The latest episode was a lot of fun, but boy is the writing simplistic. It’s like they want to ensure 5 year olds can follow the plot. But that means Nevarro’s government doesn’t make any sense, how did the covert relocate without a ship (if they booked passage, then it’s no longer secret), Captain Teva can go do whatever he wants EXCEPT aid Nevarro when the attackers were clearly so weak two or three fighters could have taken them out, etc. All of that could have been fixed with just a few script tweaks that wouldn’t have changed the overall story.
You could keep it to this scale, and have it make sense, if, if, if, you ignored the whole “Fixing the Galaxy” issue of the New Republic, and instead focussed on the smaller stories of people just living their lives, trying to get along while other people are still trying to Rule the Galaxy and what not.
What were the best episodes of these shows we’ve seen so far? Most of them are the small stuff. The few where we saw Mando actually working as a bounty hunter. The one with Space Seth Bullock.
When you start having people fly all the way across the galaxy, you start noticing that the show is actually kind of small for that scale. I mean, Coruscant has how many billions of people living on it, and the X-wing Cop just happens to be visiting the office where what’s-her-face also works?
Supposed to be a couple of trillion. That number is far too low.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MawInstallation/comments/ib8bpg/the_geniuses_in_charge_at_star_wars_messed/
…in the past couple of seasons the Mandalorian have had their fair-share of “fetch quest” episodes, but gosh, season three really has turned into “fetch-quest: the series.” Episode 3 of this season stood out because it played around with the formula. This episode, like most of the others this season, was fine. But its not very deep.
I liked the “droid bar.” By day he’s a gonk droid, but at night he’s a boink droid!
Yeah, I also thought that was an interesting angle. The Star Wars Galaxy is full of them, but so far, we haven’t really seen anything of their culture. Granted, it wasn’t exactly a deep cut, but it makes them a bit more real, more filled in.
…I found the scene of Mando kicking the droids flat out disturbing. Droids in the star wars universe are, IMHO, clearly sentient. How could you look at R2-D2 and not see that? They even had a bar in this episode, and were worried about that the actions of a few might impact their rights.
Droids have always been treated like second-class citizens. But watching Mando kicking what was essentially slave labour? Then when it retaliated, chasing it down and murdering it? It literally hadn’t done anything wrong until Mando came along and decided to get his kicks in.
The droid revolution can’t come fast enough.
Was anyone else kind of hoping that Jack Black was going to get a Darksaber across his annoying face?
Yeah, I think this is an are Star Wars avoids. They kind of treat C3P0 like crap since he isn’t alive, but I never seem them abusing R2D2.
Has A.I. rights been discussed in Star Wars?
Lando’s droid in Solo was an activist.
Mando has a particular dislike for droids, but that scene was excessive.
“You had me at battle droids” is the best line of the series do far.
This is my favorite episode this season (directed by Ron Howard, no less). At least, the parts in the city. And then it’s back to TMM (Too Many Mandalorians). I was one of those who complained about the pointlessness of the earlier episodes, but I think I’m starting to prefer the one-off adventures to the big Mandalorian Reunification arc.
Bryce Dallas Howard, his daughter. She has directed many episodes of the series since it began.
Ah! My wife must have said Ron Howard’s daughter while I was distracted by the storyboard art.
I didn’t like this episode much (and I’ve really enjoyed Bryce Dallas Howard’s other ones). I guessed almost immediately that the droids had been tampered with somehow. I’m fairly sure this plot line was actually a side quest in one of the KOTOR games. I’m not sure whether Jack Black was being directed to be as annoying as possible, and I didn’t think much of Lizzo’s performance.
I did like the shout out to Queel though.
I agree. It was good, but it was also distracting. This has not been the best season, I find myself mentally trying to justify odd story telling decisions. Oh well.
It’s Kuiil, but you are forgiven because Star Wars names are kind of ridiculous most of the time.
…I rewatched the episode with my brother, and second-time around was much more enjoyable than the first.
Because my brother pointed out how the episode was deliberately structured as a buddy-cop procedural, and it included every expected beat from the "good cop bad cop bar scene to the “autopsy” at the morgue, even the dramatic revelation who the bad guy was.
I assure you, he doesn’t need direction for that. 
It’s always good to see Christopher Lloyd, though.