I watched it twice in a row. Loved the music, LOVED the closing credits, loved Werner Herzog, the Mandalorian underworld, the IG droid stuff, and of course the reveal at the end. Lone Wolf and Cub.
It was a bit different than I expected, but I still believe it will be a good series.
One thing that bothered me was that countless bounty hunters were allegedly killed trying to raid that compound over time. But then the Mandalorian and the bounty droid wasted everybody in under 10 minutes.
I hope the show provides some real stakes going forward. It's not compelling at all when things are easy for the protagonist.
I absolutely loved it, best star wars thing since the originals imo. Â
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The little worm thing being roasted
Connected the universe easily.
I liked that there are other Mandalorians out there as well.
Obviously the baby was super cute and you have to wonder - force sensitive?
I do hope there is a jedi in here somewhere (or Sith). Not too much, they become boring when they dominate the screen, but one battle would be neat vs the Mandalorian.
Will they do a Judge Dredd and keep his helmet on the whole time? I hope so.
RE: Its a fair point Mr. Bungle, they did say though that the Mandalorian Â
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Bossk
The little worm thing being roasted
Connected the universe easily.
I liked that there are other Mandalorians out there as well.
Obviously the baby was super cute and you have to wonder - force sensitive?
I do hope there is a jedi in here somewhere (or Sith). Not too much, they become boring when they dominate the screen, but one battle would be neat vs the Mandalorian.
Will they do a Judge Dredd and keep his helmet on the whole time? I hope so.
I think they remove his helmet at some point. I think there was a scene in the trailer where we saw his face and I was like "Oh, the Viper plays Boba Fett? Good casting!"
Plus the whole Chekhov's Gun kind of thing where the original bounty asks him "Is it true you guys never remove your helmets?" kind of sets up that whole thing being important.
he captures is Horatio Sanz in a lot of make-up (and slimmed-down from his SNL days) and the Uber speeder driver who gets eaten by the monster is Mr. Show's Brian Posehn.
Felt it was running a little flat early, but picked up nicely. I love the world building in the original trilogy time period. That’s why I liked Rouge One so much. It’s like my childhood imagination come to life.
I saw a picture but conflicting reports of our favorite bounty hunter making an appearance in the background. Dont know whats real or fake on the internet anymore. Wont get to watch until the weekend, its killing me but at least I’ll have 2 eps to watch back to back
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through the first episode .Someone online said there was too much fan service ,thats ok by me .Thats why i love all the fan made films and Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau are fans .
pretty well done overall. The fan service of the carbon freezing was a little much. Han Solo was frozen in carbonite as a hack basically (and also a complete test to make sure it wouldn't kill Luke at Cloud City). So now that becomes the preferred method to capture the targets for bounty hunters? Jabba stuck Han on the wall because there wasn't much else he could do with it.
And seeing the IG-88 type droid kicking ass when back when I was a kid and saw Empire in the theatre you wondered what he would be able to do along with the other bounty hunters. Now we see what he would have done (fun fact, you see IG-88 blasted in Cloud City and in a corner, so Boba Fett "killed" him too).
The fan service of the carbon freezing was a little much. Han Solo was frozen in carbonite as a hack basically (and also a complete test to make sure it wouldn't kill Luke at Cloud City). So now that becomes the preferred method to capture the targets for bounty hunters? Jabba stuck Han on the wall because there wasn't much else he could do with it.
I felt the same way at first, but then I thought about it a bit more. Perhaps word got around the galaxy about Fett doing that with Han -- which did seem to make fugitive transfer much easier -- and a new market was created for carbon-freezing. In history, a lot of tech product markets were created by accident. The Mandalorian could just load up the Razor Crest with several fugitives and collect bounties essentially in bulk. That would be harder to do if they were just sitting around the ship, cuffed or something. As long as the carbon-freezing tech were made cheap enough not to cut too much into their profit margins. ;)
It could be a nice homage to Fett by mentioning something like that later in the show, instead of shoehorning something else in, just to make Fett lovers (like myself) happy.
