Spoilers The Mandalorian season 2 discussion
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It felt very forced and fake, that's for sure. Also irrelevant. Considering that the X-Wings didn't show up until they were practically right on top of another planet (as opposed to being in deep space), there was really no reason for it. Favreau makes a lot of storytelling goofs like that in this show.
Thank god other people took notice!
Will it be funny if BY starts making strange noises and suddenly gives birth to a bunch of tadpoles?
Wow, so people who get emotionally invested in art/storytelling have something wrong with them!
Congratulations on the dumbest, worst fucking take of all time.
After each episode StarWars.com is posting a Mando Download, which features a new character poster, stills, and the concept art featured in the credits. Here's last week's.
Lucasfilm Has Already Turned The Mandalorian’s Eggs Into A Toy
https://screenrant.com/mandalorian-baby-yoda-frog-lady-egg-toy-funko/
Now that Baby Yoda's interest in Frog Lady's eggs is a major talking point among audiences, Lucasfilm has jumped on the opportunity to score some bucks off it. Per StarWars.com, a Funko Pop! of Baby Yoda pursuing Frog Lady's eggs has already been created. The item should be available for purchase later today for fans eager commemorate this strange, polarizing moment forever.
https://screenrant.com/mandalorian-baby-yoda-frog-lady-egg-toy-funko/
Now that Baby Yoda's interest in Frog Lady's eggs is a major talking point among audiences, Lucasfilm has jumped on the opportunity to score some bucks off it. Per StarWars.com, a Funko Pop! of Baby Yoda pursuing Frog Lady's eggs has already been created. The item should be available for purchase later today for fans eager commemorate this strange, polarizing moment forever.
Damn it! It might just suck me back in.Based on the short summary for next week's episode
I think we're going to the water planet with all the Quarren we've seen in the trailers
Something like this would have had to have been planned in advance. Now it's possible the response to the episode green lit it.
Then again, is there anything that hasn't had a funko pop made for it?
I think eating the eggs was awkward as well.
TM's main plot continues to be very thin, we still don't even know what the imperial remnants want to do with with Baby Yoda, and it took an entire season to figure out it might be a good idea to look for their people. Instead, this show heavily relies on high quality visuals - which look impeccable without even slightly discernible CGI, not even those varied living creatures - together with well done action scenes in a number of diverse settings (even though I'm generally fed up with desert planets in SW), the Western vibes, and the cuteness of BY. At times, it really feels like the main character works through side quests in a video game, Mando goes from place to place, solves the problem of the week. Hell, 2x01 is quite literally a mission from Knights of the Old Republic.
Nevertheless, season 2 isn't a dissapointment so far, after the first season I got exactly what I had expected. A decent, entertaining space Western. Nice to have, not great.
I like the cast/ characters. Hopefully Greef Karga and Cara Dune will return soon, but I don't really care about Gideon, the evil guy who just drew upon the G. Esposito hype. It may change with more appearances and screen time, however.
The fan service doesn't bother me much here.
This is like comparing a burger with a multi-course dinner. Regardless of whether you like the respective meal, Mandalorian isn't even seriously trying to be "more."
TM's main plot continues to be very thin, we still don't even know what the imperial remnants want to do with with Baby Yoda, and it took an entire season to figure out it might be a good idea to look for their people. Instead, this show heavily relies on high quality visuals - which look impeccable without even slightly discernible CGI, not even those varied living creatures - together with well done action scenes in a number of diverse settings (even though I'm generally fed up with desert planets in SW), the Western vibes, and the cuteness of BY. At times, it really feels like the main character works through side quests in a video game, Mando goes from place to place, solves the problem of the week. Hell, 2x01 is quite literally a mission from Knights of the Old Republic.
Nevertheless, season 2 isn't a dissapointment so far, after the first season I got exactly what I had expected. A decent, entertaining space Western. Nice to have, not great.
I like the cast/ characters. Hopefully Greef Karga and Cara Dune will return soon, but I don't really care about Gideon, the evil guy who just drew upon the G. Esposito hype. It may change with more appearances and screen time, however.
The fan service doesn't bother me much here.
This is like comparing a burger with a multi-course dinner. Regardless of whether you like the respective meal, Mandalorian isn't even seriously trying to be "more."
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Two episodes in, and I'm confused by the fact that there seems to be lingering confusion over what Din's mission now is, and by complaints about Chapter 10 specifically.
When Din says he's been quested to return The Child to "its kind", he's talking about the Jedi, not the unnamed species that characters like Yoda and Yaddle are a part of.
That quest is what the entire season is predicated upon, and what the first two episodes have been about perpetuating, and so to complain that Chapter 10 didn't build on the Boba Fett thing or bring back Moff Gideon and the Darksaber is to basically reject and misconstrue the intent of the season.
Din can't encounter Boba or come back into conflict with Moff Gideon without taking the Frog Lady to Trask.
This episode's story isn't a 'side quest', to put things in video game terms; it's a necessary step along the 'main quest'.
When Din says he's been quested to return The Child to "its kind", he's talking about the Jedi, not the unnamed species that characters like Yoda and Yaddle are a part of.
That quest is what the entire season is predicated upon, and what the first two episodes have been about perpetuating, and so to complain that Chapter 10 didn't build on the Boba Fett thing or bring back Moff Gideon and the Darksaber is to basically reject and misconstrue the intent of the season.
Din can't encounter Boba or come back into conflict with Moff Gideon without taking the Frog Lady to Trask.
This episode's story isn't a 'side quest', to put things in video game terms; it's a necessary step along the 'main quest'.
Yes, but both are trying to be entertaining, which I think is Campe's overall point. They are not entertained by the Mandalorian, at least that's my read.
Whether Mandalorian is trying to be "more" is irrelevant if the story fails to entertain a person. It could be a burger or a multi-course dinner but if it doesn't taste good then it's failed at its most basic level.
The impression he was given by the Armorer is the Jedi and Yoda's species are one and the same.
He's ACTUALLY just a baby (not Yoda reincarnated, nor some 'wise old being' in a baby's body). It's one of the aspects I LOVED about this particular episode that put all those theories out to pasture. Don't try to apply Star Trek ethics to Star Wars here. If there's one thing that's consistent in the Star wars universe it's: Life is dangerous and there are predators EVERYWHERE!
Based on the short summary for next week's episode
I think we're going to the water planet with all the Quarren we've seen in the trailers
So, Pirates of the Caribbean crossover with 'Captain Jack Sparrow' (not played by Johnny Depp.)
It's not a matter of ethics but presentation. The Child is shown to eat things like eggs and the episode makes a point of saying these are the last of this particular alien's chance to have kids. Playing it for comedy is tone deaf. This isn't Jabba watching the rancor eat someone and then eat live whatevers as a showcase of his indulgence. It's showing us one thing then playing off of how cute it is to watch the Child eat things.
It's strange at best.
ETA: And to be clear, if it doesn't bother a person then it's clearly a nonissue. But, it's going to impact different people in different ways. Giving it a "*shrug* that's life" reaction is rather odd. That's like saying people shouldn't be upset that an Ewok died to an AT-ST blast in ROTJ. After all, that's war, right?
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I have to admit, I'm a little shocked by just how strong the reaction to that whole thing has been.
Like I said before, it is bad, and he definitely shouldn't have been doing, but I still thought it was funny. People doing bad things and things they shouldn't do has been a source of comedy almost as long as their has been comedy.
Like I said before, it is bad, and he definitely shouldn't have been doing, but I still thought it was funny. People doing bad things and things they shouldn't do has been a source of comedy almost as long as their has been comedy.
And comedy is subjective.
I disagree.
