On 10/31/2020 at 8:50 AM, Mandalore of the Rings said:

Yeah, not big on the grandma either, but she's alright I guess.

I like the grandma, for a couple of reasons aesthetic and structural. First, she's a chipper break from the dour and sombre mood conveyed by nearly every other character, even the bit players. Almost everyone in Mando's sphere of orbit is either desperate or power-hungry or both. (As an aside, I have no issue with that, in fact that's "as it should be", because that's the world he walks. Plus, to paraphrase Tolkien, happy times don't make a story.)

However, in keeping with the "lived in world", what grandma represents is "everybody else in the galaxy who is just living their life". She struggles, but has room for compassion. She knows her world is dangerous, but her spirit isn't broken. It's a clever shortcut the storytellers are using to ground the world of Mando into something larger.

By the way, am I the only one who just assumed that "custom-built from spare parts" is just normal for podracers, and that what Vanth was riding was not a speeder bike built from a podracer but a speeder bike from the same brand (but newer model) that Annie scavenged his fins from?

3 minutes ago, micheldebruyn said:

By the way, am I the only one who just assumed that "custom-built from spare parts" is just normal for podracers, and that what Vanth was riding was not a speeder bike built from a podracer but a speeder bike from the same brand (but newer model) that Annie scavenged his fins from?

the engines of ani's podracer have been officially been told in the canon "ultimate star wars" reference book to be heavily customized Radon-Ulzer repulsorlift 620C racing engines

so basically,what he's riding can be anything from another RU product to a scavenged engine he welded a seat on

On 11/1/2020 at 1:53 PM, micheldebruyn said:

They're definitely not the exact same. Annie's got some kind of ridges on them, Vanth's are smooth.

look closer. only the top one had a ridge. which is missingentirely and flipped upside down

13 minutes ago, Daeglan said:

look closer. only the top one had a ridge. which is missingentirely and flipped upside down

Nope. If you look closer, you'll see that the other ones also have ridges.

They aren't identical, but they are obviously related.

Techie 1: "Is that a Radon 620 thruster you've got?"

Techie 2: "Nah, it's the 675. I liked it's gravitic torsion settings better".

Regarding the critters with the glowing red eyes - the fact that they hid in the shadows and only came out to attack when Mando shot out the light, I assumed they were fyrnocks; the creatures from the "Rebels" episode "Out of Darkness", where Hera and Sabine were trapped on the asteroid that was a former Republic base.

3 hours ago, Daronil said:

I assumed they were fyrnocks;

Nice. They could be those indeed. I did think those were a fair bit bigger though.

For my money, I'd say they're something entirely new.

Besides, Fyrnocks were native to Anaxes.

They remind me more of the garbage creatures on Raxis (?) when Savage was looking for Maul. Something about the squarish eyes

1 hour ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

For my money, I'd say they're something entirely new.

Besides, Fyrnocks were native to Anaxes.

I think they are galaxy wide they are related to Mynocks.

Most things in Star Wars seem to be galaxy-wide.

15 minutes ago, micheldebruyn said:

Most things in Star Wars seem to be galaxy-wide.

Yeah even is something is native somewhere someone probably came with a starship and took the species with them somewhere else. Or the species figured out how to stowaway on ships.

But there's no real indication as to what it is aside from the eyes, so there's no reason why it couldn't be something entirely new. From what little I could make out, I don't think they bear all that much of a resemblance to Fyrnocks.

Part of me wondered initially if they were robotic. I don't recall why.

Because they had light bulbs for eyes I guess.

38 minutes ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

But there's no real indication as to what it is aside from the eyes, so there's no reason why it couldn't be something entirely new. From what little I could make out, I don't think they bear all that much of a resemblance to Fyrnocks.

You have to filter out the very stylized animation style of Rebels when converting to the Mandalorian look and feel of items and critters. The Tookas look very much less cute in the Mandalorian.

4 hours ago, Eoen said:

You have to filter out the very stylized animation style of Rebels when converting to the Mandalorian look and feel of items and critters. The Tookas look very much less cute in the Mandalorian.

I don't know ... I still shrieked with glee when I saw the one under the chair in the "save the krill farmers" episode.

(And none of my fellow viewers knew why, as they hadn't seen Rebels. *sighs*)

Maybe they were Dreadnoks.

Hoo boy.

That was... interesting.

Can't say I'm totally a fan, though. I liked the first scene a lot, but beyond that... Errr, not so much.

I don't like swarms, I don't like insect/arachnid swarms, and I really don't like swarms of large insects/arachnids. I'm not an arachnophobe, but that's just not my cup of tea.

It reminds my of an old Boba Fett comic where he was exploring a derelict infested with comparable critters. I didn't like that one very much.

Also, was Baby Yoda eating the frog woman's eggs supposed to be cute? Because I certainly didn't see it that way.

And sublight between STAR SYSTEMS? That seems a bit much.

As for what I liked, the jetpack with security features was hilarious, though I doubt that Jawa found it particularly amusing. I thought Dave Filoni's part was great, I really enjoyed that aspect of the story.

On 11/4/2020 at 10:17 PM, RLogue177 said:

Maybe they were Dreadnoks.

Were they eating chocolate doughnuts and washing it down with grape soda?

I liked ep10 a lot but I was particularly happy to see another Gigoran on screen. After I finished watching the episode, I rewound it back to the bar scene to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me and therr it was, a Gigoran with mask and all.

That was... kind of meh, IMO.

I think the biggest issue for me was that frog lady just didn't convince me she was an actual character instead of a bad special effect.

Also, I could go a whole season without seeing another big monster as the main obstacle.

Love the episode liked the spiders from Rebels.

2 hours ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

Also, was Baby Yoda eating the frog woman's eggs supposed to be cute? Because I certainly didn't see it that way.

“Cute” in the manner of acting predictably based on established behavior, maybe. I’d say, though, that it served dual purposes: reemphasizing his being very food motivated to set up his chowing down on a spider egg to unleash the swarm on them; demonstrating that the Mando isn’t great at supervising him or instilling boundaries in him, following the same development thread as when he Force choked Cara during the arm wrestling match. (After all, was Mando upset at him eating the eggs because they were the passenger’s potential offspring, or because it might foul his own wants?)

2 hours ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

And sublight between STAR SYSTEMS? That seems a bit much.

No more or less so than it did in 1980. /shrug