MANDALORIAN Season 3 Episode 8 REVIEW: WTF was that Season? | ScreenCrush Rewind
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Our Mandalorian season 3 episode 8 review breaks down this uneven season, and examines what went wrong along the way. The season had its enormous highs, but failed in some basic storytelling structures. Our panel breaks it down for you.
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For some, the season was confusing, others think it was awesome–but it was definitely different from the first 2 seasons. A little later I’m going to be joined by Matt Singer and Star Wars superfan Pete Fletzer, but first, here’s my take on this season, and the finale.
First of all, the season was a bit clunky, but you have to admit, but there was so much fan service in these last two episodes I almost didn’t care. I’m into the entire story Star Wars is telling–so for me, I get way too excited about mentions of project necromancer, thrawn, and the rise of the first order. And I’ve been following the story of the Mandlorians through 4 presidential administrations–so seeing them finally retake their homeworld was incredibly satisfying for me.
Also, Bo Katan wielding the darksaber leading hundreds of mandalorians into battle–awesome. Din and grogu happy ending–awesome. Grogu talking to the mythosaur–a very cool nod for what is to come for him down the line. Plus, I liked how everyone got a little moment that tied the season together. R5 was mostly a pointless easter egg–but the show did give him a moment to be brave and conquer his fears. RIP this mouse droid though.
And then we get this happy ending where gideon is finally defeated–
Doug: Or is he?
Yeah we’ll talk about that in a second. Mandalore is united and reclaimed, and din gets to live on a farm with grogu. So the ending is happy–but did this season actually earn that peaceful resolution? IN other words, did the season do a good enough job making us care about Bo-Katan and the Mandlorians, to give this ending an emotional pay off?
You have to admit gays, this was a weird, weird season of TV. The episode structures were off, and very Boba-Fett-ish.
Doug: What do you mean by that?
Wwii, in most shows–and even in Andor–when there are several plot threads, you kind of interweave them throughout the episode. A plot, B plot. IN andor, the transitions between plot;lines are done beautifully so the stories tie together thematically–we did a whole video about that. But in the book of boba fett, they were running two storylines in the past and present, and they rarely interact with any sense of design. Same thing in this season. Almost half the episodes were stories that were bookended by other stories.
Now the mandalorian has always had this cool, self-contained, adventure of the week structure that ties together in the end. But, for instance, that pershing episode was baffling. We began with din and bo katan, then cut away to pershing on coruscant, then back to bo katan arriving. Now the episode was called the convert, so in a way that meant pershing and bo kata–but the thematic link would have been better linked had there been a bit of intercutting between the two.
Because the pershing storyline doens;t come back into play for 2 episodes–when Carson Teva wants to help pirates, then recruits Mando, then finds Gideon’s ship after the pirate battle. So that’s another episode with a weird bookend.
Episode 6 might be the most controversial, with Jack Black, Lizzo, and a Law and order noir detective tale about droid rights–but that bookend structure worked. It was like a side quest on their way to the mandalorians. You could have cut it out entirely–but then you would have missed out on the fun.
And also, the foundling episode used the bookend structure well, because it told parallel stories of different foundlings being rescued–Din and ragnar. But just to go back to that pershing episode, I think it showed the best and worst of the season. I liked the story itself, and I was interested in Pershing's story. And the mandalorian is trying to widen its scope from being a cowboy show to showing the wider universe.
But I still think that that episode should have tied in more directly with the finale.
Doug: But couldn;t it show that Gideon squandered the resources to clone the emperor, by wiping Pershing’s mind?
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Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright, Randolf Nombrado, Lee Mazzio, and Rohail Mistry
Featuring:
Matt Singer Twitter: mattsinger
Pete Fletzer Twitter: ATGcast
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For some, the season was confusing, others think it was awesome–but it was definitely different from the first 2 seasons. A little later I’m going to be joined by Matt Singer and Star Wars superfan Pete Fletzer, but first, here’s my take on this season, and the finale.
First of all, the season was a bit clunky, but you have to admit, but there was so much fan service in these last two episodes I almost didn’t care. I’m into the entire story Star Wars is telling–so for me, I get way too excited about mentions of project necromancer, thrawn, and the rise of the first order. And I’ve been following the story of the Mandlorians through 4 presidential administrations–so seeing them finally retake their homeworld was incredibly satisfying for me.
Also, Bo Katan wielding the darksaber leading hundreds of mandalorians into battle–awesome. Din and grogu happy ending–awesome. Grogu talking to the mythosaur–a very cool nod for what is to come for him down the line. Plus, I liked how everyone got a little moment that tied the season together. R5 was mostly a pointless easter egg–but the show did give him a moment to be brave and conquer his fears. RIP this mouse droid though.
And then we get this happy ending where gideon is finally defeated–
Doug: Or is he?
Yeah we’ll talk about that in a second. Mandalore is united and reclaimed, and din gets to live on a farm with grogu. So the ending is happy–but did this season actually earn that peaceful resolution? IN other words, did the season do a good enough job making us care about Bo-Katan and the Mandlorians, to give this ending an emotional pay off?
You have to admit gays, this was a weird, weird season of TV. The episode structures were off, and very Boba-Fett-ish.
Doug: What do you mean by that?
Wwii, in most shows–and even in Andor–when there are several plot threads, you kind of interweave them throughout the episode. A plot, B plot. IN andor, the transitions between plot;lines are done beautifully so the stories tie together thematically–we did a whole video about that. But in the book of boba fett, they were running two storylines in the past and present, and they rarely interact with any sense of design. Same thing in this season. Almost half the episodes were stories that were bookended by other stories.
Now the mandalorian has always had this cool, self-contained, adventure of the week structure that ties together in the end. But, for instance, that pershing episode was baffling. We began with din and bo katan, then cut away to pershing on coruscant, then back to bo katan arriving. Now the episode was called the convert, so in a way that meant pershing and bo kata–but the thematic link would have been better linked had there been a bit of intercutting between the two.
Because the pershing storyline doens;t come back into play for 2 episodes–when Carson Teva wants to help pirates, then recruits Mando, then finds Gideon’s ship after the pirate battle. So that’s another episode with a weird bookend.
Episode 6 might be the most controversial, with Jack Black, Lizzo, and a Law and order noir detective tale about droid rights–but that bookend structure worked. It was like a side quest on their way to the mandalorians. You could have cut it out entirely–but then you would have missed out on the fun.
And also, the foundling episode used the bookend structure well, because it told parallel stories of different foundlings being rescued–Din and ragnar. But just to go back to that pershing episode, I think it showed the best and worst of the season. I liked the story itself, and I was interested in Pershing's story. And the mandalorian is trying to widen its scope from being a cowboy show to showing the wider universe.
But I still think that that episode should have tied in more directly with the finale.
Doug: But couldn;t it show that Gideon squandered the resources to clone the emperor, by wiping Pershing’s mind?
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