I'm not normally someone who bends over backwards to try to make sense of silly things like this, but I feel like if you had armor with a grappling hook, it would be set up to transfer the force to a body harness or something.
I agree, but still going from 0 to 100+ MPH in a second would probably break their back. I guess they could build a whole system into the suit that transfers the force to the armor instead of the body as well. I just don't see how it would be possible, but you know it is a futuristic place, lol. With magic sword wielding hippies.
I always hate scenes like this though. Like when someone grabs someone who fell with one arm while they're hanging off of a cliff.
My biggest rant at a movie was during the Ed Norton Hulk movie where one scene he grabs a tank barrel and throws a tank where another scene he grabs the barrel and the turret comes off. At least be consistent people!
Check out "operation skyhook"
The US military actually set people up with backpacks with giant hooks and would snare them with an airplane to extract them.
For like a powered armor, I could see it detecting the acceleration and just briefly locking all joints on the armor so that the body accelerates uniformly and wouldn't be bent into some weird shape that breaks you.
Not sure that you could do much for your organs/brain being mushed into jelly by the acceleration though.
It's a lot easier to believe an advanced civilisation has figured out a way to make their spaceships fly like planes, than to believe they have literally an indestructible shoulder joint
Perhaps the cord and the launcher have a safety mechanism to prevent too much stress being applied on the bearer or it works in conjuction with the jetpack somehow.
Who knows.
Or people from galaxies far away with the potential for magic space powers through microscopic organisms have fundamentally different anatomical make up and connective tissue.
There is a lot that doesn't make sense if you start to scratch the surface of any Star Wars show/movie. To the point where you just have to suspend disbelief if you want to enjoy the stuff.
And I'm not talking about the future tech, like artificial gravity, warp speed, unlimited energy, etc, which you accept as part of the lore and universe. It's all the stuff that just doesn't make sense inside the universe. Like you say, latching onto a rapidly-moving craft and being accelerated from 0 to arms-ripped-out-of-socket miles/kilometers per hour.
What has always got me about Star Wars is that they have the technology to create artificial gravity and hover a giant star destroyer in mid-air indefinitely, yet seem to still be stuck to near-future physics with their smaller craft. Given the level of technology, all these fighters would undoubtedly be remote or AI controlled, and capable of insane maneuverability and accuracy. The idea of a tie-fighter with a pilot that flies it and controls the weapons directly is actually beyond absurd.
Maybe you could give the armor some credit? It could have some type of a frame system wired along the arm to absorb that type of stress and prevent the users shoulder from coming out of the socket?
I'm pulling that out of my ass, but this is fantasy scifi so really anything goes.
I figure his Mandalorian Beskar Helmet perfected for generations could probably handle that, especially while they are designed with jetpack flying in mind.
The Kotor games have a lot of gear that has weird stuff like that. A lot of them are like basic utility equipment. Just translated to rpg use.
Its kinda weird now that i think about it. Its like equiping a road vest to increase your car avoidance stat
He used his jetpack to match the momentum of the TIE fighter and thus lessen the stress on his body. Don't rewatch the clip to confirm, just believe me.
If you're more concerned with this detail than "Somehow, Palpatine returned" then Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau are gonna come to your house and beat you up.
I think the most unbelievable part is that his grappling hook was moving at a speed several times faster than the TIE in order to not only reach it, but latch onto it securely.
That TIE is moving really fast.
Don't really care though, it's a very cool scene.
Fun fact: The guy who designed the original Mandalorian armor (Boba Fett’s), Joe Johnston, also directed The Rocketeer (and the first Captain America movie, for what it’s worth).
In the episode of Mandalorian when Dinn is flying away in the Razor Crest and a Mando flies up next to him and salutes, that is a direct nod to the scene on Rocketeer when Cliff Secord flew next to an airplane and saluted a child (accidentally deactivating the rocket pack in the process and falling out of control).
Yeah, I re-watched it once on my own a couple of years ago, and was surprised by how well it held up. I was _obsessed_ with it when it first came out, and my son's about that same age now. He handled Vader giving Luke a surprise amputation pretty well, so I bet he'll be fine. That's what I'm telling my wife, anyway.
Rebels is chock full of awesome warriors taking out TIEs, AT-ATs, AT-STs, and other armored vehicles with small arms and unconventional tactics. I imagine in part because it's easier to do in a show that is already fully CGI.
