Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

To me, this show is like those 90s syndicated shows like Hercules, Farscape and Xena. It's just higher quality. A family-friendly adventure of the week show, with an overlying universe to tie it all together. I think it's fun. Baby Yoda cracked me up this ep with his egg-eating.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

It's a weekly western. Set in the SW universe, but it's just a straight up western. I have no problem with it just telling stories and taking its time.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

Yeah, it’s a lot like the classic era action/adventure, sci-fi, and western shows. Honestly, and it’s weird to say this, but it kind of has vibes of classic Star Trek more than current Star Trek has.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

That's a great analogy and you have made me look at the show now in that context. I don't think I would even question the show if it came out in 1997 or even the earlly 00's because most TV shows were week to week standalone episodes. But we live in a Post-Sopranos TV era where we are conditioned (atleast I am) to expect every show to have an big picture arc, a season arc, and even week to week to flow right into the next week. Obviously you guys are right and it's more like the 90's Hercules/Xena shows on a Friday/Saturday night we used to get. I'm glad you guys enjoy it but I'm just too far gone where I want every TV show now to more serial-like and not a weekly standalone. But that analogy really opened my eyes, thanks!

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

Yeah I think we have been accustomed to the Netflix binge model where every episode has to advance the A plot. While I'd like to see where that plot is going, I'm also enjoying the ride there. There were a lot of things that had the feel of the original series such as when the Republic pilots questioned Mando's credentials and the X-Wing/Razor Crest chase down into the planet caverns. This really captured the spirit of the OS for me.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

I'm enjoying it. I'm fine with the format of telling one complete adventure story while working on their bigger goal. Don't really see it as filler either when this is what the show is.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

This show is one of the best shows on tv, any streaming service, whatever, hands down imo. This season (the two eps at least) has been thrilling, funny, surprising and this episode especially creeped the fuck out of me. I was really on the edge of my seat when those spiders were swarming. This is just excellent tv and amazing storytelling. So what if they seem isolated, what show on tv isn’t, that isn’t serialized?

This at least, as others have said, moves the story with each incredible episode to finding other Mandalorians. It’s complete geekdom, fandom, what have you. Seeing the X-Wings was bliss.

It’s just a damn fine show, run by damn fine people and Favreau’s writing is spot on and fits perfectly in the Star Wars world. The directors, this one by Ant-Man’s Peyton Reed, are just fantastic choices and take their ques from Favreau, but leave their own indelible marks. Each and every one has brought something different and new, but at the same time keeping the cohesion of this particular universe very much in tact. Each ep leaves you wanting more each and every week and makes you eagerly anticipate the next ep. It’s tv that completely entertains and sometimes leaves you gasping by the end. I even stick around for the glorious artwork that runs through the credits. That’s what tv should do and this one does it in spades.

When this show is complete and has told its full story in total, I have no doubt it will be among one of my favorites of all time and will gleefully rewatch from the beginning many times. I will even buy a complete series set and pray they include commentaries and the extras, that we also get from Disney+’s making of series that they did for Season 1.

Thoroughly enjoyable, thoroughly entertaining and as a long-time Star Wars fan, thoroughly authentic.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

Great episode. I got weirdly giddy when the X-Wings flew in. They are so iconic and are my favorite ships after the Falcon.

Loved the jet pack bit too :lol:

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

Oh geez, This forum was totally spoiled by serialized content. Now stuff that's self contained or standalone that’s tells a complete story in one episode isn't satisfying?

Now even a lot of the newer serialized shows don't even get talked about much here unless it’s some popular IP.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

They need to step up the story. It's becoming just the same bunch of elements: Mando looking for Mandorians but gets involved with some side quest, baby Yoda does something cute but gets put in some danger also, some creature is introduced from an old Ralph McQuarrie painting, throw in a bunch of direct SW references (R5-D4, sand people, Boba Fett, the cantina, etc.). Hopefully they do something new next episode.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

all of what you said is what this show is all about. New? Every episode there is something new and interesting while keeping the magic of the SW universe incredibly alive. If you haven’t figured that out by now, after a season and 2 eps, maybe stop watching bc clearly you’re not enjoying what your seeing and this seems like wasting time...

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

The first 2 eps have both been filler episodes, which I find baffling for a show with such short seasons.
Still entertaining though for the record.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

Agreed. I don’t even accept the notion of a “filler episode” for this show. It’s clearly meant to have self-contained adventures within the overall plot. This isn’t Dragon Ball Z or Fargo :lol: (although the latest season of Fargo has been pretty slow itself...)

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

I liked that a lot. The spiders were amazing FX. Really looked good. I dig this show so much.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

I watch a bunch of comic-based shows and that's the basic structure of a story of the week with a continuing story they focus on here and there until the end. It's nice to have a few of those so every show doesn't just feel like a ten hour movie cut up into parts.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

I’ve actually stopped watching a bunch of those because the stories have gotten too convoluted just to keep it going (especially “big bad” enemies who should be easy for the heroes to take out). This show is a nice change of pace.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

It was fine, but disappointing.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

This show is suffering from the same thing as Discovery this season...not at all moving the main plot forward. The difference here is that the content is so damn good, better than Discovery has been. Popping those eggs like they were candy was a bit morbid though. Probably not the best idea when the mother was a character we were supposed to have empathy for.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

Baby Yoda is a rat bastard.

How am I supposed to have sympathy for the character if he spends an entire episode devouring a sentient species’ young?

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

I think Discovery has been better this year in terms of storytelling, but The Mandalorian is better than Discovery for sheer entertainment value. They're really apples and oranges (as Star Trek/Star Wars has always been). I watch Mandalorian to relax and have fun; I watch Discovery to stimulate my brain.

I mean Discovery just spent a whole episode on PTSD with the crew - you're NEVER going to see that in Star Wars.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

They were just unfertilized eggs. She was taking them to her husband so he could shoot his space wad all over them. Then they would be a sentient species’ young.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

Still a rat bastard. Killing off a frog race. FUCK YOU. :lol:

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

With Crisis and all the timeline changes, things people once knew may not even be what really happened anymore. The big bad going on for an entire season is too long-winded. It can work when done right and it did at first with the Flash and then they just had them act like idiots and have the bad guy get away over and over again until the last episode.

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

I'm loving this structure of a TV show. IMHO there are too many shows that focus on an overarching story. That's great for some of the shows that do that but if the show every goes off the rails, think the ending of Lost the last 4 seasons of TWD etc., it really spoils the entire series since it is one giant long continuous narrative. I feel like very few shows actually pull that off where they have a consistent quality story for the entire length of the series. I've actually really missed shows that can tell an entire story in a single episode. And you don't have to remember what happened two seasons ago to this specific character to get what's going on now.

Edit: Also why does everyone always credit the Sopranos when Deep Space Nine had been doing the continuous story arc thing several years before they did?

Re: The Mandalorian: Chapter 10: The Passenger (S2E2) - 11/6/20
 

This is it exactly. It gets tiring to watch when you have to remember who did what and who died how many times to be able to enjoy a show. Sometimes, (a lot of times actually) simpler is better. And this show has the perfect balance, IMHO, between continuity (The higher moral road Mando took in last season had real consequences in this season and apparently frog lady was in the background of the cantina scene last season) and not having that continuity have to be a requirement to remember for new episodes.