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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 8977277" data-attributes="member: 58416">I just watched the new episode.Maybe I'm being too harsh, but all the pieces for an episode that would be truly great were there, but it turned out to be just okay. While "okay" is not bad, I was expecting something better.It's nice to see that the Mandalorians aren't always completely incompetent at tactics. Even so, there were still a lot of questionable choices to how they approached fighting through a city*. But it was an improvement over the previous episode.(*They walked directly into a pincer ambush, after being told the ambush was there; and apparently none of them thought to use a jetpack to get to an elevated position rather than just standing in the street. Also, while I understand that I'm watching a Disney show, it's still glaring that the response to taking fire from an elevated crewserve weapon was to stand in the open and get killed, rather than... well, rather than doing just about anything else. Even old 80s action movies have the background characters attempting to maneuver and fire back from cover.)The show should hire someone (with a military background) to serve as a consultant for battle choreography. Maybe that's not normally important for a Star Wars show, but I think a show featuring a militant cult and an escalating scale of conflict ought to consider it. (In a similar way, the Iron Fist show had fight scenes which were noticeably worse than Daredevil. Even when they weren't bad, it was weird that the guy based around being a super martial artist had meh combat.)The fight with the pirates teased at being cool, but it was less than I expected. It's the first time the audience is able to see all of the Mandalorians fight as a unit against an enemy which (presumably) also has some amount of prowess, so I expected more grit and a harsher conflict than how things went. Additionally, the pirate king had potential to be a cool antagonist, but he was easily dispatched without much of a fight. It didn't make the heroes look better to make their foes lesser; having a competent foe to overcome could have been a moment to bolster the image of the cult. It would have been a completely fine fight for a lesser foe or an early episode, but I feel it fell short of matching the implied menace and implied seriousness from the audience's introduction to the pirates.Mentally, I was additionally distracted from suspending disbelief enough to enjoy the fight more; distracted by wondering how Navarro survived long enough for others to engage in casual planet hopping to several locations.Something about this season feels different. That's vague, and I don't know how to quantify what feels different, but it does. The tone and heart of the show is something different than the first two seasons.The general storyline contains a lot of things which have the potentially to be awesome, but there are a lot of small things which are noticeably out of place and/or illogical -even by the standards of Star Wars and casual space opera. If it had happened only once or twice or been the occasional moment, I wouldn't notice so much. However, there's been something noticeably out of place in almost every episode of this season. I'm aware this is harsh. Honestly, it turned out harsher than what I originally intended to type. I still wouldn't say the show is bad, but I would say that it has started to lose a grip on why it was previously so good. Many mickles make a muckle</blockquote>

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