Online Series: The Mandalorian III- NO Politics-Mysterious disappearance of Cara Dune

[MadDevil]

Since the jedi left in a Naboo ship, I would not be surprised by it being sent by senator Jar Jar. Theesa the way.

I hope not, since we all know Jar Jar is a Sith.

 

[MikeyMike01]

Unifying the Mandalorians. Bo Katan finding a new family.

Hopefully Bo Katan gets shot in the face or something and goes away forever. Garbage character.

 

[Hasbro]

Great that they gave another mocap actor a mulligan.

 

[MadDevil]

Great that they gave another mocap actor a mulligan.

I didn't know the character is actually from a game show for kids that was basically a Star Wars version of Legends of the Hidden Temple.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Pointless filler episode. Could have just filmed Bo-Katan saying she saw a mythosaur to the armorer and the Grogu flashback and have been done with the worthwhile parts in less than 5 minutes.

The show already has done monster of the week so many times it gets tiresome. There's like 40 of these supposed baddest in the galaxy Mandalorians all practicing martial arts on the beach and none of them see or do anything about a giant bird swooping in and stealing their children? Nobody even fires a blaster at it.

It's just dumb and lazy. I can accept some dumb in my Star Wars but lazy writing turns me off.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

A good one is the father being content to wait until morning when his son was in trouble and might not have survived until then.

For sure the weakest episode for S3 up to now, but I'm kind of wondering if the Mandos ain't just kind of dumb. I mean, you have access to all the galaxy, with some beautiful and fertile planets, and you set yourself in a desert with prehistoric giants that eat your children... That training sequence wasn't very convincing either, felt a lot more like the peasants' workout on the beach in The Walking Dead than the training for galaxy-wide bounty hunters... too much exposition, too much Grogu (I can only stand the thing in small dosage). I blame Carl Weathers.

 

[LarKing]

Yikes lots of complaints in the last few pages that were explained in the episode. They're on a deserted planet with prehistoric monsters because they're essentially in hiding regrowing their clan to my knowledge. They can fly after the dinosaur bird thing because it's taking the kid somewhere. They can't fly when they're close because as the heavy sentry Mandalorian said, it'll kill the kid once it hears them. They could fly after it initially because it kills the kid when they get to the nest, as the heavy sentry guy said. The waiting a night part did feel a bit dumb which I will give. Felt like they just wanted a quick scene explaining more mandalorian lore via the other mandalorians telling Bo Katan things.

Also, while a bit adventure of the week, I think this episode will have them with dinosaur birds of their own in the future. The heavy sentry Mando also seemed to have an issue with Djin to this point. Now, he will respect and I'm guessing eventually follow him. Loved the Grogu jedi temple flashback. No idea who that jedi or actor was but I'm betting we'll continue to get more on how he escaped.

 

[Jussi]

Yikes lots of complaints in the last few pages that were explained in the episode. They're on a deserted planet with prehistoric monsters because they're essentially in hiding regrowing their clan to my knowledge. They can fly after the dinosaur bird thing because it's taking the kid somewhere. They can't fly when they're close because as the heavy sentry Mandalorian said, it'll kill the kid once it hears them. They could fly after it initially because it kills the kid when they get to the nest, as the heavy sentry guy said. The waiting a night part did feel a bit dumb which I will give. Felt like they just wanted a quick scene explaining more mandalorian lore via the other mandalorians telling Bo Katan things.

Also, while a bit adventure of the week, I think this episode will have them with dinosaur birds of their own in the future. The heavy sentry Mando also seemed to have an issue with Djin to this point. Now, he will respect and I'm guessing eventually follow him. Loved the Grogu jedi temple flashback. No idea who that jedi or actor was but I'm betting we'll continue to get more on how he escaped.

Ahmed Best played Kelleran Beq who had previously appeared on kid's game show. He was also the voice of Jar Jar. I've seen nothing but universal love on Youtube for how this was handled.

This episode was much better received than last week's just based on the IMDB score.

 

[LarKing]

Ahmed Best played Kelleran Beq who had previously appeared on kid's game show. He was also the voice of Jar Jar. I've seen nothing but universal love on Youtube for how this was handled.

THis episode was much better received than last week's just based on the IMDB score.

Interesting. Nice little trivia fact. I enjoyed the episode a lot personally

 

[Tawnos]

Yikes lots of complaints in the last few pages that were explained in the episode. They're on a deserted planet with prehistoric monsters because they're essentially in hiding regrowing their clan to my knowledge. They can fly after the dinosaur bird thing because it's taking the kid somewhere. They can't fly when they're close because as the heavy sentry Mandalorian said, it'll kill the kid once it hears them. They could fly after it initially because it kills the kid when they get to the nest, as the heavy sentry guy said. The waiting a night part did feel a bit dumb which I will give. Felt like they just wanted a quick scene explaining more mandalorian lore via the other mandalorians telling Bo Katan things.

