12 minutes ago, DanteRotterdam said:I am sold.
Episode 2 is so much better than Episode 1 was... The humor was better, the references weren’t so on the nose (except the Last Crusade one, but that’s okay), it had real stakes, cool fights, disintegrations and most of all... it had Jawas and, boy, do I love Jawas.
This episode was exactly what I needed.
I loved the scene climbing the crawler, especially how it ended...just perfect.
Also, how many Triumphs were on the roll to bring down that Mudhorn with that tiny blade?
How many manoeuvres to aim did baby Yoda buy the Manalorian there?
I wondered about the pinprick takedown.
One "plot-hole" that was fixed was the question of him not taking his rifle to the Nikto encampment. With such a low rate of fire, it would have been a very poor tactical move with such a large number of enemies. Particularly given its length and (presumably) weight. We see him holding it one-handed in the scene with the stormtroopers, but that was in a pinch and he wasn't actually fighting. It really would only have been good for maybe one shot and then he'd have to either use it as a melee weapon or switch over to his pistol.
Target acquisition with a rifle is much, much harder at close ranges as you have to move it farther to keep up with a target than you do at long range.
I really hope they aren't all as short as this one. Based on what was in this episode, it shouldn't really have been longer, but I hope that later episodes have a little more to them.
Baby Yoda lifting the mudhorn seemed a little excessive, but considering that the only other member of that species that we have seen was Yoda (Yaddle doesn't count, she was a puppet sitting in a chair) so if it is simply that the species is exceptionally powerful with the force, more as an instinct or defense mechanism rather than a learned skill... Interesting. I'm looking forward to learning more (though hopefully it won't be as all-encompassing as the force often is. I like Star Wars just fine without the force being in everything .)
I kinda presume the Mudhorn take down with the tiny knife is because either it's not exactly a normal knife or he had coated it with some serious poison. It did seem like quite a desperation move though and he should probably mudproof his rifle for the future. Who knows, maybe we will see Gun Jesus do a mud test with a Jezail rifle to see whether or not the scene holds up. Although I guess a martini henry kind of thing might be more appropriate given the reloading procedure.
15 minutes ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:I really hope they aren't all as short as this one. Based on what was in this episode, it shouldn't really have been longer, but I hope that later episodes have a little more to them.
I would think that the rest might be more akin to the first episode. It kinda seems like Episodes 1 and 2 sort of establish everything, and then from 3 onwards it's the meat of the story. The critics have apparently already seen Chapter 3, and from the vagueness of it, it sounds like it really gets going there.
6 minutes ago, Darth Revenant said:I kinda presume the Mudhorn take down with the tiny knife is because either it's not exactly a normal knife or he had coated it with some serious poison.
I may have imagined it, but it looked like the blade started vibrating, making it a vibroblade? Maybe that was part of it.
15 minutes ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:I'm looking forward to learning more (though hopefully it won't be as all-encompassing as the force often is. I like Star Wars just fine without the force being in everything .)
I'd think it may be like the reason the Remnant guys want him, but it won't be a large thing, because the baby can't use it that much without falling asleep. More of a background drive thing, rather than an active element.
Edited by StarkJuniorY'know it would not surprise me in the least if the Mandalorian ends up doing a full-on Bruce Willis-esque rant sometime in in this series.
" Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..."
1 minute ago, StarkJunior said:I may have imagined it, but it looked like the blade started vibrating, making it a vibroblade? Maybe that was part of it.
I also thought it looked like it was vibrating, but that whole scene was a bit blurry, possibly to convey the multiple concussions he's likely to have after those hits. Either way it's probably not a totally normal knife.
1 minute ago, StarkJunior said:I may have imagined it, but it looked like the blade started vibrating, making it a vibroblade? Maybe that was part of it.
It looked to me like a simple knife, but even if it was a vibroblade, it went maybe 2 inches into the neck of a rhinoceros. Even if it punctured a vital artery, it couldn't possibly have killed it that quickly. And poison doesn't really seem like something a Mando would use.
