Tank Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 He prob meant clone because he assumed It must be baby Yoda. Sidebar, 50 years back from the Mando would be TPM roughly, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zambingo Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 The whole Baby Yodas (whatever their species is, Whills or whatever) stay infants for 50 years at least is unbelievably lame and done solely to swerve the audience up to that point. The idea that a diaper filling, wake you up at all hours of the night for feedings, infant stays that way for fifty years is an idea straight from the very depths of Hell. And I would wager thats the real reason Yoda hid on Dagobah, the dude just needed a nap. Afterthought: The idea that every bounty has a homing beacon on them seems unbelievably lazy and just a way to avoid writing any sort of deductive reasoning and investigative dialogue. Hey, Mandoh, here is your bounty... and here is a device that tells you right where they are. This device removes all points of why Mandoh was even concerned about not knowing the name or anything else other than the age. And all that information is completely pointless considering he is given a device that pin points the bountys EXACT location. Afterthought 2: The homing beacon, which is demonstrated in the show as literally pinging right to the bounty, is exactly like hand-holding markings in modern RPGs that exist because portions of the gaming community can no longer read and deduce clues as to what they are suppose to do next to proceed thru the story. Afterthought 3: This story btw, at least right now, and as presented as not just the starring character by the story but by the title, and who in an era of asking for female heroes and representation in other areas is in this from scratch show concept just yet another Eastwood talking dudebro, and in this era the general community just squees in joy over getting the same old hero yet again, is why I have coined the nickname of Mandoh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 Re: homing beacon. I got the sense these weren't in the wild bounties, but more like bail jumpers who were tagged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zambingo Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 The baby is a bail jumper? Other than that, fair point. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 The baby is a god damn Mary Sue, what the hell??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zambingo Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 ???Did you watch the 2nd episode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zambingo Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 Not yet. I’m guessing Baby Yoda is all Do and Do Not with no trying at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 Not yet. I’m guessing Baby Yoda is all Do and Do Not with no trying at all? Yeah, he or she uses The Force Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas1138 Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 If I never hear the phrase Mary Sue again in my life I'd be okay with it. This show is great, already. Hits the tone nail on the head. It's fun! Star Wars is supposed to be fun! Just let it be. The soundtrack is beyond exceptional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metropolis Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 Yeah they went there. If there is an out for them in that Yoda's species is completely unknown. The species itself could be Force sensitive. We don't know. We've only every seen two. Be honest though. If this were a George Lucas production he's been blamed for trying to sell cute Yoda toys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Wader Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 If this were a George Lucas production he's been blamed for trying to sell cute Yoda toys.He pretty much created movie merchandising so that's a fair cop. Loving this so far. I've always have some doubts with Jon Favreau but I think he'll end up doing what he did for Marvel with Iron Man for Lucasfilm here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 The Lone Wolf and Cub vibe was strong. Still a fun time-- but I am not a fan of story-less roadblock episodes. Also, the gray robed, red-eyed Jawas were hilarious but terrifying. So was this Tattooine? It looked like it... I always thought Jawa were indigenous to Tattoine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryn Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 Apologies for several random musings. I don't think this one counts as a Mary Sue. Despite seemingly being an infant, it showed clear intent when using the Force. (Can we nickname it "Cub"?) As for the tracking fob, perhaps it uses genetic information. The Mandalorian asks about the chain code (and, curiously, speaks of the bounty in plural form), and only gets the last four digits: their age. Also, Dr. Pershing's Wookieepedia entry shows the Kaminoan cloning facility insignia on his shoulder. It's interesting that the whole early history of Yoda's species was kept deliberately (and militantly!) vague. Then the TPM gave us Yaddle. (And I can't recall any others in Senate boxes.) Post-PT media has done a fantastic job using so much of McQuarrie's material, I think there's a lot of Lucas' to use as well. I'm optimistic there's some variation of Whills in a later episode. I loved the creepy violence of the jawas. I've read the planet is Arvala-7 so maybe the allure of a post-war galaxy of scrap has drawn them off-world. Only nitpick for me was the Trandoshans. Human-like eyes (not bulbous) and hands and forearms. They felt like the nth redesign of Klingons. The previous episode made a surprisingly believable depiction of the IG prop, that I'm a