SPOILER The Mandalorian S3E6 Chapter 22- Guns for Hire

It was awesome. I have spoken.

 

One thing that a number of posters to this thread have noted is that Lizzo’s acting was bad and there wasn’t any chemistry between her character and Jack Black’s. I purposely didn’t identify any of them because the take I’m about to make is about ME, not them. But it’s a perspective I think is important to voice regarding TV and movies designed for an increasingly multicultural society.

Quite a few years ago, a blockbuster movie came out called The Bodyguard starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. I saw it and thought it was an ‘okay’ flick but a coworker of mine thought it was a wonderful love story and one of her favorites of all time. I flatly told her I wasn’t keen on Whitney’s acting and failed to see any chemistry between the two. Sadly, it was years later that I became self-aware enough to realize what an idiot I’d been. I was looking at it through my young, naive, Midwestern, American white male eyes and was absolutely clueless how differently my African-American female colleague might have looked at it.

Looking back on that embarrassing memory, it helped me to broaden my perspective and think before criticizing something in a way that said more about me than it did the ‘acting’ or ‘the chemistry’ of a show featuring a multicultural couple. That’s not to say there can’t be bad acting or zero chemistry in any show, including one featuring a multicultural cast. But examine and understand your own reactions first.

 

I actually have a feeling that this season and the next will be locked in with each other the same way season 1 and 2 was, so I don't think we get to see the full on Moff Gideon stuff until season 4, it's either that or the Mandalore plot that gets drawn out. Possibly both. This season feels more like season 1, building it up, with a small reeard at the end and a semi-cliffhanger.

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*reward

 

I wouldn’t be surprised if Season 3 ends similar to the way Season 1 did with a melodramatic shot of Moff Gideon, only this time in full Mandalorian gear.

 

Great Post!!! That is exactly what subjectivity of film means to me... its all subjective. I appreciate your honesty very much, great example.

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After reading a few post and watching click bait reviews, I think its time to watch this episode again.

 

I live under a rock and I don't know who Lizzo is, but she no doubt asked to hold Grogu the whole episode and I respect her for that.

 

Not to mention that a certain corner of the internet outright hates Lizzo for pretty shallow reasons, and wouldn't have given her a chance even if her acting was amazing.

 

The thing about the princess role is that It was written as a minor, one-dimensional character in the episode’s story. I suspect Favreau wrote it with a non-actor like Lizzie in mind. He certainly didn’t write the character to be nuanced or complex in any way.

Soooooooooooo, when internet pundits talk about Lizzo’s ‘horrible’ acting, what the hell are they talking about???!? What didn’t Lizzie convey that they expected to see? If the answer is ‘believability,’ what is THAT saying about THEM?

As a white male, I feel obligated to say that all of Lizzo’s YouTube critics that I’ve seen thus far (Echo Base, SW Theory, etc.) have been — surprise, surprise — white males.

 

Fun fact (or at least fun guess):

The Mon Calamari nobleman from the teaser at the beginning of the episode was a bounty Greef offered Din in chapter 3, "The Sin."

 

Absolutely.
The material she got was not easy to work with and managed quite well.
I will get another point of view with the screenshots in my second viewing.

 

Great point, although, I've heard Star Wars Theory say he is not caucasian, so I wonder what his background really is?

( Years ago, when I worked at UPS, I befriended a coworker named Carl, he looks like a very young Keanu Reeves, who dressed in all black all the time. Black leather jacket, black T, black jeans, and black boots, but what really intrigued me about him, is that he brought to work these huge hardcover fantasy novels. I asked him about them, and we eventually became close friends. After work we would go to his apartment and play video games and paint his Warhammer figures, anyway I thought Carl was white. He looked white, but when his father left a message on his answering machine he had the same Haitian accent that my father has. Carl wasn't white he was mixed, yet he looked white and passed for white in society. All the white guys at work wanted him to become a supervisor... they didn't know his awful secret, only I did, and he used it well. He later would color my first self-published comic book when he worked for Kell-O-Graphics, a printing company that worked for all the major publishers. It was an honor to sit in those offices and see how they color comics that I grew up reading. All thanks to Carl, who is and always will be, a good friend).

The Echo Base guys are just appalling, they seem like nice guys but they're really not, it took me awhile but I eventually unsubscribed years ago.

The Echo Base guys don't want diversity in their Star Wars. They want Star Wars to look like the Original Trilogy which was filmed in the 70s and 80s.

I'm happy that they were honest about how they feel, that type of content is not for me, so I respectfully stopped following their channel.

 

Din also got paid for his work for Greef in Mon Cala squishy Flan coins, which he later used in season 2, chapter 11 ("The Heiress"), to pay the Mon Cala tavern keeper for "information" on Mandalorians. Not that I've rewatched this show a bunch of times or anything.

 

Very good!

 

This is where I am with this.... It's live action Star Wars and there's a huge audience for it. Some people may like it, some people hate it. It doesn't really matter. If you like it great, if you didn't cool.

I love Mando and love we're getting new world building in this era.