Can’t wait for the visual guide...

23 hours ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

Okay, rewatched, and noticed a couple things:

Definitely a vibroblade. The knife he used to take down the mudhorn was definitely a vibroknife from what we see in episode 3, though I'm still iffy on him taking it down like that.

Yeah that was a great bit of anatomical targeting to take down something that size with one knife thrust. I don't think that's a bad thing and it was needed for the story but it was fast like there was super neuro-toxin on the blade or something.

2 hours ago, Edgehawk said:

Looks more insectoid than droid to me?

Just rewatched. Definitely a droid.
I also saw the vibroblades this time around. So cool...

3 minutes ago, DanteRotterdam said:

Definitely a droid.

Or a cyborg! (begging for it to be a nod to the EU)

46 minutes ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

Or a cyborg! (begging for it to be a nod to the EU)

We still wouldn’t know what Ganks look like.

Really enjoying the series so far, the effort put into production is amazing, so many little details.

Allow me to throw another revelation onto the table for discussion. The other Mandalorians* speak about the Empire’s Great Purge - which is apparently a different Great Purge than that of the Jedi. But in the flashbacks we don’t see stormtroopers - we see a CIS droid drop ship and a B2 Super Battle droid ??

Have we seen previous reference to the Empire employing CIS droids?

(* Greeva is clearly unaware that the mandos that he finds “harder to find than the metal” have an entire PLATOON under his nose. But it DOES explain why he refers to our protagonist as “Mando” in the first person)

21 minutes ago, Khyrith said:

Allow me to throw another revelation onto the table for discussion. The other Mandalorians* speak about the Empire’s Great Purge - which is apparently a different Great Purge than that of the Jedi. But in the flashbacks we don’t see stormtroopers - we see a CIS droid drop ship and a B2 Super Battle droid ??

Have we seen previous reference to the Empire employing CIS droids?

(* Greeva is clearly unaware that the mandos that he finds “harder to find than the metal” have an entire PLATOON under his nose. But it DOES explain why he refers to our protagonist as “Mando” in the first person)

In a review of the episode elsewhere the reviewer called them Imperial Battle Droids... I'm thinking the reviewer was not well versed in Star Wars lore unless there is something we are all missing that has not been revealed yet about the Empire using battle droids...

If a foundling is an orphan adopted into the Mando's, then the flashback we see could just be his experience during the Clone Wars and the Great Purge came later? Afterall, there are no mandos in the flashback...

The great purge has to be after the last season of Rebels.

I doubt that’s what his flash backs are from it would have only been around 6-7 years before the start of the show.

He would have been kid during the clone wars. He looks 8-11 years old in the flashbacks.

My guess.

Flashbacks are his introduction to the Mandalorian culture.

The great purge likely takes place sometime during the Original Trilogy timeline, as in Star Wars Rebels Mandalore is still around and so are its people.

In fact, the last we saw of Mandalore in Rebels, the Mandalorians were poised to rise up and overthrow the Empire in their system, being led by Bo-Katan Kryze, wielding the Darksaber. So there's definitely something that happened after Rebels takes place that would put the people in an even worse state.

My interpretation (thus far) is that the flashbacks are from the clone wars and that the Mandalorians who adopted him are the remnants of the exiled warriors who rejected the New Mandalorian reforms. In Clone Wars we see that there is a "traditionalist" faction on Mandalore's moon, Concordia. In Rebels it is indicated that the exiled Mandalorian warriors are now more dispersed (beyond Concordia). We also see Mandalore erupt into a second civil war in 2BBY. The pro-Imperial faction essentially defeated the anti-Imperial faction. However, we also see the anti-Imperial clans (aided by the Rebels) unite under Bo-Katan (who inhereits the Dark Saber). I suspect those "traditionalist" clans in exile, without a population of "natural born Mandalorians" to refresh their ranks, have taken to adopting "foundlings" into their clans. One really cool nod to the Clone Wars and Rebels shows would be if the leader of this group of Mandalorians turns out to be Bo-Katan, which would make this particular sept the Nite Owls.

@Vondy

The night owls fate remains to be told, but they were once Deathwatch too.

Also the True Mandalorians went into exile as well. The didn’t much care for Deathwatch, but they where one of the traditionalist factions.

The Mandalorians diaspora probably started during the pre-Clone Wars civil war.

On 11/23/2019 at 8:16 AM, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

so here's my shot (I'm really shooting from the hip here, though) at the whistling birds:

Ranged (Light); Damage: 4; Crit: 2; Range (Short); Pierce 5, Auto-fire (only), Guided 2, Limited Ammo 1. Unique qualities: Does not increase difficulty to use Auto-fire.

Perhaps the effect is most easily covered with the Blast quality, perhaps give it Blast 4, then have a unique quality of “spend 1 Advantage to exclude one target from the blast of whistling birds”

Yeah, that might work... I'm also thinking of changing the skill to Computers, since it's a guided attack and it would probably be mostly a question of target acquisition.