Also, while a bit adventure of the week, I think this episode will have them with dinosaur birds of their own in the future. The heavy sentry Mando also seemed to have an issue with Djin to this point. Now, he will respect and I'm guessing eventually follow him. Loved the Grogu jedi temple flashback. No idea who that jedi or actor was but I'm betting we'll continue to get more on how he escaped.

Yeah, really.

The episode accomplished quite a bit in a relatively short period of time. It fixed, or at least improved, the relationship between Vizla and Djin which is good for the covert's unity. It set up both Djin and Bo Katan as leaders who should eventually bring the covert out of hiding. It established Grogu's place in the covert. It gave us Grogu's escape from the Jedi Temple. And it gave us the dinosaur birds as assets to the covert (and I'm wondering if Grogu isn't going to have a special relationship with them given his ability with animals).

It did all of that in something like 25 minutes of runtime. This was not filler. This was jam-packed with plot progress.

 

[LarKing]

Yeah, really.

The episode accomplished quite a bit in a relatively short period of time. It fixed, or at least improved, the relationship between Vizla and Djin which is good for the covert's unity. It set up both Djin and Bo Katan as leaders who should eventually bring the covert out of hiding. It established Grogu's place in the covert. It gave us Grogu's escape from the Jedi Temple. And it gave us the dinosaur birds as assets to the covert (and I'm wondering if Grogu isn't going to have a special relationship with them given his ability with animals).

It did all of that in something like 25 minutes of runtime. This was not filler. This was jam-packed with plot progress.

Now THAT is my real complaint haha. How are we getting these sub 30 minute episodes? Come on give us at least 40 minutes. Otherwise, agree. Episode did a lot but the filler police will always be out hard on HF. Maybe I'm just used to watching Bad Batch with like 20 episode seasons and 5 episodes of plot, but this show rarely seems to have that episodes that come off as filler to me.

 

[Tawnos]

Now THAT is my real complaint haha. How are we getting these sub 30 minute episodes? Come on give us at least 40 minutes. Otherwise, agree. Episode did a lot but the filler police will always be out hard on HF. Maybe I'm just used to watching Bad Batch with like 20 episode seasons and 5 episodes of plot, but this show rarely seems to have that episodes that come off as filler to me.

Especially after the last one was something like 45 minutes.

 

[Jussi]

Now THAT is my real complaint haha. How are we getting these sub 30 minute episodes? Come on give us at least 40 minutes. Otherwise, agree. Episode did a lot but the filler police will always be out hard on HF. Maybe I'm just used to watching Bad Batch with like 20 episode seasons and 5 episodes of plot, but this show rarely seems to have that episodes that come off as filler to me.

If there's one thing this show has always done well, is the usage of minutes. Never have I felt an episode has been too short for the story each episode has been trying to tell. Last week's episode was the longest of the entire show and in hindsight, I think they could've shaved maybe 5 minutes off of it from the Coruscant stuff. The 35-40 minute episodes have always felt like there was nothing filler in them, it was just get from point A to point B in as natural pace as possible.

 

[Jussi]

Especially after the last one was something like 45 minutes.

56 minutes, 11 seconds.

 

[Tawnos]

56 minutes, 11 seconds.

Does that include the like 5 minutes of end credits, and 2 minutes or so of "previously" and their Star Wars intro?

 

[Jussi]

Does that include the like 5 minutes of end credits, and 2 minutes or so of "previously" and their Star Wars intro?

With those it's actually listed at 59 minutes on Disney+. Could be the international dubbings listed too.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Yikes lots of complaints in the last few pages that were explained in the episode.

Part of the problem, really.

As for the choice of planet, if you can't hide in the galaxy without having your kids eaten, maybe you're just a tiny little dumb. Or maybe, as you seem to think, it's absolutely necessary - just remind me to never have to hide anywhere close to you.

 

[LarKing]

Part of the problem, really.

As for the choice of planet, if you can't hide in the galaxy without having your kids eaten, maybe you're just a tiny little dumb. Or maybe, as you seem to think, it's absolutely necessary - just remind me to never have to hide anywhere close to you.

Which deserted planet has been shown to have no danger in the Star Wars universe? It's a tv show, there is going to be some danger on every planet they show. Otherwise you would be sitting here complaining about that too.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Which deserted planet has been shown to have no danger in the Star Wars universe? It's a tv show, there is going to be some danger on every planet they show. Otherwise you would be sitting here complaining about that too.

