Reviews

From my last review, I was actually almost correct! Reading between the lines of the story and looked at all the angles of characters who were there only a very short time! This was a good fast paced episode.

Shamefully again another member of our heroic bunch of rejects gets bumped off! Let's have one where they don't die for once! Or so we think! Sid, gets shot in the head in the first season, she just disappeared from the hospital! Second season Harper is killed on his bike! That we see his body! Fourth Markus is shot off screen! We don't see his body, but Jackson tells Taverner. To increase his service payment, saying he hadn't yet signed off his death yet, thinking is that to pay the debts? So what is it about James Callas character, he seems to be always typecast as the guy you can always blame! I don't think we've seen the last of Hugo Weavings. Character...

From my last review, I was actually almost correct!

Reading between the lines of the story and looked at all the angles of characters who were there only a very short time!

This was a good fast paced episode. Shamefully again another member of our heroic bunch of rejects gets bumped off!

Let's have one where they don't die for once! Or so we think! Sid, gets shot in the head in the first season, she just disappeared from the hospital!

Second season Harper is killed on his bike! That we see his body!

Fourth Markus is shot off screen! We don't see his body, but Jackson tells Taverner. To increase his service payment, saying he hadn't yet signed off his death yet, thinking is that to pay the debts?

So what is it about James Callas character, he seems to be always typecast as the guy you can always blame!

I don't think we've seen the last of Hugo Weavings. Character...

Espionage at its best!

Ok... such a fast moving episode!

River back in U. K. his grandad spills the beans to Jackson and Standish!

The rest of the crew are loping around!

Now spoilers if you can call it a spoiler!

How many daughters did David Cartwright have?

I know it sounds interesting it's what David said!

He had a daughter that was taken by Harkness to France! Sooo...

I rather not speculate any further!

May be River blew away his half brothers face and didn't know it? Just a thought!

Because David said he did look like him a little!

But it was the son of the lady that let him go in the France!

Could she be the other daughter of David who Frank took away?

The Inquisitor Fourth Sister played by Rya Kihlstedt first became a live action character in ObiWan Kenobi episode 2. Then later an Animated character voiced by the same actress in Star Wars:Tales of the Empire episode 4, 5 and 6.

We learn from Bariss Offee that her Fourth Sister real name is Lyn Rakish.

But the question remains in ObiWan Kenobi her character then, is this before or after she supposedly stabbed Barriss Offee..?

If is after it means she is has not redeemed herself! But then this could be during the same time she is looking for Barriss!

As with all things Lyn Rakish story is not yet finished, would also be great to see a live action of Barriss Offee!

To be honest I wasn't expecting it to be anything like the Skywalker, Mando or sequel universe!

It's a totally different take on the Star Wars Universe just like Andor which is adult slower and little boring oriented!

This is how George Lucas wanted it to be, pure fantasy and fun for all... so remember all...this is pre-bacta tank era, so if somebody dies they die!

Sooo Carrie Anne-Moss character was so short lived... let's look at it this way shall we, since it's not like earth and human related lifespans can be long or short... don't think in the starwars universe a human ages like us. They don't it's all fantasy!

People started talking about Bo-Katans age in various posts, that is insignificant!

Now since this is set 100 years in the past since the Skywalker era we haven't seen any characters yet appear in the prequels or sequels! I'm guessing they either are all killed off or in hiding. The latter needs more context as the series is still on going!

The sets look good, and the characters look exciting good story line.

Question when Mae gives the poison to the Jedi, he new it would kind of kill him he was given a choice but he chose to die, why? What for, he has no guilt to do so!

So looking at it in the past 100 years technology has remain stagnant!

Will we see Yoda and some others?

I think this is how George Lucas envisioned some of this idea!

But anyway things are too early, great effects I'll keep watching!

This 6 part series very similar to the format of 'tales of the Jedi' looks at the other side of the coin, the empire, or simply the character pawns of the empire!

The first three episodes concerning Morgan Elsbeth, was rather weak, and lacked direction of the character! Her push forward in why she did what she does does not make sense!

Her people annihilated by Grevious who had connections to Sidious and the empire, yet the empire does not want to know her yet she follows Thrawn who is loyal to the empire!

