Star Wars Mando season 3

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Read every word. It boiled down to you felt "root" was a more natural use of language than "rout" in this context, and so the intention of the writer was off in this case (potentially due to an American obscurity unknown to the writer).

I have not really followed this argument, but in the US, root and not rout, is the way the expression is used and spelled. In my 50+ years, I have never heard or read it said/spelled as rout, including in college. So maybe just chalk this up to yet another variation between British and American English.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Just watched tonight's episode. I'm glad getting their asses handed to them by the giant space turtle made the cult start actually training, but I'm thinking the Mandalorians have been coasting on their rep for decades.

"Well, when the dragon snatches someone, we just let them go, because otherwise they'd die."

WHAT?

I sure hope we're not counting on these folks to conquer a planet at some point. An angry Jawa with a pointy stick could take these folks out.

I loved seeing Ahmed Best get a chance to be a 100% heroic character with a Jedi+ thing of having two lightsabers of different colors.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As a totally 100% pointless aside, I will note the baleful influence of Top Gear (specifically) has created a situation where a bunch of American journalists of a certain age (about 30-50) who write about cars use Anglicisms of varying extreme-ness routinely, so it's not a one-way street.

Given that we fought a literal war (two, really) to be free of England, it is super-embarrassing how much many Americans absolutely slobber over anything English.

 

[Zaukrie]

A very star wars episode.

 

[pukunui]

"Well, when the dragon snatches someone, we just let them go, because otherwise they'd die."

WHAT?

I sure hope we're not counting on these folks to conquer a planet at some point. An angry Jawa with a pointy stick could take these folks out.

I figured it was some kind of culty “survival of the fittest” thing. The difference in this episode was the foundling was Paz Vizsla’s son.

I loved seeing Ahmed Best get a chance to be a 100% heroic character with a Jedi+ thing of having two lightsabers of different colors.

 

[trappedslider]

Best artwork ever

 

[Zardnaar]

Given that we fought a literal war (two, really) to be free of England, it is super-embarrassing how much many Americans absolutely slobber over anything English.

Except the food.

British comedy kills USA stuff and then there's the glory of Top Gear.

 

[Zardnaar]

Just watched tonight's episode. I'm glad getting their asses handed to them by the giant space turtle made the cult start actually training, but I'm thinking the Mandalorians have been coasting on their rep for decades.

"Well, when the dragon snatches someone, we just let them go, because otherwise they'd die."

WHAT?

I sure hope we're not counting on these folks to conquer a planet at some point. An angry Jawa with a pointy stick could take these folks out.

I loved seeing Ahmed Best get a chance to be a 100% heroic character with a Jedi+ thing of having two lightsabers of different colors.

And his character is still alive until told otherwise (he's probably dead).

Hopefully see more of it he deserves it after the Jar Jar BS ( crap character not his fault/hi George).

 

[pukunui]

Best artwork ever

Hey, how did you manage to get a screenshot? Whenever I try to screenshot something on Disney+, I just get a black screen.

 

[Hussar]

I just assume Paz Vizsla’s son was a foundling the same as Grogu. Grogu is Jin’s son. The kid is Paz’s son. I thought all the children are foundlings. Wasn’t that a point made in an earlier season that everyone is a foundling?

 

[Argyle King]

E4 was an okay episode.

I'm nitpicking, but it is becoming bothersome that a militant cult appears to be so awful at basic tactical problems.

Yeah... I know... it's Star Wars; it's space fantasy; it's...

Yeah, but still. For me, it's mentally getting to the point where it seems implausible that this group is able to survive the planet they're currently on.

The show spent 2 seasons building up the mystique of the Mandalorians, only to erase it in a handful of scenes.

 

[MarkB]

E4 was an okay episode.

I'm nitpicking, but it is becoming bothersome that a militant cult appears to be so awful at basic tactical problems.

Yeah... I know... it's Star Wars; it's space fantasy; it's...

Yeah, but still. For me, it's mentally getting to the point where it seems implausible that this group is able to survive the planet they're currently on.

The show spent 2 seasons building up the mystique of the Mandalorians, only to erase it in a handful of scenes.

It's possible that they're deliberately testing themselves by exposing themselves to predator attacks, but yeah, it's weird.

And supposedly those flying critters had already killed several people. Why aren't they setting even the most basic watch for them, and why haven't they learned from experience to use different tactics?

 

[Bolares]

I don't know... I just tought it was a fun little star wars adventure episode. Sure it made little sense, but Star Wars rarelly maker sense. I'm interested in Bo-Katan's arch. I think she will become enamorated with the cult, but in the end go back to her early goals with a healthy (or at least healthier than the cult's) relationship with her religion.

 

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[Stalker0]

I don't know... I just tought it was a fun little star wars adventure episode. Sure it made little sense, but Star Wars rarelly maker sense. I'm interested in Bo-Katan's arch. I think she will become enamorated with the cult, but in the end go back to her early goals with a healthy (or at least healthier than the cult's) relationship with her religion.