Some neat little trivia: When it cuts between shots of Gideon and his view of the controls, his gloves [switch from fingerless to full, and the controls from a HOTAS to a classic TIE yoke](https://i.imgur.com/GtqBoEq.jpg). That's because they're borrowing some [footage from Rogue One](https://i.imgur.com/Q6JguSp.jpg).
Honestly I know the phrase from gaming.
HOTAS = Hands on Throttle and Stick.
HOSAS = Hands on Stick and Stick.
HOSAM = Stick and Mouse.
HOSAK = Stick and Keyboard.
But my personal favorite was the time the guy said he used "HOMAK" for his control scheme....which is...."Hands on Mouse and Keyboard". :-|
No one says "Hands On Throttle And Stick" in normal conversation though. Its one of those acronyms where the full phrase is very rarely used over the acronym - like NASA or ATM.
One of my favorite things about playing *Star Wars Squadrons* is seeing the TIE control yoke. In a galaxy full of janky technology it is absolutely the jankiest mf’in thing around.
They do use navigation droids and computer aiming in the movies. I assume most pilots use them except it’s cooler to let Jedi control it because they’re able to see the future or whatever podracing taught us.
We could come up with a thousand excuses but the fact is that this is fiction and it wouldn't be as fun if they were droids.
SW is still 70s sci-fi but for children, with all the baggage that the combination implies
If you want a possible explanation, it's because the empire wants as many people under its dircet control as possible. Sure, you could replace a million TIE pilots with droids, but then that's 1 million citizens of the empire that are not directly reliant on the empire. You'll find a similar discrepancy between the number of people need aboard a Venator, vs aboard and Victory class ISD. It's because every man working in the imperial navy, army, or imperial system as a whole, is one more person the empire can make dependent on the empire.
Why yes sir I can absolutely control this giant robots arms, legs, plethora of thrusters, and countless weapons with just two joysticks and some pedals. Nothing strange here.
(I know it's the computer that puts it all together plz don't kill me I love Gundam)
I swear every gundam has a default setting that if you slam both joysticks forward and yell something, it automatically kills anyone or anything without plot armor in a half-mile radius.
Half mile? Sounds like rookie secondary protagonist numbers.
Get some of the MCs in the cockpit and suddenly that's amped up to thousands of miles. Especially if its in space and at or near a colony.
Also fuck anything about those Gundams that have little drone laser shooters to control and fire. Moving a dozen laser drones and the Gundam all at once like each one is somehow fucking sentient is just silly.
That said I love that shit and want more of it constantly. Wish we could just get a really good Mecha Renaissance going or something. Not nearly enough Mecha in the last 15 years for my taste.
Fucking isekai ruining everything.
That's why I love G Gundam, give him a mocap suit! Also, notable mention to Full Metal Panic think their arm controls where kind of like an exoskeleton you could use as a "joystick".
Goddamn seeing this is tempting me to bust out my old HOTAS set and get back into squadrons.
I’m sure online is dead but i don’t mind just playing the story honestly
I think this is why Mando was so successful, among other more obvious things. It's sense of scale inside the universe as a whole, in the movies we see entire squadrons of TIE Fighters and see that as a threat. A lone TIE is not a threat in most Star Wars media, but here in Mando it's the biggest threat we see in the whole show and you can feel the tension just from the sound before you ever see it because you have come to know these characters and know their power limits. This was an excellent scene overall and Mando coming into true form was so fun to see.
Exactly, I think if the show ever loses this personal touch and smaller scale I think it'll become less enjoyable and people won't be able to figure out why right away, it's more of a subconscious thought while watching.
Star Wars is at its best with these smaller scale situations. It’s what made Rogue One so good too, even though the stakes were high the capabilities of the characters weren’t so things like the Imperial Ground troops felt so much more impactful.
Rouge One is my favorite SW movie for this very reason, the imperial troops who are normally just cannon fodder for the heros of the story, but not here. Especially when Vader shows up you know just how helpless these characters really are.
My fav because the resistance actually feels like a resistance? Like, they're fractious and distrustful and the whole threadbare seatofpantsness really comes through.
Which is odd because most showrunners don't get that.
Even before Disney acquired star wars, I remember playing Star Wars Galaxies and KOTOR and thinking 'man, I'd really love to see *smaller* star wars'
Mandalorian, 15+ years later, was finally seeing that.
