EFAP TV: Reacting to The Mandalorian S03E04 - The Foundling

Welp, after last week's heartbeat, it would seem the show has gone back to it's usual corpsey sludgey self, enjoy as Mando child gets ate by some space dragon or something!
Edited by Fringy

[@Arko777777]

I love the implication, that everytime the foundling is taken by a giant pterodactyl they chase him to the point of using all fuel in their jetpacks and then give up and walk to their hideout on foot empty handed. What a miserable bunch of incompetent warriors.

[@davidmendez3899]

“eat our child once, shame on you. eat our children two or more times, can’t get fooled again” - Mando W SpaceBush

[@LN997-i8x]

It's even better when you remember that it's established later on that they _knew_ it lived beyond jetpack range and yet still tried to chase it via jetpack.

[@paulwenzel1055]

also at no point do they try to use one of their galaxy jumping ships to tail the dino, until a capaple woman came along to show them. And why in the Hell do they even think for a second that the giant flying reptile wouldn't eat its prey until they attack it?????

[@cdev2117]

@@paulwenzel1055 They really had weirdly specific knowledge about the behaviour of that bird, like they tried it a dozen times or so before, trial and error.^^

[@aquapendulum]

F&F even canonized how the other Mandalorians don't realize they can just hop on the Gauntlet (Bo-Katan's ship) and have Bo transport everyone from the start.

[@JekPorkbricks]

I liked the part where they flew to right under the nest, camped for the night, and quietly went to the nest the next day to rescue the kid without any sense of hurry. And then suddenly, the Paz Vizsla guy is worried that the kid is in danger because he remembered it's his son.

[@davidmendez3899]

no wonder these people almost went extinct in season one. they should make their armor out of nerf.

[@justinstoll4955]

​@@davidmendez3899 Right! That's all I kept thinking about.

[@Senpaiaproves]

I have a son but I wouldn't go climbing stupidly in the dark. I'd have to try and think rationally. Even though i probably wouldn't l.

[@Сайтамен]

@@Senpaiaproves If you are serious, they have night vision and helmet lights...

[@Senpaiaproves]

@@Сайтамен the writers say they don't 🤣

[@slaapt]

Remember when the dragon flew faster than the jetpacks? Too bad it forgot how to do that during the battle.

[@Сайтамен]

Hey man, Paz Viszla is too heavy.

[@gonotgentleman]

THEY FLY FASTER NOW!

[@electrifyingct4303]

@@gonotgentleman they fly faster now

[@Ceyx000]

"Pretty smart dragon" -Din Pym

[@sparkypack]

​@@Сайтамен cargo overload 🤭

[@StalkerQtya]

I really like the fact, that Paz Vizsla suddenly spawned a kid. Book of Boba Fett: "Only 3 of us left." Mandaloriaon season 3: "MUH SUN!!!"

[@grandarkfang_1482]

But what about his son!?

[@RangerRobin0404]

I mean when there's only three you get bored.. lol

[@terrasur4168]

It’s Alice’s gang…. IN SPACE!

[@Ceyx000]

​@@terrasur4168 Schrodinger's Mandos

[@terrasur4168]

@@Ceyx000 “But I thought you guys were dead?” “We were!”

[@jadey1422]

They are clearly attacking the water because they know how dangerous it can be to slip over in it.

[@Ceyx000]

"Take that Hydrator!" "Yea! This is for Dim Djarin!"

[@gonotgentleman]

They’re shooting at the water to ward off aquatic megafauna from attacking their water-adjacent base. This is the only possible solution to their predicament.

[@nhagan001]

Mando went back, told them how he fell in the Blessed Waters, and they said "alright, new training tomorrow. Goal? HOW TO KILL WATER!"

[@johannesseyfried7933]

​@@nhagan001 I mean....there *was* a King in History once who ordered the sea to get whipped because the bad weather prevented his ships from sailing or something.

[@Lundarian1]

They are attacking the water because the sea is always right, and they can't have that bruise their fragile egos

[@malcanth3481]

I think Mando really needs to ask Grogu, "So are you actually an infant or just an asshole?" Sometimes he does things an infant shouldn't be able to do, but other times, he has the intelligence of an infant. There is a good chance Grogu is just pretending to be an infant so that he can get away with being a complete dick to people.

[@corruptangel6793]

Well, he has less than 50 years to become a full-grown adult. "When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not." "For 800 years have I trained Jedi. My own council, I would keep on who is read." Yoda was, at least, a fully trained Jedi Knight by the age of 100. This means he should have at least been the human equivalent of early 20s by then

[@Ceyx000]

Grogu's just a middle-aged asshole.

[@superjlk_9538]

@@corruptangel6793 the aging scale for Grogu makes no sense and just further complicates the timeline and lore

[@corruptangel6793]

@@superjlk_9538 you say complicate, I say break. This is a clear contradiction. You can't find a middleground, writers have to choose one or the other

[@purpledragon1945]

He should start growing

[@xenohusky5979]

Fun fact: The big chungus mandalorian is a relative of Bo Katan's late commander, Pre Vezla, from the Clone Wars; who was the leader of Death Watch and wielded the Darksaber. With this context, I was hoping for an interaction between the two and for Bo Katan to be called out for all the villainous things she did in the Clone Wars, but I guess it was just wishful thinking 😔.

[@sivad1025]

Literally any reference to those events would be nice. Does Paz support Bo for trying to stand up for Pre even after he lost? Or does he resent Pre Vizla for losing and begrudgingly see Maul as the rightful leader and Bo as a hypocrite for not following Maul? It says a lot about the characterization in this show that I literally cannot make any informed decision about these characters

[@davekaye5483]

Yeah Bo Katan was supposed to be the big villain, but Filoni decided he has a hard-on for her so he does what he usually does; bend the entire universe and lore around his OCs regardless of whether or not he damages the property in the process, if he has to retcon himself or if it makes sense considering the internal narrative logic of the franchise and the characters in question. So Bo Katan now gets to be a girl-boss hero even though her character by nature was designed to be a power-hungry villain who is at fault for all the bad shit that happened to Mandalore, even betraying her own sister. I have no sympathy for her. All these fucking fake Mandalorians need to get their teeth kicked in by the descendants of Jaster Mereel's True Mandalorian Super-Commandos, like Mirta Gev and the rest of Clan Fett.

[@nobleman9393]

@@sivad1025 Oh why would we want to know such things about those characters, let's have another fight with a giant animal.

[@Сайтамен]

Most likely he is Pre Viszla's son.

[@blue-vr8dd]

​@Dave Kaye I half agree with you here, she has done villainous things and I prefer her as kind of an unpredictable dark hero or anti hero that can very quickly be with you or against you, because she was a villain in CW. but as with a lot of things, a greater evil presented itself. Maul took Mandalore and he is the only reason that the Republic took any notice of the whole fiasco, and even they didn't do anything until they went to Anakin and Obi-Wan DIRECTLY, and even then it was unclear of whether they could do anything. Anakin divided his own legion just to help out. Bo didn't randomly become a hero or have amazing morals, she just had a common enemy with the jedi and needed support, and knowing that the Republic is a more trustworthy and honourable ally, she went to them instead of the separatists. that only changes in the mandalorian, where she's suddenly this super nice, super heroic good guy. which urks me because she used to be a ruthless hardened badass.

[@rodrigoluz2040]

Fringy: "I saw a Mythossaur" Fringy: "This is the way" I burst out laughing

[@insertoyouroemail]

🤣

[@guyincognito82]

"But I'm telling you I need a doctor!" "This is the way"

[@AndrewAce.]

"Wrong way, refresher's on the left." "This is the way." "........No, it's not." "This is the way."

[@AndrewAce.]

​​@@guyincognito82 Doctor: _"He sustained severe head trauma and will need his helmet removed so I can operate."_ Mando: _"Then let him die."_ Mandos: _"This is the way."_ ×14

[@sparkypack]

Rags is pooping with the door open! 🚽🐶 "This is the way"

[@lupedust8931]

You think Bo Katan overthrowing her sister was bad? There’s a Clone Wars episode where she and Death Watch burn down an innocent village with flamethrowers including the residents. And then later in Clone Wars she becomes friendly with main characters with no consequences. Kill me.

