We Hate Movies - S10: The Mandalorian Half-Hour - Chapter 1

Episode Date: November 18, 2019

On the first episode of the all-new side show, The Mandalorian Half-Hour, the guys are chatting about the kick-off of the new Star Wars show, The Mandalorian! How bad ass was Herzog here? How come the Mandalorian doesn't have a sick codpiece? And how about Nick Nolte as that Ugnaught?! PLUS: Eric's dream of seeing a bounty hunter droid in action finally comes to pass! The first episode of The Mandalorian Half-Hour is being distributed here on the main feed so everyone can get a taste. All future episodes, including episode 2 which is available right now, will be distributed on our Patreon. A big thanks to the endlessly talented Felipe Sobreiro for another beautiful cover image—which you'll see on episode two! And please excuse the wonky nature of the audio here. We're still wrapping our brains around remote record logistics—the only way we're able to produce this show on our current schedule! Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thank you. Hello everyone and welcome to the Mandalorian Half Hour. That's right, our new exclusive Star Wars program recapping this first season of the Mandalorian. I'm Andrew Jupin, joined remotely by the whole gang, Eric Siska, Christopher Cabin, and Steven Sadec. Hi. I mean, it's logistically, this is the only way we could record a TV recap podcast right now is by doing it remotely. That's right. Logistically, I think it makes sense for all of us to just shout out our addresses one at a time.

oh wait oh sorry no i'm supposed to not do that okay so this episode is out on the main feed this first episode because we wanted to give everyone a taste give you a little whiff of what the mandolorean half hour is going to be but all episodes going forward are going to be featured of course on our patreon patreon. patreon.com slash we hate movies it's going to be on the eight dollar level which also has our Gleep Glossary, speaking of Star Wars. What else we got on there?

The Nexus, Eric Siska. Oh, yeah, that's where we recap an episode of Star Trek, the original series, and episode of Star Trek, The Next Generation, in the same episode. So if you like this TV recap podcast, you might like that one. And in December, if you're on the $8 feed, you're going to get an episode on First Contact, like a real main feeder kind of an episode only on that feed.

and you're going to get a Predator Commentary because we do singable commentary tracks four times a year. This year we did, we're doing Predator in December. We did the Twilight movie. We did something else and something else. We did multiple Twilight movies this year, I believe, to wrap out the franchise. Yeah, we do power hours.

They're really fun apps. You also get what's on the $5 feed, which is the complete archive of our first 100 episodes, 100-some-odd episodes. which are only available there you get a monthly episode that is a we love movies episode now used to be a prime

we hate movies episode we just released Terminator we're going to record and release Empire Strikes back in December which you're going to be pretty excited about if you're like the Star Wars thing you also get what's on the $3 level

which is animation damnation which is a 30 minute ish cartoon wrap up of a bunch of stuff and now with Disney Plus I feel like we're going to be hitting that well pretty hard for a little while. I got to tell you, I was looking at some stuff. And not only is Disney Plus providing animation damnation with years of content, it's also providing we hate movies with years of content.

Oh, sure. Of movies with years of content. It's fucking bonkers. So stay tuned for all that stuff. And yeah, like you can probably start feeling a little bit this December. We're going to be going fucking Star Wars crazy around here. So yeah, head on over patreon.com slash we hate movies. uh if you want access to the rest of the mandolorean half hour but so let's get into it the mandolarian

episode one uh chapter one they do these chapters i really like that uh this was written by the favs man this is like kind of john favro's show a little bit um i don't know where do we want to start here this is fucking badass that's what i have to say it's him and the guy who did the clone wars right yeah he's also done rebels as well uh davy falani yes yeah yeah yeah i Yeah, I liked the first episode, and we'll get it to the second episode in the second episode. I like the first episode a lot more in the second episode. I just, yeah, I thought that the, I was expecting you to have the opposite reaction. No, I thought this first one was really, I love the, the cold open here, or you want to call it a cold open, him going into this like fucking space bar, which is exactly what you kind of expect, but want. It's, it does give you exactly what you expect, but also want and need. Exactly. Like that's, but that's, you know. Oh, totally. I'm not looking for a surprise. prizes here or anything like that it's like you know when I go into a like weed session I know and expect what's going to happen and it does and it's great and that was what it was like I expect this motherfucker to walk into a bar fuck some

