Episode 4
Hey look, some nice villagers going about their day! Lemme guess; they're about to get massacred.
... Ofcourse I was right.
Lemmee guess; one of the raiders is going to SOMEHOW notice them hiding under the basket, or the girl is going to freak out or sneeze and they will notice.
Huh, they didn't do it. Nice.
Looking around, there is a surprising lack of dead bodies. Usually the way this goes down in fiction is that everybody is killed and it's one big sob story, but here it seems that the raiders shot a couple guys, chased the rest of the villagers away, and then just left some baskets of blue fish. Guess they're smart enough to know that if you want to do raiding, you have to actually keep villagers left alive so you can raid them again later. They're unusually competent for Hollywood writing.
Anyone else noticing a trend here, where we don't really see messed up human bodies but we see a lot of busted up droids? IG-88 in episode 1? The droid driving the car in episode 3? And now, another droid driving a car at the beginning of this episode. I'm not asking for gore or anything; that'd be incongruent with what Star Wars has established (the most gorey thing we ever saw was Uncle Owen and Lars burned from afar, and looking back that is inconsistent with the rest of the franchise), but at least show some humans plopped over on the ground.
WTH how is she beating him up? How is her hands and kneecap not shattering whenever she punched his helmet or kicked his armor? Only other woman in the entire series who could do that was... Rey. *sigh* Guess I'll just have to write that off as her being a mutant with titanium bones or something.
What do you mean "I guess you'll have to move on..." and "Looks like this planet is taken"? Dude, it's an entire PLANET! You have literally THE ENTIRE REST OF THE PLANET to hide! Surely there is more than just that one bar on the planet.
Why is amarriedwoman hitting on him? (edit: later confirmed as a widower. Still, she had met with him for all of one minute!)
Did he seriously just change his mind on whether or not he was going to fight in the span of thirty seconds?
The Mandlorian: "We can't fight an ATST. We're not taking the job. You guys should relocate."
Villagers: "But there are twenty-five of us".
The Mandalorian: "Okay I'll teach you how to fight.
The dude didn't even sigh. He just changed track just like that.
Sudden Mount & Blade training the villagers sequence.
See? When the big alien raider punched the Mandalorian's helmet, the Mandalorian wasn't even fazed, but when the girl punched him in the helmet he keeled over. And she's beating up guys in plate armor...
Wow, they made an homage to the Iron Giant with the AT-ST chase through the woods at night. Nice!
That battle was raging for three minutes, and somehow the 25 villagers DIDN'T get massacred within that time?
"So what happens if you take that helmet off"... come on, don't ruin the mood show. That was dumb.
"Why don't you settle down with that beautiful young widower?" Goodness gracious, knock it off. He spent a grand total of TWO MINUTES onscreen with her.
Medicore filler episode. 3/10
We are half way through this story, with only four episodes left. So far, there has barely been any story at all. The only story thus far is that there is a Mandalorian bounty hunter who took on a job, found a baby Yoda, turned in the baby Yoda, had second thoughts, took baby Yoda back and fled. That's the entire story of the show thus far. That could've been told in one episode. We didn't need any of this padding. I'm not hopefull for the rest of the season.
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Considering droids are a thing and have been shown to be able to drive cars in the new canon (OT downplayed the question it by only having them copilot ships like Luke's X-Wing), it doesn't make sense to me why droid brains couldn't be rigged to pilot vehicles autonomously. Could've been the deal with the AT-ST.
Exactly.
In retrospect, it feels like borderline wish fulfillment. "The protagonist is so awesome that he near singlehandedly saves an entire village, becomes beloved by their community, will have his name passed down through the generations in the legends, and has a woman throwing herself at his feet."
Felt like a bad episode from the latter seasons of SG-1/Atlantis, after the good writers had left.
I thought of that awful CGI orc guy (Azog, I think?) from the Hobbit.
At the rate the story is progressing, episodes 1-4 should've been condensed down into a single episode.
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I'm puzzled as to why the Mandalorian episodes are so highly rated on IMDB. Yes, the show isn't insulting like TLJ, but that's damning by faint praise.