6 hours ago, LordBritish said:

Probably because it was a simple episode following the western formula.

Oh, yeah. Tiny cast, endearing character actor...as 50s Western as you can get.

I was initially underwhelmed but the episode did improve quite a bit on rewatch.

32 minutes ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

Well, if you think about it, Aw never mind. I really shouldn't.

You’re right. You really, really shouldn’t.

On 12/8/2019 at 9:42 AM, Eoen said:

Is it the Fett?

I'm gonna go with no on this. I think there's a big problem and that is: If Fett is introduced in The Mandolorian, he will overshadow the main character. This is the same reason they didn't want Luke to be featured in The Force Awakens. They wanted people to embrace Rey...not Luke. Similar situation here. I mean, he'd make a great villain/nemesis and maybe after a couple seasons after we've embraced our new characters. But I don't think the audience is ready for that, yet.

2 minutes ago, VadersMarchKazoo said:

I'm gonna go with no on this. I think there's a big problem and that is: If Fett is introduced in The Mandolorian, he will overshadow the main character. This is the same reason they didn't want Luke to be featured in The Force Awakens. They wanted people to embrace Rey...not Luke. Similar situation here. I mean, he'd make a great villain/nemesis and maybe after a couple seasons after we've embraced our new characters. But I don't think the audience is ready for that, yet.

On that note, an interesting related tidbit is that in the Chuck Wendig novel Aftermath, there's a brief segment that takes place on Tatooine, where a sheriff purchases a rather beat-up set of Mandalorian armor from a bunch of Jawa scavengers. It's not outright said that the armor having once belonged to Boba Fett, but there's a heavy implication of that being the case.

But I do agree, with Boba Fett's vastly inflated reputation, him showing up in Season One would completely steal the main character's thunder. Which has already happened to some extent thanks to the Yodaling.

It's almost certainly someone we will recognise on sight, because why else hide the identity? This rules out everybody from non-visual media.

If it's Boba Fett then he's gotten a new costume, because that's not what Boba Fett's pants and boots used to look like.

There's also a decent chance that it was whomever Fennec Shand was supposed to meet.

On 12/8/2019 at 12:42 PM, Eoen said:

Is it the Fett?

More Dengar or Greedo.

Just now, Sincereagape said:

More Dengar or Greedo.

Greedo? He's dead. Dengar would be an old grizzled geezer, he looked old in Empire which would be around 7 years or so before. I don't know if Cade Bane is alive I think they said he was shot in one of the story lines that wasn't finished, but they said they consider it canon.

Greedo is dead, Dengar is pretty old at this point (30 or 40+20+9), Cad Bane is probably dead. He was "killed" by Boba Fett in one of the unfinished story reels.

On 12/8/2019 at 2:06 PM, DanteRotterdam said:

That’s not what a set up episode is though. Introducing new characters (even recurring ones) is not a set up.
Not trying to be pedantic here because I actually quite liked the ATST episode quite a bit, the last one however felt a bit flat to me...

It is set up when it is introducing a new element to the overal arch. Ie possibly who was behind the original bounty

4 hours ago, VadersMarchKazoo said:

I'm gonna go with no on this. I think there's a big problem and that is: If Fett is introduced in The Mandolorian, he will overshadow the main character. This is the same reason they didn't want Luke to be featured in The Force Awakens. They wanted people to embrace Rey...not Luke. Similar situation here. I mean, he'd make a great villain/nemesis and maybe after a couple seasons after we've embraced our new characters. But I don't think the audience is ready for that, yet.

If they bring out Boba Fett The Mandalorian becomes A Mandalorian.

34 minutes ago, penpenpen said:

If they bring out Boba Fett The Mandalorian becomes A Mandalorian.

Troll.

1 hour ago, Eoen said:

Troll.

I realized my oh so cleverly construed comment was about as clear as mud.

I did not mean that by introducing Boba we'd finally get a proper mandalorian. Gods, no. Keep Boba out.

I meant that if we stick the original mandalorian archetype in the show, The mandalorian becomes just another one of those mandalorians. At this point, he'd be out-mandalorianed by Boba. That'd be a really bad idea.

Of course, if that was what you read into my comment and called trolling, well, then I'll be under my bridge.

15 hours ago, Donovan Morningfire said:

the Mando is actually looking in the direction those other two Tusken Raiders would have approached from

Yeah, I noticed that too, on my second viewing. I think I did like it better on the second time around. I don't hate Tatooine either, I just would choose somewhere else if I had the choice, but given the lack of choice, totally happy with somewhere in the Star Wars universe...

If we are going to revisit places from the movies I would like to see somewhere we've only seen once (not counting Rebels, or Clone Wars). That's still a good number of worlds. Tatooine must get the nod for the most visits followed by?