dudes up like you know swiftly silently some dude yells at chuta at him which is fucking great oh I missed it chuta god damn it it's that it's the fat like skinhead guy he definitely just yells out a chuta the skinhead guy you know he goes into that hole you spilled my drink thing and the best part obviously of this bar fight is when the dude is trying to get away and the mandolorean uses his rope on him starts pulling him and the dude you know draws his blaster to shoot back and he just cuts him in half of the door in response oh so cool my favorite part of this scene is when uh the two tuffs are talking about how the guys got uh horatio sans alien um He has young glands that have a good musk. Like I really like the idea. That's like an incredible idea that like they're just killing people and taking parts of them as things they can sell and use. Like that to me was immediate like, oh fuck, okay, they're doing stuff.

Cool. Is like someone going to eat that gland in order to like get high or something? Is that what we're doing here? I think that's what it is. Dude, you crack it open and it's like, oh. It makes total sense you would do that because like yeah, you got all these fucking like, yeah, If you're a carnivore, like, you're sitting next. I mean, they later kind of allude to people eating salacious crumbs.

And like, yeah, totally, man. That guy was fucking delicious. Let me tell you, those fucking puppets, the one puppet cooking up on that spit, God bless it. There are out now puppets on the show, and I think it's a really great idea. Apparently some of the shots in space of the Mandalorian ship is model work. And it's great to see them bring back some practicality like that. Oh, Cabin, I thought you were joking about that dude, myth roll or whatever, but that's actually Horatio San.

That makes sense. I was like, it's one of those things where I was like, who the hell is this guy? And it makes so much sense that it's Horatio said, you also get some Brian Poesane coming up in a minute. That's what it was so last night when I, Brian Poseid as a Star Wars Uber. I was saying, like, last night when I texted everybody and I was like, did everybody watch it yet? And Steve, you had it. So I wasn't going to spoil it, but I was just going to type all capital letters, Brian Poesane in Star Wars. It's sad that he doesn't come back, though, because he doesn't make it. Oh, yeah, because he cuts this guy open. There is no theme song, it's just kind of like a stark The Mandalorian Chapter 1 kind of a thing. Right. And then he gets the Uber driver, the dude. And it's an ice planet. You didn't know it was an ice planet.

It's a cool ice planet. I like that. I like this ice planet. Yeah, I like also that, like, when the dude, like, plays that little flute and the first little speeder comes up, and it's piloted by a droid and the Mandalorian's like, no droids, fucking, wow, racist. Yeah, big time, big time racist. See, I took that more as like a boomer thing because he doesn't trust, like I don't trust no automated computers. I need an old scumbag driving me around.

I'd like one one old scumbag. You got any alt 90s comedians you can get me to drive around with Horatio Sands or Dana Gould by any chance? Yeah, this is your dad, the Mandalorian. Could you help me install Chrome on my computer? Oh, my God. That was, are you referencing my tweet from today when I was hungover helping my dad over FaceTime install Chrome? Yeah, but that transcends all boomers. I've had that exact same experience before.

Oh, my God, but just like, and I've had it happen a hundred times, but just the fact that I was hung over, like, that really wasn't helping things. No, you don't want to, in FaceTime especially. It's the last thing I want to do when I'm hung over. Can I quickly mention something important about the armor of the Mandalorian? Please. Yeah, explain this whole thing to me because this was kind of lost on me.

Okay. It might be lost on me too because what I'm going to talk about right now is the lack of cod piece. Oh, okay, so this wasn't... See, Boba Fett had like a dick armor. But it seems like maybe he needs to unlock that because that's what he gets that thing

from Werner Herzog, it's like, cool, like now not only do I have some cash in my pocket, I got a cool new shoulder pad. So he used to do like a couple more jobs and then he can get his dick protected. Right, and now this is Baskar Steel, I believe we're calling it now. Now, when I was a big fan of Fett in the 90s and stuff, the word Mandalorian kind of started and stopped at the armor.

