The Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 4 - Angry Review

[@BRWednesday]

"That kid is dead by now" me the entire episode.

[@ashman8891]

Yeah how the hell did he survive inside that thing's stomach almost half a day?? There's no way that helmet would've provided him enough air

[@eiler1987]

@@ashman8891 Boba in the Sarlacc?

[@SCOTTEDM]

😆 Yep. I was like sure, lets all make camp and enjoy a meal and let the beasts stomach settle for a while after his. 😒👍

[@ashman8891]

@@eiler1987 The sarlacc is an intelligent creature that deliberately keeps its victims alive to psychologically torture them during digestion. There's nothing to suggest that the flying creature was intelligent in any way to do the same. Plus if it is imitative of birds of prey on Earth then the kid would've been placed inside the nest and eaten the same day. There's zero chance of him surviving that long. This whole episode is just lazy writing to create justification for a future episode when Bo inevitably decides to lead the clan to revitalize Mandalore as the new ruler of the Mandalorians. Probably leading to a conflict between her and the armorer

[@eiler1987]

@@ashman8891 oh I know. Just using the little bit of possible loop hole logic they will try to suggest. On how he survived unscathed

[@dantheman36]

The youngling survived in the creatures stomach the ENTIRE time and came out unscathed and completely dry… Wtf 😂

[@rhymenoceros3303]

Beskar armor baby.

[@concernedearthling3353]

I love how Grogu was just sitting at the shoreline where just a few days ago a giant croc jumped out and ate some people. Perfect spot for a child to sit......

[@waynemessner9691]

​@Ricardo Valdes unfortunately he wasn't wearing much beskar

[@antdigiulio4285]

Yeah that was really my only issue with episode, kid should've died hours before they got there like with Mando and the droid in ep2

[@ascendantP]

@@concernedearthling3353 Grogu has beast control along with powers of the force

[@LoneWanderer479]

If you compare the Krate Dragon episode from Season 2 where they work with the Tuskin Raiders to kill the worm, there's a clear contrast with the quality of writing, plot, and even logic in the action sequences compared to this season's episodes. Especially this random monster / rescue plot that has tons of plot holes, bad writing and is much shorter

[@noahmarler716]

I had so many “What? Why?” moments this episode. I thought Bo’s ship would return a minute later and she’d have the kid. I also was wholly dismayed when they made camp for the night at the base of the nest. Kid’s 100% dead at that point, like bruhhhh

[@locsurvival2996]

he was atleast 24 hours in the stomach of a dragon lmao

[@TentaclePentacle]

you can't digest the armor lol.

[@zaab-yaoh9302]

​@@TentaclePentaclewhat armor the kid was only wearing a helmet lol.

[@alexlyster3459]

​@@locsurvival2996He wasn't in the stomach the whole time.

[@RiosWong]

​@@zaab-yaoh9302 well plot armour is the strongest thing in the whole galaxy

[@ZerebusPrime]

I had a revelation upon watching this episode: the me that was a little kid would have absolutely loved it. I think the Mandalorian started out as the more mature Star Wars show in Season 1 but Disney execs noticed how much kids loved Grogu and enforced a tonal shift. That would explain all too much.

[@Aeronixable]

it would be weird if that's the case considering episode 3

[@Shocknfunk]

More like moms adore Grogu. Kids don’t really like baby characters all that much.

[@1rickopotamus]

Ya boy is right

[@loneranger2077]

Truth is they just want to sell toys and merchandise. Why make a good show if you don't respect your fans. So expect terrible writing and stories from Disney. This is the way

[@HisNameWasCrazy]

Absolutely on point, aside from the episode 3 side plot (which feels like it was ripped from another show altogether) this whole season has had brainless saturday morning cartoon vibes. I even got the impression when the season opened focusing on the child foundling that he was supposed to be some kind of stand in for the intended audience, "see kids, you can be like the Mandalorian too! Don't forget to buy all your Mando toys and accessories just like boring foundling kid over here!"

[@xXPhanillaXx]

When Grogu did his jump flip I almost fell out of my chair laughing so hard. It looked like someone yeeted a stuffed Grogu doll in the air.

[@altairdance0284]

I hope they do more of those stupid scenes with the toy tossing. I need some entertainment lol

[@madhippy3]

It looks bad, but like the bad I like. Obviously it is a doll and I don't want the baby flipping around like Yoda. This is obviously jarringly like just pulling up hard on the strings of a puppet, but I like it anyways.

[@transonicgnat5872]

My mind was blown with how the mandalorians were firing at the sea with no targets. How does that train you to be actually accurate with your shots or are they firing at the fish.

[@GBArkais]

Thats because they're not space Australians, they're space Floridians.

[@paulvenn4447]

The same sea they were shooting at when the gigantic fucking Alligator rolled up to eat them a few episodes earlier lol

[@J_Schecter]

Bro I said the same shit. I was like wow this is completely pointless training lmao.

[@inswarlock09]

Marines and Navy fire into the ocean for live fire training sooo

[@J_Schecter]

@@inswarlock09 there's a difference between shooting into the blank ocean because you have no other options and being on land and doing it. The ocean is great for a down range safe area but at least have some floating targets there.

[@anthonyjanev862]

It's an episode that would be passable in a 22 episode season. Not one where we are halfway through already. I agree, the flashback scene was great. The writers seem to have their finger on the pulse regarding what fans want some of the time, which makes you wonder why they don't write more of it in their stories.

[@yeetnessmcfinn501]

filler episodes are wack regardless

[@MaMastoast]

@@yeetnessmcfinn501 "filler" doesnt always apply as a concept though. The good star trek shows werent structured with a focus on an overarching plot most of the time.. It was very much an episodic "what will the crew encounter this week" structure, which was great. Mando season 1 had a lot of that going on and I loved it.. Season 2 introduced more pressing plot elements and reduced the episodic angle a bit. The problem isnt "filler episodes" Its that the direction of the show took a more plot heavy angle during season 2 and season 3 refuses to follow up on it whch is really annoying.

[@willistan3562]

Filoni is 100% a great worldbuilder, but let's be real his writing skills are lacking. Clone Wars took a long ass time to finally get good. Filler episodes are basically what he's known for, which are unfortunately getting brought over to the Mandalorian.

[@imsentinelprime9279]

​@@MaMastoast I prefer plot. Episodic stuff bores me.

[@ecargfosreya]

Exactly what I was thinking. I have been watching the clone wars for the first time recently, and really enjoying the episodes that branch in different directions, but here there’s no time for that

[@RantingsFromAsylum]

Made me laugh that they get all the way to the nest saying how time is of the essence etc, get there and set up camp for the night just to explain "How Mandalorians eat around others" lol

[@prolastmedia6171]

Yeah them stopping for camp made me lose all immersion

[@siipis7766]

Yeah.. wouldnt the night be the best opportunitu for stealth mission anyways.. this was so dumb

[@Zeppelinschaffner22]

@@siipis7766 they can see where they're climbing. If only they had night vision googles or something, but i guess they are just not technically advanced enough

[@vlad1972]

When the big Mandalorian guy says "He is my son", is it a foundling, or his biological kid? Just wondering if Mandalorians get a pass on not removing the helmet for sex, or do they do it with the helmets on?

