You do realize that there are only light 10000 Jedi or so at most it a galaxy of trillions of people so of course there's going to be a metric fuckton of people that don't even know what a Jedi or what the force even is.
Me playing Assassin's Creed: I completed 85% of the quests in Unity while %15 of the way through the story. I would go from five star side missions back to the 3 star central missions and complete them in 2 minutes. Same deal in Far Cry 4. I had the biggest wallet made of demon fish about 5% into the game.
@@platypusnebula7401 Skyrim is another culprit. I have saved games where I am rl days into gameplay and not even been to the greybeards. I am the same with Farcry, I beat the outposts and upgrade all the bags and pouches as much as I can before I even begin the main quest. Especially Wallet, Ammo, Quiver and loot bag. The essentials.
@@krampusklaws2238 The big wallet is absolutely necessary. Plus in the process of taking down animals to make these wallets you learn a lot of important skills. For example, you can reduce an elephant's hp down to almost zero with grenades and then finish it off with a few bullets so the grenades don't damage the hide, and it takes a minute instead of half an hour like shooting it to death would, but this requires that you ambush jeeps on the road frequently to steal their grenades, so you learn hunting and ambushing skills. And you really learn the importance of a vantage point because if you're not up high the elephant with FUCKING KILL YOU! I found a great spot to do this and got my elephant wallet in no time.
I’m old and as a kid I was raised on the 30 minute TV shows of the 50’s and 60’s. That is exactly what “The Mandalorian” is. Mando is the gunfighter that has a questionable past who stands up for the little guy against the bad guys. The good guy always wins at the end of the show and moves on.
Yeah I'm a geezer also but the effect many of these spinoff, or whatever they are, has the effect of reminding me, over and over, of how good the stories these are based on actually are...thats the effect they have, just playing a RPG over and over. I think much of these two and half star creations would have been more successful if the writers had created series unrelated to SW. But that would assume corp. with mngrs who would invest in originality and that'll never happen, it's much to easy use the SW name. The ROP fiasco going on is the epitome of this type of thinking, nothing original just ripping off the past.
The show's simplicity is its charm. The side missions are its charm. I can't imagine a better cast. It's been an antidote to the latest SW films that have all but killed the franchise. IMHO Gina has a great presence and she certain;y "acts" good enough for a charming spaghetti-space-western. I'm also of the opinion that Baby Yoda's character was a risk in that could have just as easily not worked. As a commenter said elsewhere the Mandolorian, in his armor, shows more acting ability than Rey.
All good, but instead of Carano, they could have had someone showing more grace, agility and acting skill. Such as Ming Na Wen (Fennec Shand). There are enough stunt-women in the cinema industry who can portray the character hundred times better.
Hater. Say what you want about Rey as a character but the actress is a great actress. And Rey at least is a character, not a good character, but still does a lot more than "the Mandalorian".
Everyone got mad at that scene because he punched "the kid" I meanwhile was laughing the whole time, especially when he was trying to shoot the can that was 5 feet away.
I've lived in several countries like that in the Far East. When I come back home again to the West with all the busybodies and moral supremacists everywhere justifying massive taxes,open borders, unnecessary and ever expanding laws against the citizens, I kinda miss the "guideline" aspect.
Simple, Uncomplicated fun. That's what makes the Mandalorian good. There's no big twist, no complex problem. That's what makes it good like A New Hope.
A New Hope is fantastic from both an enjoyment and critical level. It has everything a good movie needs, while also telling an enjoyable story. Mandalorian season 1 captures that well, but season 2 is absolute trash.
I like how the Mandalorian is portrayed to be a master bounty hunter, but he still struggled throughout the series. His journey felt more real. Rey on the other hand...
I kinda like how many times he's about to just die in the middle of nowhere. Sure, him not dying starts to get old fast, but I like this jaded loner who's also kind of a fuckup who could be eaten by blurrgs, or break his neck falling from Jawa sandcrawler, or mashed to a pulp by the Mudhorn, or eaten by venomous flying dinosaurs in the night. That's relatable. Rey on the other hand...
Rick Roll Rizal I think they overdid it though. He’s this total badass but almost every time he gets fucked up its because he made some really amateur mistake that made no sense. In the last episode he turned his ships defenses on when he left it. But didn’t think to do that on an unknown planet and then Jawas scrapped his shit? Plus, the fact he got his ass best by some wack-ass Jawas was disappointing. And why fulfill their task? You had them stopped, you could have shredded them and taken your stuff back. Just illogical. Jumps out in front of that guild droid not expecting to be shot without warning it first? You. Could have shouted your a guild member FIRST. Who jumps in front of a gun going HAM on enemies? Gets his ass nearly beat in a bare knuckle fight while wearing armor after walking into an obvious trap. In another obvious turn of events, he is double crossed by Harley Quinn and the Suicide Squad. All for another pointless side quest. Can keep going. I’m glad to see failure, learning, improving, but damn, these were completely stupid mistakes someone of his experience shouldn’t be making.
Watching the Mandalorian takes me back to the original StarWars in the 70s, when I was a wee lad. Even if it isn't as good as the original movies (Episodes 4,5,6), I'm so desperate for good storytelling and character development in the SW universe, that I find the Mandalorian to be quite awesome...
@bokudensuduharagmail no yeah I meant that the whole thing in the prequels of giving the force a will was kinda meh and the prophecy was kinda meh, though the way Anakin fulfilled it was neat. Kreia's points make me big anger because she's lying and manipulating you, but everything she says is true and the will of the force becomes a pointless nihilistic thing when you get three trilogies (well two really, because OT had nothing to do with overblown prophecies and balance) of the force claiming it wants balance but constantly causing wars of genocidal proportions. It sorta made sense when it was a buildup to the Vong (though I dislike the Vong themselves), trying to unite the galaxy, but at present it's just a cyclical force of destruction. It was cooler when the force was more low-key and driven by the people who used it, and not the other way around, instead of having a Luke who chooses to learn the ways of the force and use it for good, we have a Rey who gets used by the force to do good without ever really making a decision or even helping the wider world until the very end and watching as trillions are slaughtered. Hence, why Mandalorians hold a much higher place in my mind than any force wielders.
@ShadoSnake The point of Kreia's character was to be the voice of Chris Avellone (the dude who wrote KOTOR 2) and his criticisms of destiny and the Force. The end conversation with Kreia at Malachor V was the synthesis of his criticisms. Kreia (and by proxy Avellone) hate how the Force exerts a measure of control over the galaxy for the purpose of establishing some Machiavellian form of "balance" while "countless lives are lost." Kreia hates the Force because it is negligent of the free will of individuals and this negligence results in massive amounts of pain and suffering for seemingly no reason except to keep the pendulum swinging. The Jedi and Sith have been fighting the exact same war for over 20,000 years. Sometimes the Jedi win and sometimes the Sith win, but their is no final victory. Kreia sees through the dogmatic bullshit of both the Jedi and the Sith and she sees how dependent their respective dogmas are on the Force itself. Kreia wants people to be free of the Force so they can struggle, grow, and reach resolution of both their individual problems and the problems of the galaxy. Kreia's message throughout the game is that of existentialist growth where people learn and grow through experience and failures. Something handed to someone has no value (remember the Refugee on Nar Shaddaa) and will likely cause more distress. I encourage you to replay KOTOR 2 and really listen to the conversations with Kreia. Once you get past the absolute good-and-evil bullshit, she actually makes a lot of sense. Oh, and here's a couple of great videos on Kreia and her philosophy: czcams.com/video/0tN0RuRSp0o/video.html czcams.com/video/ZIkD35vHZG8/video.html
At this point “nothing” actually sounds rather appealing to me. For destroying the original saga, Lucasfilm will never win me back as a customer as long as the DT stands. Hell, even if for some reason they did decanonize it, I still have pretty much no faith in them to create new content that doesn’t break the world every other minute anyway. So yeah, just having _no_ Star Wars doesn’t sound that bad. Let it rest in peace and all that jazz
Disney should just let its "sequel" trilogy fade away like a fart in the wind being the creative, critical, and commercial failure that it is. They should distance Mando and any future shows and movies as far away from this trilogy as much as possible.
The “compliment” is dead on. The majority of the season is good with only a few woke episodes, moments and characters that make me roll my eyes. That being said, when my free year with Verizon is up I won’t be renewing.
One of my friends told me that The Mandalorian looks like "a really well-made role play campaign" It's exactly that. And this is exactly why the show is so good, despite his simplicity !
I actually liked that they cast Gina Carano, her fight scenes seem way more realistic than.....any other female fight scene with tiny girls beating up guys twice their size, including Wonder Woman.
I could definitely understand how some are tired of seeing Gina Carano casted in popular shows recently - but i personally love it. Yes, her acting needs work, but her fight scenes are genuine - and you can tell she puts in the work, so they come out extremely believable. In a world where every studio is trying to put forth a strong female character; to the point where it's a detriment to the movie/show itself, I've never felt that with her - and i'm comforted that her "horrible emoting" will only get better with practice, haha.
I think as long as the directors keep GC in her safe zone her acting chops are fine. Haywire is a good example. She's been at least one clunker that wasn't that much fun to watch. But she is a real presence to be reckoned with on the screen. imho
@@jarvis8635 I mean, to be fair, you don't really care where you're hitting when you're in a hand-to-hand fight and it probably wouldn't hurt because of adrenaline
@@alek7998 Believe me, it does matter where you're hitting in a hand-to-hand fight. In fact, it matters so much that we've developed a plurality of fighting styles to avoid injuring yourself (or limit the injury) during an attack. Many grappling moves and styles, like Judo, were developed to deal with armored enemies because simply punching them achieves nothing but hurt yourself. I've injured myself hitting the wrong part of my opponent's skull once. I wouldn't for the live of me want to punch a helmet. That said, all fighters can make mistakes, so falling back on a wrong technique (punching a nearly indestructible helmet) is not outside the scope of a good character. I also saw her pulling grappling moves and throws, which were perfect for the situation.
@@Megacaesar Martial arts are another discussion entirely, but all those I've done had us attack the general location of the head, the shoulder area and the stomach, without much care where we actually hit. Obviously, different martial arts have different kind of stuff so.../shrug
They do have shields even in the original Trilogy. They destroy a shield generator of a Star Destroyer in Return of the Jedi just before the A-Wing crashes into the bridge.
It would be great if we got nothing from disney. instead the sequel trilogy was anti-star wars. It was like dark matter. The mandalorian despite its many flaws makes up the deficit.
show is okay, its leagues better then shit that is episode 7-9, but that isn't hard task, there's tons of things can do it better then those shit movies
I find myself saying this a lot lately: Sometimes you don't need a genre redefining revolutionary piece of media. Sometimes a properly done standard tale with a bit of passion is exactly what the doctor ordered.
I disagree completely. This kind of mindset only reinforce the laziness that plagues hollywood. Why should I try to tell a good story if I can simply reskin a western with star wars visuals? It's fair to follow a genre, you don't need to reinvent the wheel (like the joker did, followed the lonely man genre and did it's own thing). But a lazy ass reskin like this is something unacceptable imo Star Wars is limited, it's either the story of good vs evil featuring a chosen one... or they reskin a western or a heist movie and call it a day. And you people dare to commend something like this, lol c'mon, don't act like sheep, why give attention or money to something lazy like this?
