Season's greetings, friends! Welcome back to Planet 8. To wrap up the year, we'll talk about one of the bright spots of 2020: season two of The Mandalorian. It was an exciting season, full of great character appearances, amazing new worlds and creatures, and fantastic adventures. We also got to see the relationship between Mando and the Child grow. For us old school Star Wars fans, it was like being transported back to those days of stories from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Warning -this is a SPOILER-FILLED episode! If you haven't seen season two of The Mandalorian, we suggest you watch it before listening, because this episode, and post, may give away details you don't want to know!
Your Planet 8 crew will discuss their overall impressions of this season and then dive into each episode. We all loved the show and had a variety of thoughts and ideas about how this season unfolded. It's safe to say, we were all pleasantly surprised, especially with the finale. Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau have done a phenomenal job bringing this show to us. It's the right mix of new and old ideas, characters, and designs. Every week was like getting a new Star Wars movie straight out of the original trilogy era.
The season gave us a lot of great action, with monsters to battle, lots of baddies, and some interesting planets too. But one of the highlights of the season was the impressive guest stars - Boba Fett, Ahsoka Tano, Bo-Katan Kryze, and...Luke Skywalker?! Unbelievable! The great thing about this all was that they didn't seem forced -they made sense given the storyline.
Of course, the finale was a tear-jerker (especially for Commander Larry). The good-bye between Grogu and Din Djarin was touching, and well done by Pedro Pascal. Now we're left with many more questions. Will we see Grogu in season 3? Can the show continue to be as popular if Baby Yoda is gone? And honestly, considering what a marketing boon he is, is there any way they wouldn't have him on the show? But how do they do that? And what happens between Mando and Bo-Katan regarding the Dark Saber? And will Mando continue to follow his creed, or has he changed? We have a year to ponder these things....
It's the holiday season and we want to wish all of our listeners the very best, whatever you may be celebrating. Thanks for spending some time with us over the year -especially this year. We hope we've been able to provide some lightness and entertainment during these difficult days. We hope you have a wonderful holiday and that the new year brings all of us some much needed happiness.
That's all for now. Send us your thoughts about The Mandalorian -we'd love to know what you thought.
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Hey Folks!
ReplyDeleteGreat Episode, and Frakking great Series! The Mandalorian is AMAZING!!! I have watched the entire 2 Seasons at least 10 times, and certain episodes more! (I don't sleep a lot...,)
I'm not going to go into anything you already hit on exactly, just two things.
#1) Bo-Katan, could she have been anymore vague as to why she "wanted Moff Gideon?!? She knows that he barely knew what a Jedi was, so give him a little information. Mando was brought up in the Mandalorian sect "Keepers of the Watch". They believe in the old "Old Ways" of Mandalore, and probably never heard of the Dark Sabre, or the first, and only Mandalorian Jedi that crafted it. Not to mention what it meant to Bo-Katan and that she needed to defeat Moff Gideon herself to get it back. Even though, as most of know Sabine just gave it to her in REBELS. Just one of the little flubs in story consistency, or possibly something new that Filoni added, and will explain later. But still, She should have told him "WHY" she wanted Gideon.
#2) One of the bigger rumors that started within the first season, and became even more prominent after "The Jedi" chapter in the Second Season, was that Grogu may have been smuggled out of the Jedi Temple during the Crisis by Artoo-Detoo, and that is why Artoo gets excited seeing Grogu, and where the recognition and trust come from Grogu after seeing Artoo at the end of "The Rescue" chapter. Not concrete, but one of the more plausible rumors.
Thanks again for another great episode!
Kevin