Mando season 3

[Ryujin]

I'd think that except shows that do join all the dots get praised heavily, and not just by our generation, but Zoomers too. And a lot of the most popular older stuff with Zoomers is the most meticulous. I think it's mostly just that there's a current bunch of people making a lot of TV/movies who learned a certain approach and aren't getting much negative feedback so are continuing with it.

Yeah that was almost funny.

I was like "Huh, as I DM I've certainly felt the way Gideon does here!".

It was like classic "my adventure got completely short-circuited by the PCs!". Carefully created this special threat, even hyped it up in a villain monologue, and ooooopsy, the PCs managed to just completely negate it without even really meaning to. "Oh this room is full of clones! Was anyone expecting that?" "Nope, I guess we'd better deal with them though!".

I also felt like Mando knowing how to casually explode the clones was bizarrely out-of-character. He's never been shown to be a tech-whiz before, but he found completely unfamiliar cloning equipment (presumably essentially medical in nature) and just knew exactly how to efficiently fiddle with it and make all the tanks explode, within what, a 60-120 seconds?

I see the storyboard had him shooting at the console that controlled the clone-tanks, which would have been wildly more in-character and I wonder why they didn't go with that?

I was hoping that "Moff Gideon" was going to use a Force power and then we'd realize that actually the guy in the black armour is another Gideon clone, and the real Gideon is still out there, but they didn't do that. Chekov's Gideon remains unfired.

A big, friendly "Emergency Clone Tank Dump" button would have been helpful.

 

[Maxperson]

Right what the hell?

Is Din literally the ONLY Mandalorian with his name that way around? I know Paz Vizsla (machinegun-guy), for example, is firstname surname, pretty sure literally all other named Mandalorians are. Maybe it's specific to adoptions rather than born family?

Mandalorians come from many cultures now and maybe part of the Mandalorian way is to keep the naming conventions of the original culture.

Talking of not "getting it" though, Gideon is a clone-maker who "died" but was wearing amazing armour and no body was found so they have like multiple avenues to bring him back, which surprised me a bit - I thought we'd at least get a body for this Gideon.

Gotta keep the BBEG going for a while before he goes away. Reminds of a rule from Jack Chalker's book of rules. "Never consider a sorcerer dead for good until you have seen him die a minimum of three times."

 

[Zardnaar]

Mandalorians come from many cultures now and maybe part of the Mandalorian way is to keep the naming conventions of the original culture.

Gotta keep the BBEG going for a while before he goes away. Reminds of a rule from Jack Chalker's book of rules. "Never consider a sorcerer dead for good until you have seen him die a minimum of three times."

Mandalorians from anywhere is an old EU concept. They themselves adopted the way from another species.

Gideon can come back though either via a clone or we never saw a body and he has that kick ass armor.

 

[wicked cool]

Solid season finale. Moff is a good tv villian and not a movie villian (not quite strong enough like a Vader to be the main antagonist).

 

[Zardnaar]

Solid season finale. Moff is a good tv villian and not a movie villian (not quite strong enough like a Vader to be the main antagonist).

He coukd probably do a movie like a one shot.

 

[Argyle King]

Okay'ish finale if that's the end.

That's a rather flat end for the Darksaber though. Weird that the main villain spent so long trying to get it, just to casually toss it aside.

 

[pukunui]

Given how much flight time those jetpacks gave this fight, that dragon must literally hunt on the other side of that planet in order for the Mandos to run out of fuel chasing it to its nest.

Yeah, or maybe they just had to be more conservative with fuel while hiding out on that planet. None of them had any ships, so it’s not like they could go get more. They were probably rationing it.

That's a rather flat end for the Darksaber though. Weird that the main villain spent so long trying to get it, just to casually toss it aside.

Yeah. I guess it was a “if I can’t have it, then no one can” combined with a “look at how strong I am in this powered armor” moment.

 

[Stalker0]

Okay'ish finale if that's the end.

That's a rather flat end for the Darksaber though. Weird that the main villain spent so long trying to get it, just to casually toss it aside.

I took that as.....I have surpassed this. I am now the ultimate weapon, and I have surpassed the mandalorian culture and everything it stands for.

 

[Stalker0]

My money is on a Gideon return as a clone, as that would make all the foreshadowing with the clones pay off. Though barring that, considering the flame thrower seems a time honored Mandolorian weapon to try and deal with beskar, it makes sense he would try and add some special fireproofing to once again "improve the original model" and so survived the lava.

I mean that's ludicrous, but less so than maul getting literally cut in half, fall down a shaft, and survive.

 

[pukunui]

If any of the Gideon clones survived, it will be the one who opened his eyes while Grogu was staring at him. There was probably some sort of Force connection there.