Really liked it.
Saw it this weekend (in a big theater maybe a quarter full) and it felt SO good to be watching a Star Wars film!
I kept thinking “I wish I could see Andor or Rogue One on the big screen.”
I saw this last night and was very disappointed. I’ve seen every Star Wars movie in the theater since 1977, and this is the first time I was actually bored. The set piece battles were good, but the first one was by far the best. Otherwise it was just a dull, straightforward bounty hunter story that they’ve done better in the TV series. Even the “twists” were terrible - the twins are actually evil and want to kill their nephew, shocking! And Janu isn’t actually going to let his prize fighter walk away, why, I’ve never seen a crime boss pull that before.
It was clear as said above this was originally planned for a season of episodes but got condensed to a movie. Making a movie that’s a direct continuity sequel from a TV show is really hard to do, and I think they pretty much failed. And I know with Baby Yoda as a character having cute moments is mandatory, but it feels like they kept every single cute moment from 10 hours of TV scripts and squeezed them all into a 2 hour movie.
I think Andor spoiled me for how good Star Wars can really be when handled well. The movie could have stayed closer to that (and their own first season), but they clearly decided to go the opposite direction.
Saw it on Thursday.
I thought that it wasn’t bad as another Mandalorian episode, but it wasn’t nearly what I hoped it would be. I was expecting it to tie up the story line, but they didn’t even touch the biggest loose end from the series: Who was it who wanted Grogu dead, and why, and showing them beating whoever-it-was. And who, incidentally, was probably someone in the New Republic.
And we also never got to see the Armorer in this one. I won’t consider the story concluded until we see Grogu’s helmet.
Do you mean at the start of the show? pretty sure that all got resolved a while back.
No, there were two different bounties on him: Someone wanted him brought in alive (the bounty Mando took), and someone else wanted him dead (the bounty the droid took). The “alive” bounty was that Imperial officer guy who was harvesting midichlorians from his blood, and he’s been resolved now, but they never found out who the “dead” one was.
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And will his ears stick out the sides? Or is any part of the head being seen a violation?
I wonder if that very difficult decision is holding that up.
That, and he doesn’t get a helmet until he swears the vow, and he doesn’t swear the vow until he speaks, and any voice they give him will probably be a disappointment after this long of not speaking.
I’m not sure how they’ll get around that.
Oaths do not necessarily require speaking. They can be memorialized by other actions.
Kind of like common law marriage–by shacking up and living like husband and wife, a couple becomes married. So maybe keeping a helmet on and following the Way is all that is needed.
Except that it’s already been established that the reason why he doesn’t already have a helmet is that he can’t say the oath. Remember the sparring match between him and the other kid?
If we get Grogu speaking it will probably be at the end of the show. I think the whole point of making him a 50 year old baby is to keep him like that forever.
It has been a while since I watched the actual series but didn’t we learn the Helmet thing was just the sect Mando belonged to and the rest of Mandalore thought it was weird and fundamentalist? Like basically he was in a cult?
Yes, only some Mandalorians follow that practice. From Wookiepedia:
The Tribe was part of the Children of the Watch, who, according to Bo-Katan Kryze, were a cult which practiced the archaic Way of the Mandalore, which had fallen out of mainstream Mandalorian society. This practice forbade members from removing their helmets in the presence of others, among other tenets.
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Yup, and they also thought that parts of the Way like “keeping your word” and “standing up for your allies” were weird and fundamentalist.
I’ll take the helmet folks, thanks.
Like when the Armorer tried to kill Mando for the Darksaber? Screw those guys.
If you ever watched the Clone Wars cartoon series, they showed Mandalore as a very successful, advanced planet full of people who never wore armor at all, and only a tiny handful of warriors ever put it on. (There’s only so much Beskar metal to go around which is why it’s so valuable.) Those who do wear the armor could take off their helmets without problem. It’s shocking in retrospect how such a huge population was destroyed, their culture practically gone and individual Mandalorians nearly wiped out by the Empire, even without needing to use the Death Star.
Even Jango Fett in the Episode 2 film was seen without his helmet, as was his son Boba. So we saw Mandalorians without helmets prior to the cartoons. (Boba Fett never took his helmet off in the original film trilogy, but he was rarely seen on screen so there wasn’t any need for him to do so. Plus he was a minor, mostly background character with barely any lines.)
When you consider how much the Mandalorians lost in just one generation, it’s understandable why some of them would grab onto their old ways like a lifeline. Fanatically hanging onto what little culture they have left is a desperate attempt to save it.
I thought that the Fetts weren’t actually Mandalorian, though.
Jango Fett was not from the actual planet Mandalore, but he was from the planet Concord Dawn which was in the Mandalore sector and was ruled by the Mandalorians. He was a foundling like Din Djarin and Grogu, was raised as a Mandalorian and fought in the Mandalorian Civil War before becoming a mercenary. He raised Boba Fett as his son and tried to continue some of the traditions he was raised in.
The Mandalorian who raised Jamgo was very briefly mentioned in one episode of The Mandalorian. We don’t know much about him except his name had “Jaste” in it. The Star Wars wiki for the character has details.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Jaste
In other media he was called Jaster Mereel but that’s not canon.
Not born in Mandalore, but at this point no one is. Foundlings become Mandalorians, same as Din Djarin who also was just adopted into the culture.