The Reel Rejects - THE MANDALORIAN 3x2 - Review & Breakdown | "Chapter 18: The Mines of Mandalore"

Episode Date: March 8, 2023

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Well, if you want to catch our reaction, that's up on the YouTube's. But if you just want to hear our thoughts, mainly Michael's thoughts. And prayers. Stick around today. Pray with us. Let's go. Oh, wow. Who's Rachel Morrison?

I don't know. a race. Seriously. Have we seen her director credit before? I don't know. That was great. Wow.

Yeah, that was terrific. Love the mood. I didn't think we would get that. I mean, I thought it earlier, but for some reason in the moment, I was like, oh,

if we were not, maybe not. Yeah. Sure enough giving up. Well, that that was a great episode. That was a really, really great episode.

God. Continues to subvert expectation. I love that they credit the, somebody pointed that out, they credit the stunt actors who actually do Mando now. Oh, good. Yeah, it's those last two names there. Who cares?

They're not Pedro Pascal's voice. He's a busy guy. It's all about those few minutes Pedro spends in the booth. Man. Yeah, that was, that was phenomenally executed. It was so well done. Yeah. I love the the direction they're going with Bo Catan

because I can't quite tell what it is. I still, I don't think it's what we think. What do you mean? I don't think that Bo Katan... Now anything you think is going to be wrong. That's not the thought you were thinking. I have several thoughts. Which is what am I wrong about?

I don't think Bo is going to be the villain. No, nor do why. I think they're going to have something where there will be, it's going to be like a cobra. Rikai situation is what I think's going to go down. John Katan Kreeze is coming. Where, no, they are going to have a difference of ideologies, and they will butt heads, but they have to reunite Mandel.

But eventually, yeah, they are going to see that they are the thing that will bring unity to it. So Din is evil fang and Bo Katan as Miyagi Doe. Yeah, or one or the flip it around, doesn't matter which one. But yeah, they're one of the two. I think that's where they're headed with it, where it seems like they could be on the brink of like fighting amongst each other, but they're going to realize that ultimately that's not the key to it.

There's a greater threat. No, I completely agree. I mean, I appreciated the subtle nuance of lore. Settled. There's a lot. Well, I mean, it was, when it comes to

Mandalorian lore, you could just... Well, they didn't put on a 40-minute YouTube video. That's what I'm saying. I thought it was, it was really casually well done, but like the way that Bo looked at Dinn when he was in the water

was just like I respect your commitment and tenacity I don't believe any of this but also there might be something to this this is a beautiful moment for you I mean she washed away judgment in that moment and I think began to see

a future that has otherwise the idea of a future for Mandalore felt extinct for her and I think in Dinn she sees the future And I'm really, really excited. I just keep wondering, have we not even met our Big Bad yet?

I'm not sure because what's cool about these two episodes together, I kind of feel like they could have, they're tonally and paced so different that I get why they're two separate episodes, but they could have premiered them both on the same day. Yeah. Glad they didn't, because that would have been a lot of editing for me. Thank you, Disney. glad they did it just for Greg

when they do that shit I'm like Jesus Christ it's gonna be a long night but what's what's different already structurally is it doesn't feel like mission of the week that eventually becomes tethered together

in the last few episodes like how the first two seasons were like this is immediately after the first episode and it feels very serial and even where this ends off it feels very much like this whole all the episodes are going to be way more connected very focused yeah exactly where i really love the structure of of the first two seasons i love the the rend because it's like the missions are well justified like well i need to survive so i need to take on

some missions and then how they come together i think it's really cool but to see these two back to back uh it does put it in a different lens for how this can progress and i really just want to say this I think is Katie Sackoff's best work she's done thus far as being live action Boca Tan. It's a tough character to adapt to live action It was so

It was I mean Bo is such a In Clone Wars You gotta chew with that, Greg She is a woman You got a problem with that, Michael? I'm trying to help you.

I'm trying to say what you're thinking. Not what I'm thinking. I'm saying that she's a complicated character and has been from the first time that we saw her. I mean, first time we met Bo in Clone Wars, she was on the wrong side. And I think has always been a very impulsive, quick-to-react character.

And I appreciate that going back to Mandelor, facing her mistakes we're seeing just a really interesting nuanced character that is making for just like great storytelling. Yeah.

Are you... No? No? Not at all. I don't agree. Do you think? But what if? It's not possible. Being on the rejects is really hard. You're definitely reaching. Now, Michael.

I'm just going to say. It's ridiculous. All right. I mean, I feel like they were indicating to us throughout this episode that there are other survivors of a Mandalorian background who may have survived and may still be on Mandelor. Do you think that's a possibility? Yeah, definitely.