[@sivad1025]

To be fair, they were motivated by mutual interests. I can forgive that in Clone Wars. The real problem is in Rebels where she's all friendly with everyone.

[@lupedust8931]

@@sivad1025 I can believe they’d MAYBE work with her because of those mutual interests, but Ashoka witnessed the atrocity so the fact no one sees Bo as a monster (including the show itself) baffles me.

[@Сайтамен]

​@@sivad1025 Well Rebels characters didn't know what she was up to...

[@captainuseless2120]

Holy hell. So this lady is a straight up villain? Why TF did they make her the protag of this show?

[@Сайтамен]

@@captainuseless2120 Well she saved the heroes several times, but out of personal interest.

[@Syy]

The conversation Bo Katan had with Forge Lady reminded me of trying to talk to the androids in Westworld about something they're not supposed to know about. They give you a blank-eyed stare and just keep repeating their preprogrammed default lines until you get bored and give up.

[@mnrthmrcll]

“It doesnt look like anything to me” = “This is the way”

[@Сайтамен]

Another proof that this is AI-written.

[@CheeF_Phetty]

the show's answer to half it's questions is actually "this is the way"

[@Rickmagnus911]

This has become one of the most unintentionally hilarious shows I've ever seen.

[@ibleminen]

Yeah together with obi wan and boba fett. This shit is so bad it’s funny

[@davidmendez3899]

“it always gets away” is the most, unintentionally, funniest line in Star Wars ever.

[@Arko777777]

@@davidmendez3899 It's even funnier when he says "Follow it to it's lair" before the chase as if he has no idea how far it is, before running out of the fuel.

[@nhagan001]

And to think, Batwoman is starting to feel like a well written show with characters...

[@wephilips6651]

@@ibleminenObi wan wasn’t as funny fir me. It was more so bad it is boring and depressing. But yeah bobba fett is hilarious

[@cozyku5968]

How Mandolorians procreate: “The helmet stays on during sex, this is the way”

[@Сайтамен]

Instead of condoms they use tiny helmets...

[@MediumRareOpinions]

They're such emotionless robot people I half expect they just hand over a filled turkey baster to which she answers in monotone voice "this is the way"

[@rhyscallinan5058]

They have pictures of themselves printed out and stick them on their masks.

[@TarossBlackburn]

Shaxx? That you?

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

Well, as everyone knows, Mandalorians all have tiny whistles.

[@TasselledWobbegong]

Back in the Clone Wars cartoon, the radical traditionalist Death Watch was led by a man named Pre Vizla (who's almost certainly related to Paz Vizla from this show), and he allied with and was eventually killed by Maul. This act split Death Watch into two: Maul loyalists who believed he fairly won the right to rule (these Mandos often added horns to their helmets, *exactly* like the Armorer here), and Bo-Katan's group that rejected him because he was an outsider and clearly didn't have Mandalore's best interest in mind. In Disney's canon, Death Watch had another even more radical traditionalist splinter group, the Children of the Watch, who place a *lot* of emphasis on foundlings, i.e. outsiders. Bo's openly critical of the CotW, but her rule of Mandalore getting the planet KILLED pushed her even more extreme, to the point that she's trying to "properly" earn that magic sword via combat. It's worth mentioning that Maul killed Pre Vizla with the dark saber and claimed it as his own, but purely as a symbolic gesture not because of any silly rules. Bo's basically stuck reliving that fateful day, warping her own memory of the event while she's at it. ... which is to say Din Djarin, Bo-Katan, Paz Vizla, and the Armorer should have an absolute shit load to say to each other. But I guess the hackneyed "you saved my boy we're friends!" is good enough. (Guess I'm not too surprised, though. Ahsoka meeting Luke should have been a huge moment, but BoBF decided to have it happen off-screen. Modern Star Wars is just piss-terrified of character interactions.)

[@superjlk_9538]

The only reasoning I could think of on why they aren’t exploring this is because it would require the viewer to have knowledge of two different animated series that only children or dedicated fans have seen. Casual fans will just be more confused. They know what Order 66 is. They don’t know what Maul did to Mandalore. Disney really has messed up in a colossal way. They butchered the sequels and now they’re butchering the series directly post RotJ. What are they doing? These plots are so boring and full of plot holes. What’s the point in these stories if you’re going to ignore the most crucial aspect of these characters fundamentally not agreeing with each other but wanting to RESTORE their home after its destruction? Are they trying to save this reveal for the very end? Is the Armorer going to reveal that she’s a disciple of Maul and has been trying to rebuild in his honor?

[@DawidKov]

At this point I have become convinced that Filoni didn't actually work on The Clone Wars. From several of his interviews, we know that he ran all the scripts by Lucas. I will headcanon it as Lucas actually writing the scripts and FIloni just putting them on the screen. Because good lord I cannot for the life of me imagine that these two shows were made by the same person.

[@superjlk_9538]

@@DawidKov I think it’s an issue with the translation from an animated to live action medium. They have different criteria for success. A lot of Clone Wars is just random arcs put together in a season. There was never a whole season dedicated to a single plot. So Filoni, who was used to structuring 2-3 episode arcs is now running the show mostly by himself with Favraeu (forgot the spelling I’m sorry) and terrible upper management with the story group and Kennedy, is now dragging out hour long stories into multiple hours of episodes. Thats why you get mini side arcs in the main plot that try to connect together. And he cannot entirely capitalize on his own animated creations because a lot of people didn’t watch them. So he has to pick and choose what he wants.

[@LanceThumping]

@@superjlk_9538 The funny thing is that there is no reason that a live action show can't also follow that same format as Clone Wars and have short mini-arcs.

[@alduinthetyrant5225]

The fact that all of these mandalorians collectively decide to train outside when they are under frequent attack from 'el croco' and 'Das kindershredder' and are not even the third most stupid faction in Star Wars is quite the achievment.

[@samwallaceart288]

Those attacks are the only training they get; all that sparring and water-blasting is just killing time waiting for some threat to notice them

[@nobleman9393]

Good thing they didn't get attacked by Der Vogel or Der Backpfeifengesicht.

[@Сайтамен]

​@@nobleman9393or Modok

[@alduinthetyrant5225]

@@samwallaceart288 They were hoping to fight the gator so they forgot to look out for discount rodan.

[@alduinthetyrant5225]

@@nobleman9393 What are the chances of that happening? This isn't Gary Indiana.

[@BoblobV2]

Palpy had an easier time talking to Anakin about the dark side, than Bobo Katan did with forge lady.

[@jcore0981]

I'm still a little confused. Why is she part of the way now?

[@Сайтамен]

​@@jcore0981 she was bored.

[@Сайтамен]

Imagine if Anakin just constantly responded "this is the way" to all Palpy's questions. Palpy would give up...

[@malcolmgreen6927]

@Jcore 09 Because this the way

[@EvaOwnsAll]

​@@jcore0981 It's like a breakup. Her SOs left her, so she rushed into another relationship.

[@Dr.Metalblood]

I liked how the dragon didn't chew or partially digest the kid before feeding it to her young. It makes a lot of sense and isn't extremely convenient .

[@Charizardlison]

for over a day*

[@teddyharvester]

Big bird stomach acids don't melt beskar beams

[@valentinegonsalves7322]

"I'm okay, dad!" "This is the way!" Even if the dragon didn't chew or digest, that kid got lifted up by a claw and flown throught the air, then when the dragon spits him out again, Mr Dragon has these giant teeth and the kid is hanging by his legs, then the creature drops him 30 feet, from mouth to nest, grabs him with a claw and takes off again, this time with explosions and aerobatics. That kid should have several broken bones and helmet or no helmet, yoir brains and lings should be soup that bleeds out from your nose. No one ever dies in Star Wars. So that's gone. But no one is ever hurt either? Remember when Luke lost his hand? What is Mandolorian first aid procedure? We know they don't do CPR and any and all head trauma is ignored. Because we can't take helmet off. What abound broken bones?