[@prolastmedia6171]

@@vlad1972 1) Mandalorians 100% fck w their helmets on - no question. 2) I was thinking the same thing, is that his biological son and if so, whos the mother I wonder? Or maybe its a foundling situation, idk

[@KingOfMadCows]

It makes sense the Mandalorians would live on a dangerous planet where they have to keep their skills sharp and overcome challenges. But it makes no sense for them to be completely unprepared for the dangers of the planet. At least put up some guard towers or radars that can detect incoming monsters.

[@steelerdaddy2013]

Oh so they can be spotted you mean lol

[@joshuaerickson2458]

They knew the predator was nearby and snatching their young but didn't preemptively take out the nest?

[@liaiouihhui]

@@joshuaerickson2458 I don't think they knew where it was but I also don't think they ever tried looking for it or following it with their ships.

[@thitran1362]

@@steelerdaddy2013 they still got spotted by various predators..... so watch tower would atleast give them a heads up.

[@kennyburkamp4054]

@@liaiouihhui well they did say that they have to sneak up because if it know there coming it will kill the kid suggesting and I think explain that not only that something like this happened before but they messed up the rescue attempt by being to loud and up front with the attack

[@pineapplepizza4016]

Everyone's criticism has been spot on. Nothing much is really happening this season. It's like watching a Mandalorian vlog.

[@firstlast9846]

Has anything REALLY happened in this show at all tho? Season 2 felt like it was leading somewhere and then - Luke Skywalker fan service and the season ends.

[@danbruh5004]

@@firstlast9846 at least it had a concise plot line, like there’s a goal. In this season I don’t think there’s an actual plot it’s just like the season is a whole filler episode, at this point just give bo her own series like boba fett

[@Hanoua2]

@@firstlast9846 the entire second season was about finding a jedi that could train Grogu, Luke Skywalker wasn't just a pointless cameo, it was the entire goal of the season

[@DontbeaGoof]

It's like no one reads books LOL. It takes time for the story to come together, these episodes have all been about set-up. If they don't pay it off then theres a real problem

[@NasirPremier904]

And it’s not a problem. Just enjoy Star Wars

[@justinezekwelu3335]

After I watched Andor and it’s quality, I was like ,”ain’t no way Mandalorian can keep up with this type of consistent quality.” Time has proven me wise 😂.

[@HamsterXFiles]

Andor is just a bunch of idiots walking, talking, yelling, and it's not clever dialogue either.

[@luckymark571]

You know you don't have to compare Andor to everything lul

[@Jcall9]

@@luckymark571cope

[@griswoldclark6835]

The biggest thing was there was no urgency to get the kid. They make it to the dragons nest quickly but then was like lets wait til morning and we’ll make camp and eat soup. Wouldn’t the dragon smell the fire below its nest and hear them moving around and talking?

[@Hklfilmsofficial]

I thought the same thing.

[@prolastmedia6171]

Yea when the guy was like "they always get away and kill the kids" I literally said "what the fck?" - then when they set up camp for the night I completely lost my immersion

[@lkupiec1978]

Look, it's obvious the dragon had other plans for the kid. Maybe it wanted to play chess with him?

[@redliondeaddeer]

​@@lkupiec1978 It probably wanted the kid to teach it's kids The Way.

[@jasonmardoniomeza1711]

When I saw the Dragon thing fly up to the nest and burp up the Mandalorian kid and he was dry and in one piece I was like this is idiotic writing. Totally took me out of the show. It would of been cooler if the kid came out with half his legs melted off and dead! 😆

[@chrishilburn9214]

I agree with you guys. I loved getting baby yoda back story but no cohesive story for this season. Season 1 and 2 had a plot driving through the season. This season is just all over the place

[@lgiver5148]

Season 1 had no plot till the last 2 episodes

[@liaiouihhui]

@@lgiver5148 At least the plot it had was good.

[@a_waff1es_0pinion76]

@@liaiouihhui yes but that was at the last two eps, wait season three will all make sense soon

[@liaiouihhui]

@@a_waff1es_0pinion76 We're halfway through dude, I don't care if it will make sense soon or we get payoff for it if the journey to the payoff is written badly then that is still bad writing!

[@Malgus87]

Just stop watching it cry baby

[@ryanhatt4835]

My 11 year old called 90% of the inconsistencies in this episode...then at the end yells out "bad writing!"

[@pedrokantor3997]

You've taught your son well.

[@fffx2]

Well done. He will be based and red pilled

[@tiredoffools8929]

@Ryan Hatt Awesome! Love to hear intelligence still exist amongst our youth!

[@sebastiaenn]

Impressive parenting. Keep it up

[@madhippy3]

@@pedrokantor3997 This is the way.

[@Killingglorie]

All Grogu seems to have learned in 50+ years has been how to do a backflip and force push….I think he’s a D student tbh

[@chimmychonga7793]

Lol 😂

[@jekblom123]

And levitate things and speak to creatures/put them to sleep, force heal, precognition.

[@SolidPain6624]

In yoda species years, that’s actually Pretty good at that age…

[@LegendaryArticuno]

@@SolidPain6624 Not really Yoda was Jedi Knight at age 100... Grogue is still a toddler.

[@prolastmedia6171]

​@@LegendaryArticunoi was just about to say this

[@k--music]

I think it’s funny that they say something like “this always happens and it always gets away” indicating the dinosaur takes a bunch of kids, and they have the giant gators to deal with too, but they just hang out on the beach anyway totally unprepared to survive without mando or bo saving them

[@joshuaerickson2458]

Ha my bro saw them all outside shooting at the water and said, "no not again this happened last week!"

[@cjmk5923]

@@joshuaerickson2458 Yep anger the sea creature you need a ship to defeat.

[@kevinxaislis]

This is the way I guess? LOL

[@bladehoth]

Yeah.. this conclave are like Lemmings xD.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

@@bladehoth Mandalore the Preserver would disown these morons.

[@GhostIslandThunder]

This review kept me entertained longer than the episode. Brutally honest is how we like over here Joe! Keep being you, you guys consistently are always keeping it real here. A lot of the thoughts I had about the episode were discussed here and I appreciate you guys doing these week by week. I need somewhere to go when im dissapointed by the dip in quality of the Mando show, and this place confirms what all the REAL SW fans are feeling. Actually fans aren't scared to criticize the things they love. It's out of passion for the subject material. Ppl who are offended and just mindlessly consume disney product without stopping to REALLY think about what exactly is actually happening and it's the truth the show is taking a turn for the worst. We are half way done the season ffs....

[@justcast1429]

I appreciate the brutal honesty, I can’t stand the creators who consume whatever garbage Disney feeds them

[@Sangth123]

There is no end to the amount of excuses certain Star Wars fans will make for bad writing. They will make a thousand excuses and never address the terrible writing.

