From the guy who dated Monica Gellar comes the TV show equivalent of getting the knock-off toy for Christmas as this was the answer to the Boba Fett movie we have asked for.
This western style adventure chronicles a notorious Mandalorian bounty hunter, not Boba, as he encounters a child with extraordinary abilities. For reasons we do not know, it is hunted by Gus Fring wielding a black lightsaber. That's it. That's the whole show.
Like westerns, this was highly predictable. Badass lawman making a living picking up scum from the desert, finds a child, develop, attachment of the child, becomes a wanted man, saves a random village he stumbles upon from local terrorists, the main bad guy corners him in the bar, they fight, you think the bad guy is dead; I'm surprised a western style poster with Gus' picture didn't show up on the screen with the text printed on it: "Gus Fring will return!"
Alright, let's settle this once and for all. How effective are blasters to the Mandalorian? Over the last forty years we have seen that one shot is all it takes to kill you, unless you are shot in the arm, then you're mildly injured. The worse damage it could do to the Mandalorian is strip his armor of its dignity. The blaster bolts bounce off of him and he's just pissed.
The pilot episode showed the Mandalorian putting his asset into carbon freeze. As I recall in Empire, Darth Vader considered it crude to put prisoners in carbonite. It appears, however, to be a common source of transporting prisoners. Maybe word spread of Han Solo surviving carbonite and so bounty hunters started using it. Unless, the prisoners were wanted dead.
This show ran the bad stormtrooper aim joke into the ground. It's not funny anymore. And the possiblity of the Mandalorian being a Gungan, it's like get some new jokes. You're the reason everyone hates Star Wars now.
The story is set in wake of the fallen Empire, so no, the child IS NOT YODA! It makes me mad that we have access to all nine main movies, two spinoffs, a TV series, books, comics, and fabled bootleg movies to know that the child isn't Yoda. Yes, it's the same species as Yoda. But that doesn't mean its name is Yoda. That's incredibly racist. That's like calling every black person LeBron.
It's hard to truly get engaged with the show. It is forty percent walking through the desert, forty percent fixing the ship, ten percent negotiating, five percent playing peekaboo with the child, and five percent trying to skip ahead to the next episode when the credits roll.
I will say this. The filmmakers seem dedicated to return to basics on some things, like using puppets and other practical effects. It does, however, look too shiny to really give that eighties aesthetic. I mean that's what made Star Wars so special. They managed to craft a compelling science fiction story that stood the test of time. I'm sorry, this show will fade in time. This is the Way.
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- Outstanding Drama Series - Nominated
- Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance (Taika Waititi) - Nominated
- Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (Half-Hour) (Greig Fraser & Baz Idoine) - Winner
- Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes (Joseph Porro, Julie Robar, Gigi Melton and Lauren Silvestri) - Nominated
- Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (Giancarlo Esposito) - Pending
- Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Ludwig Göransson) - Pending
- Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour or Less) (Andrew L. Jones, Jeff Wisniewski, Amanda Serino) - Winner
- Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Limited Series, Movie or Special (Brian Sipe, Alexei Dmitriew, Carlton Coleman, Samantha Ward, Scott Stoddard, Mike Ornelaz and Sabrina Castro) - Nominated
- Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series (Andrew S. Eisen) - Nominated
- Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series (Dana E. Glauberman and Dylan Firshein) - Nominated
- Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series (Jeff Seibenick) - Nominated
- Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation (David Acord, Matthew Wood, Bonnie Wild, James Spencer, Richard Quinn, Richard Gould, Stephanie McNally, Ryan Rubin, Ronni Brown and Jana Vance) - Winner
- Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation (Shawn Holden, Bonnie Wild and Chris Fogel) - Winner
- Outstanding Special Visual Effects (Richard Bluff, Jason Porter, Abbigail Keller, Hayden Jones, Hal Hickel, Roy Cancino, John Rosengrant, Enrico Damm and Landis Fields) - Winner
- Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Drama Series, Limited Series or Movie (Ryan Watson) - Winner
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