# The Mandalorian series on Disney+ (spoilers as it airs) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [October 29, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670 "2019-10-29T20:16:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/161 "2019-12-14T08:46:05Z")
I thought the cast was fine - not very subtle, sure, but they were supposed to be playing broad archetypes. Burr especially had the bullying alpha-male asshole type down cold. It also had this it of dialog: Raz: He was an imperial sharpshooter. Mando: That’s not saying much. Mayfeld: I WASN’T A STORMTROOPER! It’s also interesting to see that casual anti-Gungan racism is alive and well. > [@Infovore](#): > > I commented to the spouse earlier that this one looked like a Doctor Who episode. My wife had the exact same reaction. “Bunch of weirdos running around a spaceship” is a standard Who trope, after all. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/162 "2019-12-14T13:16:22Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I commented to the spouse earlier that this one looked like a Doctor Who episode. When this scene came on, we both said at the same time, “He’s a Weeping Angel!” Some of the droid guards were VERY Daleky. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/163 "2019-12-14T15:39:20Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Also, those X-Wing pilots were _really_ quick on the trigger. And seemed bored. I guess my canon-nerd radar went off on that scene. A flight of X-wings is reporting to a security beacon activation and they just kinda saunter into their attack? Sloppy formation, S-foils in cruise until the last second rather than weapons-hot, casual chit-chat. It’s like all combat professionalism went out the window as soon as the war was won. If they had to attack something with anti-fighter defenses (including the original prison transport), they would have been in trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/164 "2019-12-14T15:57:18Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > And, one of them (Filoni) was supervising director on the _Clone Wars_ and _Rebels_ animated series, as well. 🙂 And directed a lot of Avatar episodes as well, probably my favorite animated show. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/165 "2019-12-14T16:17:16Z")
nm, double post ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/166 "2019-12-14T21:24:56Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Some of the droid guards were VERY Daleky. [Those are a callback to a background droid in the “buying R2 and 3PO” scene in ANH](https://www.google.com/search?biw=408&bih=646&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=R1-G4&oq=R1-G4&aqs=mobile-gws-lite..0l5). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/167 "2019-12-14T21:29:11Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > I guess my canon-nerd radar went off on that scene. A flight of X-wings is reporting to a security beacon activation and they just kinda saunter into their attack? Sloppy formation, S-foils in cruise until the last second rather than weapons-hot, casual chit-chat. It’s like all combat professionalism went out the window as soon as the war was won. > > If they had to attack something with anti-fighter defenses (including the original prison transport), they would have been in trouble. Also, maybe consider if maybe the guy on your side who set off the distress beacon is being held hostage before blowing everything up? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/168 "2019-12-15T08:53:25Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeew! Get your mind out of the gutter, you nerf-herder. I’ll admit, though, that the funniest moment of the episode was Bill Burr seeing Baby Yoda, and asking Mando and Xi’an “Did you two make this?” ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/169 "2019-12-15T18:38:44Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > It’s also interesting to see that casual anti-Gungan racism is alive and well. It’s amusing that all the jokes since the series started have been that it’s Jar Jar under the helmet, and it turns out that Favreau anticipated that over a year ago when the episodes were filmed. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/170 "2019-12-15T22:39:45Z")
Interesting tidbit about Qin’s actor: “Ismael Cruz Córdova is a Puerto Rican television, stage and film actor who gained national attention playing Mando on Sesame Street.” ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/171 "2019-12-16T02:04:14Z")
I gotta admit, I’ll watch anything with Clancy Brown in it. And yeah, I was watching with my kids and when the second half got underway turned to my oldest and said, “The Mandalorian’s become a xenomorph.” Still, loads of fun. Favreau really knows what he’s doing. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/172 "2019-12-16T02:52:30Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Also, maybe consider if maybe the guy on your side who set off the distress beacon is being held hostage before blowing everything up? There was a bit of dialogue about this when the merc team was in a standoff with the New Republic officer on the bridge. Iirc, Bill Burr’s character said something to the effect that the beacon would call in a New Republic strike team to blow up the transport. The impression I got was that it’s not a distress beacon as in “Somebody please help me”, but as in “The prisoners have all escaped, I’m as good as dead already, just home in on this signal and blow everything up.” It seems to me that’s the only way the standoff makes any sense. If it were a “help me” signal, the officer should have triggered it the moment he knew the ship had been boarded. Instead, he holds it as a threat against the merc team, but seems very reluctant to use it. That makes sense if and only if he knows he’s signing his own death warrant by triggering it. On the other hand, why such a signal would be made as a small portable device instead of hardwired into the bridge controls, why the X-Wing pilots didn’t seem to know ahead of time what their target was (wouldn’t they have known they were being scrambled to take out a prison transport not a random space station?), and how Mando timed everything so precisely that the X-Wings would drop out of lightspeed just as he was leaving the station, and not, say, while he was still on the way there, or on board… ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/173 "2019-12-16T03:29:41Z")
Remember, the X-wing commander said that the base was ‘launching a gunship’ or something similar as they approached. The best time to deal with that gunship was before it launched. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/174 "2019-12-16T14:00:45Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > I guess my canon-nerd radar went off on that scene. A flight of X-wings is reporting to a security beacon activation and they just kinda saunter into their attack? Sloppy formation, S-foils in cruise until the last second rather than weapons-hot, casual chit-chat. It’s like all combat professionalism went out the window as soon as the war was won. > > If they had to attack something with anti-fighter defenses (including the original prison transport), they would have been in trouble. The New Republic clearly had a bad case of victory disease. That’s how they wound up letting the First Order get big enough to take them out in a mere 30 years. They really should have listened to Leia. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/175 "2019-12-16T17:51:26Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > It also had this it of dialog: > > Raz: He was an imperial sharpshooter. > > Mando: That’s not saying much. > > Mayfeld: I WASN’T A STORMTROOPER! My daughter and I had to pause this, we were laughing so hard. Oh, and don’t EVER drop Baby Yoda again. EVER. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/176 "2019-12-16T19:04:39Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Burr especially had the bullying alpha-male asshole type down cold. So he was playing himself ;). Decent enough episode, but it does seem (to me) like the famous actors having cameos thing is a bit distracting. It does seem that the show is basically: Mando and Baby Yoda have adventures. Which is fine, but it’d be nice to have some sort of larger themes at play. There are 2 episodes left in the season - maybe the finale will hint towards a move to finding out Baby Yoda’s story. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/177 "2019-12-16T19:11:52Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I thought the cast was fine - not very subtle, sure, but they were supposed to be playing broad archetypes. Burr especially had the bullying alpha-male asshole type down cold. > > It also had this it of dialog: > > Raz: He was an imperial sharpshooter. > > Mando: That’s not saying much. > > Mayfeld: I WASN’T A STORMTROOPER! I think I was laughing so hard at Mando’s line I missed Mayfeld’s follow-up. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/178 "2019-12-16T20:01:24Z")
Next episode is Wednesday, not Friday this week. Heads up. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/179 "2019-12-16T20:35:09Z")
With a final sneak-peak at TROS at the end of the ep. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/180 "2019-12-16T21:42:01Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > It’s also interesting to see that casual anti-Gungan racism is alive and well. And a gay joke (“His belt matches his shoes!”) Them casually blowing up the space station (which, to me, looked like it could easily have housed dozens of innocent people on it) bugged me a little. I too wish it was a little less episodic. Is he even\* trying \*to fix the “they can track Baby Yoda anywhere” problem? Shouldn’t that be priority #1? He’s putting himself, Baby Yoda, and anyone else around him at risk until that’s solved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670.md?page=10)