Everything just felt a little over-the-top cliche to me, especially the female Twi'lek. Maybe I need to watch it again.
That has actually been one of the things I've enjoyed about it. The running story (Baby Yoda) is cool, but also it feels as an afterthought in many of these. I really like that approach.
Think of Star Trek: Any Series.
The bad guys are out there, and we know about them. The Borg might get you at any turn, but, we have lives to lead, let's see what happens today. It's a recipe that works, and I have no doubt that Favreu/Filoni have the big picture in mind as we cross into the last two episodes.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
Everything just felt a little over-the-top cliche to me, especially the female Twi'lek. Maybe I need to watch it again.
They didn't know what it was or why it was important. The only one with any info was the droid (going through the ship logs after everyone else boarded the prisoner ship) and it isn't clear he had totally made the connection between the transmission he saw and the "kid".
After re-watching, I did enjoy the episode more than the first pass, although I still didn't like Tonks' character. My favorite cameo (not mentioned yet that I noticed) was Bobby Munson (Mark Boone).
Episode 7 was quite the cliffhanger.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
There are rumblings that I am not chasing down suggesting there is somehow a tie between this episode and the new Rise of Skywalker movie.
I’m not sure that’s credible beyond the “we’re releasing Wednesday instead of Friday to not compete with the movie” angle.
There was a (not really) spoilery RoS short after the episode completed that was pretty cool. Some new to me material beyond the trailers.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
Poor Baby Yoda. Seeing him force choke that chick was a really strange feeling. I was a little lukewarm on the last couple episodes but thought this one was fantastic (I did think the episode with Bill Burr was a lot better than I thought when I rewatched it).
I haven't seen them in person yet, but apparently this started showing up on the freeway signs around Houston today:
2019-12-20 13_59_34-'Baby Yoda' uses a car seat, advises Houston freeway signs _ khou.com.jpg
Baby Yoda wasn't wearing a car seat when Kuiil bit the dust. If he had, then Baby Yoda wouldn't have been laying in the dust, face down. Poor lil' feller.
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Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
Great episode with a great ending. Seeing the Darksaber brought to live action was so cool!
I'm assuming at some point we'll learn how Gideon got in his hands.
(For those that don't know what the Darksaber is, it showed up in Season 3 of Rebels, and was created by the first Mandalorian-Jedi.)
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Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
Great final episode! In fact these last two were as good of not better than anything weve seen on the big screen since the original trilogy in my opinion. Disney please please please pay Jon Favreau whatever he wants to do whatever is next!
Dang.
Lots of implied history with the Moff.
Darksabre!!!!!
Overall I really enjoyed the series, and there were a lot of very cool things in this episode. Darksabre was awesome, ditto for the jet pack, astromech with arms and legs was cool, and I liked the TIE fighter with folding wings (even if that is a lot of engineering to replace a ladder, and not an efficient use of hanger space). I’ll even admit that I liked the Jason Sudekis storm trooper.
I also don’t have a problem suspending disbelief and don’t need to nitpick the show...but i just don’t understand the “bad guys”. First they blast up the meeting place, then they decide to give Mando and friends a day to deliberate, then they send in the flame trooper to torch everyone. I thought they wanted baby Yoda alive? Maybe just sometimes? What are they doing? Same with the nanny droid - protecting the baby by taking it into a gunfight? I don’t get it. But excited for season 2!
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
Didn't Sabine last have the Darksaber? Or did she give it away to someone and I forgot?
An excellent moment.
I'm a little behind, but finally watched the final episode. Between Rise of Skywalker and this, I'm basically ready for IV Star Wars 24/7, so hopefully we start seeing some new things cropping up now that the 9 movie saga is wrapped up.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."