I loved Jack Black in his ep. I thought it was hilarious and very star wars in it’s over the top fantasy.
Man I wish I could give you ten little planes for that one. If only that were the default reaction all across our cultures.
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I liked it, thought it was a bit of campy fun, no worse than the ewoks or jabbas palace in ROTJ
I hate the ewoks.
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Grrrr no thats not true. I dont hate them. But they are stupid, just like everything i love in SW
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I’ve been struggling a bit with this season too. Feels like the story that’s worth showing would maybe take 3-4 hours total, and the rest is in there to pad out the time, or set up some kind of space cops x-wings on patrol show?
Still fun but I feel like half hour episodes could have worked this season (although I’m sure there’d be too much grief giving for that to happen).
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One of the major downsides with the switch from episodic to serialized storytelling in fictional TV is that people now expect every episode to “go somewhere.”
In essence, they want a 10 hr movie broken up into hour-long pieces (that they then binge watch all at once anyway so it might as well have just been a long film…but make a film at 4 hrs long and they complain??) as opposed to a season of TV.
Some of the best hours in TV history were not ones in which a major plot point happened, a character died, a mystery was revealed, or any of that. It was just “Picard gets mind blasted by a probe and lives decades of life as an alien and gets a flute as a reminder.” It literally had nothing to do with anything and other than a couple of shots of said flute in later episodes/films had no bearing on the series.
Yet it was excellent.
The X Files was notorious for having its best hours be the standalone “monster of the week” eps that just could be watched in any order, while its serialized conspiracy hours were often blasted as lame.
I’m watching, for the first time in decades, Seaquest DSV on disc. Some great guest stars, some great stories, all could be randomly rearranged and watched in any order after the pilot and it wouldn’t change a thing. They did 26 episodes a year back then and people were fine with that.
It seems like people are so impatient now, they want a season to last like 8 hrs and tell one story they can finish in a weekend and then move on to some other show and not think about it again for 3 years.
There is something to be said for letting a show breathe, its characters have experiences that maybe do NOT lead to anything but are just stops on the way, and alternate between serious and light hearted moments.
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That was absolutely bang on @JediMaster!
The absolute best episodes of star trek, TNG, DS9 and Voyager are the ones which have no bearing on the overall plot and just let you grow to love the characters in a meaningful episode that explores them on a deeper level.
I absolutely adore TNG. But DS9 is just far far better at character growth and interaction.
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Yep absolutely bang on. I have to agree that in most series the stand alone episodes work best, but conversely the reason why Deep Space Nine was probably my favourite ST series is the overall srory Arc each season and how that culminated in the Dominion war. Yet, Voyager which was basically all stand alone stories (except for we need to get home) was one of the weakest… at least until Seven of Nine turned up. BTW that Next Gen Picard episode is one of the best hour and a bit of TV ever 
And that was probably my biggest gripe with the entire episode and that is that the entire point, the transfer of power from Din Djarin to Bo Katan happens in the last five minutes and everything else had practically zero to do with it. And even then it is “Oh yeah I lost the Darksaber four episodes ago and Bo retrieved it when she saved me so I guess it is hers now… Here you go” - I mean WTF?
Meanwhile Grogu has been reduced to a mere prop this season.
Sorry, I respect everybodies opinion, and if you liked that episode I am genuinely happy for you. I guess every TV series has at least one stinker and for me this one has just replaced Caravan of Courage as the worst Star Wars ever.
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Agreed @JediMaster! My favorite episodes of Mythic Quest have been the ones that had only the most tangential relationship to the series storyline. They were little art pieces. Fortunately, a trend seems to favor this sort of screenwriting. Succession is amazingly good. But sometimes I want all three acts in a single hour.
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I noted it the instant that she rescued him several eps back.
“Why is he taking it? It’s hers now…”
I guess they wanted to make a bigger deal about it later rather than present it as a fait acompli for dramatic purposes. It certainly wasn’t the best episode of the show by far, but it has its place.
One thing to keep in mind is that episodes like that help inform the show for its betterment even when they may let you down. The actors who performed it, the writers who wrote it, all of it gives clues to what these characters are like and how they should behave. I was not at all surprised at the sacrifice at the end of the last episode, that character had been fleshed out enough that you could see it was totally in keeping with what had come before.
Of course criticisms come from all angles, I’ve seen plenty of people say they think there’s still too much “baby Yoda” in the show, or they wanted more bounty hunting and less of the current direction (even though just doing a bounty hunt of the week would get old fast). Meanwhile the showrunners have confirmed that while the show is called The Mandalorian it’s not called Din Djarin. Perhaps it would’ve been better called The Mandalorians as the show is really shifting to being about their entire culture/civilization and not just Din.
I was quite excited to finally see Capt Pellaeon last night, and Commandant Brendol Hux was in the books already as the father of General Hux in the sequel trilogy, along with the other nods to the coming First Order. We will see more of them as well as Thrawn in Asohka I’m sure.
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Didn’t think it was a good idea to put two good episodes of Mandalorian in the Book of Boba Fett as they bridge the gap between the series and a lot probably never saw them going by some of the reviews.
Series 3 has been okay mostly.
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I admit I found that an odd thing to do.
The best comparison might be the Netflix Marvel series where characters from one would appear in another in between seasons, but it was rarely the main character (although it did happen). However, the main difference is major development of the visiting character would not occur, it would be a fun guest spot but if you missed it and only watched the main seasons you wouldn’t miss out.
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I know…
Maybe I will feel better after the next episode. I hope so.
It is just that Andor has shown me how good Star Wars can be… and as Dopinder said in Deadpool 2 (quoting Kirsten Dunst) - “I want some more”
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Grogu in IG-12 was my three year old, if she was allowed to pick out her own stroller. Like, all of it. Especially the part in the market.
I’m still a bit salty about the sequel trilogy, and it seems increasingly like they’re trying to justify those movies (which I’m REALLY not a fan of). So, I’m curious to see where Daisy’s new movie goes. Really hoping it doesn’t take place on Yavin IV, and doesn’t involve any ancient disembodied Sith warriors, or indestructible superweapons with the power to destroy entire star systems.
Also, NGL, I kinda felt like the “Heir to the Empire” line from the Ahsoka trailer was just an attempt at lip service to the long-term fans- again, I’m taking a “wait and see” attitude with that show.
I still think the best ending would be Luke waking up, it’s revealed that the entire Sequel Trilogy was a bad dream, and he’s visited in the early-morning darkness by Obi-Wan Kenobi’s spirit before he goes and becomes one with The Force. Then, Luke makes a drink, goes to the roof of the Imperial Palace on Coruscant, and watches the sunrise until he’s joined by C-3PO (where it’s revealed the drink he’s sipping on, a recipe learned from Lando, is hot cocoa).
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Works for me. 
Wheels
And for those who aren’t familiar:
That’s the opening scene for “Heir to the Empire,” the first novel in Timothy Zahn’s sequel trilogy, i.e. the books Dave Filoni is leaning on so heavily to fix Star Wars.
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Still trying to work out how the Empire ever invaded Mandalore after seeing the recent ones. talk about inside job.
They cant shoot, they have no armour, the weapons are totally ineffective, the Tie Fighter weapons system also is complete crap - presumably setup to shoot at something flying straight and level only.
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Easy. The Republic had crack clone troops already on Mandalore when Order 66 happened, as seen in the last season of Clone Wars, and they suddenly had orders to become occupiers, and then much more overwhelming force could be applied in the form of all those Venators full of clones and commanders loyal only to the Chancellor/ Emperor.
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Have not seen that one - and thought it was order 69 for some reason - but it was order 66 in the film I see.
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