The Mandalorian 1x1 "Chapter 1: The Mandalorian" REACTION/REVIEW

[@abi_corinne]

Saddle up folks! Its going to be a crazy ride! If you like to get ahead we are up to episode 6 on the Upper S Class Tier on Patreon 💜

[@LindsnDarth]

When this came out, some how some way they kept baby Yoda a secret. No one knew. Watching the show that first night, that ending was all anyone could talk about the next day.

[@najhoant]

Fun for Americans. Meanwhile, here in Europe, we had already seen trailers for season 2 by the time Disney+ was launched here

[@SwiftJustice]

"Baby yoda"

[@danielrodio9]

I started watching reactions because of this show. Never watched a single reaction before. Now I spend more time watching reactions than watching new shows myself.

[@anthonydean1743]

Fun Fact: Dave Filoni was one of the directors on Avatar the last Air Bender before being hired by Lukasfilm animation & later live action productions.

[@Liesmith424]

Pedro Pascal does such a great job acting with just his voice and his body language.

[@brittanyjones2902]

The greatest story about a single dad ever made 🤣🤣

[@abi_corinne]

This is poetry 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@rawkmode6315]

Somebody needs to put some respect on Dave Filoni's name, dude is responsible for some of the greatest Star Wars content out there.

[@jasonmarbach]

You do find out the Mandalorian’s name near the end of this season, but most people still call him Mando, I think.

[@jonmercano1138]

All Mandalorians are not bounty hunters, but they are indeed good at it. Enough of them took that kind of work to get the reputation Yup, carbonite. Became popular after it happened to Han Jabba actually did have a son. That beskar tablet is basically like nazi gold They put the planet names in Rogue One Oh, watch clone wars and you’ll see a lot of droids being responsive We still don’t know how the tracking fobs work Dave Filoni! He was the supervising director for Clone Wars The Mandalorian does have a name but they didn’t say it

[@abi_corinne]

That’s cool that Han’s freezing in Carbonite was the starting point! It makes sense and I like that detail! Also thanks for the other facts 😍

[@jonmercano1138]

@@abi_corinne It’s my pleasure

[@claymccarthy6198]

The Carbonite actually happens in clone wars

[@jonmercano1138]

@@claymccarthy6198 there too

[@wtimmins]

The guy giving the quest, the actor is Werner Herzog. Who is a WILDLY famous actor and ... kind of weird he's in this but huh! Cool! The bounty droid is voiced by Taika Waititi. HA. I love him. Kuiil, the 'I have spoken' dude, is voiced by Nick Nolte. Another big surprise.

[@abi_corinne]

Love that Taika is in like everything 😂 or has his hand on several different movie/shows 😍

[@wtimmins]

@@abi_corinne Our Flag Means Death is AMAZING. Whether you do it for a reaction or for fun, I highly recommend it. heh

[@Snoeflekz]

You mean a wildly famous DIRECTOR? I mean, yeah, this isn’t Herzog’s first time acting, but he’s mostly known as a director, and for narrating his own documentaries (such as ”Grizzly Man”). As for the music, it’s by Ludwig Göransson, who got his break as the composer on all six seasons of ”Community”. He has produced pretty much everything Donald Glover’s done since (as Childish Gambino). Plus, Ludwig went to USC with Ryan Coogler and has scored all of his movies, winning the Oscar for ”Black Panther”.

[@Bayard1503]

They got him with the baby yoda :))

[@dchild612]

The funny thing about the Sith is the whole reason they implemented the rule of two was out of self preservation, any real Sith governemnt was full of so much backstabbing and betrayal and assassination that eventually everyone would end up dead. So they made this rule basically meaning once a student got powerful enough, it was expected that they would eventually betray and kill their master and take on a new apprentice to teach the Dark Side to, and the cycle would continue. One could argue that this doesn't really solve the problem as much as minimize it, but hey the Sith just don't have the best ideas when it comes to conflict resolution, go figure, lol.

[@yannym4605]

And at the end of the day the Sith, very wisely, don't even follow the "Rule of Two", because if there are only two, and both are killed, or the apprentice is killed and the master is too old to really train a new one, then that's it for the Sith Order. So what you end up having is a master with an apprentice and multiple secret apprentices, and each of those apprentices eventually getting multiple secret apprentices themselves as they prepare to kill their master. So there's never only two. There's usually a dozen or two Sith hanging about due to all the secret apprentices.