[@fio_lume]

I can't wait for people to be like "But the kid was wearing Mandalorian armor tho! Boba Fett could just sit in a beat's belly for a while and still survived"

[@Сайтамен]

​@@fio_lume He had only a helmet, nothing else...

[@NightStalker1988]

All those Mandalorians shooting at the water, yet no one thinks to maybe shoot the child abducting dragon when it swoops in from the same direction. Training is really paying off there.

[@dodojesus4529]

Bbut they dont have ANY heavy weapons...cause no one has anything harder hitting than rockets the ydont fucking use

[@gabrielgendron4745]

So to croc from the first episode has a reason to be angry.

[@Heath86]

Exactly, they are mandalorians and should have making weapons as part of the training for foundlings.

[@samwellcheck562]

You ignorant fool, OBVIOUSLY mandolorian blasters deal grass-type damage, which is strong against water-type and weak against flying-type. Thus, they shoot at water and water monsters, but don't waste their shots on the flying monster. Get your facts straight before questioning Filoni's genius.

[@greatclubsandwich5612]

Mando: "Shoot the dragon!" Others: "We can't! We wasted all our ammo shooting the water!"

[@genesisnitsua2571]

Don’t you hate it when a random Skyrim dragon attacks when you are doing the College of Winterhold quest line.

[@rhyscallinan5058]

At least with Skyrim there's only one planet they can stay on, and no ships that can hunt them down. With this, there's millions of planets and trillions of ships, most armed with weaponry that could destroy dragons.

[@alexmelling5261]

What a reference

[@johannesseyfried7933]

Yeah, I'd hate to be a *Dragon* who attacks the College of Winterhold. Because unlike the Mandalorians, they can defend themselves surprisingly well.

[@Mahendra-bj6vy]

Especially a goddamn blood dragon of all dragons!

[@-Azure.EXE-]

I was thinking of the dragon right at the beginning of Skyrim. You literally have your head on a chopping block with an axe raised and this goober flies in to deliver your main goal.

[@Stoneador]

This episode makes it canon that if Mando gets hungry when he’s traveling in his ship with Baby Yoda, he has to find a planet to land on and then somewhere to hide

[@dodojesus4529]

Whhy do this helmet BULLSHIT, its cool when they do it because they are a warrior culture that has adapted so much the armor has become a second skin. It being some garbage decree is so much lamer

[@CrustlessKing]

You'd think if this was how their cult has operated for many years, they'd be stockpiling liquified astronaut food to drink through a straw, or design their helmets with a little door for their pie holes, or eat communally with fucking blindfolds on, or any number of actual ways a functioning community would work around this issue other than scattering in different directions whenever they want to eat. The writers have had so many opportunities to walk this worldbuilding problem back and retcon the stupidity into something workable, but they just do not care. They just kept saying "this is the way" enough times that the average viewer was willing to give it a pass in the first season and now they've committed to this path of insane stupidity for nough reason.

[@TiMANosaurusRex]

I assume he just shoots GoGurt into his face under the helmet and calls it good.

[@Edax_Royeaux]

@@CrustlessKing Especially if they ever have to fight in no oxygen environments for days on end.

[@johannesseyfried7933]

​@@CrustlessKing Boba Fett actually had a little Hole in his Helmet for exactly this purpose in legends: He could stick a straw through it and enjoy a nice drink. It might look a little silly, but it's more convenient than having to take that heavy Helmet off all the time. And it allows you to drink in peace *and* keep your head protected.

[@omnishyguy]

The more I see of Disney Mandalorians, the more I'm convinced that the Jedi-Mando conflict was just the Mando's cover-up for a camping trip gone utterly and embarrassingly pear-shaped.

[@ibleminen]

They probably just met one Jedi and decided to harpoon themselves against the lightsaber and called it a big war.

[@Arko777777]

So Jedi-Mando conflict is the Emu War of Star Wars

[@valentinegonsalves7322]

I still don't know what Bo Katan is doing in this show at all! Also, what the hell are the Mandolorians at this point? Like Rags said we never see what anyone is up to. They just sit in that cave all day? Do any of the other Mandolorians do anything? Bounties, missions? Gathering weapons and tech, spying on the Empire, securing their borders, watching the airspace for an invasion? There's ONE bitch who just keeps making armour for everyone and spouting bullshit like an Elder Scrolls Oblivion NPC.

[@purpledragon1945]

Apparently, it happened over the Dark Saber. Still though...

[@brycelynch2892]

Another good note about Bo Katan is them also conveniently forgetting about the time she literally slapped Ashoka’s ass (sexual assault, but I guess it’s ok since that means she’s gay by the way) before promptly burning an innocent village to the ground because it was just there. Not to mention, she very hypocritically walked back on her “warrior” values in the clone wars when Darth Maul challenged and defeated the reigning leader of death watch (Pre Vizla) in a duel, earning him the loyalty and leadership of death watch. Despite being present and showing no objection to the duel, Bo Katan calls the mandalorians who obeyed Pre Vizla and knelt to Darth Maul “traitors” before promptly causing a second civil war between the death watch group. Seriously, she is the arch nemesis of stability or unity

[@Ceyx000]

Bo Katan, the Cursed Betrayer.

[@grandarkfang_1482]

She is nothing but a usurper, a false idol. She was never one of the Death Watch.

[@dragonknightleader1]

And all because she didn't like the way her sister ran the government. I don't like Satine all that much, but Bo Katan was the one who destroyed her own civilization along with Pre Vizila.

[@zeus-kyurem6581]

Also, Ahsoka was like 15 or 16.

[@isaiahgarraway5568]

​@@dragonknightleader1 Satine had logical reasons why she ran the planet the way she did even if severely flawed and it what was partial to its downfall but yeah Bo also caused Mandalore to fall and they never bring it up or her other acts ever.

[@moemothmann6760]

It's hard to believe that Pandora, with it's planetary neural pathways and whales with magic immortality brain-juice, has a more believable ecosystem than anything in these Disney+ star wars shows.

[@Сайтамен]

Pandora is way more believable as a planet than any Star Wars planet. It has more than one biom.

[@gabrielgendron4745]

​@@Сайтамен Except for endor and felucia.

[@RaptorRockDrakeJesus]

Eh there's way more planets in clone wars they visit and if u saw a big animal there's a good reason. Some examples would be nal Hutta I think is how u call it, a swamp planet which showed big eel like creatures in a rich ecosystem. Now for the ZiloBeast being the biggest animal in starwars I would have to assume the one they found layed dormant for who knows how long but it doesn't explain what those creatures ate. My only reasonable explanation for that is the zilobeasts prey was also driven to extinction.

[@superjlk_9538]

@@RaptorRockDrakeJesus probably extended hibernation or a sort of cryogenic state. Doesn’t explain how the Zilo beast survived in captivity on Coruscant though

[@RaptorRockDrakeJesus]

@SuperJLK _ it didn't tho lol

[@Spartan_5271]

So let me get this straight, they flew after the dragon, found its lair, then decided to fly back and gather reinforcements to WALK to the lair. Not only that, but they then want to SLEEP and wait until morning to go rescue the kid. At that point, it would be more believable to say that they're just going to retrieve the armor cause that kid would be so dead

[@dodojesus4529]

Even without getting digested the kid wouldve suffocated or overheated, its fucking dead

[@jeebuschristos8423]

Even better... this was not the first time either... she said they can't use the blasters or the jetpacks because it would eat the child LIKE ALL THE OTHER TIMES... So, did they not avenge the dead Mandalorians at the time? They just went "Oh well, kid got et... we'll figure out the proper way next time..." and went home without killing the creature where it stood?

[@williamcronshaw5262]

Oh yeah and the kid was his son btw.

