Chapter 18: The Mines of Mandalore

This episode was certainly a step up from the first episode! This one added a lot more lore, knowledge and we begin to see the potential of this season!

As someone who has watched The Clone wars and are a big fan of this show, i really apreciate the layers of information given and shown to us! Could not help but feel a bit nostalgic! Mandalore becomes a world you invest yourselves in, especially when the best arcs in Clone wars, occured on Mandalore! You are left wanting to know more!

The show looks as good as always with some intense and creative action sequences! It is clear they are warming up for something bigger, since we have ssen most of the trailer already!

The end left me excited to see the next episode! Something the previous one lacked!

This is such a pick up after last week's episode, it had good action, tense scenes and my man Grogu is the 🐐

Basically they need to go to Mandalore to gather stuff to prove it's hospitable so Jin can get his title back.

The visuals were really good, the soundtrack all of it, Grogu is developing, he isn't just a cute tag along partner he had a big role to play in this episode and I do hope we get more of that ! Mando was good, he is really set on his mission but also including Grogu and in his way trying to raise him.

Good adventure with some good turns, I really enjoyed the intense Grogu scenes they were the highlight and also the last 10 - 15 were unreal !

This one felt more like a Mandalorian episode again. With a deeper tone and wider cinematography, ambient music and an overall thrilling vibe. The story didn't branch off into unwanted subplots, we focused on Mando's task at hand.

Apart from a few moments of disposable enemy slaughtering the monsters in this episode actually had the art of terror. A subject not looked into enough when it comes to exoplanet exploration in film making. I mean i'm not expecting it to be like the movie Alien, but the vibe was still there.

A more enjoyable episode, although it would have been also enjoyable to have Mando do more, he seemed like dead weight in this one. Given said, the development still progressed and the story wasn't lost.

Not a kick ass episode, but better than the first one. Progression was there.

Getting up early & turning on Disney + to watch this show in the hour it releases is a ritual I've missed. After last weeks episode nicely setting the scene for the series ahead we are back with another great episode. This episode encapsulates the relationship between Grogu & Mando perfectly with some nice cameos and some of my favourite character development I've seen from Bo Katan. The last half of this episode and watching the hard walls that she has put up slowly start to melt away because of her interactions with the protagonists is so enjoyable to watch and I look forward to seeing how this progresses.

The final scene of this episode is what makes me so excited for things to come as the reveal is such a pivotal moment for one of our characters it changes my entire predictions for where this season is going. You've done it again John Faverou! Bravo :D.

I enjoyed this episode more than the first.

Grogu had to become independent in this episode to rescue his dad. I am glad the writers are going this route, because we've already had 2 seasons of Mando and Grogu, where Grogu has just tagged along everywhere looking cute. This was a problem for me going into this season, because in the BOBF he reunited with Mando; I wanted to see some of Din by his lonesome.

This episode was a deep dive into Mandalore and it's history, and I am here for it. Mandalore, or what's left of it, is a shadow of what it used to be; and what we saw in Clone Wars.

Bo Katan makes a further appearance in this one, and her character gets more fleshed out.

Overall, a good episode.

8.5/10.