Chapter 4: Sanctuary

I'll be honest, this is my least favorite episode. But, it isn't bad at all. I'd give it a 7.5 if I could.

But anyone calling it filler, is silly. You get introduced to an important character in the story, there is progression in the development of Mando and The Child, and some decent action.

Cool your jets before you call episodes filler, just wait.

The first 3 episodes in the series play like a movie. This episode plays like a Syfy Original. The writing and acting were pretty awful; I like Carano as a human, but not as an actor.

This episode looks like it was a gift to B. D. Howard, to bolster her Director's Cred, of which she has little: It did her and us no favors; she clearly isn't her father.

Coming off it's best episode so far, The Mandalorian continued it's successful first season with an action packed trip into Kurosawa inspired territory. Seemingly taken right from pages of a Kurosawa samurai epic from the 50'-60's (Specifically Seven Samurai), 'Sanctuary' was another solid entry into Disney+ flagship show. This time directed by Bryce Dallas Howard, the action is superb, the character depth is building, and we get introduced to plenty more people and settings that could play into the rest of the season quite well. Oh and he's absolutely going to take that mask off in front of the audience at some point, perhaps by the end of the season.

9.0/10

This was great I really don't get the negativity. It has a compelling If unoriginal plot and adds a lot of development to our main character. I mean it's different from The precios episodes but that doesn't make It bad, in fact that's what a lot of series lack, variety and more episodical adventures, a time for our characters to get into little slices of adventure as a breather from The main plot, this one does that while It brings More layers to our protagonist. Besides this Is not a Cartoon storyline, as some say, it actually draws inspiration from Seven Samurai, one of the greatest films of all time. One flaw I could give It to It Is that the plot Is kind of rushed and maybe It could've taken a little More Time, I mean yeah, the conflict gets solved way too fast, but hey at least It does It well (unlike the next episode).

This episode was okay, sort of a day in the life episode. I enjoyed it but it seemed a bit cheap and I don't know about some of the Xena level acting from the extras. They can't all be great I suppose.