Blast 4 would be the correct rating though... It also negates the ability to abuse it against Nemeses and Rivals.

10 hours ago, Richardbuxton said:

Perhaps the effect is most easily covered with the Blast quality, perhaps give it Blast 4, then have a unique quality of “spend 1 Advantage to exclude one target from the blast of whistling birds”

I was also thinking Blast, possibly with a high Pierce value, and since by that point the Mando has beskar incorporated into his armor, it's now got the Cortosis quality, which combined with a high enough soak lets him just ignore the damage from the Blast outright.

Seemed like his vambrace flamethrower ran out of juice... what kind of roll would that have been?

I really liked the scene where he was about to leave with his loot and go catch a Mon Calamari... nice tension... then he decided to rescue the yodling and it was on! Really enjoying this show.

A few of the people on the streets were recognizable. Just the local lads and lasses getting out for some roasted space monkey I guess. Do we know the name of this planet? It sort of seems like it's built on volcanic rock. Is Greef gonna come around or is he on the warpath now? Is the Mando gonna flee back to Kuill? Somewhere else?

13 minutes ago, Mandelore of the Rings said:

Do we know the name of this planet? It sort of seems like it's built on volcanic rock. Is Greef gonna come around or is he on the warpath now? Is the Mando gonna flee back to Kuill? Somewhere else?

We only know the name of the desert planet, I'm pretty sure. Arvala-7.

From the looks of it, it seems as if for now, the Guild and the Remnant that hired him are after him - and I think he's on his way to the forested planet where Julia Jones's character is, and I think it's now that he meets up with Gina Carano's Cara Dune. It would make sense - who better to turn to than a former Rebel soldier if you're fighting the Remnant?

I also suspect we'll meet Giancarlo Esposito's Moff Gideon soon, as I think he's the boss of Werner Herzog's client and Doctor Pershing.

24 minutes ago, Mandelore of the Rings said:

Seemed like his vambrace flamethrower ran out of juice... what kind of roll would that have been?

I don't think that was a threat or despair, I look at that more as Limited Ammo on the flamethrower.
Seeing how it has to hold the fuel for that in a somewhat small container connected to the vambrace, it is not designed for continuous fire.

On 11/12/2019 at 11:28 AM, DanteRotterdam said:

I do like seeing Jawa established off of Tatooine in Canon now!

Way back (WEG days? established in 1977 official magazines?) iirc the Jawas were considered native or at least having lived quite a long while on Tatooine. The Sandcrawlers were actually mining crawlers that were abandoned by the original mining colony of Tatooine after the mines went dry. The Jawas took the left behind mining equipment over, implying a possible reason for them becoming a scavenger race.

With the Jawas AND their Sandcrawlers popping up elsewhere, this may or may not change things a bit. You could take from it that possibly the Jawas aren't from Tatooine and they are purchasing rides or have Jawa spacecrawlers! bringing their sandcrawlers around the galaxy a-scavenging. For me I'm gonna go with a simpler explanation. The Jawas are still long-term "natives" of Tatooine, still began a life of scavenging after the miners left, but like other Star Wars races haven't been contained to the desert planet. Some have left to scavenging other less pilfered planets. Some of these have even managed to somehow arrange for their ancient crawlers to be brought along.

30 minutes ago, Mandelore of the Rings said:

Seemed like his vambrace flamethrower ran out of juice... what kind of roll would that have been?

I really liked the scene where he was about to leave with his loot and go catch a Mon Calamari... nice tension... then he decided to rescue the yodling and it was on!

I figure the flamethrower going out was the result of a Despair as per the usual rules of ranged weapons running out of ammo (or fuel in this case).

Honestly, I didn't feel any real tension in that scene, as I'd figured since the second episode that it wouldn't be very long before The Mando went back for the Yodaling. Still, it was a pretty example of how a skilled and intelligent character could infiltrate a location and very effectively accomplish their objectives; apart from the killing stormtroopers, Batman would have been proud.

Yep, Cara Dune comes in Episode 4!

Synopsis - "The Mandalorian teams up with an ex-soldier to protect a village from raiders."

Also, synopsis for Episode 5 - "The Mandalorian helps a rookie bounty hunter who is in over his head."

16 minutes ago, StarkJunior said:

Yep, Cara Dune comes in Episode 4!

Hopefully she lives up to the hype that I've seen building up around the character given the actress playing her.

2 minutes ago, Donovan Morningfire said:

Hopefully she lives up to the hype that I've seen building up around the character given the actress playing her.

I think if she's written a certain way, she can do a good job. I trust Sarah Halley Finn and Favreau, so they must have found something that worked in her portrayal.

The Purge will be discussed heavily for a long time. Some fans still frown upon pacifist mandalore from tcw and the fact, that many mandalorians bowed to the empire in rebels. They will have a hard time to accept, that their beloved warriors got crushed lol.

7 minutes ago, Donovan Morningfire said:

Hopefully she lives up to the hype that I've seen building up around the character given the actress playing her.

I'm still excited for Cara, but my hype went with the Armorer, after her first appearance