@@MatoVuc R is not wrong tho. People claim Mando is prime television, while forgetting there were at least half a dozen TV shows that had better writing, pacing, directing, VFX & SFX. Mando is just good, not great, not bad. But if fans don't ask for better, they will keep getting crap. The same goes for The Witcher.
@JZ's BFF I've watched the sequels and didn't enjoy a second of them. I watched the Mandalorian and had a great time. I'm not asking to have my mind blown out my rear. All I want is to be entertained.
I just wanna say because I haven't seen anyone mention it: I love the way Mando looks and walks with his blaster. It resonates a certain calmness and confidence and I can't get enough of it. I'd probably watch a 1 hour loop of Mando casually walking up behind the droids on the prison ship because it just looks so damn smooth.
Kristen's actually doing a better job nowadays and is much more expressive. But her career is still fucked. RIP Update: Nah, she good. Roles found, career saved. Movie producers are loving her.
Bitch. He doesn't lock his guns up, doesn't lock his ship. The empire remnants should and obviously could have gotten baby Yoda with their own resources
1: it didn't say he doesn't know what a Jedi is. 2: getting hit in the helmet is hot best bet (see medieval armor and its downfalls) 3: I'd agree with this, however, maybe Mando doesn't leave him, maybe he just gets out of whatever gate Mando puts in front of him (metaphorically speaking). 4: I don't know if this is true, but the ship is bigger than any other in the show, so it could have a shield generator.(speculation). 5: should be obvious. This is a space port with passers through and hard core locals. Having it as close to the sewers as possible is probably a good idea. 5: yeah, I gotta agree, though there are a lot of questions there but I'll be generous and just say I agree with them all. 6: I don't know, but Bill Burr is fucking hilarious. Final thoughts: the cast is fantastic. Pedro Pascal, Werner Herzog, Nick Nolte, Apollo Creed; all fantastic. I, like millions of others, really enjoyed the first season and I'm really looking forward to Jon Favreau taking a much larger position at Lucasfilm. He loves the source material and it shows like a $10 stripper. Shit; he could take over Marvel AND Star Wars and both would see a bright future.
Remember Mando is not a dad and has no idea how to take care of a 50-year-old green force baby. Cant act like a new dad never forgot or misplaced their kid once they started to walk.
Just finished watching season 1 and it made me feel something that I haven’t felt in years watching anything with Star Wars in the tittle.....entertained! But while I hear season 2 is pretty decent this is still a Disney production after all and with the recent firing of Gina I figure it’s only a matter of time before the show crash and burns like they all do eventually.
@@starhammer5247 Oh fuck off. The amount of douchebaggery in your comment, correcting some irrelevant bullshit I said five months ago buy just saying some more bullshit that no one cares about makes me gag, fuck off.
As someone involved in the making of this show (post production side), I can say that they played it a bit safe but do plan on expanding the scope a great deal in season two.
Good to know, playing it safe is fine. But pushing it a little more would be great. Just as long as it doesn't devolve into anything like the shitshow that is the sequel trilogy.
Thanks for your work. This is the best piece of Disney Star Wars so far. As someone who also works in media (but nothing probably approaching your level), I'd love to help edit something like this, I think.
Not to reflect on you as the production quality is great but isn’t it sad that this is the best thing to come out of Star Wars for so many years and even then it’s pretty average rather than amazing. I’m sick of all the “new” stuff in all franchises. They all suck
This is the first time I've really disagreed with you. I actually appreciate that the show didn't try to do too much. It's like Gunsmoke, that show is a classic and is one of the longest running shows in history for a reason. But you don't go into Gunsmoke expecting an experience like The Prestige, or Joker, or anything like that. There will be times where it is more compelling than others, and you take that as it comes and appreciate it for what it is. But ultimately there is a spot for a simple show with a decent spread of action and character development that doesn't try to do to much. It has an interesting enough setting and interesting enough plot, but many episodes are more or less an adventure in his life on any given day just like the old westerns were. I think its nice this style of show is returning. Too many shows try to hard to do too much these days, then under deliver. The beauty with The Mandalorian is that you can go into it not expecting a bunch of convoluted plots that may or may not work, or some sort of physiological thrill ride that leaves the brain spinning. Its simple fun, and it works. I hope it stays around.
I can forgive them for playing it safe with the first season of the Mandalorian. I would play it safe too after the colossal shit show that was the sequel trilogy. Hopefully, now that the first series has proved to be a hit, they will deliver a more well thought out plot for season 2 that delves deeper in to the history and culture of the Mandalorians.
Dude, why aren't you a consultant for EVERY movie studio? So much for a meritocracy. Thanks for the thoughtful, and substantial work you put into these. You have a gift. The humor also goes a long ways. I lol at least once for every one of your reviews.
This is Star Wars! The characters were great. Sure it had a few ok episodes, but for the most part, it was the best show I've seen in forever! As an aside note.. Rogue one for me is right up there with the original trilogy. They nailed it!
Except men and women are designed to be strong in different ways, so as to compliment one another, not compete or turn into each other - which is what toxic feminism is doing - making every woman 'kick ass' and mouthy, which actually turns them into men and strips them of true God given femininity. The reverse can be seen with male depictions in Hollywood - the white male is evil and sinister or emasculated and crushed by the 'strong woman'.
@KAOS NATION Stow that commie talk! I don't know how it is where you live, but I live in the good old US of A, where you can be and do anything you set your mind to!
The Mandalorian is simple, and altough they try, trought side quests, make that simple plot fits in a 30 minutes episode they were able to replicate Star Wars's spirit. It has it's problems, but i personally believe that the overall result is good
"The Mandalorian is the Entertainment equivalent of half-decent Pub Lunch It's Simple, Honest, Unpretentious stuff that's been done tolerably well It's not gonna blow you away, but it's not gonna make you pin the Landlord to the wall and demand a refund" - Drinker, 2020
Watching the Mandalorian is like traveling back to the 80's and watching a show where they combined the A-Team and Knight Rider. Self contained episodes where the good guy(s) travel to an area, help the people, and leave. I like it.
kronos6948 I would like it if that was the point. But they can’t figure out the point. They set the expectation higher in the beginning of a cohesive season long story, then with no explanation it became self contained episodes. Then wasn’t again. It should have been all self contained episodes with episode 1 being the season finale.
But in all of those cases, I feel we still got more of a cohesive plot thread, even with the episode of the week. In this category, of random space adventures with the random crisis of the week, help X, leave, etc - Firefly is still #1, by FAAAR. RIP; the best single season show in my memory. It had likeable characters, each with their own intrigues; better acting than this, better action; even if far apart at times, and so far, more intricate, interesting and convincing 'side quests' per week, as this video called it.
Mando not knowing of the Jedi actually makes a lot of sense. In the original trilogy, it shows that most people have never even heard of the Jedi or the force. And people like Han, who have heard of the force, usually don't believe it exists.
EXACTLY, its a safe show, that was entertaining and watchable. it didn't take any risks, BUT, it enticed an audience into potential further seasons. it entertained, and intrigued. exactly what a TV show should do. get those viewers hooked for 5 seasons! great video as always
@@skyserf Chis is still wrong. One killed off half a fleet. The other die off screen and was avenged by a killer robot. And said Killer robot had a more meaning full death then the both of them.
dreman999 Kuill spent his entire life fighting for the empire, he had finally found peace on his planet. Yet, despite this he left the comfort of his home to help Mando for no other reason than he considered him a friend. He bravely defended baby Yoda with his life, and was killed off screen unceremoniously for his efforts. This highlights the notion that not everyone gets a heroes death, sometimes the good guy fails and is killed ruthlessly. So, I disagree with your assessment, Kuill’s death definitely had way more impact.
I've said it so many times and I'll say it again, it feels like the creators of the Mandalorian actually had FUN with the show. They didn't want to tell a grand epic story with an overwhelmingly complex narrative. They wanted a mandalorian to go on adventures while trying to be a single dad. It succeeds in what its trying to do, and despite its flaws, it feels like a saturday morning cartoon or a serial western. Its just good fun set in the star wars universe. Something that I can't really say for the new trilogy.
When I was watching the Mandalorian I couldn't shake off the feeling that it was inspired by memories of some tabletop game. In one episode it really looks as if Mando encounters a players party with Twi'lek, droid, human and Devaronian.
I like how Mando shows more character then Rey, despite not even showing his face. As for Gina Carano, sure she's not an actor, but at least when she's in an action scene, I can believe she can wreck some face. Btw, I liked that banter between those two scout troopers. Shows that they are people too, not just cardboard badguys. PS: even Han didn't know really about the Jedi. The movies revolve around them, but in their prime there were only hundreds or maybe a few thousand of them in a galaxy of trillions of entities. Not unbelieveable if many don't know about them, or think of them as some kind of sorcerers or something.
I dont think Gina is that bad. Her performance can be rough around the edges sometimes but I think acting lessons could help smooth it out making it better in the future. I agree with most of the critiques Drinker gave but some, like your examples, are a little nitpicky. Another I would add is the ig11 one. That is an example of "show don't tell" if I have ever seen it.
Still, he should've had SOME knowledge about them, he grew up during the Clone Wars. With Han I always inferred from his "doesn't guide my destiny" speech in A New Hope that, he was aware of the Force, but, just wrote it off as superstition. Even if he heard stories about the Jedi it's not like he was present, witnessing their telekinetic feats & laser swordplay. Probably regarded them as exaggeration.
Yeah but Yoda and the Jedi were a central part of the Clone Wars and Mando was about 10 during that war. Also his parents were killed in it so you'd think the war would stick in his mind.
Yes Han didnt know about the jedi, but thats before we got the prequels where Jedi were meddling all over the republic and leading a war effort, ontop of all the lore for times before that like the high republic era, the old republic, etc where there were wars between Sith and Jedi, ontop of Mandalorian history being one where they warred against the Jedi actively, so I would find it pretty weird that they dont learn about one of their greatest adversaries. Not to mention, it seems like Mando was a child during the clone wars, which, again, jedi were actively and widely involved. Just seemed like a weird thing to have him be ignorant about at this point with the world building star wars has done. For people born sometimes AFTER order 66, I can completely understand them not know wtf a Jedi is with the empire actively erasing anything to do with jedi.
Holy shot... farscape is a show I haven't thought about in years. Loved it when I was a kid and tried to revisit it a few years ago but it felt very juvenile and campy... I'll give it another try from episode 1 on your recommendation Mr. Drinker.
@@ScoutTrooperTK "Star Wars has always been political tho" You're thinking of Star Trek. Lucas's Star Wars went only as far as "fascism bad, democracy good". It delved into philosophical metaphysics with the concept of The Force, but not so much into politics.
@@roadent217 The trade federation representing big greedy corporations with Nute Gunray being based of a real person, the Empire being based of Nazi Germany, the Galactic Senate with the Separatists starting a war to stand up for their own rights, Endor representing the Vietcong, and somehow after all of this a female Jedi makes everyone lose their shit?
Well, except for unnecessary side characters (especially the clumsy Carano) - the Mandalorian is a win. And the smaller scale allows to focus better on a character that is competent, interesting, impressive and intriguing.
I thought he would love this one a bit better. I thought Mandalorian sofar is saving what I felt waaaay back about star wars. I thought it was badass. Finally a great show!
