I’ve long thought that the Star Wars universe is big enough to tell lots of different kinds of stories. A proper whodunnit series would be cool. To expand on the themes from this episode, the police detective could be a droid. They could call it… Inspector MOR-5E.
Me, yesterday:
“Is that…?”
“No, can’t be. Must just look like him”
“The voice sounds like him, though…”
“Great SCOTT!”
Something or other in that episode was named “Paraquat”, which in reality is a massively toxic herbicide.
Was it?
…as “dramatic” as any police procedural, where the bad guy is traditionally the most famous guest-star on the call-sheet.
That’s one of those things that’s so incredibly obvious that I wonder how anybody could ever miss it—after I’ve had it pointed out to me because I totally did miss it. But yeah, that angle really does put the episode into a new light!
Shark Jumped with these awful cameos. Jack Black?? Really??? I love Christopher Lloyd but why? We’re not into celebrity cameo phase of a show and it’s always a bad sign.
They’ve done the cameos since episode 1 with Horatio Sanz and Brian Posehn but it is getting very distracting when watching it I’m thinking “Oh, it’s that guy, and there’s that guy” during the show.
Other than being distracting, I thought Black and Lizzo were fine. I did like the buddy cop aspect of the episode and thought it was hilarious that they had a chase scene with a droid who decided to run away. I thought the bartender’s view on serving humans was a neat way to think about it - humans are around for such a short time, why not help them out? Ultimately, it did seem like a side quest because the whole point of them going to the planet was to talk to the other Mandalorians.
To some degree it was a return to S1 when each ep was a riff on a different trope through a SW lens. It just wasn’t as much fun as those ones were.
Just seen a great description of the show:
Been watching Mandalorian with the 7-year-old, and it’s so good, just like Star Wars was for me at that age. Its secret is that it’s a children’s programme disguised as an adult one, so children get to feel sophisticated for watching it, which is exactly what children need.
This is a more generous version of my view, which the celeb cameos this episode really cemented:
Everyone involved is having a lot of fun because they get to play at Star Wars just like they did in school, only with all the really cool toys. If, at some point, they make entertaining television for us to watch then that is definitely a bonus and they’ll feel happy about it. But mainly the point is for everyone making it to have a whale of a time.
Andor is Star Wars for adults. If you haven’t seen it, better get to it - it’s miles and miles better than Mando (at least this season, but it’s still superior to the first season IMO).
All in all, I’d say this was the best episode this season. The buddy cop side quest was cool, and the fight between Bo Katan and the other dude was well done.
I’m puzzled by the drama around reconquering Mandalore though. It seems to be completely devoid of life, except in the mines. Why not just land a ship there and declare yourself the ruler?
I want to see more about the Matryoshka cyborg walking eyeball guy. The character seems to be pretty creatively and elaborately designed for a brief, mysterious one-off. The Mandalorians could battle a full scale occupation of squatting Matroyska cyborg walking eyeball guys and gals.
I was really hoping they were going for a slave droid revolt kinda thing, not intentional sabotage.
I’m fairly sure droid programming renders them incapable of rebelling, as per C-3PO in TLJ stating that his programming forbids him from participating in a mutiny. Star Wars droids are generally Three Laws compliant (although the First Law gets bent sideways in allowing them to harm sentients if their owner orders them to do so), so willfully disobeying their owners would be close to impossible.
The droid from Solo was definitely all about droid rights and starting rebellions.
Perhaps it’s nitpicky, but I’m puzzled why everybody (not just here, but internet-wide) is referring to these appearances as “cameos.”
A cameo, as I’ve always understood it, is a very brief appearance of a well-known figure, like the way Alfred Hitchcock would frequently appear briefly in his own films, or Stan Lee would show up to say a couple of lines in the Marvel movies.
These were full-on acting roles, albeit played by well-known performers.
How many episodes before it gets interesting tho? I’ve heard four or five. First episode did not donut for me. A person should not have to wait that long for it to get good.
^^^^^ This
If they’re listed in the credits, like Jack Black and Lizzo and Christopher Lloyd are, it’s. It a cameo.