The mandalorian [Spoilers]

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I found the Stormtrooper open to be funny, if a bit incongruous to the tone established by the show.

The shootout was a let-down. No stakes, no risk. I can't stand the complete lack of tactical awareness displayed by the director and his team - it makes any larger SW firefight feel utterly unrealistic.

The show worked best in it's initial episodes.

It's not random trivia they tied episode 8 to the Rebels cartoon.

I watched the final episode and it was a lot better than previous episodes. I love any of the scenes that the Tie Fighter is in (and I also loved seeing it land in the previous episode). This episode is much stronger due to the show finally having a main villain and a core cast of characters to support Mando. Plus the reveal of the dark saber at the end was a nice touch. I also enjoyed the comedy with the Stormtroopers and feel like the show could use more of that.

Plot wise it is still very messy though. From the Grand Moff deciding to give Mando and his crew till tomorrow to come out (Why? Just give them 5 minutes to come out and then shoot them), to one droid on a speederbike taking out an entire battalion, to Mando staying behind and then catching up again (Then why couldn't they just take him with them?), then them pausing with the forgemaster, and then moving on again. Plus there was something about Mando needing time to learn how to use the jetpack, only to have him use it flawlessly at the end of the episode without any training what so ever. Also, how was Cara able to push the boat free by shooting it, instead of sinking it?

It feels like there were a lot of cool scenes they wanted to include, but the writers did not know how to stitch all those scenes together. It comes across as a bit clumsy and kind of falls apart towards the end. I also feel that the dialogue in the show as a whole is pretty flat and the characterizations are uninspired and not developed very well. The show leans entirely on its mood, setting and looks. But I wish there was more.

@dragoner: The not taking your helmet off thing makes sense as part of the Mandalorians' post-purge survival strategy. Same with only going out in public one at a time.

However, there is definitely some inconsistency there, as I'm pretty sure Din told somebody that he hadn't shown his face to anyone since he was a kid ... despite the show later revealing that he was saved during the Clone Wars by Death Watch soldiers, who, as your meme shows, didn't have any issues with taking off their helmets at that time.

Perhaps the Mandalorians we see in the show are members of some ultra-conservative sect of the Death Watch. They might look down on all those other Mandalorians who don't follow the code by allowing other people to see their faces. (So the code introduced in the new show could either be an ancient thing that only some Mandalorians follow, or it could be a brand new thing that was developed as part of a survival strategy after the Empire's purge.)

(Also, FWIW, Jango Fett technically wasn't a Mandalorian, even though he wore Mandalorian armor.)

@pukunui I found it interesting that what I noticed, others have made a meme of. My feelings are closely paraphrased by Ford in a New Hope: "It's not that kind of movie".

Quite simply the best television series I have seen in decades. Loved it. Completely moved me.

pukunui said:

@dragoner: The not taking your helmet off thing makes sense as part of the Mandalorians' post-purge survival strategy. Same with only going out in public one at a time.

However, there is definitely some inconsistency there, as I'm pretty sure Din told somebody that he hadn't shown his face to anyone since he was a kid ... despite the show later revealing that he was saved during the Clone Wars by Death Watch soldiers, who, as your meme shows, didn't have any issues with taking off their helmets at that time.

Perhaps the Mandalorians we see in the show are members of some ultra-conservative sect of the Death Watch. They might look down on all those other Mandalorians who don't follow the code by allowing other people to see their faces. (So the code introduced in the new show could either be an ancient thing that only some Mandalorians follow, or it could be a brand new thing that was developed as part of a survival strategy after the Empire's purge.)

(Also, FWIW, Jango Fett technically wasn't a Mandalorian, even though he wore Mandalorian armor.)

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It's either a new development, a sub group, or Disney messed up.

The helmet conundrum just means that Star Wars has gotten old enough as a mythology to start gaining some actually interesting contradictions and possibilities like classical mythology and Doctor Who.

Can't wait for Season 2.