The Mandalorian was exactly what I've been looking for these days on a show: simple, uncomplicated fun. Cracked a few beers, watched it with the lady, and had a good time. But better than that, it also appeals for the lore hungry fans of Star Wars that look for those kind of things as well: my girl is very passionate about SW stuff, and wouldn't stop pointing out how this or that related or happened in dunno what time in the SW universe. She freaked out with the "darksaber' ending, while to me it was just the bad dude getting out with a glorified can opener. She explained what it meant and how "big" of a thing it was, while I just nodded and smiled half drunk haha. We both had a good time for different reasons, and that marks The Mandalorian as successful in my book. Actually looking forward to see more of it!
Thank you! I don't get people that expect masterpieces after masterpieces. It is exactly what it set out to be. People nit-picking star wars back and forth really lost scope of what it's supposed to be. Sure, there are issues with it, but that can be said about literally anything. At this point it's borderline clickbait. I love this channel, but really, people need to chill
Thats exactly what we need people complacent about both their own and everyone else’s mediocrity. That’s good for business, you don’t need good products anymore just addictive ones as long as marketing is good they have a business! Great stuff!
I know I'm late to the party, and it may just be because I've been starved of good Star Wars content for so long, but I really liked the Mandalorian. Even the lesser episodes I still thoroughly enjoyed, and I never felt as though something didn't matter.
@@draftmagicagain1000 Honestly I stopped giving a sh*t after the second film. Watching Leia fly through space like Superman just cemented my indifference towards those films. I don't even remember the names of them anymore.
I like how Drinker puts footage of the "Frying pan" quest from The Witcher 3 when talking about side quests. It's one of the most side-y side quests in the game, almost meta in a way, yet still cleverly written and very enjoyable.
5:09 That is EXACTLY what I thought; it all feels like side quests in WoW. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed The Mandalorian, despite some of it's silliness. This, in contrast to my complete distain for the new generation of Star Wars films.
The Mandalorian is the breath of fresh air that the Star Wars IP desperately needs. It might not be quite as great compared to the original trilogy, but I'm just glad to see that the franchise isn't completely in shambles just yet, and the fans are still loyal to that what is truly Star Wars. Yeah the first season is rather rough, The Mandalorian had me eager for the next episode every week.
Disney should have been printing 2billion dollar checks for itself with every Star Wars movie until the end of time. Instead, they managed to make the world not care about Han Freakin Solo.
See, that's an excuse for them to make sub-par stuff and have people buy into it. We shouldn't have to beg for table scraps, and we shouldn't be 'obligated' to like it just because it has Star Wars in the title if it's not actually well written and thought out. Don't let them off the hook just because they're doing the least they can do to get by. We deserve better, and the franchise deserves better.
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@@sagaswp : ...it may well be that better stories than these are not possible in the 'Star Wars' universe.
No complaints from me, I actually enjoy this show very much. I just sit back, watch and get entertained. P.S. I could watch Baby Yoda's cute little mug all day.
re: 10:00 - That four-and-a-half minute scene of the storm troopers shooting the shit was the high point of the entire season for me. I loved that scene.
To answer your speed round: 1) Because the Empire branded them as traitors and anyone who referred to them as Jedi were swiftly dealt with by inquisitors who would torture them for information before killing them for aligning themselves to traitors (even if they weren’t aligned at all). This was EXTREMELY common among lower classes 2) Blunt force still works against armor. Armor doesn’t completely absorb concussive force, it distributes it and mitigates impact deflection in an inwards direction. Plus I’m pretty sure she had some hand protection anyway. She would’ve reasonably still been able to knock him out. We even see that blasters still push him when they hit his armor. 3) reasonable criticism is reasonable. After the mudhorn I would get it if he KNOWS the empire isn’t around, BUT I think he started before that AND he still wouldn’t know of there were any imperial sympathizers. 4) It isn’t, shields/deflectors simply aren’t common on smaller vessels. X wings and Tie fighters are made to be mass-produced and filter pilots through rigorous training programs. To cut down on cost and produce more in the way of numbers, the empire doesn’t equip them with deflectors. For the rebels, they often can’t afford them. Transport ships tend to have them, and some of the larger imperial vessels did if they didn’t have large detachments of TIE fighters to act as both swords and “shields” for them. 5) Nevarro is largely known for lawlessness being a hub for bounty hunters, contact killers, etc. Having an escape hatch to a sub space with several escape routes benefits everyone. If there is a shootout, people who aren’t involved can leave. If it’s attacked from the outside, everyone can escape and flank or just wait for the enemy to enter and attack from below. If the new republic decided to finally incorporate such planets and sweep them of lawlessness, they have a direct way to leave without having to pick a fight with the primary military power in the Galaxy. 6) I had reasons in my head the moment you mentioned it but quickly I realized that thinking of reasons would be confirmation bias and an overactive creative mind. This is absolutely fair as a criticism. The ludicrous amount of time given is simply for characterization and plot convenience 7) Not really. The empire has brainwashed troupes of troops into considering themselves expendable. It’s actually more rare to see moments of free thinking. They may not be inhibitor chipped like cloners, but they were broken down into simply being tools via necessity or being raised by the empire/fragments of the empire. Too scared to rebel. This was also purely for characterizing Moff Gideon. Very few troops would actually have done anything about it though, out of fear if nothing else 8) Because sadly they have to reference the shitty “future” films in a good show that doesn’t deserve it
That doesn't explain how someone who lives on the dark side of society wouldn't have heard of a group as major and important as the Jedi. It's only been, what, 25 years? Like, half the people alive were around when the Jedi were common knowledge, this isn't like talking about the Knights Templar in today's world, some order that was eliminated centuries ago. Even if the Empire told people not to talk about them, the galaxy is huge, people live in all sorts of far-flung corners where there aren't Storm Troopers every 50 feet to monitor them. And our protagonist lives a life in constant contact with criminals, mercenaries, warlords, and other people who, you know, aren't exactly going to follow the law, and could probably get away with it, because we see in the OT that the Empire will work with people like Boba Fett and tolerate folks like Jabba running their own little empires, so long as they don't rock the boat.
Disney+ *is not in majority of Europe* Disney: Will you pay for our streaming service? Star wars fans: "We are pirates we don't even know what that means."
i agree. Exactly what I thought from Episode 1. It's ok. I'll probably keep watching it until / unless they start using it for a platform like the sequels.
I’d actually disagree I think most of the media is overating or underrating it this isn’t some average show it has good well known actors an accomplished writer and some great directors with an average plot and good characters but I’ve seen poles saying it’s just as good as A new hope which just isn’t true it’s a good 8.5 out of 10 show not a 6.5 or a 9.5 it’s just a good enjoyable show
when my friends and i first started watching it our first impression was it's similarity to a video game. In fact the episode where he must train villagers to fight off bandits is streight up a Warband quest. If you look you'll even notice at times when Mando is talking to others there are pauses as if he's picking a dialogue option. It was hilarious
The difference between my thoughts on The Mandalorian and the sequel trilogy is I'm actually looking forward to the next season of it. Despite it's flaws, There's more than enough to improve on and make absolutely great in the next season
exactly. all the ingredients are there and there is no reason it can't get better. honestly i think the episodes should be 50 minutes, 30 is far too short to spin a compelling narrative and it shows as the longer episodes are the superior viewing experiences.
@Luke Johnson Far better. Most SciFi from that time though SG1, DS9, TNG, Firefly, Babylon 5, SG Atlantis, even Voyager. God we were spoiled back then. A golden age for sure.
I loved the random talk between random characters. It tells me that the world is bigger than the main characters. And the random episodic nature reminds me of the 90s tv shows, you know, a better time.
The Mandalorian was like a better version of The Witcher: a series of simple, self-contained stories about a gruff antihero with a mysterious past, carting around a hunted creature he will eventually bond with. While The Witcher played catchup with GoT and failed, Mando kept a cautious distance from the sequel movies, and benefited. Overall, not perfect, but a strong start. Also a testament to why picking up the story straight after the fall of the Empire would have been a much better move than hitting the big reset button like they did in Force Awakens.
I found the simplicity of the show and it's storytelling refreshing. I appreciate a well told, long developing, grand story arc as much as anyone, but there are plenty of shows like that now. It was nice to have a show that says "Jawas stole Mando's shit, and he's gotta get it back". Little adventures like that make The Mandolorian seem more realistic, cause not every storyline needs to have "the fate of the galaxy" stakes to them.
I think you'll note that the original trilogy has plenty of twists (ahem I am your father ahem) as well as some thought provoking ideas (Anakin being dead from a certain point of view, or perhaps anything Yoda says). The original trilogy has a simple narrative, you always know what's happening but it's not just predictable set ups and payoffs.
@@pbj4928 to be fair that all happened in Empire. Y'know, the SECOND entry in the series. While I agree the first season is very simple couch entertainment, there's a lot of obvious setup work being done to make a launch point for season 2 to really broaden the scope of what the show is gonna grow into.
@@l1teralcanc3r78 Ehh... ANH still had, in no particular order: Leia tortured, Alderaan destroyed, the unique space battles and space ship designs (such as the Death Star itself), Leia being a capable leader, Luke's parents torched, Ben's ghost voice, Vader choking that officer telekinetically, and a bunch of weird alien races (one of them, Chewbacca, even becoming an integral character). Now, I dunno how it holds up to Flash Gordon or Doctor Who - but it seemed rather ambitiously epic to me.
Dude, did you missed the foreshadowing on Kuill talking about how he recovered the damage droid and taught him how to behave and how he learns from him? It's parallel with Mando and Baby Yoda. Mando keeps shooting and killing in front of the kid. The kid sees that as normal. The kid starts killing an shooting.
He didn't want it to be a good review. He'd decided to jump on the bandwagon with his new groupies, his 'streaming friends'. Ever since he started doing live streams with others his content has gone to shit. He lost "The Critical Drinker" and became "The Critical Drinker's New Friends Think...."
@@evanroberts2771 _Riiiiiiiight........_ Not like the stream was released a month *AFTER* he posted his review or anything... But keep trying to rationalise the fact that someone you've been following doesn't agree with you on something you enjoy :) It's healthy as long as it doesn't become full-on denial at least. Just FYI: I enjoyed the show quite a lot, before you start accusing me of being part of the same "bandwagon".
@@arenkai What stream? Oh, you mean all the other streams where whatever his new friends criticize, Drinker released videos making the same criticisms to 'stay hip' and 'in the crowd' with these same new friends? I suggest you read all the other posts here as well, saying pretty much what i have.
I'll give you another example of his hypocrisy, in a post i did 2 months ago. " Evan Roberts 2 months ago (edited) LOL, the Drinker: "It's too slow" and then "It moves along briskly". "There's characters in it just to give exposition" then "It just skips over everything without explaining it." "Complains not enough is shown" then shows IG11's story "Didn't need to see that". Fuck me, if it wasn't shown he'd complain there wasn't enough said about it. "One sentence isn't enough" he says. Seriously, i think he just hated on it because others did. Jumped on the bandwagon. He wanted everything explained in 1 season. Farscape he says, has characters better fleshed out. OF FUCKING COURSE. 4 seasons, 88 episodes. The Mandalorian? 10 episodes." Drinker was all over the place, contradicting himself, because he had HIS opinion which conflicted with his new friends' narrative opinion.