[@AlessaParker]

9:30 I laughed way louder than I think I should've 🤣

[@deathswitch2404]

Genuinely so excited to watch you experience this show! Dave Filoni is essentially royalty in the Star Wars community, along with Jon. The are responible for creating the animated shows. Clone Wars, Rebels ect. The mandalorians are a warrior race who were 'purged' much like the Uchia clan by the Empire. There was once a mandalorian / jedi war fought for hundreds of years so theyre very capable and have a lot of tools to help fight them. Pure Beskar cannot be sliced with a lightsaber so it makes for great amour!

[@eazolan]

This is the best thing to happen to Star wars in years. Live action, the animated shows are good too.

[@hayeshatcher3489]

Great reaction! I’m glad you appeared in my feed and will be back! Thank you!

[@noahschultz9031]

So happy you’re watching this Abi😀

[@abi_corinne]

Me too! The whole season is top notch 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@noahschultz9031]

@@abi_corinne it really is!

[@oxhine]

Hey, Abi! "LONE WOLF AND CUB" Star Wars-style! There's a long-running manga (Japanese comics) from the '70's about a grizzled, disgraced Japanese swordsman and his infant son who travel the road undergoing a variety of adventures while seeking revenge against the clan that ruined them. The manga has been collected and translated for Western readers. Movies and a TV series in Japan have been based on it. This whole series is an homage to that story. Originally, Mandalorians were a non-human species called Taung. Over time, the martial philosophy of the original species was adopted by other species transforming a racial heritage into a cultural heritage. Mandalorians are predominantly human nowadays and are basically SPACE SPARTANS. They have fought with and against both the Jedi and the Sith throughout history as well as nearly dominated the galaxy on their own at one point under Mandalore the Great, an Alexander-like figure. During the Clone Wars, under Duchess Satine, they went through a pacifist phase. You've seen Mandalorian armor before worn by bounty hunter Jango Fett who served as the template for the clone army in the Prequel trilogy and worn by his unaccelerated clone "son", Boba Fett, who captured Han Solo in the Classic trilogy. You learn much more about Mandalorians in the animated "Clone Wars" TV series as well as watch young Boba grow to manhood. The BESKAR metal Mando is paid in advance and provides to the armorer is prized by Mandalorians because it's impervious to LIGHTSABER strikes. This show is set 5 years after the Empire was defeated in "Return of the Jedi". When Empires collapse, provincial governors and generals assume control of extant fragments. It happened to Alexander's Empire, to the Mongol Empire, to the Western Roman Empire, to Imperial India and to Dynastic China. Those regions of the galaxy not under the control of the New Republic are controlled by IMPERIAL REMNANTS. The client, played by Werner Herzog, seems to be a civilian Imperial of high rank. The inestimable Werner Herzog is an internationally acclaimed German documentarian and filmmaker! He shot the classic "Fitzcarraldo" in the Amazon jungle and actually hauled a ferryboat over a huge muddy ridge to get from one tributary of the Amazon to another enlisting the aid of hundreds of Amazonian Indians. He collaborated frequently with an insane hothead actor called Klaus Kinski who would stall production with fits of apoplexy! His documentaries are deeply humane and profound explorations of the bizarre and unusual ranging from life at Antarctic research stations to cave paintings to vulcanology to the career of ex-Russian Premier Gorbachev. He is a beloved figure in the cinematic world and is thought of as a very serious guy with a truly distinctive way of speaking. When he does the occasional acting role, it's always a treat to see this cerebral icon just cut loose! He fell in love with Baby Yoda and kept exhorting the cast and crew to "commit to the magic" of the puppetry! Lol. Did you recognize the creature that was like Jabba's cackling pet? I love the Kowakian monkey-lizard being roasted on a spit while a caged one watches! It's so mean. Nick Nolte brilliantly voiced the Blurrg-wrangling Ugnaught with his "I have spoken" catch-phrase. Ugnaughts are short, porcine tinkerers. You've seen them before in Cloud City working the smelter that almost turned Threepio's parts to slag in "Empire Strikes Back"! "Thor: Ragnarok" director Taika Waititi voiced IG-11, the assassin robot. He also directs the season finale. The music is by composer Ludwig Goransson who also provided the scores for "Creed", "Black Panther", "Venom" and "Tenet". The style of this series is modeled after a genre known as Spaghetti Westerns which were Italian oaters mostly shot in Spain with international casts in the '60's-'70's. These films were highly stylized, melodramatic and hyperviolent examples of an American genre refracted through European eyes. The three greatest practitioners were the three Sergios: Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Sollima. Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name trilogy ending with "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" was directed by Leone and is a classic of the genre. A KZbinr cut a trailer of "The Mandalorian" in the style of a Leone film calling it "IL MANDALORIANO"! It's absolutely hysterical. Check it out! Lucasfilm animation head responsible for "Clone Wars", "The Bad Batch" and "Rebels", "Mandalorian" co-producer and Lucas disciple Dave Filoni directed the series premiere. I highly recommend you watch the animated shows before Season 2 in order to fully appreciate it. Much of current live-action Star Wars is based on developments, characters and artifacts first seen in the animated shows.