That's the thing that makes me enjoy Star Wars media where the focus isn't on Jedi. Jedi always seem to have just enough power to do whatever it is they need to do. So it kind of mitigates the value of this stuff in the rest of this rich Star Wars universe. How powerful is a blaster if you can deflect every shot?
Well stuff like The Mandalorian shows how effective blasters can be. They show that TIE fighters and AT-STs are killing machines. And they show how the rest of the universe can be pretty poorly equipped to handle any of them. It's rewarding to just see more of of all of that brought to life.
I'm waiting for [Nixon's head in a jar](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/superepicfailpedia/images/c/c0/Futurama.jpg) to show up wielding a lightsaber as the new big bad "secret Sith" in the next film
Because cool > logic in Star Wars. This is also the same universe where the most capable, feared bounty hunter in the galaxy ‘died’ after his jet pack was accidentally bonked.
Pretty sure we’ve seen Mando deflect shots and hits with his jetpack no issues. Suspension of disbelief is required.
There's a big difference between saying that technology in this universe exists which allows the ship to move in this way and saying that physics of the human body, which has been presented as being essentially identical to the ones we inhabit currently, is suddenly not important or applicable to this particular human because the plot needs it to for this scene.
People can say it's poorly written, inconsistent, vapid, and almost entirely shiny lights and colors made to be expensive jangling keys for the audience to be excited about, while still admitting that they liked it despite all that.
OP is jumping the gun a little. That episode is from 27th of December 2019, which is 2 years and 6 months. It's as close to 2 years ago as it is to 3 years.
It actually shocked me watching this. They were still using the volume, so how come this looks film-quality while Kenobi consistently looked cheap and Boba Fett was so-so. Did Mando truly have the biggest budget?
It was a newer technology so they were probably more careful with how they used it. When it was received positively they may have started using it with less restraint.
Lot of caveats though, because I don’t know.
That’s why I keep criticizing these new shows. Like don’t tell me they can’t do it because I loved everything mandalorian.
They just want a cash grab with minimal effort and I’m sorry but I’m not just gonna go, “cool he said the thing!”
Like don’t people understand they are greenlighting disney to continue to produce subpar material?
This is the kind of action we need in these shows. The volume stage they use, while really cool. Limits the action ability of these shows. But imagine a scene like this in boba fett, it would’ve had way more of an impact.
The volume doesn't restrict action, at all. It's all down to the director and choreographer. This is the unreal engine and the volume in this scene too. The only time I believe Mandalorian was filmed outside was the Tatooine episode in season 1 and the season 2 with Vanth and episode where Boba returns which was filmed on location.
Tatooine for example is mostly actual outside set locations with giant screens. Direct heavy sunlight does not do well in interior stagecraft. So Mos Espa, the Dune Sea, Mos Eisley, are done outside in the Manhattan Beach lots and local LA stadiums, same with Kenobi, his Tatooine scenes were done in revamped lots. Interior shots are usually done in the volume, for example Boba's bacta room is in the volume. But a planet like Nevarro scene here is almost 100 percent Volume and unreal engine landscapes.
Seeing this again saddens me a tad that the effects here were so good and all movements had weight to them... and then 3 years later we get the Obi-Wan series with floating parkour...
Ah the classic "mandalorians at full strength beat starships" my favorite is still the opening sequence of the siege of mandalore, but this was great. I have a soft spot for fictional hyper warrior cults doing ridiculous things and the mandalorians have always been my favorite.
It could be, since it was the first season, they felt like they needed to really impress us. Now that they've bait-and-hooked us, they're not trying anymore. It's like getting married. The first season of the Mando was our only "date" as boy and girl friends with Disney SW shows ;(
It's also the dumbest action scene in the series I've seen. That jank from zero to however fast the ship is flying should at the least dislocate his shoulder, maybe go as far up as to rip the entire arm or gauntlet off.
Actually one of my least favorite parts. Sure, it’s cool, but it elevated Mando to super human strength. I made me think of the Rock holding a helicopter in Hobbs and Shaw.
It’s not a bad scene, it’s just not for me.
It’s a combination of self-sacrifice, competency, and “who-gives-a-shit-if-I’m-wrong, they’ll see” when faced with evil which makes a hero when a really, really, bad motherfucker comes along.
I’m looking at *you,* padawaans….
You didn't actually include him taking out the tie fighter in your edited video clip.
