The Reel Rejects - THE MANDALORIAN 3x6 Review & Breakdown | Chapter 22 "Guns for Hire"

Episode Date: April 5, 2023

SURPRISING CAMEOS In A Very Weird Chapter. THE MANDALORIAN 3x6 Reaction | Breakdown, Ending Explained, Star Wars Easter Eggs & Review featuring Jack Black, Christopher Lloyd, Bo Katan receiving the Dark saber, Lizzo, Din Djarin Pedro Pascal, Baby Yoda Grogu, & a whole lot more weirdness in an episode directed by Bryce Dallas Howard. Let's see what it's like when Ahsoka & Thrawn arrive. #TheMandalorian #Mandalorian #StarWars #EasterEggs #Breakdown #Review #Mando #Grogu #BabyYoda #Episode6 #Season3 #EndingExplained #SpoilerReview #Reaction #thingsyoumissed #bokatan #KelleranBeq #AhmedBest #MoffGideon #Lizzo #JackBlack #Disney #DisneyPlus - 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!! - Follow Michael Tessler On Social Media INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/mjtessler/?hl=en TWITTER: https://twitter.com/MJTessler --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-reel-rejects/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean, hold it up. Rice. Wow, that was this episode, huh? Johnny Favs. Yeah, no, this has John Favreau written all of it. He craps out these scripts, you know? Man. They write all the Mandalorian.

Keep running. Keep writing. Keep writing. Did I put a witch show again? Oh, crap. Oh, God. That was... That was a lot. That was...

I mean, it was... It was fun. I had a blast. Yeah. That was not. Jables. I wouldn't say that was their best work, though. Straight up, Lizzo's in Star Wars,

Christopher Lloyd's in Star Wars. Yeah, this was a fat stack of notable guests. And then probably a bunch of other, like, character and voice actors to booed. I felt like this was fake the entire time. It was super fake. This is not really happened. It didn't feel fake to me, but it did feel like I peered into an alternate universe where this was the sixth episode of the third season. Mandalorian in the multiverse of madness.

Oh, man. What happened here? I didn't know. process this episode this is so much to this season has been eight different shows smushed into one

and I haven't hated it but man oh man this episode in particular though was something this was McClunky all right we were bordering on something else there let's talk about it

all right John you seem to be the most positive you take it away yeah I had a blast I will not try and cover up the idea that this does feel like a kind of a an incongruous note I'm a little torn I mean like you know part of this journey over the entire course of the show has been a nomadic one has been sort of bopping between different things but yes as we've crested into season three it certainly feels like things are struggling to decide whether they want to be really serial or really episodic and that stuff aside I I don't know. I was very charmed by the oddball quality of this. I can't pretend that its strangeness of tone does not, you know, undercut some tension or, you know, some of the just, I don't know, quality of the overarching thing that's happening or trying to happen. But I don't know. I had a blast with this. I just, I can't really say otherwise. Yeah, I don't know. I like this whole investigating the droids who are. you know going haywire and jack black and lizzo doing their you know we're hoity tooty royal folk and uh and then you know christopher uh lloyd looking like he's about to fall over and die

uh yeah i don't know i was very charmed despite uh what this is in totality but yeah that's that's my that's my two cents Michael, I know you want to get in there, buddy. Shrek in space. Tell me that wasn't Dulac. Doolk is a perfect point. It is, and so is wherever the hell we just were for the past 40-something minutes. No, I mean, it was super weird. I mean, listen, I'd be lying if I said I didn't love every single millisecond of the chaos.

