Star Wars: The Mandalorian

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Jon Favreau is directing this live-action TV series.

Looks TIGHT.

Production on the first Star Wars live-action streaming series has begun!

After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe. The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. We follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic.

The series will be written and executive produced by Emmy-nominated producer and actor Jon Favreau, as previously announced, with Dave Filoni (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels) directing the first episode.

Additional episodic directors include Deborah Chow (Jessica Jones), Rick Famuyiwa (Dope), Bryce Dallas Howard (Solemates), and Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok).

It will be executive produced by Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Kathleen Kennedy, and Colin Wilson. Karen Gilchrist will serve as co-executive producer. Stay tuned to StarWars.com for updates.

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I will say that....

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...the way they built tension during that conversation in the officer's mess and then relieved it with a blaster shot made me bark out a good, solid laugh. Good stuff.

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A Star Wars rescue squad isn't complete without a droid to hack the Empire's transport to unlock doors and discover vital information for future plans

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Maybe the worst episode of the series, with one of the most perfect endings.

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

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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.

[Bowser]

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

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

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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.

100% this. I really enjoyed it.

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It was great to finally see that Chilean face

And it wasn’t some huge buildup. They just sort of did it nonchalant. I figured they would find some way around it without showing it.

[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.

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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.

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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.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

100% this. I really enjoyed it.

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It was great to finally see that Chilean face

And it wasn’t some huge buildup. They just sort of did it nonchalant. I figured they would find some way around it without showing it.

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You realize they showed his face in Season 1, right? When the droid fixed his busted dome.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

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You realize they showed his face in Season 1, right? When the droid fixed his busted dome.

I couldn’t remember honestly??

[keg in kc]

I'm going to watch it again sometime tonight. We'll see if my perspective changes.

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Initially I just thought there too much on the nose dialogue, a completely unnecessary action sequence wedged into the middle, an awful mishandling of an extremely important character growth with him removing his helmet, and, really, just overall a side track of an episode that, to me, should have propelled us straight into the rescue arc. Literally everything that happened could have been shown in 10 to 15 minutes, and it could have then jumped us forward towards rescuing Grogu. Instead it was a speed bump following several fantastic episodes.

Whatever my revised thoughts end up being, one thing will remain consistent: the finale episode next week better be twice as long.

[Baby Lee]

So the mask is a must, . . . and yet the mustache?

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Boba decided to have am armor paint touch up offscreen

[keg in kc]

I didn't even notice the new paint job the first time I watched it. Saw it talked about all day online though.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

I'm going to watch it again sometime tonight. We'll see if my perspective changes.

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Initially I just thought there too much on the nose dialogue, a completely unnecessary action sequence wedged into the middle, an awful mishandling of an extremely important character growth with him removing his helmet, and, really, just overall a side track of an episode that, to me, should have propelled us straight into the rescue arc. Literally everything that happened could have been shown in 10 to 15 minutes, and it could have then jumped us forward towards rescuing Grogu. Instead it was a speed bump following several fantastic episodes.

Whatever my revised thoughts end up being, one thing will remain consistent: the finale episode next week better be twice as long.

Agreed on the final episode. I have no doubt it will kick 9 kinds of ass.

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Maybe you're right, but I loved it. I'm open to me being Burr homer skewing my perspective.

I think the strategy, right or wrong, is to let the audience catch it's breath some. I think the real important points can be washed out if the series is throwing 100MPH the whole time.

Maybe the week between episodes takes care of it, but I think that's what they're going for. And in my obtuse, dumbass, hickabilly opinion, it is the right play in the long term. It's frustrating when we wait a week, but I'm sure there are people going to buy D+ for a month and binge it. Hell I'm gooing to binge it, probably soon, and it changes the consumption of the story.

IDK, I'm probably a moron.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

So the mask is a must, . . . and yet the mustache?

LOL

Fair point.

[mr. tegu]

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The one thing that bothered me was the TPS report reference. It’s just as cheap joke that took me out of the scene for a moment and didn’t seem needed.

All these new series, I think it could get confusing for casual fans like myself. I think a lot of people are always trying to fit the characters and stories in the world and timelines they know or find out how they relate to or effect the most familiar thematic events. If they make it too vague shows may not be as popular but they also can’t hit you over the head too much as it seems these series will really try to expand the universe and connections between series could be very complicated.