little disappointed the same effort wasn't here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metropolis Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 I felt part of the goal was to show the audience why Jawas were filthy creatures and hated so much. Job accomplished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metropolis Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 If I had a problem at the time when Dark Empire, and to a lesser extent the first Zahn trilogy, came out was that you could clone a force user and these clone would have the ability to use the Force. With the Force being a mystical entity it never say right that you could replicate it. If course Lucas came up with midichlorians and made that a moot point. Seeing as those stories are no longer canon we can at least expect that the child won't be named Yooda. I still don't think that this is a clone of Yoda. That just opens so many potential plot holes for the sequel trilogy. You can honest start to worry as to whether the child survives the series if not the season. I see people believing it's a clone because the one for in the first episode was wearing a Kaminoan jacket. I see that guy as someone who wants the child so he can try to clone him for whatever nefarious reason. There were as far as I could tell no humans on Kamino other than Jango, Boba, and the clones. What happened to the facility after the rise of the Empire is a mystery at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zambingo Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 Kamino is Hoth ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odine Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 That was awesome. Loved every minute. Jawa's were fantastic! The Mandalorian is already better than TLJ. I have spoken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrian Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 Yeah they went there. If there is an out for them in that Yoda's species is completely unknown. The species itself could be Force sensitive. We don't know. We've only every seen two. Four now. Yoda, Yaddle, Vandar and the Child. Still a fun time-- but I am not a fan of story-less roadblock episodes. Also, the gray robed, red-eyed Jawas were hilarious but terrifying. So was this Tattooine? It looked like it... I always thought Jawa were indigenous to Tattoine.Pretty much my thoughts on the episode too. It's not Tatooine by the way, the latest Black Series wave of figures feature a Jawa figure that's called Off-World Jawa, which would suggest that you're right about them being indigenous to Tatooine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 I just can't get into this so far, it has potential going forward but the first 2 episodes haven't been very good at all for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DML Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 Hearing people complain about the Mandalorian makes me think no one will ever be satisfied with new Star Wars no matter how good it is. As someone else said, the first 2 episodes are better than all of The Last Jedi. Personally, I've been waiting for something exactly like this since Lucas sold to Disney. I know we're only two episodes in but it has everything I want out of Star Wars. I'm extremely happy were getting "Gunsmoke" like serial western episodes. I feel like a kid again watching these... and almost every character they introduce on screen, no matter how minor (Werner Hertzog or Nick Nolte's Ugnaught) seem very well developed and interesting. It's like we're finally getting Star Wars in the format it was inspired from. Can't wait for more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 True dat yo! Mandalorian =Man(dalorian) with no name in space. Two eps in, and way better than the ST. Take yer meds people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 In my limited experience, the more people like the ST the less they like this show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zambingo Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 News flash: Criticism and especially that with a tongue-in-cheek, should not imply someone cannot enjoy anything ... even the thing they are criticizing. Mandoh failing upwards is refreshing, I suppose, in comparison to heroes that just got this ... so to speak. And speaking of which, I have no problem with Baby Yoda using the Force, Clark Kent kicked through his crib too. I am weary of this series being two hours in, basically a feature length, and the episodes already feel like they are treading water solely because this is a series rather than a film. We have had several stand in the doorway and pose with the sun behind the hero shots already. We have had the A-Team repair montage and all the other stereotypical moments for this genre I noted initially*. If this series doesnt become its own fresher thing very soon it might just actually be a buncha pretty shots with nothing else in between, as it is right now its teetering on the precipice of a fan film with a budget. *I am having conversations about this series in multiple places, it looks like this particular place was not the place where I noted some stuff. In short: Yet Another DudeBro Hero, Cheesy Stereotypical Fighting, Tormented/Tragic Flashback, Weird Short Man, Dumb Droid, Star Wars Paint by Numbers etc. Look, a lot of this stuff is fine... you need it, we even expect it etc. However in a project like say... Rogue One, these things were handled in a superior and fresher way. Also, yes, I know this is all opinion. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 Relax. Don't like it? Don't watch. It's just a TV show. Kinda simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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