But from like a, like, as a producer, as some. Somebody who's had to, like, write and, like, bring to life a feature film, um, there has been, like, a blatant disregard for, uh, I think a comprehensive, cohesive narrative. Uh, and I think you're able to get away with that to an extent. Um, I've kind of reached a point, and maybe this is a hot take, and I think this is, like, my first negative hot take. Uh, it's time. It's time. Oh, here come the hate. I can feel the people crack at the knuckle. getting ready to comment. I feel like Marvel struggled from a similar affliction where all of a sudden

it became like a, oh, we're just going to throw in these cameos to the degree where they kind of lose their nuance and any fun that there is to them. Like, I like a good little cameo. I think it's great when it's like, oh, it turns out that Stormtrooper was James Bond. Like, that's pretty neat. I think like, I could have handled Jack Black. I could have handled Lizzo. I could have handled Christopher Lloyd. I couldn't handle all three of them in the same episode to the point where it took me out of the narrative.

And, you know, Greg, you had a comment earlier, like, yeah, it kind of did feel like a fan film. And I think a lot of this season has been that. And, you know, part of me is like, well, that's what we've been asking for, right? Like, we want something that's made by the fans for the fans. Um, but I feel like there, there does come a point where it starts to do a little bit of injustice to the story. And I felt like they had some really interesting beats in this episode

that I would have loved to just like sink our teeth into. I mean, I think there was something really interesting about, you know, playing with this idea of like, oh, the empire treated former separatist planets in like a really awful way. And there's implications to that. Um, but instead of like that we got whatever this really interesting silly fun thing was um you know i mean and there's a lot of pieces that like who knows maybe they'll have a payoff like the opening with with the the the moncal love affair like what was going where is that could like you know and just to recontextualize ax's gang as as a more no like hard blind group now under his watch Breaking up.

I don't think that romance is ever coming back. No, well, but like in the Star Wars fan of me is like, well, Montau is like where you could build an incredible fleet, which could come in handy for the Mandalorians later. But like, I just don't know where we're going. And we're now at the point, like an episode like this, if you're going to get this off the rails, do it really, really early on. I feel like we're way too late in the game to be going on this sort of misadventure. But that being said, Greg, your opinion is the one that really matters here. Yeah, sure, sure. As you are holding the baby conch.

I've said many times that Mandalorian is my most favorite thing Star Wars has done. Did I have fun? I know what I hate. Did I have fun watching this? Sure. Did I have fun for the reasons they intended, though? That is the ultimate question. This, like, it felt like a B movie.

It felt like a fan film. None of it, when I say it doesn't feel real, I'm like, I don't, it's not that I don't feel like we're stepping into a fever dream. It feels like, all this feel, everything feels fake to me. None of it feels truly. It's the quantum. It is the quantum. It is like, there's something about this that just doesn't feel lived in it.

And I kind of experienced that a little bit more with some of these episodes of season three so far. And this took like forever to come out. So I thought this wouldn't be an issue. Yeah. But there is something, especially with, unless it takes place in like some dark ass place, there's something with its tone and its pacing and its lighting where none of it, a lot of the time, it just doesn't feel. real anymore and i would never say that about season one and two it was the exact opposite about season one and two like look how i feel like i'm i get to live in this world again and then here

everything just feels artificial to me and this episode in particular yeah i had fun because i was laughing at the episode this i was laughing at it i don't feel like like the way they you could have Bill Burr in here and it's really believable. He's great as Mayfield. He's phenomenal as Mayfield. Jack Black was like, this is a

sketch now. And there is seriously no tension, no stakes. We are zipping across everywhere in this random city. And then we try to tie it back into what feels

like the equivalent of kids who love making a fan film in the park. I don't. I was once one of those kids. We were all once one of those kids. We live in Los Angeles. There's all of us here. Go to the park tomorrow. You'll see them.

I don't know what happened here. And Bryce Dallas Howard made this episode. And I don't think it's a Bryce Dallas Howard problem. It's something going on with the mouse house. And I'm going to chime in there, because I've

I've got a hunch. I think that there finally really was a genuine master plan that was being put into action by Favreau and Faloni. And I think a big part of that was going to be several of these spinoff shows, The Ranch is the New Republic. And there's just been episodes that are like so clearly what that show was supposed to be. I mean, I would be surprised if they genuinely wrote Grogu. out as they intended and then we're told, you know, that they need to keep Gruego in

as a last minute afterthought. But Book of Bovet had bad episodes because when they were boring. Yeah. This wasn't boring. No. This was some other type of strange things. What the hell did we just watch?