[@israelsaadesnoozer377]

​​@@Sangth123 for real it fucks me off to no end having to see in every comment section "everyone who doesn't like this are toxic haters who don't like anything hate star wars blah blah" like bro look at how Joe is dressed and tell me the people criticizing it don't like star wars

[@whodatninja439]

Just that Jon Favero says that he doesn't know when or how the show will end, tells you all you need to know

[@feliciafenish7128]

I agree

[@TheeDawson]

Cause they get stuff. Like exclusive interviews and previews... always take them with a pinch of salt

[@jazz115]

My guess is that those two episodes in the book of Boba Fett were actually meant to take up half of this season and they’ve been completely without a cohesive plan since that plot was shoehorned into TBOBF

[@HelloThere156]

Apparently Kathleen dumbass Kennedy was messing up the production of S3 and she for some weird feminist reason was telling the director what to do with the story… I still don’t understand why they don’t want some good reviews because there’s CLEARLY tons of capable people willing to make great Star Wars content BUT…. no

[@bazzayt1005]

I think your onto something

[@HappyDude1]

They did that for the views i think. They are experimenting to see what is getting the most views. Once they find the formula every star wars show will blend into each other

[@ironmaster6496]

​@@HappyDude1 Oh nooooooooo

[@HappyDude1]

@@ironmaster6496 Ow yeaaaah 😁 So it will be like netflix Just all the same generic crap

[@JCShadow0202]

11:49 Alex looks so happy seeing good old Angry Joe and then proceeds to entice him even more 😂

[@fffx2]

It's been a while since Real Joe has shown up

[@luckymark571]

@@fffx2 he does, its usually in the game reviews lol

[@TheGodlessGamer]

Because of this episode we now know why the forge of exposition causes people to completely zone out and have flashbacks. I'm just imagining people constantly zoning out in the middle of conversations with the Armorer and her being like "God damn it"

[@TotallyWorkingg]

Shes like so how'd ur bounty ...and your screaming.😂

[@TheGodlessGamer]

@@TotallyWorkingg Lmao, this legit made me laugh. thanks!

[@TotallyWorkingg]

@@TheGodlessGamer u welcome bud

[@randomfools808]

lol. It's a comedy man. At the end she's like "You know what never mind. This Is The Way. Just go somewhere else."

[@firstlast9846]

Why are they wasting money on CGI monsters and scenery that add nothing to the plot? That crocodile and dragon didn’t need to be in the show - yet they likely spent UNBELIEVABLE amounts to animate it

[@blackbullet06]

The review is longer and more detailed than the episode itself lol

[@imsentinelprime9279]

Lol

[@mmaasphalt2285]

That’s how you know these guys care about the show

[@JRAYDABEAST]

Understatement of this season

[@Joseph-fo9lh]

My 7 yr old son’s reaction at the end of this episode was… ‘is that it…?’

[@RaDicAL808]

I thought that was funny that all the Mandos had to go elsewhere to eat away from the campfire. And Bo had the honor to eat at the fire, would’ve been funny if someone came back while she was eating, “oop forgot something, hey! That’s not the way!”

[@robsolf]

"I saw you, so go for a swim in Lake Minnetonka, again!" I feel like I'm in 4th grade on the playground.

[@Normandy42]

“She doesn’t even go here!”

[@LawlTwins]

This was so fucking stupid hahaha. I just imagined everyone finishing eating and now they've got to wait an extra 20 minutes just to make sure everyone else is done. "Hey , guys... is everyone finished?" For a culture with so much camaraderie and brotherhood, it's dumb they can't even enjoy a meal together.

[@Thareldis]

​@@LawlTwins Mandalorians never had that rule to begin with in old lore. Yeah, you saw them only with their helmets on in games, but they weren't forbidden to take them off. It would make more sense, to never show their faces to Outsiders, but show them to oneanother to bond with their brothers and sisters.

[@Nostripe361]

@@Thareldis I am not totally against the helmet thing. It’s just that they need to tone it down just a bit. Like you can take it off at specific times or it’s taboo for it to be removed during battle. My big problem with the cult is that other than the helmet thing, the cult hasn’t done anything really culty

[@pablopablo3834]

They had the Pirates and an encounter with an Imperial Warlord. Why haven't we seen more of that. Imagine Slavers capturing some Mandalorian children and they raid the ship to get them back. We have so many potential arcs that have gone nowhere.

[@jekblom123]

They always come back around. Like those x-wing cops.

[@Chief_kemosabe]

Wouldn't make sense since their armed to the teeth and slavers never are

[@prolastmedia6171]

​@@Chief_kemosabeOh but the Mandalorians being incapable of stopping a single bird from murdering their foundlings en masse makes perfect sense? Got it 😂

[@tallerwarrior1256]

The Pirates are a set up for Skeleton Crew since they’re gonna be the main antagonists.

[@lkupiec1978]

@@Chief_kemosabe mate, they couldnt deal with one overgrown gator, not to mention a dragon XD

[@Shatterhand2049]

This review, unlike last week's Picard review, was spot-on. It is shocking to me how little has transpired in spite of having four episodes out of eight already behind us. It's not even that I want or need stuff to happen at a breakneck pace, but this is barely a crawl now. While I appreciate that they didn't stretch out Din's journey to Mandalore for his cleansing over the whole season, it still wrapped up rather quickly, and now I don't know where they're headed next. What's worse is, where they are now in terms of story makes no sense. A couple of points that stand out for me: Why are the Mandalorians so incompetent? Like you said, they're supposed to be the stuff of legend; the best hunters/warriors/assassins in the SW universe, and yet they can't figure out how to keep their children, their future generations, safe from randomly appearing predators? That's ridiculous!!! Maybe find a place to live that's not quite so inhospitable Why does Bo-Katan seem perfectly fine with being a Child of the Watch now? She flat-out called them a "cult" in the first episode of the season and even blamed them for scattering her people. Now, she's just one of the gang. Either she's waiting to take what she needs from them to further her own goals, since she no longer has followers of her own, at which point she'll flip deuces and peace-out on them, or she's looking to eventually convert them from their traditionalist ways in order to unite what few Mandalorians still exist. Those are the only two motivations that make sense for Bo-Katan right now. Finally, your mileage may vary, but the cuteness factor for Grogu is starting to wear thin for me. Don't get me wrong; the little guy is still adorable, but there needs to be a narrative direction for him, now that he's apparently left the Jedi path behind, and I'm struggling to take seriously the idea of him becoming a Mandalorian. When he was just a little guy in a hover-stroller that Din had to protect so he could be handed over to the Jedi, him just being cute was passable enough. Now that he's moved on from that, he needs something to be/do besides Din's cute space-kid.

[@jak0995]

a crawling speed for the plot is fine. like last week that spent time introducing new characters and B-plot was done slow but meaningful. this week they barely made 2 steps with any story anything that was mentioned outside of the events of that episode were reminders of what happened last week

[@clerns]

I don't really know how you make Grogu more than he is right now. He's like what, 50 to 100 years from being the equivalent of a teenager/young adult? He's kind of stuck being Star Wars Pikachu unless they do a lengthy timejump.

[@nichescenes]

I feel like I'm watching a different show. Are people on a hate brigade or avoiding some show don't tell moments. Bo-Katan's change is shocking to you. The entire 2 episodes explain it. She bathed in the water, and saw a thing of legend that represents their creed, plenty even in real life switch religion over merely surviving a traumatic event or meeting someone who seems holy aka its the old agnostic vs religious debate. Its taking a simple idea, oh mando is stupid religion dumb and making it more gray which is fair given the force and other religious aspects of starwars. She saw them as cultists, was symbolically baptized, came out of the water, accepted into a family. The Mandalorians are shown as a found family, they encourage foundling and finding people to join. (AKA they took the children of the monster they killed on accident sorta.) They call people they look over their kids. The symbolism still stands that they feel like orphans, eat alone, feel alone, and feel they aren't actually a part of the family they have. She constantly feels or shows by body language she doesn't know if she is about this, she asks them questions about eating, and so on. (Note the meme of her being all alone in that castle vs now. But juxtaposed to her still eating alone.) A lot of stuff is here in these episodes, maybe I'm not seeing all the stuff to hate, or I got to watch back-to-back, but I feel this season is more character and story less overarching do this to save the --- which I like. Less defeat the evil win storytelling. I'll admit thou I'm not big on nitpicks and the stuff that takes others out of a story, like lack of an explanation for the boy surviving don't bother me as I can assume from clues they have had this occur before, and the creature keeps them alive etc. To be fair people also love to state joe reviews are near flawless with great call-outs for issues when it's just his opinion as he says and in actuality he gave great stuff with universal praise bad scores because he just wasn't in the mood (stranger things season 4) and wanted the plot faster or didn't like binging so much material. Which can be hard.

