Very hyped that it's spring break and I can wake my super fan up at 2 a.m. tomorrow to watch Mando with me.

It's the golden age of parenthood having a kid who loves watching Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Stranger things with me.

Side note - we watched an episode of Stranger Things last night where character use a phone book and she had 0 idea what is was and asked me if I was making it up when I told her what it was.

Isn't it fun to get old? Just wait until they start to make the actual realization we lived in TWO different centuries

Phone books and newspapers were actually really important.

Looks like I found your birthday present early this year, Spilner!

All I know is a groaned when she came on screen that we were about to have another adventure of the week. I was thrilled when it didn't go that way.

Man this character sucks! Was hoping and hoping she'd get better as this show goes on but nope…..terrible……

Maybe Mando will shoot her

I guess Grogus pod is like x wing ladders, they just magically reappear when needed.

He flipped out of it into the ship and immediately took off, but then he was back in it when riding back in Bo's ship.

I like her

Same. I think she's funny.

I think she's fun, but I know she's polarizing AF and if the Internet didn't exist nobody would be so bothered by her. Plus she was in Strangers with Candy so she can do no wrong.

I want an episode of just her ala the mando episodes in BoBF just to spite you all

Yes, but wait until right in the middle of the pivotal run of episodes to break away for 40 minutes of mechanic and silly droid hijinx.

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I think she's fun, but I know she's polarizing AF and if the Internet didn't exist nobody would be so bothered by her. Plus she was in Strangers with Candy so she can do no wrong.

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I love her as an actress, but I think she just doesn't fit.
At least, the way the character is portrayed it doesn't. It's not enough to 'ruin' the show for me at all, but I do wish they had gone another route.

I'll pay the character this compliment, I like that they thought to try to show a human speaking an alien language vs relying on a protocol droid. Anyone that can work with jawas is worth including in the shows/movies.

Well, half of that episode was unexpected. Felt like a backdoor pilot to another show. I'd watch it, but it's not what I want out of The Mandolarian.

My 11 year old summed that episode up nicely at 254 am : " I never want to watch that episode again."

Great Mando stuff, great mon cal dead pan on the "its a trap" homage but Jesus I don't need the 30 minute walking tour of coruscant just to have Gideon's spy off Dr Pershing so his knowledge dies with him, or that's what I'm assuming was going on.

What a terribly frustrating episode.

More Grogu, Bo, and Din please. I understand this is setting up the return of Moff Gideon, but come on

Actually thought the doc parts were really interesting.

Like in Andor, we get to see the reigning government's policies and laws affecting its citizens everyday life. Just a different perspective and makes things relatable somehow. Even if not perfect, can sort of see the stark contrast in New Republic and Empire laws.

Also, those TIE Interceptors are slick.

Did anyone notice Grogu trying to say "this is the way" after Bo-Katan and Mando said it?

For three seasons, during Mando & TBOBF, I kept saying that I had never seen a show, like those two, that stuck with the main character for 95% of the runtime each episode, and that it would be so much better if they were constantly cutting back-and-forth between three or four storylines, like all the best TV does. Then Andor finally did exactly that and, whaddayaknow, everyone loved it, due in part the much more staccato, intertwined, and propulsive storytelling.

Here, they *finally* had the opportunity to cut back-and-forth between two storylines, at least, but they somehow managed to screw even that up. When they could have easily cut ten minutes from the Dr. Pershing timeline, given those ten minutes to Mando & Bo, and then cut back-and-forth between them, throughout the episode, resulting in the Pershing storyline feeling like far less of a siphoned-off snoozefest.

That said, the Pershing storyline made absolutely no sense to me, so, ultimately, it probably wouldn't have mattered anyway. If only because the double-crossing woman didn't need Pershing at all, seeing as the only thing he did, ultimately, is pack a few items into a Yeti (a Wookiee?). Granted, the argument could be made that she didn't know exactly which items to pack, but it wasn't a big room and there wasn't a ton of equipment there. If she knew where the lab was, and could access it as easily as she did, why didn't she just pack up basically whatever was laying around into, like, three carrying cases, by herself? And avoid this whole, elaborate amnesty infiltration ploy altogether? Otherwise, why the hell did we need to see all of that, only to incapacitate, if not kill Pershing at the end? It would be one thing if it was obvious Pershing was going to play a larger role going forward, and I guess he still could, but that doesn't appear to be the case, so I have no idea why we had to waste basically an entire episode on him. Especially when the woman could have straight up asked him in the beginning what he would theoretically need from a lab, had that list, and then simply have just killed/disposed of him at that point. Then they wouldn't have to do such a long, dumb episode, with so many leaps of logic, like why the amnesty participants aren't better-tracked/can so easily leave their perimeter.

Ugh.

Honestly, I knew the episode was going to bad the second they explained away Mando's mishap as having fallen into water he didn't expect to be that deep. I seriously laughed out loud at how stupid that was. A) That was the hardest, most violent "fall" in the history of "falls," and B) since when did falling into the deep end of a lake suddenly render someone unconscious, especially someone as skilled as Mondo, who, not to mention, just last episode, established that he could seal his mask off from outside air (and thus, presumably, water). That was the clumsiest, Kramer-est thing ever, and was yet something else that made no damn sense.

Now? Somehow, we're suddenly 40-45 minutes to the *halfway* point of the season, with hardly anything to show for it, and all I can think is that season two of Andor can't get here soon enough.

What a dumb episode. Surely they could have accomplshed whatever they needed on the Gideon storyline in about 1/3 of the screen time.

Hmmm, I took it a little differently. The gal was never going to get him to do her bidding in his current state. So she manipulates him into first getting everything he needs to do what she (Moff) wants, then intentionally gets him caught and memory wiped, that way she can have him pick up where he left off with the empire once Gideon returns. And now, he has all the stuff he needs to start working (since they stole it from the ship).