Anyone want to talk about Mandalorian (or Star Wars)? [MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS]

I literally only use Disney+ for Mando, Clone Wars and my occasional original trilogy binge haha. And yep, I agree it really does work!

The third episode was phenomenal! Shame it ended so quickly. Where my Clone Wars fans at?!

I read somewhere that Dave Filoni directed and produced episode 5. Gonna be so good! I wonder how they're going to do Ahsoka for the show.

So that was a pretty sweet episode. Looks like it is starting to pick up! I think we might meet a certain ex-Jedi next week...

I just watched the latest episode and I love the series but the episodes seem so short.

Love the fact Slave I is still in action 😁

Absolutely fantastic episode. I almost had a tear in my eye seeing my two favourite bounty hunters in action together. Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni truly understand how to tell a story backed up with years of expanded universe lore. Fantastic Easter eggs in the episode too.

Big fan here. Agreed that Clone wars was amazing, Last season spectacular.

On Mandalorian it's hit or miss sometimes. Waikikis first season episode was amazing and this weeks directed by Robert Rodriguez pretty much best of the bunch. Very Very disappointed by "the Jedi" episode. Surprised Feloni didn't do better with this. Rosario Dawson is perfect for the role but the fighting and movement was just really really badly choreographed. Given that Feloni is pretty much responsible for Clone wars and Rebels I really thought he would do better with, arguably, one of the most important episodes on terms of Canon. Compare Dawson's fighting with Boba Fet's on "the tragedy". How is it even close to possible that Tano has any challenges winning over the last fight after what he have seen her do in Clone wars?

Anyway, great show.....reading my post I am surprised I am such a SW fan but I guess I am.

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Right? and the fighting itself just felt clumsy. every movement was pretty much "telegraphed" in fighting terms. If Ashoka is capable of the fighting level she displayed against Darth Maul on the CW finale then...hell, she would not even need a lightsaber to win the last fight. Just a gentle force push.

In terms of story though, it's a good story and in line with the character. Specially if she's still looking for Thrawn and Ezra....Which brings us to Ezra....

I think I may have to have a binge on the cartoon series over Xmas, Ezra?

Ezra Bridger is on Rebels, But it is a relevant enough character that Filoni will most likely bring into the fold. While Ashoka was Anakin Skywalker's Padawan during the Clone wars and a pretty well developed Jedi that survives Order 66 and fights to tell the tale (albeit, being kicked out of the Jedi order before then), Ezra is barely a force sensitive kid at that time but get's trained and developed during the "Rebel" time period that follows. The period between The first and second trilogies where the rebellion is formed.

He is trained by another Jedi survivor called Kanan. Being after the fall of the Jedi though he has a pretty "gray" training and even dabs on the dark side a few times and pairs up with Darth Maul in order to get into some or other Syth practices and artifacts. Most importantly he does fight alongside Ashoka a few times and is last seen following Admiral Thawn and disappearing alongside him. Ashoka is supposedly looking for him thereafter. Which is why Thawn being mentioned is quite a name drop in the context of the broader story line intersection between Clone Wars, Rebels and Mandalorian.

Mandalorian does take place after the original trilogy though, which is why Ashoka is not mid forties and, I suppose, Ezra would be somewhere in his late thirties.

Also of note is the absence so far of Sabine. who is a Mandalorian and part of the crew in Rebels. She is supposed to be looking for Ezra along Ashoka. Sabine is relevant in this story for several reasons. Like Bo Katan she is royalty of sorts within mangalore. She is the person that brought back the dark saber in order to unite the mandalorians and was suppose to reign over them BUT, gave her position along with the Dark Saber to Bo Katan.... Bo Katan is the red head mandalorian that appears in season 2 and is looking to get that dark saber back....however she lost it to begin with.

But, to the point, it is difficult to bring into the story the Dark Saber, Thawn, Ashoka and not loop in Sabine and Ezra at some point.... Maybe Ezra will train Baby Yoda? or maybe Luke Skywalker will as at this point he is supposedly re-forming the academy etc...

I don't know about the rest of you guys, I'm sticking with 'Baby Yoda' too 😜

well, according to the Ashoka episode he was trained for several decades at the Jedi temple and survived order 66. Which means he knows of or directly knows all the players as he was alive and training through the entire saga.... and..... May be Yoda’s baby ( I hope not) but timeline-wise it would make sense. Certainly Yoda as leader of the Jedi would know of a member of his species training under his nose for 80 years.