outside their scene yet it was brilliantly fluid and interwoven.

More Katie Sackhoff is a good thing, just hope they dont ruin it with some love arc.

Ranak said:

I couldn't tell in episode 2, but I assume Bo-Katan gave Mando the darksaber back.

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I specifically watched for this in the episode. You see him attach it to his belt when he wakes up and gathers his shit together to leave.

bo-katan gave din the saber back in the last episode. i wasn't looking for it, but i definitely noticed it. when she was wielding it to free din, i was actively wondering if they were going to show her being hesitant to give it back, but when bo-katan set up that campfire with din's stuff laid out, the darksaber was right next to his blaster.

i'm interested to see what bo does moving forward. she specifically didn't tell din about the mythosaur... she doesn't seem to be the kind of person that doubts herself, so i don't think it's that she's not sure if she saw it or not... i think she understands that while she and din are friends, he's standing directly in her way. mando isn't the kind of person to see a mythosaur and think, hey, i bet if i tame that thing i can bring all the mandalorians under heel, but bo-katan is and she's not empathetic enough to realize that not everyone thinks the way she does.

it's also entirely possible that seeing the mythosaur didn't make her think of conquest, but rather it was a deeply spiritual moment for her and she's trying to come to terms with the moment. then on top of being welcomed wholesale by the covert (it's covert, not coven... they aren't witches), i wonder if she's looking at din's group as something she COULD call her own. she referred to that group as fanatics or cultists or something, i can't remember specifically, but she wasn't kind towards it. it's possible she could be changing her viewpoint on that and understanding WHY din is so attached.

or she could be thinking about using the covert as a replacement for the darksaber. they don't seem to hold the darksaber in the same regard as the other mando's. paz vizla wants it, though it's hard to tell if he wants it because of his own family relationship with the saber and not because he thinks wielding it will put him in charge of all the mandalorians. bo-katan might be thinking about using the covert to control the rest of the mandalorians.

but again, i don't think it's a coincidence that in the same episode that we saw bo's ancestral home destroyed she's greeted with a new family.

I think the mythosaur was the start of her journey back to "the way" and we see it continue in this weeks episode, i guess by seasons end she wields the Dark Saber and is leading the small group + maybe a bunch more mandos/people convert and join

Khalan said:

I think the mythosaur was the start of her journey back to "the way" and we see it continue in this weeks episode, i guess by seasons end she wields the Dark Saber and is leading the small group + maybe a bunch more mandos/people convert and join

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i don't think she'll get it back, outside of small moments like episode 2. ultimately i think din is going to be the saber's caretaker until grogu takes the creed

Chukzombi said:

technically she won the darksaber already when the robot spider thing took it off Mando and she bested the robot spider, basically that dumb contrivance they used in Harry Potter.

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lol this isn't the Elder Wand. It is supposed to be 1 on 1 combat.

j00t said:

i don't think she'll get it back, outside of small moments like episode 2. ultimately i think din is going to be the saber's caretaker until grogu takes the creed

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Everyone keeps saying that, but the Darksaber is way too big for Grogu. Go back to when Luke offers him Yoda's saber and the Darksaber hilt is like 4 times longer.

Seananigans said:

I think the worst part was it was 40 minutes of "who the fuck are these people?" all for nothing but a reveal that they/them is likely an Imperial/Thrawn plant. That reveal did not need 40 minutes of screen time setup.

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I think this is a pretty fair take. I liked the Coruscant side story, but it did seem to drag a bit at times. I think this might be a fault of the eye rolling cast of those stories, or just maybe their flat acting abilities.