US: The Mandalorian

Hmmm, almost spoilery, but according to Favreau, Grogu actually spent TWO YEARS with Luke between the end of S2 and BoBF. That puts a whole new spin on things then. As previously it seemed like it happened overnight.
 
Not that it was a bad episode, aside from a few things which were a bit too convenient/contemporary colloquialisms which broke the immersion a bit, but I just struggled to stay interested/care while watching - the novelty has worn off and I'm not getting any intrigue, etc. from it so far.
 
Forgot to say, really liked the episode. That opening was intense. Watching in the dark on OLED in HDR is really something on this show.
 
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Nitefly said:
S’alright! The whole ‘aww Grogu’ thing has worn off on me slightly, plus the initial driving plot for this new series seems a bit… eh, forced? The action scenes also seem a bit trite after the excellent drama focussed latter half of Andor. Leaning heavily on the successful but tried and tested ‘western vibes’ also. It was always unlikely to do anything particularly special with the first episode I suppose.

All complaints aside, fun world building and effortlessly watchable. Here’s hoping for more ‘self contained episode’ content, which is where Mando excels, rather than drawn out low threat plot arcs.
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Really enjoyed the episode, but the story seems like a PS4 sidequest mission. Mission goal, "bathe in the waters beneath the mines" - wtf? You must visit planet x and recruit IG11. When you visit IG11, oh no, his memory chip is broke, you must now go to planet y to collect the memory chip.

Bit lazy, but still enjoying it.
 
ivrytwr3 said:
Really enjoyed the episode, but the story seems like a PS4 sidequest mission. Mission goal, "bathe in the waters beneath the mines" - wtf? You must visit planet x and recruit IG11. When you visit IG11, oh no, his memory chip is broke, you must now go to planet y to collect the memory chip.

Bit lazy, but still enjoying it.
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Yes, that’s exactly how I felt. I guess it’s got to get the wheels moving somehow!
 
Going back over the latest episode, I think the biggest issue it really ran into, was that it was mostly made as a recap/rehash of what's already been done in the series and Book of Boba Fett already.

We know Grogu is back, and we spent a bit of time on that because it happened in Book of Boba Fett which not everyone watched.
We know Din is in a mission of redemption already, again because it happened in Book of Boba Fett which not everyone watched.

So the first setup scene with the Dragon Turtle (because that's what it looks like from the artist sketch at the end, a DnD Dragon Turtle) so Din could pull out from nowhere a piece of something supposedly from the mines of Mandalor (so conviently happening off screen) so that we can talk about him being on his redemption missiong was unnecessary.

The same applies for the details about Grogu being back when talking to Greef Karga and about his redemption mission again.

Then the final scene with Bo Katan and the Darksabre again, which didn't lead anywhere fast enough because they didn't have time after wasting it all on the recap.

Other than a few small parts in between (which were fun), the entire episode was basically a recap episode, and hence why it seems to go nowhere and so out of pace with how it usually goes.

Supposedly the next episode is where things kick off proper, so hopefully we're past the recap parts now. But it was still a waste of an episode. Pretty sure we could have skipped this episode and jumped into the next one to start off with and we'd likely not have missed much.

Also, whilst the detail released by Favreau about Grogu having spent TWO YEARS with Luke between Seasons 2 end and their return in Book of Boba Fett, this really should have been made more clear in at least one of the series instead so that everyone knows.
 
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Enjoyed the slapstick comedy in it.

It looks amazing.

But there was to much going on and some very poor writting.

Some very dumb crap in it. Making the Mandalorians look stupid and useless at the start.

But overall very much enjoyable.

(I think Andor has spoiled us)
 
I watched it last week, but i have no idea what exactly happened.

Mando went home to get his status back.
Kill giant Croc.
Then visits Apollo Creed and had a little western stand off on the streets.
1 guy got away and we saw Captain Barbossa's space cousin.

Or did I dream all that?
 
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