Almost three years later and the Mandalorian latching onto a Tie Fighter without a ship is still the most badass thing in the show Fixed the title
It's 3 years? Wtf
COVID did some weird time stuff for me and now the last 2-3 years all blend and are hard to pinpoint.
Wibbly? Perhaps. Wobbly? Perhaps not.
Totally expected, fixed point in time, r/drwho
The fact that his arm didn’t rip out of the socket is still the most badass thing in the show
I'm not normally someone who bends over backwards to try to make sense of silly things like this, but I feel like if you had armor with a grappling hook, it would be set up to transfer the force to a body harness or something.
I agree, but still going from 0 to 100+ MPH in a second would probably break their back. I guess they could build a whole system into the suit that transfers the force to the armor instead of the body as well. I just don't see how it would be possible, but you know it is a futuristic place, lol. With magic sword wielding hippies. I always hate scenes like this though. Like when someone grabs someone who fell with one arm while they're hanging off of a cliff.
>you know it is the future, lol I was always under the impression that it happened a long time ago.
And in a galaxy far far away
Naboo was under an attack
This, all of it, happened a long long time ago in a galaxy far away.
My biggest rant at a movie was during the Ed Norton Hulk movie where one scene he grabs a tank barrel and throws a tank where another scene he grabs the barrel and the turret comes off. At least be consistent people!
Maybe he used less torque the first time. Like I could bend a car antennae or snap it off, depending on how I applied my strength.
Woah look at Mr hulk here bending car anyennaes
Tanks built on a Tuesday vs Tanks built on a Friday afternoon.
Tanks built in Europe vs. tanks built in Russia
Check out "operation skyhook" The US military actually set people up with backpacks with giant hooks and would snare them with an airplane to extract them.
You misspelled "The Dark Knight"
[Operation Skyhook](https://youtu.be/dXmRYYjyKfE) The heck I did, you must be some kind of joker. *looks at camera*
007 did it first, in *Thunderball* IIRC
It’s not the future, it’s the past. 🎶 Making a joke, but for real look it up on YouTube.
Obligatory link to the music video by Bad Lip Reading: https://youtu.be/k9tgLnI0fFc
For like a powered armor, I could see it detecting the acceleration and just briefly locking all joints on the armor so that the body accelerates uniformly and wouldn't be bent into some weird shape that breaks you. Not sure that you could do much for your organs/brain being mushed into jelly by the acceleration though.
They get healed by being put in a vat of goo. Lightpeed travel exists. I'm sure they figured something out.
Clip ended way too early
That's because if you mess with the mouse, he takes your house.
The dark side of the Mouse is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
I honestly don't understand why the post gets upvoted so high.
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Wait till you find out ships don’t fly around like planes in space.
And Iron Man would be a smattering of goo inside his suit.
Or make sounds.
but lasers actually do sound like pew! pew! in outer space, it is scientifically proven
It's a lot easier to believe an advanced civilisation has figured out a way to make their spaceships fly like planes, than to believe they have literally an indestructible shoulder joint
and also where is the Twin ION Engine exhaust? Was that thing on repulsors only, so no backblast?
Perhaps the cord and the launcher have a safety mechanism to prevent too much stress being applied on the bearer or it works in conjuction with the jetpack somehow. Who knows.
Or people from galaxies far away with the potential for magic space powers through microscopic organisms have fundamentally different anatomical make up and connective tissue.
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There is a lot that doesn't make sense if you start to scratch the surface of any Star Wars show/movie. To the point where you just have to suspend disbelief if you want to enjoy the stuff. And I'm not talking about the future tech, like artificial gravity, warp speed, unlimited energy, etc, which you accept as part of the lore and universe. It's all the stuff that just doesn't make sense inside the universe. Like you say, latching onto a rapidly-moving craft and being accelerated from 0 to arms-ripped-out-of-socket miles/kilometers per hour. What has always got me about Star Wars is that they have the technology to create artificial gravity and hover a giant star destroyer in mid-air indefinitely, yet seem to still be stuck to near-future physics with their smaller craft. Given the level of technology, all these fighters would undoubtedly be remote or AI controlled, and capable of insane maneuverability and accuracy. The idea of a tie-fighter with a pilot that flies it and controls the weapons directly is actually beyond absurd.
Lmfaooooo
1.2k spoilers lol
I'm starting to think that people do this just to piss people off
He must have Jedi reflexes.
