The Mandalorian

Me and the boy just like watching it because of Grogu tbh. Every few scenes the little guy is doing something silly. We love it. As an actual serious show it doens't really hold up and I'm not altogether sure wtf is going on so far. So he wants to atone and be a Mando again, so tries to resurrect IG-88 (because even though Mando can kill four space pirates in a fraction of a second, he's scared to go to a seemingly barren planet himelf) who is surprisingly intact given he blew the shit out himself. He then goes to find a part but goes to Starbuck's castle instead for no real reason? Who gives a toss when you've got Grogu force spinning on a chair or hugging a little furry puppet man.

I assumed he wanted the droid as the planet is supposedly poisoned, and the droid might be able to access areas he can't. But yes, quite how so much survived that explosion is a bit of an issue.

There are bits where you simply have to let it wash over you, and after Andor it can seem very shallow, but I don't mind that as it does pewpew Star Wars really well, and I am happy both types exist.

I'd much rather this than po-faced Andor tbh. SW is inherently silly. Too gritty doesn't suit it. I've said before but I have no time for SW anyway these days as it's been fucking done to death and the magic is gone. Therefore I only watch what the boy wants to watch. He bounced off Andor and that suited me fine.

I thought he wanted the droid to protect Grogu if he needed to nip off for a shit in his helmet, or there was something dangerous.

We'll yeah, it's a horribly impractical burden in a plethora of different ways, but the show makes such a big thing about removing the helmet (your very existence and identity as a Mandalorian) that I had to assume no Mandalorian ever removes it, for fear that someone will walk in on them during dinner.

Yeah they can in private, although being permanently part of them would have been interesting.

I still think that the IG plot made more sense than people are giving it credit for. After Kuill reprogrammed it, the droid sacrificed itself twice for Grogu. So, purely as a back up, you’d want 11 with you.

On top of that, it has additional functions and can survive in environments organics cannot.

I find the criticism that it can be restored, more pertinent. But again, what did Kuill change when he restored it?

IG-11 blew itself up in an explosion big enough to kill a bunch of stormtroopers while standing in a river of lava. How there was anything to recover at all was pushing things but rebuilding it it? Hmm.

Yeah it really wasn't that confusing, he had too settle on R5 once he realised he wasn't going to get the part to fix IG. As to why he wanted IG I that was pretty obvious - but then, I did do a rewatch of S1&2 (plus the BOBF episodes) just before S3 so it is fresh in the mind.

The restoration issues are legitimate, you'd think there would be nothing left at all, but then it's a fantasy show and I am happy to suspend disbelief.

Really enjoyed last nights episode. Andor gave us a new type of Star Wars, and it was marvellous, but I also love this Saturday afternoon adventure style of Star Wars, and thanks to the amazing work of Doug Chiang everything looks and feels right. Amazed how much creativity goes into this for a TV show, and how big it all feels, it manages to look better than a lot of the MCU including some of the films a lot of the time.

Yeah it's a bit rubbish. I don't care about anything that's happening.

Yep, it's almost equal amounts of stupid and cool stuff, but the stupid is the writing and cheesy trope moments, and the cool is all the filler stuff. Which doesn't really work at all.

Bo's whatever-the-fuck-that-is-ship that's some nod to Maul's Interceptor(?), the Grevious-style scavanger, fitting for what was a polluted and destroyed world, the cheeky pilot reveal of it, the whole setting etc all cool.

Djinn ? You okay ? What ? What are you trying to say ? "Behind you" Oh jesus. I would've eye-rolled so fucking hard if it wasn't so obvious, laughably so. He's a great navigator, thumbing the screen, and letting the R5 have some vague impression. Just as well it was set up beforehand, right ? And this amount of stupid would be okay, if it had been consistent, but it hasn't and it feels...incongruous, because we've had episodes where the writing/plotting were equally good. At the moment it's more Penny/Bones rescuing Insp. Gadget again, and has the whiff of Boba all over it.

And again, as others have said, because I'm not neck deep in the ol' EU stuff, the other shows etc, I'm going to have to wait a few episodes for some bad exposition about what the hell the

It was mentioned in the first season, and you can see symbols of it in a lot of Star Wars - but the main mention was in BOBF, and the 3 Mando episodes in that (at least certainly the first one) are important as to what is going on in this series, and particularly yesterdays episode. So if you haven't seen those, can understand it seeming a bit random.

I can see why they wanted to overlap the two series, but I would prefer it if you didn't have to watch all the side bits to make sense of the main narratives - it's a bit too MCU. 

I wasn’t expecting to see Morlocks but I guess Star Wars has always borrowed from older science fiction

Its still fine Saturday morning action but I do think its lost a bit of its zip and energy the deeper it gets into lore after the bounty of the week format of earlier seasons.

Yeah bit presumptuous that Bo wouldn't be busy.

More to the point why didn't he just tell Grogu to crush Grievous 1.0's head with his force powers? Useless little twat.