Yeah, that was the whole point of what Bocatan was saying with like what else could have survived. And you do see that there are these other, there were qualities about this that felt like the most obvious, went to know to you have some like aliens uh but also this did have like when you call them like the second you said morlocks was like that's exactly what i was thinking to was very much in like an hg wells type of situation yeah you guys haven't seen the time machine watch the guy pierce one that's a superior version that's the version

orlando jones Jeremy irons boy that's the one they go with uh but no it did it did resonate in that regard uh because you know like there is this gap in time that we just haven't seen of what happened here. So even though it's not a time travel episode, we have jumped forward with, if you take the time with Clone Wars and Rebels, anything to do with Mandelaar, and it's not only you just skip ahead,

like, oh, it's all gone now. It's all destroyed. It's the ruins. So there is a sense of, of like, a time travel quality to it, only because of the fact that there is this chunk that we're missing, that eventually Kathleen Kennedy's going to be like, produce that show,

we've got to see it now. We've got to fill in all the gaps. We mean, all of it needs to be visual. Nothing to the head If there's a millisecond that is unaccounted for in canon Yeah, web is made it a show Make it a show or a movie Well, I think that's what's kind of neat

Like who's going to play young Mough Giddy Ooh That's a great question Well, I go down this round No I mean I do agree that we will see that either in the form of flashbacks

or in a future animated property. Yeah, it's going to be expensive. No, yeah, I think animation's probably the right move for that. No, I mean, that period between Rebels and now, like, yeah, things really hit the fan on Mandalore. I'm really interested to see if these who's ever left

you know are they okay what's going on that we haven't seen them or heard from them or do they even know the war is over like I wonder if

it's gonna be like the Japanese World War II soldiers that like in the 1970s they were like still trying to catch some of the guys on the island who didn't believe

that they surrendered which would be really cool to see like Japanese soldiers. Like Fen Rao from Rebels who is one of the Mandalorian protectors who was friends with Bo. I just think it'd be really cool to see

what happens to the Mandalorians who still think the fight's going on. And I feel like that could be an interesting Star Wars loves to pull from World War II. I mean, yeah, there's a lot of interesting aspects that can go down, but I do want to just appreciate like what the episode in and of itself did because this was more i could remember last last week that premiere episode i was saying that this feels like the most lighthearted and hopeful

mandolarians ever been and it's just to start off that way when i'm so used to be kind of being darker yeah and then the second episode is this is more the mandolorean that i know and love because i really like the last episode uh a lot but this was this is more my cup of tea when it comes of the Mandalorian and it was paced so well it was filled with a lot of tension and it had Life Day I know John Faber really loves that he does

I don't know why he loves you so much because the holiday special is the greatest Star Wars content that was ever created is that Boonta boy is that the same R5 droid from A New Hope it's just been kicking around this long yeah I mean and to think

how different that's the what if series I want to watch what if R five was picked instead of R2. We would have had an all other series. Yeah, it would never have been as popular. Yeah, it would have just been Luke going to Tachi Station to pick up some

power converters. He actually gets to converter. But what does he do with them as the question? But what you think of the set design, John? I love the set design. I thought this did really nicely to... I've always thought the Mandalorian has looked really good in the way it realizes

things, but you know, we live in a world now where the volume especially is just a much more noticeable thing and everybody is a little more aware that that happens and here i i found myself having this sort of the thought you want to have where you're like this doesn't look like the volume you know this looks really tangible tangible yeah and i love just yeah getting to know these ruins and like kind of like you said like it has all that stuff that you love from the mandolorean but this also kind of felt like it did progress the tone the style because you are just sort of drinking in the air all of the air of you know this this worn down decimated space and uh i loved the discovery of that the fun that led to you get these creatures

and things like that and even though there are a lot of desolate and rendered planets that we visit in a show like this this felt like a a place with even just seeing it here intimately in this one episode it already has this this care it feels like like a character unto itself. There's an architectural wonder still. Yeah. Well, I think that's one of my favorite parts of, like, the nuance of Mandalorian culture and lore is that, like,

they're not just epic warriors. They're also artists. Like, they're also architects. Like, Sabine Wren's dad from rebels. Like, when he's introduced, you know, you're expecting to see this, like, great Mandalorian warrior. And it turns out he's just like an art nerd. And I think exploring...

That's kind of what, like, The armor represents that, too. I mean, everything about them is very, there is a traditional warrior artistic style to them. Yeah, I mean, I think that's why they made such wonderful rivals to the Jedi, because it mirrors that kind of the art of war and culture and, like, that samurai feeling of, you know, these different clans each have these symbols that represent them and this ideological. is ancient and you know I think it's neat that what was Star Wars legends is slowly becoming like and I love even for example when they introduced the idea of the mythosur and kind of like gave us a little contextual background I love that the Mandalorian's understanding of what happened is just as like questionable as our understanding of what happened because it's legends for us two.