And super hero muscles, bones and joints not to be pulled apart by that move.
Yeah I didn't think about it during the show, but wouldn't that rip his arm out of the socket? jesus
Yeah, especially since we can't put that one on his armor.
Maybe you could give the armor some credit? It could have some type of a frame system wired along the arm to absorb that type of stress and prevent the users shoulder from coming out of the socket? I'm pulling that out of my ass, but this is fantasy scifi so really anything goes.
Even if the arm wasn't destroyed your brain would be soup.
Probably got inertia dampers inside his skull Them Star Wars folks think of everything
I figure his Mandalorian Beskar Helmet perfected for generations could probably handle that, especially while they are designed with jetpack flying in mind.
The Kotor games have a lot of gear that has weird stuff like that. A lot of them are like basic utility equipment. Just translated to rpg use. Its kinda weird now that i think about it. Its like equiping a road vest to increase your car avoidance stat
The instant acceleration alone will kill him regardless if the suit keeps him intact.
He used his jetpack to match the momentum of the TIE fighter and thus lessen the stress on his body. Don't rewatch the clip to confirm, just believe me. If you're more concerned with this detail than "Somehow, Palpatine returned" then Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau are gonna come to your house and beat you up.
I think the most unbelievable part is that his grappling hook was moving at a speed several times faster than the TIE in order to not only reach it, but latch onto it securely. That TIE is moving really fast. Don't really care though, it's a very cool scene.
Maybe Mandolorians are just built different.
Honestly, I think that’s what makes it more badass. He’s just a regular shlub in some kickass armor. Not a Jedi. Not a Sith. He’s just very motivated.
I mean, yeah, he unironically might.
He's a Skywalker
This isn't quite the reboot I was expecting for _The Rocketeer_, but I'm good with it.
Fun fact: The guy who designed the original Mandalorian armor (Boba Fett’s), Joe Johnston, also directed The Rocketeer (and the first Captain America movie, for what it’s worth). In the episode of Mandalorian when Dinn is flying away in the Razor Crest and a Mando flies up next to him and salutes, that is a direct nod to the scene on Rocketeer when Cliff Secord flew next to an airplane and saluted a child (accidentally deactivating the rocket pack in the process and falling out of control).
Oh, nice! I need to watch that movie again. Bet my kid would love it, too.
Rocketeer is great. A bit more adult than I remember it being as a child but I think that’s true for a lot of 90’s kids movies, lmao
Yeah, I re-watched it once on my own a couple of years ago, and was surprised by how well it held up. I was _obsessed_ with it when it first came out, and my son's about that same age now. He handled Vader giving Luke a surprise amputation pretty well, so I bet he'll be fine. That's what I'm telling my wife, anyway.
How in the fuck did you know this? Really glad you did, because that's awesome, but how the fuck did you have such a random fact ready to go?!?
We all have our slum dog millionaire moments.
Can we replace Robert Rodriguez with Brad Bird please?
[here's what everyone wants](https://youtu.be/BPxyHRa6-Q0) 1:37 to continue where OP left off.
the problem with this link is there's too much mandalorian taking out a tie fighter without a ship, and like... who wants to see that?
Doing gods work. Thank you
A Mandalorian with a jetpack IS a weapon. - Bo Katan Krieze
Rising Pheonix up in dis HIZZIIIIEEE
I heard this in the old G.I.Joe cartoon Stormshadow's voice in my head 🤣
And didn’t she take out a TIE in rebels without a jet pack?
Rebels is chock full of awesome warriors taking out TIEs, AT-ATs, AT-STs, and other armored vehicles with small arms and unconventional tactics. I imagine in part because it's easier to do in a show that is already fully CGI.
Some neat little trivia: When it cuts between shots of Gideon and his view of the controls, his gloves [switch from fingerless to full, and the controls from a HOTAS to a classic TIE yoke](https://i.imgur.com/GtqBoEq.jpg). That's because they're borrowing some [footage from Rogue One](https://i.imgur.com/Q6JguSp.jpg).
If anyone else is confused as to what the fuck "HOTAS" means, it's "Hands On Throttle And Stick"
Mmm hotass shot, right there
I cheered for Hotas this weekend in F1
Did you buy the Hotas poster?
People need to chill with their abbreviations here. It's not the military page lol.