John, you want to say something. What is it? Go for a job. I don't actually have a thought. Really? Oh, I wanted to hear what you had to say. You really don't have a thought? I wasn't. queuing body language to be like, let me jump in here. The only thought lingering on my mind right now

is just that like everything you did in this episode, I think, or at least the multiple things they tried to do in this episode could easily have each filled. Like you could have had the droid problem with Lizzo and Jack Blackby its whole own thing. You could have the droids and what they're going through as a community of sentient beings and that be its own thing.

And then you could have the redistributing of the dark saber, earning back the respect to the fleet, all that could have been its own story and episode. That just shouldn't have been an afterthought. This was so ridiculously corny. That was a... I don't mind the choice of them

finally finding a way around a duel, but in this episode, that is like a legitimate ripe of like, oh, we're just taking care of this in like a three minute chat. Yeah, and I just... It should have been the... Way too much momentum. I mean, especially after that

like, look at this terrifying conversation between the armorer and bow and this like really spooky like think about where we left the last episode the dark tone of of blue discovering the empty Imperial Shuttle. Yeah.

Then to whatever this was. You know, and I think and here's the critique. Like I totally agree with your note about the, it being lived in or not being lived in this case. And that was something that I think people really fell in love with Star Wars

because it was so, textured because it was this retro-futuristic, like, really fun, it made it so it wasn't all shiny and glossy. And to George Lucas's credit, when he did the pre-cels, I still think he managed to achieve a sense of, oh, this is lived in, but it's still new and shiny and it can be ornate. Whatever this is now is neither like the prequel or the original in terms of what it provides. It's not even the Disney sequels. It's literally quantumaneous. I mean, like, it's the, the, and I love guardians.

I'm saying this feels like, I think we're, I think you and I at least are like, this feels like there's a production problem that happened with this season. Yeah. Oh, I can see that. Sure. Yeah. Well, because they got a lot of the same returning directors and, and Faloni is, I mean, he's credited as writing and I know he's involved, but I know he's also, you're heading the Asoka show.

There's, there is. But there's a magic when you put those two together, like Favro and, like, It was like... Well, they balance each other out in such an important way because I think you know, both of them are such

talented creatives, but like, I mean, I think speaking, you know, with my producer writer hat on for a minute, like,

there's certain projects that like, sure, I could try to do it by myself, but if I do it without, like, my proper creative partners, it's gonna be off the rails. And, you know,

I think the problem, um, and this is the same issue that Marvel has, in my opinion, is you get to a point where like, yeah, you can only like stretch out Kevin Feigy like Gumby for so long before he rips into pieces.

And it's not a critique of the creatives as much as it is. You know, I mean, they have enormous pressure on them right now as the flagship series for Disney Plus to deliver. And I think in the process, they've been set up to fail. It doesn't even feel like it's about Dindjorn anymore. And I could be fine. I could be fine with that choice. I think the problem is it doesn't know what it wants to be.

Yeah, it doesn't replace it with something more interesting and focused. Yeah. And listen, I love Bo. I love the Clone Wars arc. I love all that stuff. I cannot, like, believe that the buildup of Bo winning back her Mandalorian compatriots and getting the Dark Sabre is going to be written off in the last five minutes. Yeah, that's bullshit.

an unrelated tangent after a fetch quest it's not fair and like the and honestly kudos to those in the comments section because everybody called out the technicality but like no offense to our comment section but one would hope that the writers that are paid lots of lots of lots of money to think something out would maybe go a little bit deeper than than what we all came to the conclusion of immediately thereafter like did didn't in intentionally wait until they were in front of people. Let's let's let them fight it out first, and now I'll do this technicality speech. Let people get sick of this, and then I'll make my move. Yeah, and you set up a character that we had, like, what, five minutes with to... I know! What is happening with this show? Listen, they've...

