Two More Mandalorian Episodes

You know, there is a guy who hated Full House so much that he reviewed every single episode and nearly lost his mind in the process.  Those reviews are still up.  I do not hate The Mandalorian, but I am not seeing the subtle character-building that I keep hearing about.  Here are two more episodes; feel free to continue to blame that Michelle.

Episode 3: ”The Sin”

We open with Baby Yoda escaping its floaty thing, which is promising.  Baby Yoda tries to eat part of the ship while a hologram discusses turning it over for bounty.  Back into the floaty thing you go, Baby Yoda!  Does anyone really think the Mandalorian will leave the baby with the Bad People?  No one thinks that.

Okay, the Bad People are creepily excited to get Baby Yoda, and they examine it with frightening intensity, then try to distract the Mandalorian with a whole bunch of metal which I guess is what he gets paid with.  To add to his armor or something.  Does he know this makes him like a droid?  He hates droids.  Ah, somebody studied the literary term "irony" in English class; good job, writers, you have created an Inner Conflict.

The Mandalorian takes his metal bounty to this gold-armored woman who makes armor (she is called The Armourer, of course), where some other guys challenge him in a manly way, but since he has followed the Way of the Mandalore or whatever, the woman shuts them down and offers to make him a signet of the CGI rhino, but he says he didn’t really earn it, and I sort of agree with him there.

Much murmuring about The Way, which makes me think of Rogue One, and how many mystic Ways are there in the Star Wars universe, anyway?  The Duchess of Mandalore did not follow this Way; of course, she was killed by Darth Maul, so…I miss Darth Maul.  He was cool.

Okay, here is some kind of flashback to the Mandalorian’s childhood which involved violence and red cloaks.  Was he being raised to be an Imperial Guard?  Surely not.  Anyway, after the unrevealing flashbacks, his new piece of armor or weapon is done, and he…goes to a bar to get a new bounty.  He is kind of pissy that other bounty hunters were also paid to find Baby Yoda.

Uh-oh, he’s breaking the Guild Code by asking what’s going to happen to the baby.  His boss or whatever suggests getting high on spice until his worries go away.  This does not seem like a good idea.

Okay, so his stick-binoculars can see through walls and spy on people, and he hears that they will kill Baby Yoda and extract…something.  I do not know what.  Midichlorians?  But Our Hero will rescue the baby from the Stormtroopers who are definitely not part of the Empire, which is gone.  They shoot like Stormtroopers, though.  I find it hard to believe that the New Order is constructed from this.

There is a fight in an ill-lit warehouse, then he is caught, and then we find out his new armor fires little teeny tiny missiles.  He has rescued Baby Yoda!  Is this the “sin” of the episode’s title?

Back in a bar, which is definitely not in Mos Eisley, all the other bounty hunters’ little pagers go off.  I see, so all of them will be after Baby Yoda and the Mandalorian now.  Now there is a confrontation in the street, and the boss bounty hunter says he’s the Mandalorian’s “only hope”—and that line belongs to Leia, so I hope he gets fried with the flamethrower or something.

Oh, the Mandalorian gets on a floating car driven by a droid, and he hates droids, don’t forget that (it’s one of his major characteristics, you see).  Now they are surrounded, and the flamethrower is out of fuel.  But Baby Yoda makes an Expression and suddenly a bunch of flying Mandalorians appear!  They have jet packs, much to the envy of Our Hero.  Is it Sabine Wren?  No, she’s off with the Ghost, I guess.  Apparently, rescuing the Mandalorian is part of the Way, even if he has broken the Guild Code.

The boss guy follows him to his ship, but gets shot a little bit, and the ship takes off.  Wow, this planet is even gloomy from space.  The ship is called the Razorcrest.  Of course, it is.

Episode 4:

You know how in those old westerns the gunfighter would ride into town, rally the townsfolk, defeat the bad gunfighters, then ride away without even porking the girl?  This is that episode. 

Also, the Mandalorian just about poos his armor at the idea of fighting an AT-ST which…c’mon, the ewoks took those things out with a pile of logs and some twine.  It’s not like he was being asked to fight an AT-AT, after all!  What kind of wussy bounty hunter is this?    

And they accused Roddenberry of making the Wagon Train to the Stars.