Mando season 3

[MarkB]

The first thing to do before you start cutting is to disable the door controls.

The armchair quarterbacking is strong in this thread.

 

[Maxperson]

Umm, you realize that as soon as she starts to cut holes in the front, they just open the door and shoot them all dead, right. They're pinned in a tiny room with only one exit and no cover. Since it was the Imperials that closed the door, you do understand that they can reopen it right?

1. They tried that the first time and it failed spectacularly. They have blaster resistant armor.
2. All it took was one mandalorian with an automatic blaster to kill every last one of the imperials. He'd just do it again, only this time with backup that could kill the 3 guard after the power of plot melted his weapon.

What makes you think they would all somehow die if he had all the rest of the mandalorians to help him survive?

 

[Stalker0]

Umm, you realize that as soon as she starts to cut holes in the front, they just open the door and shoot them all dead, right. They're pinned in a tiny room with only one exit and no cover. Since it was the Imperials that closed the door, you do understand that they can reopen it right?

Or throw their own grenades. I keep hearing about the mandos throwing grenades through a small hole, but imperals can have grenades too you know.

 

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[Paul Farquhar]

Or throw their own grenades. I keep hearing about the mandos throwing grenades through a small hole, but imperals can have grenades too you know.

Then the mandlorians bat the grenades straight back through the hole with the baseball bats they keep in their armour.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

The armchair quarterbacking is strong in this thread.

To be fair, the Mandalorians have been so profoundly incompetent or quarter-competent that someone who plays tactical videogames (hell, even Call of Duty) is probably a tactical genius next to them, and people who play TTRPGs and are used to improvising plans on the fly? Well, even better.

Umm, you realize that as soon as she starts to cut holes in the front, they just open the door and shoot them all dead, right. They're pinned in a tiny room with only one exit and no cover. Since it was the Imperials that closed the door, you do understand that they can reopen it right?

LOL if they could just "shoot them all dead", they wouldn't have closed the door in the first place.

In the end it was just a badly-conceived and executed scene, because the idiot-ball was too obvious, particularly as Star Wars has a long and storied tradition of people using lightsabers to cut through "impenetrable blast doors", so the moment you see one come down and block the heroes, the Star Wars part of your brain says "Anyone got a lightsaber?" and the answer here was not only yes, but they did that exact trick later.

 

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[Maxperson]

To be fair, the Mandalorians have been so profoundly incompetent or quarter-competent that someone who plays tactical videogames (hell, even Call of Duty) is probably a tactical genius next to them, and people who play TTRPGs and are used to improvising plans on the fly? Well, even better.

LOL if they could just "shoot them all dead", they wouldn't have closed the door in the first place.

In the end it was just a badly-conceived and executed scene, because the idiot-ball was too obvious, particularly as Star Wars has a long and storied tradition of people using lightsabers to cut through "impenetrable blast doors", so the moment you see one come down and block the heroes, the Star Wars part of your brain says "Anyone got a lightsaber?" and the answer here was not only yes, but they did that exact trick later.

Only this wasn't even an impenetrable blast door. It had a rather large window!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Google turns this up.

"What was the first mention of Mandalorian in Star Wars?

The first mention of Mandalorians came in Marvel's first Star Wars comic book series, with 1983's No. 68 featuring a (non-canonical) backstory for Boba Fett that saw him as being one of a number of super-commandos protecting the planet Mandalore."

Years after the comics' much more important addition to Star Wars canon: giant green bunny humanoids. (And, um, bikini-clad bounty hunters who apparently come from the planet Coachella.)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Clever people are not as uncommon as you think. When I was a postgrad research assistant most of the scientists I was working with were good at other stuff too - art, music, martial arts etc. Its rare to find someone so narrow that they are only good at science.

Indeed, the way brains work, folks who are good in STEM are extremely likely to be great at music and languages as well, to give one example.