[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

While the episode was a little different in terms of tone than previous episodes, I thought it was excellent nonetheless.

Spoiler!

I disagree. While it certainly wasn't the typical Mandalorian episode, it dove deep in the psyche of both Migs and Din Djarin. Migs obviously signed up for the Empire but it turned out to be something other than he expected and the pain of losing friends has haunted him each and every day since that battle. Just seeing that seething anger for the Empire build over the course of that scene was pretty freaking amazing and hats off to Bill Burr, who just absolutely slayed in this episode. The depth of his pain and despair was palpable.

Clearly, Din sees himself as a Father to Grogu, so much so that he's willing to give up the "The Way" and everything he previously believed in for a chance to retrieve him and save his life. I thought that was extremely powerful and while the seeds of him removing his helmet were sown in "The Heiress", I was a bit surprised to see him remove his helmet (and armor!) so soon. I thought maybe it would happen in Season 3 or 4, under dire circumstances but Favreau chose to do it now and IMO, it had a major impact.

Seeing the Mando stand up to and threaten Moff Gideon was absolutely amazing, although now, I'm a bit skeptical that we'll see whichever Jedi (or Sith!) that Grogu may have communed with through The Force in the final episode of the season.

And finally, I'm really happy to see that ridiculous rumor about Pedro Pascal being "unhappy" about not showing his face debunked. Not that I'm the "All Seeing Eye" or anything, but as I posted earlier this year, I had heard absolutely nothing about him being unhappy with the role or the lack of "face time", something I'm pretty sure I would have heard if true.

Agreed.

Spoiler!

I won't lie, I wasn't expecting a Bill Burr redemption arc. But as you said, he ****ing wrecked shit. Every note they set for him, he knocked it out of the park. It was fairly moving when he said, "gotta sleep at night." I felt compelled to give a fist pump. Not at all what I was expecting.

I'm a Burr homer, but I was all in for the jokes and charisma. I had no idea he had that in him.

Burr's comments about Mando dumping the rules when things get hot were a little on the nose but worked well and really resonated when he dumped the helmet.

The ending was awesome. It's one thing to write the monologue, it's quite another to deliver it to where it works. Some of it was Esposito's performance, most of it was Pascal's delivery. **** YEAH!

And everything Slave 1 does makes me dork out. God I'm a nerd.