Boring. Maybe Filoni isn't the answer everyone thinks.
Ohhhhh a space fight. Me likey!!
Dang mando ain’t doing so hot!!!
Did this mofo just use Mando’s line?? Haaaaa no sooner did I finish that thought did mando say that’s my line. love it!!!!
Oh boy something tells me baby yoda isn’t going to stay put. Haaaa
Lol back to no droids!!
And there goes baby yoda doing what baby yoda does!! :smile:hahha
Haha even this Peli chick gone all soft when seeing the little guy.
Yay Tatooine!! How cool!!!
Who this cocky cat name toro!! Finally Ming-Na is here!!!!!
Lol rookie smart enough to trash the fob. haha if it was anyone else but mando that would of been the thing to do. haha
Awww baby yoda so cute. they do a good job making you like a character real quick. Peli is pretty cool.
The speeder bikes was a fun ride!!!
I really love seeing Ming -na in the Star Wars universe.
This dude is too worried about being f’d over. Makes me wonder what’s his intentions are
And there you have it. He’s shrewd as a mofo!!!
Wow what a waste! That’s all they did with Ming-an?? Sheesh
Looks like I trusted the right one. Something was off with this dude even if this wasn’t premeditated. haha
Peli love her some baby yoda. She is going to miss him!! Haha
As always great art work and music!!!
I'm beginning to think the writing team only had three good episodes in them. Getting predictable and drawn out.
Nothing makes sense in this episode.
Dialogues feel forced. Like the previous episode, everything is shoved just to make the plot moves. Especially terrible every time the rookie has a conversation.
This episode and the previous feel like series of unrelated events. Nothing literally happened in these two episodes. There are some cool throwbacks and references (cantina scene, dune sea, Amy Sedaris blurping Star Wars jargons, etc) but it's all fanservice. It appears the show is directed by people familiar with Star Wars universe but has zero sense of screen writing.
Enjoyable. The space skirmish feels like Star Wars. Then the return to Tatooine and the perfect sets for Mos Eisley. Notice that the droid sensors at the Cantina's door are not present, probably because the new bartenders are droids themselves. Wonderful desert scenes, lots of humor and things here and there to remind you the original trilogy. I like it so far, because this is a laid back episode and Mando made a friend, just as the previous one. I'm sure the last couple of episodes in this season will have a nice pay-off.
Despite the simple and predictable plot structure for this episode, the approach through a Star Wars context makes it compelling and still visually pleasing. It was great to finally see Ming-Na Wen make her appearance in the show, even if for a short one, because she always plays badass roles. And I'm sure more Baby Yoda memes are still to come.
quality get worst and worst every episode. looks like that they start a new plot for the episode and finish it in the same 30 min episode. there is no why he is there, why go there, etc. the same clitche story of bad guy trying to kill mandalorian and get killed since episode 1.
no amount of baby yoda help the terrible writing.
[7.5/10] In Filoni we trust. This is another episode of The Mandalorian that feels like it’s doing Star Wars-ian twists on classic genre stories, but this one works much better. The idea of the seasoned pro taking out the greenhorn to track down the wily black hat is a venerable one. But writer-director Dave Filoni finds ways to make that story interesting and exciting.
For one thing, it’s neat to get to see our first glimpse at what Tatooine looks like post-Return of the Jedi. It’s a lot quieter, and much more of the usual scum and villainy seems to have been driven out in the absence of Jabba the Hutt and other gangsters who used to run the place. So much of The Mandalorian feels like a look at the gray areas between the old regime and the new one, the places where the light of the New Republic doesn't quite shine, and it’s cool to see that same look given to the elemental place where Star Wars started.
But the story works on its own terms. For one thing, it’s cool to see Mando interacting with a mechanic played by none other than Amy Sedaris(!). Her collection of Prequel-era helper droids, her initial impulse to take Mando for all she can in repair costs, and her eventual devotion to helping Baby Yoda make her a winner in her very first episode. Her quick-thinking skills and eventually payoff make her a good ally and foil, and her dynamic with Mand and her droids is good for a laugh.
I also like the actual mission of the episode. It gives us a lot of good texture for post-RotJ Tatooine. Small details like needing to negotiate with the Tusken Raiders (and Mando acknowledging that they’re the “locals”), or running into a dewback help draw in the trappings of A New Hope without recapitulating. The desert setting also allows the show to stretch its legs visually, with some cool shots of Mando and his inexperienced partner racing through the sand on speederbike or charging a desert ridge at night.