[@abi_corinne]

Wow wow wow this was a great read! Thank you for sharing all this and I appreciate the part about the Mandalorians history. I would like to look more into it! Also I will be looking up Lone wolf and cub! I watch a show could bobs burgers and they always reference this (Hawk and chick) and I wanted to know where it was from! Thanks again!

[@mimoe7587]

@@abi_corinne :O :O :O. Are you excited for the Bob's Burgers movie?! Dave Filoni is George Lucas's greatest Padawan. Anything he has created; this is the way.

[@DAMIENDMILLS]

Not all Mandalorians are bounty hunters, they are all warriors, but since their home planet got destroyed, they've had to rebuild. So many of them had to take on odd jobs just to get by.

[@muchpeacemuchlove]

Starting this series with you - so psyched! Thanks beautiful Abi : )

[@HaIcyonic]

So excited you're doing this series!!

[@andreasschlosser6033]

Love the Demon Days album cover in the background

[@317cmrogers]

I didn't even know I needed this🤯

[@HaroldDominguezhn]

I'm glad you started watching the Mandalorian. You just started a journey on the most epic Star Wars in the last 20 years. You should go back to the prequels though and come back to this later on

[@thatnewjoint]

Love this series! Glad to see you reacting to it! Especially new reactors coming and watching this series for the first time. Cheers! 😊

[@antonytjp]

Yaaaaay I’m so glad you’re doing this whoop whoop

[@Ben_Kenobi_77]

I am so excited for you to get into this. on a completely nerdy level, that master and apprentice you were talking about was Darth Bane and Darth Zhannah. a great book trilogy if you get the time. Happy new adventure for you. :)

[@jaygeeeeee]

Happy to see you reacting to this!!!!! Maybe someone has already told you this on Patreon, but the music is composed by Ludwig Göransson, who did the music for Black Panther and Community + lots more AND produced the Childish Gambino (Donald Glover) albums.

[@kevinfhaney]

wooteedee!!! 1 of my most fave shows ever ...

[@ger.baltav]

The misunderstanding will probably get cleared but nonetheless. Not all mandalorians are bounty hunters but they are badass warriors that possess skills very beneficial to the gun for hire profession.

[@ger.baltav]

Also theres many references to the Starwars holiday special,highly recommended :'')

[@abi_corinne]

Thank you for clarifying!

[@TheNeonRabbit]

I've started ending all my conversations with "I have spoken".

[@DoodOverThere]

This is such a good show. Looking forward to this rewatch

[@tadcooper9733]

This show is so much fun

[@ImpeccableZentertainment]

And now were watching Baby Yoda

[@questingmoo]

If you haven't seen it, the cg clone wars cartoon is really good. The first season or two is more "kids show"-y, but during season 3 they were taken off cartoon network's morning slot and moved to late night, so they were able to cut loose to a degree. It's shockingly mature, and along with this show it's the best star wars... anything, really

[@jonahhex9620]

I’m saving your What we do in the Shadows for October

[@ramiromunoz1161]

I'm so glad you're reacting to this series! You're going to love it, I can't wait to see your reactions to the Prequels if you're going to do that as well

[@mimoe7587]

Glad your already enjoying the start of this epic adventure. The Mandalorian is a bad ass and loner but I love that they are showing he has a heart and conscious. I can already tell your gonna fall in love with this baby.

