The Reel Rejects - THE MANDALORIAN 3x1 - Review & Breakdown | "Chapter 17: The Apostate"

Episode Date: March 1, 2023

THE MANDALORIAN & BABY YODA RETURN In Our S1 Ep 3 Reaction, Breakdown, Easter Eggs, & Spoiler Review featuring an epic Opening scene, Space Whales (Star Wars Rebels), Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us ), Grogu, Bo Katan (Clone Wars), IG-11 returns, Anzellan (Babu Frick), Greef Karga (Carl Weathers), references to Cara Dune (Gina Carano), The Armorer, Pirates, our theory for episode 2 & rest of season + wayyy more! #TheMandalorian  #TheMandalorianSeason3 #starWars #disney #disneyplus #pedropascal #clonewars    - Become A Super Sexy Reject For Full-Length T.V. & Movie Reactions!  https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects  - Support The Channel By Checking Out Our Bomb A** Merch:  http://shopzeroedition.com/collections/reel-rejects-merch  - POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!!   - Full-Length Reaction Watch Along: https://youtu.be/TTNo7WWV0mY  - Follow Michael Tessler On Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/multihouse.io/?hl=en --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-reel-rejects/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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return. Lost. Ha, ha. Boston. This is good, because, because your delivery, they're very much reminded me of William Shatner for some reason. Anyway,

no, this is great. Yeah, that's what it was. Oh, good. Then my sci-fi tunes are right on pie. I walked past him the other day, in fact, it was great. Anyway, this is a really great return to me. I really liked the way they

crested from just this opening set piece, this, you know, big sense of scale. an adventure, you know, a big monster battle and then you get back into what the next, you know, serial part of the story is. We're trying to find that redemption for Dindjaran in the waters beneath the minds of the war.

And yeah, I mean, you know, they haven't reinvented the wheel in terms of how the show moves, but it just feels like putting on like an old sweater. It's like it's nice to be back in this place where you have just this interesting sort of episodic check back in with what's happening on Navarro

and everything with Grave Carga. And then, you know, checking it with Bocatan really quick before we really launch into the adventure. But, yeah, I felt like this was like a really fun and satisfying return that has, yeah, all those threads of where we'll go to come. But for right now, just, you know, kind of a slam dunk of just jumping back in the pool, you know, to mix all sorts of physical metaphors. Mikhail? I completely agree. And I personally feel like, you know, in the first season, it was such a character, character, focused piece where it was intimate, it was personal, and I feel like the Mandalorian is one of

those very few shows that has earned the world feeling bigger. And I love returning to some of these locations, seeing the changes, and then just seeing these two characters slowly kind of start to find their place in a much bigger galaxy. You know, I think from like big Star Wars nerd perspective. I just like I could watch like mandolorean rituals all day and be super happy. And even like the little details like the Mandalorian starting to, you know, understanding that the Jedi won't be training Grogu in the ways of the force, Dinjaran understanding that, you know, somebody has to still teach Grogu. And in this case, now it's going to be in the way of the Mandalorian. And I love that, you know, we're going to start seeing that evolution.

but great callbacks i mean this just felt so cinematic and so big um and i'm just i'm so excited for the rest of the season big yeah it's different than the than the other ones in a lot of ways because this felt the most lighthearted and it's right i mean if you're there's there's certain elements that obviously like tie into the first episode of of the whole series you know with seeing some of the familiar mandolarians and then like and it's and it's also interesting with how the set how the season two their first episode ended with taking down a giant monster and this starts off with taking down a giant monster so it's like a kind of an inverse of it so yeah they have that of course navarro and it's always felt a little bit more desolate and a little bit more

gritty and this felt like the least gritty of them all and that's not a bad thing it actually felt like it's just another element of Star Wars it's another layer of Star Wars I am wondering though

if that is very intentional definitely whereas Mandalorian often goes from you know something that can be dark to ending hopeful like they already have season four written out so the fact that it started off so hopeful