I think cults will do as they do. Bo Katan will get drawn in by the community, the sense of belonging, the zealous faith, etc.

And then....something will happen to wake her up a moment of "oh yeah this is why this cult sucks". Then she will go her own way. that's my theory.

 

[Reef]

I don’t know. I’ll admit I don’t hold Star Wars to the same exacting expectations of logic like I would a more serious property, but this episode went way beyond that.

“Don’t shoot it! It will kill the kid! Use jet packs!”
Okay, fine that makes enough sense, and is a good enough reason to have a chase.

“oh no! We ran out of fuel! Like we always do.”
Wait, what? The jet pack plan always ends this way, and you keep trying it? Oh look, at least Bo-Katan is thinking…

“I didn’t want to scare it, it might kill the kid. So I came back for a squad…”
Okay, it’s a bit of a stretch, but I guess the kid can survive long enough for you to fly back…

“…and we’re going to have to camp out, and then slowly climb up the next day.”
Okay, is this thing just having tea with the kid? Why would it possibly keep him alive in the nest for 18 hours? Oh, hungry babies? Well guess the kid is definitely dead.

No wait! Not only did the beast keep him alive for 18 hours (with hungry babies waiting, no less), it did so by flying around and keeping him inside itself!

I’m sorry, that’s just all a level of incompetent writing that destroys any willing suspension of disbelief I had. And it could have been so simple. The kid was alive because the babies hadn’t hatched yet…the mother was being proactive. That would have still given us the nest scene, and the fight at the end. And you still could have had the babies hatch during mid-rescue. It doesn’t explain the whole “we ran out of gas…again” thing though.

Anyway, I normally cut Star Wars a lot more slack, but the stupid just kept piling up to the point where we all just couldn’t take the rest of the episode seriously.

 

[Ryujin]

E4 was an okay episode.

I'm nitpicking, but it is becoming bothersome that a militant cult appears to be so awful at basic tactical problems.

Yeah... I know... it's Star Wars; it's space fantasy; it's...

Yeah, but still. For me, it's mentally getting to the point where it seems implausible that this group is able to survive the planet they're currently on.

The show spent 2 seasons building up the mystique of the Mandalorians, only to erase it in a handful of scenes.

I tend to think of cult Mandalorians as sort of Space Barbarians; individually tough, but not great at working together. I can't remember where I read it but the expression was something like, "A warrior is meat on the table for a soldier." Might have been one of the Childe Cycle books.

 

[wicked cool]

I don’t know. I’ll admit I don’t hold Star Wars to the same exacting expectations of logic like I would a more serious property, but this episode went way beyond that.

“Don’t shoot it! It will kill the kid! Use jet packs!”
Okay, fine that makes enough sense, and is a good enough reason to have a chase.

“oh no! We ran out of fuel! Like we always do.”
Wait, what? The jet pack plan always ends this way, and you keep trying it? Oh look, at least Bo-Katan is thinking…

“I didn’t want to scare it, it might kill the kid. So I came back for a squad…”
Okay, it’s a bit of a stretch, but I guess the kid can survive long enough for you to fly back…

“…and we’re going to have to camp out, and then slowly climb up the next day.”
Okay, is this thing just having tea with the kid? Why would it possibly keep him alive in the nest for 18 hours? Oh, hungry babies? Well guess the kid is definitely dead.

No wait! Not only did the beast keep him alive for 18 hours (with hungry babies waiting, no less), it did so by flying around and keeping him inside itself!

I’m sorry, that’s just all a level of incompetent writing that destroys any willing suspension of disbelief I had. And it could have been so simple. The kid was alive because the babies hadn’t hatched yet…the mother was being proactive. That would have still given us the nest scene, and the fight at the end. And you still could have had the babies hatch during mid-rescue. It doesn’t explain the whole “we ran out of gas…again” thing though.

Anyway, I normally cut Star Wars a lot more slack, but the stupid just kept piling up to the point where we all just couldn’t take the rest of the episode seriously.

I agree with you. The grogu fighting is also almost painful to watch is it’s basically a puppet. I think at some point grogu has to get bigger and it could get really silly if he wears a Mando helmet

 

[Reef]

I agree with you. The grogu fighting is also almost painful to watch is it’s basically a puppet. I think at some point grogu has to get bigger and it could get really silly if he wears a Mando helmet

Yeah, the Grogu training thing was also borderline ridiculous. Sure, they probably learn from an early age, but he’s still basically a toddler, it seems.

 

[Bolares]

Yeah, the Grogu training thing was also borderline ridiculous. Sure, they probably learn from an early age, but he’s still basically a toddler, it seems.

They seem to have written themselves into a corner here. At the same time they chose a very slow developing race for a main character, while trying to Grogu evolve and develop as a charater. That's why I think they are trying to develop his jedi/mandalorian abilities while still being a toddler.