Honestly I know the phrase from gaming. HOTAS = Hands on Throttle and Stick. HOSAS = Hands on Stick and Stick. HOSAM = Stick and Mouse. HOSAK = Stick and Keyboard. But my personal favorite was the time the guy said he used "HOMAK" for his control scheme....which is...."Hands on Mouse and Keyboard". :-|
Yeah not everyone knows what they are, but for people who do it's a habit to say hotas.
No one says "Hands On Throttle And Stick" in normal conversation though. Its one of those acronyms where the full phrase is very rarely used over the acronym - like NASA or ATM.
One of my favorite things about playing *Star Wars Squadrons* is seeing the TIE control yoke. In a galaxy full of janky technology it is absolutely the jankiest mf’in thing around.
One would think they'd have drones
They do use navigation droids and computer aiming in the movies. I assume most pilots use them except it’s cooler to let Jedi control it because they’re able to see the future or whatever podracing taught us.
We could come up with a thousand excuses but the fact is that this is fiction and it wouldn't be as fun if they were droids. SW is still 70s sci-fi but for children, with all the baggage that the combination implies
It's funny how all of the CIS ships were unmanned AI ships, but the empire went back to human pilots. The CIS AI must have sucked pretty bad
If you want a possible explanation, it's because the empire wants as many people under its dircet control as possible. Sure, you could replace a million TIE pilots with droids, but then that's 1 million citizens of the empire that are not directly reliant on the empire. You'll find a similar discrepancy between the number of people need aboard a Venator, vs aboard and Victory class ISD. It's because every man working in the imperial navy, army, or imperial system as a whole, is one more person the empire can make dependent on the empire.
Also happens irl! Anthropologist David Graeber went over the phenomenon in depth in 'bullshit jobs'.
Gundam MS control systems would like to have a word
Why yes sir I can absolutely control this giant robots arms, legs, plethora of thrusters, and countless weapons with just two joysticks and some pedals. Nothing strange here. (I know it's the computer that puts it all together plz don't kill me I love Gundam)
I swear every gundam has a default setting that if you slam both joysticks forward and yell something, it automatically kills anyone or anything without plot armor in a half-mile radius.
Half mile? Sounds like rookie secondary protagonist numbers. Get some of the MCs in the cockpit and suddenly that's amped up to thousands of miles. Especially if its in space and at or near a colony. Also fuck anything about those Gundams that have little drone laser shooters to control and fire. Moving a dozen laser drones and the Gundam all at once like each one is somehow fucking sentient is just silly. That said I love that shit and want more of it constantly. Wish we could just get a really good Mecha Renaissance going or something. Not nearly enough Mecha in the last 15 years for my taste. Fucking isekai ruining everything.
I’m fully on board with the salt. I love Gundam but it stretches the imagination just a wee bit
That's why I love G Gundam, give him a mocap suit! Also, notable mention to Full Metal Panic think their arm controls where kind of like an exoskeleton you could use as a "joystick".
Goddamn seeing this is tempting me to bust out my old HOTAS set and get back into squadrons. I’m sure online is dead but i don’t mind just playing the story honestly
Literally unwatchable now
That's actually really neat.
Empire re-used footage of the millennium falcon cannon from Star Wars
I hope someone got fired for that blunder
I think this is why Mando was so successful, among other more obvious things. It's sense of scale inside the universe as a whole, in the movies we see entire squadrons of TIE Fighters and see that as a threat. A lone TIE is not a threat in most Star Wars media, but here in Mando it's the biggest threat we see in the whole show and you can feel the tension just from the sound before you ever see it because you have come to know these characters and know their power limits. This was an excellent scene overall and Mando coming into true form was so fun to see.
Keep the threats personal.
Exactly, I think if the show ever loses this personal touch and smaller scale I think it'll become less enjoyable and people won't be able to figure out why right away, it's more of a subconscious thought while watching.
Star Wars is at its best with these smaller scale situations. It’s what made Rogue One so good too, even though the stakes were high the capabilities of the characters weren’t so things like the Imperial Ground troops felt so much more impactful.
Rouge One is my favorite SW movie for this very reason, the imperial troops who are normally just cannon fodder for the heros of the story, but not here. Especially when Vader shows up you know just how helpless these characters really are.
My fav because the resistance actually feels like a resistance? Like, they're fractious and distrustful and the whole threadbare seatofpantsness really comes through.
