Chapter 10: The Passenger

The Mandalorian runs into trouble while transporting a passenger.

This is an effective monster-of-the-week episode that diverts from the show's main plot to give some action-horror-suspense with a little bit of dark humour.

The basic theme running through the episode is parents protecting children and this is present from the cool opening fight sequence right through to the end. The Child in this series might look cute, but has natural instincts that get him and the Mandalorian into plenty of trouble, which to me feels relatively funny and a bit sick at the same time.

There's not much in the way of performance in this episode as the characters with the most screen time are either heavily costumed, animatronic or computer generated, and of these the Child is definitely the most expressive. There isn't much to the dialogue either but The Mandalorian isn't really noted for that.

Where it succeeds is in its oddness and spectacle. There are a number of suspenseful action sequences that work very well and the parts where Child eats a number of things it shouldn't works for me in a weird way, particularly as a parent where this rings true in life.

As in all episodes the production values are excellent and the show continues to produce highly cinematic spectacle easily worthy of the big screen.

This episode was a very chill scrappy earner. There were some great beats which I won't spoil, and some amazing fan-service. It was clear the entire cast had fun bringing this portion of the Star Wars universe to life. Fans of the mando will want to watch out for the emotional beats within this episode. Wow wow big wow wow.

The Passenger shows two things: that Baby Yoda has an appetite for frog eggs, and that not every episode of The Mandalorian will focus on the A-Story all of the time.

This episode's got gorgeous effects work strung throughout it, but the story was totally 'disposable' in the grand scheme of Season Two's plans for Mando and Baby Yoda.

Nicely directed and all, but it's not must-see Star Wars canon.

My god its getting embarrassing to be a Star Wars fan. They are so toxic and annoying. This was a good episode. Yes it wasn't the best episode ever but it had good moments and set up a lot of stuff. However Star Wars fans are so petty that they are giving this a 1 star review just becasue it didnt advance the plot by a mile. Star Wars fans be better than that. It is a complete disservice to the people that worked hard on this episode just to give it one star. This episode is is probably 8.5 nothing amazing but far form one star.

This episode might not give you a thrill but still paved the way for what's going to occur in the further episodes. On the way to Mando's journey, a passenger and the adventures were definitely highlightable. Visuals and score was never meant to be underestimated and likewise, Mando's quest continues