The Mandalorian

[Phildo]

The jet packs are just full rockets now, right?  Like, they can take a guy all the way into low orbit or do extended flights over long distances?

[Samwise]

At some point I expect they just get a hyperdrive upgrade and then who needs ships?

[Tebonas]

The power creep of "Dark Troopers in Beskar Armor" really didn't help dispel that video game writing vibe.

Especially since it seemed inconsistent from scene to scene how hard they were to take down.

The fact that Mando updated his equipment with dropped loot after every stage of the "Shields Down" fight didn't help, either.

[Riggswolfe]

Especially since they were such 1:1 knockoffs that Mando could just slot in the jetpack.

It felt like Filoni got distracted, then came back and just wanted to make the mess go away.

--Dave

I am pretty sure that is a big reason for the drop in quality this season. He's off doing Ahsoka and it shows.

[HaemishM]

It really felt like nobody really gave a shit about this storyline but it had to be done to get it out of the way or something.

[Velorath]

Like I said, I'm still not sure what the story was even supposed to be. It seemed like the better payoff for the Mandalorians would have been after Carl Weathers gave them a place of their own on his planet and he got protection in return, but then they ditch that potential new status quo the next episode to take over a mostly dead planet. They could have looked forward and forged a new path on a new planet, but instead more of them ended up sacrificing themselves including a guy who had a young kid because they want to live in some unsafe ruins of their former glory.

[HaemishM]

I'm not even sure how the logistics of resettling a world that can barely sustain life works. How do they even get enough food to eat without importing it? How do they protect the planet when they can't even communicate from the planet's surface to orbit? Other than symbolic value, what's the purpose of lighting the Great Forge before you have agriculture? And what's to stop the remnants of the Imperium from just coming in with Star Destroyers and finishing the job?

[Threash]

There's like 20 of them, they ain't resettling shit.

[Tebonas]

I'm not even sure how the logistics of resettling a world that can barely sustain life works. How do they even get enough food to eat without importing it? How do they protect the planet when they can't even communicate from the planet's surface to orbit? Other than symbolic value, what's the purpose of lighting the Great Forge before you have agriculture? And what's to stop the remnants of the Imperium from just coming in with Star Destroyers and finishing the job?

Not disagreeing with you on any of your points, but it was heavily implied that the not communicating thing was a function of the Imperial starbase (after all Moff Gideon could communicate just fine) which may be a nonfactor after destroying the base.

But yes, its purely symbolic, after all they showed us time after time how into symbols the Mandalorians are. And its not like the other places they hid out on were any better.

[Velorath]

I'm not even sure how the logistics of resettling a world that can barely sustain life works. How do they even get enough food to eat without importing it? How do they protect the planet when they can't even communicate from the planet's surface to orbit? Other than symbolic value, what's the purpose of lighting the Great Forge before you have agriculture? And what's to stop the remnants of the Imperium from just coming in with Star Destroyers and finishing the job?

Fuckers that had been stuck on that planet scraped together to get one workable vehicle going even, and that shit got demolished the first day the other Mandalorians arrive on the planet.

[Riggswolfe]

Not disagreeing with you on any of your points, but it was heavily implied that the not communicating thing was a function of the Imperial starbase (after all Moff Gideon could communicate just fine) which may be a nonfactor after destroying the base.

But yes, its purely symbolic, after all they showed us time after time how into symbols the Mandalorians are. And its not like the other places they hid out on were any better.

I thought the not communicating thing had something to do with the thick clouds and was a remnant of the Empire's bombing or something. Anyway, I agree that it seems weird for them to do this and lose yet more people for...very little gain. I hope that Moff Gideon's comments in the finale are a hint that the Mandalorians are going to learn they have to let some of this shit go if they want to survive as a people but I doubt the writers intended it or will follow up on it. Best case, we go back to Lone Wolf and Cub and Mando occasionally gets called to help the others out with something.

[Surlyboi]

I'm not even sure how the logistics of resettling a world that can barely sustain life works. How do they even get enough food to eat without importing it? How do they protect the planet when they can't even communicate from the planet's surface to orbit? Other than symbolic value, what's the purpose of lighting the Great Forge before you have agriculture? And what's to stop the remnants of the Imperium from just coming in with Star Destroyers and finishing the job?

There were underground farms. They specifically mentioned this. Is it enough to resettle the whole planet? Probably not if you’re supporting millions but right now, it didn’t look like there were that many.

[HaemishM]

No, I saw the underground farms. It was kind of a throwaway "oh this is how the sailors survived for so long" thing, and unless they are going to be eating giant monster meat, I still don't see it being enough for a resettlement. Like I said, these are nitpicky things but they add up to making it have more of a vibe of bad video game writing or children's cartoon than what I'm used to seeing from season 1.

[naum]

I mean, Star Wars, is just silliness all-around.
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