Good catch!
after many people telling me i should watch this show, and me remembering i do have disney+; i binged the show on sat…
mando’s evolution as a dad was really wonderful.
grogu is so very cute. and very much reminds me of my cat lager. food motivated, too smart for his own good, so sweet when it is asleep.
the use of the “no” finger during egg gathering, the pick up and put on lap to distract, the gentle rocking, so great. (also things i do with lager)
after watching, i went down the you tube mando rabbit hole (on sun.). also i checked in on my favourite tv message board.
as i was reading and watching i realized that when he took off his helmut for grogu, it was the first time someone touched his actual face in a loving manner in years. the last would have been his parents. powerful moment.
i’m looking forward to what they will do in 3. how things will shake out with the dark saber and mandalore. it is always interesting when power is placed onto someone who doesn’t want it. i believe they will reunite grogu and mando within a few episodes.
Some would argue that anti-overflow facilities is a liberal woke view and therefore correct without question while the same comparison to Republicans is a Trumpinista view therefore wrong because every Trump action/Trump-inspired view is wrong.
Personally, I think both are wrong. Detaining people illegally immigrating into the US is not inherently wrong although the way it is implemented may be and goes to show how the US immigration policy needs to be completely reworked top to bottom. But as bad as the overflow facilities are, they are not Germany 1944 death camps. And as bad as that comparison is, equating the social-oppression of Republicans to the plight of European Jews 1938-1945 is as bat-shit crazy as most of the Trumpinistas statements. As a moderate (Non-Trump) Republican, I feel more oppressed by my own party than Democrats so maybe I should tweet out how the Trumpers are as bad as the Gestapo/Brownshirts in weeding out dissent in their own party and compare the vote on Liz Cheney to Ernst Rohm and the Night of the Long Knives.
The sad part is that THAT tweet would be upvoted and hailed as the greatest tweet ever … so that might be part of the answer to your question.
But back to Mando. Will Grogu come back in the picture for S3?
Will we see Ventriss at some sort of bouty hunter reunion (and did she ever get her lightsabers back)?
Will Bill Burr join the gang? Will Boba Fett continue to be the worthless chump he’s always been in the SW franchise? Will Mando be part on Bo-Katan’s group now that he showed his face?
Speaking of that, what will be the fate of the dark-saber?
I think that Disney makes too much money off of marketing Grogu to have him (?) sent off to college like Brother Chuck.
I just finished chapter 15…i know what happens in 16
But I had to chime in how fucking good Bill Burr was in this ep. I know how self-effacing Bill is about his acting. So I thought he was probably going to be about as good as his last appearance which was good and fun, but here??? My jaw is on the floor. So fucking good.
He’s a good actor. I had no idea, but am not surprised.
Huh, apparently I was spoiled on episode 16, because I moderated a discussion about it. Thank the Force for faulty memory, I guess?
A friend and I binge-watched it over the summer. I’m really curious how they’re going to handle season 3: It looks like it’s going to be about the fate of the Mandalorian planet, and Katee Sackhoff’s attempt to become the ruler, but the fate of a planet is a serious de-escalation from the fate of a single infant.
As an aside, someone mentioned about names, and Grogu’s name specifically, being important. One thing I loved in the show was that they recognized that: After the Mandalorian finally learned the name of this child that he had become a father to, he just kept saying the name over and over, to see his reaction. And it was especially a contrast to him consistently not considering his own name to be relevant.
Oh, as for Boba Fett’s survival, I thought they set that up about as well as they could have: When last we saw him, he was rocketing into the Sarlaac. Ordinarily, that would have meant the Sarlaac keeping him alive for a thousand years while it digested him. And a sarlaac would never just abandon its hole… but the crayt dragon lived in an abandoned sarlaac hole, that was abandoned by virtue of the sarlaac in question having been eaten.
Put it all together, and we have the Sarlaac stripping off Boba Fett’s armor in the process of digesting him, the dragon eating the Sarlaac, Boba Fett escaping in the chaos of the fight between the two monsters, but without his armor, the armor emerging or being cast out separately at some point, and eventually being found by jawas, all in a fairly small geographic area (the marshal who ended up with the armor lived close to the sarlaac pit where the dragon was lairing).
My fave parts of watching Season 2 is seeing the reaction videos around YT after the eps. They ALMOST make me watch the animated series but…enhhhh…ill watch key scenes here and there instead.
Bill Burr is just so good about being conversational and calling people out on what he sees as bullshit, but with a smile on his face and not really a lot of hate. He’s sometimes wrong, but he’s always entertaining.
If you haven’t seen him in The King of Staten Island he’s really good in that.
Unless you’re from Philadelphia. (audio NSFW)
He was really good in his minor role in Breaking Bad too.
the reaction videos are the best! people really lost their calm during ep16. so much couch jumping.
So not all the acting was on the TV screen?
Well, you got the timing wrong but the scene right.
Season 3 premieres on March 1st.
This is the way.
Very excited for this one. Especially after the disappointment of Book of Boba Fett.
What a strange show that was. I was actually on board for it in the first few episodes as they attempt to redeem Fett a and show what happened after Return of the Jedi.
Then…then…he stopped appearing in his own show. There was an entire Mandalorian episode, which heavily featured Luke Skywalker again, someone I really don’t need to keep seeing.
It fell apart.
I hope Mandalorian season 3 gets itself nice and back on track. I probably could have done without Baby Yoda(Grogu) after he left with Luke, but nope, the show knows that doll sells and they had to continue with him.
Look, the show is basically a remake of Lone Wolf and Cub. We probably should just accept that.
It’s fine, but when Grogu went off with Luke, it felt like an ending to that story. Painful, sad, but an ending. To cancel it was kind of lame.
Grogu was and (IMHO) remains a necessary catalyst for the growth and character development of Din Djarin. In the pilot episode, Din is stuck in a rut - finding Grogu kicks him out of that rut.