The Mandalorian (Disney+) TV Show • Page 47

Good take. Thats honestly what I wanted to begin with plus an over arcing plot. Which is exactly what weve got here so far.

 

Personal preference, just ain’t my jam.

 

Just realized I’ll most likely be out of town when the finale hits. That might suck.

 

Considering we’ve only had four episodes so far, and three of those episodes literally tell the story of one specific bounty mission from taking it to completing it to turning it in, I don’t think it’s accurate to say this series has been closer to a procedural than a serial thus far. Sure episode 4 specifically was a detour, but we’re only seeing it as a detour because we’ve been conditioned up to this point for the show to be telling a continuing story. One can’t fairly say one thinks the show is supposed to be closer to a procedural while also criticizing episode 4 for not “continuing the story” from the first three.

Of course, it also does continue the story from the first three. It just doesn’t continue it in the same manner from a pacing perspective as the the first three did.

 

And, for what it's worth, both creators are very much trying to create a serial...

DAVE FILONI: It’s exciting for me ‘cause I get to be a part of it. As a kid, growing up, I would watch Star Wars, every week. And as television got more and more genre, over the years, I remember when Star Trek: The Next Generation came out with the promise of better visual effects on television, and it took a big leaps. As somebody that’s always been into fantasy and science fiction, you were always waiting for a moment where you thought that the images on television were as good as what you were seeing in the theater, but there was a big separation, when I was a kid. Now, it’s gotten so close. We can make something like Star Wars because the technology has advanced. That’s one of the dreams that the George [Lucas] had. Even when I worked with him on Clone Wars, he would talk about the future being streaming, and the future being episodic, serialized Star Wars. So, it’s cool to get to help make it.

JON FAVREAU: For me, as somebody who grew up with Star Wars and really having been formed around what I experienced when I was little, with the first film, there was some aesthetic to it that I really gravitated to. My whole taste in movies was probably formed, in a big way, from seeing George Lucas’s original film. I learned about cinema through the lens of that film. My father would explain to me, “This is a lot like samurai movies,” or “This is a lot like westerns,” or “This is a lot like World War II films.” And so, that became my inroad. And then, there was The Power of Myth, with Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, that was filmed up at the Ranch, and that opened me up to mythic structure, and my understanding of mythology and storytelling. And so, to come back and return to this with the freedom that this new platform affords, because there’s nothing to compare it to, nothing has been on TV, other than the holiday special, the idea of telling the story over more than just a couple of hours, told every few years, opens us up to this novelization of story and a return back to the roots, in many ways, of the Saturday afternoon serial films that my parent’s generation grew up with. Drawing from that type of style of storytelling lends itself really well to what we’re tackling here. It’s funny not to have a preciousness in the way that we’re telling the stories because we’re coming back to you next week with another one. To engage the audience, in the way that I enjoy being engaged, with a bigger budget and a lot of the qualities and aesthetics of a film, but the novelization of serialized storytelling is where it really opens up a lot of freedom and opportunity, where we don’t feel like we’re repeating or copying anything else that people have experienced with Star Wars.

 

someone make sure favreau and filoni have seen bebop

 

All I know is I have fun watching it and will continue to watch as long as that’s the case or it ends. I really don’t care what to classify it as. I’m pretty shallow with how I consume media

 

Oh for sure, the threads of the baby and what Mando is going to do with that and his own choices for his life have been there throughout. But we also had things like the big side story of the Jawas and the egg and obviously the entirety of the most recent episode, so it’s been a pretty even split between series-wide lore and self-contained stories. It’ll be easier to judge once the whole season is out, but I expect the standalone adventures to continue being a big focus.

 

that jawa and egg plotline was everything

 

I never want to see a hairy egg ever again. Something about that was so unsettling. The yolk looked nice though.

 

i thought it was hilarious when they just broke it open and started eating it lol felt so anticlimactic but at the same time perfect

 

total Jawa move

 

Shoot the Shaggy Egg Story.

Really reminded me of Galaxy Quest for how absurd, gross, and disappointing it was. The minor miners would totally have done the same thing.

 

The Jawas cracking open the egg was my favorite moment of the series so far. So weird and fucked up haha.

 

This feels like a slight to our lord and savior Baby Yoda.

 

Baby Yoda is legitimately one of the cutest things I have ever seen in cinema

 

sure bout that?

 

I doubt they’ll explain it but I would be very ok with this species being asexual and somehow being born through some other means. It’s fantasy they can figure it out. I just don’t think Yoda fucks and I’m not even trying to be funny about it

 

I wouldn’t be surprised if the force is involved in how they reproduce.

 

Rian wants to direct an episode in Season 2