[@anthonymoreno894]

While I preferred seeing Bo kick dino butt on her own right away, instead of babies they could have wrote that the nest had eggs about to hatch and the boy was living food for hatch day, stuck in a nest on the top of the spire. That would have bought them the narrative time for the war party. Hatching birds could have been used to crank up the tension during a battle with mama dino.

[@TrevorH89]

They kind of already did that with the spider thing in season 1 though. They could have just set up the whole hunting party led by Bo from the beginning as the kids first hunting trip. Then have the kid get caught on the hunting trip so they are saving him right away and they still get the whole hunting party bonding moment they wanted.

[@CHIEF__]

@@TrevorH89 Literally both of these are more well-written and should've been called out in the early script writing phase, the way the episode progresses with "and then" story beats is crazy, the Matt and Trey vid talking ab story really let me see when shows do it poorly

[@politerudeboi6898]

kid shoulda got eaten to show the mandos fail have a sad moment with the heavy to convey a dark emotional scene.

[@anthonymoreno894]

@@politerudeboi6898 oooh I can get on board with that. Alternatively, kid looses an arm, the dad cauterizes the wound with his blowtorch weapon, the armorer makes for him a cool multifunctional prosthetic arm.

[@anthonymoreno894]

@@TrevorH89 I forgot about the spider episode. Your idea is way WAY better anyway. I love the idea of the kid’s first hunting party. Damn I am disappointed by Episode 4 even more now!

[@ric0h777]

"If we tuck in under this outcropping, and sleep *out of line of sight* ." ~Then proceeds to light a camp fire. 🤣

[@willbeard4835]

Line of sight

[@Marsh_125]

I thought this😂 so stupid

[@MedalionDS9]

bwahaha... I love how they think they are answering nitpicking fan concerns but still set themselves up for more idiocy

[@TentaclePentacle]

a fire which only the leader gets to use while eating. I wonder what happens if someone finishes eating faster than her and comes back while she is still eating.

[@seb2750]

And did you notice when the mama dino came back to the nest, she can sniff out the big boy Mando? It has a good sense of smell, if mama dino was at the nest at night, it would smell their fire under her nest and gank the lot of them in the dark. Which leads to my next question, where was mama dino at night? Taking the Mando kid for a sight seeing moonlight tour of Kong Island???

[@joshuachristofferson9227]

This episode of Angry Joe is twice as long as the Mandalorian episode itself.

[@Monkeyman-qt1sm]

it just feels like we lost all stakes. we went from a long journey to get grogu home, not knowing if we would ever see him again to the space cowboy and little green guy show.

[@relytx5836]

As a stand-alone episode I don’t mind it but knowing that we are now halfway through the season wtf

[@k--music]

Halfway through and the season doesn’t have any semblance of a main story yet lol, unless it’s truly just going to be about bo katan trying to go pick up a dinosaur

[@liaiouihhui]

I just hate how contrived and stupid everything has become.

[@a_waff1es_0pinion76]

@@k--music there is no way people are this stupid, the main story and the focus of season three is on the Mandalorian you idiot it’s also setting up the future

[@a_waff1es_0pinion76]

@@liaiouihhui y’all can’t be that stupid

[@a.d8509]

Season 1 and 2 were literally the exact same, nothing really happened until the last episode of each season.

[@mindsculpting]

Yeah, I didn't even care about the kid. They built zero attachment. They can do better than this. Common.

[@justinnyugen7015]

“If we make any noise, the kid will die”. The whole time I thought why isn’t he dead already?? He was lucky not to be crushed by the claws, hurt by the bite, not partially digested on his unarmored parts. Also they somehow make it to the nest before mama dragon does, despite having Bo pursue the creature by ship, go back to presumably pick up the stranded mandos who ran out of jet fuel, have that war meeting, manually climb up the nest…in all that time, wtf was that dragon doing? It outran their jet packs ffs Also the Mandalorians are supposed to be in hiding, but gathering on the beach to unload their blasters is sure to attract unwanted attention. Din found them. The local wildlife finds them. The empire is sure to find them for this stupid reason too

[@justinnyugen7015]

@Big Jatt the problem is that the using your brain is sometimes allowed for other episodes of the same show

[@lkupiec1978]

Let's not make any noise by not taking this heavy blaster with us. What's that? Oh...

[@redliondeaddeer]

​@Big Jatt There's a limit to suspending one's disbelief. This is well over that absurdity line.

[@CragScrambler]

@@justinnyugen7015 Not really, it's a kids show after all.

[@MegaParrotMan]

Maybe it was keeping the kid alive as fresh food for the chicks when they needed it.

[@Tadicuslegion78]

This whole episode I watched it going, I wonder if Bo Katan think's she's surrounded by idiots. But Ahmed Best getting a chance to shine was badass

[@lightdarksoul2097]

I think Bo does which is why she went to the ship instead of flying

[@LizardSpork]

"Guys, you don't have to walk off into the darkness to eat alone, you could just... you know... turn your backs against each other?" 😆

[@lightdarksoul2097]

@@LizardSpork it has to do with the fire too only the leader of the job gets the warmth. Mandalorians make things hard on themselves on purpose. Why else stay on a planet that is actively trying to kill you

[@xTomWolfx]

Me-sah thought he was terrrible jedi. Me-sah no like-ah. 😂

[@CHIEF_420]

🧂

[@denlo9009]

turns out bill burr was carrying the series the whole time, give us more billy red face!!!

[@jfkr77]

The writing needs to come back like season 1

[@foxskyful]

Its same writing as s1 and 2

[@issahumps]

@@foxskyfulyikes, makes it feel like corporate interference probably took hold 😬

[@doppelgaenger_]

Don't let anyone tell you that you are hypercritical. You are absolutely right. This season lacks direction, budget (I refer to the lenght of the episodes, not the CGI or production value) and focus on advancing Din's character who, by the way Disney, IS THE PROTAGONIST. Throughout this entire season (even more than S1 and S2) they have been in charge of making him seem weak and secondary when he should be evolving to be the leader the mandalorian people need. I'm so sick of this shit every time with every beloved character

[@MrVashsword]

two things can be true

[@rolandomartinez4502]

I trully agree but i think showing other mandalorians is also cool. Now they all looking like idiots is sad and pathetic. Still is called the mandalorian, not the mandalorians. Din kinda gets the boba treatment this season.

[@CHIEF_420]

🧂🧂

[@lethalexponent6]

Nah man the budget seems way bigger

[@Priceluked]

You think they're going to make Din Mandalore? They're already setting up Bo Katan to take over as the leader even though she's a former terrorist lol. They started doing a face turn on Bo Katan ever since Rebels and Clone Wars Season 7. Never made sense to me at all.

[@arthurdaly3497]

"No blasters" because you might shoot the tiny kid and miss the 50 metre long dragon which is going to store the kid alive in it's mouth for 3 days, i.e. so the episode can happen.