The fireworks of the episode stand-up in terms of the mission. The dynamic between Mando and the budding bounty hunter who wants to gain admission to the guild is, again, fairly stock, but works well with the performances (at least Pascal’s -- the kid is a little tepid). The stand-off with a former Hutt assassin is dripping with the cool factor, and as usual, Ming-Na Wen proves to be a badass no matter which Disney property she happens to be inhabiting at the moment. At the same time, the twist -- that she exposes Mando as the bigger target and earns a blaster fire to the guy for her troubles -- is one that works for its side-switching consequences. And the ensuing stand-off between the kid and Mando works well as a rejoinder to a wannabe getting too big for his britches and having the temerity to put Baby Yoda at risk in the process.
Overall, this one doesn't quite have the emotional resonance of some of the show’s earlier episode, but it does the “tidy little adventure” episodic tale much better than last week’s outing did, so I’m counting this one as a win.
AGENT MELINDA MAY!!! It’s always a pleasure to see Ming-Na!!! But she deserves more episodes tho.
This episode was much less interesting than the previous one, and there was also less tension and supense as well as fewer scenes with the baby. The mechanic lady and her friendly droids seemed a likeable characters and I would rather watched her caring for the baby than Mandalorian and the rookie bounty hunter chasing their querry. It is good that Mandalorian dispatched him at the end since the man seems very ruthless and unprincipled as he is quickly convinced by the woman they captured together to betray Mandalorian even though he would not have survived without Mandalorian's help. I only wonder whether he was properly killed off since it often happens in Star Wars that characters that were supposedly killed are not really dead.
What an incredibly uneventful, boring episode. At this point it’s this has nothing going for it. I hope it gets better.
Kill Baby Yoda and the show will become MUCH more watchable.
"The Gunslinger" easily shoots the weakest of the episodes thus far in The Mandalorian; if "Sanctuary" bordered on being filler, "The Gunslinger" truly is. It's another self-contained episode, but the dialogue, pacing, and overall direction on this one feel weak, as if just needing to fill what will already amount to a short season. Just feels like a missed opportunity.
This time around, our gunslinger's taking odd jobs (so, a repeat of last week), but faced with a rather drab and dull companion, one whose acting leaves much to be desired. The speed-bikes make a nice return, although I was rarely crazy about the effects. There are a few homages here and there, as always, but they do little to elevate the actual episode's quality.
The shootouts and overall direction feel weak this time around, with Mando's (are they all called that?) rookie Guild member having questionable character progression, leading to a predictable sequence of events. Even Baby Yoda's presence here is minimal with only three episodes left this season, it draws the question of any major arcs to be built, or just a series of misadventures that will culminate in "come back for season two." There's a lot to explore, universe and theme-wise in the Star Wars pantheon, but it's the same old sand dunes here.
"The Gunslinger" will hopefully go down as the weakest, most midpoint entry into what has been a thoroughly entertaining, if simplistically outlined entry into Star Wars cannon. Here's hoping this is just a step in some quick sand, and not a sharp departure, for the accuracy of this one.
And as predicted in another comment the merchandise is out now (well they will take your money now and get it to you for June 2020!!!) ... guess what is top of the list ... Baby Yoda, yours for £27. Pretty much the only reason they commissioned the show.
Mando takes another job and leaves baby in the care of a stranger with candy in another entertaining filler episode. Last two eps have been good but completely interchangeable. With 3 left in the season I hope they get back to what made the series great.
Good but Not enough baby yoda
What an episode for wonderful Princess Carolyn and Companion Cube. The Newbee was horrible as a character or an actor is hard to say. The rest is starting to look like a sequel to a great video game: "remember that?" moments were to cringy this time around and our playable character apparently can't say no and changes his mind on a dime... couple of scenes would have fix it easily: make him search some more, comeback empty handed and than show seeking newbee Han themselves and also getting dumber how many scenes of leaving small Yoda alone for no goddamn good reason I have to watch?!
To each they own I guess. I for one enjoyed the hell out of the previous one with all my favorite tropes and recycling scenes and alot of people didn't. Oh, well I hope next one would be better.
Looks live Steve and me are the only ones who think it get more and more boring with each episode. Don‘t get me wrong, I love Star Wars and even traveled halfway around the world only to see Galaxy‘s Edge, but this is not what I imagined a Mandalorian-Show would be like.
What I think annoys me pretty much is the family-friendlyness of it all. I‘m guessing it would have been way better, if they took a more gritty approach with inspiration from Daredevil, The Boys or even Tarantino.
Fun, but pointless. C'mon guys we're 5 episodes in and you don't even talk about the main problem? Stop with the fillers, it's season 1 for crying out loud, give us context please. I want to know where Baby Yoda comes from and then you even remove him from the sideplot as well just urgh. At least Amy Sedaris was a fun addition.
For a show that has such a low episode number and run time this seemed like a waste of time. But I will hold my judgement until later because maybe it will make sense in the big picture.
Visually this was again great. Going back to Tatooine, Mos Eisley and the Cantina can be seen either as an homage or fanservice depending on your point of view. I think they overdid it thought with that wannabe bounty hunter sitting in Han's spot. That whole character was a bit on the weak side.
