I know it's not, but is would be cool if Keri Russell was Ashoka in TROS, and that is why we haven't seen her with her helmet off.

Muck, I think that's from Wiki. It has "a fellow mandalorian" named Paz listed as being played by Favreau. It is wiki so who knows, obviously.

Was able to find this.. need to go back and check the end credits.

"Another fascinating thing to look out for is a Mandalorian voiced by what sounds like Jon Favreau. According to the ending credits, this is a Mando named Paz Vizsla. The character Favreau played on Star Wars: The Clone Wars was Pre Vizsla and was beheaded by Maul thirty some odd years prior to the events of The Mandalorian. The use of the name Vizsla is no accident. Clan Vizsla was an important player during The Clone Wars and later backed Bo Katan's war against the Imperial supported Clan Saxon and then her claim to become leader of Mandalore. After that, the only reference we have is of this mysterious "purge." We can only hope the show fills in more blanks about this dark spot in the history of the galaxy."

Apparently, he was played by Tait Fletcher, who was the stuntman. But voiced by favreau.

I'm pathetic and did some Googling....

Sabine Wren, born: 21 BBY
The Mandalorian: 9 ABY

Meaning she would be 30 years old during The Mandalorian (assuming the internet is correct and my math doesn't suck).

BBY = before battle of Yavin?

Sine poena nulla lex.

I'm really enjoying the series so far, but it actually reminds me of a video game in different way. In that a lot of the dialogue/convo scenes sound like something out of a cutscene from a video game. Part of that vibe is Mando still speaking from behind a mask, but another part of it is the somewhat stilted dialogue and slightly wooden performances. It's not bad by any means, but there's just not a lot of emotion so far, which is keeping the series from being "great" so far for me.

TCTTS said:

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I'm really enjoying the series so far, but it actually reminds me of a video game in different way. In that a lot of the dialogue/convo scenes sound like something out of a cutscene from a video game. Part of that vibe is Mando still speaking from behind a mask, but another part of it is the somewhat stilted dialogue and slightly wooden performances. It's not bad by any means, but there's just not a lot of emotion so far, which is keeping the series from being "great" so far for me.

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It does make me wonder how much of that is intended. They seem like a warrior society in hiding, where they have to be in control of themselves at all times, I'm hoping that it starts to fade over time through a conscious choice on the characters part.

It's also really difficult to have emotion in a TV series where almost every character is permanently behind a mask.

Mando "turning around" to go save Baby Yoda should have been the most emotional point of the series so far, but all they could do was have him play with the little toy ball. Not ideal, but the best that they could do.

This might be a stretch but was Mando giving Baby Yoda the knob to play with a nod to American Graffiti when John gave Carol the gear shift knob?

The show is awesome.... is it perfect? I don't care as it's everything I wanted in a mandalorian since I knew what a mandalorian is with Fett.

CheeseSndwch said:

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This might be a stretch but was Mando giving Baby Yoda the knob to play with a nod to American Graffiti when John gave Carol the gear shift knob?

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I didn't think about that but it makes sense. We know they added a salute to Disney's Rocketeer in the episode

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I think you are really stretching to try to make a good, fun show bad.

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"I'm really enjoying the series so far..."

"It's not bad by any means..."

I don't know how you could read that paragraph and think I'm "making a good, fun show bad," as I literally said the opposite. I just think that the two Mando clan scenes - in the first and third episodes - are kind of stilted. And yes, that might be the point, as was alluded to earlier, but it doesn't help the fact that because everyone in those scenes is behind a mask, the voice work comes across as a little wooden and cheesy. It's just not great dialogue, either. Throw in the awkward flashback montages both times the armor was being made and I'm just not feeling those particular scenes at all. Other than that, Carl Weathers has been fine, I guess, with Werner Herzog being the only great performance so far, IMO (though, yes, Pedro Pascal's voice work has been good, too, outside of the clan scenes).

All I'm saying is, it's a valid "complaint" that we're now an hour and a half in and this show is void of almost all human emotion. I don't know that I've seen a show with this much lack of literal expression and emotion and it's just a bit jarring, that's all. That doesn't take away from the fact that it's a compelling story, is beautifully shot, features amazing effects work, has great action sequences, or that Baby Yoda hasn't gone a long way toward making up for the lack of emotion with his awesomeness/cuteness. I'm just ready to meet some more, actual human actors who aren't behind masks.

Apologies for only being 95% in on this show and not that 100% that is apparently required in this thread.

That's all valid, but this is still far better than Solo thus far.

Not to derail, but name one memorable/iconic moment in Solo.