like this has such a it's like the other seasons have such an immediate rush and pace to it because it's a fugitive story they're on the road they're on the road that he's got like I got to take this guy to you know with the Jedi is like at least with the second season I got to take this guy to Jedi

but people are still hunting him the empire's after him so there's like there's an intensity to it we're here it's like I could take my time but I just I do want to become a Mandalorian you know like there's no real ticking time clock yet but I feel like something is around the corner and you could feel that there's something brewing

and if there's anything we know about Mandalarians is that while they're teasing him possibly you know leading the ways of the Mandalorian like you lead the Mandalorian I'm like a lot of times Mandalians I know they're almost civil wars all the time they love their civil war yeah no I mean it's part there is sure is um to not commit violence is a sin uh in in their creed and in their faith. But, you know, I completely agree. I feel like all of the challenges of previous seasons, even like this like random pirate, like,

it's amazing how just like, yeah, in one episode, we're going to show you that the stakes are clearly going to be much higher. And I think... They're not there yet. No, they're not there yet. And I think this is the kind of, sorry to interject. I just, I know the trajectory of how these things go

because I will say like, yeah, there are parts of this that felt a little bit fast. There are parts this that felt a little bit like, okay, we're going through this a little quick. Certain parts, not a lot, but certain parts. However, this is one of those things where you've got to take the season as a whole. You know, like even if I had a quam like that slightly with any part of season two, when you watch it all at once, you're like, no, it's pretty near perfect season. And I imagine that whatever the whole packages, this, at least I'm hopeful for that. I don't know. Book of BobaFet's the one thing that got me a little worried about.

Well, but even Book of BobaFet still had a couple really important gems sprinkled in that I think helped really set this season up for success. But I feel like in John Favreau and Dave Filoni, something I really admired about this episode was we're beginning to see the galaxy or parts of the galaxy heal from the repercussions of the empire. And I feel like what's also interesting as they kind of go backwards and trying to fill in the blanks of how did Palpatine return? But really, no, I feel like we're seeing even the distrust on the Varro of the Republic and this idea of a fear of going back. And, you know, I think the Mandalorians in the same way having just rewatch Clone Wars and rebels.

whatever happens next is going to be really, really hard for them to come to a consensus on and building that trust and that faith in following a singular leader, especially one who's an outsider. I'm really excited. But it seems to me our two rivals here are going to be Boataton and the Armourer, with the Mandalorian being a bridge between these two. I think once the Mandalorian proves to them, that Mandelor, which was, for the record, it was like uninhabitable prior.

They just made it more, like, the Capitol was in a dome because everything else had been previously destroyed. So, like, it's what the Mandelor. It's what they do. Yeah. I just keep rebuilding over and over and over again. I mean, Heck, Concord Dawn. I mean, the planet was literally just like ripped in half and they still settled there.

So get over yourself, Mandalarians. rebuilt there's always a path to go down but we'll we'll see how this ultimately progresses yeah who do you feel the big bad's gonna be i think it's i think it's bocatan i think that's a be a nice subversion i mean bocatan has played antagonistic before you know like in clone wars before becoming someone who you make an ally with i mean but look at her like i told denarius vibes in this one like with her why is she put her makeup on for what? Why are you? Why are you, what are you getting ready for?

I like you're expecting company. Boketan sings reflection from Moulon by herself. Oh, like it read a little cheesy to me when she's just kind of there sitting and there was something about, there's no one here. My logical brain started going off of. There's no one here. What are you doing? It could be a fake out of, yeah, you think like,

oh, this is sort of a really surprisingly mellow interaction to start things off and she sort of doesn't seem, She seems to have withdrawn in a moment of defense or something like that that I feel I could easily, yeah, flip back around to some kind of impassioned, you know, attempt to reclaim. But her people abandoned her. They're now mercenaries now. Because now you have me thinking, that's a really interesting. Bocatan is, I mean.

