Star Wars: The Mandalorian - Discussion Thread

Started by Galan00756 pages

It's a novel, so I can't really post scans.

Originally posted by Galan007
I like that they were hyped as army-busting hyper-weapons(even after the Ewok shenanigans on Endor), but their legs are still just a massive achilles heel.
Armt-busting hyper-weapons that failed to even kill a nameless fodder villager in the episode as far as I can tell.

The AT-ST was a bad joke. 👇

Originally posted by Galan007
It's a novel, so I can't really post scans.
Oh, I heard there is a paragraph where a guy finds a mask which belonged to a temple guard and can relive his/her past memories during order 66, is it true? (sorry for the OT)

Originally posted by NemeBro
Armt-busting hyper-weapons that failed to even kill a nameless fodder villager in the episode as far as I can tell.

The AT-ST was a bad joke. 👇

Its drivers were a bad joke, it's like having some peasant manage a tank

Originally posted by Total Warrior
Oh, I heard there is a paragraph where a guy finds a mask which belonged to a temple guard and can relive his/her past memories during order 66, is it true? (sorry for the OT)
Karr gently, lightly touched the Temple Guard helmet. Lightning flashed behind his eyes. A sea of white. No. A wall of white. Moving toward him.

Not a wall. Men. Troopers. Clone troopers marching in formation, but divided in the middle by something black. The men moved with purpose. With precision. More like a ceremonial procession than a battle. A parade, maybe? Or an exercise? Karr could only make out their movement. The colors were sharp and then dull. Karr focused hard, concentrating for all he was worth, and left two fingers on the mask--daring it to give him more and silently promising that he could take it.

The guard wearing the mask saw them approach. But there was no feeling of danger. There was only familiarity. Karr squinted to see more, but he couldn't. But the guard saw who led the troopers. The figure in black. The driving force. Somehow Karr knew that, knew also that the guard was confused. Under his breath, behind the mask and for only himself to hear--except Karr could hear it, too--the guard said, "Skywalker?"

Skywalker ignited his lightsaber and cut the Temple Guard down. Karr could hardly believe it, and he didn't understand it; he wanted to look away, but there wasn't time, not even in a vision. Skywalker, if that was him, moved too swiftly, his violence as baffling and brisk as a magic trick. Blasters fired. Lightsabers swished. Bodies fell. People screamed. It was so hard to focus on any given detail, any given moment. The whole scene was a jerky, pale watercolor blur.

There's also a 'meta', in-universe implication at the end of the novel that Karr is who wrote the Star Wars story itself... But that's neither here nor there. 😉

^thank you, whenever there is new order 66 I get hyped

Originally posted by Galan007
There's also a 'meta', in-universe implication at the end of the novel that Karr is who wrote the Star Wars story itself... But that's neither here nor there. 😉
oh God. Do I even want to know?? 😕

At any rate, I liked this episode. Just hope they wait a long while to have Mando reveal his face.......

Originally posted by steverules_2
What's the thoughts of an
Spoiler:
AT-ST
appearing in the ep?

Enjoyed seeing it on screen again, but we already knew what was coming. If stone-age tech furry midgets could destroy them, then blaster armed normal sized shrimp farmers can.

Will say, at least it fell victim to a moat-trap, instead of having some villager throw a lucky spear and taking it out that way.

😂 yep.

And at least the 'trap' was set up by battle-adept characters who had faced the Walkers in battle before, and not some random fisherman.

...Or Peter Dinklage cosplaying as a Wookie. ermmnone

Originally posted by Galan007
It's just inconsistency, tbh.

TFA implied that there hadn't been an "awakening" in the force for a LONG time -- almost like 'new' force-sensitives were borderline non-existent by that point. So when one finally surfaced(ie. Rey), they immediately took notice.

But fast-forward to current canon, like the Force Collector novel I mentioned above(which is set shortly before TFA), and we know that is definitely not the case. There are still force-users popping up all over the galaxy(which honestly makes sense... I mean, why would that just stop?)

The novel's protagonist is one of those, for example. He used the force a number of times throughout the story.

So much for Disney streamlining everything.

Originally posted by -Pr-
So much for Disney streamlining everything.

It's not the first screwup. Heh.

Originally posted by -Pr-
So much for Disney streamlining everything.
Streamlined contradictions. 👆

Originally posted by Zenwolf
It's not the first screwup. Heh.

True.

Originally posted by Galan007
Streamlined contradictions. 👆

And subverted expectations.

Kind of a... meh episode today.

Definitely the weakest episode so far.

The rookie bounty hunter was unbelievably annoying, and really cheapened the episode for me.

The location was cool. Thought for sure we'd get a Boba Fett reference though.

Good episode for me. The length is getting too short though

So who was the mystery guy at the end of the episode?

Boba?

I'm thinking Boba, yeah.