Issue is that they need their barriers and limits. Female power is very much so centered around emotion and cunning, male is about perseverence, strength and stoicism. Two opposites that complete a whole and that is a lot of what we are missing. I miss female characters that are powerful in ways that are feminine, and thus unexpected. Enchanting men and thus shaping politics. Many arent aware of it but Helen of Troy was one of the most powerful women that caused tens of thousands to die for her, and a civilization to collapse for her. In the oddyssey this is pointed out where she half heartedly admits that she was a whore, who ran off on a whim from her husband. And when Telemachus and Menaleus start crying she drugs them to lull them to sleep. This is the kind of storytelling we need and want, not the strong woman shite we get. Not even the "equally strong without diminishing each other" idea that was presented in the video although I dont doubt the critical drinker would basically share the same opinion I have put out here. Basically im tired of shite storytelling, and I need to vent.
@@boguslav9502 Do you get why women would be "cunning"? It's not because that is necessarily a "feminine" skill. It's because my gender realizes reality and knows that in a fight, the boy wins 9 times out of 10. So what do we do? How do we win or even have a chance of surviving? What men call "cunning" and "emotions" is what I call sound strategy to deal with an unfair playing field. I'm sure that men would want to play differently if the world were different and women were physically stronger. Then, men would be playing to the non-physical strengths in order to win against sheer barbaric physical violence. Instead of setting it up into gender, because this is a galaxy far far away and the people, even the human looking ones, are not humans... let's set up fatal character flaws and less obviously stereotypical expectations. Look at Penelope - the one who was so clever that she knew she couldn't beat her suitors on a physical level. So what does she do? She undoes her work for her stupid moronic husband's funeral shroud in order to ensure her son's survival. (She's probably planning for her son to get to a proper age and take control because that's what a society like this would have needed... a strong male warrior.) And her moronic husband, who apparently is so clever, can only think of fucking the goddesses because "he had no choice". (Sorry, I haven't read the Odyssey in a long time. I just remember thinking.. damn he's always making excuses for why he has to sleep with somebody.) (The legend of Helen of Troy is that she was enchanted and thus ran away. That makes her a victim, not a whore. I always like Elizabeth the First as an example. She understood the reality of the world and played the "virgin" while playing the men in her court and the men in power in other countries. She understood that it isn't always about physical strength.)
I was about a year late to coming to the table, so I wasn't in the middle of the craze for the show. It was funny to see the different types of people that got into the show, just because it was popular; like someone I knew who had never seen a single Star Wars movie, or my brother-in-law who has never seen anything beyond the movies.
I appreciated it feeling like a RPG. Its pretty clear we had our expectations subverted so bad that nothing can compare to what we expect to be good now.
Isn't that a question for God?? "excuse me, why did you place happy town next door to the sewage plant?" (refering to the placement of a vagina and anus on the female sex) Although, it could be worse, human females could be like birds, their anus is also their vagina.
If you'd told me a few years ago we'd see Werner Herzog in the Star Wars universe, I'd have laughed in your face. Rogue One and Mando are the best SW products since the original trilogy. Here's hoping Andor is good too...
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The Critical Drinker imagine if disney ONLY did rogue one and the mandalorian by this point in time... they’d still have a fan base
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr brother
More money, mate? Nah, you'll be fine...
You do realize that there are only light 10000 Jedi or so at most it a galaxy of trillions of people so of course there's going to be a metric fuckton of people that don't even know what a Jedi or what the force even is.
Are all your books audio books yet?
The two speeder troopers had more character development than Rey
LOL Sad but true.
Part of me hopes they survived their beat down. I wouldn't mind another scene or two with them in it.
It was like spending a few minutes getting to know The Don....
I hope they appear in season 2 wrapped up in casts as they take their daughters to work day kinda thing
@@jstitus916 Hell nah, they killed Quill and hit Baby Yoda.
The Mandelorian:
A man who cannot pass up every side quest he is given before completing the main story quest.
Me playing Assassin's Creed: I completed 85% of the quests in Unity while %15 of the way through the story. I would go from five star side missions back to the 3 star central missions and complete them in 2 minutes. Same deal in Far Cry 4. I had the biggest wallet made of demon fish about 5% into the game.
@@platypusnebula7401
Skyrim is another culprit. I have saved games where I am rl days into gameplay and not even been to the greybeards.
I am the same with Farcry, I beat the outposts and upgrade all the bags and pouches as much as I can before I even begin the main quest. Especially Wallet, Ammo, Quiver and loot bag. The essentials.
@@krampusklaws2238 The big wallet is absolutely necessary. Plus in the process of taking down animals to make these wallets you learn a lot of important skills. For example, you can reduce an elephant's hp down to almost zero with grenades and then finish it off with a few bullets so the grenades don't damage the hide, and it takes a minute instead of half an hour like shooting it to death would, but this requires that you ambush jeeps on the road frequently to steal their grenades, so you learn hunting and ambushing skills. And you really learn the importance of a vantage point because if you're not up high the elephant with FUCKING KILL YOU! I found a great spot to do this and got my elephant wallet in no time.
The Space Witcher then
Ah shit! here we go again
*restarts Witcher 3*
I’m old and as a kid I was raised on the 30 minute TV shows of the 50’s and 60’s. That is exactly what “The Mandalorian” is. Mando is the gunfighter that has a questionable past who stands up for the little guy against the bad guys. The good guy always wins at the end of the show and moves on.
He's a modern version of The Lone Ranger without being as high and mighty and overly altruistic.
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Yeah I'm a geezer also but the effect many of these spinoff, or whatever they are, has the effect of reminding me, over and over, of how good the stories these are based on actually are...thats the effect they have, just playing a RPG over and over.
I think much of these two and half star creations would have been more successful if the writers had created series unrelated to SW. But that would assume corp. with mngrs who would invest in originality and that'll never happen, it's much to easy use the SW name.
The ROP fiasco going on is the epitome of this type of thinking, nothing original just ripping off the past.
The show's simplicity is its charm. The side missions are its charm. I can't imagine a better cast.
It's been an antidote to the latest SW films that have all but killed the franchise. IMHO Gina has a great presence and
she certain;y "acts" good enough for a charming spaghetti-space-western. I'm also of the opinion that Baby Yoda's character
was a risk in that could have just as easily not worked. As a commenter said elsewhere the Mandolorian, in his armor,
shows more acting ability than Rey.
The franchise died with Rey Skywalker. You didn't know?
@@draftmagicagain1000 the mandalorian is one of, if not the most well received show/movie in the franchise. so it doesn't even matter
All good, but instead of Carano, they could have had someone showing
more grace, agility and acting skill. Such as Ming Na Wen (Fennec Shand).
There are enough stunt-women in the cinema industry who can portray
the character hundred times better.
Hater. Say what you want about Rey as a character but the actress is a great actress. And Rey at least is a character, not a good character, but still does a lot more than "the Mandalorian".
@@turinturambar501 lol
The two speeder bike troopers were exactly how lower enlisted act in the military. It was hilarious.
i liked them lol
Everyone got mad at that scene because he punched "the kid" I meanwhile was laughing the whole time, especially when he was trying to shoot the can that was 5 feet away.
"the guns shit, its out of tune"
I wish they didn’t hit baby yoda tho. Then I would’ve liked them.
I am pretty sure that there names are tag and bink
"The pirate's code aren't actual rules. They're more like ... guidelines."
I've lived in several countries like that in the Far East. When I come back home again to the West with all the busybodies and moral supremacists everywhere justifying massive taxes,open borders, unnecessary and ever expanding laws against the citizens, I kinda miss the "guideline" aspect.
Parley??
@@myeffulgenthairyballssay9358 Big Fart gives a lecture and a story.
@shitmandood Aye, I often give presentations n' stuff so it's become a bad habit I just cannae shake off. Help meeeeeee..... 8oO
The Ten Commandments in general...
“Look at that little guy!! Look at his ears! Isn’t he the cutest thing you’ve ever seen!” I can’t stop laughing
4:01 For anyone curious/returning.
Simple, Uncomplicated fun. That's what makes the Mandalorian good. There's no big twist, no complex problem. That's what makes it good like A New Hope.
You serious? And you saying A New Hope is as simple as The Mandalorian?? That fun thing is also very subjective.
A New Hope is fantastic from both an enjoyment and critical level. It has everything a good movie needs, while also telling an enjoyable story. Mandalorian season 1 captures that well, but season 2 is absolute trash.
@dihvocfoscocudvyvdd8101I'm sorry your Pea brain can't handle more complicated themes than Saturday morning cartoons 😂
I like how the Mandalorian is portrayed to be a master bounty hunter, but he still struggled throughout the series. His journey felt more real.
Rey on the other hand...
It's realistic. Everyone knows about his successes but nobody sees his struggle and failures. The realistic way people get a reputation
But hey at least try followed Luke's steps, was op from the start and for no reason at all became assholes for no reason
I kinda like how many times he's about to just die in the middle of nowhere. Sure, him not dying starts to get old fast, but I like this jaded loner who's also kind of a fuckup who could be eaten by blurrgs, or break his neck falling from Jawa sandcrawler, or mashed to a pulp by the Mudhorn, or eaten by venomous flying dinosaurs in the night. That's relatable. Rey on the other hand...
Rick Roll Rizal I think they overdid it though. He’s this total badass but almost every time he gets fucked up its because he made some really amateur mistake that made no sense. In the last episode he turned his ships defenses on when he left it. But didn’t think to do that on an unknown planet and then Jawas scrapped his shit? Plus, the fact he got his ass best by some wack-ass Jawas was disappointing. And why fulfill their task? You had them stopped, you could have shredded them and taken your stuff back. Just illogical.
Jumps out in front of that guild droid not expecting to be shot without warning it first? You. Could have shouted your a guild member FIRST. Who jumps in front of a gun going HAM on enemies?
Gets his ass nearly beat in a bare knuckle fight while wearing armor after walking into an obvious trap.
In another obvious turn of events, he is double crossed by Harley Quinn and the Suicide Squad. All for another pointless side quest.
Can keep going.
I’m glad to see failure, learning, improving, but damn, these were completely stupid mistakes someone of his experience shouldn’t be making.
He's bad ass till he fights Steroidid Up She Man.
I'm thinking she should wear the armor.
Even at its worst, the Mandalorian is still infinitely superior to the sequels.
Star Wars is overrated!
@Ram Attack Episode 4 had a coherent story, good character and developpement of said character... sequel barelly had any of that.
Brolly5 that's not hard to do
"Sequels". 😂😂😂
Not a high bar. This show is buttered toast, the sequels are burnt shit on bread.
Watching the Mandalorian takes me back to the original StarWars in the 70s, when I was a wee lad. Even if it isn't as good as the original movies (Episodes 4,5,6), I'm so desperate for good storytelling and character development in the SW universe, that I find the Mandalorian to be quite awesome...
What about rogue one?
You should watch ANY other film then. I'm sure you'll like it.
I do agree with all of the points made, but I did enjoy the simplistic nature of this show and wish it stuck to that.
The best thing about The Mandalorian is that it reminded me that I like Star Wars.
That moment of realization legitimately made me a little emotional.
Yeah, id forgotten. Amazing the difference of having ppl that actually like star wars in charge can bring
@@TrueNorthProductions "We thought we'd do a brilliant deconstruction of the genre!"
@bokudensuduharagmail no yeah
I meant that the whole thing in the prequels of giving the force a will was kinda meh and the prophecy was kinda meh, though the way Anakin fulfilled it was neat. Kreia's points make me big anger because she's lying and manipulating you, but everything she says is true and the will of the force becomes a pointless nihilistic thing when you get three trilogies (well two really, because OT had nothing to do with overblown prophecies and balance) of the force claiming it wants balance but constantly causing wars of genocidal proportions. It sorta made sense when it was a buildup to the Vong (though I dislike the Vong themselves), trying to unite the galaxy, but at present it's just a cyclical force of destruction.