The ending of hearing Bo-Katan on the communicator makes no sense at all why?

I'm seeing that this takes place just before Ahsoka arrives there, knowing that Bo-Katan said she would be there, unless Bo sent her there?

Ahsoka said in Mandalorian season 2 that Morgan knew of Thrawns where abouts? But how can this tie with Bo-Katan makes no sense?

The next three episodes surrounding Bariss Offee, is far superior, a more rounded story of the friend of Ahsoka Tano who betrayed her.. but she was right to a certain point of view! But she did things the wrong way to get her message!

She saw the harshness of the Empire, and made her choice to choose her own path than join the empire as a form of pardoning.. this shows like Ahsoka she is strong willed and knows the path of truth, like Ahsoka she would make the perfect Jedi that can not be corrupted! She may be flawed but she saw how wrong the Jedi were, which also led to Ahsoka leaving them too. I think Ahsoka and Bariss would forgive each other and would make a great duo... but we don't know if she survived Lyn stabbing her with a Saber?

Did Lyn use her force energy to bring her back?

But we do see Lyn in the live action ObiWan series!

Let's hope Bariss lives to see another day!

Watching the whole three seasons of Bad Batch has been a great treat over the years, watch all characters grow and develop in their own way specially clone force 99 and Omega!

The original 5 then 4 being unique in their own way feel like Borg 'dones' in Star Trek who have broken away from the collective and established individuality. But away from that thus has been a great episode, but not on the level of 'clones wars' which has recieved a 9.9 rating in its grand finale

As clones have they stopped aging? I noticed as Omega grows to adulthood Hunter looks old but not that old and Omega seems to grow normally. Is she an unaltered clone?

Also what was not fully established was, is she force sensitivity or just a carrier of the 'm' count as a vessel but has no power to control it?

Willl she again seek out Assaj Ventress to continue to train her and try to establish'what' she is?

Also in The starwars universe who or what does Omges actually become , will she meet her childhood friend Hera Syndulla who's now integral to the rebellion!

Will there be an Omega spin off as she has a lot of potential in two forms? What was so special about her that we don't know will the power of the force manifest in her what will her role be in the rebellion!

Omega is an enigma?

As for the rest of the clones they is their life of battle over? Looks like they've gone native!

In the grand scheme of things Thrawn's plan worked, but too many uncertainties!

Thrawn could have left much earlier if he had time on his side!

This episode did drag on a bit, but the action was good, I think everyone that knows this series up to now, knows it can't be resolved in 45 minutes!

Shin... underused thought she would do something, she didn't go back to Thrawn, just ended up with the raiders! Baylan... god knows what's on his mind!

Ezra we know he made it back now it's Hera's turn to take major point in bringing them back.

The point here now is not being stranded this sets up new presidents as a bridge for new connections!

They can take space whales back or it's up to Hera To bring them back, steal the hyper ring spaceship!

Or the republic already has something similar!

Anyway it all sets up for a season 2, that is what is planned in stone by the writers, but up to the studio to act on it!

To everyone that thought Ahsoka fallen short of the series so far, they are mistaken!!!

This is one fantastic episode. By Dave Filoni....

It was well executed and well directed. So many speculations about Marrok. But we will never know what goes on in the head of Dave Filoni!.

As things go the story really does keep you on the edge of your seat!

Ahsoka and Sabine together in a fight against the coming darkness, good to see Sabine in her full armour and using it! And yes Sabine is 'not force sensitive'. The minute She put up her hand in the face of adversity, she tricked Shin with her wrist rockets!

I noticed a very Feudal Japanese influence in the fight scenes...very noticeable especially when Ahsoka fights Marrok!

To be honest to keep the continuity from the animation to use 'Lauren Mary Kim' would have served better because she was the live motion capture Stunt actress in the scenes against Maul, in the last three episodes of Clone Wars!

Hera was slightly under used in this episode but can't be helped as it was not pivotal to the episode, good to see Carson Teva back in the battle!

The fight scene with Ahsoka and Baylon was brutal and fantastic the fight choreography here was totally different to that of the fight against Marrok, it was more fluid more Chinese! But come to think of it Marrok was nothing!

