Star Wars: The Mandalorian - Disney+.

Look at all you 4K slaves, everyone knows the real way to watch top quality content like this is a 480p webrip on your 5" phone screen. :datass:

How do I get to watch this without Disney+

Rubix wrote:How do I get to watch this without Disney+

I assume it'll get a DVD/Blu-ray release in a few months' time.

If anyone wants a quality rundown on the Mandalorian people that doesn't spoil anything, I got you:

Episode 2

I doubt any Disney+ stuff will have home releases. The whole point of the service is to kill off dvd/Blu-ray/cinemas and to have 100% of the profits

Mafro wrote:Episode 2

Oh my gooooooooooood the baby is so damn cute

Its ludicrous we cant watch this legally until march.

Cheeky Devlin wrote:
Mafro wrote:Episode 2

Oh my gooooooooooood the baby is so damn cute

I'd written more than that but my phone seems to have wiped it all before posting....

Anyway:

But I'm really enjoying it so far. Pascal has been great.

Forensic nerd trivia :datass:

My major problem is the baby Yoda having force powers

Loving this so far only issue was that the episode was only 30 minutes long!

Tafdolphin wrote:My major problem is the baby Yoda having force powers

The point of Yoda was always that it was will, and force of effort that were required to use the force, not overwhelming strength or stature. Yoda was powerful because he had worked at it for centuries, overcoming his physical diminuitiveness to become a master. The baby having innate force powers here throws that all out of the window: Yoda's species is naturally gifted and needs no training to become incredibly powerful.

(Warning: Post refers to Rise of Skywalker rumours.)

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E1 Slow, but setting up the world. My favourite bit was seeing the Jabba pet being spit-roasted whilst his caged friend watched on anxiously!
E2 I'm beginning to get into it!

Bethlehemster wrote:Its ludicrous we cant watch this legally until march.

Alvin Flummux wrote:
Tafdolphin wrote:My major problem is the baby Yoda having force powers

The point of Yoda was always that it was will, and force of effort that were required to use the force, not overwhelming strength or stature. Yoda was powerful because he had worked at it for centuries, overcoming his physical diminuitiveness to become a master. The baby having innate force powers here throws that all out of the window: Yoda's species is naturally gifted and needs no training to become incredibly powerful.

I think the most likely prospect is that it's a clone, created decades ago by Palpatine or even Plagueis, as part of an experiment to see if Force capability could be transferred through the cloning process. This links forward to the Rise of Skywalker, and theories about Rey and the Sith Troopers.

I have deliberately avoided any Rise of Skywalker rumours, except yours Alvin, but I definitely considered that this series may be setting up some plot points.

Tafdolphin wrote:My major problem is the baby Yoda having force powers

The point of Yoda was always that it was will, and force of effort that were required to use the force, not overwhelming strength or stature. Yoda was powerful because he had worked at it for centuries, overcoming his physical diminuitiveness to become a master. The baby having innate force powers here throws that all out of the window: Yoda's species is naturally gifted and needs no training to become incredibly powerful.

This is my problem with Rey. As soon as baby Yoda started using the force my eyes rolled so far into the back of my head I could see the sawdust.

The new continuity any force user seems to be Yoda level in minutes of unlocking the force. We watched Luke over years and he was still fallible. He didn’t even beat Palpatine. But now every mother strawberry floater in the universe with force powers can be Yoda.

Agreed 100% on the bullshit baby Yoda force powers

It just undercuts the value of so much of what we have already seen. Even wise old Yoda was clearly working his ass off to do the things we saw him do in the original trilogy (and to a certain extent in the prequels), other Jedi/Sith had to train for literal lifetimes to be able to even move relatively small inanimate objects with the force etc. But now we are expected to believe that a literal baby can stop a huge rampaging beast in its tracks using the Force? Get tae strawberry float man!

Worst thing is they could have done something so much more subtle and still achieved the effect of establishing that this creature is in some way force "attuned". Have The Mandalorian struggling in the fight but at a key moment the baby uses the Force to just distract, confuse or some how slightly trip up the creature which gives the Mandalorian the moment he needs to strike a killer blow. He doesn't have to go All Powerful™ from out of nowhere! :fp:

Episode 3:

My god, episode 3 was brilliant :datass:

That third episode. :shock:

Definite shades of Clone Wars, in the best way.

Really loving this so far, looking forward to seeing where it goes.
Also nice to see some material taking place between RotJ and Force Awakens.

Star Wars: The Mandalorian - Disney+.

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