It was cooler when the force was more low-key and driven by the people who used it, and not the other way around, instead of having a Luke who chooses to learn the ways of the force and use it for good, we have a Rey who gets used by the force to do good without ever really making a decision or even helping the wider world until the very end and watching as trillions are slaughtered.
Hence, why Mandalorians hold a much higher place in my mind than any force wielders.
Exactly how I felt. 100%
@ShadoSnake The point of Kreia's character was to be the voice of Chris Avellone (the dude who wrote KOTOR 2) and his criticisms of destiny and the Force. The end conversation with Kreia at Malachor V was the synthesis of his criticisms. Kreia (and by proxy Avellone) hate how the Force exerts a measure of control over the galaxy for the purpose of establishing some Machiavellian form of "balance" while "countless lives are lost." Kreia hates the Force because it is negligent of the free will of individuals and this negligence results in massive amounts of pain and suffering for seemingly no reason except to keep the pendulum swinging. The Jedi and Sith have been fighting the exact same war for over 20,000 years. Sometimes the Jedi win and sometimes the Sith win, but their is no final victory. Kreia sees through the dogmatic bullshit of both the Jedi and the Sith and she sees how dependent their respective dogmas are on the Force itself. Kreia wants people to be free of the Force so they can struggle, grow, and reach resolution of both their individual problems and the problems of the galaxy. Kreia's message throughout the game is that of existentialist growth where people learn and grow through experience and failures. Something handed to someone has no value (remember the Refugee on Nar Shaddaa) and will likely cause more distress. I encourage you to replay KOTOR 2 and really listen to the conversations with Kreia. Once you get past the absolute good-and-evil bullshit, she actually makes a lot of sense.
Oh, and here's a couple of great videos on Kreia and her philosophy:
czcams.com/video/0tN0RuRSp0o/video.html
czcams.com/video/ZIkD35vHZG8/video.html
“Better than nothing” has got to be the kindest compliment you said about Disney Star Wars...
At this point “nothing” actually sounds rather appealing to me. For destroying the original saga, Lucasfilm will never win me back as a customer as long as the DT stands. Hell, even if for some reason they did decanonize it, I still have pretty much no faith in them to create new content that doesn’t break the world every other minute anyway. So yeah, just having _no_ Star Wars doesn’t sound that bad. Let it rest in peace and all that jazz
Disney should just let its "sequel" trilogy fade away like a fart in the wind being the creative, critical, and commercial failure that it is. They should distance Mando and any future shows and movies as far away from this trilogy as much as possible.
The “compliment” is dead on. The majority of the season is good with only a few woke episodes, moments and characters that make me roll my eyes. That being said, when my free year with Verizon is up I won’t be renewing.
TerminvsEst Unfortunately they already gave Baby Yoda force healing powers because fuck it
@@ElValuador "woke" jesus christ
I had once called The Mandalorian “the best Star Wars has been in decades” and now I realize what a low bar that was.
The franchise died with Rey Skywalker. You didn't know?
Well technically it’s the best Star Wars within the last decade
@@mangozzz4487 the Franchise died with Rey Skywalker. You didn't know?
@@draftmagicagain1000 say it again.
One of my friends told me that The Mandalorian looks like "a really well-made role play campaign"
It's exactly that. And this is exactly why the show is so good, despite his simplicity !
I think it's safe to say that The Mandalorian subverted our expectations by not subverting our expectations.
I ruined the 69
@@outtaideas849 you rat bastard
@@DRGEngineer You underestimate my power
@@outtaideas849 don't try it, I have the high ground
@@DRGEngineer I'm gunna try it
I actually liked that they cast Gina Carano, her fight scenes seem way more realistic than.....any other female fight scene with tiny girls beating up guys twice their size, including Wonder Woman.
I mean ww has an wxcuse of being a demigod. Most others dont.
We do know she is a retired MMA fighter, nyes?
@@kutlumzrak2689 Fuck that genocidal war criminal.
@@sirdook2761 Uh, do you separate between the actress and the character?
Cuz that's a mental illness if you cannot.
@@kutlumzrak2689 Oh I can. But when I see her mug I only see the cruel war criminal.
I could definitely understand how some are tired of seeing Gina Carano casted in popular shows recently - but i personally love it. Yes, her acting needs work, but her fight scenes are genuine - and you can tell she puts in the work, so they come out extremely believable. In a world where every studio is trying to put forth a strong female character; to the point where it's a detriment to the movie/show itself, I've never felt that with her - and i'm comforted that her "horrible emoting" will only get better with practice, haha.
I think as long as the directors keep GC in her safe zone her acting chops are fine. Haywire is a good example. She's been at least one clunker that wasn't that much fun to watch. But she is a real presence to be reckoned with on the screen.
imho
I really appreciate her physical presence. All the stunts hse does seem believable. Well except punching a helmet, thats just stupid.
@@jarvis8635 I mean, to be fair, you don't really care where you're hitting when you're in a hand-to-hand fight and it probably wouldn't hurt because of adrenaline
@@alek7998 Believe me, it does matter where you're hitting in a hand-to-hand fight. In fact, it matters so much that we've developed a plurality of fighting styles to avoid injuring yourself (or limit the injury) during an attack. Many grappling moves and styles, like Judo, were developed to deal with armored enemies because simply punching them achieves nothing but hurt yourself. I've injured myself hitting the wrong part of my opponent's skull once. I wouldn't for the live of me want to punch a helmet. That said, all fighters can make mistakes, so falling back on a wrong technique (punching a nearly indestructible helmet) is not outside the scope of a good character. I also saw her pulling grappling moves and throws, which were perfect for the situation.
@@Megacaesar Martial arts are another discussion entirely, but all those I've done had us attack the general location of the head, the shoulder area and the stomach, without much care where we actually hit.
Obviously, different martial arts have different kind of stuff so.../shrug
They do have shields even in the original Trilogy. They destroy a shield generator of a Star Destroyer in Return of the Jedi just before the A-Wing crashes into the bridge.
"Nothing" is being generous with Disney.
How are you still alive Manny? Didn't you die during the nuke in Miami?
The most soulless crop out in the Hollywood
It would be great if we got nothing from disney. instead the sequel trilogy was anti-star wars. It was like dark matter. The mandalorian despite its many flaws makes up the deficit.
show is okay, its leagues better then shit that is episode 7-9, but that isn't hard task, there's tons of things can do it better then those shit movies
@@darksage8621 The nuke wasn't so bad. I was born with thick skin.
I find myself saying this a lot lately:
Sometimes you don't need a genre redefining revolutionary piece of media.
Sometimes a properly done standard tale with a bit of passion is exactly what the doctor ordered.
I disagree completely. This kind of mindset only reinforce the laziness that plagues hollywood. Why should I try to tell a good story if I can simply reskin a western with star wars visuals? It's fair to follow a genre, you don't need to reinvent the wheel (like the joker did, followed the lonely man genre and did it's own thing). But a lazy ass reskin like this is something unacceptable imo Star Wars is limited, it's either the story of good vs evil featuring a chosen one... or they reskin a western or a heist movie and call it a day. And you people dare to commend something like this, lol c'mon, don't act like sheep, why give attention or money to something lazy like this?
@@RRRRRRRRR33 lrt me guess, you consider everything that gets a score of 89% and less utter garbage, don't you?
fuckin' oath mate, well said
@@MatoVuc
R is not wrong tho. People claim Mando is prime television, while forgetting there were at least half a dozen TV shows that had better writing, pacing, directing, VFX & SFX. Mando is just good, not great, not bad. But if fans don't ask for better, they will keep getting crap. The same goes for The Witcher.
@@burningmisery if you do not reward the good, where do you expect the great to come from?
Rome was not built in a day.
All I know is, after I watch a Mandalorian episode, I'm happy. That's good enough for me.
@Jz's best friend
Average Star Wars snob
I agree with ya! It does leave me feeling happy too
"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? IS THAT WHY YOU'RE HERE?"
I've just watched both seasons of Mando and was thoroughly entertained throughout!
@JZ's BFF I've watched the sequels and didn't enjoy a second of them. I watched the Mandalorian and had a great time. I'm not asking to have my mind blown out my rear. All I want is to be entertained.
I just wanna say because I haven't seen anyone mention it: I love the way Mando looks and walks with his blaster. It resonates a certain calmness and confidence and I can't get enough of it. I'd probably watch a 1 hour loop of Mando casually walking up behind the droids on the prison ship because it just looks so damn smooth.
Funny how Mando has more facial expressions and portrays more emotions than Brie Larson and Kristen Stewart combined.
Kristen's actually doing a better job nowadays and is much more expressive. But her career is still fucked. RIP
Update: Nah, she good. Roles found, career saved. Movie producers are loving her.
I strongly object to this. "smug" and "indifferent" beat "blank helmet stare" 2 to 1. Close call, though.
@@martinbuhrer3893 that made less sense then Kathleen Kennedy deciding to do Star Wars
@@martinbuhrer3893 ahem, we have seen his face
So we have blank stare, pain and sad
So it’s actually 3/2
True, but we're coming off a low base there, And by low, I mean LOOOOOOOOOOOOOW (insert critical drinker sound effect)
I thought a couple episodes were a bit weak but overall the “Western” feel was pretty good for me!
Adventures of Baby Yoda & The Mandalorian S1-8 fan musicvid- czcams.com/video/X6q1KBk17XM/video.html
Well said
Bitch. He doesn't lock his guns up, doesn't lock his ship. The empire remnants should and obviously could have gotten baby Yoda with their own resources
@@JoshuaKevinPerry How does that relate to the original comment? And how does said comment warrant being called a bitch?
Episodes 5 and 6 were a bit pointless and filler-y. Easily skipped with nothing missed.
1: it didn't say he doesn't know what a Jedi is.
2: getting hit in the helmet is hot best bet (see medieval armor and its downfalls)
3: I'd agree with this, however, maybe Mando doesn't leave him, maybe he just gets out of whatever gate Mando puts in front of him (metaphorically speaking).
4: I don't know if this is true, but the ship is bigger than any other in the show, so it could have a shield generator.(speculation).
5: should be obvious. This is a space port with passers through and hard core locals. Having it as close to the sewers as possible is probably a good idea.
5: yeah, I gotta agree, though there are a lot of questions there but I'll be generous and just say I agree with them all.
6: I don't know, but Bill Burr is fucking hilarious.
Final thoughts: the cast is fantastic. Pedro Pascal, Werner Herzog, Nick Nolte, Apollo Creed; all fantastic.
I, like millions of others, really enjoyed the first season and I'm really looking forward to Jon Favreau taking a much larger position at Lucasfilm. He loves the source material and it shows like a $10 stripper. Shit; he could take over Marvel AND Star Wars and both would see a bright future.
Remember Mando is not a dad and has no idea how to take care of a 50-year-old green force baby. Cant act like a new dad never forgot or misplaced their kid once they started to walk.
Normally I hate people who comment with more than one line. But I think your on point here.
@@CoolMyron my own dad lost me in a K-Mart, so I can't blame Din too much.
@@yoursodumn XD Mine left me on top of his car. Im lucky to be alive.
Maybe he was trying to get rid of me. O_O
Just finished watching season 1 and it made me feel something that I haven’t felt in years watching anything with Star Wars in the tittle.....entertained!
