Justice for Ahmed Best, achieved. Welcome back, Sir.
Very convenient that the animal waited like 3 days to feed its young with the foundling.
[7.5/10] This is a pretty simple story for The Mandalorian, but also a good one. It’s more a series of vignettes than a cohesive episode. Each of the vignettes is good though, so I’m not complaining.
If you want action, you have a giant pterodactyl-like beast snatching up one of the children of the Children of the Watch, forcing our heroes to go after it. Guest director Carl Weathers delivers the fireworks, with a nice aerial skirmish between the mando squad and the winged beast through over mountainous terrain. The sequence in its nest brings some neat creature design with its babies and some unique danger. Bo Katan gets to prove her worth to the Children of the Watch by using her ship to help find the missing child, further ingratiating herself to her new tribe. And Din gets to earn some brownie points with Paz Vizsla, the hulking Mandalorian who’s been a bit of a rival to him since season 1, for saving his son. It’s all a bit tidy, but every part of it serves a purpose.
If you want Grogu stories, “The Foundling” has you covered too. It’s a cute and fairly minor little vignette, but I got a big kick out of Din insisting his son take part in the Watch’s little training matches. Grogu continues to be adorable, and watching him blanche after getting hit with paint darts is very cute. After receiving some encouragement from his dad, his flipping triumph to win the match is quite triumphant. And I was especially touched by Bo-Katan telling him it’s okay, that her dad was proud of her the same way.
But we also get some long-awaited backstory on how Baby Yoda escaped Order 66. It turns out he was rescued by none other than Master Beq, played by Ahmed Best (of Jar Jar Binks infamy), getting a chance to canonize his character from the Jedi Temple Challenge game show and getting a bit of redemption, which is nice to see. There’s not much to these sequences, just a fairly standard escape and rescue routine that longtime fans have seen in everything from the Revenge of the Sith film to the The Clone Wars show to the Jedi: Fallen Order game. But it’s well done, and particularly nice that given Beq’s role on a kid-focused game show, his role her is to save a youngling before it’s too late.
It also develops Grogu just a tad. He gets another piece of beskar armor to help signify his chance to grow into his role with the Mandalorians and follow The Way. But he also has time to reflect on challenges, with the puppy dog eyes and drooped ears that show he’s still struggling with the events that led him to this point.
We get a bit of the same for Bo Katan too. She gets a nice benediction from the Armorer as well, with an armor patch featuring the mythosaur, making up for what she lost finding one of their own, and receiving the same sort of acceptance she struggled to find with her old crew who merely idolized the darksaber. Again, these scenes are simple, but there’s a power in their simplicity.
Overall, this is a more episodic, character-focused outing for The Mandalorian, but I’m all for that. It’s nice to get installments that give us a bit of texture and backstory, so that the major fireworks of the season have real meaning.
It looks good. It is exciting. The kid is cute. It also feels absolutely pointless though. This show never had a strong story, but this episode in particular makes you wonder whether there's a story at all. What does this season want to tell? Is there a goal or objective that Din or the Mandalorians as a whole want to achieve? Or are they just having a good time? (Whatever that means to Mandalorians)
Awful episode. The whole dragon fight does not make any sense. The training grounds are empty and for target practice they shoot the water? No creativity whatsoever. And what is actually the point of this season up till now?
Best episode of the season so far. We finally learn how Grogu escaped the temple on Coruscant. Although I had hoped to see a known Jedi or at least someone who's name has already been mentioned.
The rescue of the Foundling, althought for all intense and purpose just another action sequence, was well done. Grogu gets a breastplate but can anyone imagine him ever wearing a full armor ? I don't think that's ever going to happen. The thing that really is becoming more and more intriguing is Bo Katan's arc this season. I was surprised the Armorer doesn't believe her that she saw a Mythosaurus. She should at least entertain the idea instead of dismissing it outright.
The one thing that is still knagging at the back of my mind is that I still don't see a clear directing where everything is leading. Depending on how you look at it, it could be a good thing as well as a bad one. It works both ways. Lets hope it doesn't become the latter.
that was not one of my predictions at all for who saves Grogu but hell yes Im happy wwith it
Call me weirdo, but this episode made me feel like I was part of that Mandalorian gang. Where's my first armour piece? This is the way.
