Sure, why not? The gratuitous Latin will seem forced and snobbish outside of (semi-)formal debates, which should help preserve its meaning.

Same. I can’t help but wonder if that was an attempt to feed the beast called nostalgia; it would have been fine as the Boba Fett-related chapters of the Mandalorian.

I’d forgotten about Moneypenny, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen either of the Dalton Bonds, and apart from GoldenEye I’ve only seen each of the Brosnan movies once.

Was this episode really Pike lite? He was in it a pretty substantial amount. I’d say Pike just wasn’t central to it, which is a nice sidestep of Star Trek storytelling convention, where the Captain is nearly always the one to solve the core problem. 

She needed to put everyone through the trial to get Una to actually say what Neera wanted her to say, and soften the judges in the process. That needed to happen.

Anson Mount had a child when they were starting to film the season so they accomodated the storyline to fit his needs.

I can see that. Not a bad theory about the Sabine/Satine name thing for casual fans.

Also, I think it could be pretty easily inferred that Bo and Satine really weren’t that close. Aside from differences in political ideology (which quite possibly could stem from childhood rivalry or resentment, i.e. Bo despising Satine for being the “lady in waiting” sort of thing), perhaps Bo’s opinions of her sister…

I am going to disagree with you on that. The defense council was carefully pointing out all the ways in which the Federation are falling short of their ideals. And teasing out the asylum defense without the prosecution seeing it coming and taking some sort of steps to short circuit it. The Vulcan admiral seems like…

Satine’s death is a painful topic for her, Bo-Katan has enjoyed a revisionist history on the Mandalorian show, where she doesn’t really get into the fact that she was originally a villain and made some pretty big mistakes. But Satine in particular is ancient history.

The one I wonder about is Bo and Satine’s nephew who was alive at the end of Clone Wars. 

I think it comes down to relevance. Satine was a peacemaker in a society of warriors. Her political dream was essentially a failed experiment followed by a galactic coup followed by a genocide from which the pacifists did not survive, only the warriors did. And not many of them.

Satine represented the democratic ideal that lost sight of the fact that those ideals exist to serve people. She was so beholden to the ideal that she ignored the corruption that happened right under her nose. She was Star Wars’ Chamberlain, a tragic figure whose single-minded commitment to peace ultimately subjected…

“You know, my sister used to rule Mandalore.”

I was disappointed that there was never even a name-drop of Satine in the Obi-Wan series.  And of course no mention of her through three seasons of the Mandalorian; despite having Bo-Katan with a more significant role through progression of the storyline.  Just missed opportunities to tie the eras together.  I’ve…

I really enjoyed this episode. I know there’s often been a diversion of thought among the fandom as to whether or not the Federation is a utopia, or one that’s still in aspiring to that ideal. And I’ve always leaned far more toward the latter for a number of reasons. Also, I think using this topic to demonstrate how…

Actually James, we don’t *know* that Una wins going in, because we actually haven’t seen her at any point past this.

It might be time to accept the possibility that “we” don’t know which Mandalorian is the titular Mandalorian. It might be time to accept the possibility that there was never only one. titular. Mandalorian. That will make it easier to focus on the storytelling and the show itself rather than whether or not Din Djarin…

It was also confusing to me that Star Wars Rebels featured a young Mandalorian called Sabine.