[@hartianx1698]

@@jeebuschristos8423 Pretty much "Mission Failed: We'll Get Them Next Time"

[@ArcticWolf00Alpha0]

Whats even more hilarious is that Bo Katan apparently tailed the creature but never bother to try and rescue the kid herself because she was the closest and you know....HAD A FRAGGING SHIP!!!!

[@zanderman4059]

One of the greatest embodiments of filler I have ever seen. You really begin to see the effects of a "No planned ending of the Mandalorian."

[@Jedi_Spartan]

Wait until they cover the newest episode...

[@shawklan27]

​@@Jedi_Spartan fucking lizzo in star wars are you shitting me?

[@HunterKutz]

At least in a lot of filler you get good character building. But this is the true meaning of filler. Absolutely nothing.

[@MediumRareOpinions]

​@@HunterKutz I remember looking forward to a Star Trek TNG bottle episode, filler in these shows is just painful

[@jotun.616]

The most baffling part is that they STILL arent using fucking bounty hunting as filler.

[@DisapprovingPigeon]

I love how Bo Katan flew all the way back to the base after finding where the thing nests and declares her intention to go alone, instead of just trying to affect a rescue herself; on top of camping for the night for some reason; the kid only survives thanks to the shitty writing that spawned those issues.

[@samwallaceart288]

My favorite part was when Jon and Dave forgot how bird-mom regurgitation works. _The whole point_ is the food is pre-digested by the mom. The kid being alive would be like a mom shoving a raw unwashed green bean down her kid's throat

[@happynihilist2573]

​@@samwallaceart288 some creatures feed their infants live pray to tech them to kill but actually surviving in there + waiting so long to actually feed her children when you'd asume growing creatures of their size would be constantly hungry... there is a word for this and that word is NO

[@ibleminen]

Also how does the other mandolorians go back to base before bo Katan? They had to walk while she had her ship.

[@patchmoulton5438]

@@happynihilist2573 Before they know how to fly though?

[@CrossBreedTacoHD]

​@@patchmoulton5438 I'm not sure how accurate "feed their infants live pray to tech them to kill" is, but birds do feed their babies live insects and stuff. I think it's more of a happenstance/convenience than a teaching exercise though. (assuming we are talking about birds, or other animals that feed babies in a similar way that "Dragon" does. I'm sure there are examples of predators showing their offspring how to hunt and allowing them the "killing blow" or start eating the prey while it's still alive or something, but intuitively I wouldn't expect birds to be doing that stuff with their useless baby chicks that sit in a nest all day) Either way, no animal in existence, fiction or not, stores live prey inside of themselves, to only spit it out basically untouched a full ass day later. Even something like the extra calorie burn of having to fly around with a full undigested meal inside of you for a full day would make such evolution unlikely, nvm dozens of other reasons.

[@BaronB.BlazikenBaronOfBarons]

Prediction: The baby birds are going to become adults/big in no time, and the Mandolorians are going to ride them in some grand battle, instead of using actual vehicles, and their going to outperform actual vehicles in combat because something something friendship and/or nature vs. technology.

[@Сайтамен]

Or jetpacks

[@MediumRareOpinions]

Like a Bantha

[@grandarkfang_1482]

​@@MediumRareOpinions or a Rancor.

[@Ceyx000]

I'll see your baby birds and raise you- Bo Katan rides the Mythasaur against Moff Gideon in Mecha Gojira Gundam Suit.

[@hectorbarrera8046]

They get rocket knees

[@sophisticautistic5453]

Forger: have you ever removed your helmet? Paz: Never... expect when I was around a campfire eating soup but I don't think anyone saw my face... but I wouldn't know if someone saw my face.

[@Сайтамен]

Forger: How do I know you're not lying? Mando: You don't.

[@LN997-i8x]

"Did anyone see your face?" "Probably not" What even are these rules?

[@Raaaaaaaaai]

"Then you are mandalorian no more."

[@Arko777777]

@@Raaaaaaaaai "Now go take a bath in the mines."

[@alexmelling5261]

​@@Arko777777 "But watch your step, there's a mad drop"

[@TasselledWobbegong]

"Are we gonna have to live in domes?" Hold up. Mandalorians actually DID live in domes, because Mandalore was rendered inhospitable due to warfare. They're avoiding the planet over an issue they already solved.

[@darthskarr8975]

This is gonna be a long one but there's a lot to say (also hi Rags) ​In the EU, neither the Dark Saber or the Helmet-thing were things. There was Mandalore's Mask which originally belonged to *the* Mandalore, which for several centuries was a symbol of rulership over the Mandalorian Clans, before it was lost and they started electing rulers based on battle prowess, leadership skills and merit (funfact; in the EU - Boba Fett became Mandalore for a time after the OT (yes he survived the Sarlacc pit in the EU too, but not unscathed and no Tuskan Raider family or Brain Lizard. He also ended up having a wife, a daughter (which he ended up alienating) and grand-daughter which last I heard he was training to be his successor and carry on his father Jango's Legacy). The Dark Saber, meanwhile, was originally just a War Trophy that was taken from the Jedi Temple, which was the first thing said about it during the TCW when it first appeared, implying that it was taken by Shay Vizla (or someone with her) when she accompanied Darth Malgus during his assault on the Jedi Temple during the Great War between the Old Republic and Sith Empire, 4000 years before the OT - the only time a Mandalorian(s) took part in attacking the Jedi Temple but not the first time the Mandalorians fought against the Jedi. During that time period, black Lightsabers were actually a rather common trend along with the normal ones - but hey; all that's no longer Canon - Thanks Disney! Filoni decided to change that in Rebels by replacing Mandalore's Mask with it and saying it belonged to the first Mandalorian Jedi (not even the first Mandalore). Also, since the pacifist Mandalorians were brought up; that in itself was controversial back before Disney Wars was a thing but at least it was explained. Death Watch, meanwhile, were already outcasts because they were fanatical terrorists that spat in the face of Mandalorian Cultures (no, not the cultures in this horrible show - it was very Celtic influenced originally) before the pacifists thing even happened (also they were the ones that killed Jango's family for not helping them against the real Mandalorians which Jango ended up joining after). Also Filoni somehow introduced Noble Families a la GoT on Mandalore in Rebels to replace the Clans, seemingly forgetting he made the entire culture on Mandalore pacifist one show prior - on top of which an Imperial Super Weapon that could magically target Beskar and melt whomever was wearing it and it was made by a Mandalorian prodigy who had no idea the Empire was going to use it against Mandalorians. (Thanks Filoni...) Speaking of Filoni changes - Beskar wasn't some magic adamantium super alloy in Old Star Wars (neither was Mandalorians having mystic visions or magic water puddles). It was just a very good, rather heavy, combat grade metal Alloy (not mineral - Alloy) that Mandalorians knew how to craft because unlike in Canon, it was traditional that the individual Mandalorian had to assemble his own armor when they come of age and reforge it or replace it if damaged or lost (if they couldn't; they could requisition a "basic b!tch" set). The armor itself was very tough, could likely tank an explosive point blank but then be destroyed as a result. And it couldn't stop Lightsabers. It could tank Lightsabers but not to the extent shown in the show. Metals that could resist Lightsabers were much rare in Old Star Wars and usually came with a catch. Cortosis was the most common anti-Lightsaber metal which could straight up F@ck up a Lightsaber if the blade touched it, but it was very brittle and made poor armor unless added to an Alloy, but then loose the ability to F@ck up a Lightsaber and only resist it. As for Nevarro being defenseless... Disney constantly, *constantly,* keeps forgetting that planets, *are planets,* and besides multiple cities, they generally have a local government and a local defense force of some kind (heck, a local fleet was more common often in the old days), be it a private military like Naboo or a security detail like Cloud City on Bespin. Regardless of galactic faction affiliations. There's a reason "Farmers Militia" is (or was) a common enough thing in Star Wars that it was often referenced when assessing someone's level or lack of combat experience. As for the Droid, well, I'll keep it abridged because Droids are a lengthy topic in any Star Wars discussion. This one was an Assassin Model and unless it's a premium model their Sentience/Sapience is very limited to basically being a Terminator, compared to a fully sapient Droid like R2. And if you wanted to, you could give it full Sentience or Sapience if the right upgrades are given or programming restrictions are removed. And it's not unusual that a damaged Droid is repaired rather than replaced, including one that's just a torso and head (also how the hell is there still a torso and head). But if the body is so damaged as shown in the show, then all you can do is take the memory core and put it in a new body. But if the memory core itself is destroyed and you have no back up, well, tough sh!t your getting a new Droid or your staying Droid-less.

