Pretty sure it is chainmail or a chain piece of some sort. She was making ringlets.

Yeah that's definitely a small plot hole there. I guess though it could be reasonably handwaved as the darts can only be used by someone with training and a Mando helmet (i.e. probably a Mandalorian), whereas the spear can be be used by any old chump and is thus a greater danger to other Mandalorians?

 

I took it to mean that the weapon can breach beskar (and thus would primarily be an anti-Mandalorian weapon) is what makes it an affront, whereas whistling birds wouldn't be able to hurt other Mandalorians. Well, if we ignore fact that they have massive gaps between their plate, but the show has always done so.

 

Yeah there were a few scenes in this episode where the glaring holes in the armour were obvious. Bobba’s is even worse for coverage.

It’s like people deliberately shoot the plate rather than the gaps.

I think a full coverage suit would look worse, but would certainly be more believeable.

 

As a side note, I liked how Djarin wounded himself with the darksaber. Shows what has always been true but few people seem to grasp: A lightsaber is as deadly to its wielder as an opponent if you don't have a Force connection; it's not something just anyone can pick up and use.

Plus Bo Katan's reluctance to take the saber makes more sense now. She probably didn't put any stock in the legend of the blade the first time, but after the massacre...

 

Mandalorians have tons of high tech stuff under the plate (remember all that circuitry under Mando's non-beskar chest piece) and one of the most popular theories since EU times has been that the super-commando segmented plate suits have containment/magnetic fields that draw in blaster fire to the plates. That has never been confirmed though.

 

Straight up Shield Charm got it.

 

Yeah pretty much. One of the old EU anti-jedi suits had full kinetic repulsion. Mandalorian armor is basically magic and can do whatever the writers want it to, with a general handwave of either "Beskar" or "Mando Technology".

It should also be noted that their cloth suits under the plates aren't cloth. It's armorweave (or at least that was the case in EU and no Canon source has ever said otherwise), the same stuff Vader's and Phasma's cape is made of. Armorweave is blaster resistant. Can't stop say, a pulse rifle or disruptor shot, but regular blaster fire is mostly just going to scorch it. It would be nice if they actually showed that on-screen at some point.

 

Finally watched this episode. While I enjoyed it, it really only served to drive home the feeling that Boba Fett has been disappointing so far. The high point of the series is a nostalgia porn episode of Mando, with zero to do with Boba at all.

And lets be honest here, it wasn't even that good. Once again, nothing happened but a few nostalgia bait drops, and some pokey hinty things for future Mando series.

Spoiler: Y tho?

Why did the armourer wait until that moment to question the whole helmet thing? Why not when he turned up? Trick question. I know why: because the writers wanted him to turn the spear into a cute little tux for Grogu, and had cornered themselves into needing to use the Armourer to do it. If you're wondering why Mando is switching to a one-man starfighter for his bounty hunting gig, which has been shown to involve others in his ship on more than one occasion, then the answer is pretty much the same. Because the writers wanted it, so screw logic.

But you know what? I still enjoyed the episode, despite the fact that it was even more pointless when it comes to serving a plot than any other episode so far. Why? Because Mando actually did something. Boba has spent the series wandering back and forth between Mos Espa like he's the main character of an RPG that completely ran out of budget for quest design and so inserted a bunch of 'Go to X, speak to Y' quests to fill time. At least Mando has some motivations for what he's doing.

Two episodes left in the season, and it's clear that they're not even thinking about having a complete arc in this series. We're Disney+ MCUing it up in this joint now. Nothing ever truly begins, or concludes, because that reduces the possibilities for milking the franchise with more prequels and sequels.

 

I think the switch to a one-man fighter from the camper van that was the Razor Quest is meant to indicate a change in Mando from nomadic to not. Or I could be completely wrong and they just wanted to give him the Star Wars version of a motorbike.

 

I'm fairly certain the show is largely done with bounty hunting. They've set up three major arcs for Mando to explore that won't leave time for much else: Din and Grogu family/clan relationship amidst jedi training shenanigans, Din seeks (or foregoes) redemption in the caves under Mandalore, and Din helps Bo-Katan take back Mandalore.

 

Look it's Boba Fett! I CLAPPED!

There's gotta be more planets in the Star Wars universe then fucking Dantooine. I thought the entire sthick of a badass bounty hunter was to watch him hunt innocents/criminals on all kinds of different planets and go on a jolly adventure killing people for money, like the scum he is.

Boba Fett is a bad guy, why are they trying to make him into a good guy? And why is he so fat?

Don't mind that. LOOK. A RANCOR! START CLAPPING!!!

 

The best part about the last episode there was that Boba Fett wasn't in it.

 

Holy shit yes episode 6.

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The Luke CGI has improved by leaps and bounds. And him skipping Grogu with the force was fucking adorable.

Like, goddamn this was the sequel we deserved.

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CAD BANE CAD BANE CAD BANE

 

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Apparently there was a YouTuber that made a deep-fake of Luke from The Mandalorian that was better than theirs. It was so good thatIndustrial Light and Magic hired him.

 

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I mean, good on them because it was incredible. The only time I could tell it wasn't a real person was during the lengthier dialogue segments, and for most of those, they cleverly cut away or went to a side profile shot.

I also want to comment on how good that Cad Bane standoff with Vanth looked. Like... I full on squeee'd.

The past 2 eps are now basically required Star Wars canon viewing.

I'm a little dismayed that the Boba characterization/plot doesn't seem to be going to interesting places, but still hoping for a big shocking ending (which Filoni and Favreau are both pretty good at writing).

 

While Luke's face was pretty good, I can't say the same about his voice. Whatever tech they were using to deage Hamill's tone doesn't seem to allow for carrying across emotions. It felt artificial, like there was a certain range he had to keep his voice at to make it work.

 

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If I recall from the "making of Season 2 mando finale" episode, most of it is either sampled from audio of young Hamill directly, or is Hamill, recorded, and then pitch overplayed with the that same footage as a sound library.

I think it probably doesn't have much to do with the tech though. While Hamil is a great voice actor nowadays, Luke has always been sort of monotone sounding, and it sounded to me like Hamill was trying to mimic that. The most emotion Luke ever displays in the OT is him complaining about not being able to go to Tosche Station, a few whoops of glee here and there, and the despair when he finds out Vader is his father.

 

Great episode, but feels like there needs to be 2-3 more episodes minimum not just 1.

 

A great episode for a Star Wars show, not a great episode for something called “The Book of Boba Fett”. Honestly should’ve renamed it to Tales of Tatooine or something like that, make the focus even less on Boba.

The sad fact is these have been the best two episodes of the whole season, and I dont think the protagonist has said a word or appeared on screen for more than 2 minutes lol.