Tatooine: I, II, II, IV (Duh!), VI,

Naboo: I, II,

Dagobah: V, VI,

Coruscant: I, II, III, VI (briefly)

Mustaphar: III, RO,

Yavin: IV, RO,

etc. I've probably missed something important. Anyhoo... I wouldn't mind seeing some less visited (but established) planets visited... Like, Endor, (although I guess if you include Caravan of Courage and the other Ewok movie [ewww, so bad...] Endor has been done too...), or Chrystophis or Jeddha, or something from the new trilogy, like Jakku or Crait or something...

Any, all this makes me wonder, was there another reason Tatooine was chosen? Could it be because another well loved (for the most part) Mandalorian may or may not have survived on this planet? Was that his boot? Probably not, probably just the Moff... but then why do we need Tatooine? Hmm... I'm grasping.

Oh, I hadn't read all the other comments before writing mine...

Yeah, not saying I want it to be Boba, but it might be...

Dengar would be cool but I doubt it... He'd only be 7 years older than in V so that's doable... I just don't think he's famous enough and his boots don't look like that either...

It's probably just Moff Carlito or whatever... Or Zeb. Yeah, it's probably Zeb.

Oh yeah, what was that first guy who was chasing (and plagiarizing) the Mando flying? Was it a Naboo fighter? I couldn't see it well.

Riot Mar flew an unnamed starship.

It reminded me of a Headhunter-like starfighter, but not clear picture of it is easy to find, and I don't think it is a Headhunter.

13 minutes ago, Jegergryte said:

Riot Mar flew an unnamed starship.

It reminded me of a Headhunter-like starfighter, but not clear picture of it is easy to find, and I don't think it is a Headhunter.

Maybe

Is this it?

Looks nifty, but it's not a headhunter.

@penpenpen That could be a later model head hunter or some after market add-on. That guy must go the disintegration jobs, doesn't look like that ship can hold a prisoner.

I can't find the post now but someone on Reddit posted the ship make and model. It's one that was found in the old X-Wing computer game and he had screen-shots that pretty much matched the image Eoen posted above.

EDIT**
Found it. Looking at it now may be slight differences but it is close.

Toscan 8 Q

Almost looks like some of the pics of the Preybird, modified engines, but the cockpit looks similar.

Interesting interview here with Brendan Wayne: https://www.vulture.com/2019/12/the-mandalorian-double-brendan-wayne-interview.html

My biggest take-away for anyone who is hoping that Boba Fett makes an appearance in the show, the crew was pretty adamant.

Quote

So they finally called me in, and the costumers are looking at me, and it’s a different feel than when I normally go in for fittings or auditions. It’s weird. And they open a container [of the costume], and I looked at it and I said, “Oh my God, that’s Boba Fett.” And to a person, they were like, “No, it’s not Boba Fett! He’s dead!” And I was like, “No, this is Boba Fett, but I won’t tell anybody.” And they’re like, “It’s NOT.” They got really mad at me. [Laughs]

So... episode 2, the sand crawler chase ... it reminds me of a certain old comic book story by Marvel, issue 81, "reviewed" by Caravan of Garbage.

You see here the inspiration for the episode 2 chase. I hold.

On 12/9/2019 at 5:05 PM, micheldebruyn said:

If it's Boba Fett then he's gotten a new costume, because that's not what Boba Fett's pants and boots used to look like.

I was thinking this too. Maybe because I have a life-size Boba Fett cutout in my living room🤔 But when pausing the episode...the cape is too long, the cape is the wrong color, the boots are wrong and most importantly Boba has tools hooked to the front of his boots, this seems pretty trademark and would have been hard to miss. Sure, these things could have been digested in the Sarlacc but I doubt very much since it slowly digests things over a 1000 years, which is pretty inefficient:)

On 12/9/2019 at 8:05 PM, micheldebruyn said:

It's almost certainly someone we will recognise on sight, because why else hide the identity? This rules out everybody from non-visual media.

If it's Boba Fett then he's gotten a new costume, because that's not what Boba Fett's pants and boots used to look like.

There's also a decent chance that it was whomever Fennec Shand was supposed to meet.

4 hours ago, VadersMarchKazoo said:

I was thinking this too. Maybe because I have a life-size Boba Fett cutout in my living room🤔 But when pausing the episode...the cape is too long, the cape is the wrong color, the boots are wrong and most importantly Boba has tools hooked to the front of his boots, this seems pretty trademark and would have been hard to miss. Sure, these things could have been digested in the Sarlacc but I doubt very much since it slowly digests things over a 1000 years, which is pretty inefficient:)

It's quite possible, given what he went through, and the amount of damage his armor and the suit underneath would have taken.

By the same token, it could also be someone completely different.