Right. You didn't get much of that backstory. Some of these Clone Wars episodes and Rebels episodes explore Mandalorian culture, I think they're like warring clans and noble warrior type of stuff. And in that, in Rebels, I think the Emperor, Pire uses Baskar steel as like a connectivity thing to like fry them up with Tesla coils. Oh, interesting. Well, so what is the deal with this steel, though?

Like, did they find it first or harvested or whatever? Yeah, I guess it's supposed to be native to Mandalorian culture or planet. Oh, gotcha, got it. But it's also supposed to be resistant to blasters. So it's actually functioning armor, not like the cardboard they give to the stormtroopers. I never met a Mandalorian before. I thought your dick would be covered. I thought your dick would be covered.

I have spoken. Why don't you have a signet on your dick yet? I only read their stories, but now their legends is not canon. Oh, yeah. Watch Disney took over all the stories I enjoyed regarding. Have you seen what they did to my friend, Simba? he looks like a computer widget so we will get to

Nick Naltia's Coil in a sec but so he goes Oh we got to talk about the ship Oh sure Inside the ship Horatio Sands finds the bathroom It's cool that we get to see the medalloy and shit I couldn't believe it

Is this the first time that's referenced I think so It's beautiful looking toilet I love the design work of it It looks easy enough to use a urinal And also take a shit by laying on the wall. Yeah, you're kind of just, you're like leaning back, taking a dump, yeah.

I mean, it takes 20 to 25 minutes for this guy to take a shit, easy. Also, are we taking the helmet off or not? I know, like, culturally, he doesn't. But if it's just him taking a shit, you know? Dude, he's just, he's totally naked, except the helmet's on. I mean, it makes, I mean,

like, sometimes you will George Costanzzi yourself when you're really getting into it, you know, you take the shirt off? Oh, absolutely. Oh, I take my shirt off all the time. If I'm if I'm home, I don't do it in public, but if I'm home, I will take my shirt off in the toilet, sure. So, yeah, it would make sense. Like, he has something hot fucking bantha wings or whatever,

and it's just been a long night. The helmet's coming off while he's going for it. Yeah, I can see that. Well, you know, Django Fett would take that helmet off nonstop. Like, fucking Count Duku's got some finger sandwiches. That's the helmet is coming off. He seems like more of a Protestant Mandalorian. Yes, oh, definitely.

Old school. So the Mandalorian finds him, like, snooping around down there, pretending to look for the bathroom and fucking freezes this dude in carbonite it was awesome yeah so he's got all those other bounties frozen in carbonide and i thought you guys would have a problem with this no why would i have a problem with it i thought it was cool i actually it's i like the way that the scene kind of unfolds and is shot it's like 20% to horror scene like you know what i mean like you're going where he discovers them yes and it's like ew ew oh shit it's me and then he gets it yeah i was i mean like yeah it's like i don't know like obviously the technology is better

technology. This is like, do we know when this is set? Is it like... It's five years after Jedi, right? Oh, okay. So it's like a Mandalorian kind of just mimicking Fett's signature bounty. Like, that only happened once before, but

carbonite is now, I guess, becoming a standard thing to travel. It's industry standard across all bounty hunter platform. Yeah, exactly. It's like, it's like air conditioning. It used to be... But I mean, it seemed like it was a big deal before now he's just got it on his ship i don't know man seems pretty tough i was uh it was cool because

yeah when you see the reveal of like the first person in carbonate and then the second and i was like oh he's like collecting all these people that's fucking awesome but yeah i did have the same thought of like freezing someone in carbonite i thought that was only for the rich yeah exactly and i think there was some kind of fan art i don't remember from wind that had like fed with a bunch of aliens or whatnots in a cargo hold i think they were frozen in carbonite so I was just wondering, like, is this referencing fan art? Oh, I mean, you never know. So, yeah, so he takes this dude in to Grief Carga, who's played by the great Carl Weathers.

