Wasn’t Deja’s “well that’s going to be a problem” line 2 episodes ago?  They did follow up with the horrible dinner where she and Malik told Randall and Beth that she was going to graduate early and move to Boston. It is hard to remember with a 2 week gap. I’m a bit miffed that after they promised a straight-through…

Just here to say, what a great opening paragraph of this review. Stick around, Nick. 

as someone who didn’t watch clone wars, but quite enjoyed rebels, the added context doesn’t really make the new live action stuff any better or more interesting. 

I don’t care about all the flaws this show has: it had a rancor climbing a tower like King Kong. The rancor scenes were the greatest things I’ve ever seen, and will ever see.

I like after all of that killing and destruction he’s just like “we’re not cut out for this”. Conveniently closing the door on Boba’s odd middle-life crisis.

At least in the OT, there were good-guy minions who got killed to make the heroes seem like they were in danger. The guards on Leia’s ship mostly get killed, Luke’s fellow pilots mostly get killed attacking the Death Star, tons of Echo Base rebel troops get massacred by AT-ATs and stormtroopers, plenty of ground…

I keep thinking about how confusing Mandalorian S3E1 is going to be to someone who got bored of Boba Fett and didn’t watch through to the last few episodes. After all *that* to summon Luke Skywalker and send Grogu off for training, he’s just back with Mando after barely attending his Jedi freshman orientation.

Well, somebody on Fett’s side had to die.  I swear nobody else - townsfolk included - suffered any damage that couldn’t be fixed with a complimentary voucher to the bacta tank.

I’m not going to try and defend my mistake, because it was just sloppy analysis on my part. But I do think, in part, my brain was starving for any kind of thematic through line to a show utterly uninterested in that kind of storytelling.

I could see Ernest Cline writing this show.

The character assassination of Luke started in the prior episode, where Luke, learning apparently NOTHING from the failure of the previous Jedi order, still pulled out that “no attachment” bullshit and asked a pre-verbal toddler to have the wisdom to make a massive life decision between a life of extreme sacrifice and…

Because the show utterly failed at the most basic fundamentals of storytelling: who is this character? What is he trying to accomplish? Why? What are the obstacles? What does he learn along the way?

I would be willing to bet a five of dollars that this season lost at least an episode and probably two to COVID issues.  And I would be willing to double that bet that one of those episodes was “Bane shows up to hassle Fett, call him out on going soft, and trigger a few flashbacks that explained why Fett isn’t as…

So apparently the secret to making a good episode of a television show is to make it an episode of a different television show.

Is Boba really that fucked-up that he needs immersed on a daily basis?

because everything that Lucasfilm (and Disney) has on the screen, whether big screen or streaming is deliberate

I fully expect the eventual Big Baddie will be some Sith or Sith-adjacent remnant of the Empire. Probably something out of a book to make a small section of the internet get excited, then ultimately disappointed and angry. 

This really is panning out to be a show we're all desperate to love but can't quite manage, isn't it?

Try drinking every time Boba nods meaningfully at Tusken, or vice versa.  Woowee.

I like the show but the framing of the narrative is dragging it down for me. They would have been better off putting all of the present day stuff they've shown so far in the first episode then have his time with the Tuskans as one big extended flashback before going back to the present. That way his motivations in the…