[@jordanstewart7300]

How do you take like 2 years to make a series and we don’t at least get 45 min episodes on average…

[@fred7796]

The money went into their pockets.

[@MedalionDS9]

because they have so many other shows to make, not just Mando... budget cutbacks, and corporate interference

[@TheMelancholicWriter]

Disney+ need to make proper length episodes or just give up. Like I’m not paying my monthly sub fee for episodes of the same length as a sitcom. Filoni is not making an animated show but is stuck in that mindset.

[@DillsyYourDaddy67]

@@MedalionDS9 mate it’s Disney we’re talking about not a KZbin indie production. They wipe their ass with billions. Cut backs and other shows to make are no excuse

[@MedalionDS9]

@@DillsyYourDaddy67 There are people who struggle to run one successful show over multipe seasons, let alone multiple shows across multiple seasons, with unpredictable project and budget stripping or cancellation... Disney is very volatile since the Pandemic, as is everybody else... they are not above it all even with 'wipinig their asses with billions'... those billions don't all go to Favreau and Filoni... they also invest in other things, other projects... think.

[@jameslikesit]

I thought it was comical that the kid was just regurgitated by the monster with no harm lol. Like...was he just chilling in there? Was he kept somewhere else and just happened to be brought in at that time? Also, how the fuck did they get the baby birds in that ship lol. I'm really noticing more weird stuff in these episodes that are kinda interesting/funny at first, but the more you think about it...the more questionable it becomes.

[@georgehancock652]

I mean birds have a crop that they store food in. But as a biologist I laughed my ass off during that scene as the kid would have been either ripped up and fed to them right away or so bashed up and broken from being compacted and crushed. Also eating mandalorians is silly. They wouldn’t know how to get the armour off and likely would struggle with digestion. Taking one once is fine, but multiple times seems silly.

[@TheBucketHatBlink]

The mandos said don't shoot lasers at the dinosaur, otherwise it'll kill the foundling like it's done before. Okay, let's just shoot all these wires at the dinosaur instead. Don't worry, the bird won't squeeze the kid to death in its claws. Only if it's lasers

[@SeanKiernan420]

Alex’s whole demeanour basically sums up how Star Wars fans feel rn about the franchise

[@angelosue6044]

well when they keep cutting you off

[@mitchvechart7164]

To be fair I don’t think Alex likes ANYTHING lol

[@roberthesser6402]

@@mitchvechart7164 He likes Andor and House of the Dragon. He just has standards.

[@liaiouihhui]

@@roberthesser6402 I swear if they fuck up Andor S2 I AM DONE

[@jackboy2413]

@@roberthesser6402 he hated house of the dragon until the internet bullied him 😂

[@vendettarules1]

I think its funny that the best Mando episodes of this season have been in the Book of Boba Fett :D ...Also with all the CGI in this episode did they just decide to toss a Grogu puppet into the air for that scene where he jumped over the kid??

[@akmal94ibrahim]

This season feels like the Boba Fett writers are in charge of it.

[@Alex-zg5ql]

@@akmal94ibrahim John and Dave wrote boba Fett lol

[@izilladkilla]

​@@Alex-zg5ql Jon Favreau wrote The Book of Boba Fett, Dave Filoni only co-wrote for Episode 6.

[@WeMissDimebag]

I don't understand why they chose to have him jump around in that scene, it looks terrible every time he does it. Just have him force push the kid into the lake or something. Or do some really gnarly shit and have him choke the kid, or force crush the darts appartus, or mindtrick him, or levitate him up and then shoot him, or catch the darts Kylo Ren style. There's so many options and they chose the worst one.

[@Chris-vz7en]

Something else that bugs me about the Mandalorians is how cosplay-ish they all look. Some of them have pretty cool, distressed looking armor(befitting their status as rugged, mercenary types) but underneath their clothing looks brand new and clean. I thought they were roughing it out in the desert on that planet. It also seems rather goofy that they're getting chomped by a water monster by the shore as they're...doin' stuff. It makes them look pretty incompetent.

[@tylerman39]

Its cuz they are cosplayers.

[@ProjectMathesar]

I love a good character building episode and training arc, but overall I'm underwhelmed by the pacing of the season. It's all a bridge to nowhere right now.

[@f1jones544]

At 26 minutes, the training arc is a glorified montage.

[@liaiouihhui]

The stupidity of the writing and the characters also doesn't help :/

[@Mark70775]

And the characters haven’t even developed really. I have no idea what the hell anyone’s motivations really are. Din vaguely wants to be a mandalorian again but now that’s done. Also who actually wants to see grogu as a mandalorian. I don’t see anyone even questioning why they are following this plot point it’s so random. The kid just looks goofy with the little armour on why does anyone enjoy this?

[@foxskyful]

Funny, they doing same thing nothing changed from s1 and 2

[@adriandenton6637]

It's been turned into Disney Junior streaming fodder so character development won't be a big consideration.

[@Belloc_The_Hallow]

Love the honesty joe. This season is mid at best

[@liaiouihhui]

Unfortunately yes :/

[@rhysdreamsbig5802]

I literally have no idea what’s happening this season hahahaha

[@a_waff1es_0pinion76]

If this season is mid then so are the others because this season is exactly like the others y’all are hypocrites

[@helpy8973]

@@a_waff1es_0pinion76 Yes we're sure everything is the same quality to you lmao

[@a_waff1es_0pinion76]

@@helpy8973 it’s literally is, Back when season two came out so many people complain that the first three eps were filler and bad, so many people complain about season two but know people consider it amazing now y’all are Hypocrites

[@jonathaneby9485]

Never stop being brutally honest Joe! I completely agree with what y'all were saying. I was thinking the same things while I was watching. This is by far the worst season of the Mandalorian so far.

[@ethanwasme4307]

LOL it takes him so long to feel comfortable with his takes... like have you not seen alex and oj grumpy faced while Joe is all shoot? 😂😂😂

[@LizardSpork]

I'm starting to think "This is the Way" is just their way of saying "Sure, whatever". "You saved my son!" "This is the Way" "I saw a Mythosaur!" "This is the Way" "I got you a Coke cos they're out of Pepsi" "This is the Way"

[@rhysjarrand5112]

Oh, how I love this. I am gonna start doing to that.

[@Hanoua2]

Shit man, that borito came out like burning lava! "This is the way"

[@nicolas.grisanti]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣i peed myself! "This is the way"

[@timmynoir]

It still feels like a Saturday morning cartoon.

[@DaDude2011]

Yoooo! That’s what I said! Haha

[@SCOTTEDM]

☝️Perfect! 😆

[@bbnykis]

Isn't the saturday morning cartoon team (F&F) making it?

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

That's an insult to Saturday morning cartoons.

[@ESO_PRIME]

I HAVE THE POWER!🔥

[@FreshMahogany]

I am soooo happy the actor of jar jar got to be in order 66 as a Jedi. That part was good- the rest was pretty rough.

[@awesomehpt8938]

Season 1 plot: keep baby Yoda safe from the empire. Season 2 plot: take baby yoda to the Jedi so that he can be safe and be trained Season 3 plot: ?????

[@sergiovardanyan4285]

you seriously learn the plot within like the first two episodes. Still don’t know what the plot is of season 3

[@OneColdMonkey]

I'm with you guys all the way on this one. I liked how they weren't supposed to use any weapons because they didn't want the bird to kill the kid, but the heavy gunner Mandalorian hauled that giant-ass gun up the mountain on his back anyway. And what if someone came back to the campfire early and Bo Katan wasn't finished eating yet! Eating by the fire is an awful idea!