I was disheartened to hear what Baylon said to Sabine about her family, seriously this can not be true????

They perished in the purge of Mandalor or blood of 1000 tears? When Baylon searched her feelings probably he's reading what she thinks has happened but not what actually happened? If that connects with Bo-Katan in the Mandalorian there could be good reason why Koska Reeves is with Bo and not Countess Ursa Wren?

Anyway I hope Ray Stevenson filmed all his scenes for season 1? He was a great actor!

A very interesting mixed bag of a episode!

The training of Sabine Wren as a padwan, I don't think she will be a Jedi, I think she has no force power!

As Kenobi, Yoda and Ahsoka said a energy field created by all living things, force surrounds us and binds the Galaxy together! I think those that are force sensitive can manipulate the force to their will, but those that are not can use that energy field in another way!

But I think Sabine is 'not' force sensitive, if she was it does not help the narrative of the story, I think she will try to follow the teachings of a Jedi, just like.

Chirrut Imwe in Rogue one, the blind freedom fighter with Andor! He may not be force sensitive but uses that energy with a bit of training to help his other senses!

The space battle was like watching a movie, Ahsoka pulls all the punches here and cuts a wing off a enemy fighter in space a bit like Rey in the sequels!

Wonderful direction from Steph Green again!

When At the end Baylon tells his men to hunt down, Ahsoka and Sabine, he knows full well that he's sending his mercenary men to a guaranteed death!

Knowing full well that Ahsoka will cut them down with ease! What is his plan?

I can't say much more than! A great episode!

So speechless and awe at how this part of the story ended on a very, very high note!

Great story, great action and sadness!

The Mandalorians or Mandalorian together are unstoppable! They are a warrior people and trained from birth to be like Greek Spartans! They totally annihilated the imperials! You can just see from the battles the Mandalorians have the edge!

Moff Gideon is one bad ass villain one of the best up there in the Star Wars universe! Giancarilo Esposito is a brilliant actor I can't say more!

Katee Sackhoff and Pedro Pascal.. are excellent with a story like this it keeps you on the edge of your seat!

R5 is up there with R2D2 and Chopper such a great droid!

The Mandalorian sky battle was excellent Bo-Katan with Dark Saber in hand!

The imperial storm troopers in the beskar armour didn't stand a chance against the Mandalorians!

Even though they were out numbered their skill and determination was a driving factor to their success of kicking out The imperial's!

10000% a great episode!

No doubt, this is one of the the better episodes of the whole series so far! There are a couple better but this is definitely up there with my top three choices!

Big reveals, new characters, but the plot is really showing it's true colours, one of the best and 'thé' most important as opposed to the future Mandalorians in the Star Wars Universe!

Unite the clans of all Mandalorians, try and rebuild the lives, rebuild a whole civilisation!

Spoilers- Alert.....!!!!

Love the scene that reminds me of the'i'm Sparticas' where they stand with Bo-Katan on her quest!

Biggest Mandalorian get together is live action Star Wars history!

So Bo-Katan did Surrender to Moff Gideon to save her people! But Gideon betrayed her and continued the massacre of her people!

Fight a enemy from within the planet!

This part I now understand! The belief that Mandalor was uninhabitable spread the rumours people will stay away! Thus allow the remains of the empire to create a secret base within the ruins!

Soooo.. it was Moff Gideons hide out all a long...?

Such a great episode I'm loving it!

Also of note it's like a ancient Greek heroes story with armour and all on a ship sailing the glass lands!

But like Jason and the argonauts with a Mandalorian touch! As the hordes of Mandalorians make their way off the exploding sail barge and into the caves, they look just like Greek Hoplite soldiers!

Grogu is like the Witch Medea of the Crew of heroes!

Couldn't count how many mando's there were but it was a lot of them, when they fled the exploding sail barge!

When you see the imperial commandos in jet packs as they begin their attack on the mando's at the great forge, you can see they are truly not in control of their jet packs as they fight! Unlike the Mandalorians who are far superior in flight and combat!

When Bo-Katan battles Moff-Gideon for the Dark Saber, Bo-Katan is clearly more combat efficient as you can see she landed three decapitating blows to Gideon's neck, if it wasn't for his beskar armour he would be dead already!

