The Mandalorian series on Disney+ (spoilers as it airs)

[thelurkinghorror]

@muldoonthief

Don’t know if everyone has seen this - when they were filming, they were prepping to reshoot a Baby Yoda scene without the puppet, so they could do him in CGI instead if they decided the puppet wasn’t working. Warner Herzog told Favreau and Filoni “You are cowards. Leave it.” It’s got to be both thrilling and terrifying for a director to have Herzog tell you you’re a coward.

This is the guy who made a movie about hauling a steamship over a mountain by… hauling a steamship over a mountain.

[muldoonthief]

@thelurkinghorror

This is the guy who made a movie about hauling a steamship over a mountain by… hauling a steamship over a mountain.

And not to mention the movie about a guy getting eaten by a bear…

[Morbo]

@Quimby

Maybe they will sell an empty box and a promise of future toys. It worked for Star Wars before.

Favreau did that on purpose. Cool of Disney to back him up.

[Jonathan_Chance]

@muldoonthief

Don’t know if everyone has seen this - when they were filming, they were prepping to reshoot a Baby Yoda scene without the puppet, so they could do him in CGI instead if they decided the puppet wasn’t working. Warner Herzog told Favreau and Filoni “You are cowards. Leave it.” It’s got to be both thrilling and terrifying for a director to have Herzog tell you you’re a coward.

God, I can hear that voice now.

God.

[Smapti]

@Morbo

Favreau did that on purpose. Cool of Disney to back him up.

Amazon is taking pre-orders for the Baby Yoda plushie, with a ship date in May. I’ve got my order in.

[Smapti]

A heist episode? (snaps fingers) You son of a bitch, I’m in!

It was kinda funny seeing this week’s episode so soon after Rick and Morty deconstructed the genre so effectively, but it was still enjoyable. Bill Burr is basically playing himself as a Star Wars villain. I loved the scenes of Mando taking out the droid squad, and Burk (the Devaronian) body-slamming one assault droid and tossing it at the other, as well as the fight between the two of them. The second half basically turned into a slasher movie albeit with the slasher as the good guy. Mando is definitely rubbing off on Baby Yoda, with the way he was able to keep Zero distracted for so long, and I liked the bit where he was prepared to defend himself with the Force and seemed impressed at how well he’d done before he realized Mando had blasted Zero.

I swear I saw Keegan-Michael Key as one of the prisoners onboard the Republic ship. If it wasn’t him, it was someone else with his distinctive intense stare.

As a reminder, next week’s episode will be debuting early, on Tuesday night (morning of the 18th), so as to avoid it coming out at the same time as the premiere of Rise of Skywalker.

[thelurkinghorror]

Since you’re probably wondering:

Mark Boone Junior
Bill Burr
Clancy Brown
Natalie Tena
Richard Ayoade

[ekedolphin]

I thought it was interesting how you thought that Mando had killed the others, but it turns out in the end that he simply locked them in the same cell together. Is Mando rubbing off on Baby Yoda, or is Baby Yoda rubbing off on Mando? Maybe both. Also, we don’t really know the fate of the prisoner and the guy who hired Mando.

At this rate, Mando’s gonna have quite the rogue’s gallery of people looking to get even with him.

[Smapti]

@ekedolphin

Also, we don’t really know the fate of the prisoner and the guy who hired Mando.

I’m pretty sure they died via Republic X-wings after Mando revealed the twist on their double-cross.

At this rate, Mando’s gonna have quite the rogue’s gallery of people looking to get even with him.

Seems like he already does - the heist crew was obviously planning to turn on him from the beginning, and the story about the Razor Crest being the only ship that could do the job (despite being an obsolete piece of garbage) was a ruse.

[GuanoLad]

@thelurkinghorror

Since you’re probably wondering:

Mark Boone Junior
Bill Burr
Clancy Brown
Natalie Tena
Richard Ayoade

Also Matt Lanter (voice of animated Anakin) as the nervous guard, and the three X-Wing pilots were directors Dave Filoni, Rick Famuyiwa, and Deborah Chow.

[Labtrash]

@Smapti

I liked the bit where he was prepared to defend himself with the Force and seemed impressed at how well he’d done before he realized Mando had blasted Zero.

That SO reminded men of the car commercial where the kid-Vader’s Dad remote starts the car. The way they (both kid and baby Yoda) looked at their hands…

[DSeid]

@Half_Man_Half_Wit

T… I’m afraid this show needs some direction sometime soon—it’s already been too much of ‘Mando and Baby Yoda arrives somewhere, Bad People try to do bad things to them, Bad People get shot, Mando and Baby Yoda fly off’. The last two episodes didn’t really have any effects that seem like they’re gonna last—although I’m holding out hope that all the people met (and left behind) along the way will have some role to play in the end.

My take is that The Kid is akin to a McGuffin. The big arc is the excuse to have mostly self-contained takes on various tropes (and is itself a riff on The Three Godfathers trope I think). The fun of this show is not going to be that big arc but appreciating the genre riffs and nods. (Many of which I fear I am missing … but still enjoy it)

[iiandyiiii]

Loved the latest episode! Great casting!

[Darren_Garrison]

@Smapti

Mando is definitely rubbing off on Baby Yoda

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!

[Darren_Garrison]

Also, those X-Wing pilots were really quick on the trigger. And seemed bored.

[Fair_Rarity]

I really hated Tonks in this episode. She was distractingly awful. So over the top. The whole heist crew were not good actors, which was kind of a bummer because otherwise the episode was really great. (Although it’s nice that with Burr in SW canon, there is someone in a galaxy far away who sounds like me.)

The part when Mando was sneaking up on Burr and it was dark and every time it was light again Mando was a little bit closer? Great directing and camera work. Very effective.

[iiandyiiii]

Clancy Brown is a terrific actor – his character might have been written as kind of one note, but I thought he was fine.

[Infovore]

@Fair_Rarity

The part when Mando was sneaking up on Burr and it was dark and every time it was light again Mando was a little bit closer? Great directing and camera work. Very effective.

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!”

[Mahaloth]

@Darren_Garrison

Also, those X-Wing pilots were really quick on the trigger. And seemed bored.

Fun note: They were directors of other episodes of the show.

[kenobi_65]

@Mahaloth

Fun note: They were directors of other episodes of the show.

And, one of them (Filoni) was supervising director on the Clone Wars and Rebels animated series, as well.