"Jar Jar Binks, you have rescued this foundling. You have been redeemed."
i loved this.. armorer with grogu, flashbacks to order 66 and dragons.. one of my faves!
Man this is what I call fillerrrrrrr
This is the way. Five.
If the Mandalorians can do four words why can’t Trakt?
This was a good focused episode and comes through with the promise to make this a Mandaloran heavy season. This episode sucked all that is great about Star Wars. It had a DEEP callbacks to the prequels while still staying relevant to the current storyline. But still found a way to please the fans by making the much maligned Jar Jar Binks actor play a Jedi Master who saved Grogu and he was badass. I think thats what some of the best episodes of the show has. Smart callbacks to the past but still an interesting story that stands on its own. I am really loving the Bo-Katan storyline. They introduced her last season and jaded, cynical and angry wanbee ruler who only had eyes on the Dark Saber and ruling her house. When Din took it instead she lost her followers and her way. Now this season she is starting to believe in the Way of the Mandalore and seems to have found a home who people she considered out of touch zealots not too long ago and to their credit they have accepted her. I will be interesting to see how her character grows or if she has some plan to take control? I know there is an Imperial Warlord after her and that dumb mercenary seaweed head from the first episode. I bet we see one of them next episode.
Definitely a good episode and the flashback scene on Coruscant was awesome. Still we are halfway in this season and it feels as if there is no real direction where the story is heading. But let‘s see and be hopeful for the second half of the season.
All full of origin stories, or at least partial ones. Interesting to see everyone on Coruscant going about business as usual while Order 66 was happening.
A fantastic episode! The only thing that stopped this from being a 10 for me is the big dragon not having killed the Mandalorian foundling boy within hours of snatching him. Surely it would have fed him to its clutch the same day, rather than keeping them hungry for three days, thus allowing the Mandos time to locate the nest and rescue the hapless boy? What was it doing with him all that time? Just flying around aimlessly? That just doesn't make logical sense?
Otherwise, as many have said here, a great episode in many ways - for lore and (a snippet of) Grogu's backstory, and the beginning of his initiation into The Way. Thing are clearly leading up to Moff Gideon having some sort of nefarious plan for a return to power, and revenge, possibly with the assistance of some rogue Mandalorian tribe. I look forwards to finding out in subsequent episodes...
So Grogu looked exactly the same when the Empire turned on the Jedi ? Still, that was a pretty great backstory scene.
If you think it was boring then you aren’t much of a fan.
At this point, this show is just existing to have more Star Wars content on Disney+. There's no real aim or overarching plot, and despite some fun moments, it feels like a colossal waste of time. The Book of Boba Fett should never have brought Luke, Din and Grogu into the fold. They should have left that show as its own thing and given us the rest of the Din/Grogu/Luke plotline as season 3 of this show instead. Because of the way they've handled it, season 3 of this show feels disjointed and pointless, and it is confusing to anyone who didn't realise that Book of Boba Fett is required viewing before this season.
a very good episode but rather short and some odd moments. why did the kid survive? surely if she followed it to the nest then the kid would have been dead? so the dragon flew to the nest, then flew away all while keeping the kid alive and unharmed? :weary: but the fight with it was great nonetheless. I enjoyed the Grogu back story. I was a bit sad that it wasn't a known character (though we know the actor) but it was done so well with the the puppetry, noises and the flashbacks. they really highlighted that this is traumatic for Grogu and he most likely has PTSD. who knows what else happened to this kid (?) and what else he's seen? I can tell they're building up to something but it's a very slow build with such short episodes. it feels very frustrating to be drip fed episodes like this.
I'm sorry, but what was that?? I feel very disappointed that people seem to prefer this episode instead of the one before.
I wanna say something good, before I start my rant:
1) I thought it was cool, to have an episode that has basically no faces in it. Could have been an interesting theme. (Well... It was not!)
2) I like that the ideology of these - let's call them what they are - religious-cult-mandalorians is being addressed. I don't think that it was handled well here, but let's hope that it's getting better in the upcoming episodes. It is not healthy to wear a helmet 24/7 and eat alone! Especially for children! :joy:
3) The idea behind the flashback. But the flashback itself was awful I think.
That's it. Now to the emotional part:
This episode was poorly written, poorly directed and ideologically problematic. Simply including Lightsabers and a new Jedi doesn't make a good story!
