DarthSkywalker
Your Most Aggro Pal (he/him)
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Chapter Four: The Sanctuary
1. So for the second time in Star Wars television history, they go straight to the Seven Samurai well. And once again, it has mixed results imo.
2. This was the first episode I didn't love. I thought it was fine and whenever Gizmo was on screen, really enjoyable. But this was by far the weakness episode for far. The story itself fell flat for me. It felt short, under cooked, and lacking in the substance to achieve what they were trying to achieve. While I understood what they were trying to go for, they got nowhere near achieving that by the end of the run time imo.
3. Which made sense once the director came on. BDH felt like the biggest risk on the list, and I think it showed in the end. Even with the fun concept of the AT-ST, the introduction of Cara, and Gizmo finally moving around for a bit, it all felt very melodramatic and lacking in dynamism. This was the longest episode, but felt the shortest, as it felt like it was missing a lot to me.
4. Gizmo was great though. I love how he is both childlike and somehow wise at the same time. They really do love their Lone Wolf and Cub, and it has led to some rather nice results. His moving around was so precious.
5. This was the first episode I felt hurt the Mando as a character. After three episodes of building him as a man with a code he had to break to save Gizmo, it felt all way too easy to me that he slipped into straight up forlorn hero, spilling his guts. Weirder yet, it seemed almost impossible to tell how much time passed, which I thought was really odd.
6. One of the major issues here is suddenly all the character motivations are suddenly being explained. The Mando, our mystery man, is suddenly having his motivates and thoughts laid out before us, after the brilliant silence of the first three episodes, where you had to read his unreadable face. Even the start of the episode, on the ship was a perfect example of this. But once Cara got there, it was all explain, explain, explain. It felt like a different genre, a different show because of it.
7. Still can't tell if the Mando is actually a Mando. Which is rather interesting to me. If he isn't, that would mean Boba, Jango and the Mando aren't actually Mandos. The three most identifiable Mandos in the lore so far.
8. I want to know who dropped him off with the Mandos. That has to be the case right? He seemed to heavily imply it, if not outright said it.
9. So they loved advertising Cara, so I assume this wasn't her last episode. But I was honestly surprised she just went on her way at the end. I liked her, but again like the episode itself, not a lot to her so far.
10. I liked the use of the AT-ST. Them using it as this big intimidating force, emphasized just how powerful a whole legion can be.
11. I thought the Mando's armor looked a lot better this week. A lot more metallic then plastic. Hoping that continues.
12. Which reminds me. How in the world was Cara beating him up, while he wore that? Shouldn't that have messed her up pretty bad?
13. Live action Loth cat will eat your soul...
14. The Mando's theme sounding like a theme from Rocky continues to throw me.
All in all, not a lot this week. Hoping next week gets us back on track. Back half of the season coming, including Taika's episode!
1. So for the second time in Star Wars television history, they go straight to the Seven Samurai well. And once again, it has mixed results imo.
2. This was the first episode I didn't love. I thought it was fine and whenever Gizmo was on screen, really enjoyable. But this was by far the weakness episode for far. The story itself fell flat for me. It felt short, under cooked, and lacking in the substance to achieve what they were trying to achieve. While I understood what they were trying to go for, they got nowhere near achieving that by the end of the run time imo.
3. Which made sense once the director came on. BDH felt like the biggest risk on the list, and I think it showed in the end. Even with the fun concept of the AT-ST, the introduction of Cara, and Gizmo finally moving around for a bit, it all felt very melodramatic and lacking in dynamism. This was the longest episode, but felt the shortest, as it felt like it was missing a lot to me.
4. Gizmo was great though. I love how he is both childlike and somehow wise at the same time. They really do love their Lone Wolf and Cub, and it has led to some rather nice results. His moving around was so precious.
5. This was the first episode I felt hurt the Mando as a character. After three episodes of building him as a man with a code he had to break to save Gizmo, it felt all way too easy to me that he slipped into straight up forlorn hero, spilling his guts. Weirder yet, it seemed almost impossible to tell how much time passed, which I thought was really odd.
6. One of the major issues here is suddenly all the character motivations are suddenly being explained. The Mando, our mystery man, is suddenly having his motivates and thoughts laid out before us, after the brilliant silence of the first three episodes, where you had to read his unreadable face. Even the start of the episode, on the ship was a perfect example of this. But once Cara got there, it was all explain, explain, explain. It felt like a different genre, a different show because of it.
7. Still can't tell if the Mando is actually a Mando. Which is rather interesting to me. If he isn't, that would mean Boba, Jango and the Mando aren't actually Mandos. The three most identifiable Mandos in the lore so far.
8. I want to know who dropped him off with the Mandos. That has to be the case right? He seemed to heavily imply it, if not outright said it.
9. So they loved advertising Cara, so I assume this wasn't her last episode. But I was honestly surprised she just went on her way at the end. I liked her, but again like the episode itself, not a lot to her so far.
10. I liked the use of the AT-ST. Them using it as this big intimidating force, emphasized just how powerful a whole legion can be.
11. I thought the Mando's armor looked a lot better this week. A lot more metallic then plastic. Hoping that continues.
12. Which reminds me. How in the world was Cara beating him up, while he wore that? Shouldn't that have messed her up pretty bad?
13. Live action Loth cat will eat your soul...
14. The Mando's theme sounding like a theme from Rocky continues to throw me.
All in all, not a lot this week. Hoping next week gets us back on track. Back half of the season coming, including Taika's episode!
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I could see this complaint if Mando settled down with her and starting making babies, and the series ended here lol. But a woman he met was interested in him...he didn't act on it, and moved on. How is that "out of nowhere"? It's not like there should have been scenes in previous episodes leading up to their brief encounter.