Yeah. And history through multiple lenses and perspectives. Yeah. And I think it's kind of neat. It makes the characters a little bit like us.

Well, you know, they used to ride the Mithosaurs too after conquest. So I'm thinking that if they can somehow

pull that Mithosaur out and they could use it to fight whatever Big Batty. And not just Big Batty, but think of the symbol of... Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I'm talking Big Saper. Chi-I fight scenes. Absolutely, absolutely. Because, canonically speaking, the helmet of Mandelor was the symbol. And then the Dark Sabre was stolen by Clan V's love from the Jedi Temple. And then that became the symbol. And now the Dark Sabre has, like, a lot of just bad vibes around it.

Like, it's the sword that killed... Like, dark energy around the scene. Yes. It's kind of weird that the Dark Sabre would have dark energy around it. but I feel like it would be really interesting to have, you know, as you create the legend of this new Mandelor and this new leader, who I really feel Dinjarn is like the,

especially the fact that they did make, you know, canon and clear that he is from the Mandelor system. I thought that was really like coming from Concordia as where he was from, I thought was a really nice, like, oh, great, he's like actually Mandalorian and not like a foundling, from somewhere totally random um he's not a randolorian yeah a randolory well i mean he still could have been the foundling who was raised there huh well no no no you have me doubting myself he was

really young and i spent a lot of time in therapy to get over there much doubt in you good my uh no yeah because if mandoloreans like a nationality it's not a race well it's kind of like being religion. It's like being Jewish. No, that's exactly. Speaking as the Jew and the group, that's exactly what it is. It's both a race of people.

But, well, the interesting thing is the ancient Mandalorians, if we're going by, like, legends, if there was a race that was separate of humans, and humans ended up becoming the majority, but Mandalorian as a culture was something that was slowly adapted. So the Mandalorian race is

as an actual race when extinct. And if you believe, in legends, which I do. They come from Corazon. No, you don't believe in legends, Greg? That's not like bullshit. Well, it's a tall tail, Mike. You know?

Yeah, I'm just really, really excited to figure out what is the unifying event that will bring the Mandalions back together. And we know, you know, that at least by the time of the sequel trilogy, that Mandalorians are still around in the galaxy because they were one of the flags at Maskanata's palace.

Yeah, I remember that. You don't remember that? That's the only thing I remember about the sequel to... I remember watching the trailer on the Real Rejects, pausing and being like, that's the Mandalorian flag. Sure hope I get to talk about that one day on the Real Rejects. Dude, it was just like you were here in the room for a second. Yeah.

That's crazy. No, I don't remember any of that. Yeah, I know you don't love me getting too excited about the other Star Wars shows because you want to focus on the present and be here in this show. But I do really love the idea. I hate it. I know you hate it. But I do really love this idea of, you know, the person who gave Bocatan the Dark Sabre,

Sabine Wren, who's a character from Rebels, is like definitively going to be a big part of the Asoka series, which will... It sounds... The Soca series sounds like Rebels continued live action

with a time jump which I feel like we'll have a... Would be really useful for them to have an army of Mandalarius at their side. Oh, definitely. No, the rebel...

The Soco show I just view as live action rebels. That's what it sounds like to me, whatever I hear about. Oh, that sounds like every character from Rebels is returning, basically. I'm sold.

Sold. Yeah, I mean, I know Thron had a who's one of my favorite star wars characters loved mandolorean culture and found it really really fascinating so yeah i'm just excited to see how the dots connect um and the tone of this like this is obviously so different from and or and i feel like that was a big complaint that i saw from the last episode is that and or kind of changed the game of what we expected a star War's content. But, like, Andor is this, like, great World War II spy thriller. This is, like, Lord of the Rings of... Yeah. Sure. And it's interesting, like, existing within the same

universe, but having these, like, wildly different genres that exist within that, you know, franchise. Well, I feel like that's something that could be happening. You know, we'll see as the season unfolds, but I don't expect this show to become Andor or have that level of concern with what its allegory is doing necessarily, but I do feel like, especially seeing this season take a shape that feels a little more directly serial, as you pointed out, could lend itself, and they're also like, they're back on Mandelor, they're confronting directly the culture, the religion, et cetera, and I feel like you could unpack that over the course of this, especially as, you know, the more they bring this place back, the more legitimacy,

the more dispelling of all the myths and things like that. The more people are going to be eyeing it and the more conflicts are going to arise and the more the sectarian debacle that partly ripped this place apart is going to come back into the fray. So I feel like you can get that, but at the same time, yeah,

I don't expect this to just go full Andor and I don't think it should because this should be a bit of a swashbuckling adventure. But yeah, this feels like something. I love the way this ended too because this ends in a very definitive like, no, we're going to continue this next time. This isn't over by a long shot.