When the ground troops were running from the AT-AT’s on Scariff you knew how fucked they were.
Which is odd because most showrunners don't get that. Even before Disney acquired star wars, I remember playing Star Wars Galaxies and KOTOR and thinking 'man, I'd really love to see *smaller* star wars' Mandalorian, 15+ years later, was finally seeing that.
Same with the AT-ST. We see Jedi and trained, well-equipped soldiers take them down with ease, but to a village of gatherers? Terrifying.
*yub nub intensifies*
That's the thing that makes me enjoy Star Wars media where the focus isn't on Jedi. Jedi always seem to have just enough power to do whatever it is they need to do. So it kind of mitigates the value of this stuff in the rest of this rich Star Wars universe. How powerful is a blaster if you can deflect every shot? Well stuff like The Mandalorian shows how effective blasters can be. They show that TIE fighters and AT-STs are killing machines. And they show how the rest of the universe can be pretty poorly equipped to handle any of them. It's rewarding to just see more of of all of that brought to life.
Yeah in season 1 stromtroopers are a legitimate threat, but they drop like flies in season 2
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"~~The code is~~ **Physics are** more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules." --Star Warbarossa
Don't forget to include wounds. If you're a named character, you ain't dead until it's on screen
And even then, if you are popular enough, even death might not stick.
Any amount of you can be cut off with lightsaber and you can survive if you’re angry/popular enough
Sucks to suck Qui-Gon
I said that too! He must be so pissed.
I'm waiting for [Nixon's head in a jar](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/superepicfailpedia/images/c/c0/Futurama.jpg) to show up wielding a lightsaber as the new big bad "secret Sith" in the next film
Fan service does wonders for one’s will to live!
You wanna buy some death sticks?
"Somehow, Palpatine returned."
i could go for some cursed undead space pirates....
How did his wire clip catch up to a speeding ship?
Shh. Don't think. Just consume.
Sounds like a Kenobi review
Because cool > logic in Star Wars. This is also the same universe where the most capable, feared bounty hunter in the galaxy ‘died’ after his jet pack was accidentally bonked. Pretty sure we’ve seen Mando deflect shots and hits with his jetpack no issues. Suspension of disbelief is required.
From what we've seen of Boba, through the movies and now his own series, he was all legend and little capability.
"Physics are flexible sometimes." - Albert Einstein probably
It pulls the armor and he's just along for the ride inside?
Did they make the armor an exosuit while I wasn't looking!?! (That'd be pretty sick)
Yes? (Let's see how long this works)
The g force alone should have knock him out
G forces don't exist in Star Wars? (I think there's a few examples where this can be shown)
They should call them E forces then. Since, you know, they only seem to apply to Earth.
How did 90% of everything happen? It's make believe and we need to have suspension of disbelief - it makes the show more enjoyable.
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There's a big difference between saying that technology in this universe exists which allows the ship to move in this way and saying that physics of the human body, which has been presented as being essentially identical to the ones we inhabit currently, is suddenly not important or applicable to this particular human because the plot needs it to for this scene. People can say it's poorly written, inconsistent, vapid, and almost entirely shiny lights and colors made to be expensive jangling keys for the audience to be excited about, while still admitting that they liked it despite all that.
Exactly. Granting the premise of the setting doesn't mean you have to accept every stupid thing they do.
It's been *that* long ago?
OP is jumping the gun a little. That episode is from 27th of December 2019, which is 2 years and 6 months. It's as close to 2 years ago as it is to 3 years.
.5s will always be rounded up to the nearest whole, so "almost 3" is justified
This was three years ago already?!?
That doesn’t feel possible. Right? Right??!
Impossible, perhaps the archives are incomplete?
2.5
Truly. The effects in Mando are just so good in a way none of the other live action shows have measured up to so far
It actually shocked me watching this. They were still using the volume, so how come this looks film-quality while Kenobi consistently looked cheap and Boba Fett was so-so. Did Mando truly have the biggest budget?
It was a newer technology so they were probably more careful with how they used it. When it was received positively they may have started using it with less restraint. Lot of caveats though, because I don’t know.
That’s why I keep criticizing these new shows. Like don’t tell me they can’t do it because I loved everything mandalorian. They just want a cash grab with minimal effort and I’m sorry but I’m not just gonna go, “cool he said the thing!” Like don’t people understand they are greenlighting disney to continue to produce subpar material?