But while I hear season 2 is pretty decent this is still a Disney production after all and with the recent firing of Gina I figure it’s only a matter of time before the show crash and burns like they all do eventually.
When it come to Disney Star Wars, It’s a Pirates life for me.
XBMC (aka, Kodi to the MEllennial losers) is always an option. 😆
well...they DID do the pirate movies...
And ironically, what they are doing to the franchises that they get could be considered a form of piracy...
Indeed! I'm happy to seed Disney Star Wars :)
Where do you sail, Mr Pirate?
Sail the high seas!
Mandalorian is the first thing with a Star Wars pulse since Rogue one.
Right on.
💯
@Apex Gamma god no...
@Apex Gamma I heard about that. Haven't had a chance to play it.
Rogue One had shit music but was otherwise the only watchable disney Star Wars and the only Star Wars, the rest are not star wars they are woke shit
I consider this more canon than the Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker
Do still now
I actually really enjoyed the clones talking scene.
They're enlisted, Scout troopers, not clones, but I understand why you say that, I suffered from the confusion as well.
@@starhammer5247 Oh fuck off.
The amount of douchebaggery in your comment, correcting some irrelevant bullshit I said five months ago buy just saying some more bullshit that no one cares about makes me gag, fuck off.
@@palmquigley6445 yikes
@@mrbouncelol Sorry bought that, I was a little drunk.
@@palmquigley6445 I feel you man
I wince when I see Kathy’s name in the Mandalorian credits. 😣
Coking it up with the siths rip
She deserves no credit. In spite of her “leadership” at Lucasfilm The Mandalorian is a success.
She'll probably lurk in the shadows until it becomes globally iconic, and then sh*t all over it. Just to piss off the world.
Saw Indiana Jones yesterday, found her name there. Shocked that I can see it and like a movie.
I'm surprised she let them hire someone competent like Favreau to make this, maybe she was out of the office that day.
As someone involved in the making of this show (post production side), I can say that they played it a bit safe but do plan on expanding the scope a great deal in season two.
Good to know, playing it safe is fine. But pushing it a little more would be great. Just as long as it doesn't devolve into anything like the shitshow that is the sequel trilogy.
The Rainblossoms Have faith in Dave Filoni
Thanks for your work. This is the best piece of Disney Star Wars so far. As someone who also works in media (but nothing probably approaching your level), I'd love to help edit something like this, I think.
Not to reflect on you as the production quality is great but isn’t it sad that this is the best thing to come out of Star Wars for so many years and even then it’s pretty average rather than amazing. I’m sick of all the “new” stuff in all franchises. They all suck
Please tell me "expanding the scope" doesn't include injecting real world politics
This is the first time I've really disagreed with you. I actually appreciate that the show didn't try to do too much. It's like Gunsmoke, that show is a classic and is one of the longest running shows in history for a reason. But you don't go into Gunsmoke expecting an experience like The Prestige, or Joker, or anything like that. There will be times where it is more compelling than others, and you take that as it comes and appreciate it for what it is. But ultimately there is a spot for a simple show with a decent spread of action and character development that doesn't try to do to much. It has an interesting enough setting and interesting enough plot, but many episodes are more or less an adventure in his life on any given day just like the old westerns were. I think its nice this style of show is returning. Too many shows try to hard to do too much these days, then under deliver. The beauty with The Mandalorian is that you can go into it not expecting a bunch of convoluted plots that may or may not work, or some sort of physiological thrill ride that leaves the brain spinning. Its simple fun, and it works. I hope it stays around.
I can forgive them for playing it safe with the first season of the Mandalorian. I would play it safe too after the colossal shit show that was the sequel trilogy. Hopefully, now that the first series has proved to be a hit, they will deliver a more well thought out plot for season 2 that delves deeper in to the history and culture of the Mandalorians.
In a times of wokeness... the Mandalorian tries to entertain us, not lecture us.
That is indeed a positive. Lazy, zero creativity, etc... But it least tried to entertain instead of sending condescend messages
nah, its basically about fucking up your kids wile you accept this into your life
I'd take lack of creativity over creative stupidity any day
The franchise died with Rey Skywalker. You didn't know?
@@RRRRRRRRR33 Classicism doesn't mean zero creativity. In case of Mandalorian, God is in the details.
Disney actually made a show that was worth visiting piratebay weekly.
funny how that is a glowing review nowadays. man i feel internet old
no
Piratebay is still up?
@@irishtyrant4532 proxy sites my friend
Exactly because I won't give Disney a single dime.
Dude, why aren't you a consultant for EVERY movie studio? So much for a meritocracy.
Thanks for the thoughtful, and substantial work you put into these. You have a gift.
The humor also goes a long ways. I lol at least once for every one of your reviews.
This is Star Wars! The characters were great. Sure it had a few ok episodes, but for the most part, it was the best show I've seen in forever! As an aside note.. Rogue one for me is right up there with the original trilogy. They nailed it!
The franchise died with Rey Skywalker. You didn't know?
I never saw any real character in the show. If those are characters...
"Both genders can be strong, smart, and capable without diminishing one another."
I need this on a t-shirt.
Except men and women are designed to be strong in different ways, so as to compliment one another, not compete or turn into each other - which is what toxic feminism is doing - making every woman 'kick ass' and mouthy, which actually turns them into men and strips them of true God given femininity. The reverse can be seen with male depictions in Hollywood - the white male is evil and sinister or emasculated and crushed by the 'strong woman'.
Bruce Wayne that’s why I liked Wonder Woman. Strong female with godly powers that at the end of the day still loved a man.
@SmashStomp Inc i think they were praising her portrayal as a character, not the quality of her movie’s writing
@KAOS NATION Stow that commie talk! I don't know how it is where you live, but I live in the good old US of A, where you can be and do anything you set your mind to!
@@BruceWayne-ps9vj "god given" hahahahahahahaha
The Mandalorian just shows... when everything you’ve loved for so long turns to chaos and disaster....
Competence can resemble something more.
The Mandalorian is simple, and altough they try, trought side quests, make that simple plot fits in a 30 minutes episode they were able to replicate Star Wars's spirit. It has it's problems, but i personally believe that the overall result is good
"The Mandalorian is the Entertainment equivalent of half-decent Pub Lunch
It's Simple, Honest, Unpretentious stuff that's been done tolerably well
It's not gonna blow you away, but it's not gonna make you pin the Landlord to the wall and demand a refund"
- Drinker, 2020
Watching the Mandalorian is like traveling back to the 80's and watching a show where they combined the A-Team and Knight Rider. Self contained episodes where the good guy(s) travel to an area, help the people, and leave. I like it.
kronos6948 I would like it if that was the point. But they can’t figure out the point. They set the expectation higher in the beginning of a cohesive season long story, then with no explanation it became self contained episodes. Then wasn’t again. It should have been all self contained episodes with episode 1 being the season finale.
kronos6948 ok boomer
But in all of those cases, I feel we still got more of a cohesive plot thread, even with the episode of the week. In this category, of random space adventures with the random crisis of the week, help X, leave, etc - Firefly is still #1, by FAAAR. RIP; the best single season show in my memory. It had likeable characters, each with their own intrigues; better acting than this, better action; even if far apart at times, and so far, more intricate, interesting and convincing 'side quests' per week, as this video called it.
Right it's just loosely connected enough to pull together a finale but if you miss an episode it won't completely derail the story
@Stripey Arse or 70's with Rockford Files. But yet again, the overrated 80's gets all the credit in western pop culture. It's frustrating, no?
"It's better than nothing" is actually incredibly high praise considering what's happened to Star Wars recently.
Yes but they really could have done better
IrishJoey You could literally say that about anything
IrishJoey You shouldn’t say anything you think the last Jedi is perfection? Yet you criticized The Mandalorian which is 10 times better
Fuck that mando is beautiful
@@Stoned_Yoda nothing lol
Mando not knowing of the Jedi actually makes a lot of sense. In the original trilogy, it shows that most people have never even heard of the Jedi or the force. And people like Han, who have heard of the force, usually don't believe it exists.
EXACTLY, its a safe show, that was entertaining and watchable. it didn't take any risks, BUT, it enticed an audience into potential further seasons.
it entertained, and intrigued. exactly what a TV show should do. get those viewers hooked for 5 seasons!
great video as always
Kuiil's death had more meaning than Admiral Purple-hair's ever will.
Not really.... But I still like Kuiil more.
Chris has spoken.
@@skyserf Chis is still wrong. One killed off half a fleet. The other die off screen and was avenged by a killer robot. And said Killer robot had a more meaning full death then the both of them.
dreman999 Kuill spent his entire life fighting for the empire, he had finally found peace on his planet. Yet, despite this he left the comfort of his home to help Mando for no other reason than he considered him a friend. He bravely defended baby Yoda with his life, and was killed off screen unceremoniously for his efforts. This highlights the notion that not everyone gets a heroes death, sometimes the good guy fails and is killed ruthlessly. So, I disagree with your assessment, Kuill’s death definitely had way more impact.
The deaths of the blergs had more meaning than hers.
I've said it so many times and I'll say it again, it feels like the creators of the Mandalorian actually had FUN with the show. They didn't want to tell a grand epic story with an overwhelmingly complex narrative. They wanted a mandalorian to go on adventures while trying to be a single dad. It succeeds in what its trying to do, and despite its flaws, it feels like a saturday morning cartoon or a serial western. Its just good fun set in the star wars universe. Something that I can't really say for the new trilogy.
It knew what it was from the get go and embraced it
I concur
I just wish they told a good story coherently. Instead its a crap story told poorly.
@ hal, I think his hate for droids stems from the battalion of battle droids wiping out his people and almost killing him before getting saved.
Thank you for mustering the strength to say this once again!
When I was watching the Mandalorian I couldn't shake off the feeling that it was inspired by memories of some tabletop game. In one episode it really looks as if Mando encounters a players party with Twi'lek, droid, human and Devaronian.
Gina Carano excites me and kind of scares me at the same time...im seeing a therapist to deal with these "feelings"
There are other professionals who can better help you explore those feelings. They come in leather.
Its a western in space. Thats it. If you like westerns, you like The Mandalorian
Western for kids.
@@piotrd7355 So most westerns?
@@piotrd7355 kids shows dont have people dying every 3 seconds
Unforgiven, the Wild Bunch and Little Big Man are westerns. I don't think it is comparable at all to these movies!
In *star wars.
I like how Mando shows more character then Rey, despite not even showing his face. As for Gina Carano, sure she's not an actor, but at least when she's in an action scene, I can believe she can wreck some face. Btw, I liked that banter between those two scout troopers. Shows that they are people too, not just cardboard badguys.
PS: even Han didn't know really about the Jedi. The movies revolve around them, but in their prime there were only hundreds or maybe a few thousand of them in a galaxy of trillions of entities. Not unbelieveable if many don't know about them, or think of them as some kind of sorcerers or something.
I dont think Gina is that bad. Her performance can be rough around the edges sometimes but I think acting lessons could help smooth it out making it better in the future. I agree with most of the critiques Drinker gave but some, like your examples, are a little nitpicky. Another I would add is the ig11 one. That is an example of "show don't tell" if I have ever seen it.
Still, he should've had SOME knowledge about them, he grew up during the Clone Wars. With Han I always inferred from his "doesn't guide my destiny" speech in A New Hope that, he was aware of the Force, but, just wrote it off as superstition. Even if he heard stories about the Jedi it's not like he was present, witnessing their telekinetic feats & laser swordplay. Probably regarded them as exaggeration.