Or she could be cutting. She could be, which would be nice because Lord knows, I mean, she was the right hand of Death Watch. And then she was the right hand of the resistance movement. against them all, and then she was in charge of Mandelor, then lost Mandelor to the Saxon clan, and then lost all of Mandelor to the Empire. So like, maybe she's learned something, and maybe she's playing.

No, I mean, it would be, and I think that would be a really nice evolution, because I feel like right now, she's just a little bit too angsty to be a good villain, or it's just like too much hate. The other thing that I don't understand is, She could just be like, hey, Dinn, could we do a duel and when you yield, I won't kill you, which historically is a totally fine way to pass off the Dark Sabre?

Dave Filoni, John Favreau, what's up with that? Got to get you on the phone. Yeah, no, get me on the phone. I need to know. I did notice with Katie Sackoff, they toned down a lot of the contrast with her appearance. In the second season, it's very bright. Like, her hair's a tad longer, sure. but even the red in her hair

is not as bright in her skin. I feel like they really brought the animated version of her to life and the second one on the here show. She looks very human. Yeah. You know, and I appreciated that aesthetically at least. A lot of great aesthetics and great blends of like puppeteering that's been

sped up things that are like in that monster battle is clearly moments that are actual sort of parts of creatures blends with CGI and stuff like that. And too, I think the last thing that came to my mind you said that thing about the galaxy healing. And one thing I've really liked about the recent stuff, like, I mean, through Mandalorian, also through Andor,

and now this, it's like, I have gotten used to a version of this where, like, you check in on certain planets and there's always reliably kind of the same all the time. And here it's like the idea that they would change a little bit depending on when you check in, and now we're seeing, at least, on Navarro, what is there to lose now that they've started to build back.

I think that's also kind of a foundational element that is kind of an earmark of the best parts of more recent Star Wars. No, I completely agree with that. And I feel like it's nice to see the sequel trilogy is beginning to make a little bit more sense. Like, how did the New Republic

end up just falling apart in the first 15 minutes of that movie? You know, of the Force Awakens. And it's really clear. There is a, regardless of if it's a republic or an empire or whatever, there's just a distrust. And it really is, it's a nice reminder that these planets and these people are alive,

and these are different societies that grow and change. I'm really eager to see what other old locations that will come back to. I mean, I can't help but imagine we're going to be on tattooing at some point, and the repercussions of the book of Boba Fett, how will that affect, you know, Moss Isley? and, you know, just... Everyone's got a shiny Vespa now. Everyone, everyone is... It's a body.

Exactly. Yeah, I am curious to see, like, what the real pulse of this season's going to be, what the through line threat will ultimately be, because I like the journey. It feels very, like a very nomad wanderer-like to trying to reclaim this as part of this creed. But however, I did find my... myself like itching for some stakes in this episode i would like that to be kind of established yeah like it doesn't really have that ending like if there's a criticism i do have it it doesn't

have that ending note for me like even the ending with boca i'm like well that's not too different than what we already left off with the season two you know and so what i'm waiting for is that like season one had for a first episode like what is this little yoda creature and and then even we the plot already set up for season two and then they show bobo fed at the end of that one so they had like some solid seats i think they i think they did it but in a very subtle way i mean last we saw the armor there was only one other follower of the creed uh in the form of the member of clan v but that's why i was saying about the civil war yeah but but and i feel like there is clearly those numbers there is a young person that for a while we thought was the palest a rebuild baby Pedro did they say what planet that was no they didn't no they didn't but that's a great question

they do time spans and they don't often tell you how much time is fast and that part of it can sometimes needs to be sometimes I do think needs to be told because obviously like I didn't know about John Favro

saying until like moments before filming this about how there was a time jump a time gap for two years where to me it felt like a couple of weeks when I saw a book of Bobafet when Grew and did Jarn reunite and then obviously a lot of time has passed here

