The Mandalorian S3E8: The Return (Spoilers)
Well that is a way to go out with a bang!
I'm very surprised the Mythosaur never got some action, when Grogu woke the one in the water, it looked small, I wonder how many are down there.
So Giddeon cracked the code of cloning force wielders with Dr Perishing? I guess that explains why she mind flayed him so no one else could learn it. That makes more sense now.
I'm glad Axe never ran out of fuel flying from the Great Forge into outer space, sure would have ****. Sure am happy that wasn't a plot point in the show 👀
I don't get Bo saying they couldn't beat them in the air, but they could on the ground. Didn't you try that last time and your planet got crystallized?
The meteor shower of Mandos was a cool shot, but air to air combat was a little... goofy for me.
Grogu holding his own against the guards was great to see. His time with Luke paid off well. I was almost wishing he would pull out the light dagger and start slicing! Him and Din were a great team, same with the Bo fight.
I was interested to see if the darksaber crystal was going to be salvaged to be repaired. Guess it is done for good. Maybe we will get a new one in the coming seasons, would be a way to repair the riff between Jedi and Mando.
Overall the last 2 episodes really bolstered the season, it gave us a lot of lore, world building and action. Really looking forward to the next season, but the one question I have is, how did Giddeon know about Maul? He put the horn spikes on his helmet, he used a double blades staff. That couldn't have been a coincidence right?
I'm very surprised the Mythosaur never got some action, when Grogu woke the one in the water, it looked small, I wonder how many are down there.
So Giddeon cracked the code of cloning force wielders with Dr Perishing? I guess that explains why she mind flayed him so no one else could learn it. That makes more sense now.
I'm glad Axe never ran out of fuel flying from the Great Forge into outer space, sure would have ****. Sure am happy that wasn't a plot point in the show 👀
I don't get Bo saying they couldn't beat them in the air, but they could on the ground. Didn't you try that last time and your planet got crystallized?
The meteor shower of Mandos was a cool shot, but air to air combat was a little... goofy for me.
Grogu holding his own against the guards was great to see. His time with Luke paid off well. I was almost wishing he would pull out the light dagger and start slicing! Him and Din were a great team, same with the Bo fight.
I was interested to see if the darksaber crystal was going to be salvaged to be repaired. Guess it is done for good. Maybe we will get a new one in the coming seasons, would be a way to repair the riff between Jedi and Mando.
Overall the last 2 episodes really bolstered the season, it gave us a lot of lore, world building and action. Really looking forward to the next season, but the one question I have is, how did Giddeon know about Maul? He put the horn spikes on his helmet, he used a double blades staff. That couldn't have been a coincidence right?
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The Pershing mind wipe makes even less sense now. They could have just thrown him off the train. It was a very convoluted story arc with no reason behind it.
R5 being scared of the cliff when he literally just flew down off a cliff made no sense.
Gideon saying he would take care of Din and Grogu, and then just waiting in his lair while they destroyed his clones with a single button push made no sense. And why would you have a button that blew the glass out of the clone tanks?
The last name of Mandalorians is obviously the family name. See Clans Visla and Katan, so why would Grogu be Din Grogu instead of Grogu Djarin?
Where the heck did all of Din’s weaponry go? In the first season he was launching whistling birds and knee rockets every 5 seconds. Neither made an appearance this entire season as he fist fought everyone.
Rocket packs all ran out of fuel after a few minutes in one episode, but in this one they can fly all the way to space.
Their necks are completely exposed to any rope thrown at them, but somehow the vacuum of space doesn’t affect them.
Who are the spies?
Why did the pretorian guards try to kill Grogu? Gideon had done everything in his power to try to capture him for 2 seasons, now he wants him dead?
I could go on. I really feel like this show lost its way this season. There’s too many fingers in the pot. Too many directors. Star Wars needs to be limited to Filoni, Taika, and Howard directing. And that’s it.
God dayum man thats hilarious
1. The aerial battle... Its like the stormtroopers don't have beskar armor anymore... all they did was job, not a single moment where they were shown to take anyone out
2. Axe Wolve should've died / sacrificed himself in space (the whole crash landing was bad since it just implies the fighters and bombers can't take out an almost unmanned capital ship) also it just cheapens everything about him staying behind and the entire threat of the fighters and bombers since there was no casualties for the good guys; The show is too afraid to kill off any good characters and thats lame
3. Grogu forcing in all the battles is very OP and takes away the tension from everything / every battle
“How many fighters do we need to destroy that cruiser?”
“30 sir.”
“Send 25. And leave those bombers I requested last episode in the hangars, the CGI budget ran over again.”
…
“How did we lose?”
I believe there are two types of cloning in SW:
1. Cloning cells to create babies that grow into adults (clone trooopers)
2. Cloning exact copies of something as they currently are (Snoke & Gideon). This is why all versions of Snoke have that massive gash in their heads and why the Gideons were the same age.
Wouldn't be surprised if it was. I was half expecting him to cave in Din's helmet
Yes, this leads me to believe that paz is alive. i don’t think disney realizes that this is star wars and not the little mermaid
First- the first paragraph. i concur. i noticed that his whistling birds weren’t there when he was sneaking around
second- the second paragraph. maybe they weren’t set to kill. i would think that the electricity could be set to a lower mode. this could also mean paz isn’t dead
Promoting Bo as Mandalore was a bit underwhelmig. Felt like she didn't earn it and everything was given to her on spoon, I was even expecting fight for Mythosaur but.... guess that was luxury.
And a bit controversal about Gideon. He don't favor clones - he has them. He do not favor humans in Dark Troopers he puts himself in them. He lashes out about clones destroyed - he lets it happen and simply waits
I kinda hope that one is a clone and real Gideon simply wants to hide for the time being
2. He might be still a traitor(at least I'm hoping) that wanted to destroy Gideon's base, to hide the fact that the one that died is a clone. But even if he'**** not - running away from the ship that's gonna be sestroyed is a good option. Pity they made Paz sacrificing himself in stupid way...
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Yeah, they should focus on the rest of the Shadow Council now, with Mando being a contractor for the New Republic
You can see his weaponry being removed once he gets lassoed by the troopers. They removed the whistling birds from his arm. Not really sure why he chose not to use them. As for Paz, he should be pretty dead. They didn't just electrocute him, but you can see they actually stabbed him with their weapons. I wish he was still alive though as I liked his character.
For the weapons, in previous episodes — and it may have been in BOBF but i’m not sure, i think it is — he just released the ammo but not the actual weapon before he boarded a public transport. they didn’t make him take off the actual wrist launcher thing.
As for paz; this isn’t the same disney that made clone wars
They absolutely took Mando's whistling bird wrist launcher off after they captured him on the platform. Go watch episode 7 again. Also, it is the same Disney that made Clone Wars as Disney and Dave Filoni made both. I'm not quite sure what that has to do with Paz as he was never seen in the Clone Wars series.
Then go watch CW and tell me how many more casualties happened for the light side in that than in mando. CW is far more violent but it is just animated. Disney went soft
... okay? Not really sure how we got on the topic of CW and violence, but sure. What do light side casualties have to do with anything talked about? Maybe I'm missing something here.
The death of paz. they haven’t killed anyone recently. ofc GI had plot protection, but not a single side character mando died and they couldn’t even kill fennec. kylo should’ve died when he was almost killed by rey. somehow no one manages to die anymore. at least not in combat.
This is now like kid's bed story, dunno if the original story like this, or disney insist.