How many episodes do we have left? Two. Oh, no. I've never been worried for this show but yeah when you got to hear when this is be

such a pivotal episode and they turned this in and Bryce Dallas Howard directed it I'm like something else is going wrong here and because I know

I just know for a fact and I know a lot of the people who already matter is probably already clicked off I know there's gonna be people who are like it feels like a Clone Wars episode that's good for Clone Wars

That's good for the medium of clone. To Clone Wars credit, and I say this is somebody that's watched it three times through, there's still arcs, and there's still rules that they follow. I think this is like, if you took one episode

out of like four different Clone Wars arcs and just watched them right next to each other. They just jammed it in a one. Which, like, frankly, what this felt like, in my mind was like season one or two of Clone Wars. Yeah, yeah. Like, there's no excuse for the third season. season of a show of this

magnitude and this much talent. You know, I'm, I'm, I'm really, I'm going to be cautiously optimistic. I think that we have to remember this season of the Mandalorian is the last of the Che-Pick debacle in terms of the reigns of

Disney being handed back over on my Iger. Was this affected by COVID? I mean, it had to be. I mean, everything's been affected by COVID, but maybe that's why they're always going out of their way being like, we already wrote season four. It's all planned out. Cheapeck, though, I think, I mean, this is like the epitome of why they gave him the boot for this kind of mismanagement.

But, I mean, honestly, and I hate to, like, beat the drum on this and, like, listen, I'm forever appreciative to Kathleen Kennedy for her contribution to film and TV. God knows, she played an important role in all the films that I loved growing up. But I think it's genuinely time to, like, if this is going to. going to be a Marvel-esque property that we take seriously, the flagship show cannot do what they did this episode. Yeah. And, you know, I think there's so many, I mean, the whole, just like, play this out in your head for a sec. This entire series, its entire purpose thus far, has been to try to explain the lack of cohesive storytelling that went into the sequel trilogy. Like, every single action with the grogo and it turned to cloning and all these different connective threads

are trying to make up for the lack of cohesion that landed them into this debacle in the first place and what i'm seeing is no lessons have been learned i really that's why i like the third episode because it's like these are choices and plots and fetch quests that are being driven by emotional choices in a good narrative even even people were like oh i'm a fan of that third episode of pershing i'm like i think this is exceptionally better than what this one is by far I love the second episode

and out of all these episodes I'm like I like the others and I but like the faults that I would find with the others it all came to like a massive culmination

in this one and when you have eight episodes okay I can't just settle for like B movie fun after a while like I had fun watching it but I was certainly laughing at it and not and it didn't feel like it was intentionally supposed to laugh with it. Sorry

John, we have been talking so much. No, it's a weird episode like what's more to really say. I mean, I just find that very entertaining but like I can't really disagree with almost anything you guys have brought up here and I think that yeah, the sheer amount of guest

stars too, it's like I think you could have made Jack Black and Lizzo work if we had a little bit more time with that and a little better way to tamper the humor there and then you have Christopher Lloyd who's like you know he's not just going to be his own cameo and it's probably not going to be these two lovebirds

over here so like I don't know. I'm not even I've never complained about this show's cinematography but I've noticed like lately it's just everything's so freaking bright and it just feels like actors in front of a green screen now or the volume

it just looks like actors in front of a volume and like the sets generally don't truly feel like something When they went through the city, it did. It reminded me a lot of the canobite canteena sequence and sequel trilogy. It's just very like, what, this isn't, it's not Star Wars. And Din and Bo play, this is weird dynamic. To me, it was a little weird dynamic.