[@lokiswager]

Thank you for this lovely comment, acolyte of the Long

[@terrasur4168]

Excellent breakdown. Old Republic was and is peak Star Wars and I now (sadly) want to never see a live action version for fear of what Disney would do to it.

[@throwdown1776]

Crotosis and anti jedi tactics were so fucking cool in the EU. It goes to show you that even in a universe where you have wizards that can throw star destroyers or eating life forces, all it takes is common sense and knowledge to kill even the best jedi and/or sith. I hate that they nerfed general grievous and didn't do anything with durge

[@Chromeskull90]

Excellent comment! Hope that the guys of EFAP see it Thumbs up guys!

[@evernight1405]

​​@@throwdown1776 Duge was in one issue of a Dr Aphra comic. She shoved him in an airlock and jettison him into space after he save her life. Disney just love spitting in the face of what came before.

[@maxsidetracks4990]

Ok... ok... Mandalorians can' eat together, so instead they have to find a quiet place, alone, in the woods or wherever... just as if they were going to take a dump. How do they even manage that in their cult cave? Do they have like porta potties, but for meals? Also, can anything become a foundling? If a couple of chicken-dragons are ok, could someone just leave a box of kittens at the cave and be like "Yo, I got some more foundlings for you."?

[@Сайтамен]

They have curtains on the walls and they hide behind them

[@somedungeonmasterguy6077]

Man, that kid spent like...a full 24 hours inside that space bird, and he isn't even slimy or partially digested. I hope he got a sandwich or something when he was rescued. Not that he could have eaten it in front of his dad. What a sad fate for Star Wars. To go out like this.

[@ghostprojekt]

It's funny how useless the "important plot points" in this show ended up being: - Baby Yoda going with a Jedi to train? He rejected them - Mandalore being toxic or something? Yeah, turns out the Empire was just trolling - Mando being redeemed and learning to wield the dark machete? He accidentally fell into the "redemption pool" and the dark saber is being wielded by a stronk wahman

[@superjlk_9538]

Remember when Mando smelted the spear because he thought he wouldn’t need it anymore with the dark saber in his possession? Now it literally means nothing

[@spudg8558]

- Mandalore not being toxic or something? No one cares, not even the one mandalorian whose life goal is to return there.

[@CptnCardboard]

The dragon randomly showing up and stealing a child is parody levels of comedic. Edit: Isn't this a Fairly OddParents joke?? And someone shouts the advice "remember to tuck and roll!" or something like that lol

[@matthewcollins4773]

Apparently it's done this several times before, as well.

[@sparkypack]

Ragnar! Ragnar! xD

[@LostJedi22]

Remember when Mando had enough gas in his jet pack to fly from the imperial base 'on the other side of the planet' back to the settlement nearly instantly in Chapter 12? In Disney Star Wars concepts like fuel don't matter until the plot needs it to.

[@sophisticautistic5453]

So remember in Revenge of the Sith when, during Order 66, a speeder got easily shot down by another speeder? And remember in Attack of the Clones when the reason they couldn't shoot down Dooku was because they were out of rockets (bullshit reasoning but still)? Wouldn't it be silly that a BARC speeder could take multiple shots from a republic gunship and still be able to get away from it? I only ask for consistency. Too much, I know but I still ask for it.

[@Сайтамен]

I thought they were missing and after the first hit he landed on the platform.

[@sophisticautistic5453]

@@Сайтамен he got hit once in the air while riding with Grogu

[@Сайтамен]

@@sophisticautistic5453 Well to be fair, in ROTS clones shot directly at Jedi who was riding the bike, and after he was killed, the bike let loose. Of course it shouldn't withstand the fire from gunships, but one shot could go tangentially.

[@sivad1025]

Isn't it also strange that the Empire is trying to be seen as the good guys but they decide to chase Ahmed Best through public areas shooting randomly killing who knows how many innocent people?

[@albertocruzado2899]

Ey, in Attack of the Clones, those gunships came from a battle. I think its believable that they are out of ammo for the main gun. Far more than in this case, when they are in the capital, in theory, well supplied.

[@holy1to325]

I love how the guys were joking about how theres nothing to really direct the story forward here and the writers solve that problem by summoming a kidnapping dragon out of thin air

[@sparkypack]

what are they pulling out of their hat next I wonder... tadaaa .. 🎩🐇

[@Batdude36]

​@@sparkypack Moth Gideon burrows out of the ground into their cave and kidnaps Baby Yoda again.

[@lordofthepizzapie9319]

@@Batdude36 Considering Disney star wars inexplicable love for nonsensical mounts. Giddy boy would definitely do that atop a giant lemur-mole or something like that.

[@evald1474]

They're shooting at the water because of the pent up rage at having to bathe every time they take off their helmet to sneeze.

[@ibleminen]

They’re hoping to kill another giant crocodile

[@corruptangel6793]

What if they get sick and puke? You better hope there's a nearby place to hide and hope you don't need anyone to take care of you.

[@darkbum1510]

@@corruptangel6793 What if they legit get ill? Do you administer space chicken broth right into the veins? Or do you just yeet them into Bacta, with their armor on?

[@An_Actual_Rat]

@@ibleminen I'm just gonna assume they have a taste for Giant Croco-Gator after presumably eating the last one.

[@ibleminen]

@@An_Actual_Rat they must have loved it to the point of them licking every surface since it’s so clean outside.

[@saasensalmon5710]

Writer "Hmm, we seem to have hit a dead end in the story. Uhhhh, random wyvern comes and kidnaps child!"

[@AkhSeth]

Dont you all love when during the flashback chase scene the gunship fire just slightly damages the speeder but seconds later the same blasters starts blowing up chunks of building? ...

[@DuneStone6816]

So Mama Dragon climbs up to her nest to find that it's been invaded by several of the Mandalorians, and her immediate response is to regurgitate the Mandalorian she caught yesterday and feed it to her baby as if the intruders aren't even there? Furthermore, the fact that the kid emerged unharmed implies that the dragons can't digest Beskar, or anything contained within Beskar. So how did Mama expect the babies to eat the kid? Why did she make no attempt to break him out of his armor first? It's the same as dropping a rock down a baby's throat that they will never digest.

[@karlheber23]

You guys don't get it: On several previous occasions children have been abducted by the dragon. On those previous occasions they also ran out of fuel and walked home. Then on those occasions they went to the dragon's nest and tried to save the children, but used their blasters or made noise and the children were digested instead of barfed up, so they walked home childless. The plan the mandalorians come up with is based on trial and error, and they finally got a kid back this time.

[@purpledragon1945]

Cope.

[@JadenD-rq9uj]

Its funny how the medieval world of elder scrolls had dragons randomly show up at the start of Skyrim and destroy a village, and it never happened again because everyone prepared for random dragon attacks from then on, in the Mandalorian a dragon shows up, its expected to happen and even with guns, rockets, and spaceships they couldn't even beat a dragon(more of a big bird btw) as opposed to the Skyrim dragons get wrecked by Nords with swords and arrows.

[@moemothmann6760]

Look, every Star Wars fan knows that space dragons have two stomachs...

