Chapter 22: Guns for Hire

This show has transformed out of all recognition. No longer is it the man with no name in space but the man with no purpose in space.

Mando was undeniably the coolest SCIFI character STAR WARS had dished up in a long long time. The show has now been turned into the Rebels cartoon. Yes you could argue, that was it's natural progression but compared to what we got in season 1 this is really uninspired and predictable, childish storytelling.

Although chapter 22 was fun, there is nothing here worth talking about. It was grade C level writing at best, much like the rest of season 3.

I envisioned so much more for this show. When we have the likes of Andor which is such high quality with great characters with a true Star Wars aesthetic. I'm shocked Favreau and crew did not capitalise on taking Mando in this direction instead. What a wasted opportunity.

I'm pretty sure crowbarring in The Book Of Boba Fett, has not helped this shows maturity and has inadvertently sucked the life out of Favreau's creative flow. He is clearly spreading himself too thin and it really shows. Better luck on Mando Season 4. This one is a complete dud.

Horrible, lack of originality and completely tonally out of place, everything down to the aesthetics is just misplaced & does not feel like a mando episode at all. I appreciate the attempt to try & try something new the use of comedy has been common even in S1 of mando, we had bill burr, so I'm okay with comedy, it's just the execution... and this episode fails at the execution, why does the entire story feel cookie cutter, I feel like I'm watching a predictable scooby doom mystery. The episode has some sort of interesting plot points that could have worked had the characters worked, but it just didn't, they suck & so does the way the execution was for this episode, it wraps up nice I suppose with a good 4 minutes to spare but other than that this entire episode is skippable.

What has happened to this show? This season has been bad, but now it's unwatchable. Not even the Doc could save it.

For one, I can't believe how bad the dialogue is.

Here's some examples: 'We're privateers...individuals for hire.' (thanks for thinking I'm a moron) 'Engaging automated guidance.' Mando 'What happened?' (are you kidding? How stupid has he become?) Bo-Katan 'They've taken control of the ship.' (why doesn't she say 'Are you deaf, or just dumb?') I guess we're going for a ride.' (great deduction) Mando: 'Why do they have imperial droids on an independent world?' Bo-Katan 'It's the outer rim (go on...) your guess is as good as mine.' (what?) 'Din Djarin and Bo-katan Krieze, your presence has been requested by the leadership of the planetary democracy.' Bo 'perhaps at a later time.' 'This is not a request.'

The plot is boring, the characters are stupid, the dialogue is horrible, and the acting is like children pretending in their back garden. This should actually get cancelled.

In the first chapter of this episode I was totally distracted by the non-existent voice effects of the two aqatic lovers. No creature with mouthes like these would be able to sound like an ordinary human voice, even the movements of the mouth didn't fit the words. That is just bad production. Each and every stupid robot has a sound effect on its voice.... The rest of the episode was kinda ok, but I expected a little humour when Jack Black is in the episode. His part could have been flamboyantly funny, but was too lame. So the whole episode felt fragmentary.

And Grogu is getting sidelined again, which also was disappointing.

I loved S1 of Mando, it revived this franchise for me like many others here. S2 was good too, the cameos & easter eggs were fun.

But now the lack of a story line is starting to show. Its almost like the script of this episode was just a couple of lines, and they let the actors improvise the rest. The dialogue is actually that bad. The droid problem filler which was like 80% of this episode would have been acceptable if we were in the first third, not the final third of the season.

I know the storyline of Mando has to merge with that sequel trilogy at some point, but does the quality of the story also needs to match?