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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8784119" data-attributes="member: 4937">After watching episode 4, again, amazing show with whip smart dialogue and a commitment to showing and not telling.  I'm amazed the team at Disney that has been churning out such dreck managed to make a show that looks this good, is this well written, and is this ambitious.  I'm blown away.  It's too slow paced for the movie format, but it's movie quality in it's production, in it's sound design, in it's acting.  Just incredible show and blowing me away compared to anything Disney has released under the Star Wars logo (except for, perhaps unsurprisingly, "Rogue One").I haven't heard anyone talk about this anywhere, but is anyone else loving the stress and tension in this show?  Like intellectually I know that Cassian and Mon Mothma are going to survive the show, but emotionally the whole time I'm watching I'm expecting sudden tragedy.   When you are watching The Mandalorian emotionally you know there is basically zero chance The Mandalorian is going to be placed in any real difficulty and that no matter what happens it is going to work out.   There is no tension because you have basically superheroes fighting mere mortals.   This is a show about a mere mortal.   The tension and the anxiety is pervasive in the show and you can't help but have your skin crawl watching the show.  Everyone in the show is feeling abject terror almost all the time, and if they ever aren't experiencing abject terror it's because they are clueless and about to get destroyed.  The tension is so bad that you even have sympathy for characters that you should have no sympathy for just because of the anxiety everyone is in.  The music.  The facial expressions.  It's so intense.  Drop whatever you are doing as a nerd and watch this show.</blockquote>

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