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A+ Jon Favreau. You brought Star Wars back. I cried my eyes out

Thank You Jon and Dave. You've made a 50 year old lifelong StarWars fan very happy. Finally Luke Skywalker is redeemed.

A literal masterpiece. Had a vibe like A New Hope with a twist. The last 8 mins are the greatest thing I have seen in Star Wars since the original trilogy. Love, sacrifice, honor, friendship, heroes, villains, LIGHTSABERS, and LUKE SKYWALKER in his prime!!! Grogu meeting R2 for the first time made it all the more heartwarming.

Seeing Luke walk into frame was like seeing Jesus. Sasha Banks is perfect. I'm too stunned to be coherent. What a beautiful ending tribute to the relationship of Din and Grogu, hoping to have more of this father and son more soon.

This is what Star Wars should always feel like. Like George Lucas and Dave Filoni always remind us, this is about family. And it is.

Um... not sure how to process that. I'll start without spoilers. Music was fantastic, visually it was stunning, just the presentation as a whole was stellar as we have come to expect. Now...

SPOILERS

LUKE SKYWALKER?! WHAT?! I'm... I'm lost for words. The effects weren't perfect but it was Luke Skywalker! Mando took his helmet off for Grogu and I cried my damn eyes out and then we saw R2 and I cried some more. Mando's fights with Gideon and the Dark Troopers were epic and well choreographed and we got the announcement for "The Book of Boba Fett" coming next year in that incredible stinger! I'm honestly speechless... 10/10

I have rewatch because it's that damn good! Luke Skywalker making an appearance was unexpected. A beautiful ending. Peyton Reed did a fantastic job as well. Jon Favruae needs to be the head of Lucas films.

Something big is coming.

Wow that was a cool ep. EPIC...OMG! Only flaw: CG face mapping was a tad on the unrealistic side (uncanny valley), but I forgave it.

What's next for Mando?? Or is it now the Boba show??

Either way, that is one Book I want to watch in 2021!!

Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau are the best things to happen to Star Wars.

Luke cutting down a battalion of Dark troopers >>> all other Luke Skywalker scenes

After having seen the online hype, I can totally understand this episode's popularity amongst devout fans of Star Wars & must commend the creators of "The Mandalorian" for revivifying the brand, essentially saving the sci-fi franchise after it teetered on the very brink of irrelevance following Disney's lacklustre sequel trilogy... But this week's did feel a bit too obvious in its intentions - being made to appease those very individuals who were threatening to desert the fandom forever. Hence, in order to win back their unwavering support, "The Rescue" is pretty unoriginal fan service, rehashing the most popular concepts / sequences from previous films / installments, mashing them together to form a loud, mindless visual spectacle - blatantly adding nostalgia bait as the clichéd pièce de résistance - which evidently appeals to lovers of the property but as a casual viewer (possessing very little attachment to the characters, the lore or the universe they inhabit), this did feel as though I was intruding on a private party I wasn't invited to because it did nothing for me whatsoever.

Technically, it's well made; the cinematography's great & the camera work captures the meticulously choreographed action sequences effectively. Ludwig Göransson (unsurprisingly) delivers an incredible score. The performances are strong. The CGI is impressive... There just aren't any tangible stakes; good guys effortlessly storm through a supposedly impenetrable & closely guarded ship, all goes according to plan with no complications & as most of the team featured are getting their own independent spin-off series - courtesy of Disney+ - nobody can be killed. Hence, everyone's wearing weapon's grade plot armour & as a consequence, is frustratingly impervious to weakness. Therefore, it's formulaic & predictable. You're not concerned for their well-being because you're aware it's guaranteed. Nothing's truly earned & issues the heroes rarely encounter are resolved with disappointingly relative ease. Where's the engaging drama? Where's the tension? The story relies upon the assumption that I'll be emotionally invested because I'm meant to feel a sense of obligation to care about these team members involved - due to the fact that they're previously established, famous people from spin-offs / movies coming together - but unless the narrative can give the audience a genuine justification as to why we should care now (without leaning solely on the importance of their mythology), it's pretty hollow & superficial reasoning.

Wow... I spent the last few weeks with my Dad coming up with theories of who the mysterious Jedi could be Ezra, Ashoka, Cal Kestis a new Jedi?? and the sequence from the x-wing flying past to to reveal was perfect cinema and topped any of my hopes - I say cinema because Disney are doing something amazing with the production value of this show. THAT scene sent chills down my spine! Thank you Peyton Reed, Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni - I can't believe we have to wait a year for more Mandalorian but it will be worth it. Anyone who is boycotting Disney Star Wars because of the sequel trilogy please watch this - you'll thank me later :)

Oh my... I can't even describe this episode. I just want to thank everybody involved in this, Filoni, Favreau, Lucasfilm, all the cast and production staff, but I especially want to thank mr. Mark Hamill. Spectacular episode, amazing ending, fantastic action, emotional scenes and just wow. This is Star Wars, and most importantly, THIS IS THE WAY.