Sorry, didn't mean to complain at all. I am not a "not my Luke" kind of dude - it is what it is, I just thought the Mandos would be a little brighter, and now I just receive them as a little dumb. You don't have to.

The overuse of exposition in this episode showed signs of weaker writing, but otherwise - as said previously - I like this season quite a bit up til now.

 

[LarKing]

Sorry, didn't mean to complain at all. I am not a "not my Luke" kind of dude - it is what it is, I just thought the Mandos would be a little brighter, and now I just receive them as a little dumb. You don't have to.

The overuse of exposition in this episode showed signs of weaker writing, but otherwise - as said previously - I like this season quite a bit up til now.

That's fair. They were generally portrayed as smarter. But these also aren't mandalorians in the same sense. A lot of them joined the ranks as foundlings and not necessarily as warriors raised since birth. I'm enjoying the season but I think these last 4 episodes will determine if it's just a good season or something more to me.

 

[Tawnos]

Nearly every planet we've ever seen in Star Wars has (or likely has) dangerous creatures that would likely eat kids. That's especially true of this show.

 

[Osprey]

Yikes lots of complaints in the last few pages that were explained in the episode. They're on a deserted planet with prehistoric monsters because they're essentially in hiding regrowing their clan to my knowledge. They can fly after the dinosaur bird thing because it's taking the kid somewhere. They can't fly when they're close because as the heavy sentry Mandalorian said, it'll kill the kid once it hears them. They could fly after it initially because it kills the kid when they get to the nest, as the heavy sentry guy said. The waiting a night part did feel a bit dumb which I will give. Felt like they just wanted a quick scene explaining more mandalorian lore via the other mandalorians telling Bo Katan things.

I think that you misunderstood. It's the explanations that are being criticized. The fact that they were given doesn't necessarily mean that they make sense or don't feel contrived or redundant.

 

[MikeyMike01]

Yikes lots of complaints in the last few pages that were explained in the episode. They're on a deserted planet with prehistoric monsters because they're essentially in hiding regrowing their clan to my knowledge. They can fly after the dinosaur bird thing because it's taking the kid somewhere. They can't fly when they're close because as the heavy sentry Mandalorian said, it'll kill the kid once it hears them. They could fly after it initially because it kills the kid when they get to the nest, as the heavy sentry guy said. The waiting a night part did feel a bit dumb which I will give. Felt like they just wanted a quick scene explaining more mandalorian lore via the other mandalorians telling Bo Katan things.

Also, while a bit adventure of the week, I think this episode will have them with dinosaur birds of their own in the future. The heavy sentry Mando also seemed to have an issue with Djin to this point. Now, he will respect and I'm guessing eventually follow him. Loved the Grogu jedi temple flashback. No idea who that jedi or actor was but I'm betting we'll continue to get more on how he escaped.

You know the writing is lousy when the characters have to constantly declare the plot (to no one in particular).

 

[LarKing]

I think that you misunderstood. It's the explanations that are being criticized. The fact that they were given doesn't necessarily mean that they make sense or don't feel contrived or redundant.

I did misunderstand then. I thought it was fine though. The only gripe I really have was the waiting a night thing. After watching that GOT night scene personally I’m fine with never watching an episode of anything in the dark again though.

You know the writing is lousy when the characters have to constantly declare the plot (to no one in particular).

It’s a conversation between the sentry guy and Mando. I don’t think the lines were super well delivered but no issue with them talking about why they can’t do certain things. If they didn’t, everyone would be in here with “why didn’t they use their jet packs”

 

[RobBrown4PM]

That poster is right though, if you never watched The Clone Wars then you have no idea who these characters are. I suffered from the same aspect in Halo 5: Guardians game. To understand the characters the game drops you with at the opening cut scene, you need to read like four different books and comic book series. I loved Clone Wars and I think it is worth the watch, but bad stories are ones where you give somebody a character and expect them to "know" who they are. Bo is a badarse character, but saving Mando in the last two episodes was sort of getting past the threshold of what should be "allowable" for either a man or a woman in that short of a time. Mando isn't an idiot, he's a silent gunslinger like Clint Eastwood, no?

TheActMan talks about sins in storytelling and this season has suffered from some of them so far.

Blue Team has a deep history within the franchise, arguably more than most other characters combined. Bungie did their own lore disservice by, at best, forgetting they ever existed, and at worst retconning them and their actions out of existence with Halo: Reach. Furthermore, outside of Cortana, Chief has no greater relationships than with Blue Team.