Star Wars The Mandalorian

[Zachowon]

Boba is best Mando! CONFIRMED!!!! Like...he was a badass with that melee weapon, the tusken one, and then when he got hir armor...like fucking hell. HE did put on some weight, look at how his armor isn't as tight fitting as Mandos. The sound of slave I is just so......*Shivers* So good. could go to sleep on it. Like a hum vibration. Boba Fett working with Din and sniper lady, as well as having a badass Cara Dune joining add in the ex imperial sharpshooter and you have an awesome squad! I cant wait for Ashoka and Bo Katan and the night owls to join in on the Light cruiser raide.

I am SO HYPED!!!!

 

[ShadowArxxy]

Boba is best Mando! CONFIRMED!!!! Like...he was a badass with that melee weapon, the tusken one, and then when he got hir armor...like fucking hell. HE did put on some weight, look at how his armor isn't as tight fitting as Mandos. I am SO HYPED!!!!

The Tusken weapon is a gaffi stick. They're based on a real-life Fijian war club called a totokia; that iconic spike-and-disc business end provides the weighted mass to drive that spike through armor, while at the same time preventing the end from overpenetrating and getting stuck. Very, very lethal.

I think the armor fitting poorly is more because the cloth underlayer was probably replaced by Cobb Vanth. Given how acid-pitted the beskar plates are, I can't imagine the cloth elements were salvageable after Fett got out of the Sarlacc.

That said, I will point out that for the hard armor elements, the Mandalorian rendition's faithfulness to the TESB/ROTJ original is astoundingly detailed. If you look closely at the movie and/or production pics from the originals, you'll notice that in addition to all the dents and scrapes, the left side piece of the breastplate is visibly bent forward and away from the central "diamond" piece. That damage is precisely replicated in the Mandalorian; it's very visible in the first set of shots of Boba fighting the Stormtroopers after reclaiming the armor, because he's standing sideways-on to the camera. Moreover, both of the "new" weapons he demonstrates -- the double-barreled arm and knee projectile launchers -- are actually part of the original armor, he just didn't use them in the Sarlacc Pit battle.

 

[Lord Sovereign]

HE did put on some weight, look at how his armor isn't as tight fitting as Mandos.

My dear chap.

That's not fat.

Temuera Morrison is shredded.

 

[Skallagrim]

Of all the stupid takes I've seen regarding this series, I think "Temuera Morrison is fat" must be the very stupidest of all. There are people literally whining about this, and they sound so dumb.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Of all the stupid takes I've seen regarding this series, I think "Temuera Morrison is fat" must be the very stupidest of all. There are people literally whining about this, and they sound so dumb.

It's perfectly understandable to be honest. He had to eat his way out of the Sarlacc Pit before that Krayt Dragon showed up. It takes time to lose five years of sedentary living weight.

 

[Zachowon]

My dear chap.

That's not fat.

Temuera Morrison is shredded.

It just looks like it is guess.
Not saying he is fat just that he has put on some pounds

 

[Lord Sovereign]

So, Mauler (the man who produced the best critique on The Last Jedi) and co have been reacting to some of the Mandalorian Season 2 episodes. They've managed to get to episode two so far, and they've been pretty brutal with it.

(Spoilers obviously) Reaction to episode 1: (You'll have to put it back to the start of the video with this one, as the link does not want to work properly)

(Spoilers obviously) Reaction to episode 2:

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On further thought inspired by them, I do wonder whether or not getting Grogu to commit infanticide was good material for a running gag.

 

[KilroywasNOTHere]

So, Mauler (the man who produced the best critique on The Last Jedi) and co have been reacting to some of the Mandalorian Season 2 episodes. They've managed to get to episode two so far, and they've been pretty brutal with it.

(Spoilers obviously) Reaction to episode 1: (You'll have to put it back to the start of the video with this one, as the link does not want to work properly)

(Spoilers obviously) Reaction to episode 2:

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On further thought inspired by them, I do wonder whether or not getting Grogu to commit infanticide was good material for a running gag.

Star wars fans havin't been united since the OT and even then i'm sure there were people who thought that having Vader being luke's father "made no sense. at some point we've got to learn to let things go and let people have their opinions. Personally I've enjoyed the mandalorian.

One thing I would ask of Mauler is to write his own star wars. Show me an example of what you want to see in star wars. many of the criticisms that are talked about here could be argued in both the OT and especially the PT (Why didn't they cover the hole in the death star)

 

[ShadowArxxy]

My dear chap.

That's not fat.

Temuera Morrison is shredded.

