Spoilers The Mandalorian Season 3
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11 or 12 ABY? The series began in 9 ABY and it feels like roughly three years have passed in-universe as we've followed Din on his adventures.
The amount of change on Nevarro alone indicates it's been years. That place was an armpit of a waystation in season 1.
I could see that at a stretch it was a year from killing Bib to the battle for Mos Espa (though something closer to 6-8 months seems more likely) so the events of the first season are more stretched out than they appear. But then what about the previous year? Did Boba wait a whole year between getting his armor back and taking Jabba's palace?
Don't get me wrong it should have been a significant amount of time for it to have any weight, it's just that much of a span of time is hard to reconcile based on what we've seen.
Or end with it, or having it take place in the third episode, or have it be a flashback from three years ago. We literally have zero in-narrative context for that scene besides "after the war".
Haven't had time to listen to the whole thing yet, but on the face of it that seems unlikely given the events of 'Book of Boba Fett'.
I could see that at a stretch it was a year from killing Bib to the battle for Mos Espa (though something closer to 6-8 months seems more likely) so the events of the first season are more stretched out than they appear. But then what about the previous year? Did Boba wait a whole year between getting his armor back and taking Jabba's palace?
Don't get me wrong it should have been a significant amount of time for it to have any weight, it's just that much of a span of time is hard to reconcile based on what we've seen.
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"Grogu returned with Din..."
He was doing so well right up until the end, but then fumbled the landing. Shame.
The boarding is the easy part: the ship has a docking clamp/tub & airlock behind/under the cockpit (depending on which orientation you look at it), and is presumably able to match any other connection or even create a magnetic atmospheric shield for forced boarding operations, or instances like this where there's no corresponding ring to mate to (it is a hunter's ship after all.)
The only thing which confused me was that Fett's Firespray went *up* past the Lambda 's cockpit window to dock instead of down below, where the ramp is. I mean I guess there *could* be some kind of hatch on top that's just not obvious on the model, but even so the dorsal foil is going to make that approach really awkward.
Yeah, actually listening to what he said in context, it's pretty clear he wasn't referring to the in-universe passage of time.
To my way of thinking, the passage of time on this show is probably akin to how it was handled on Rebels, where every season took place over the course of about 8 months to a year, with about a 6 month-ish gap between seasons.
In this case that would mean that 'The Rescue' took place about 18 months or so after 'The Child'. The 'Book of Boba Fett' bridges that season gap for the most part so at the top of season 3 we're probably at two years total, meaning Luke had Grogu for a good half a year or thereabouts.
The only real way to mark that passage of time is as I said before; the incremental increase in Nevarro's affluence. Given that it goes from a bounty hunter infested scum pit that just got trashed by a Imperial remnant when Din left it at the end of season 1, to a place with actual families, a school, and a statue to a nurse/murder droid in the town square when he returns to repair the Razocrest in the last third of season 2; that amount of time feels about right.
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Pretty decent. Some great callbacks to the rest of the franchise.
Episode 3.1 / Chapter 17
Happy that Mando and Grogu are back, still very much a setup "here are your quests" episode.
Very surprised there wasn't a recap on how/why Grogu's back with Mando for the normies who might not know or have seen/read about Book of Boba Fett.
quests / points of interest / thoughts
"the apostate"
Happy that Mando and Grogu are back, still very much a setup "here are your quests" episode.
Very surprised there wasn't a recap on how/why Grogu's back with Mando for the normies who might not know or have seen/read about Book of Boba Fett.
quests / points of interest / thoughts
- Fun "Mandalorian happy meal"-giant-croc-blaste-to-pieces-opener.
- I need more info on the various Mandalorian helmets/armor designs, colors and what they mean.
- the missing "Navarro" Marshall - I would know one, if he's out of the bacta tank > Cobb Vanth / Timothy Olyphant
- the pirate/handlangers vs Navarro's "major" and Mando
- the "Mandalore-Spa-redeption" quest - apparently only doable with a (un)trusty droid requiring parts
- Bo Katan is pouting, lonely without followers / still wants the dark saber
- Grogu's "not toys" tiny mechanics - endle$$ merchandi$e po$$ibilitie$
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Regarding dates: personally I prefer to go by the CRC calendar since it's actually in-universe (and honestly fans need to be weened off BBY/ABY somehow), and by that reckoning we're somewhere around 7988 (assuming Endor+7.)
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* For reference in case anyone is unfamiliar: ANH= 7977 (see what they did there?) Andor/Rebels began in '72, The Clone Wars went from about '55 to '58, and TPM was in '45.
A surprisingly packed episode given it's brevity, but then that's something the first season did so well. It certainly did what it needed to do; established the stakes, the obstacles, and even got Din on his first side-quest.
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- From context clues I get the impression that the young Mandalorian being sworn to the creed may be Paz Vizla's kid, but if that were the case shouldn't he be blonde? Either way, sire or foundling it seems clear from the banner his allegiance is to Clan Vizla (it can't still count as a house anymore, can it?)
- Of all the easter eggs and references, the Purrgil have to be the biggest surprise! Though I suppose with the Ahsoka show up next, I probably shouldn't have been all that shocked to see them.
- Resurrecting IG-11 seems like a weird way to go (even after he went all T-800 on them), but OK! How much you want to bet this will lead to an IG-88 cameo?
- I'd question how Cara Dune went from wanted fugitive to special forces recruit just by happening to be there when *someone else* captured Moff Gideon, but I think we all know the real reason she's gone, and good riddance.
- Grogu gets all grabby with the Anzellans, which has to be mildly terrifying for them. I mean imagine if a giant green baby three times your size grabbed you like Lenny wanting to hear about the rabbits. *shudders*
- I know it's nowhere near as big, and really looks nothing much like it besides the general shape of the bow; but my initial reaction to the pirate ship was very much of the "did they just reference The Eclipse!?" persuasion.
- I'd ask why Gorian Shard is covered in seaweed in space, but I'm pretty sure I know the answer will be "because PotC & squid-faces are already a thing in this universe and thus not weird enough."
- Nice to finally see Kalevala and what I presume is Castle Kryze. I can see why Satine preferred to hang out in Sundari over what looks like Space Hebrides (weather and all!)
- At this point I'm with Bo Katan; if all the Mandalorian factions need to unite is someone to be holding the magical glowstick of destiny, is it really worth uniting them at all? I mean they'll just fall apart again the moment someone else grabs it. Indeed Dyn would probably do them all a favour if he just dropped it in the armorer's forge (after removing the kyber so they don't all explode to death) and be done with it.
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The space pirates were so absurd and ridiculous I can't help but love them!
For all we know, this is a world the Empire ravaged and wiped out it's usual prey animals. Or it's usual prey is migratory and most of them have gone inland for this cycle's breeding season.
You just described how it is for predators most of the time. Typically most prey gets away leaving them with nothing to show for it. That it hung in the fight as long as it did without fleeing seems like a good sign that it was desperate and thus very hungry.
Eh. They were no Hondo Ohnaka. No sense of style.
Except they normally don't go after creatures that don't offer much energy return when they are caught.... Lions don't normally hunt rats because it won't be worth it even when they catch them. They'd be exhausted trying to catch enough rats to equal a wildebeest. The prey they normally catch do make it worth it in the long run, under normal circumstances.
But you might be right about migratory animals. Depending on climate conditions, their prey may have been absent, with their arrival overdue.
Lake Placid meets Mandalorians. I can roll with that.
Once I saw Paz Vizsla I knew it was the current day.
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