Spoilers The Mandalorian Season 3
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I guess that's one way to redeem Jar Jar Binks after two decades. 
I liked this episode a lot.
I liked this episode a lot.
Thoughts of randomness: -
- Finally the answer fans have been clamouring for after two and a half seasons! How DO they eat without taking off their helmets!? Honestly I'm a little disappointed. I half expected them each to have little privacy tents or something.
- You know of all the Jedi to be waiting for Grogu at the top of that lift, I did not expect to see Kelleran Beq! It's a perfect choice too, given his role is specifically meant to be a teacher for the Initiates. Also wonderful vindication for Ahmed Best to get a chance to shine after getting so much undeserved crap from the fandom.
- You know, when I saw the Nubian Star Yacht, for a brief second there I thought we were going to get Sabé!
- Does beg the question though; who's ship was it? Padme had a different ride and we know where she was during all this so that wasn't her doing. The only logical conclusions are either Queen Apailana, or Representative Binks. Given a certain casting choice this episode, I think we know which is the more likely!
- Am I the only one that expected Grogu to pull a Neo and stop the darts dead in-flight? Still, flipping is a neat trick too.
- A very Ray Harryhausen inspired adventure. Shades of 'One Million Years BC' (i think that's the one with the nest? It's been forever.)
- From a character standpoint, they're clearly building towards Bo Katan looking to lead this group. Laser-swords and kaijus aside; she just proved herself to be the more level headed thinker of the group. Where most of the others immediately gave chase with jetpacks with an inherently limited range (and proven insufficient in the past to boot!), she had the presence of mind to go for her ship.
- Not sure what I expected, but I didn't see his first actual piece of armour to be a rondel the size of his chest. Clearly he'll have to grow into it . . . in a decade or three.
- You know at some point they're going to have to give Grogu a new costume. I mean how many times has that potato sack been washed at this point? It . . . has been washed, right!?
- Called it!
I'm glad Ahmed Best was given this chance. I thought he was great on that show.
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Oh my goodness, I need to hug that man.
Indeed.
Yes, I get it, people hate ROS and Abrams' mystery boxes. Yes, I'm probably alone in actually enjoying ROS (and not in a turn your brain off kind of a way). But, Palatine's nearly god level powers of seeing in to the future, even glimpses has been demonstrated time and again to be his greatest strength, leaving him to be nearly unbeatable, at least as presented in the films.
This bothers me very little, especially while watching the movie.
Fun episode. I'm just a bit disappointed it wasn't Mace Windu. After the set up in BOBF I was expecting a bigger reveal.
That's what I thought too. Maybe it's just an EU thing now?
I guess that's one way to redeem Jar Jar Binks after two decades.
I liked this episode a lot.
I thought I recognized that Jedi, but for some reason I was thinking that it was Ludacris. Glad Ahmed Best got a chance at a 'cool' SW role. More to see in that arc as well- how did Grogu get from the hyperspace jump to where Mando eventually finds him?
Other than that, this episode seemed mostly like needless filler. I also can't buy the Mandalorian kid still being alive by the time they got to him and not a) suffocated, or b) fed in three bloody hunks to the hatchlings.
Also, regarding the raptor hatchlings, anyone who has ever read Tales of the Old Republic can see what's coming, plain as day.
I don't see how Mace Windu could have saved Grogu, since he was dead by the time the Jedi Purge had begun.
I guess that's one way to redeem Jar Jar Binks after two decades.
I don't think Jar Jar needed "redemption".
Why is it important for any SW role to be "cool"? This need for a character to be cool seems so shallow to me. I guess that's why I never understood the Jar Jar hatred.
Maybe 'cool' was the wrong descriptor. Substitute 'serious' instead and see if you like that better.
He could have survived.
It's not important for ever role to be cool but when you get cast and end up playing the worst character in SW history for reasons that aren't even your fault it is kind of nice to reward that person with something cool. That way when fans think of you they will now be able to think of the good thing you did in the franchise.
Now someone just needs to let Jake Lloyd play a Mandalorian or something.
Well he's dead, fried street-pizza, so that was never going to happen.
The term originates from the old WEG pen & paper RPG. It was just meant as an option for building a player character. It's also where we get a lot of gamified terms for force powers. They're all artefacts of the medium that weren't supposed to add to the lore, but allow the players the latitude to make up their own lore, such is often the nature of role playing games. It only slipped into lore when the early Bantam authors were asked by LF's publishing division to use those source books as much as possible instead of making up too much new stuff. (Note: the term 'Sith' was known around this time since it was all over OT promotional materials, but nobody actually knew what it meant, hence it later erroneously becoming a species name.)
So far as I'm aware Lucas has nixed both "Dark" and "Grey" Jedi as nonsensical terms, and canon media has mostly kept in line with that.
"Worst character" is such a toxic an negative way to look at it. Jar Jar is no better or worse that Wicket, and by an astonishing coincidence, they're both aimed at the same demographic that mostly loved them when they were that age.
Even if one were to reduce it down to those terms; "Worse character in Star Wars History"? Pfft! Jar Jar wouldn't even make the top ten. Prince Xizor? Waru? The whole Ssi-ruu thing? Callista? Moruth Doole? Kyp Durron? Hell, basically any and every character created by KJA? There's so much worse than Jar Jar lurking out there, and I envy the blissful ignorance of those that believe otherwise.[/QUOTE]
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I've been doing a Star Wars movie rewatch (I've finished I, II, III, Rogue One, and IV. Tonight it's ESB!) and I have to say that after rewatching Episode 1, I have a better appreciation for Jar Jar, and the only one who treats him with any real kindness is Padme. The others seem to tolerate him, but she seems to actually care about him, and I find that sweet. Ahmed Best did a very good job with the role he was given.
Yeah, there is a deleted scene were General Tagge references this "Lord of the Sith" which would have been nice to see as it gives more context of Vader's role within the Imperial military at the time.
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