[@danielestrada1271]

9:30 LMAO that jumpscare

[@shruggknucklesfistbump4381]

the best dad joke was put on a T shirt when baby yoda reaches out his hand mando puts his finger out, Mando Pull my finger:D

[@christopherpeters6365]

Oh, Mylanta, you always have the most beautiful hair styles!!!🌹🌹🌹

[@andrewborges399]

Dave Filoni worked on the Avatar The Last Airbender cartoon 😀

[@Farmer_Dave]

U must be loving this

[@BrandonDuckett]

9:30 that reaction though. XD Girl, same.

[@joshlammaslehto6603]

I'm sure someone has either mentioned it somewhere or you already knew/saw it by now, but IG-88 the guild droid is voiced by Taika Waititi. He's everywhere.

[@abi_corinne]

Absolutely love he is in everything! He’s in what we do in the shadows and is wonderful 😍

[@jonmercano1138]

I commented this on your New Hope reaction but I would like to add something. I highly recommend also checking out the animated series, especially Clone Wars and Rebels. Ideally before Mandalorian S2 and Book of Boba Fett, as Clone Wars and Rebels introduce a lot of characters and lore connected to those shows. They’re not necessary viewing, but they do make the viewing experience even better This is a bit of a daunting task, especially if you wanna get to S2 asap, as Clone Wars is 7 seasons and Rebels is 4. Clone Wars is an anthology show, so it definitely isn’t necessary to watch every single episode. There’s some episodes and arcs I consider necessary/essential viewing Rebels is a lot more of an interconnected story, following the same group for the whole show, so it’s preferable to watch all of it.

[@abi_corinne]

Ooo thanks for all this! I just looked them up and my goodness it’s a lot lol I may have to watch them on my own time or wait till I can pay an editor lol but I am very interested in it. I love how different shows connect in the world!

[@jonmercano1138]

@@abi_corinne if you do end up watching clone wars and would like to know the essentials I mentioned, feel free to ask.

[@SilverFang95]

@@abi_corinne Watch the clone wars before season 2 of the Mandalorian there is a character that is introduced that was in the clone wars.

[@Kidapollo92]

Oh shit Babygirl done found out bout mando. Baby yoda with so much power and so much potential yet no training. No shit my dad watched this and for a straight 4 weeks kept saying this is the way and I have spoken

[@cliveklg7739]

Some of Star Wars Legends content is movie closer to being current canon, including the fact that the Sith Rule of Two wasn't necessarily always the case. In Legends the Sith were a full faction with many members like the Jedi and in opposition. But current canon novels have starting referencing some of this including a Jedi - Sith war.

[@theeLonelyRedPanda]

Tis a great series. I have spoken.

[@Citizen88020120820]

S1 is cool. S2 is next level.

[@jamieventress7153]

idk if anyone's said this already but the composer for this is the same as on community

[@abi_corinne]

They didn’t! Thanks for sharing!

[@bidwell13]

If you look at one of the carbonite bounties it looks like George Lucas. In Empire Strikes Back there was a bounty droid similar to IG-11 called IG-88 that was on Vaders ship when he was sending them after Han & Luke.

[@Mandozen]

Best single dad in Star Wars

[@odasdefe]

Dear Abi, hope one day you keep reacting to Community. That was my only reason to suscribe to Imon's patreon. Hope you are doing well. Lots of love!!

[@abi_corinne]

Community reactions will happen!

[@churchofthegoldenone4577]

the way to calculate Yoda years is to divide the age by 10. So the child is like a 5 year old. He behaves more like a 3 year old, but I think that is due to experiencing trauma. Being 50 is interesting because that makes him the same age Vader would be or possibly up to one year older than Luke's father. In Return of the Jedi Yoda claims to be 900 nd in Empire he claims to be a Jedi for 800 years. That would probably put him at 85 - 90 in human years. Chewbacca is 200 in a New Hope and seems to be in the prime of his life. I'm less sure of wookie life expectancy but I think it is somewhere between 500-800 years. So his age is probably the equivelant of 25-35 years old, but coud be as high as 40. Maybe some one knows a more accurate ratio for wookiee age calculation.

[@chrispittman8854]

If you'll go back and react to "The Outlaw Josey Wales" you'll find the source of inspiration for the majority of this episode. Even down to "Kuiil" tipping the hat to "Lone Watie." "Endeavor to perceiver..." A masterful job.

[@MIB000DG]

Wait until you hear about Lone Wolf and Cub.