Their chemistry needed something else. They needed some more time together or something in a more serious tone. because it's just a weird I'm completely there with you and I love both of them I mean I think I love them both individually yeah exactly

um no I mean frankly the the only stuff that's like really had like dramatic tone and like really been I think down to earth

I've really enjoyed the armor sequences sure which is crazy because not a character that should have that much emotional weight but like I love the tension that I feel there and

I don't know we know what they're capable of and I think that's what's disappointing and listen this would have made a great holiday special it felt like that well and I mean too I feel like we didn't really have any time

to at least in other episodes or other Star Wars media where they have introduced like oh hey we're having a feast or something you're on a new world granted I mean you're living in the problem of their society being so droid based and all that stuff

recommission blah blah but yeah it's like when you join them at this banquet thing maybe i don't know unpack a little bit of what the significance of this is or what cultural you know element it is serving in one way or another rather than just yes a bright garish excuse to have a bunch of recognizable star wars species in one room together or something like that yeah um it's sad it's like it's like it's a sci-fi movie hodgepodge at a certain point yeah i mean they're like like we said earlier was a star trek star trek star tv but like the not great episodes of Next Generation.

Like I got a lot of that and there was certainly no shortage of like doctor. It was just weird. It was like a low budget. Yeah, it felt like what happened to your money? Yeah. Why does Andor look so much better than this? They burned it all on Mandelor. Like that, I mean, that's cinematography in the minds of Mandelor.

That was where it went. They're like, they've used too much. of the jet packs it's it adds up great yeah it's like i feel like now the mandolorean is becoming a show to set up other people and other shows spinoffs which is not again lessons not learned it just feels like din jar and it's but especially crooku but did char and crookure are just walking through the show for like other people yeah they literally just happened to be there Which has always happened, but yeah, it doesn't have that kung fu essence. No, it doesn't have that Mad Max essence.

Yeah. And even, I mean, what a lost opportunity with Bo and Dinn to create some tension between would-be ally. Like, there was a room for really interesting character development and growth for, for Bo to put her people above her own ambition. And instead, she just got handed everything she could have ever wanted. Oh, God. That is so silly to me. This was so silly. Well, there's just enough episodes left to either break our hearts or change our minds.

I'm genuinely concerned. The next two will be two hours apiece. That's how they'll make up for it. I think they should just get a cameo. Honestly, I'd be cool if they said we're going to pause. We're not going to put out the next two episodes. And we're going to take the next two to three years to get our stuff together. I will continue to pay for my Disney Plus subscription in the meantime.

Like, oh, God. Anyway, guys, oh, man. What did you think? I know it was fun, but be honest with yourself. What do you think? I like the Reject Nation a lot because we generally, even if we're negative, we tend to attract the ones who are optimistic and positive. And I love that about the Reject Nation.

Yeah, I do too. It generally tends to be the top comments of like, I had fun. And I support that and I encourage that. And that's what TV and Star Wars is at the end of the day. I guess, I guess my hope was that the bar might be raised just a little tiny bit. Yeah. All right, guys. Well, thanks for being here.

Tell us your thoughts. Are you excited for Thron to show up in a hilarious episode of the Mandalorian? Played by Vince Vaugh. Vince Thron next week. Oh, Lord. All right, listen to this with a Patreon. Lance Dore, listen, if anybody could fix this, it's you, buddy. You're already out there helping the people of Canada, stay safe from all sorts of natural disasters.

Come in and fix the disaster that has become Lucasfilm. I'm sure that you, with your no-nonsense and your holistic approach, could probably come up with some kind of a, you know, interesting hook for the writers to follow. And then from there, you will be the savior of the New Republic, of all of the people of the Star Wars galaxy. You could unite them all under one umbrella of good storytelling, Lance. And if not, I mean, I think if you just, like, you know, took off your shirt, put on a Mandalorian helmet, you know, and oiled down your chest a little bit, I mean, you could make everybody forget that any of this ever happened. I'd buy that calendar. Yeah, and then get Bryce Dallas Howard to shoot the pictures of the calendar so that they'll look as good as they possibly can. And then both her directing career, which has been demolished as of this episode, will be mended, you know.

And then you will rise as the hero. We always truly deserve to lead us into a new age. So stay safe out there, Lance, because you've got a lot of responsibility riding on your shoulders. I have spoken, this is the way. Maintain your pledge. We love you, buddy. Love you.