# Mandalorian Season 2 Thread \[Open Spoilers\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [October 12, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794 "2020-10-12T12:55:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/1 "2020-10-12T12:55:50Z")
Not sure how official, but schedule is here: > **[The Mandalorian (Disney+ 2019 - Present) | Latest News](https://thedirect.com/tags/the-mandalorian-series/)** > > If you are big into The Mandalorian show, you have come to the right place. ✓ Stay up to date on The Mandalorian show news here! The episodes will therefore release on the following dates: Chapter 9 - October 30, 2020 Chapter 10 - November 6, 2020 Chapter 11 - November 13, 2020 Chapter 12 - November 20, 2020 Chapter 13 - November 27, 2020 Chapter 14 - December 4, 2020 Chapter 15 - December 11, 2020 Chapter 16 - December 18, 2020 My take on spoilers: Everything about the current and past episodes is open after an episode airs (those of you who wait until all episodes are out and then binge will just have to stay out of the thread) Speculation is open Anything not officially announced about future episodes are blurred I could go either way about next episode teasers (though I lean towards those being open) Thoughts? Brian ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/2 "2020-10-12T12:59:58Z")
I’m surprised the second season is coming so soon. A nice surprise. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/3 "2020-10-12T13:03:42Z")
So how many evil characters is Giancarlo Esposito actively working on now? At least 3 if you count video games. I fully support your spoiler policy. You may want to ask a mod to add “Open spoilers” to the title of the thread. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/4 "2020-10-12T13:17:57Z")
Good idea and done. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/5 "2020-10-12T15:23:52Z")
Although this is officialish, there is enough rumor content IMHO that I’m going to blur [The Mandalorian (Disney+ 2019 - Present) | Latest News](https://thedirect.com/article/the-mandalorian-season-2-disney-rosario-dawson-timothy-olyphant-cast) Brian ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/6 "2020-10-21T12:43:00Z")
New-ish teaser. Not much new. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ICuqzhViWAI/maxresdefault.jpg "Special Look | The Mandalorian | Disney+") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICuqzhViWAI) Brian ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/7 "2020-10-29T11:31:23Z")
This a bump to remind folks that season 2 premiers tomorrow. (and to avoid a dupe thread) Not sure exactly when it drops, but I plan on watching around 1930 local (CDT) This Is The Way Brian ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/8 "2020-10-29T12:53:33Z")
My first prediction - it will get tons of 1 star reviews from people incensed that they’re dropping the episodes weekly instead of putting them all up at once, with absolutely no interest in whether the show itself was any good. Like “The Boys” season 2 did. ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/9 "2020-10-29T14:20:19Z")
They released them weekly the first time around, I think, so this is not a departure. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/10 "2020-10-29T14:58:25Z")
In general, Disney+ is going the weekly model as opposed to the all at once model for new series. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/11 "2020-10-29T15:19:11Z")
I am aware of both of those facts but stand by my prediction. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/12 "2020-10-29T15:29:34Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > They released them weekly the first time around, I think, so this is not a departure. They did, but I do wish they’d give us 2-3 up front to get us back on board. I’ll watch weekly, though. I very much prefer getting everything up front, though. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/13 "2020-10-30T08:46:11Z")
Good episode. I enjoyed seeing the Sand People in a heroic and noble role, and the krayt dragon fight was well done. The dragon looked different than they’ve previously been portrayed - in the old EU, and the cartoons, they’re essentially western dragons, while this version was more like Shai-Hulud from Dune. Temuera Morrison was listed in the credits, so I’m guessing that the bald, scarred loner we saw in the final scene is Boba Fett, who presumably escaped the Sarlacc pit when the dragon killed it, but lost his armor in the process for the Jawas to find. I assume he was probably also the unseen killer from the S1 episode on Tattooine. I hope we see more of Cobb Vance - he plays the “old west sheriff” role well. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/14 "2020-10-30T09:23:51Z")
Cobb Vanth, and his backstory, was already described\* in [a novel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Aftermath) that came out in 2015. It was an interesting choice to put him into live-action, but casting was of course perfect. Timothy Olyphant is, of course, the Eastwood of our generation. In the previous episode set on Tatooine, they had Mos Eisley, the cantina, the Tusken Raiders, and Pit Droids. This time they capped it off with Banthas, the Krayt Dragon, a Sarlacc, Jawas, a Pod-Racer engine, and Mos Espa. The only thing left not referenced is Jabba the Hutt, who I assume will be able to appear in the Kenobi series. \*_loosely, and not quite as shown, but close enough_ ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/15 "2020-10-30T09:54:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I assume he was probably also the unseen killer from the S1 episode on Tattooine. You mean the boots and cloak we saw approaching Fennec Shand’s body? I don’t think he killed anyone. I’d kind of thought that might be Moff Gideon, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/16 "2020-10-30T09:59:03Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > You mean the boots and cloak we saw approaching Fennec Shand’s body? I don’t think he killed anyone. Correct. I misremembered him as killing Fennec. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/17 "2020-10-30T10:05:27Z")
[Here’s the final scene of this episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDN7sIfUbxc&ab_channel=Okiro) - upon rewatching it, probably-Boba is carrying a gaffi stick and one of the Tusken long guns, and it looks like he’s wearing a Tusken robe. Perhaps he’s been living among them since the events of ROTJ. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/18 "2020-10-30T10:13:12Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > You mean the boots and cloak we saw approaching Fennec Shand’s body? I don’t think he killed anyone. I’d kind of thought that might be Moff Gideon, myself. In case I wasn’t clear, I’d thought the person approaching Fennec was Moff Gideon; I agree the fellow at the end of Season 2 Episode 1 was Boba Fett. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/19 "2020-10-30T14:48:30Z")
Was that monster that tough that it was still sitting there and came out the top of the mountain or were there two of them? I thought they were looking at it when something came out of the mountain. What was the pearl like thing they took out of the body? Was is supposed to be something special or just a pearl? I’ve only every watched the movies, so anything else in-universe I don’t know about. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/20 "2020-10-30T17:19:46Z")
Loved the episode! The dragon sequence demonstrated that Disney upped the budget considerably, I’m guessing. Bodes well for the rest of the season. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794.md?page=2)