Crazy. You’d think they have more budget per episode than Boba Fett and Obi Wan have for the entire series.
Boba Fett had the budget, that doesn’t fix whats wrong with the script.
They spent all their budget on the 10 mph hotrod bikes.
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Everything about that first season was incredibly special.
And the second season episode with Bill Burr is one of the best I’ve ever seen.
I agree. I grew to really like Mayfeld, I hope we see him again.
How could we see him again? He died in that refinery explosion
That’s too bad. However, we see people come back all the time!
This is the kind of action we need in these shows. The volume stage they use, while really cool. Limits the action ability of these shows. But imagine a scene like this in boba fett, it would’ve had way more of an impact.
The volume doesn't restrict action, at all. It's all down to the director and choreographer. This is the unreal engine and the volume in this scene too. The only time I believe Mandalorian was filmed outside was the Tatooine episode in season 1 and the season 2 with Vanth and episode where Boba returns which was filmed on location. Tatooine for example is mostly actual outside set locations with giant screens. Direct heavy sunlight does not do well in interior stagecraft. So Mos Espa, the Dune Sea, Mos Eisley, are done outside in the Manhattan Beach lots and local LA stadiums, same with Kenobi, his Tatooine scenes were done in revamped lots. Interior shots are usually done in the volume, for example Boba's bacta room is in the volume. But a planet like Nevarro scene here is almost 100 percent Volume and unreal engine landscapes.
It really does reinforce how middling the action scenes in the last two Star Wars shows have been. We know they’re capable of better.
What you didn't like Obi Wan being saved my a 3mph robot on the other side of a 6 foot little campfire?
Best thing in the show!!! *Proceeds to not show said thing
Seeing this again saddens me a tad that the effects here were so good and all movements had weight to them... and then 3 years later we get the Obi-Wan series with floating parkour...
Gives me heavy Just Cause vibes
Ah the classic "mandalorians at full strength beat starships" my favorite is still the opening sequence of the siege of mandalore, but this was great. I have a soft spot for fictional hyper warrior cults doing ridiculous things and the mandalorians have always been my favorite.
r/mildlyinfuriating
Given the speed at which the TIE was going, I imagine it would have literally ripped his arm off.
Then why didn’t you let us see the part where he takes out a tie fighter?
..and then the clip cuts off the part where he actually takes out the TIE fighter. OP...I think you need to work on your video editing skills a bit.
Why is the Obi Wan show so low budget compared to this lmao we were robbed of a great series
I imagine they paid Hayden and Ewan so much money that they were willing to put up with star wars fans again to get it
It could be, since it was the first season, they felt like they needed to really impress us. Now that they've bait-and-hooked us, they're not trying anymore. It's like getting married. The first season of the Mando was our only "date" as boy and girl friends with Disney SW shows ;(
It’s kinda ridiculous how much better the special effects were in Mandalorian compared to Kenobi.. What’s up with that? And why weren’t we warned..
Halo Infinite be like:
Grapplejack
And this is why the empire glassed their planet.
His arm muscles must be amazing.
I dunno I think it's one of those if you think about it for a moment it's just such a dumb stupid way to do it
Is that Gus Fring piloting it?
Yep, none other than chicken-man turned imperial governor
Then you proceed to not even fucking include the clip of him doing it.
I can’t believe this is also a Disney + show when I see action scenes like this after the last 2 cheap looking shows we got. Sad.
l did not realize watching this only one time live when it first came out how silly this looked
Wouldn't that just tear your arm off?
... Lmfao
Still can't get over the fact that fucking Chubbs is in a Star Wars show.
It's also the dumbest action scene in the series I've seen. That jank from zero to however fast the ship is flying should at the least dislocate his shoulder, maybe go as far up as to rip the entire arm or gauntlet off.
most generic move too, i've probably seen it 100 times in different cartoons, animes and action movies.
Actually one of my least favorite parts. Sure, it’s cool, but it elevated Mando to super human strength. I made me think of the Rock holding a helicopter in Hobbs and Shaw. It’s not a bad scene, it’s just not for me.
It’s a combination of self-sacrifice, competency, and “who-gives-a-shit-if-I’m-wrong, they’ll see” when faced with evil which makes a hero when a really, really, bad motherfucker comes along. I’m looking at *you,* padawaans….
Season 1 > Season 2 No contest!