Anyone Else Put Off by Mandalorian Episode 2?

Anyone Else Put Off by Mandalorian Episode 2? Nov 22, 2019 22:39:15 GMT

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Post by ThatGuy on Nov 22, 2019 22:39:15 GMT

Nov 22, 2019 19:13:35 GMT @graham said:

Nov 22, 2019 15:57:15 GMT ThatGuy said:

Hm, I got a lot of story out of ep2. It wasn't just him walking around.

But in story terms, the only thing that happened is that he left the planet. Sure he had to go fight the Jawas and fight the Space-Rhino, but those aren't really story beats, they're just action scenes. There's nothing wrong with action scenes, but they don't change anything significant about what's going on. If he got in his ship and flew away, as far as the remainder of the story is concerned that's the same thing as finding his ship damaged, fighting the Jawas, fighting the Space-Rhino, then getting in his ship and flying away.

Because I didn't watch Battlestar. And isn't Galactica: Blood and Chrome an actual web series and not a tv series?

Yes. And that's what this series feels like to me.

My cut off is 15-20 because that's way too short.

And that's fine, but it's completely arbitrary. My cut off is as long as is needed to tell a satisfying story, which so far they're not doing for me.

Why do you need to see his face?

Because it helps me identify with and empathise with the character. Right now I know next to nothing about the Mandalorian. What's his name? I don't know. Why is he a bounty hunter? I don't know. Why is having his armour made of that metal stuff important to him? I don't know.

I've mentioned before, I keep thinking of Firefly. By the end of episode one I knew who Mal was and what motivated him. I knew he fought in a war for freedom, which is a goal pretty much anybody can sympathise with, I knew that he lost, was bitter about it, became irreligious because of it. I knew that he valued his ship so much because it was the only way he had to stay as free as he could, that he could be ruthless to the point of killing but was also fundamentally decent and avoided conflict if he could, that he cared deeply about his crew... I knew a ton about him. What I know about the Mandalorian is he's good at fighting, hunts people down for money, wants his armour made of the metal stuff (though I've no idea why), has a trauma in his past, and... that's it.

Like I said, he's good at conveying his body language to show us what he's thinking. What would be the difference if he had his helmet off and was completely stone face, showing no emotions, and him wearing a helmet the whole time?

If he showed no emotions all the time then that would also be bad.

They've shown us that it is a guy underneath.

Have they? How? If they have, I've missed it. I can think of nothing they've done to establish the gender of the character.

That's all you got out of that episode? We learn that they sent more than just him and an IG droid after the kid. So he's important to them (for the Empire and to keep it away from others). We learn the Force is involved. In the 1st episode we learned that the Empire stole that metal from them during the Purge and hunted them down along with the Jedi. The metal is traditionally what they made their armor from. Did you have the show on in the background while you did other things?

Why would you want to know everything about a character by episode 2? But we do learn why the metal is important to him and the other Mandalorians. See his face helps identify and empathize with him? So you saying if it was just a head in a jar you'd identify with him?

But he's showing emotion through body language.

The flashbacks are from his perspective and that is a little boy.