[@dodojesus4529]

One that stomachs, one that doesnt

[@sophisticautistic5453]

Imagine a scene with Bo Katan (who worked with Pre Viszla) and Paz Viszla (who is Pre Viszla's son) and nothing is done with that fact... And to add on top of that, you have Djin who weilds the weapon that Pre Vizsla used to cause the downfall of Mandalore. This is easy setup and they do nothingA

[@dodojesus4529]

Is his son post vizla

[@Сайтамен]

​@@dodojesus4529 Paz is close enough

[@Сайтамен]

They didn't even show how Luke met Ahsoka...all we got is "so much like your father"...

[@blazefa.]

@@dodojesus4529 😭😭😭😭, present vizla, post vizla is grandson

[@JulianDoe]

Basically, Bo-Katan is saying that she has not eaten since she rescued Mando in episode 2.

[@Сайтамен]

Has not eaten outside of her ship.

[@JulianDoe]

@@Сайтамен Interesting point of view. So you're saying that every time she was hungry she was running alone to her ship without asking how to eat without removing the helmet. Also, she's never seen other Mandalorians eat. To my knowledge stress and physical activities consume energy that should be replaced with food. Unless Mandalorians have a different biology or a couple more stomachs.

[@johannesseyfried7933]

​@@JulianDoe For once, this can't be the explanation because Mandalorians are just Humans. Well, there were alien Mandalorians too, but I doubt we will ever see one of them in the Show.

[@JulianDoe]

@@johannesseyfried7933 Fasting. This is the way.

[@electricbayonet2]

25:53 “This baby won’t listen to me. Guess I’ll mail him to his dad’s mechanic. I’d go myself, but I can’t trust Asoka with the responsibility of watching these robots stack rocks.” -Luke Skywalker, somehow

[@alexmelling5261]

"I hate Star Wars" -Mauler, understandably

[@IdiotCinema]

Youngling gets spit out of the dino’s mouth. Camera zooms in, and the youngling says, “And I thought they smelled bad…. on the outside…” Mugs for the camera. And…. scene!

[@seeve2274]

You guys should do EFAP TV’s of the Clone Wars. Y’all’s controversial takes would be so much fun to hear.

[@camillecunningham7348]

Yes

[@master_samwise]

The LAAT landing and dispatching its troopers instead of just blowing the Naboo ship into a million pieces with its cannons is one of the dumbest things in an episode full of dumb things.

[@samwallaceart288]

Or just shoot the platform. Literally knock it 35° and everything will fall off.

[@Сайтамен]

Naboo ships have shields. Would be nice to see...

[@Shark_Woody]

The craziest part of this entire show. After hearing the comment about Bo Katan being a literal terrorist who is a whole lot responsible for the fall of Mandalore. Makes me wonder how Dave Filoni could be in charge of both of these shows. And when you look at clone wars. He was so careful about the story and not breaking cannon of the movies. The greatest example is he never let Anikan meet General Grievous in person throughout the show. Just because in episode 3 revenge of the sith Grevious mentions that it’s their first time meeting

[@Сайтамен]

He was careful in some details, but careless in other stuff. Grievous and Obi-Wan clearly didn't fight before ROTS, with how he is announcing himself. Same with Anakin and Dooku. Yoda learns about order 66 in season 6 and doesn't do anything... Plus last arc of the show happens too quickly considering how much Padme's stomach grows over ROTS. Now it seems like he doesn't care at all.

[@mickvd4]

Dave filoni has only written a few episodes of CW. He was mostly producer/the idea man. Far more talented ppl wrote CW

[@jroggs85]

Gotta say, a thieving reptile puking up a tiny Boba Fett is a brilliant metaphor for Disney Star Wars media.

[@Kernwadi]

“It was a real interesting day, the sun rose and set.” -Bilbo Baggins

[@evald1474]

Compared to the rest of Mando, that does sound pretty interesting. Put some a Mandalorian "BEEEOOOOOWWW" over it and it could fit right in.

[@klafsen]

@@evald1474 Just play the noise in reverse when the sun sets!

[@jakeboylan9493]

Mandalorian s3 e3: gave us an attempt to build the world where the new republics political infrastructure may not be so dissimilar from the empires (at least in some areas). Was hit and miss but breath of fresh air. Mandalorian s3 e4: gave us dragons, hermit crabs, clone troopers, light sabers, padmes naboo starship, Mandalorians shooting water and dragon, characters discuss feelings. It's almost like there is no plan at all when writing these episodes

[@justinstoll4955]

Spoiler: I was so moved when the heavy Mando died. It was so touching. He will be as missed as Wade.

[@arklaw8306]

Who?

[@SugarRayD]

Just as Wade

[@jamesrogers1554]

Don’t you sully the name of Wade (peace be upon him)!

[@Stoneador]

Here you go opening up old wounds RIP Wade

[@Сайтамен]

He didn't die though

[@robertwhite9889]

"Have you noticed how none of them have shown an emotion over this", I have noticed this recently too. Why is Mando stoic, why are the other Mandolarians stoic. Oh yeah that is right "This is the way"

[@andrewconrad2859]

"The Way sucks." -Rags

[@BaronB.BlazikenBaronOfBarons]

Isn’t the point of a mother bird regurgitating food for her children is because they can’t eat solid foods, so they eat partially digested food? If the child isn’t digested in +2 days in the bird’s stomach, why did she regurgitate him to feed her babies? Furthermore, are you seriously telling me the mama bird didn’t return to her nest in over +2 days? Insanity!

[@An_Actual_Rat]

Regurgitated food from bird parents is actually stored in an organ called the crop, which is situated before the stomach, so the food isn't digested at all. Birds that lack talons or an appropriate beak, store food in the crop purely for transport purposes. Most baby birds are also capable of eating solid food, but may need parental assistance in breaking food down into bite-sized pieces. Flamingos and Pigeons/Doves are incapable of eating solid food as babies though, but in their case they get fed "milk" secreted from the aforementioned crop of their parent. So I can buy the kid not being digested, but he would still be dead from overheating/asphyxiation.

[@horrorclause]

How the hell is Paz Vizsla's son a foundling? Did he lose him at the mall for a really long time?

[@Сайтамен]

Adopted?

[@squibydoesalittletrolling]

i wonder how padme reacted to her yacht being stolen by jar jar binks to save disney's merchandise department

[@Сайтамен]

When some black guy stole your ship...

[@Raaaaaaaaai]

Now that I think about it - What stops Mando from taking like a hundred vials of that holy Mandalore water? He could keep taking his helmet off non stop and give the blacksmith lady one of those vials every time she kicks him out.

[@corruptangel6793]

*Takes off his helmet to stick out his tongue at her, then puts it back on and tosses a vial at her like Han tossed the coin at the bartender in ANH*

[@baldurgunnarsson2578]

Imagine how bad a case of PTSD that kid has after apparently spending 2 days alive in the stomach of a bird. Probably as bad as the case I have from watching the travesty of this show.

[@callumpears1523]

The ship the Jedi and Grogu escaped in was a Naboo ship and those guys they ditched were Naboo guards. In Revenge of the Sith, Padmé does not know what happened at the Jedi Temple until Anakin tells her that it was a Jedi rebellion so who sent those guards and will there be consequences for Naboo? (Of course there won't be lol) Also did you see the actress for young Leia talking about the trenchcoat scene in Kenobi at SW Celebration? Lmao so much for it being "written for children".

[@jackattacksfilms]

No wonder the crocodile monster attacked the Mandalorians in ep 1. They use its home as target practice. Also, the dragon spitting up the kid in perfect condition was some of the funniest sh*t. The kid wasn't even covered in any kind of goo despite being in the dragon's lower intestines for a day. I thought the dragon spat up a random toy person for a second. I was dying. XD

[@AlexDame-j3z]

There's this Mando-Snatcher lurking around, we better split-up to enjoy this hot meal alone in the dark next to its lair.

[@kyrroti]

You probably could do something with Bo Katan. Make her regretful of her past. Have the other Mandalorians accept her, but she’s hesitant to join. She could confide with Mando how she feels guilt for the fall of Mandalore, he could share about how he felt losing Grogu. She could have a full arc of not appreciating Mandalore causing it to fall. Then a period of regret, because she’s responsible for the loss of her culture. She would then be able to rebuild the culture she lost, as she would remember it from her rebellious youth. She would try to fix her mistakes, not ignore it ever happened.

