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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8996333" data-attributes="member: 18">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?This whole episode featured a lot of "Hmmm" of that kind, where Favreau had clearly decided the audience would just accept something, rather than actually telling a story that made sense and had internal consistency. Another obvious example being that Bo-Katan knew Grogu was in trouble, and Din needed to save him when she clobbered <s>Darth Fring</s> Moff Gideon. She had literally no way to know that, given she'd just spotted Din getting his ass handed to him, from literally 300 yards away, and jetpacked in. I guess it was a classic case of "<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/ktgqet/you_know_this_because_you_are_psychic/" target="_blank">You know this because you are psychic</a>". All they had to do was put in one line, like Din going "GROGU!" after she arrived, but nope, the Favreau ain't having that! Economy of storytelling even if it makes the story no longer fully make sense!!!I note that the storyboards showed this episode made some fairly big changes from the initial plan, given they show Axe Woves getting into a TIE Interceptor (which appears to be onboard the cruiser, somehow), and escaping in that whilst the cruiser (and other ships) are destroyed by the TIEs (and god knows what happened to them - they're not lightspeed-capable - maybe one of them phoned another Imperial Warlord to come pick them up?) still in orbit.So that means the entire resolution of the battle, which relied on Woves dropping a ship on them, was something they decided on after the storyboards/planning were done.The ship was a lot less destructive than I expected too - mostly just flames, not thousands of tons of debris - I guess they hadn't pre-budgeted for a more spectacular ending. Maybe it still had enough integrity that it just sort of got jammed in the hole? It wasn't going very fast.The only really surprising thing here was breaking the Darksaber, esp. as it was so casual and out-of-nowhere - it was a good character moment though, because it showed Gideon didn't "get it". And this being Star Wars it can certainly potentially get fixed.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.Talking of armour, too, slightly surprised that the Praetorian Guard were taken down with a blaster given that their armour is canon blaster-proof - I guess perhaps back in this period it wasn't?Yeah and the end of the episode was constructed in such way that if this was the last ever episode of The Mandalorian, or the last for several years, that would make sense, which is not what I expected.I think I expected "This threat is ended, here is a hint of a new threat". But it went out of its way to avoid that, and brought the droid that literally no-one but Favreau gives only single solitary shake of a lamb's tail about.</blockquote>

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