because, you know, Navarro's really, and you know I do actually feel like the character of Karadun was missing for me in Navarro. I did feel her missing presence. But I think it's actually I like, obviously

they have the one. Is that good for you? As the one. And they're real. No, I feel like as the one throwaway line about like, yeah, got recruited by the New Republic and all that. And I do like that they can play on this notion that like, oh, maybe having a New Republic ranger representing law enforcement and a system that's trying to be independent wouldn't have worked in the first place. I think the other thing to mention here is that there is the theoretical, they still haven't officially canceled it, the Rangers of the New Republic. Sure, sure. That I think implied that this was going to happen anyway.

You know, but obviously the situation is fine. Bring her back, I say. It's been enough time. Has it? I don't know. I have no stake at the game. I don't know what the rule is. I don't know if you did it or you did it.

To tell you the truth, I don't even remember what happened. Honestly, I'm going to check. I remember her a big deal at the top. She's friends with Ben Shapiro. It's about all I know now. Oh, well, he's Jewish. Oh, yeah. Oh, shit.

It's all right. We have... He needs to go bathe. A quarter of Harrison Ford, so it all checks out. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Because, like, when I was saying

stakes, like, the Pirates thing was a great sequence. I love that we got, like, an actual aerial battle because you don't really get that with Mandalorian. That's one of the things I actually appreciate about this show,

but it's cool to actually to see that they're really bringing that to life here. Two out of ten, not enough Honda-O-Naka. Not enough, yeah, exactly. But, yeah, like, okay, the Pirates thing kind of seems like it just was randomly inserted, and I'm not exactly fully, there was nothing about what they introduced with them

that it has me super interested to see how they affect the rest of the season. I don't think they are. I think that was just it with it? I think that was more of a tool to show us that things that would have been a half a season arc are just not like a non, like the monster being. in the very beginning as opposed to like the monster

when we fought the crate dragon being like a much they seem to throw a lot of attention to the pirates thing that seemed to be a big thing I feel like

that they're going to be back at some point maybe but I'm and also I don't know the changing politics of life on Navarro coming from being this more dusty

like you know cowboy town where like you kind of have to tolerate a certain amount of leeway whereas now they can afford to be like you know what after a certain point get out of here pirates

We're not working with you. Well, that's kind of the interesting, and maybe the overarching theme of the season is what fills these power vacuums that exist. And I imagine we're going to see our two X-Wing pilots from the New Republic. Who always just happened to run into Manu. It's such a small galaxy.

She's been to that one guy. What was it? The one guy, the Asian guy. Well, his voiceover was in the trailer. Oh, was it? Yeah, yeah. And his name is escaping. me. But, yeah, but

part of me wonders if, yeah, if the Pirates are escaping. Oh, it's so funny. Hey, walk, look, look. Sorry. I got to edit this video, so we should wrap this up. Yeah, I mean, I'll end

with this. A five-minute monologue. I'll end with this. It was amazing seeing Mandalorian culture. I'm so excited. I hope that most of the season is spent unpacking the trauma of the Mandalorian peoples. Yeah. John?

I'm having a blast. Happy to be back, and I can't wait for him. Great effects, great adventure. I'm here. Yeah. I give this one,

I'm like a glowing 7.5 out of 10, I would say. 7.5? Yeah. 5. I feel like this is the kind of episode that would grow on me, grow goo on me,

and over the course, of how it plays into the later part of the season. It's still a recommendation. It's still good. Well, this is a show for me where both modes I'm equally happy for because I'm used to it being where some episodes are just kind of on their own and it goes to neat adventure and then other episodes are very consequential. And I'm kind of here for both.

But they're always fun. And I feel like at Star Wars core, like that's what we keep coming back. I probably say like a 7.8 if we're playing with the room here. Yeah. Which for you. I'm saying a 10 out of 10. going to praise the shrine of Dave Faloni when I get home. I got to edit this

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