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Goldberg74

If we are to believe the hype from those who watched it at Star Wars Celebration, we’re in for a treat.

hdtv00

Ha yea that's what I hear too. Let's hope so , see if they can save the season.

Artman

Good episode. I was expecting a dramatic "remove his helmet!" moment at the end, just seemed like an obvious time for it. Opening scene(s) were great - Coruscant never looked more like Blade Runner and I really liked all the actors planning the Empire's return, just interesting faces and personalities. And Warlock from Top Gun was a nice surprise! I hope he's gotten a lot of work over the years that I just haven't seen, because he's great.

Goldberg74

Did we finally get what we were waiting for?

To quote IG-12: Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! 🤣

Way to move the story forward in 52 minutes… really sets up the season finale and the stage for Ahsoka.

I had a feeling that Gideon would level the playing field but not like that. Makes sense now though.

Have to give a shout out to Paz Vizsla. Brave until the end.

Next week better be another hour long episode.

candyrocket786

What a fantastic start to season 3. Can't wait for the season finale next week.

Jason

Gotta say, Pellaeon looked exactly as I pictured him when reading those books way back when.

Great episod. Nice to see the longer run time. If they had rearranged a few of the scenes and tightened a few things up a bit, this season would have been received a lot better than it was.

Why So Blu?

Badass episode!

That opening reminded me of Cyberpunk 2077.

One more episode left.

dex14

Brian Gleeson playing father Hux of his brother Domhall.

SmackDaddy

So, they didn't forget how to tell a story, lol. This should have been in the first half of the season with the fight for Mandalore taking up the second half instead of the fetch quests. The only bad part, for me, was IG-11. But, only because it was supposed to be a big deal for Mando to fix him and they turned into a joke.

OldBoy

I’m not sure what you guys are seeing, but this has not been a good season imo. Episodes are all over the place. I have no idea what they are striving to achieve in this season. What’s the build up to? No idea what anything is for. Imo this has been good SW world building visually, the no cohesion in some semblance of a story has me soured though. And I don’t plan on desouring.

TomOpus

I thought this thread was for the episode and not the whole season.

B.A.

yeah, I had to google it to see if it was the same character with different actors or a just a relation of the characters.

https://www.slashfilm.com/1253859/th...equel-trilogy/

MLBFan24

Ohh, now that was good! So those guys at the end were clones, with force powers, in beskar armor? Did I understand Moff Gideon’s speech correctly?

Xander Berkeley (24) with a Star Wars credit now. Nice.

I also like Charles Parnell’s addition to the cast. He was awesome on The Last Ship.

bunkaroo

Holy shit didn’t even realize - good casting for that.

HN

Er…on the spit roast during the feast/celebration — was that one of the 3 baby raptors(?) that they brought back a few episodes ago?

Rob V

Unfortunately, they're using the entire season to introduce Thrawn so we can hop onto Ahsoka and see him there. I expect multiple cross-overs that will ultimately be filler because nothing conclusive can happen until the movie.
If the "tie-up loose ends" movie is about 3 years away, there likely won't be many seasons of The Mandalorian left at this point.

kefrank

I enjoyed this episode quite a bit. It was in line with the better episodes from seasons 1 and 2. It also exposed just how uneven the prior episodes in this season have been. The Moff Gideon reveal would have been just as effective without the whole Elia/Dr. Pershing subplot that introduced more plot holes than intrigue. It does feel like this season has been mostly treading water with a less-focused through line than the previous seasons had. It's still entertaining on the whole though.

I had the same thought.

Rob V

I was really hoping the beskar reveal in the abandoned shuttle was more than just an upgraded trooper armor. Such a cool end-of-show scene and it really didn't amount to anything intriguing -- like a rogue Mandalorian.

Why So Blu?

The androgynous looking empire agent that was in the beginning, in cybercity, she's in the Ahsoka trailer, as well. Nothing will happen to her here.

The Antipodean

If you’ve never watched Rebels or read spinoff comics and novels I feel like this season would appear even weaker, TBH.

rw2516

The holographic images of the Dark Council. One looked like the actor who played the Greek landlord on Mom, Victor.

bluetoast

Who is the leader of that council? From the sound of it, there's some infighting. But it's funny that Gideon is able to walk around the room, spin around and talk to everyone, and everyone else (regardless of hierarchy) is standing still awkwardly looking forward. Do the other people randomly see the back of his head and see him go in and out of frame?

Xiroteus

Been wondering for awhile why someone would not take advantage of all that beskar since it's so strong.

rw2516

They're probably all equal. Their concerns with Gideon's plans is that he's wanting to make himself "more" equal at their expense. There has to be a camera tech that collects and transmits the image to a display tech that shows it. If the camera tech is 360 around the room than the image could be 3D. Or it could be fixed position and you have to stand still.