And I guess so this dude's like the leader of the bounty hunter guild or whatever. Or a union rep, probably. He's organizing all the jobs and everything. There's a big thing about like, you know, the Mandalorian getting paid. for this, that, and the other thing, and he's like, you know, I can't give you, what is it? It's like, he's going to pay him in a certain amount of currency. He's going to give him. Oh, the imperial credits, that's right.

And then he gives him Kalamari and Flan. It sounded like Kalamari and Flan, Chris. You absolutely right. Yeah, at first he was going to pay him in like Confederate money. Right. And then he was going to give him the Kalmari Flan, which they look like pogs. They do. Or the slammers.

Yeah, slammers. I can only pay you in slammers. It's awesome seeing Carl Weathers in a fucking big product like this. Yeah, I was into it. I mean, like, again, I want a little bit more of him. And obviously, we're probably going to get that. He's going to go back to do more stuff. I was, I really love the whole way this, the beginning rolls out.

And then he goes to his, like, then he meets up with Werner Herzog, which is probably my favorite scene because Vernet down, he's bringing it. And like, he's the only, a lot of the times that especially in the second episode, it gets into video game cutscene territory, a little. too much for me and this has some like dramatic heat to it and like some weight uh and i think that that's all on on herdsug there i think that's all i also i also think that's true of the weather's seen because there but it's a different kind because i love the talk about the different currencies yes i think stuff like that is really where this show hones in on what's trying to do and expanding and finding nuance in the world but like watching verner herzog and a star was production

of any kind is just incredible and he's got that that that imperial medal of honor do you think like palpatine like gave him a kiss on the cheek or the hand no dude i think it's fucking 100% stolen valor i think he fucking got that jacket in the ashes of the empire dude and he was like you know what this looks pretty good on me i'm going to start wearing it now Oh, yeah, man, what unit? What unit? I was at the Battle Endor. I don't know, man.

I feel like that is a genocide achievement medal. Like, you know what I mean? Like, he fucking wiped out a fucking slew of Gritos somewhere. And the emperor was like, good, good. Genocide, good. All for you, my emperor. And the dialogue in this scene is so good. I love the one line that the Mandalorian has where he likes the odds.

That's 4 to 1. such a snake pliskin line yeah dude it was a definite snake bliskin line i loved it um oh yeah because this doctor walks in and the mandolarian like freaks out and draws his rifle on this guy uh and it's great though because the classic herdsug man i feel like herdsug would act like this in a real life scenario of the same kind just keeping his cool everybody lower your weapons like not freaking out at all that there could be a fucking massacre in his office oh he's been in a mexican standoff Absolutely. So this dude is Dr. Pershing or whatever. And Herzog and this doctor tell the Mandalorian like, hey, you got to go get this target. You know, he's a, it's a, we, we can't tell you

who he is. A 50 years old is the only thing we know about him. There's no like, they have like a little tracking beacon or something. And the Mandalorian's basically like, so you went me to find this fucking GPS coordinate and then look around for a 50 year old person. Okay. It's kind of actually, this scene reminded me a little bit of that Mark Merrin movie that came out this year, Sort of Trust. Oh, great movie. You're dealing with this you know, dead army

kind of a thing and like all these like fucking weird zealots. You know, it's kind of, I kind of liked it. It was an interesting, like you said, I think the most interested I get in this series is when we're kind of checking in a fold of Star Wars that I haven't really kind of, that I've kind of always wanted

to see and now I'm seeing kind of a thing. And like definitely disgraced Imperials post-Battle of Endor is something that I'm very, very interested in. Well, it's rad, and, like, Chris, I think you were touching on this a little bit, too, but I really love this idea, and I guess this is what, you know, Eric, you get out of reading, like, the books and the comics and stuff, but, like, you're exploring different parts of the Star Wars world, and sometimes they're, like, really small. Like, that's what I love about this show overall so far, is that it's really small. This is just a little tiny note from the Star Wars universe.

