I thought the show was pretty cruller from the beginning.
Haha! Good eye.
The third is fantastic - see if you can make it that far.
The series is broken up into three-episode arcs, each in a distinct setting. If one of those arcs don’t work for you, one of the others are sure to. But though the first one is a slow burn to get started, it all pays off in the finale big-time, so well worth sticking it all out. So many nerdgasms from even the most demanding fanboys can’t steer you far wrong.
So this episode proved my theory that I, according to the general SW fandom at large, like SW “wrong”. Here and recaps/reviews are what I’m referring to. People were meh to hating it and I loved it. It’s probably my favorite after the scary jailbreak one. It gave me what I like in this show: one-off wacky adventures, some cute Grogu bullshit, and not too far up its own ass. It felt so much like an animated Clone Wars episode to me in the best way.
Oh, and by “wrong”, I meant to say I liked the prequels. I loved TLJ. I really disliked Andor and Obi-Wan series and wasn’t loving Boba Fett very much. I didn’t mind Jar Jar when I saw the prequels in theaters. I love C3PO. I don’t think the prequels, while they have myriad faults, were really that far off the original trilogy.
I loved it too. ETA: disliking Andor is just weird though 
It was a great episode for my family. We’re just looking for an entertaining story in Star Wars. We probably have low standards, but at least we enjoy ourselves. 
One nitpick: the subtitles spelled the title of the female ruler “Dutchess”. My inner Mel Brooks really, really wanted to say “funny, she doesn’t look Dutch”.
So glad they did the darksaber story, I know we were thinking “isn’t Bo the rightful owner? She bested the possessor in combat”
I’d call it stunt casting — cameos are typically one line or so imho.
Brian
So far, it’s been goofy, which is expected because it’s supposed to be a franchise for children, except for instances of political thriller which made it as banal as Andor and the prequels.
They probably ran out of material to mine from spaghetti westerns and samurai flicks.
Has there ever been any sort of breakdown in how long it takes to get anywhere in Star Wars? Pretty much every hyperspeed trip is shown to take maybe an hour.
There’s been such in some of the SW role-playing game products, but little or nothing that’s been canonical in the movies or books. As far as I can tell, it’s largely “ships fly at the speed of plot,” as J. Michael Straczynski used to say – it takes longer (or shorter) if it’s integral to the plot, otherwise, it’s hand-waved away.
I know it’s Star Trek and not Star Wars, but here’s how I used to put it:
The Enterprise has three possible speeds: Warp Get There in the Nick of Time, Warp Get There Tragically Too Late, and Warp Not Relevant to the Story.
This season feels EXACTLY like it was filmed off the script for a Star Wars RPG. It literally is like they took the notes from a video game design house. I am mildly surprised the Mandalorian and Bo-Katan don’t have little HP bars hovering over them.
Lizzo is a great musician, but as an actress, yikes. Granted, I’m not sure the likes of Meryl Streep or Viola Davis could elevate this material. That episode was just dumb.
The one thing I will say for it, though, was that I enjoyed the dichotomy of the Mandalorian knowing how to diplomatically engage with the Ugnaughts, being careful not to insult them and using the “I have spoken” line, while Bo-Katan was clumsy and ignorant. Then, in the droid bar, the Mandalorian was the clumsy fool and nearly blew it, while Bo-Katan took a more intelligent line and got what they needed.
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Thanks, I didn’t run through the whole tutorial level. Took me ten minutes to figure out how to find the quest compass indicator.
Anyone else catch that during the chase scene, Mando ran past a whole bunch of the space vespas from Boba Fett?
This may be important. They’re better together than they are separately because of their diverse backgrounds.
There are a lot of fans shipping them, but I find it more interesting to consider them both becoming a leadership team in the quest to revive the fortunes of Mandalore.
It even had the “Enhance photo!” CSI computer tech scene!
Well, damn.
Episodes 1-6 were all about putting the pieces into place for this. Masterfully played.
Nice touch introducing Captain Pellaeon and Brendol Hux in the Shadow Council.