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I would think it wasn't him. And I'd hope it wasn't him.
The Special Edition of Return of the Jedi makes it pretty clear that Fett was swallowed by the sarlacc.
I love Fett, but we don't need him back.
Fett escaped sarlacc in the expanded universe (part of the Bounty Hunter trilogy) and ended up helping Han on a mission against the Vong in the New Jedi Order series. The line was something along the line of Solo just being a job and his real hatred was towards the Jedi's just before they teamed up.
They said it was not Fett. Besides the who Mandolorian army all had armour similar to Fetts. The Mando in the show could be part of Fetts old clan which would explain the mask similarities.
Favreau also said that the series was not about Fett but he would not rule out a cameo.
Fett escaped sarlacc in the expanded universe (part of the Bounty Hunter trilogy) and ended up helping Han on a mission against the Vong in the New Jedi Order series...
That's one of the problems with Star Wars' "megafranchise" status. Between the films, books, cartoons, video games, toy packaging, etc., some storylines get forked into more than one direction. And other pretty important twists occur in places where not everyone is aware (like the cartoons or the books).
thinking about this today. At first I was a bit confused as to why this badass bounty hunter would risk his reputation and a large payment if that metal, that seems so important to his people, in order to save this infant.
Could all of Yoda's species be force sensitive? And did that child use jedi mind trick even though the Mandalorian is clearly not weak minded?
thinking about this today. At first I was a bit confused as to why this badass bounty hunter would risk his reputation and a large payment if that metal, that seems so important to his people, in order to save this infant.
Could all of Yoda's species be force sensitive? And did that child use jedi mind trick even though the Mandalorian is clearly not weak minded?
Full payment of the bounty was contingent on the target being delivered alive.
thinking about this today. At first I was a bit confused as to why this badass bounty hunter would risk his reputation and a large payment if that metal, that seems so important to his people, in order to save this infant.
Could all of Yoda's species be force sensitive? And did that child use jedi mind trick even though the Mandalorian is clearly not weak minded?
Full payment of the bounty was contingent on the target being delivered alive.
Somehow I think there is more to it than shown.(granted it is only episode 1) The full payment was if the target was brought back alive, but Mando was told that he would still be paid but at a significantly lower amount if the target was brought back dead.
The old guy is ex-empire which is why I think that the whole bounty was so hush-hush.
Since the old expanded universe (now legends) is no longer canon which means they (the empire) have not stayed together and just moved everything that was left after Return to the outer rim.
I have a feeling that in this new canon timeline that the rest of the post Return empire is now taters and the remnants(ex-Moffs, and Generals that survived) are now jockeying for some sort of position to get ahead and this guy thinks that the little yoda will give him an edge.
"Full payment" include a lot of those metal bars right? Â
it seems like they were highly prized by the Mandolorians. The said the leftover after he got his shoulder piece would be donated to the orphans, and he was an orphan once. So its likely his loyalty to the other Mandolorians is why he didn't kill the kid. A bunch more of that metal seems like its a big deal.
There is also the fact that he was apparently an orphan (as seen from the flashbacks) and he might have related/bonded to the baby yoda's situation.
Has always been a highly sought metal. Even in the current new canon and especially in the old Legends.
It is mined and is the main product of Mandalor and is the only known metal that can stop a Jedi lightsaber. That is why Jango's (now Boba's) and this new Mando's (who's name has been leaked today as Din Jaren or some other spelling) armour is made out of it.
Growing up, you’d see IG-88 next to all the other bounty hunters, and I always wondered what “he” would actually be able to do, given how stiff he looked. It was very cool seeing the IG droid go full gunzerker, definitely cleared that up for me.
It ties in nicely with the SW universe and explores a period we've not seen much of yet (5 years after RotJ), where the power vacuum caused by the fall of the Empire can be exploited by all sorts of unscrupulous individuals.
