This is lovely.
I’m happy about the new foundlings, how did they get them into the ship??!
Hey, Ahmed Best. Very nice, he deserves success.
I liked the flashback, but I’m afraid this season has jumped the mythasaur.
One does not speak unless one knows. This is the Way.
Seriously, though, it does seem a little directionless at this point - I assume they’ve been setting up the arc for the second half of the season, in between those space pirates, the mention of Moff Gideon maybe having escaped, and there being a legion of leaderless Mandalorians mucking about in a stolen Imperial fleet looking for someone to wave a magic sword in their direction.
I have a feeling they won’t revisit this until next season 
Definitely feels like a filler season, with lots of bitty episodes filling in back story with very little arc progression. Where we all thought S2 was about Din realising there are other ways, where we’re heading now seems to be Bo Katan becoming more orthodox. IMO this season will end with The Children declaring fealty to her cause with the next season concentrating on uniting the tribes.
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I guess if you are going to hide and disguises are not possible you really just gotta go somewhere nobody is ever going to look, like the giant monster infested hell hole. I wouldn’t be surprised if that planet was just called space Australia.
There are between 1.3 million and 3.2 billion (sources vary) habitable systems in he Star Wars galaxy. Surely they could have found one that was both out of the way and wasn’t full of giant monster.
I’ve been thinking, and if the rule had been “Outsiders must never see your face” instead of “No one can ever see your face” it would have changed nothing about the story thus far while making the Children of the Watch significantly less silly. Din would have still gotten in trouble for letting outsiders see his face, he still would have been confused about other Mandalorians de-helmeting in public, but his culture would be able to share a damn meal together like people do.
Weird reactionary cults are weird. We have similar examples today.
You’d at least think they’d pick a place that’s less prone to giant pterodactyl attacks. Judging from the helmet in its nest, Ragnar wasn’t the first youngling it had carried off.
Yeah that’s a part that bugged me. Specific comment was made about not having been able to follow it all the way before or something similar. They know that these attacks are a risk every time they are out there doing their day camp activities … no look outs? No policies and procedures for the kids not just wandering about aimlessly?
These are not people who I want to taking in foster or adoptive kids.
This season feels lost at sea.
Not to mention doing baptisms around seamonsters.
I think We are going to end up with Bo Katan telling them to stop being so ridiculous. Consider this:
So far, these Mandalorians have been shown to be pretty stupid. The first episode, they were utterly incapable of defeating the Space Alligator, until Din showed up with his fighter to blow it away. Now what do we see?
Even though they know the Space Pterodactyl exists, and has snatched kids up before, they still don’t have a plan on how to deal with it. “Let’s chase after it until our silly little jetpacks run out of fuel, just like they always do.” Meanwhile, what does Bo Katan do? “Hey, guys, we have a ship that can travel interplanetary distances with ease, how’s about we use that to chase the thing?”
And then, look at their “training” as Bo and Din first arrive. 40 people all crowded together doing 50 different things, most of which seemed kind of useless. Shooting guns, and not even “target practice” shooting, just shooting them off 'cause it looks cool. Guys just flying around at random. A few kids doing wrestling and the like, but without much in the way of supervision or coaching. This is not how you train an elite fighting force!
These guys are so caught up in the style of being Mandalorian, they’ve forgotten the substance of it. If they existed in our world, they’d be out buying Mall Ninja shit and thinking that made them badasses.
I created a drinking game during Season 2 called TMM (Too Many Mandalorians). It was a pleasant buzz last season. Now I’m passed out by the end of an episode,
Of course you do realize the Mandalorians are going to turn into a culture of dragon riders.
(One of my pet peeves in SF/fantasy–a bunch of active, energetic giant carnivores would be hugely expensive to keep around and feed. “Here’s your big flying lizard. You’ll need to feed him around one or two hundred goats a year. K thanx bye.”)
they do have big honking things to eat in the water…
I used to think that too, until I saw the Tiger King (the first episode, at least; I have better things to do with my time). Turns out that raising a bunch of large predators isn’t that expensive.
I don’t think one can read anything into that in terms of the Mandalorians’ fghting abilities. That is a reflection of the writers and directors not really knowing or caring what real training or combat looks like. In-universe you are still supposed to assume they are elite warriors.
That’s not what I got from it, watching tiger king I was surprised at how cheap it was to buy a baby tiger but how expensive they were to feed.