Spoilers The Mandalorian Season 3
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This season sure seems to be going in for longer episodes. The majority of the episodes in the first two seasons were typically 30-40 minutes, while so far it's only been last week's that was less than 40 minutes.
The cameo appearance in the New Republic pilot bar was unexpected!
Which one?
Garazeb Dank Farriking Orrelios. Of all the spotchka joints in the outer rim, he had to walk into the one with Dave Filloni sat at the bar. I never took him for a flyboy though. Guess he joined the fighter corps during the war?
And for those whining that this season has been directionless; I thinks it's safe to say it now has a direction. It's almost as if every prior episode has been leading up to this, as if they knew what they were doing . . . funny how that works.
Another tight episode. I could go on about the little references, but what most gripped my attention was that scene between Bo Katan & the Armorer. I can never decide if she's in earnest or has some other agenda. For someone that's so dogmatically committed to the letter of The Way, actually telling Bo to take off her helmet and asking the others to accept this seems uncharacteristically pragmatic.
And for those whining that this season has been directionless; I thinks it's safe to say it now has a direction. It's almost as if every prior episode has been leading up to this, as if they knew what they were doing . . . funny how that works.
Another tight episode. I could go on about the little references, but what most gripped my attention was that scene between Bo Katan & the Armorer. I can never decide if she's in earnest or has some other agenda. For someone that's so dogmatically committed to the letter of The Way, actually telling Bo to take off her helmet and asking the others to accept this seems uncharacteristically pragmatic.
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Seeing Zeb in live action was a super wonderful surprise.
I do love the ties to Rebels among other things they have going on.
The Armorer may be up to something, or she just realizes that even her people need to evolve if they're going to survive.
The Armorer may be up to something, or she just realizes that even her people need to evolve if they're going to survive.
They actually had the budget to pull off a convincing live action Lasat. Well done. Sometimes these streaming shows fall short with the alien CGI or de-aging.
They did a really good job rendering Zeb. I recognized him on sight. I mean, when I saw him I didn't say "oh look our first live action lasat" and then only realize who it was once I heard Steve Blum's voice. The moment I saw him I said "holy shit, that's Zeb!" while recreating the Leonardo DiCaprio pointing meme. Excellent work.
Loved that Carson Teva's aka the good hearted x-wing patrol guy had a lot of scenes.
Was hoping for an episode with focus on him.
Hopefully he survives not only this season, thanks to his good instincts.
I'm not trusting the armorer lady just quite yet either, while it seems to be a logical turnaround, it's happening rather quickly.
I'm not sure it was Mandalorians who freed Moff Gideon, could very well be (internal drama to come), but also be a fake hint planted by Gideon loyalistd, especially the clearly still evil lady who tricked and tortured the Grogu-doctor last week.
Was hoping for an episode with focus on him.
Hopefully he survives not only this season, thanks to his good instincts.
I'm not trusting the armorer lady just quite yet either, while it seems to be a logical turnaround, it's happening rather quickly.
I'm not sure it was Mandalorians who freed Moff Gideon, could very well be (internal drama to come), but also be a fake hint planted by Gideon loyalistd, especially the clearly still evil lady who tricked and tortured the Grogu-doctor last week.
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That episode was a lot of fun. The goofy writing on this show works when its all the Mandalorians together being their weird cult. I really enjoy how much acting we can get from people who have helmets on all the time. And the Mando/Bo power-couple gets more fun to watch every week, whether or not they might be heading down that route for the two of them. Really enjoyed seeing the Armorer go armor-ing with her hammer, and be shockingly progressive as a cult leader. The dust hadn't even cleared and immediately, 'We have retaken Nevarro, tomorrow ALL OF MANDALORE.'
This feels like confirmation that Zeb will be a main player in Ahsoka; they wouldn't spend all that time to design and rig that character for a 10 second cameo! Please have him and Callus as a Rebellion power couple. Please.
This feels like confirmation that Zeb will be a main player in Ahsoka; they wouldn't spend all that time to design and rig that character for a 10 second cameo! Please have him and Callus as a Rebellion power couple. Please.
Something that's been bothering me at the back of my mind for a while, how the hell would a shard of beskar armor end up imbedded in the wall anyway? Someone must have put up one hell of a fight!
I'm now wondering if at least part of the reason they had Ahmed Best on the show last episode, is because they also wanted him to consult on the performance capture for Blum. I mean I assume that was Blum actually on-set in the grey & black pyjamas with dots all over his face.
One neat detail I liked is that they had him in the new pilot gear that The Resistance would later inherit when it becomes old NR surplus. Kind of surprised T-70's haven't started showing up yet outside of some unused concept art. But then, this is an outer-rim patrol. Figures they'd be stuck with the third-hand scraps.
Am I crazy or is this the first time they've done full performance capture in the volume? Seems like everything up until now has been either costumes or old-school animatronics (with perhaps the odd digital enhancement.)
Kind of a flex to do that with such a casual cameo (like seriously, the non-Rebels fans are scratchign their heads wondering why they went to all that effort for a rando alien character with three lines.)
I'm now wondering if at least part of the reason they had Ahmed Best on the show last episode, is because they also wanted him to consult on the performance capture for Blum. I mean I assume that was Blum actually on-set in the grey & black pyjamas with dots all over his face.
One neat detail I liked is that they had him in the new pilot gear that The Resistance would later inherit when it becomes old NR surplus. Kind of surprised T-70's haven't started showing up yet outside of some unused concept art. But then, this is an outer-rim patrol. Figures they'd be stuck with the third-hand scraps.
Am I crazy or is this the first time they've done full performance capture in the volume? Seems like everything up until now has been either costumes or old-school animatronics (with perhaps the odd digital enhancement.)
Kind of a flex to do that with such a casual cameo (like seriously, the non-Rebels fans are scratchign their heads wondering why they went to all that effort for a rando alien character with three lines.)
Yeah, that scene had "ambush" written all over it. For a moment there I thought Little Miss Least Convincing Double-Agent-Ever had leaked his patrol route to Thrawn or something.
See now, I'm coming at it from the opposite direction. Up until now I've just taken her at face value; a priest of their religion that is recites the creed verbatim and guides the covert according to it's structures, putting nothing of herself forwards . . . but now, this feels like the first time she's going off the tracks and acting out of something other than dogged literalism.
My first assumption is that the Beskar alloy was from a new model of Dark Troopers, but it's not impossible there's still some old Imperial loyalist Mandos floating around (I bet 50 cubits on it being Clan Saxon!)
That was my assumption, yes. Further more, given that his character is by far the most difficult to pull off, it's a fair assumption that the entire surviving cast are going to show up (they may also get Freddie Prinze dressed up for a hologram portrait or something, just to get the full set.)
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This was a fun episode! The pirate attack, the New Republic swamped with too much and achieving mediocrity as a result, the Mandalorians choosing to defend Nevarro, and Bo Kataan being chosen as the Mandalorian who will bridge both worlds, I love it. Well done all around!
When the show first began, there was a tie-in (so to speak) with the Squadrons video game, with certain themed items being added, and one was a beskar ingot that you could hang up in an Imperial fighter as a decoration. The description noted that if you were shot down, it would probably be the biggest and most intact piece of your ship left.
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