US: The Mandalorian

Continuing with the theory that Grogu was never meant to be in this season (he was meant to be with Luke - you could remove him and it would have had zero impact to the plot), I doubt he will be doing much of anything.

I also wouldn't expect a huge space battle. The foundations here were laid in the battle on Concordia and then the Shadow Council meeting. Moff Gideon had a fleet which was big enough to pose a threat to the Mandolorian fleet (with the element of surprise on their side). He lost some of it on Concordia, and that portion has now been replenished. That will be the extent of the Shadow Council's help - the fleet needs to remain small enough to plausibly be the property of a petty warlord.

Axe Woves will successfully warn the Mando fleet. And as a result, that Star Destroyer will wipe the floor with Gideon's fleet (there will be a bit more to the scene to build tension, but this will be the reality). And on the ground, Bo Katan is going to wind up saving the day, mounted atop the Mythosaur.
 
Efour said:
Ahsoka will turn up for something surely and boba will bring the townsfolk, hicks and Mods on their vespers to fight the tie interceptor/bomber fleet.

Jar jar will come with some big boomers and hilariously blow up ships by slipping over on banana skins and eopie poodoo.

If grogu does wield the dark sabre a little part of me will die inside of laughter.
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Lets hope what you said will be true, as I want Jar Jar's head chopped off with the Dark saber :D
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Watched finale it this morning, not going to give anything away.
I suspect this thread is about to become a bit funny and a bit of a **** show though.
 
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Seems a bit more like Season 1 ending where nothing too major happened. Which is OK.
Seems like things are heading back to Season 1 style after this, as Mando full times returns to bounty hunting.
Seems like Grogu might have been the one that the "Great One" was actually looking for given how this episode played out.
Nothing too fancy, or too heavily bad, just standard fare episode. Although that very last scene caught me off guard... Felt too cartoon, too Disney. And not Star Wars in the like at all. Probably could have done without that lingering portion and just cut to black.


Overall, servicible.
 
"Mandolorians are nothing without their trinkets"

Says the guy who would have been beaten quickly without his mechanised beskar armour :cry:
 
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McPhee said:
"Mandolorians are nothing without their trinkets"

Says the guy who would have been beaten quickly without his mechanised beskar armour :cry:
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Dont you mean;
"says the guy stealing all other cultures trinklets and technologies to become a bad ass as without any of them, he is a weak human :D"
 
Bit odd but probably for the best

Imho Mando S3 got muddled up due to rangers of the new republic rework, loads of time wasted (although I enjoyed it) on coruscant only for none of that to particularly matter at all, disappointed about no taking helmets off still being a thing
Lots of cool stuff but all wrapped up a bit fast, loads of room to have made the stuff in this episode 'more'

Din captured but immediately escapes (red guys take him down and then what - go for a tea break? And pop back in later after their union mandated 15mins off?)
Missing space battle somewhere - budget cuts?
No traitor armourer or axe
Clones of Moff g but all get killed immediately
Not even a second of conversation between din and bo after the battle they both just fought together
No boda or mythosaur riding
No Pedro head / helmet off (should have been a scene where he gets helmet removed during his capture)

But I like that it's kind of a reset for Mando S4 with din and grog can go back to simpler Mando S1 style "bad guy of the week" simpler episodes
Save the rebels spin off stuff for the other series (which I will also watch!)

Just a bit disappointed that s2 sort of setup Mando in a much bigger world, characters and story threads but then kind of backed off of it now

But ultimately it's better for Mando as a TV series itself

It's almost like they got carried away with making star wars TV show in s2 and then went whoa let's get this back to the format we started with
 
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Bit of an anti climatic finale in my view, lot of set ups in the season for Mythosaur amongst others which ended up being a quick visual at the end.
The Gideon clone reveal was quite a nice change and good to see that not drawn out in to next season either.
Very glad the spies title points to religion rather than potential Mandolorian spies, come on they are loyal, cant be going having spies in this season after just bringing them all back together through loyalty.

Although I would have loved to see the Mythosaur come out of the depths and swallow Gideon, I am quite happy how it all played out.
Grogu played his part, R5 played his part!
Watching Bo Katan, Armourer flying with melee weapons was pure entertainment.

I am a bit concerned for the future though, yes its great to be just Mando and Grogu again, but I am mega invested in the rest of the Mandalorians now. I want to see what happens with them, I want to see them all collectively lose their **** when a Mythosaur comes out of the water, do they get a new dark sabre, rebuild it, use a diff weapon to symbolise? This isnt "The Mandalorian" to me now, its "The Mandalorian's", so semi gutted it seems we may be shifting away from that now.
 
The Scene of grogu shielding them from the fire was a beautiful shot. Also very glad he remembered he had force powers this episode and could be of use :). Was annoyed last episode he didn't use them to open the big blast door or something!

Disappointed there was no space battle at all, those are one of the best things in SW.
 
sidimmu said:
This isnt "The Mandalorian" to me now, its "The Mandalorian's
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The Mandalorian could actually be the plural of a Mandalorian in the same way a person is Dutch but collectively it's the Dutch, not the Dutchs. It is countered by them, I think, always being referred to in the plural though given the rarity of a Mandalorian, it could be retconned that the correct pronunciation was forgotten.

I'm trying to remember if the Armourer has ever said something along the lines of "we are Mandalorian(s)". I can hear her saying a line like that and it would be interesting, if she did, whether it was with or without the 's'.
 
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The Mandalorian could actually be the plural of a Mandalorian in the same way a person is Dutch but collectively it's the Dutch, not the Dutchs. It is countered by them, I think, always being referred to in the plural though given the rarity of a Mandalorian, it could be retconned that the correct pronunciation was forgotten.

I'm trying to remember if the Armourer has ever said something along the lines of "we are Mandalorian(s)". I can hear her saying a line like that and it would be interesting, if she did, whether it was with or without the 's'.
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I think you are right on this.
I dont believe the armourer has ever addressed them as "Mandalorian's".

I do hope next season does look in to more of the covert/civilisation next steps. Great to go back to Din and grogu, but I'm invested in them as a whole now.
 
A very "safe" episode. In that nothing crazy or unexpected happens. You wind up where the series started.

The combat was less clunky this time. I feel they could have taken more risks. Questions the budget they had.

Season 3 had an identity crises.
 
This is the way.

Great ending, could have been better, but still enjoyed every second. Considering it was less than 35 minutes they crammed a lot in.


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A bit by the numbers, but argh, loved that ending.

Kanan vibes right there with Grogu’s fire deflection

Looking forward to their next adventures.
 
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I'm surprised it was only a 40 minute episode, slightly disappointing. Agree with other comments that overall it was a muddled series, seemed like they didn't know what to do with it, setting up later series but also found time for some filler episodes. That said the production values and visuals are incredible at times. Hopefully season 4 will be an improvement and they think about where the whole thing is going.
 
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So-so finale, obviously lots of action but also lots of stupid stuff.

2 guards for Mandalorian? And when he does escape Moff Gideon says he'll deal with Mandalorian himself but doesn't think to get to him before he goes through the clone hallway?

And that ship would have absolutely wrecked that base. It was a cool visual to have Grogu protecting them using the force, but the very platform they were on would have crumpled to nothing.

And there must have been 20 tie fighters going after that capital ship, what happened to them all? No way it took those all out with a few gun batteries.
 
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