It isn't a huge battle thing. You know what I mean? Like we're not winning a war, overthrowing whatever the fuck. It's just this lone dude on this mission. And we're going to follow him for eight fucking under 40 minute episodes so far, which another brave, bold choice, Disney, not making this an hour long.

Love it. Yeah, it does seem like we're getting to some type of overarching storyline, which we'll get into the next episode episode two which should be available on Patreon now but right I so he goes I would like it to just be the bounty hunting that's that's what we'll get into the next one I kind of agree with you

I do I like the weird Scientology office he goes to for the Mandalorian base oh right yeah now this is like it's like their temple slash safe house slash blacksmith shop yeah and so there's yeah and this is where he meets like the lady mandolarian yes the lady orlean lady orleans of course she makes the the little bar like she melts it down and makes it into the piece of his armor kind of a thing what's what's was this somebody i couldn't tell from anything else she seemed sounded like somebody i don't know i don't know yeah

know that for sure everybody somebody eric he's uh the actresses name is emily swallow Yeah, I don't know. I don't know that she's been in anything that I've said. Eric, I have a question for you. Please. That face above the armorer's, like, workplace, you know, that metal. That looked very familiar. Is that somebody's face?

No, that's on Boba Fett's arm piece. Oh, I didn't know your name was Eric. Well, I'm, wow. I just, you know what, dude? Here's the thing. You want to talk about Stolen Valor? I know about Star Wars, too. Everyone asks, everyone asks Eric everything.

And you know what? I know about fucking Star Wars too. But I didn't ask you. Yes, Mr. Sherman. Everything stinks. Sorry. Yeah, it's on Boba Fett's shoulder piece. I believe it's supposed to be rumored to be like a Bantas skull.

I'm sure the new EU stuff has fleshed it out a little more than that. I just need to dig into this new stuff. I've been asking people on Twitter about the Clone Wars. like what are the good episodes I feel like I'm missing pieces I do want to kind of go back and check out those cartoons I watched a little bit of rebels and then fell off

but I did like it. I really ended up enjoying rebels on the whole they do have some Mandalorian episodes in there I could never get into the Clone Wars stuff though because I thought it was reprehensible the animation I don't think was serious it is kind of tough on the eyes

in 2019 especially I will say I did if I'm Werner Hertz on and he kind of expresses this too he's super stoked to have a Mandalorian I would be hitting if I'm you know if I'm doing like Uber for bounty hunting I'm hitting Mandalorian every time

I'll pay the extra absolutely dude I don't want to get stuck with a fucking IG unit get out of here that IG unit fucking rules in this episode he's amazing so the Mandalorian he goes to it's a planet called Arvala 7 he's almost killed by these two

hog beast things this is where he's saved by Nick Nulti who's, I guess he is a vapor farmer, right? Yeah. Oh, like a moisture farmer? Yeah, I don't know. I just, he's like an ugnaut that's retired there, right? I pulled in Eric Siskin, and I did some reading on this.

He is a vapor farmer. Oh, okay. And the blurgs, those are, I know those are from Rebel. Oh, okay. Yeah, they looked a little familiar. Yeah, they're like these fucking fish pigs. Yeah. they do look like fish pigs that's totally accurate actually uh and you know he gets into trouble

he saves him and he's like you have to learn how to ride one for some reason and this is again where to me this gets a little video gamey you got to get your fucking press extra ride no this is this is fucking great because it's like a western uh this is a horse we're going to break a horse we're going to tame a horse no and that's what i love about this is this first episode it clearly sets up right away, we're doing a Western thing, kind of harder than they even do it in like the original trilogy, because like he's mostly on just this one planet for the whole episode. But yeah, but Steve, I think to what you're saying about, you know, him training how to ride the blog or whatever, like, it's, it's going to be a small story. Like, I think like this journey

of his is not going to, you know, take him that long kind of thing. So like, if you want to stop and just take a second, have these little like side things. I love it. I mean, the whole second episode, which we'll talk about on the next episode, is basically like a side mission. Yes, it just feels very transactional each and every time. And I kind of, I don't know, I'm really enjoying it. But yeah, this one was sort of, and it was fun to watch him do it.