And that's exciting in and of itself. And as a bonding experience for these two very different points on a plane, these two poles as Dinn and Bo are sort of forced into this situation together. I think there are a lot of interesting opportunities for subtext that can still be fun. I think we're just going to go to Tatooine and follow Jawa's next week. Let's do it. Pele do a bottle episode with just Pele and the Jaws. Yeah.

No, this all seems like it's about them. realizing the grays in their belief system that, you know, Boca Tans, I was constantly like, you are so wrong about everything. And then, Danjarn's like, my

creed is what it's all about. And then, you know, he shows them, it's like, oh, shit, this place isn't actually cursed. And then she's seeing his commitment to this baptism. And as she's rising, I don't know why the myth of the story is just like, you're coming down here.

all right you can leave but the Mithasar the Mithasar beast even her seeing that's like wait a minute there must be some truth to these things I've always called fairy tales and so what we're going to see here is yeah it sounds

like we're headed towards a union and I'm excited for that but you know for a union to happen you do need some type of thing and that's what's so wonderful about Star Wars as a whole has always been so definitively good and evil. And I feel like

Mandalarians in so many ways represent us and like the real world and the fact that like at some point, you know, you have to like, not to throw out your Enlightenment era philosophy or anything, but like

you know, I may not agree with a single word you say, but I'll defend the death. You're right to say it. And this idea of like coming together, all of Voltaire and figuring out, How do we coexist and recognize that, like, whatever we are and its many facets is more important to keep together than it is to just have our individual sentiment be kept alive. So it's exciting.

Well, I think when Dinarans people are riding the bus, they should be in the back. Yeah. They are not pure Mandalorians and they should be treated as such. Yeah. I think that's how you do it. That way you can coexist. This is the way. that is not the way

it is the way get on come on dude we outnumber you so wow so things you shouldn't say

to the nice Jewish boy in the corner no it's um we view you like an equal that's what we're willing to say to you yeah any other nice Jewish boy we would not be talking

this one well you're different I you're one of the good ones you're one of the cool Jewish boys boys, Michael. How deep can we dig this hole?

Right into the minds of Mandelor. It's the living waters. The living law of intolerance. We should wrap this up. It's all obviously also going towards Grogue becoming the ultimate Mandalor. Sure. About time we say that.

But will his helmet have ear holes? Yes. Well, that is kind of the final. If the Mandalorians can get over their differences between each other, Grogu represents that ultimate bridging of the gap between the Jedi and the Mandelaar. start.

It's a fresh start. Until the next Mandalorian Civil War. 20 years later. When there's too many Mandalorians out of control all these emotions. Violence is an corner, an integral cornerstone

of your religion. I feel like conflict is ensured. Well, a lack of violence is a sin, which does breed a little bit of chaos. Sure. So. Ah, well, what are you going to do? All righty, guys. Well, what did you

think about this episode of the Mandalorian, leave your thoughts down below. Be sure to subscribe, leave a like, follow Michael, who is our Neil deGrasse Heisen of the Star Wars world. Right, man. Big shoes to fill.

Very big shoes. Yeah, and who do you think anybody's alive? And if so, who? What are they doing? Are they okay? I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'll respond. Let's do a patron of the day shower. Patron of the day. All right.

So, hey, can you shout out, Michael, since you love to talk. Can you shout out Pandemic Jones? Pandemic Jones! Congratulations, you are the patron of the day. Thank you for your support, your love, and especially your money. No, we are so grateful. Can you make it really personal, though? Oh, yeah.

I don't want to just sound like, you know, like some general... Oh, you want to make it personal. Some general thing. Hey, pandemic, I know you've been going through a lot lately, you know, with the government being like, you're over. Sure. You're not over to me. Pandemic.

Pandemic, when I go to sleep at night, I often think about, I wonder what Greg's editing right now. And I know when Greg's editing, what he's really thinking about is thank God for pandemic Jones. That guy is single-handedly keeping this channel going is... And I just

want to say from the bottom of my heart, since Greg doesn't have one anymore. No. Thank you. It's on the front of the bus. No, seriously. No, seriously, you know, it's really easy to forget that the real rejects

are real people. And, you know, Greg is a great guy. John is a guy... No, John's also a great guy. Fair enough. And I know that they as human beings view you as they're equal, which speaking from experience is surprising and unusual for them. I view you higher than me.

I look up to you, Pandemic Jones. I'm nothing. You did it. I did it. Do we have to do the letter thing? No, no, no, no. That's only if you're new. And only do Star Wars references when it happens now.

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The A could be the creatures from this episode whose name now alludes me. The And the... How do you spell? Auxiliary. N is for Naboo. N-1 star. Okay. Okay.

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