3 minutes ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:It looked to me like a simple knife, but even if it was a vibroblade, it went maybe 2 inches into the neck of a rhinoceros. Even if it punctured a vital artery, it couldn't possibly have killed it that quickly. And poison doesn't really seem like something a Mando would use.
Maybe they have some kind of tribal/ritual poison or something? From the way he was kneeling and lowering his head, it almost looked like some SW version of the seppuku, but the enemy also dies? Like, 'if you die in battle, always take the one who killed you with you', or something?
Probably overthinking, but I'm loving the slow reveals of this 'new' Mando lore, so maybe there's something there.
Just now, StarkJunior said:Maybe they have some kind of tribal/ritual poison or something? From the way he was kneeling and lowering his head, it almost looked like some SW version of the seppuku, but the enemy also dies? Like, 'if you die in battle, always take the one who killed you with you', or something?
I took it as a sort of desperate last stand. Something like: "I know I can't win, and I'm resigned to my fate, but I'll go out with honor." Where he doesn't feel like he has any chance whatsoever, he's just going to go out fighting and do as much damage as he can.
I think that the smallness of the knife was supposed to illustrate the hopelessness of the situation.
Still really not sure how he killed it.
Ah, so it's Lone Wolf and Cub.
Ep 2 was great. This is a good show. They're milking that baby for everything it's worth... turns out it's worth a lot.
Aw man, now I have to go back and watch Lone Wolf and Cub. Been years since I've seen that
So is the Mandalorians rifle a disruptor rifle?
No, it fires some sort of round. A disruptor rifle is a purely energy weapon.
Some kind of disrupter slug thrower
Probably going to have to ban in my game...can't have sploding jawas all over the place
59 minutes ago, Varlie said:Some kind of disrupter slug thrower
Probably going to have to ban in my game...can't have sploding jawas all over the place
Exploding Jawas are canon now. 😈
Vibro-axe and vibro-knife/dagger.
*gasm*
Everything is awesome.
I have spoken.
I'm assuming several blaster shots and a flamethrower to the face weakened it enough that some aid from the yodaling and a crit with a little knife was able to finish it off.
More importantly, how many days did they SPEND REBUILDING A SHIP!!??
On 11/13/2019 at 3:43 AM, DanteRotterdam said:I am also trying to figure out how these tracking fobs work, because they seem to have the potential to be canon breaking or at the very least so terribly overpowered that it makes no sense for them to have not been used for tracking down others.
The way I would treat it is similar to a life form scanner, but it can only detect the intended target. This has several advantages and disadvantages (e.g. it can only detect the primary target, but that allows it to be precise even in an environment with multiple life signs) which would make it a great tool in tracking a target in a life rich environment. After all, scanners can't identify a person typically, at least not those avalible on the open market. Least that's the way I treat them to avoid things getting too science fiction.
6 hours ago, DaverWattra said:Ah, so it's Lone Wolf and Cub.
I've been thinking that all week!
5 hours ago, Varlie said:Some kind of disrupter slug thrower
Probably going to have to ban in my game...can't have sploding jawas all over the place
I don't know. Slugthrowers don't shoot yellow bolts of light. For all we know he's essentially loading custom power packs into that rifle.
At least now we know why Yoda hid on a swamp planet: tasty frogs.
Edited by micheldebruyn1 hour ago, Inquisitor Tremayne said:More importantly, how many days did they SPEND REBUILDING A SHIP!!??
Only as much time as an 1980’s montage scene, or as long as the A-team would take.
I've been pretty soured on Star Wars for the last few years, so I told myself I wouldn't pay to see The Mandalorian , and I didn't. However, after seeing the first episode, I can say that I would be willing to pay to see more of this series (if I had to, which I don't, so I won't).
On 11/13/2019 at 5:49 AM, whafrog said:One of the more surreal moments I've had...like 2 or 3 years ago I unwittingly tapped into some collective unconscious vibe...
About ten years ago I particpated in a sit-and-join RPG game on a local convention. It was a Star Wars D20 game, set a couple of years after the events of Return of the Jedi. The DM had us find a sort of stasis pod, and it turned out to be a clone made from genetic material which they had found in the remnants of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. You can probably guess whose clone that was...
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