As a filler it's was still enjoyable as ever!

Oh my god.... Jack Black in Star Wars!!!!!!!

Christopher Lloyd as the cameo and not what people thought he would be!

I thought this episode was about Din Djarin, as I thought Bo-Katan was going in search of other Mandalorians to bring them all together, I was wrong, it seems that Din Djarin is her travelling companion!

The part of the story was a bit weak but enjoyable watch, some light entertainment to add some juice to the story!

On arriving to Plazir-15, the view of the domes is where everybody thought was a Mandalor flash back but it wasn't. It was just a new independent world we haven't seen, but yes it is reminiscent of the dome city of Mandalor's. Sundari! I think gives us some idea what it could have looked like in real life!

This episode was more of a detective style episode!

The last part was brilliant with a interesting twist no one ever saw coming and it is very logical outcome!

Spoilers ahead!!!!!!! Spoilers ahead!!!!!!

Warning!!!!!!!!!! SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!

When Din and Bo finally get to meet up with a really large group of Mandalorians, note these are Bo-Katans... followers who deserted her!

She evoked the code to single combat, this term was last used when Sabine Wren challenged. Fenn Rau!

Fantastic fight with Axe Wolves for leadership!

SPOILERS THAT EVERYONE DIDNT SEE COMING AND ITS BIG! And correct on a technicality!!!!

Going back to "Mines of Mandalor". Din Djarin fought a spider like General Grievous like creature and lost ending up losing his Dark Saber on the floor being caged and being drained of his fluids!

Enter Bo-Katan, she defeated the Creature killing it in combat and Saving Din Djarin!

Technicality: the creature defeated Din Djarin so it is the owner of the Sabre!

Bo-Katan Enters and fights the creature killing it so now she is the owner officially now of the Dark Sabre!

Din Djarin Put this point forward and it was plausible to all Mandalorians who stood in witness to his words!

Now Bo Katan is officially the owner of the Dark Sabre though combat!

I bet people did not see that coming!

This was a great episode!

It's very much has that western vibe again, a bit like the Magnificent 7, with Mandalorians!

Those in the know can feel the rise of what was the empire, but it never going to be the same empire!

When the Mandalorians speak to their audiences they hold the hammer this reminds me of something, I can't put my finger on it but I'm sure I've seen this form of conversing before?

Grogu had limited screen time in this one, that I felt was ok as it was something he could not get involved in!

Just loved the way both the Mandalorian Starship and The N1 Naboo star fighter came out of hyperspace just right at the planets outer atmosphere!

The episode again ended with Bo-Katan!

'The foundling' is a episode of two things, honour and control!

The honour on two fronts, first Grogu gets his mudhorn sigil baby breast plate signifying his first piece armour of becoming a Mandalorian foundling!

Secondly Bo-Katan gets the honour to lead a mission to save a foundling snatched by a raptor indigenous to the planet. Also this can be the first signs of her control by gaining the "children of the watches" trust!

This episode is very important as it tells us who saves Grogu from the Jedi temple, and it turns out to be Jar Jar Binks! Only joking, well kind of, the actor who played Jar Jar Binks, Ahmed Best plays the Jedi Master Kelleran Beq. Who escapes with Grogu!

We find this out in a PTSD scene when Grogu remembers his past as he watches the Armourer bashing away at a piece of Beskar, creating sparks!

But how did the empire get hold of Grogu later?

As the Mandalorian mission lead by Bo-Katan in search of the young foundling, reaches the cliff top where they plan their attack and grab the kid!

Great effects but different to tell who was who in the aerial battle as the action was very fast paced and the characters were small to visually see!

But still they came out victorious and saved the kid!

Interesting point.on return they took three baby raptors from the nest on the cliff as foundlings so they can tame them, learn to ride them may be a foreshadowing riding the Mythosaur?

One question is maybe Bo-Katan knows who the Armourer is, because of all the people not even Din Djarin, she tells her privately that she has seen the Mythosaur! Why her? But the Armourer does not believe here!

Great episode directed by Karl Weathers, done a good job again!

Summary: Fast paced action, fantastic!!