[@valentinegonsalves7322]

Know what would be cool to do all that? Give her a show of her own and scrap this Mando bs! Mando interacting with Boba Fett and Luke Skywalker should've been some of the most impactful points of storytelling. Instead, no one cares. Why is Bo Katan in this show? Why? She lost the Dark Saber and her tribe. It would be so cool if she was the one who decided to go check out Mandalore and shes was the one who found out that the Empire trolled everyone. She could already be on Mandalore when Dinn Djarin got there. She must now swallow her pride and return to the other Mandalorians and tell them about what she saw. But they don't believe her and she's dismissed for breaking the code or punished and she has to deal with whether she made a mistake. Meanwhile Mando is the one who has broken several rules but still believes in the code even though he's an outlaw also. But he wields the Dark Sabe, but also, he doesn't wanna be king or lead anyone. There is SO much you could do with all this and yet they choose 1950s black and white story telling. Monster takes kid, tribe must travel across desert on foot to rescue kid, who knows if kid is still alive, we have no fuel, he's my son, rescue kid, go home.

[@matthewcollins4773]

Living where they do, as they do, these Mandalorians are doing more than flirting with extinction. They are following extinction home, writing creepy poems about extinction, and slipping them through extinction's letterbox. Then again, given that the dragondactyl has apparently done this several times, it has better pattern recognition than the Mandalorians themselves.

[@rabscotty]

Yoda was a Jedi master by 100 yrs old, that is double Grogus current age which in human years is about 2 or 3. So apparently, Yoda was a Jedi master at age 6 effectively

[@fathorse8]

The talk about creatures and how some are more believable than others made me remember that one time where Han Solo fought Cthulu.

[@-Azure.EXE-]

The many giant animals subsist solely off of Mandolorians. Imagine how easy it would be to hunt these idiots.

[@samwallaceart288]

The bigger question is how are _the Mandalorians_ still alive?

[@dodojesus4529]

​@@samwallaceart288 set down one of those things and the mandos are apparently doomed

[@marcarsenault7585]

He though the school was a bar, and they wouldn't let him in. Thank god he didn't think the school was a brothel, cause Disney would have been really conflicted as to what to do there.

[@joshcohen8710]

If Mandalorian armor is so heavy (to the point where Din Djarin sunk like an anchor), then how was he able to swim back up to the cage while he was on the boat in season 2? He even had the jetpack on. The inconsistency of the show is ironically the only thing which stays consistent. PS: As an artist who carefully uses color in my work, it physically pains me to look at the some of the mandalorian armor with colors and patterns that don't match at all. Thank you for bringing it up, Rags :). It's like they bought halloween costumes of the Mandalorian and used children's paint to make it look different. EDIT: Someone replied to me respectably and said he used his Jetpack to fly back up to the cage (although I can't tell if he did or not). However, that does add to the questions of why he took the jetpack off in the first place on the Mandalore and how was he floating even when not holding the cage.

[@valentinegonsalves7322]

They could've done so many cool things using color to signify different things. Bo Katan and her rogue house were all blue. That was neat. Mando being completely chrome was neat too, because it soon becomes evident that he has no tribe but he still holds his code in high honour, and he's morally grey. He's caught between ideologies. Boba Fett's red armour losing colour after he's dead and come back and how it doesn't fit him was also neat. But now, as with everything else, Mandalorian armour is just cosplay.

[@rhyscallinan5058]

Also he's clearly capable of doing so much with said heavy armour, so what is it, heavy or light?

[@forthemanynotthefew5243]

Not only that but in S2 he's drowning in that cage you and can hear him splutter. Guess he forgot he could seal his helmet. Then he falls into a pond and is just lying there at the bottom even though he got his head punched into a solid metal wall by an imperial droid. So was he knocked out or just lying there. If he was knocked out how? Oh and he wasn't wet at the start of the next episode...

[@springheelzach812]

@@valentinegonsalves7322 in th EU each color has a specific meaning Red honoring a parent or leader, Black is Justice, Gold is vengeance, Green is Duty , blue is reliability, orange is a lust for life/freedom, white is the color of a fresh start and silver is seeking Redemption now using these colors as a guide we can actually possible infer something about a mandolarian based of what his armour is painted but not in Disney Wars oh no it's what ever mishmash the 501st cosplayers lent to the prop department.

[@Сайтамен]

He used his jetpack to fly back up to the cage.

[@Als0here]

i have a feeling bo katan just didn't want to be on set anymore, just like pedro...

[@JohnCenaWarriorPrincess]

Didn't the EFAP crew joke years ago that it would turn out to be Jar Jar who saved Grogu from order 66? Looks like they were partially right.

[@ComradeCommissarYuri]

Or like with dumb an dumber stole Preston’s Jacobs joke an put it in their got season 8

[@fornaxian]

For a cult for whom "weapons are part of their religion" they sure do seem to have lost access to most of the varied weapons that Mando has in season 1. Hell, even blasters are in short supply by the time they reach the dragon. I can only assume they have a limited credit allowance for ammunition so they have to save it to use for only the most crucial things like "shooting the water" training.

[@springheelzach812]

hmm what happened to mandos disentagration rifle?

[@Сайтамен]

​@@springheelzach812 It was desintegrated along with Razor Crest.

[@springheelzach812]

@@Сайтамен your right. You would think that someone who's weapons are apart of his religion he would have found a replacement by now.

[@135mikerules23]

They could’ve at least put in a throwaway line, explaining how it usually takes some time for the child snatching space dragon to digest it’s prey. That way it would explain the lack of urgency from Bo-Katan and the others, at least to an extent.

[@An_Actual_Rat]

Better yet, there are real birds of prey that stash living prey animals in crevices where they can't escape in order to save them for later. Just say the dragon put the kid in its larder because it's the season or whatever.

[@An_Actual_Rat]

@@nmr7203 I'm only trying to preserve their original vision here. If it were up to me this shit wouldn't have left the writing room.

[@SassyCassie89]

The fact you guys can recall moments from past seasons with such detail is like seeing someone with painful looking scars.

[@valentinegonsalves7322]

Its not hard. Even EFAP misses stuff and the chat/comments catches them up. Know why? Because everything is so dumb, it all sticks with ya! They just showed us Baby Yoda can fly a ship and understand clear orders of finding specific people and travel from point A to point B and then back again. "He's just a kid" is no longer an excuse for several sticky situations that are gonna come up soon.

[@SassyCassie89]

@@valentinegonsalves7322 it honestly causes me me pain to watch this show, people I know love it and it kills me inside. the show just doesn't care about anything apart from fan bait and spectacle....and neither of them are done well either! Makes me want to eat glass man xD.

[@valentinegonsalves7322]

@@SassyCassie89 It's better to introduce people that like this stuff to better content. Like classic Star Trek, The Wire, Quantum Leap, and good old Twilight Zone (yes its in black and white but the concepts are radical.)

[@SassyCassie89]

@@valentinegonsalves7322 only fools and horses, I just default to recommending that these day...or anything that's not recent. Saying that Arcane was good, I'd probably tell people to watch that but yeah totally agree older stuff is way better than this modern crap.

[@The_Rude_French_Canadian]

How in the hell did they fit all those mandos and those giant baby birds in that ship?

[@sparkypack]

clown wagon 🚙🤡🎺🤣

[@walrusaurelius4801]

There's a few moments where you can really tell Fringy loves editing these.

[@sparkypack]

☕ Fringy just got up, had his coffee and is working on the next one.