This episode seems to be getting a lot of flack but I genuinely enjoyed it. It takes us back to a familiar setting and introduces a great female character in the form of a hard-working, greedy, yet amusing and sly mechanic. I gave an extra stat just for her; I want to see more of her in the future even if it won't happen.
I don't know why people are saying the battles are uninspired. A couple moves seemed off but it I really liked the lighting and the aesthetic of it all. Was a lot better than the AT-ST episode.
Wow, I loved this episode. Exciting story, cool characters and a familiar setting.
It looks like they took a page from Game of Thrones and made many scenes so dark as to be impossible to see who’s in it and what they’re doing.
I passed all of the Game of Thrones MP4‘s through some editing software and brightened them, and it made them so much more enjoyable, but I’m not going to bother with these.
8/10
Great episode
really enjoyed it
and the pacing was
fantastic. Loved the
repair lady she was so
cool and caring.
I will say Mando doesn't
want to be teaming up
with nobody from the
Guild, he should no better,
That shit won't end well
for him or Baby Yoda.
Mando Rewatch
I remember everyone hated this episode. Dave Filoni's debut as a director. He took on the challenge of stuffing this with as much A New Hope references as possible, and I don't hate him for it. We also get the Boba Fett tease, so I can't hate this episode.
I was willing to wait a few episodes and give this show the benefit of the doubt that the plot would start picking up or make more sense, but in The Gunslinger, Mando goes to Tatooine to repair his ship. A bit-on-the-batty-side repair lady sees the little one walk down the ramp, snatches it up and starts watching after it. Mando returns from meeting another random hunter, asks for the kid back, but the lady keeps talking about the vehicle repairs. And then, after asking for his kid back minutes before, Mando just walks off for the next mission, entrusting the important child with this lady he just met. The rest of the episode sees Mando working with the newbie hunter trying to catch the target in what felt like another paint-by-the-numbers episode. Once the the target, Fennec, is caught, Mando, instead of just tying the prisoner up on one of the bikes and taking her with them, Mando unnecessarily walks off to go try to find the dewback, leaving the seasoned and wily mercenary with the greenhorn. Good idea. :person_facepalming:In a bit of a twist - I'll take anything at this point - old greenhorn shoots Fennec and goes after the wanted Mando himself. His plot doesn't work and he winds up dead, of course, and so, we're pretty much in the same place at the end of the episode as we were at the beginning, except that a mysterious person shows up at Fennec's body right at the end. I don't know, man. The kid's cuteness can't sustain this show any longer. It has to start standing on its own. (I realize I'm writing as if the show is airing now, but like most things that I watch, I'm playing catch-up.)
Ok-ish, but a bit boring storylines this and the previous episodes. And what does this all have to do with trying to discover where this utterly ‘cute’ baby-yoda came from and why they want him so badly? What happened to the real storyline?
Seeing a lot of comments here of people complaining that this episode is just filler, but personally I like the mini adventure-esque nature of the Mandalorian. Just because it's not plot-driven doesn't mean it's not a good episode.
Mando goes to Mos Eisley and teams up with Toro CALICAN for a target named Fennec played by Melinda May and wow this episode was something, good bike rides, fun gub blasts and double crossing and cute baby yoda moments!
Yikes. After four solid-to-fantastic episodes, The Mandalorian has hit a massive brick wall. Some have (justifably and understandably) decried The Rise of Skywalker as the weakest thing to come from the Disney era, and while it's certainly not good, "The Gunslinger" might just top it for being woefully mediocre from start to end. A barrage of pointless fanservicey in-jokes, lack of any meaningful depth, and a guest character so unlikable and poorly acted you'd think he's from the prequels.
Ming-Na Wen and Amy Sedaris carry this thing though, particularly Sedaris. Her comedic side role is genuinely inspired and feels like the only original thing here. Dave Filoni's weaknesses as a live action writer and director are in plain view here too with boring, uninspired action sequences and shoddy pacing. This one is a dud.
The introduction of new characters again seems rushed to me, I don't even remember their names, nor do I care. It's starting to feel like Star Trek - The Original Series with the villain of the week
When did Jerri Blank start working on ships?
I was hoping that Ming-Na Wen’s character would come back… and I guess she is? Huh.
Better than the previous one, but yea, another filler episode that doesn't add a whole lot. It's nice to see Tatooine again, and the various droids and Tusken raiders, and Sedaris was a bit of an amusing surprise. But where's the character development? And give the people what they want: moar baby yoda. Want proof this episode is useless? — notice how the episode order of this one and the previous doesn't even really matter?
Also why does he keep leaving Baby Yoda and his ship unattended? Hasn't he learned his lesson?
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I wonder if they are going to get all the dead/not dead villains like Carl Weathers and Ming-Na Wen to team up and fight Mando.