Yeah but Yoda and the Jedi were a central part of the Clone Wars and Mando was about 10 during that war. Also his parents were killed in it so you'd think the war would stick in his mind.
ha ha ha, good one
Star War Episode 10 : Rey vs Superman
Are you from Hungary my brother ?
Yes Han didnt know about the jedi, but thats before we got the prequels where Jedi were meddling all over the republic and leading a war effort, ontop of all the lore for times before that like the high republic era, the old republic, etc where there were wars between Sith and Jedi, ontop of Mandalorian history being one where they warred against the Jedi actively, so I would find it pretty weird that they dont learn about one of their greatest adversaries.
Not to mention, it seems like Mando was a child during the clone wars, which, again, jedi were actively and widely involved. Just seemed like a weird thing to have him be ignorant about at this point with the world building star wars has done. For people born sometimes AFTER order 66, I can completely understand them not know wtf a Jedi is with the empire actively erasing anything to do with jedi.
Holy shot... farscape is a show I haven't thought about in years. Loved it when I was a kid and tried to revisit it a few years ago but it felt very juvenile and campy... I'll give it another try from episode 1 on your recommendation Mr. Drinker.
Mandalorian is a great series, and the best thing that happened to Star wars in a long time. I hope they don't turn it into something we don't want
The franchise died with Rey Skywalker. You didn't know?
Until S3...
Don't feed baby Yoda after midnight, and never get him wet
This guy gets it. I've been think gizmo since the first episode
I laughed. Good on ya!
Как только его увидел сразу в голове проскочил облик Гизмо
@@bumble-bee189 I don't speak russian, but I agree
buzz buzz
As soon as I saw him the image of Gizmo flashed through my mind*
A pub lunch tastes amazing when all your favorite meals have been turned into identity politics kale wraps with a side of womansplaning.
You win the comment section!!! OL J R :)
Star Wars has always been political tho. But hey, if you wanna claim SJW and feminism everytime a girl or a black guy holds a lightsaber, go for it
Shoretrooper TK 3202 way to boil it down to its base components, rather than acknowledge why people would have a problem with its execution
@@ScoutTrooperTK
"Star Wars has always been political tho"
You're thinking of Star Trek.
Lucas's Star Wars went only as far as "fascism bad, democracy good". It delved into philosophical metaphysics with the concept of The Force, but not so much into politics.
@@roadent217 The trade federation representing big greedy corporations with Nute Gunray being based of a real person, the Empire being based of Nazi Germany, the Galactic Senate with the Separatists starting a war to stand up for their own rights, Endor representing the Vietcong, and somehow after all of this a female Jedi makes everyone lose their shit?
"Meeting with Apollo Creed" - Hilarious, I think the same thing every time I see him.
Well, except for unnecessary side characters
(especially the clumsy Carano) - the Mandalorian is a win.
And the smaller scale allows to focus better on a character
that is competent, interesting, impressive and intriguing.
I don't care, I love this show for what it is: A homage to everything we love about star wars.
Yes! 👍I half expected him to be a little more receptive but that doesn't bring in the views I guess
Same
@@josoffat7649 Well that's poisoning the well a bit, innit?
I thought he would love this one a bit better. I thought Mandalorian sofar is saving what I felt waaaay back about star wars. I thought it was badass. Finally a great show!
@@KaNoMikoProductions That's rich considering the main bulk of content on this channel, innit?
The Mandalorian was exactly what I've been looking for these days on a show: simple, uncomplicated fun. Cracked a few beers, watched it with the lady, and had a good time. But better than that, it also appeals for the lore hungry fans of Star Wars that look for those kind of things as well: my girl is very passionate about SW stuff, and wouldn't stop pointing out how this or that related or happened in dunno what time in the SW universe. She freaked out with the "darksaber' ending, while to me it was just the bad dude getting out with a glorified can opener. She explained what it meant and how "big" of a thing it was, while I just nodded and smiled half drunk haha. We both had a good time for different reasons, and that marks The Mandalorian as successful in my book. Actually looking forward to see more of it!
Thank you! I don't get people that expect masterpieces after masterpieces. It is exactly what it set out to be. People nit-picking star wars back and forth really lost scope of what it's supposed to be. Sure, there are issues with it, but that can be said about literally anything. At this point it's borderline clickbait. I love this channel, but really, people need to chill
@@Sleeks85 At this point people do not expect masterpieces after masterpieces, at this point people expect not shit.
Herbion People hope for not shit. People expect ok thing at least with a bit of shit and people get a bag full of shit.
Thats exactly what we need people complacent about both their own and everyone else’s mediocrity.
That’s good for business, you don’t need good products anymore just addictive ones as long as marketing is good they have a business!
Great stuff!
@@bengrizzlyadams6187 In other words, McDonalds, Wendy's, Burger King, and Taco bell.
I know I'm late to the party, and it may just be because I've been starved of good Star Wars content for so long, but I really liked the Mandalorian. Even the lesser episodes I still thoroughly enjoyed, and I never felt as though something didn't matter.
The franchise died with Rey Skywalker. You didn't know?
I still like Bill Burr. When he tells the Manolorian. " I didn't see your face." It's epic. Great episode.
Compared to Star wars slop we've been spoonfed the last several years, The Mandalorian is a masterpiece.
Everything is
Honorable mention to Rogue 1. It was actually good.
The franchise died with Rey Skywalker. You didn't know?
@@draftmagicagain1000 Honestly I stopped giving a sh*t after the second film. Watching Leia fly through space like Superman just cemented my indifference towards those films. I don't even remember the names of them anymore.
@@victoriavonheals2384 yeah, agree. I just refuse to believe it was canon and my life is much happier that way
I'll take "better than nothing" when the rest of Disney Star Wars output is the cinematic equivalent of a wet fart.
"[T]he cinematic equivalent of a wet fart." Oh, my God, I actually laughed out loud when I read that -- because it is SO spot on!
Just as fun, but lacking the flavor.
I like how Drinker puts footage of the "Frying pan" quest from The Witcher 3 when talking about side quests. It's one of the most side-y side quests in the game, almost meta in a way, yet still cleverly written and very enjoyable.
5:09 That is EXACTLY what I thought; it all feels like side quests in WoW. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed The Mandalorian, despite some of it's silliness. This, in contrast to my complete distain for the new generation of Star Wars films.
The Mandalorian is the breath of fresh air that the Star Wars IP desperately needs.
It might not be quite as great compared to the original trilogy, but I'm just glad to see that the franchise isn't completely in shambles just yet, and the fans are still loyal to that what is truly Star Wars. Yeah the first season is rather rough, The Mandalorian had me eager for the next episode every week.
Disney should have been printing 2billion dollar checks for itself with every Star Wars movie until the end of time. Instead, they managed to make the world not care about Han Freakin Solo.
I have never felt like I was just lectured about my privilege after watching an episode. That's pretty much all I needed to like it.
See, that's an excuse for them to make sub-par stuff and have people buy into it. We shouldn't have to beg for table scraps, and we shouldn't be 'obligated' to like it just because it has Star Wars in the title if it's not actually well written and thought out. Don't let them off the hook just because they're doing the least they can do to get by. We deserve better, and the franchise deserves better.
@@sagaswp : ...it may well be that better stories than these are not possible in the 'Star Wars' universe.
That's how we get crap that gets called "good."
@@sagaswp And then you wonder why the people in-charge of the series doesn't really give a fuck about you or your opinions.
@ Better storied than these already exist is the Star Wars universe
No complaints from me, I actually enjoy this show very much. I just sit back, watch and get entertained.
P.S. I could watch Baby Yoda's cute little mug all day.
your reference to Farscape just earned you another subscriber lol love your vids
re: 10:00 - That four-and-a-half minute scene of the storm troopers shooting the shit was the high point of the entire season for me. I loved that scene.
I thought it was great too! It was hilarious.
Thirded
I took it as a nod to show like Red vs Blue. It was also my favorite part.
Compared to the latest 3 Star Wars, The Mandalorian looks like a Cult Classic.
It is miiiiiiiles away from that piece of crap called a trilogy.
6.
Nevermind a cult classic, it looks like a fucking da Vinci tier master piece next to the sequel trilogy 😂
Isn't it incredible that anything that is Star Wars nowadays that isn't "total shit" is considered a success of somewhat unto itself?
A cult classic alright; the Cult of Baby Yoda.
To answer your speed round:
1) Because the Empire branded them as traitors and anyone who referred to them as Jedi were swiftly dealt with by inquisitors who would torture them for information before killing them for aligning themselves to traitors (even if they weren’t aligned at all). This was EXTREMELY common among lower classes
2) Blunt force still works against armor. Armor doesn’t completely absorb concussive force, it distributes it and mitigates impact deflection in an inwards direction. Plus I’m pretty sure she had some hand protection anyway. She would’ve reasonably still been able to knock him out. We even see that blasters still push him when they hit his armor.
3) reasonable criticism is reasonable. After the mudhorn I would get it if he KNOWS the empire isn’t around, BUT I think he started before that AND he still wouldn’t know of there were any imperial sympathizers.
4) It isn’t, shields/deflectors simply aren’t common on smaller vessels. X wings and Tie fighters are made to be mass-produced and filter pilots through rigorous training programs. To cut down on cost and produce more in the way of numbers, the empire doesn’t equip them with deflectors. For the rebels, they often can’t afford them. Transport ships tend to have them, and some of the larger imperial vessels did if they didn’t have large detachments of TIE fighters to act as both swords and “shields” for them.
5) Nevarro is largely known for lawlessness being a hub for bounty hunters, contact killers, etc. Having an escape hatch to a sub space with several escape routes benefits everyone. If there is a shootout, people who aren’t involved can leave. If it’s attacked from the outside, everyone can escape and flank or just wait for the enemy to enter and attack from below. If the new republic decided to finally incorporate such planets and sweep them of lawlessness, they have a direct way to leave without having to pick a fight with the primary military power in the Galaxy.
6) I had reasons in my head the moment you mentioned it but quickly I realized that thinking of reasons would be confirmation bias and an overactive creative mind. This is absolutely fair as a criticism. The ludicrous amount of time given is simply for characterization and plot convenience
7) Not really. The empire has brainwashed troupes of troops into considering themselves expendable. It’s actually more rare to see moments of free thinking. They may not be inhibitor chipped like cloners, but they were broken down into simply being tools via necessity or being raised by the empire/fragments of the empire. Too scared to rebel. This was also purely for characterizing Moff Gideon. Very few troops would actually have done anything about it though, out of fear if nothing else
8) Because sadly they have to reference the shitty “future” films in a good show that doesn’t deserve it
That doesn't explain how someone who lives on the dark side of society wouldn't have heard of a group as major and important as the Jedi. It's only been, what, 25 years? Like, half the people alive were around when the Jedi were common knowledge, this isn't like talking about the Knights Templar in today's world, some order that was eliminated centuries ago. Even if the Empire told people not to talk about them, the galaxy is huge, people live in all sorts of far-flung corners where there aren't Storm Troopers every 50 feet to monitor them. And our protagonist lives a life in constant contact with criminals, mercenaries, warlords, and other people who, you know, aren't exactly going to follow the law, and could probably get away with it, because we see in the OT that the Empire will work with people like Boba Fett and tolerate folks like Jabba running their own little empires, so long as they don't rock the boat.
