#that sure was an episode

[rainestormes]

SO. FOR THE FUTURE HUH.

[isagrimorie]

I'm going to start with the positives and then work my way to the negatives.

Positives:

Bo-Katan wasn't fridged and this time maybe Bo can lead Mandalore and Mandalore doesn't get eradicated before the Sequel Trilogy or blown-up.

I am kind of glad the Dark Saber's gone 'cause ever since that duel with Maul the darksaber being passed around has really screwed Mandalore over.

Also to quote Monty Python: "Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."

Like, yeah Duchess Satine became ruler, she also had a consensus from her people.

3. It was a fun Fury Road type ending with Bo getting Mandalore back and then Din off traveling with Grogu having done his part.

Now for my bugbears:

They didn't mention Satine at all. And kind of found a way to disparage her, as if Satine didn't give Mandalore the planet space and time to heal. Does Favreau have an issue with Satine? Is he like his character Pre Vizsla really not into the idea of Satine and what she represented???

2. We sure didn't see Din's face. What's the point of hiring Pedro Pascal if we can't see Pedro Pascal??? Did filming Last of Us really impact the filming of Mandalorians that much???

3. This episode nerfed the red dudes pretty hard, like I was always lukewarm to them as a concept but to be nerfed like that. The war also was not great, directing wise.

4. Another directing / cinematography vibe. Mistaking blur and out of focus for a big war.

It didn't help I already have an idea what siege of Mandalore looked like. Its not fair to compare but I can't help what's already in my head.

The director didn't help his Mandalorian vs Imperial Super commandos were all done mid-air. It was hard to follow the fight, I didn't have anything to latch on to.

Below is a snippet from Clone Wars where there are jetpacked Mandos vs jetpacked Mandos:

In a similar event where Bo and her forces have to re-take Mandalore, it helped that the action slowed down and let us see a clearer picture before returning to action.

This episode was messy and jumped around and I'm just... its really hard not to compare the Mando series to the animated series. One thing the animated had was length of time, so that might be unfair but also they told a story in 25 minute chunks.

It was all just so rushed.

Favreau's main writing flaw I've found is how he rushes things and wants to resolve a cliffhanger so fast the tension from the previous episode is basically gone.

[applepiebuck]

Um I. I watched it 🤕

[sarcasmo-mexicano]

I already knew what was going to happen on this TLOU episode but BOY! I sure wasn't ready

[wizardpink]

Okay watching wwdits now

Something Im still not sure I understand is why Nandor and Marwa are getting married when she is already his wife? Is it not technically a vow renewal?

NOT NANDOR AND GUILLERMO WATCHING CHICK FLICKS ON RAINY SUNDAYS TOGETHER.

Oh they are laying the bickering couple vibes on strooooong

LASZLO LOVES SEANIE AND CHARMAINE SO MUCH MY HEART WEEPS I genuinely hope he makes the two of them vampires just to spend eternity as neighbors together.

OH THANK GOD the Baron, Jim Grimly and the Hellhound are back!

THE HALL AND OATES MONTAGE LMAOOOOOO

Derek is my worst nightmare. An undead killing machine and STILL has to work retail? Jesus.

"You had my number this whole time?!"

ARE WE GETTING IN UNIVERSE ADS ON THE DOCUMENTARY NOW? WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT.

Me to absolutely no one in my living room, when guillermo comforts nandor and nandor looks at him like he hung the moon: shut UP. SHUT. UP. THEY GOTTA STOP. I CANT.

SEANIE AND CHARMAAAAAINE

Did they trade the Baby Colin CGI budget for the dodo bird in this ep lol. Where is he?

THE BARON YAAAS

WAIT IF NANDOR WISHES FOR MARWA TO LIKE ALL THE THINGS HE LIKES IS SHE GONNA BE IN LOVE WITH GUILLERMO NOW?????

Dhjdhdjsjd Laszlo my beloved

NADJA LMAO SHE WOULD

No but honestly I am Laszlo Cravensworth jshrjrjjr

CHARMAINE

omg the baron teaching the sire to speak English 🥺

Will another show ever do bi/pan polyamory like this one?! Never.

IIIII FUCKING KNEW IT SHE WANTS GUILLERMO JUST LIKE NANDOR DOES

NOT THIS SONG I-- EMMYS ALL AROUND

WHAT DO YOU THINK CBD IS?!?!?!?!

[justsalpals]

it was played as a joke but

there's something genuinely harrowing about gorgug and kristen on the deck of the ship, pelted by rain, swarmed by dragons, these two teenagers looking at each other with wide eyes trying to bury the fear down deep, and

do you remember when we died?

they were freshmen, they were children, they were two years younger but it feels like a hundred hundred years ago

it feels like yesterday, because deep down they're still that boy hiding his too large frame behind a metal flower and a girl stuffing her too large personality into the pages of her bible

do you remember when we died?

the ship rocks violently with cannon fire, hands of fear and divinity and loss creeping from the clouds

do you remember the day you lost your faith?

do you remember a forest so sharp it cut you clean through?

do you think we ever woke up?

[nipuni]

Silence in the library

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on february 1st!

[soundsfaebutokay]

It's utterly magnetic when a character's rage is quiet and precise. When they don't scream and throw things but they just b r e a t h e and very very calmly aim their fury like an arrow shooting inexorably towards the target of their wrath. It captures my attention, I lean in close, I wait for the hit. It never disappoints.

[yesokayiknow]

an observation on how tumblr talks about shows

[abstractfrog]

There's something on this ship that's so bad the TARDIS ran away?

[otiksimr]

Poorly drawn Onix line (With a slightly less poorly made Steelix)

[sconesfortea]

Who is she?

Susan Twist in Wild Blue Yonder as Mrs Merridew The Church on Ruby Road as Woman at Concert Space Babies as Gina Scalzi The Devil's Chord as Tea Lady Boom as Ambulance 73 Yards as Hiker

[pigeon-mermaid]

Damn.

[zoe-oneesama]

I-it has two meanings, Lila, I swear!

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[mourning-at-night]

jace i don’t feel good was so funny but also made me so sad. like that’s a teenager with a strawberry squishmallow keychain and a tamagotchi and she doesn’t feel good and she's tugging on a teacher’s sleeve about it. a teacher who should have been responsible for protecting her in the first place and didn’t. who is manipulating and using her and her friends to help fulfill the desires of a wrathful power-hungry egomaniac. porter and jace it’s on sight >:(

[possamble]

I have always, ALWAYS been obsessed with Ryoko Kui deciding to invoke the Mona Lisa as Marcille's mother in the nightmare sequence. The fact that her expression is left blank, riffing of off the eternal "mystery" of the Mona Lisa's smile. It's such a succinct way of borrowing that enigma, that prestige, of effortlessly portraying a woman who is both unknowable as well as beloved and respected. What an incredible way to frame this memory of her mother, of showing without telling how Marcille feels about her.

So I'm incredibly torn on what the anime did with it. On one hand, Ryoko Kui refusing to draw an expression on any portrait of Marcille's mother in her memory is an exquisitely efficient choice in terms of showing more of Marcille's internal world, her feelings towards her mother, and what image of her mother it is that she hides behind...

But on the other hand?

Adding in the same mysterious smile as the Mona Lisa, then reversing it into an expression that's anything but mysterious? Peeling away the enigma like layers of rotten varnish? That is a sick way of further using the original reference. That's an incredible gut punch. Man.