[@ytaltacc8008]

Their attempt to get the kid back reminds me of Jeremy and James attempting to rescue Hammond from the top of the mountain

[@jacksparrow7618]

I’ve watched so, so many hours of Efap, and I’ll freely admit that I enjoyed Mando season 1 & 2 despite also understand their many (many) flaws. And I thought I was safe. I thought “sure, I know this is bad. But it’s okay that I still like most of it, because at least I can recognize that and we’ve genuinely well written, good Star Wars like Andor”. But man… season 3 has been so bad that I not only don’t even know what I’m watching anymore, but it also seems like Disney just doesn’t want anybody at all to like it anymore. The Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan are full of all these bafflingly horrible decisions, and people keep wanting to write those off as problems because of filming during the dark diseased times. What’s the excuse here for how horrible this is? When you think about how much of this nonsense has to get signed off on and okayed by so many people, it’s mind boggling that they keep doing it and thinking people are actually going to enjoy it and that it’s doing favors for the IP.

[@NeotripARG]

My favorite scene is when mandalorian said "it's mando time" and proceeded to kill the bad guy

[@Сайтамен]

You mean "dis is da way".

[@stryder414]

The episode starts off with the Mandalorians messing around in their pre-match lobby, spamming their powers, hopping around with their jetpacks, shooting the lake to watch the water physics, & hitting the gesture wheel to poplock in front of another player who's in their menu.

[@ThePitofSidLord]

Mandalorians: we have safety equipment to ensure our foundlings don't hurt each other in their training Also Mandalorians: we make the foundlings train in the feeding grounds of massive crocogators and actual dragons because haha it funne

[@Сайтамен]

And train with real flamethrowers...

[@matthewconroy5275]

Pieces of lore dropped in this episode that they don’t talk about or explain or spend anytime with. The Jedi master played by Ahmed Best “Kelleran Beq” was nicknamed the sabered hand and was the Jedi master responsible for overseeing Padawans as they went through the trials. Also show in the episode is the ship and guards who escort him are from Naboo. So it appears that either Padme, Jar Jar or possibly the Queen of Naboo herself was sending people attempting to save Jedis on the night of Order 66. In a better show we would get to explore all of this but Disney is just like nah

[@mellowgeekstudio]

Disney message: School shootings are preferred over school drinking.

[@johnellisbushbush]

“None of the Mandalorian’s went to verify….” Guess they didn’t want to pay the Empire 8 quid for a checkmark

[@HunterKutz]

Roll up! Roll up! Come one and all to the Mando Circus! Watch as the Flying Trapeze Mandalorians swing over the giant croco-gator and the mighty dragon! The great Houdini Mando will leave you speechless with his daring escape from the belly of a dragon! Next up is the clown ship. Can dozens of Manodos and 3 dragons fit into a single small ship? Stay tuned!

[@hurtchain5844]

Comment showcase on this episode was great. Loved the comment about bo katan being a war criminal. To add to what was already said, bo katan is also responsible for the mandalorian purge and the whole myth of Mandalore being uninhabitable. Bo katan worked with the main cast in the rebels show to revolt against the imperial rule on mandalore. She was given the dark Saber and the show left off with her leading a united army of rebel mandalorians to take back their planet. Time skip to the mandalorian show and the mandalorians were massacred and scattered to the wind. The dark Saber is in the hands of the empire. And all bo katan has is an empty castle and a couple of side goons. So every time she talks about the dark Saber, it's done with the context of her leading her people to genocide with it.

[@VaporSulla]

I've just finished to watch the entire RE4 remake EFAP, now it's time for some Mando. Will he say "This is the way"? What kind of amazing quest he's going to be on? How much exp will he get? I'm so excited....

[@Ceyx000]

DWEEeeee-Ooooooo

[@Gunleaver]

The whole thing about Ragnar being Paz Visla's son destroys the characterization of Mandalorians, who are supposed to be all about protecting and providing for kids. They adopt kids, the whole community tithes their earnings to provide for and equip foundlings. The point should be that it doesn't matter WHO the parents of a kid are, Mandalorians will protect him because he's one of their own. It fits with them being dedicated to combat, which would, presumably leave a lot of orphans, so they need this ethos to ensure their kids are protected. That Paz Visla is so dedicated because this is HIS kid, implies he would NOT be dedicated if it was someone else's kid. And what about the anonymous members of the team, who also risked their lives under ridiculous rules of engagement with no emotional investment. You know what would have been a thing they could do? Have someone fall during the climb. He doesn't cry out, his hand goes to his jetpack, like he's going to activate it to save himself, and then he lets go, so as not to endanger the mission, and just crashes, taking one for the team. Bo Katan can react to this, and the other Mandalorians just go "This is the Way." If the writers don't want to kill him, they can always just let him survive the fall because Deus ex Beskar, but they can have someone point out that his survival was not guaranteed, that he got lucky, that he's going to need some time in a bacta tank for all his broken bones, but he just shrugs off the personal cost, because they got the foundling back and no more will be taken. Because that Is The Way. These things would be so easy to put in, without changing the action, if you are that committed to your big fight scenes. But the writers are dumb and lazy

[@Сайтамен]

Adopted son maybe?

[@purpledragon1945]

Well said

[@RaptorRockDrakeJesus]

About the climbing scene. Watching these guys climb with grappling hooks is hilarious. There's an episode in clone wars where Anakin and his squad had to climb up to a prison. They couldn't use grappling hooks or jetpacks due to wind and due to the rock foundation riddled with alarms. They fucking free climbed that shit with no safety and made it besides 1 that slipped and fell. This show shits on everything.

[@jjfajen]

My neighbor told me dragons keep eating his foundlings so I asked how many foundlings he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new foundling afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding foundlings to the dragon and then the Forgemaster started crying.

[@moemothmann6760]

"I attack the Water!" -every Mandalorian, apparently

[@nobleman9393]

Caligula approves

[@Сайтамен]

I grew up surrounded by water

[@alc4528]

So what are the ramifications for the Naboo Royal guard clearly aiding a jedi? Who had the ship ready? Did padme because I assume they’re her guards. When did this happen? Surely if she sent a message to the Temple about an escape ship being there the clones would’ve already destroyed the ship.

[@user-rs7lu5dz9v]

It was unironically harder to join the Midnight Society from that 90's kid show than it is to become a mandalorian (The first draft of this comment had used the word "literally" instead of "unironically" but upon remembering the teachings of our Lord Rags about the use of language, I decided to return and amend it. This also means this comment underwent more redrafts and editing than the entirety of She-Hulk)

[@Dayvow]

Notice how when the gun ship's fire hits a building. The building explodes. Yet when it hits the speeder bike engine the damage looks like a person could potentially survive the hit.

[@rhizvo108]

It’s astounding the amount of wildlife we’ve battled in 4 seasons of Mando and BoB. It’s actually ridiculous. Every episode has to have a new creature that they fight in order to have action scenes.

[@caramelspellman3253]

I still haven't forgotten the weird walk that Baby Yoda did in that cave scene from season 2 and weird stuff they pulled with him in Boba Fett and now this huge jump over the boy It looks so terrible lol ! Also the amount of time creatures have just showed up from outta nowhere is just crazy !! Not to forget how people are always aware about them but still chose to be in its vicinity for some reason ! 🤣🤣🤣

[@shawklan27]

Lizzo in the newest episode, literally holds gorgu like a doll and all. It didn't look like she was holding a breathing creature at all.

[@Сайтамен]

And people said CGI Yoda was bad...

[@The1337guy1]

​​@@СайтаменGI Yoda holds up pretty well, this is just lazy puppet work because they can't be bothered to work with its limitations.

[@paulwenzel1055]

When did the Jedi that rescued Baby Yoda have the time to prepare that escape? I thought the entire point of order 66 was that it hit the jedi completely off guard?

[@fourthdrawerdown6297]

There is a house near where I live that used to be a pub but was converted into a dwelling a few years ago. I understand this and no longer drink there.

[@travismartin4293]

"It always gets away" Wait, this has happened before?

[@Сайтамен]

Many times, considering how many things are forbidden because the child gets eaten as a result...

[@matthewcollins4773]

Meaning the pterosaur is smarter than the Mandalorians. It can recognise the potential in staying in proximity to them, and they can't.