I like it when The Drinker starts a video with a little nugget of the previous night's escapades
Disney+ *is not in majority of Europe*
Disney: Will you pay for our streaming service?
Star wars fans: "We are pirates we don't even know what that means."
Vojta Janda I'm not pirating it directly but I'm using my sister's account
Hondo reference ftw
This is what I've been saying from the start. The show is fine, and sadly, "fine" is an amazing accomplishment with Star Wars media these days.
i agree. Exactly what I thought from Episode 1. It's ok. I'll probably keep watching it until / unless they start using it for a platform like the sequels.
I’d actually disagree I think most of the media is overating or underrating it this isn’t some average show it has good well known actors an accomplished writer and some great directors with an average plot and good characters but I’ve seen poles saying it’s just as good as A new hope which just isn’t true it’s a good 8.5 out of 10 show not a 6.5 or a 9.5 it’s just a good enjoyable show
Depends, if you're comparing it with other recent Star wars or Star trek, "not crap" is basically a 9/10.
Dawson Hall lmao 85/100 plzzzzzzz this is definitely a B lvl show
7.5
"Fine" has been a major accomplishment for literally 20 years.
when my friends and i first started watching it our first impression was it's similarity to a video game. In fact the episode where he must train villagers to fight off bandits is streight up a Warband quest. If you look you'll even notice at times when Mando is talking to others there are pauses as if he's picking a dialogue option. It was hilarious
Hearing Drinker lost his mind over Baby Yoda is everything I needed today ❤🤣
The difference between my thoughts on The Mandalorian and the sequel trilogy is I'm actually looking forward to the next season of it. Despite it's flaws, There's more than enough to improve on and make absolutely great in the next season
exactly. all the ingredients are there and there is no reason it can't get better. honestly i think the episodes should be 50 minutes, 30 is far too short to spin a compelling narrative and it shows as the longer episodes are the superior viewing experiences.
It will devolve into SJW nonsense. When will you impulsive animals ever learn.
@@Barbarossa97 maybe...we'll see. And when it does, it will FAIL. This is the way
@@Barbarossa97 SJW nonsense how? What about this show has given you the vibe that it'll go that way?
There isn't any. Calm down Neckbeard.
Well, the mandalorian is better than the whole sequel trilogy, at least it has character development
The bar is now that low?
@@MrB1923 blame disney
@Genessender G that just makes it more impressive. Despite not being able to see his face, the Mandelorian goes through a lot of development.
Who are the best characters in OT? A faceless guy and a Muppet.
Aka Vader and Yoda.
@Luke Johnson Far better. Most SciFi from that time though SG1, DS9, TNG, Firefly, Babylon 5, SG Atlantis, even Voyager. God we were spoiled back then. A golden age for sure.
I loved the random talk between random characters. It tells me that the world is bigger than the main characters.
And the random episodic nature reminds me of the 90s tv shows, you know, a better time.
The Mandalorian was like a better version of The Witcher: a series of simple, self-contained stories about a gruff antihero with a mysterious past, carting around a hunted creature he will eventually bond with. While The Witcher played catchup with GoT and failed, Mando kept a cautious distance from the sequel movies, and benefited.
Overall, not perfect, but a strong start. Also a testament to why picking up the story straight after the fall of the Empire would have been a much better move than hitting the big reset button like they did in Force Awakens.
I found the simplicity of the show and it's storytelling refreshing. I appreciate a well told, long developing, grand story arc as much as anyone, but there are plenty of shows like that now.
It was nice to have a show that says "Jawas stole Mando's shit, and he's gotta get it back". Little adventures like that make The Mandolorian seem more realistic, cause not every storyline needs to have "the fate of the galaxy" stakes to them.
"Simple, uncomplicated entertainment..." You mean the original trilogy?
I think you'll note that the original trilogy has plenty of twists (ahem I am your father ahem) as well as some thought provoking ideas (Anakin being dead from a certain point of view, or perhaps anything Yoda says). The original trilogy has a simple narrative, you always know what's happening but it's not just predictable set ups and payoffs.
@@pbj4928 to be fair that all happened in Empire. Y'know, the SECOND entry in the series. While I agree the first season is very simple couch entertainment, there's a lot of obvious setup work being done to make a launch point for season 2 to really broaden the scope of what the show is gonna grow into.
@@l1teralcanc3r78 that's a good point, I hope the mandalorian can live up to that expectation
Original is simple but not a rip of video game plot. It has less flaws too.
@@l1teralcanc3r78
Ehh... ANH still had, in no particular order: Leia tortured, Alderaan destroyed, the unique space battles and space ship designs (such as the Death Star itself), Leia being a capable leader, Luke's parents torched, Ben's ghost voice, Vader choking that officer telekinetically, and a bunch of weird alien races (one of them, Chewbacca, even becoming an integral character). Now, I dunno how it holds up to Flash Gordon or Doctor Who - but it seemed rather ambitiously epic to me.
"Goes best if you have a few beers and dont think about it too much." says the drinker who thinks too much about it.
Best footsteps forward for StarWars I've ever seen for their first season. More please.
Dude, did you missed the foreshadowing on Kuill talking about how he recovered the damage droid and taught him how to behave and how he learns from him? It's parallel with Mando and Baby Yoda.
Mando keeps shooting and killing in front of the kid. The kid sees that as normal. The kid starts killing an shooting.
He didn't want it to be a good review. He'd decided to jump on the bandwagon with his new groupies, his 'streaming friends'. Ever since he started doing live streams with others his content has gone to shit. He lost "The Critical Drinker" and became "The Critical Drinker's New Friends Think...."
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_Riiiiiiiight........_
Not like the stream was released a month *AFTER* he posted his review or anything...
But keep trying to rationalise the fact that someone you've been following doesn't agree with you on something you enjoy :)
It's healthy as long as it doesn't become full-on denial at least.
Just FYI: I enjoyed the show quite a lot, before you start accusing me of being part of the same "bandwagon".
@@arenkai What stream? Oh, you mean all the other streams where whatever his new friends criticize, Drinker released videos making the same criticisms to 'stay hip' and 'in the crowd' with these same new friends?
I suggest you read all the other posts here as well, saying pretty much what i have.
I'll give you another example of his hypocrisy, in a post i did 2 months ago.
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Evan Roberts
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LOL, the Drinker: "It's too slow" and then "It moves along briskly".
"There's characters in it just to give exposition" then "It just skips over everything without explaining it."
"Complains not enough is shown" then shows IG11's story "Didn't need to see that". Fuck me, if it wasn't shown he'd complain there wasn't enough said about it. "One sentence isn't enough" he says.
Seriously, i think he just hated on it because others did. Jumped on the bandwagon.
He wanted everything explained in 1 season. Farscape he says, has characters better fleshed out. OF FUCKING COURSE. 4 seasons, 88 episodes.
The Mandalorian? 10 episodes."
Drinker was all over the place, contradicting himself, because he had HIS opinion which conflicted with his new friends' narrative opinion.
That kid is 50
The Adventures of Baby Yoda and His Sidekick The Mandalorian
Smegle, you lie
Watch Disney turn this into a video game which is why they made the plot "get the thingy" like every time. GOTTA MILK THE STAR WARS COW DRY BABYYYYYY!
Now that we've seen the full season of Boba Fett, I feel like The Mandalorian has aged a lot better, flaws and all.
You disrespecting mandalorian season 2.5?!
Say what you want, man, i actually enjoyed The Mandalorian. I have spoken.
This is the way.
This is the way!
THIS. IS. THE. WAY!
The way this is
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Both genders can be strong, smart and capable without diminishing each other. - The Critical Drinker
I think he learned that from Titania at the ahem gentleman's club.
Don't forget not having to be sexless robots.
That also can go a long way.
Issue is that they need their barriers and limits. Female power is very much so centered around emotion and cunning, male is about perseverence, strength and stoicism. Two opposites that complete a whole and that is a lot of what we are missing. I miss female characters that are powerful in ways that are feminine, and thus unexpected. Enchanting men and thus shaping politics. Many arent aware of it but Helen of Troy was one of the most powerful women that caused tens of thousands to die for her, and a civilization to collapse for her. In the oddyssey this is pointed out where she half heartedly admits that she was a whore, who ran off on a whim from her husband. And when Telemachus and Menaleus start crying she drugs them to lull them to sleep. This is the kind of storytelling we need and want, not the strong woman shite we get. Not even the "equally strong without diminishing each other" idea that was presented in the video although I dont doubt the critical drinker would basically share the same opinion I have put out here. Basically im tired of shite storytelling, and I need to vent.
@@boguslav9502 Gina would kick your ass, spaghetti-arms
@@boguslav9502 Do you get why women would be "cunning"? It's not because that is necessarily a "feminine" skill. It's because my gender realizes reality and knows that in a fight, the boy wins 9 times out of 10. So what do we do? How do we win or even have a chance of surviving? What men call "cunning" and "emotions" is what I call sound strategy to deal with an unfair playing field. I'm sure that men would want to play differently if the world were different and women were physically stronger. Then, men would be playing to the non-physical strengths in order to win against sheer barbaric physical violence.
Instead of setting it up into gender, because this is a galaxy far far away and the people, even the human looking ones, are not humans... let's set up fatal character flaws and less obviously stereotypical expectations.
Look at Penelope - the one who was so clever that she knew she couldn't beat her suitors on a physical level. So what does she do? She undoes her work for her stupid moronic husband's funeral shroud in order to ensure her son's survival. (She's probably planning for her son to get to a proper age and take control because that's what a society like this would have needed... a strong male warrior.) And her moronic husband, who apparently is so clever, can only think of fucking the goddesses because "he had no choice". (Sorry, I haven't read the Odyssey in a long time. I just remember thinking.. damn he's always making excuses for why he has to sleep with somebody.)
(The legend of Helen of Troy is that she was enchanted and thus ran away. That makes her a victim, not a whore. I always like Elizabeth the First as an example. She understood the reality of the world and played the "virgin" while playing the men in her court and the men in power in other countries. She understood that it isn't always about physical strength.)
I was about a year late to coming to the table, so I wasn't in the middle of the craze for the show. It was funny to see the different types of people that got into the show, just because it was popular; like someone I knew who had never seen a single Star Wars movie, or my brother-in-law who has never seen anything beyond the movies.
I appreciated it feeling like a RPG. Its pretty clear we had our expectations subverted so bad that nothing can compare to what we expect to be good now.
The mandalorian still has more facial expression range than kristen stewart.
Then Rey would be a better example. People here at least know how to close their mouth
Or Jeniffer Lawrence.
Or Brie Larson.
The Magic Carpet from ALADDIN had more facial expression.
"Why would anyone build their bar over the entrance to a F*ing sewer." Again, video game logic. Skyrim did it.
Actually skyrim built the ratway bar literally in the sewer
Isn't that a question for God?? "excuse me, why did you place happy town next door to the sewage plant?" (refering to the placement of a vagina and anus on the female sex)
Although, it could be worse, human females could be like birds, their anus is also their vagina.
Oblivion did it as well. In the eh, Noble's District I believe. Where you meet the redguard Blades dude.
@Hellbinder Next Notice the word "entrance".
@@icecreaminc8013 Well Saves asking if anal is out the question
If you'd told me a few years ago we'd see Werner Herzog in the Star Wars universe, I'd have laughed in your face.
Rogue One and Mando are the best SW products since the original trilogy. Here's hoping Andor is good too...