Also known as "I don't want to pay beyond the 7-day free trial."
I was really, really hoping I'd love it. Bought a year. Then they'd have had me, short a show as it is and will be. But I was disappointed. Lots weren't so what do I know.
What exactly were you disappointed by? Also we haven’t even hit the 70 minute mark yet in terms of running time, so I can’t understand pulling out this early. But Baby Yoda isn’t for everyone I guess.
One thing that bothered me was that countless bounty hunters were allegedly killed trying to raid that compound over time. But then the Mandalorian and the bounty droid wasted everybody in under 10 minutes.
I hope the show provides some real stakes going forward. It's not compelling at all when things are easy for the protagonist.
Tons of great callbacks to the original trilogy
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Bossk
The little worm thing being roasted
Connected the universe easily.
I liked that there are other Mandalorians out there as well.
Obviously the baby was super cute and you have to wonder - force sensitive?
I do hope there is a jedi in here somewhere (or Sith). Not too much, they become boring when they dominate the screen, but one battle would be neat vs the Mandalorian.
Will they do a Judge Dredd and keep his helmet on the whole time? I hope so.
Tons of great callbacks to the original trilogy
Landspeeders
Bossk
The little worm thing being roasted
Connected the universe easily.
I liked that there are other Mandalorians out there as well.
Obviously the baby was super cute and you have to wonder - force sensitive?
I do hope there is a jedi in here somewhere (or Sith). Not too much, they become boring when they dominate the screen, but one battle would be neat vs the Mandalorian.
Will they do a Judge Dredd and keep his helmet on the whole time? I hope so.
I think they remove his helmet at some point. I think there was a scene in the trailer where we saw his face and I was like "Oh, the Viper plays Boba Fett? Good casting!"
Plus the whole Chekhov's Gun kind of thing where the original bounty asks him "Is it true you guys never remove your helmets?" kind of sets up that whole thing being important.
And didn't Kuiil tell the Mandalorian that he would need to know how to ride the blurrg in order to raid the compound? What happened to that?
I'm definitely going to watch the episode again. Maybe that will clear a few things up for me.
The twist at the end is wonderful. Loved it.
And didn't Kuiil tell the Mandalorian that he would need to know how to ride the blurrg in order to raid the compound? What happened to that?
I'm definitely going to watch the episode again. Maybe that will clear a few things up for me.
I thought Kuill said they would need to ride the blurgg in order to get to the compound which they did show.
And seeing the IG-88 type droid kicking ass when back when I was a kid and saw Empire in the theatre you wondered what he would be able to do along with the other bounty hunters. Now we see what he would have done (fun fact, you see IG-88 blasted in Cloud City and in a corner, so Boba Fett "killed" him too).
I felt the same way at first, but then I thought about it a bit more. Perhaps word got around the galaxy about Fett doing that with Han -- which did seem to make fugitive transfer much easier -- and a new market was created for carbon-freezing. In history, a lot of tech product markets were created by accident. The Mandalorian could just load up the Razor Crest with several fugitives and collect bounties essentially in bulk. That would be harder to do if they were just sitting around the ship, cuffed or something. As long as the carbon-freezing tech were made cheap enough not to cut too much into their profit margins. ;)
It could be a nice homage to Fett by mentioning something like that later in the show, instead of shoehorning something else in, just to make Fett lovers (like myself) happy.
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For example, the blurrg-riding sequence went from "It's impossible to ride this thing" to "I can do it!" in, like, 30 seconds.
And didn't Kuiil tell the Mandalorian that he would need to know how to ride the blurrg in order to raid the compound? What happened to that?
I'm definitely going to watch the episode again. Maybe that will clear a few things up for me.
I thought Kuill said they would need to ride the blurgg in order to get to the compound which they did show.
and the droid bounty-hunter got there how?
Gripes about how quick and easy it was to light up that camp, the opening episode delivered. I'm in.