[@AndreNitroX]

Exactly also I noticed they don’t hunt the monsters, the monsters provoke them first. Is there am animal rights thing going on here or something. We can’t just show the mandos going on a hunt to kill for sport like in the Lore

[@Eriodas]

They can announce themselfs before getting into visual contact of course, they have their customs like that for a long time and they have brains.

[@hamhockbeans]

​@@AndreNitroX We as fans wonder these kind of things the writers always leave these kind of things unanswered.

[@AndreNitroX]

@@hamhockbeans yes if we didnt care, we wouldnt be asking said questions

[@ethansmith715]

When you mentioned this series only has 8 episodes made me instantly change my mind and I agree this is't looking too good.

[@evlofenn]

"lets shoot another scene yeah?" "nah-lunch in 26 minutes" "This is the way"....

[@Morrison64]

I guess patience is not your virtue

[@daveruby2854]

😂😂😂😂

[@ianhays2256]

I agree with everything that you said in your review and the one thing that you didn't bring up was when Grogu was escaping, how did they have a Nabu ship ready for Grogu to get off the planet? The reason why Order 66 was successful was because it was out of the blue and caught the Jedi off guard. There is no way they could have a ship ready for this.

[@jmp11393]

Also thought that was weird. Padme was still in the dark about what was actually going on while sitting in her apartment. Why would some of her security forces be ready to get a youngling offplanet while the Temple is still being besieged? That part just didn't make sense

[@JonnyTobinMusic]

Bail Organa could have sent it. Remember he went to the temple and saw what happened and then left. He could have easily got his own personal security detail and enacted an emergency plan

[@shauntempley9757]

@@JonnyTobinMusic Bail was shown showing up at the temple with no knowledge of it, and he showed up towards the end, when the last few padawans were getting killed, and Anakin had left a fair amount of time before he showed up. Grogu was rescued near the beginning of the attack, while Anakin was moving through the temple. The only character that could have a Nabu ship waiting, and thus would have known what was going on, would be Jar Jar Binks.

[@offineut2270]

@@shauntempley9757 funnily enough, the guy that saved grogu was jar jar's actor

[@jak0995]

it begs the qurston why anakin wasted time killing the younglins when clone squads were taking out 5-6 jedi. surely a clone squad would have mopped up the younglins

[@globalklaus]

"Have you ever removed your helmet?" "Every goddamn time I eat"

[@liaiouihhui]

I laughed so hard during the scene where the Mandalorians were shooting toward nothing in the direction lake where that crocodile monster lives, it was hilariously stupid.

[@chadmercer3995]

Haha me too Dumb ways to die

[@SombraCheeks]

me too XD

[@jameslikesit]

They couldn't even take the time to set up some targets or something lol. That whole scene felt off and cheap to me.

[@liaiouihhui]

@@jameslikesit This whole season has felt a lot cheaper compared to the first two, it feels like BOBF.

[@trexdrew]

I literally said “wait wtf are you doing?! Do you want another crocodile dragon?!”

[@pablopablo3834]

I think Grogu became so popular with kids that the show became more directed at kids and has steadily got worse. Unlike Andor which is why its so damn good.

[@luckymark571]

Andor flopped lol

[@Daniel-Star]

The episode could have been easily improved if they had proactively hunted the monster. You have more time to build up Bo and have her interact with big mando, his kid and Din. You can even have the kid grabbed right at the end of the hunt and have a short race to get him. And 20 more minutes of episode would have helped too.

[@filmonewaldeabsebhat]

This whole season feels like an AI generated script

[@fuckoffyou]

AI Filoni

[@Lima_Lima_Lima]

This

[@ZeroB4NG]

That would be the most hardcore troll Favreau could pull.

[@Eggplantman21]

Thank you for making your review longer than the episode.

[@BG_Wingzz]

I have to agree with you guys. This episode isn’t bad per se but it’s just not that good either. I hate the lack of informative dialogue in this show. It feels like characters only talk if they need to drop exposition most of the time. I have been noticing a lot of the ‘reactors’ I like are just so happy and content with everything. They never criticize or bring up any faults. They’re a bunch of shills and idk how ppl can defend this season with how aimless and inconsequential everything has been.

[@ewaldus]

The distances they can fly with their jetpacks is all over the place... Convenient for the plot...

[@TheMelancholicWriter]

Remember when Paz flew alongside Din’s ship in season 1? Because Filoni and Favreau don’t…🤨

[@quincybriley4113]

When I saw the run time. And then the bizarre shit happening during the episode, I knew Joe and the crew were going to hate the episode.

[@donkeydefense]

This season just doesn’t know what it’s doing. It’s treading water. Book of Boba basically undid season 2 and now they don’t know what to do.

[@alloutpotato7939]

At this point I am WAY more excited to see Bad Batch every week. That show has been doing pretty good

[@kriscarroll3281]

Eh. I think Bad Batch fell off this season too. It's like both shows ran out of any form of direction for their story. Single episodes that are the "story of the week" are great, but a prevailing plot that everything is headed to is needed to keep me engaged.

[@CHIEF__]

@@kriscarroll3281 The Last Airbender provides us a master class to use as a template for those kinds of shows. 8 episode seasons don't have the pleasure of short standalone episodes but 12-16+ ep seasons need to balance plot and pacing. This episode was a waste for an 8-ep season

[@Grantjohnmorton]

Would I need to see Clone Wars before the Bad Batch or is it new comer friendly?

[@luqmansabree8160]

@@Grantjohnmorton no you don’t have to but their are cameos that’s about it

[@willistan3562]

@@Grantjohnmorton Prior watching is strongly advised. You don't need to watch ALL of Clone Wars. Just the final season to get expo on the Bad Batch (but I recommend watching season 4 onwards if you got time, as that's when it starts picking up in quality)

[@applecrow8]

I was very dissapointed when the episode didn't have the kid's helmet lost and Mando saying he would take the kid to the waters and Bo-Katan goes along to resolve the Mythosaur plot point.

[@Yuki_Francisco]

that would’ve redeemed this episode what the hell are they doing right now!!

[@Sparker408]

Is it just me, or do all the men appear weaker to their female counter parts?

[@dannycorella5887]

How did the three baby monsters fit in bo's ship🤯

[@MedalionDS9]

Exactly my question... with all the other Mandalorians and Bo in the ship... they were ass to ankles in there

[@maverickbragwell]

Bro who is writing this season.?🤣

[@DvineCupcake]

Bo’s ship is actually bigger than it looks. Its a fighter/transport ship with a chargo bay underneath the helm, enough to fit 24 people.

[@OnyxiaHouse]

They must have brought in the writers of the Boba series with how the writing has been going. Bo-Katan is starting to remind me of Fennec, a cool female character that just becomes the problem-solving god for everyone to look up to, while the rest of the cast are bumbling around. Yes, I want her to be capable, but not at the cost of the rest of the cast sharing a single brain cell between them.

[@TheSpongyMallard]

Bo-Katan was in The Clone Wars TV show. She has way more experience than Mando does. She was fighting while Mando was just starting to learn.

[@luckymark571]

Well she is the most expierenced Mandalorian in combat, far more than Mando

[@wackyswacky1374]

I think Jon Favreau shouldn't write anymore episodes after this season. He's not good. The writing is contrived and amateur. The stuff Favreau writes is Bob the Build levels of simplistic. The production team are AAA superstars, but the writers are like elementary schoolers doing their first script.