That being said, the whole flashback sequence could have been great! I wish it would have been the whole episode. With tension and conflict. AND CHARACTERS!
But nothing in this episode had a proper build up. The flight action sequence at the beginning of the last episode was waaay more thrilling than everything I saw in this episode.
This episode had a scene, that lasted like 10 seconds.... What?! That is not a scene! :joy:
The sequences at the beach looked like cosplay. Wtf?!
I'm sorry normally I'm a positive guy, but what I just watched is almost insulting!
I was thrilled after the last episode. Now I'm just furious and sad.
Again I'm sorry, I really like Mando and Grogu as characters, but that was just very very bad and lazy!
This episode has a very poor FX, don’t know why it seems a B series film.
Another excellent episode of Mandalorian, as it should be!
I just have one thing to say: Bo-Katan, god I love that character!
At first I was frustrated by this episode because it felt like another side quest without a true direction, but by the end I realized that this episode laid a lot of groundwork in the background for where I expect the rest of the season to go, especially with Bo-Katan. She proved herself to the mandalorian covert this episode, and likely gained a lot of trust within the group. Some of her lines near the end of the episode hint at some interesting places they might take her character this season and I'm excited to see what happens. Mando and Grogu also seemed to prove themselves a bit so it was a good character episode for them as well. The extended flashback of order 66 with Grogu was really exciting and every time we learn more about his past it just makes him feel like a more fleshed out character rather than just a cute little puppet which is exciting. And the direction this episode was no less than fantastic, Carl Weathers' handling of the action scenes was truly great and everything looked really good. And of course it was really nice to see Ahmed Best return to Star Wars knowing his history with the franchise and this felt like a mini redemption for him. So overall, still not an absolute knockout as the balance between the two stories here felt messily thrown together, but I think this subtly did a lot to set up the rest of the season and was an important character episode while also packed full of exciting action.
So, Bo-Katan is getting used to being in the covert. But why did the dragon wait at least a day to drop the kid in its nest? And the kid survived a day in the dragon's mouth? Sorry, not credible.
But the most interesting part is Grogu's flashback to his rescue out of the temple. Interestingly, a jedi-master managed to escape with him in a Naboo ship - which raises some questions: What happened to that master? What happened next to Grogu in the following 20 years? And what happened to Naboo after Padmé was laid to rest... I mean, helping Jedi can't have been tolerated.
Grogu' duel... well, honestly, I prefered him meeting those rock-crabs, that was funnier. And can someone please explain to me why Grogu looks so artificial, like a puppet on strings? SFX are so good nowadays, still Grogu doesn't move naturally, it really reminds me of my 30 year old walking doll back in childhood. And that's really distracting.
I hope the main story picks up again soon.
Why are they so short. 30 min. Lol I really like need longer!
An alright episode but I didn't really get why they were so vulnerable to start with
What a trainwreck.
Useless dragon fight
Maybe five minutes of story advancement in the present day for Bo-Katan. Possibly five minutes of backstory for Grogu. And the rest? A mostly boring dragon chase that was pretty useless from a narrative perspective...
It was cute when she put the little armor on grogu!
This show has lost its spark. Now its like a kids show with political correctness.
very good. I think it is worth
The scenery is great, but this episode is just bad. A Foundling gets snatched off the beach by a dragon and Paz is all, "After him!" then they chase the dragon and all run out of jet fuel and Paz is like "Dang it, this always happens!" Cut scene, they're all back to camp. I guess they walked? Paz tries to mountain climb carrying a giant chain gun? After at least a whole day and night, the dragon barfed the boy up in the morning and he was fine? How the hell and why did they wrangle the dragon babies into the ship? Terrible.
First filler episode of the show in true sense of the word. Not only didn't it move the story or characters forward in any meaningful way, it sucked as an standonalone adventure. Some VFX are top notch, and that's about it.
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Still better than any non Mando episode of Boba Fett.
Another boring episode, in which hardly anything happens.
Terrible. I'm done with this.
Finally some good episode! 8/10
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I don't understand why Bo-Katan is following these zealots. She is smarter than them.
Seemed they were training in the same spot when the first disaster happened. You would think they change place! :smile:
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Surprisingly Grogu-focused + nifty action (who knows Carl Weathers can direct dragon action this well) make this my favorite of the season so far.