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I would think it wasn't him. And I'd hope it wasn't him.
The Special Edition of Return of the Jedi makes it pretty clear that Fett was swallowed by the sarlacc.
I love Fett, but we don't need him back.
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This is what I am talking about earlier Link - ( New Window )
I would think it wasn't him. And I'd hope it wasn't him.
The Special Edition of Return of the Jedi makes it pretty clear that Fett was swallowed by the sarlacc.
I love Fett, but we don't need him back.
Fett escaped sarlacc in the expanded universe (part of the Bounty Hunter trilogy) and ended up helping Han on a mission against the Vong in the New Jedi Order series. The line was something along the line of Solo just being a job and his real hatred was towards the Jedi's just before they teamed up.
They said it was not Fett. Besides the who Mandolorian army all had armour similar to Fetts. The Mando in the show could be part of Fetts old clan which would explain the mask similarities.
Favreau also said that the series was not about Fett but he would not rule out a cameo.
That's one of the problems with Star Wars' "megafranchise" status. Between the films, books, cartoons, video games, toy packaging, etc., some storylines get forked into more than one direction. And other pretty important twists occur in places where not everyone is aware (like the cartoons or the books).
Could all of Yoda's species be force sensitive? And did that child use jedi mind trick even though the Mandalorian is clearly not weak minded?
Could all of Yoda's species be force sensitive? And did that child use jedi mind trick even though the Mandalorian is clearly not weak minded?
Full payment of the bounty was contingent on the target being delivered alive.
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thinking about this today. At first I was a bit confused as to why this badass bounty hunter would risk his reputation and a large payment if that metal, that seems so important to his people, in order to save this infant.
Could all of Yoda's species be force sensitive? And did that child use jedi mind trick even though the Mandalorian is clearly not weak minded?
Full payment of the bounty was contingent on the target being delivered alive.
Somehow I think there is more to it than shown.(granted it is only episode 1) The full payment was if the target was brought back alive, but Mando was told that he would still be paid but at a significantly lower amount if the target was brought back dead.
The old guy is ex-empire which is why I think that the whole bounty was so hush-hush.
Since the old expanded universe (now legends) is no longer canon which means they (the empire) have not stayed together and just moved everything that was left after Return to the outer rim.
I have a feeling that in this new canon timeline that the rest of the post Return empire is now taters and the remnants(ex-Moffs, and Generals that survived) are now jockeying for some sort of position to get ahead and this guy thinks that the little yoda will give him an edge.
There is also the fact that he was apparently an orphan (as seen from the flashbacks) and he might have related/bonded to the baby yoda's situation.
It is mined and is the main product of Mandalor and is the only known metal that can stop a Jedi lightsaber. That is why Jango's (now Boba's) and this new Mando's (who's name has been leaked today as Din Jaren or some other spelling) armour is made out of it.
I did get that the metal is precious and sacred to Mandalorians, which is why I was confused to why he would throw it away for the child.
It makes sense now. But Im sure Werner Herzog is still the villain and the Mando is bound to end up saving the baby.
Someone who doesn't know what 'spaghetti western' means, apparently.
Or make the entire series available all at once like Netflix
30 minutes doesnt have the substance or depth to marinate for a week like a hour long Sunday night HBO series.
I guess (I hope?) something in the rest of the episode will end up mattering later in the story.
So far, the show is just "good" for me. I was hoping for great. Of course, it has plenty of time to turn into great.
I liked episode 2. Kinda cool to see the Jarwas fight back.
But this bounty hunter is supposed to be so good, but plans no attacks, just goes in head first? How is that strategic?
I really hope not. I'll probably give up on the franchise if those are both true.
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Quit.
Also known as "I don't want to pay beyond the 7-day free trial."
I was really, really hoping I'd love it. Bought a year. Then they'd have had me, short a show as it is and will be. But I was disappointed. Lots weren't so what do I know.