[@2015shamrocks]

Seeing Coruscant was great, but there were a many instances where you could obviously tell it was filmed in the Volume. Also, what's up with some of the Mandalorians' armor? Some of them look less like armor, and more like costumes from Walmart.

[@MisterCasket]

The one from that kid looks like cardboard!

[@Myspiritualrhythm]

What's wrong with buying set costumes from Wally's world? After All Disney isn't much different than Walmart. They both sell cheap things for kids, neither of them have anything of high-quality, and strangely enough Amazon tried to take both of them on and is still doing so, 😂 lastly both will contribute to large amounts of weight gain unfortunately 😮

[@luckymark571]

Cause Mando is the only one with full beskar armor, the rest are mixed metals with Beskar so not as shiny

[@jhtv4810]

This has to be the best and most honest review of The Mandalorian I’ve seen. All the other KZbinrs are glossing over the fact this show is just awful now. Go watch the first episode what an amazing difference. Such a shame. Well done guys great review!

[@Auxzide]

It's unfortunate that you cant enjoy it. Im Enjoying it greatly and love it. Lol sucks to be you.

[@zachrobinson6801]

@@Auxzide They said the same thing about Andor they just can’t be happy. I agree the episode was way too short though.

[@juniorkareem2739]

@@Auxzidefan boy

[@andythai8676]

@@Auxzide your response is as lousy as your skating and gaming skills 😂

[@iwantgoals1566]

This is why Disney continue to push crappy agendas, give crappy writers jobs and delay films. They know they could put any garbage out their and SW fans will just eat it up. You can't compare this to LOTR fanbase when ROP came out. SW is infested with toxicly positive fans who would allow Kathlene Kennidy to sht on their face and still celebrate.

[@billbob4856]

This review is longer than the episode lol And this one is spot on. This felt like a power rangers episode at points

[@jaredbezes7806]

I totally agree with you about the training. What type of training requires you to shoot at absolutely NOTHING towards water? Like why? How is that going to get you better at shooting? WHAT ARE YOU SHOOTING AT? I was dumbfounded when I was watching that. This episode was so frustrating

[@davidkymdell452]

How else you gonna learn to pull a trigger bro?

[@frantictoast3741]

@@davidkymdell452 they're Mando's. They know how to pull a trigger.

[@davidkymdell452]

@@frantictoast3741 whoosh

[@frantictoast3741]

@@davidkymdell452 /woosh back

[@griswoldclark6835]

They should have explained their testing new guns, rockets etc, problem instantly solved.

[@sergiovardanyan4285]

with the first two seasons, we learned the plot line for the season within like the first two episodes. Still don’t know what the plot is of season 3

[@Haegemon]

The whole show is about mandalorians, and we got mandalorians.

[@jazz115]

@@Haegemon the show is about Din Djarin, not the mandalorians plural, who has been sidelined to make room for background characters

[@rhymenoceros3303]

@@jazz115 Title of the show is the Mandalorian. So yes it is about them plural.

[@anthonyplanzo1082]

Yes we do. There is no plot

[@jazz115]

@@rhymenoceros3303 you literally just displayed that it isn’t

[@Wally480]

I'm sorry, but the scene when they explain how they eat just broke my brain. Split everyone up far enough to be completely isolated before removing their helmet and exposing their head? That's brilliant! How could such an advanced culture as this practically get wiped out? I'm confused here 🤣

[@johnlungo8080]

I laughed out loud at that scene.

[@yerebean9141]

I don't know if someone explained this but I have to ask. Yoda was 900 years old by the end of Return of the Jedi but as he says in empire strikes back he trained jedi for 800 years so he was 100 when he started teaching. Will Grogu develop in the next 50 years to reach adulthood even though he is still a child at 50?

[@wraithflaire1639]

Rising through the ranks of Jedi isn't determined by age but Passing the appropriate trials. All we know is that by his hundredth year of life he was a Jedi Knight. For all we know he became a Jedi Knight by his species equivalent to a 10-year-old.

[@DillsyYourDaddy67]

@@wraithflaire1639 the point is more so that Grogu is a literal infant in this show. He’s a toddler that cannot even speak yet. We could assume he’s the equivalent of a human 1/2 year old. He’s 50 years old in his species. Yoda was teaching at 100 years old. Which means he at least had the mental and physical ability to teach and train Jedi knights. Are you beginning to see the problem?

[@wraithflaire1639]

@@DillsyYourDaddy67 The force can compensate for lack of physical development. And mental development is not as uniform as people making it out to be. I get the impression that Yoda was a prodigy for his species. Grogu could be anywhere from average in his development or slow for all we know.

[@micky6j]

@@wraithflaire1639 Grogu has showed us force healing, force lifting tons of weight and claming a rancor, all very high force powers yet he can not talk. i get the impression the writers are bad imo and just have Grogu not talk to look cute yet somehow he has been trained by jedi masters for 50 years.

[@luckymark571]

@@DillsyYourDaddy67 the problem is that, Yoda obviously didn't have to deal with Order 66 and there was no Jedi to train him until Mando found him and evantually took him to Luke

[@protegemusic09]

That "weesa gonna die" bit had me rollin 😂😂😂

[@joshua4859]

Compared to season 1 and 2, this season has been so lackluster. The episodes are boring, extremely predictable and focus too much Bo Katan. Typical Disney direction.

[@bradh1810]

TBF, Bo Katan is one of the better characters this season

[@dwaynecuster]

A two year old wrote this episode. Why would that creature wait to kill its prey? Why would Bo tell the kid to grab her hand when she was 15 feet away, in the air? Why would they rest under a ledge all night knowing the kid was probably dead already? Why would these people live on a planet where every second they can be eaten by something? Why does anyone think that Grogu is even remotely interesting at this point? He sits around with crap in his diapers and does a few flips now and then. Why is everyone on the shore "training" where a Godzilla sized crocodile just tried to eat them all a few episodes ago? The Mandalorians look like cosplayers going to the next SDCC. And now they can scale the sides of mountains like professional athletes? And they can take their helmets off when there are no other people around? Which is it? Never remove the helmet? Or remove it when you need to eat and go to the bathroom? "Mesa thinkin this is a badden idea." I miss Jar Jar Binks. At least he was interesting.

[@achaudhari101]

I think your brain cells are two years old.

[@dantheman36]

Spitting facts

[@ILUVWEBJUNK]

Thank you!!!

[@emberparadox458]

This season is really shaping up to be a "finds themselves/remebers themselves" kind of season for the primary characters involved. Din has redeemed himself as a Mandalorian and is "passing on" his traditions to Grogu and Bo. Grogu, for his part, is finding himself while also remembering more of his past that brought him to this point. Bo Katan is sort of coming back from the brink of having lost her entire clan and people, and then finding and connecting with the sect that she always looked upon with such derision, and in turn finding the Mandalorian in herself again in their traditions. The scientist and former Imperial officer who betrayed him (I'm not convinced she killed him in that episode, but maybe "programed" the Imperial back into him, we'll see) I really don't know where that's going other than maybe setting up some kind of big bad for the season. But Joe is right, there really isn't so much of a throughline for this season and the severely shortened episodes definitely aren't helping things. I have no idea where they're going with this season but I have a bad feeling the combination of no overarching story and very short episode runtimes is going to make the ending of it feel very lackluster and underwhelming.

