Yeah, my take-away was that he had a lot more agency this episode. It will be interesting to see where they take this.
All this episode did was remind me that I’d rather be watching an old George Pal movie. I think Jon Favreou has discovered ChatGPT.
Eh. I enjoyed this episode. Good to see that R5-D4 finally made something of itself after being rejected by Luke in favor of that old R2 unit.
Yeah basically there are a handful of episodes of Book of Boba Fett that are essentially Mandalorian Season 2.5. If you watch in would suggest just watching those because the rest of BoBF is pretty bad. I thought they had an obligation to do a “Previously on” instead of assuming everyone would follow to the other show.
To the poster above who mentioned George Pal, yeah as soon as I saw those monsters I yelled Morlocks!
The scene where Din and Bo-Katan reach the Living Waters reminds me of a moment from the first Dragon Age game. For those unfamiliar with the franchise (brought to you by the makers of Knights of the Old Republic, which was a pretty big source of pre-Disney Mandalorian lore), there’s a major quest chain in the game where your party seeks out the Urn of Sacred Ashes - a relic containing the ashes of Andraste, a Jesus/Muhammed type figure who was burned at the stake a thousand years ago and is a central figure of the dominant religion in the realm where the game is set. At the time you’re doing this quest, most of your party are likely to be of the Andrastean faith, and they respond with religious awe when you finally find the Urn - they’re literally gazing upon the final remains of the most sacred person to ever live, who personally spoke to God and convinced Him not to turn His back on mankind.
However, it’s also possible that one of your party members is “the Sten” - a ten-foot-tall, gray-skinned giant from a race of invaders who arrived from another continent fairly recently, whose culture is a sort of Confucian fascist theocracy where individualism is forbidden and supernatural phenomena are disdained unless they are of use to the state. While the rest of your party are enraptured by the spiritual gravity of what they’re seeing, the Sten responds by monotonely declaring “Congratulations. You have just discovered a trash bin.”
Likewise, Din sees the Living Waters as the Holiest of Holies, while Bo-Katan views them as little more than a tourist attraction she had to pay lip service to because the rubes expected it of her. Perhaps the existence of a living mythosaur in its depths will shake her out of her cynicism.
I was thinking the exact opposite. We know she went through the same ritual, and knew about the mythosaur. She had to know how deep that place was, right? When Din took his Dunk, she didn’t even hesitate, she knew immediately, “Yep, underwater jet pack time!” No thinking up a plan, no wondering if the jet pack would even work underwater. She was expecting this.
And yet, no one in his “More Mandalorian than Mandalore” sect told him about how deep this place was, or that it had a mythosaur in it that made the Space Alligator look like a light snack. Kind of suggests that, despite their claims to being Holier Than Thou, they really don’t actually know all that much about Mandalore, its history, or its culture.
So maybe she points that out to him, and maybe that is part of the wedge that splits him from his cult.
Did you know that R5-D4 deliberately sabotaged his own motivator when Luke was trying to buy him, so that Luke would choose R2-D2 instead, because R2 had explained to him how vital it was that the Death Star plans be delivered to the Rebellion?
I didn’t either, until I happened to look up R5 on Wookiepedia yesterday while watching the episode. Apparently there’s a short story somewhere that gives all of this backstory.
Yeah, that’s how dull this episode was–I was randomly surfing Wookiepedia while watching it.
She did say something along the lines of “you won’t think it’s so impressive once you see it”. Maybe the falling into the deep end part is an expected surprise they used to use to haze the younglings. Of course, the younglings probably weren’t wearing a full suit of beskar armor when they took the dip.
I didn’t get the impression that she knew there was a living mythosaur down there - she seemed to regard that with as much seriousness as a high school senior talking about Bloody Mary, like it’s just something meant to scare the kids. There was definitely an air of cynicism in her voice as she was reading from the historical plaque and talking about giving him the grand tour.
I agree with @Smapti. It did not look like she knew what was really down there and she looked very surprised to actually see a mythosaur.
And are we supposed to think that Din sank just because the waters were unexpectedly deep? I thought he was being dragged… Otherwise it would kind of detract from his general badassitude that he can be defeated by a deep enough puddle.
Also, why are the Mandalorian jetpacks the only flying things in the Star Wars-universe to fly by emitting lots of flames and smoke and noise? It seems like every standard pull cart is capable of noiselessly hovering indefinitely. So why, in this world, is this sort of jetpack apparently such a coveted piece of tech?
So did I. I even said “watch out for the garbage chute monster” just before it happened.
I didn’t think he was being dragged, but it did seem odd that he was sinking faster than the jetpack could fly straight down. And not just by a little bit, by the time she hit the water, he was way out of sight.
So did I. When the camera went underwater you could see the stairs he had been walking down continuing for a bit, so he didn’t just fall off. It sure looked like something grabbed and pulled him.
Mando was definitely dragged down there, and Bo Katan absolutely did not expect to see a mythosaur down there. She reacted so fast BECAUSE she was not expecting that, she would have said something about taking the jet pack. Letting him sink as a joke would have been a huge dick move.
Rule of cool?
Doesn’t work when, watching them pass the half-way point of their descent, I find myself wondering, “Man, wouldn’t their ass be awfully warm by now?”
I thought he was dragged at first but when she followed him in and found him at the bottom it was clear (to me) that he just sank.
I assumed he was dragged down and spit out because of his armor, like Artoo on Dagobah.
It would make no sense to let him walk in there if she thought he would sink.
What dragged him down? The Mythosaur seemed more like the Wise Ancient Creature type thing and not the , “Me wanna eat!” type monster. Plus as soon as she dove in, it was clear the water went down leagues. I admit it’s ambiguous but for now I assume he sank like a rock.