... because it shows how good Star Wars and the development of it's main character could have been. I want to go back in time and ask Jon Favreau to make episode 7-9! And not this JJ Abrams BS. ("Let's make everything bigger and put 100000 Star Destroyers in one scene. Awesome!!!")

Thanks Jon Favreau for this great episode. (I felt like a kid again: "This has to be Luke!!! I think it's Luke!! Green Lightsaber! It has to be him!!!")

Probably has to go down as one of the best series finales I have seen, has to be up there alongside TNG's Best Of Both Worlds, Blake's 7 etc.

This series has been going from strength to strength since the start. A cast who enjoy what they do and some who are fans and know what the fans want. Writers and Directors who know exactly what the fans want and are able to show it on the screen. Peyton Reed did a brilliant job directing this episode.

I am not ashamed to admit I actually did a fist pump when I saw HIS X-Wing land and the shadowy figure made his way through the corridors. I was beaming from ear to ear when he pulled back his cloak to reveal himself. I think there must have been some dust in the air as my eyes got a bit watery at the end.

As for that post credit scene.... Wow!

More please....

Unfortunately the 1% less than perfect score for this episode says more about the giddy-headed fanboys that cheerlead for this show than the calibre of the episode itself. It had all the elements of a good showdown & certainly delivered the action but it's fundamental failing was on show more than ever in this episode, namely the childish determination to represent all the good guys as both a) the best of the best combat wise, and b) absolutely equal in terms of their relative ability to each other, while at the same time making the once iconic storm-troopers a bunch of incompetent keystone cops who could probably be defeated by a child with a water pistol.

Why is this? Unfortunately, it seems to take its lead from the latest Star Wars Trilogy, which famously made Rey into an untouchable Mary Sue. In this episode we have moreover an small army of female Mandalorian "special forces" storming the light destroyer. One of the great achievements of the Mandalorian has been its focus on story & atmosphere at the expense of any obvious political agenda. Where it had female characters, they were tough but believable like Gina Carano and seemed like a natural fit. Here though it seems like a huge woke agenda has crept in, something that often seems to happen in series these days: the first season of a show lures in the fan boys, gets them relaxed & enthusing about things before a second or later season gradually turns on the progressive temperature. Not everyone will agree with that but the tragedy that taken together with the stormtroopers massive incompetence is that all of the characters end up looking like Mary Sues.

Since the Stormtroopers are so egregiously bad & incompetent at their job (why does the Moff Gideon tolerate such incompetence?) there was logically no choice but to introduce a higher grade soldier villain type. Introduced in the previous episode, this turns out to be the 'dark troopers'. These dark troopers are so energy intensive they have to be kept constantly charging like some kind of electric car, & take about 3 minutes or so to boot up from cold.....like some kind of windows 95 machine with a pentium. Fortunately though they are very tough. Well, kind of. We only get to see the Mandalorian fight one of them - one of only two decent fights in the episode - before another Mary Sue turns up to destroy them all effortlessly

While in many ways the latter is a treat of sorts, in many ways, with the same logic as described above it diminishes even the legacy of now Jedi Master Luke. Why does he have to be so powerful? It's clear from the moment he alights from his X Wing that the only reason the dark troopers are as powerful as they is so that he can defeat them effortlessly.

All of the above is seriously disappointing. Not only are the dark troopers defeated, they are defeated without taking on any of the good guys & are when they are dispatched, are dispatched effortlessly. How on earth did the Empire ever get control of the local town council let alone the entire galaxy?

I don't want to be this negative about a great show, but this lack of realism, that is verisimilitude may ultimately be fatal to the longevity of the show. People get tired of show fighting. Of good guys never getting so much as a flesh-wound. Of every shot counting in one direction but none counting in the other. In fact given the labour of love this represents in every other sense, it is hard to see how this could have been permitted. We have an almost perfectly rendered star wars universe but no villains worthy of the name.

Isn't it time the Empire struck back?

People will think I'm hating on the episode. But here's the problem, "The Last Jedi" and "The Rise of Skywalker" came out years before this episode. So even if Luke is spectacular here, he's still going to end being the guy that is grumpy on the Last Jedi. That's the main reason why I can't be so happy about this. It's temporary nostalgia. I know most of you are saying that Jon Faverau is god and that this is like your childhood, and I'm glad you found something to like. But this just doesn't do it for me because it's connected to the sequel trilogy.

P. S. I don't want to sound dark. But does anyone realize that Kylo Ren killed all the younglings in The Last Jedi?? So what's going to happen to Baby Yoda? Just putting two and two together..