Mando S02e01 - The Mandalorian (2019) Discussion

We've been betrayed. Woke trash!

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its not woke at all , its fantastic

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Terrible. The characters make the dumbest choices. Why didn’t they just use the bait and detonator in the first place? The whole end sequence was just really stupid imo

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[–] FilmBuff (6691) 3 years ago

You may have missed the part where they discussed their plan, which was to bury the bombs, and detonate them when the creature's soft belly was atop them. They believed that was the best way to kill it. Getting it to swallow a bomb-laden creature was not the plan, as they discussed that the creature wasn't dumb enough to fall for that. Which is why our hero had to be swallowed along with it-- the enraged beast swallowed him, the Bantha was incidental. That was more of a last-ditch sacrifice than a well-formulated plan with a high chance of success, and one that was only an option because of how bad the situation had become.

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[–] CriticalCatalyst (115) 3 years ago

What are you talking about?? Did you not take your Ritalin today?

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[–] DeeAbees (20) 3 years ago

Wouldn’t call it woke, it is however, utter trash.

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[–] TheArgentinian (6432) 3 years ago

Very nice satire 😂

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[–] TandyMan (10364) 3 years ago

Well I finally watched it for real. They kind of upped the camp factor a bit. Dragon was kind of a giant penis.

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[–] AmeriGirl26 (12299) 3 years ago

It was like a giant "Jaws" in sand.

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[–] AmeriGirl26 (12299) 3 years ago

How is killing a krayt dragon "woke?"

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[–] jdforyou1983 (1469) 3 years ago

another great episode

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[–] Filmtenk2 (3373) 3 years ago

I loved it. Timy O is a great addition. But where is Mando left in his quest now?

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[–] Nate Adams SA23 (896) 3 years ago

I didn’t see the any woke stuff. Was just a solid episode about a stranger coming to a town in crises. If anything it was a bit short I felt.

Spoiler man looked good at the end given his age now.

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[–] Cinegeek (17) 3 years ago

He’s only five years older than the last time he was seen in the movies.

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[–] ExTechOp (2747) 3 years ago

Hah, I thought y’all were talking about Timothy Olyphant

He was less recognizable to me than that bald guy at the end. If anything, he looked younger to me than he did in that fish-man film

Funny, too ... I thought that Marshall was Timothy-Olyphant-esque role during the episode

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[–] Nate Adams SA23 (896) 3 years ago

I meant the actor in real life

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[–] Cinegeek (17) 3 years ago

Oh, haha! Duh! I sometimes still have a hard time realizing that the prequels were 20 years ago.

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[–] JepGambardella (466) 3 years ago

Who was that guy at the end? I didn't recognise him.

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[–] Volley (3368) 3 years ago

T'was enjoyable, and loved the duration. Feels like Star Wars.

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[–] kuatorises (7467) 3 years ago

I geeked out when I saw the armor even though I knew it wasn't him. I knew the body was off. I'm a Justified fan too and Olyphant has a distinct posture and walk. But then at the end when HE really popped up?! I loved it!

The krayt dragon stuff was awesome too. Loved the way it looked, the cat and mouse fight between it and the two groups. Good stuff.

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[–] johnmiller (3357) 3 years ago

Krayt Dragon = Dune Sandworm, "Star Wars" Edition. :-)

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[–] kuatorises (7467) 3 years ago

Pretty much, yeah. Didn't bother me. It looked good.

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[–] johnmiller (3357) 3 years ago

It did. Just seemed to me that the "Mandalorian" folks saw that the latest "Dune" attempt was coming, and thought that they would get a jump on things.

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[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

Overall liked it. Best Star Wars content in decades. Super jazzed by TO cameo. The dude rocks.

My complaints:

1. The gogo-gaga noises they started having baby Yoda do midway through S1 are back so I guess they didn't get any negative feedback on that. The baby noises reduce BY to a infant. Before he was silent and curious and plenty childlike but showing levels of wisdom for a tyke that spoke of his strange alien growth period. Now he seems dumb. Just like all babies. Super dumb.

2. Bury the bombs 5 ft under the surface to bomb his belly? How do they know it wont come from below it? The sand is like water to it. Their plan shows a fabulous lack of grasp of the obvious nature of the beast.

Still though, I'd give the episode a 7.5/10 which I elevate to a 8/10 just because it scratches the itch.

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[–] Costumer (1786) 3 years ago

They made that choice because that is what it did whenever the Sand People sacrificed a Bantha to it. If it comes out that way every time, why would they think it would do something different this time?

Yes, it started to retreat and they had to improvise, but the basic plan was sound.

And it hardly looked like they were burying the bombs 5 feet down. Maybe 2 feet, at the most.

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[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

Fair enough.

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[–] chrisjdel (2714) 3 years ago

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy (or hunting strategy for that matter). You can get to know a wild animal's behavior but on any given day they may do something you didn't expect. In this case it turned out the creature's belly wasn't quite soft enough - so even though it did exactly what they wanted, the explosion only succeeded in pissing it off. Oops!

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[–] lolkatz (475) 3 years ago

Totally uneventful, lazily scripted episode. This episode literally took the duration of one breakfast to script. There was nothing there really: Oh, let's go that place to claim that thing, but there's a problem that people have with this other thing, so in order to kill it they have to work together with their enemies, so let's go and kill the thing, teach everyone a lesson of how nice is to work together and put behind old rivalries (so original!) and bring back that first thing we needed to take in the first place, because mcguffin.

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[–] Nate Adams SA23 (896) 3 years ago

Plus a lot of people and aliens got killed in trying to kill this one creature. The plan was shitty from the start.
They even saw the creature skip a free meal and go for a desert man the previous night

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[–] lolkatz (475) 3 years ago

However they did it, it was the crux of the whole episode. I mean who cares? So lazy, so bankrupt with ideas.

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