[@TheMelancholicWriter]

The “finds themselves” theme is working for Bo and Grogu, but not Din. His baptism didn’t actually change him in any way. His loyalty and faith weren’t tested. Now he’s just a background character with no purpose or struggles.

[@DanielSanLifts]

Not to be an ass but it’s Bo Katan.

[@debbee0867]

@@TheMelancholicWriter Even Din's redemption was overshadowed to make Bo look good and Din look weak. As a huge Din fan, I'm finding it really frustrating seeing him portrayed like this, but dare say it elsewhere and you're called toxic. I don't mind seeing character development of other characters but not to the detriment of the main character for the majority of episodes. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed the season, but I don't want to see the main character side-lined. The show is 'THE Mandalorian' , whom Jon F has said multiple times is Pedro. I'm hoping they turn it around for the rest of the season, maybe a twist which brings Din back into play.

[@emberparadox458]

@@DanielSanLifts oh hell you're absolutely right, fixed. Thanks.

[@adriandenton6637]

@@debbee0867 It's the 'Mumdelorian' get it right.

[@blackpoolsean]

When I finished the episode I instantly thought my 4 year old son would like this episode 😂

[@AndreNitroX]

I was so angry at the runtime, they gave Doctor nobody 50 minutes, but the mandalorians get only 30!!??? The mandalorian stuff is what I’m here for.

[@manoz6194]

Inconsistent run times, spotlight on characters no one gives a shit about, showing on D+ at 3am. What are they doing?

[@AndreNitroX]

@@manoz6194 i have a bad feeling about all of this

[@Brichris828]

I completely agree with you guys. I love the first and second season. This season has been slacking hard. It feels like they just smashing it through the money machine 😢

[@iamBlackGambit]

Right? There's no end goal no mission, no since of direction, even Mando getting his old Droid back "though a stupid mission" would still be some type of direction🤷🏾‍♂️

[@747lch]

The writing, the dialogue, the editing, the CGI, the general direction or lack thereof. This was so bad

[@grimeytimmango351]

My favorite part about the reviews is that they are longer than the actual episode

[@jtrggrhappyf2669]

When they gave bo Katan the credit for saving the kid when they made a point of showing that it was dinn who directly saved him I knew this show didn’t belong to our boy anymore 😢

[@maverickbragwell]

I’m actually concerned about what has happened since last season. How has the quality dropped to worse than got season 8.

[@zaab-yaoh9302]

She lead the mission. It was her planning that got them there. Dinn just blasted off after it with the other mandos and ran out of fuel. That was their plan.

[@freddied8479]

I've seen people defend that... "well the show is called The Mandalorian, not Din... so it could be anyone. " She's taking over the show, and I don't like it. Her fans love it though

[@zaab-yaoh9302]

@@freddied8479 yes, we do. We've been Bo fans years longer than Dinn fans.

[@freddied8479]

@@zaab-yaoh9302 Well I'm not watching The Mandalorian for Bo. Most people aren't

[@roadcyclist1]

This show has gotten so Rated G that they cant even leave the stupid baby birds behind or kill them. No, they have to save them and raise them. This is like a Saturday morning cartoon for 5 year olds with no intellect. There is no threat of any characters dying...I have zero sense of dread or drama in any of these episodes.

[@disasterpiece5972]

Mandalorians went from being proficient warriors in the first season to being increasingly incompetent. So incompetent that I wouldn't be surprised if Din Djarin drops the dark sabre through his foot in the next episode and has to sit the rest of this season out.

[@Luupopi]

I loved this House of the dragon episode!! 10/10

[@generationfallout5189]

I always appreciate honest opinions. Thanks for your review. When the episode ended and i was sitting there thinking to myself what the heck was that! I knew my next stop was your review. Awesome characters, awesome visuals, terrible writing. Seriously do they sabotage this stuff on purpose. Seems like the writers are trying to punish us.

[@akmal94ibrahim]

It's like the Book of Boba Fett writers have taken over

[@GM-xk1nw]

Do the Mandalorians have night vision? why did they wait until the day to save the kid + why everyone is training in the same area, that could have been a really cool montage.

[@TentaclePentacle]

they needed a reason to explain how they eat lol

[@lolcats987654321]

Currently rewatching Andor, the writing difference is STAGGERING

[@rennmaxbeta]

Andor was boring, but at least there was more story.

[@cyberius6]

Most people just want explosions, don't care about the story. They've got 1minute attention span anyway, so stupid shit as this is perfect for them lol

[@TheNewFlutist]

​@@rennmaxbeta I'm getting bored from Mando now too. There are different kinds of boring

[@ajesco]

​​@@rennmaxbeta Agree to disagree, but Andor is the most compelling show I've seen come out in recent years. LEAGUES above the story-writing of Mando, I agree with you.

[@zaab-yaoh9302]

Pacing was too slow. And the somewhat suspenseful moments gave low payouts for all the build up

[@cuyospartan02]

The biggest problem for me is that if that kid was Paz’s son, where the fuck was he all this time? And why is he on the first half of the episode talking about him if he was just a random kid instead of his own son? Almost as if making that kid his son was a last minute decision

[@FroBoy696]

I think that the episode should have been adding more to the idea of the Mandolrians getting together and pulling other groups together to get Mandor back on track. Bo Katan mentioning the mythosaur at the end of the episode made me think that maybe there should have been talks/discussions over the myths and legends surrounding it, maybe hint that it has a part to play this season? Given that the main plot teased was all about going to Mandor as a main point, made me assume that there was going to be focus this season with Din, Bo-Katan, and the Armorer possibly having a reason to esclate things to get the planet rebuilt to some extent despite the limitations (the planet IS fucked so there's only so much they can do) and maybe have the season with them dealing with the Empire getting back at them and possibly other Mando groups giving them trouble. Maybe that will happen (at least the Empire and going to Mandor with a larger group) abut for 4 episodes left I am naturally concern but hold some optimism.

[@Canseeyt]

100% agree. I feel like there’s lack of direction compared to the other seasons

[@a_waff1es_0pinion76]

I’m sorry are we going to forget that the first season had NO STORY until the final eps, y’all are hypocrites

[@TanThighsYum]

Jon Favreau literally openly admitted he had no direction for this series.

[@a_waff1es_0pinion76]

@@TanThighsYum I think people forgot what the show is, let me introduce you to a lovely word it’s called anthology, people seem to forget that the Mandalorian is an anthology series and people complain that it’s a anthology series, my mind genuinely hurts

[@BubbleChicken3350]

@@a_waff1es_0pinion76 you need to read up on anthology, anthology is a grouping of different stories with a similar genre but unconnected. Some anthologies also have widely different genres and themes. This is not an anthology.

[@TanThighsYum]

@@a_waff1es_0pinion76 So that excuses horrible lazy writing, lack of direction on all levels, trash CGI, trash stage craft, characters that are just plain stupid, Etc...? I'm not even mentioning the low duration time for these episodes either. Andor is how you make a good show, not this garbage, Obi Wan, and Boba Fett. People really lowered their standards the last few years. Don't even try to include me on thinking Season 1 was good, only Season 2 was decent because of so much "decent" action.

[@LitEntertainz]

I still don’t understand why !!!! din jarin does NOT wield the dark saber at all !!! He has one of the strongest weapons but decides to use a pocket knife 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@madphantom92]

It feels like Jon Favreau is tired of writing Star Wars.

[@rennmaxbeta]

Show desperately needs different, stronger writers