And yeah, but there's great dialogue in here. And there's a lot of stuff in this episode, like specifically that's almost canonizing the holiday special because Horatio Sands mentions Life Day. oh right and then the trident thing he uses is also like a rifle that it's totally what fed is like holding when he's riding that dinosaur in the holiday special oh i forgot about the dinosaur it's like the cartoon yes the cartoon for yeah and that's not that's not a dinosaur ladies and gentlemen that's the mythosaur that he's talking about thank you chris because i was going to mention nick nulti says what do you mean you can't ride blurred you're a mandoliant your ancestors rode the mythosaur You are a Mandalorian. I do love it. It's so great. And actually, like, it's, he looks great as a NugNod.

It's, is it mostly Puppet with some CG or just really good CG? I can't tell. I was talking about this with a friend at work, and he was hypothesizing that it's, it's Nulti doing, like, facial capture stuff. It looks like puppet to me. It looks No, it's not a puppet It looks puppet To me anyway

Yeah The face looks very puppety Get at us on Twitter I'm sorry somebody knows I now I'm just imagining Some poor fucking intern Like Mr. Nolte Please stand still

While I put these dots On your face No god damn But I can't believe I'm in the fucking Mandalorian John fucking Favro Wouldn't cast me in Swingers

But he'll cast me in this Him and Swingers Would be so wonderful You are a Mandalorian swinger. You're so good to have money. Are you money, baby? You don't even fucking know it. You're all grown-stop.

Mandalorian, you're grown-stop. So, yeah, so he trades him how to ride these blurgs, and off he goes. They ride out into the sunset to go check out. There's like an encampment kind of thing where there's all these like criminal elements hanging out, and this is where there is a fucking fabulous shootout. So he spies from above.

He's like kind of taking a site of the area. And there's an IG bounty hunter who's like going in there fucking shit up. Kills all these dudes. This is just a great shootout scene overall. This is a great Western moment. And I got to say that I've not seen how IG units operated in combat before. This is something I've been reading about since I was a kid for years. and to see it in action is like so thrilling

and how cylindrical his movements are and how fluid it is. Oh, this is a full on nerd boner for me, man. It just absolutely, I don't use that term often, but it was just like exactly what I wanted from this show and it was fantastic. Like this, the way they just have it swinging around and he's clearly seeing out like multiple sides of his head

at the same time, like it was awesome. Eric, was this a fleet of Basques they were fighting? I couldn't tell or just something similar. There might be like one or two in this cadre of men, but in the second episode, you do get Trandotions. Okay. The boss, I know for sure, are the ones in the beginning of the second episode, but these look more like a mix of like different kind of like a gang. Okay. Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought too.

So he kind of teams up with this IG unit. He suggests that they, you know, split the reward that's on the bounty. the and this is tycho y ttt by the way is voicing IG 11 doing good job i think such good comedy here too like doing the whole i will self-destruct thing don't self-destruct stuff is really funny um so they kind of have their their whole thing this moment where the mandolorean fucking jumps up on this machine gun and just lays waste to these dudes wow i was cheering so awesome i believe this is like a reference to the western uh with franco nero jango which is also Also what then Django Fet was named after, so it's kind of like a roundabout reference.

Yeah, no, I would buy that. The Django, yeah, that makes sense. So they break down the door after all these dudes are killed, and the little tracking device is still working. He goes up to the door, up to the, where the signal is pointing him towards, I guess. And there's a little space bassinet, and inside is like a baby race of Yoda thing. Yeah, and there's a pretty cool, like, actually, like, I like the intrigue here because earlier in the episode, what did you call it there, Herzog is like, look, I know it's going to be difficult for your Mandalorian, you can kill it, but give me a proof of termination, or you could bring it in alive, the doctor wants it alive, but now the bounty hunter guild, which the IG unit is working for, wants this thing definitely dead. So there's definitely competing interests and nobody knows why kind of a thing, which I'm into finding that out. And you know, the Yoda, the species, it's called Magwai. You know what's funny is bringing in Yoda's species is I never really read anything about it.