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

CP3... CP... *CP3O!* Well, at least you managed to get it right in the end. 😈😘

[@abi_corinne]

😂

[@CMCustom112]

14:30 Darth Bane book trilogy. Good books. Darth Plageus book is also a great Sith book even if its not cannon anymore.

[@lovebitcoin813]

👍This is the way i have spoken

[@wtimmins]

The prequels started a long period of REALLY toxic fandom in Star Wars, spanning a good 20+ years. Year by year I could feel my childhood love of Star Wars just... fade. I liked some of the later movies, but all of it sparked such bile. sigh. This series helped reconnect me with that love; Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have such a deep and abiding respect and love for Star Wars, and this show has that passion and joy.

[@joesoq]

i was a kid when the prequels were shown, i never understood the hate that the prequels got. rewatched them after i finished clone wars and rebels and sure there were bad dialogues, but the hate wasnt justified. true, favreau(mando) and filoni(the clone wars series/rebels) is healing this universe. you can see the love and respect they have by the small details that they pepper in these shows that its feel like a love letter to the undying fans.

[@wtimmins]

A lot of people can't handle dislike in anything like a mature manner. I didn't like the prequels, and I have coherent, worked-out reasons for why. But I don't need to dump on every conversation about the movie or feel offended if somebody enjoyed them. Whatever, I didn't like them, moving on. But over the last few decades it seems fandoms have gotten SO toxic about dislike. Ugh. To everyone who liked the prequels: Great! I'm glad people had fun! Hugs all around!

[@Bayard1503]

I mean... the toxicity goes hand in hand with the drop in quality...

[@kweeniepiez]

I've watched all the star wars movies (hated them all lmao) and still nothing beats baby yoda 😍

[@AniMageNeBy]

Arcane 6, here we come!

[@ShoNuff3K]

Well... you'll hear Pedro.

[@kasch3288]

Oh snap, here I am looking for a reaction cause the star wars event was hyping me up and it's my girl from Imon_Snow.

[@LurkingInTheBasement]

Star Wars is nothing but fun!

[@hauntreaper]

is there a reason youre watching this before the prequel movies? just wondering if there's an order or if you just chose to watch this next.

[@abi_corinne]

I actually saw the prequels when they first came out in theaters but not since!

[@elimartin4686]

Forget about attack of the clones..!!!! Lmao well maybe don’t forget about it… but fsfs we gotta get you reacting to the clone wars animated show … then rebels since the live action Ahsoka series is literally the live action continuation of Star Wars rebels which takes place literally right after clone wars 🤙💯🤙 lol you have until about May..ish.. to watch rebels! Or you gon be like whooo… whhhhaaahhhtt?? they showed exclusive trailers for Mando season 3 as well as a teaser trailer for Ahsoka where it’s literally the end scene of Rebels.. at Star Wars celebration and I couldn’t be more hyped!!

[@you5692]

🖤#themandalorian 🖤#starwars

[@claymccarthy6198]

I noticed you watch alot of animation on your channel ... you should check out the clone wars movie (where they introduce a certain character), the series 1-7, tales of the jedi, rebels, the bad batch ... plus the other live action shows book of boba fett ... obi-wan kenobi ... and Ahsoka... also forces of destiny animation

[@claymccarthy6198]

Rebels starts off 5 years before rogue one/a new hope and ends pretty close to when those movies happen ... and of course clone wars takes place between attack of the clones and revenge of the sith

[@Caraxes_RoguePrince]

So did you not react to the prequels? Unless you watched before doing reactions or something.

[@martinloss4171]

And your really never heard of baby yoda before watching this?

[@abi_corinne]

I have seen the toy in the store!

[@martinloss4171]

​@@abi_corinne Ah, ok. Good that Star Wars has so much merchandise. Could mean everything so it doesn't spoiler you.

[@saltychampion2518]

You mean C3P0? 😂

[@abi_corinne]

Haha yes!!

[@jaimeruiz7837]

Mando is the only good star wars thing that has been released by disney

[@Seereene1]

I like watching your reactions, but I'm having a really hard time seeing what you're reacting to. Your background materials show through that opaque oval of the show and sometimes I have no idea what you're seeing. It's only clear when the action is outside....but as much of it is inside in the dark I've got no clue what's going on.

[@abi_corinne]

Thanks for the feedback!