The Mandalorian S2E5 - Chapter 13: The Jedi

Imagine what could've been revealed at Celebration if we had one... damn this virus.

 

It would've been really special, such a shame. I just hope we get a future panel with Rosario, Ashley & Dave, that'd be lovely.

 

I can't tell, are Ahsoka's sabers white or blue? I wanna say white.

 

Very bright white. Not sure how you got blue out of them

 

I was hoping there would be a scene near the end where they subdue all the bad guys and Din turns to Ahsoka and says "Book 'em, Tano!"

 

I dunno... I think the greenish color threw me off a bit. At least at the beginning.

 

Did anybody say "dank farrik" in this episode?

 

Yes.

 

Okay, so here's my midseason grumpy hot take:

The Mandalorian needs to be more okay with having episodes that don't totally wrap up by the end.

We sorta got that in Episode two this season, and obviously we had the two-parter finale last year... and it's not like there aren't over-arching plots in the series.

But...

It seems all too common that the series introduces a main episode plot and has it resolved by the end of the episode's runtime, and the cameos this season are showing the cracks in that formula.

I honestly didn't mind last season's episodic format, but when you replace characters like Bill Burr and Clancy Brown's bounty hunters with bigger canon hitters like Cobb Vanth, Bo Katan, Greef & Dune, and Ahsoka Freakin Tano while still treating them like RPG Questgivers... it just feels a little strange to me.

I'm confident things will tie up better in the end, but right now it feels like we're not only episodic (which again, is fine) but also going through a checklist of fan favorite faces. It's a fine line to walk, because I wouldn't want Bo or Ahsoka to become a main character in this series either, but I'm not sure we've really nailed this formula by any means.

And now that Baby Yoda being set on the stone might somehow summon a Jedi or whatever, I'm equally parts worried about how that cameo will be handled (Ezra? Luke?) as I am excited for what will undoubtedly still be an awesome scene. Same with that Thrawn name drop- I really hope he's the tease for a season three big bad rather than the monster of the week next episode.

And I hate to be so grumpy, because this episode does so much right, just like the others this season. Seeing Ahsoka Tano do flips and fight with her white lightsabers in live action was incredible (even if the actress herself is shrouded in some potentially te
rrible behavior), the obvious McQuarrie and Kurosawa inspired designs of Corvus (along with its cinematography) were some of the best in the entire series, and we finally got some forward momentum on Baby Yoda's backstory (I actually really like the name Grogu, but to paraphrase a certian Tekka, "He'll always be Baby to me").

And I'm a sucker for fan-service. Like, I usually argue in support of it. But even I feel like we're approaching dangerous territory here, and I'm not sure I could really disagree with someone who thought we're already there.

 

I hope we get a panel like this, even if it is online only. Maybe with vaccine and time, we can see such a panel at a real convention in Spring next year

 

It is hard to overstate how much I loved this! Many people are probably saying this but Favreau and Filoni are saving Star Wars. The possibilities after this episode are...considerable.

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Honestly by now I am OK with casting someone else as Luke. It makes no sense tiptoeing around the fact that Luke is the major Jedi in the galaxy right now. So it makes sense that Grogu might interest him. Ezra also seems plausible but I think he will be woven into the story in a different way.

 

Is there a title for Chapter 14 yet?

 

It's a call back to ROTJ which had Anakin show up a ghost without being trained on screen. Come to think of it, nobody is ever shown being trained how to become a ghost.

To me, fan service is only bad when it's a shortcut to avoid creating something more appropriate, emotionally credible and stimulating by itself. Or when you realise that the significance of something's inclusion is purely for fan service.

 

I'm going to guess The Stone or The Mountain (I'm guessing the stone is a is on a mountain. And I'm assuming we don't go to Tatooine/Navareene first)

I know that. It was all told to us long after people started appearing as force ghosts.

 

Part of me want previews of the next episode added on Disney + but other part of me is happy only the title or small synopsis is released online mid-week