I thought maybe it was involved in like the Jedi odor books or something. But I looked into it and it looks like George Lucas, no one ever defined what his species was. So, yeah, so there's no name for it, huh? Yeah, there's apparently no name for it. Huh. I think this entire pairing is pretty brilliant. I never thought I'd see a Yoda and a Boba Fett hanging out together, you know? Yeah.

So the IG unit is going to fucking shoot this little thing. And this is a great moment of characterization right here. The Mandalorian's like, uh-uh, motherfucker, and I love the way that they do this. It's like, you see the shot of the blast, like the reflection of the blaster or the light from the blaster go off. And then it cuts to the floor and this fucking robot goes down, dude. You know, I would have, I loved it. I would respect the Mandalorian a little more if he blew the fucker up to. That's all he wanted was to explode, you know, man.

His last wish is. Exactly. You want to kill this guy fine, but at least end him in the manner of his religion. You know, everyone's respecting your Mandalorian bullshit. Sure. You're totally right, man. Yeah, you should have let himself destruct. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Weapons are part of my religion and also not making fun of me as part of my religion. and also also not paying taxes so yeah and i think it's a pretty great last shot of the episode is he like kind of reaches out and the little cute guy raises his little finger up and you know that's that's chapter one of the mandolian i do love this uh what do you call it there um i do love that the end credits sequence is really cool for me the the whole oh the like the I love that. I love, love, love, so much so that the first two episodes are synced up on my phone. The score in this, I love the music in here. It is, it's like. It's amazing. It's so anti-John Williams, which I think is super smart. Like, just get away from all of that. It's like electric, you know, it's computery. It's weird. It's the Black Panther guy. Oh, is that right? Yeah, it's the same guy. Some parts, sound a little like the predator with all the drums and stuff. Yeah. So, yeah, actually, if you go right now on, at least on Apple Music, you can sync. They have, like, them set up as two different albums, the soundtracks to these two episodes. Yeah. So that, I think, wraps up the first episode of the Mandalorian half hour. This was Chapter 1. And, you know, I think, you know, we already know Chapter 2. We're going to be recording that in a minute, actually. So, like, I guess maybe Steve, had the idea when we end

these out, like obviously it's not a recommendation situation, maybe a letter grade kind of deal. So Steve, it was your idea why don't you go first? Yeah, no, a B-plus, I think, I would give this, I thought it was just exactly kind of what I wanted. I love, the action sequence alone is one of my, it'll be

one of my favorite Star Wars action set pieces, the one, the big shootout at the end with the IG unit, like Eric said, not to step on him. Yeah, I just, it's fantastic. Yeah, I'm going to give this thing an A because this whole series is probably going to be straight A's for me. The IG 11 fight alone puts it over the top for me.

Werner Herzog, put Werner Herzog in anything I'm there for it. Yeah, I would probably, yeah, B plus is probably good. I could have done without the training with the Berg, but almost everything else is pretty solid. And as Eric said, just seeing Werner Herzog in this made my year. Like I cannot tell you how much I loved seeing him. this um yeah i would go i think i'm closer with eric like a maybe a minus but leaning closer to a i fucking loved it it felt like not a completely different star wars but just like different

star wars in a way like it's small like small town star wars i was i will say this at least this one episode and ideally this project is going to be my favorite of the non-skywalker star Wars we've done so far, like Rogue One, solo, and now this, it's just the best so far, by far. So, yeah, so two A's and two B pluses, is not too bad of a start for the Mandalorian. I think that would pretty much average into an A-minus show rating. So like we said up top, this episode is out on the main feed for everyone to get a taste. Be sure to head over to our Patreon.

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