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By Christ this makes Discovery look bad. The attention to detail is off the scale.

 

You know what I love? Switches. You what this episode had a lot of?

 

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Motherfucking switches.

 

Also:

 

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Finally, the correct reason to use the force: to steal blue milk macaroons.

 

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8 hours ago, mechamonkey said:

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So it looks like the baby's blood (presumably with a massive Midochlorian count) was used to create the Snoke clones!

 

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It'd explain quite nicely why snoke was so....funny looking. I bit of spliced in yoda dna would be a really good fit, considering it cant have been planned at the time for the films.

 

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16 minutes ago, Fusty Gusset said:

Am I going nuts or did the huge ship at the end look like a model.

 

There was a shot looking out from the cockpit of the Mandalorian's ship when he was approaching the town that I could have sworn was a model as well. 

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4 hours ago, ScouserInExile said:

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Dark trooper?

 

Great episode this week. Felt like proper Srar Wars, with Storm Troopers and everything. 

 

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Big robot stormtroopers with jetpacks, can also be modified into an exoskeleton for someone to use I think. 

 

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They need the child's blood, rather than DNA. It's really hard to breed a clone with the Force naturally, and for some reason if you do they go insane anyway, so artificially juicing clones with high midichlorian blood (the hologram of the doctor mentioned "M count") could be a way around that. 

 

I wonder if it's them trying to clone The Emperor a new body, like in the old Legends storyline. 

 

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Week after week this just gets better for me.

 

Anyone notice the Wilhelm Scream being used on a Stormtrooper yet again?

 

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And yes, Dark Troopers at the very end! What with that and the force sensitive clones in the Imperial lab I am now expecting Kyle Katarn to make an appearance. 

 

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I think this week's episode was the point where I finally realised that The Mandalorian is more than just a fun live-action adventure series set after Return of the Jedi - it's actually Dave Filoni's attempt to fix some of the problems of the sequel trilogy, in the same way that he partially redeemed the character of Anakin with The Clone Wars. The appearance of those Snoke clones in the tanks finally made it clear where this was going.

 

If this show can give Snoke a decent backstory, plausibly explain how the Imperial remnants became the First Order and possibly even explain what the fuck was going on with Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker, it'll go a long way to fixing the sequel trilogy and making it less of a standalone thing than it feels at present. And given the quality of what we've seen so far on this show, and what's already been achieved with TCW and Rebels - two cartoons, aimed at kids, that ended up being some of the best Star Wars content ever made - I actually have every confidence they'll get there.

 

At this point they should basically take Star Wars away from everyone else and just let Dave Filoni do it all. He gets this, in a way that almost no-one else does.

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9 hours ago, PK said:

 

There was a shot looking out from the cockpit of the Mandalorian's ship when he was approaching the town that I could have sworn was a model as well. 

 Yeah that looked terrible. When stacked against the excellence of the rest of the episode. Blue guy  just reeks of Trek to me though.

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10 minutes ago, Garwoofoo said:

If this show can give Snoke a decent backstory, plausibly explain how the Imperial remnants became the First Order and possibly even explain what the fuck was going on with Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker, it'll go a long way to fixing the sequel trilogy and making it less of a standalone thing than it feels at present.

I really hope it doesn’t do this, or at least if it does, it’s background detail that’s entirely incidental to the actual story.

 

I’m just enjoying Lone Wolf and Space Cub. I want it to focus on having fun with those characters, not Star Wars nerds obsession with “fixing” other stuff I don’t really care about.

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Hopefully it’ll work on both levels, in the way that the appearance of Bo-Katan last week got all the Clone Wars nerds excited but to stand-alone viewers worked perfectly fine as another Mandalorian with everything you needed to know explained in the episode. 

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1 hour ago, DukeOfEarlsfield said:

I really hope it doesn’t do this, or at least if it does, it’s background detail that’s entirely incidental to the actual story.

 

I’m just enjoying Lone Wolf and Space Cub. I want it to focus on having fun with those characters, not Star Wars nerds obsession with “fixing” other stuff I don’t really care about.

 

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3 hours ago, Garwoofoo said:

I think this week's episode was the point where I finally realised that The Mandalorian is more than just a fun live-action adventure series set after Return of the Jedi - it's actually Dave Filoni's attempt to fix some of the problems of the sequel trilogy, in the same way that he partially redeemed the character of Anakin with The Clone Wars. The appearance of those Snoke clones in the tanks finally made it clear where this was going.

 

If this show can give Snoke a decent backstory, plausibly explain how the Imperial remnants became the First Order and possibly even explain what the fuck was going on with Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker, it'll go a long way to fixing the sequel trilogy and making it less of a standalone thing than it feels at present. And given the quality of what we've seen so far on this show, and what's already been achieved with TCW and Rebels - two cartoons, aimed at kids, that ended up being some of the best Star Wars content ever made - I actually have every confidence they'll get there.

 

At this point they should basically take Star Wars away from everyone else and just let Dave Filoni do it all. He gets this, in a way that almost no-one else does.

 

I was going to post exactly the same thing! The great thing about Filoni's Star Wars is that it doesn't shy away from the maligned elements of Star Wars in the same way that the sequel trilogy did - there's respect for everything Lucas tried to do and a very successful knitting together of the different eras. Thanks to Rebels and Clone Wars I now fully accept the story, characters and visual design of the clone wars era and actually find is as interesting as the civil war era.

 

I know they did the whole 'Legends' thing with the EU, but aside from that Star Wars really wouldn't work if stuff kept on getting ditched or retconned, like the DC 'Snyderverse'.

 

If Filoni can do the same thing with the sequel trilogy, that would be a really awesome achievement. Rise of Skywalker was so vague about what was going on that there's plenty of latitude to spin something good out of it.

 

Also, that central conceit if a tough Boba Fett-looking dude caring for a cute baby version of Yoda - every week I'm in awe of what a genius move that was. It's the most inspired IP-saving idea since Robert Downey Jr was cast as Iron Man. Who knows, perhaps both of things came directly from the mind of Jon Favreau. He's certainly earned whatever rewards he's had from Disney!

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4 hours ago, Garwoofoo said:

I think this week's episode was the point where I finally realised that The Mandalorian is more than just a fun live-action adventure series set after Return of the Jedi - it's actually Dave Filoni's attempt to fix some of the problems of the sequel trilogy, in the same way that he partially redeemed the character of Anakin with The Clone Wars. The appearance of those Snoke clones in the tanks finally made it clear where this was going.

 

If this show can give Snoke a decent backstory, plausibly explain how the Imperial remnants became the First Order and possibly even explain what the fuck was going on with Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker, it'll go a long way to fixing the sequel trilogy and making it less of a standalone thing than it feels at present. And given the quality of what we've seen so far on this show, and what's already been achieved with TCW and Rebels - two cartoons, aimed at kids, that ended up being some of the best Star Wars content ever made - I actually have every confidence they'll get there.

 

At this point they should basically take Star Wars away from everyone else and just let Dave Filoni do it all. He gets this, in a way that almost no-one else does.

 

I had the same thought- that they are effectively retconning (of a sort) the sequel trilogy.

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