The Mandalorian The Mandalorian 2.02 - Chapter 10 - Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

Exactly. Very few people even have a clue who Filoni is let alone looks like and it's just for fun.

 

I dont understand all the filler criticism. This is a modern Western/Flash Gordon serial. It’s been obvious since season 1 that the show is a loose set of separate adventures. This is a new adventure. That’s the show. Like, what exactly is the show supposed to do to make it not “filler”?

 

I don't need to know that the creators of a show are "having fun" to appreciate the show myself. I don't care whether or not Filoni deserves to have recurring cameos, I just think they make the scenes worse because any professional actor would do a better job. It's just another little factor that lowers the quality of production for no good reason.

 

The NR pilots weren’t going to shoot him down. In the dialogue, they say that if he doesn’t provide them with ID docs, they’ll have to escort him to a planet to check him out and confirm that’s he’s not ex-Imperial. Which will likely require hyperdrive and take up a ton of time. And he can’t do that because he has to get the woman to her planet before the equinox, and can’t go to hyperdrive or her eggs will die. In that context, note that the X-wings never fire at him, even after he takes off, and never later either. So no. They were not intending to shoot him down, and were not particularly aggressive. It was a policing action. They acted as police officers in police cars, without intention to use deadly force. Just a threat with the S-foils.

He ate two frogs. It’s been established now. Baby Yoda likes to eat frogs.

 

Also, that ant (and the same frog alien) are in the cantina in last season’s Chapter 5.

 

I'm always curious once the voting goes up to see which attention seeker is going to give it the lowest score

 

I really like how the X-Wing squad are portrayed as practically minded, justice oriented marshals/sheriffs. That's a neat bit of world building imo. They're taking the Western tropes seriously and it works really well in most situations.

 

They could have done that in Season 1 when they were introducing the characters and the world this is set in. But now its time to start focusing on the plot and start revealing some of the mysteries (and creating new ones).

Episodic "adventure of the week" TV days are over.

 

I guess the criticism stems from how few episodes there are per season. Viewers want substantial content each episode with only 8 per season as opposed to 20. The series might be based on a serial, but it's not that. It's subscription content with an impressive production value that a lot of Star Wars fans drop 2 monthly subscriptions for, or pay the yearly price. It's not a nickelodeon at the theater. They want each week to improve upon the last and for the story to move more fluidly.

 

I think they would have carried through with the threat eventually but they were practically begging him over the coms to give up the chase so they were definitely looking for an excuse not to shoot him if they didn't have to. It seemed pretty obvious to me that they could tell he wasn't Imperial from the beginning which are the people they're actually after. They have a professional obligation to attempt to serve the arrest warrant but presumably they signed to up to free the galaxy from oppression, not execute petty criminals without trial, so they view lethal force as a last resort option in this scenario(as it should be).

Says who? Shows have been made that way for a long time and people loved them just fine. That's suddenly against the rules now?

 

Why change the formula when it was so successful last season? I feel like a large part of The Mandalorian's appeal is that each episode is kind of a self-contained story while also adding to the larger plot. It really lends itself to the weekly format.

 

Don't they call these episodes "chapters"? My friends, that's why this show works as it does. Books introduce a character only to have them disappear for a few chapters before returning to serve some purpose. If you expect these to act as normal TV episodes, you may be disappointed.

 

Yeah, people need to be patient. This isn't my favorite episode, but a lot of interesting things happened in it, and not only called back to last season's prison ship episode, but shines light on Baby Yoda's insatiable appetite, which gets him in trouble in more ways than one. I'll probably watch it again and enjoy it more, like Chapter 5...I positively love that episode now! I just don't like spiders.
Favreau and Filoni both had the same pegwarming figures that I did as a kid, plus a few cool ones like Boba Fett and Yoda. It makes for imaginative storytelling to use the things you have in front of you..."This Death Star Droid wants to steal Yoda for his evil plans."

 

There's also a Gigoran with orange stained hair, who might possibly be Senna, from the Kessel breakout in Solo. Perhaps Senna tried his hand at podracing on Tatooine, and then later settled down to become a monk. Not a B'Omarr monk, but a Gigoran monk.

 

Not a good episode. Didn't move the plot forward at all. Got a small amount of character development in Din becoming more fatherly, but not enough to be satisfying. And this episode triggered my arachnophobia, which hurt it's rating for me. Ultimately it was the epitome of a filler episode.

 

To me this episode was pure Filler..

 

The ending was deus X-wing machina.

 

I liked the

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Gigorian cameo in the cantina

 

Definitely not the best episode, but still above average to me. I was thinking about either 7 or 8 on a scale. What made me finally give it a 8 was the way Baby Yoda is growing up. My personal highlight was his reaction to the Yawa like guys experience with the jet pack.

 

This episode was flat out not good. The show has to start showing some forward momentum soon because, and this was a bit of a criticism with season one as well, it doesn’t feel like they’re building towards anything. What we have are two glorified action figures who jump from planet to planet and get into nonsensical conflicts. Also, this is not 1995, monster of the week doesn’t fly anymore.

 

That's a problem when you've only got 8 episodes and already 2 episodes in its just filler with nothing happening. Now you can get away with that in a first season as a show is still finding its feet but for a second season you do need to hit the ground running not just sedately walk

 

Given that I didn't notice that the roles weren't being played by professional actors in season one and in season two, I don't have a problem with them playing those bit roles (especially since it hasn't affected the writing) and I don't think it necessarily lowers the quality of production.

In fact, the characters' role and their interractions with Din Djarin was one of the things that I liked the most about the episode.

 

Couldn’t disagree more. I love the format of this show. And unlike shows that are mostly focused on a continuous plot, you can dip in and out of the Mandalorian if you’d like to just watch one of the episodes. Their distinctiveness is a huge strength, and a strong part of this show’s identity.

Not to mention that there are small plot points and character beats that are clearly progressing the story (some of which we won’t fully grasp until later).

One thing I will say, though, is that I’m missing the presence of Kuiil. I’d like a character like him - or one that plays a similar role - to eventually pop up.

No, you definitely don’t “need” to do that. I’m glad Favreau has committed to this distinctive style to the show. And when some fans clamor for a more conventional approach, it makes me even more supportive of it.

Ha! And though I know this is just fun wordplay (forgive me for possibly spoiling that fun) the arrival of the X-wing pilots actually doesn’t meet the definition of deus x machina. Because their whole adventure on the ice planet begins by being chased by the X-wing pilots and then losing them. At the conclusion, the X-wings simply find him. A deus x machina requires that the salvation comes from an outside force that had nothing to do with the plot of the story.

 

I would say 100% that the little bounty hunter was a Jawa.