Temuera Morrison is also almost sixty years old, which makes his physique and athleticism even more remarkable. Boba Fett, in character, is "only" forty-one (born in 32 BBY, Mandalorian is 9 ABY), but he's lived a very harsh life so it really fits perfectly.

 

[Zachowon]

Temuera Morrison is also almost sixty years old, which makes his physique and athleticism even more remarkable. Boba Fett, in character, is "only" forty-one (born in 32 BBY, Mandalorian is 9 ABY), but he's lived a very harsh life so it really fits perfectly.

Especially after severe acid burns

 

[KilroywasNOTHere]

Kathleen Kennedy: We're axing the EU

John Feverue: Well....yes and no.

So boba fett IS a mandalorian and the open seasons comic is canon to some extent, though to what extent we will have to wait and see.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

It's not really backsies on the Disney Reboot; they always said they were going to be mining the EU for plot elements. Think of it as an MCU-style reboot with a cleaner, more coherent, and better thought out storyline that is inspired by but not directly repeating classic plot elements.

So boba fett IS a mandalorian and the open seasons comic is canon to some extent, though to what extent we will have to wait and see.

To be fair, the only statement that he wasn't a Mandalorian was an in character statement by someone who was very, very biased on the matter.

 

[AspblastUSA]

Think of it as an MCU-style reboot with a cleaner, more coherent, and better thought out storyline that is inspired by but not directly repeating classic plot elements.

Did you watch the same sequel trilogy I did? I admittedly haven’t read much of the old EU but I feel like three movies each taking the time to deliberately contradict the previous installment while lurching around mostly aimlessly is a really low bar to pass.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

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BTW, in a recent interview with Temeura Morrison, he mentioned that Boba Fett's voice sounds different because he's intentionally doing a more gravelly, strained tone. It's something he thought of while he was getting the stage makeup done for the scars on his head, the idea being if Boba's head got that fucked up by the Sarlacc, his vocal cords should be damaged too.

 

[Zachowon]

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BTW, in a recent interview with Temeura Morrison, he mentioned that Boba Fett's voice sounds different because he's intentionally doing a more gravelly, strained tone. It's something he thought of while he was getting the stage makeup done for the scars on his head, the idea being if Boba's head got that fucked up by the Sarlacc, his vocal cords should be damaged too.

He is a damn good actor

 

[DarthOne]

Something of a surprise to be sure, but a welcomed one.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

And the latest episode has a cargo-variant Juggernaut, Slave One demonstrating that she still has the super-badass seismic charges from AoTC, our favorite Mando throwing Moff Gideon's own words from last season's finale back in his smug Vader-wannabe face. . .

. . . oh, and the hugely significant character point of our Mando deciding that Grogu's life means more to him than the Creed.

The cargo Juggernaut in this episode is massively smaller than any of the multiple versions seen in both Legends and canon, which pretty much confirms that the term is used semi-generically to refer to the entire series of multi-wheeled articulated armored vehicles made by KDY.

 

[Flintsteel]

...I don't think Mayfield missed a single shot that entire episode. I guess his offense at being compared to Storm Troopers back in S1E6 was, in fact, justified.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

...I don't think Mayfield missed a single shot that entire episode. I guess his offense at being compared to Storm Troopers back in S1E6 was, in fact, justified.

I really like the fact that this episode really strongly humanized the faceless Stormtroopers -- while ironically showing that the much more human-looking Imperial officers are the ones who are actually "in" on the Empire's atrocities.

Also, from a tech/debates perspective, anybody still want to call TIE Fighter cannons weaksauce after that strafing run? It's very clear here that they're less powerful than the hugely oversized X-Wing guns, but they're still VASTLY more powerful than small arms.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

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Oh, a further thought: given that phrik alloy was literally *invented for* Dark Troopers, way back in the original Dark Forces video game, it will be interesting to see if the reboot Dark Troopers in the Mandalorian are still phrik-armored or whether they decide to consolidate things by making them beskar-armored instead.

On the one hand, two completely different metals with the exact same “plot schtick” is something of a redundancy, and we already knew that the Empire had access to lots of beskar because of the Great Purge, and that Gideon's faction had access to that stockpile. It's what they paid the Mando in way back in the very first episode, as we all know.

On the other hand, phrik *has* been mentioned in the Clone Wars series and in multiple books even post the Great Disney Reboot, so it explicitly hasn’t been retconned out of existence. And it does serve a purpose in being a lightsaber-resistant alloy that *isn’t* exclusive to the Mandalorians.