"The Tragedy" (spoilers)

SPOILERS BELOW!! for The Mandalorian Chapter 14.

I said the other day that I was still processing last week's episode, but I've processed and I've watched several videos from various people, and I think I'm ready to talk.

These days, I habitually watch several different YouTubers who discuss everything Star Wars, but one that's new to me that I've really been enjoying is Star Wars Explained's After Show that they've been doing every week. It's really long so I don't always watch the whole thing, but they have a lot of good fannish discussion about such things as: what Jedi was Grogu communing with on Tython? The expectation, since there's only two episodes left in the season (!!), is that whoever it is may swoop in at the last moment in Chapter 16 and save the day. The leading contenders seem to be either Ezra or Luke - and then if it's Luke, how do they do that? There's a faction in favor of Sebastian Stan playing Luke, here - and there's also the "Mace Windu is alive!!!!" contingent. (I don't see why Mace can't be alive - yeah, Palpatine threw him out a window and everything, but he's a Jedi, they survive weird shit ALL THE TIME. If Maul can get cut in half and still be alive, Mace certainly can be.) Apparently Sam Jackson has said hell yeah, he'd like to play Mace again, so there's that.

Honestly, I don't particularly have a horse in the race, as far as who I want it to be. With this show, it's hard to predict what they're going to do. I mean, who expected a Boba Fett/Fennec Shand/Mando team-up? I was never a huge Boba Fett fan - I was the "wrong" age, which is what I always say about Star Wars. I loved it, but I was 17 when the first movie came out and 20 for Empire, I was too old for toys (or I sure thought I was, anyway). I get the feeling that a lot of the people who loved Boba Fett from the first are partly that way because they were younger than me and they had the Boba Fett toys. But I do find his character arc pretty interesting, just the same. And man, they let him go berzerker on those Stormtroopers. (I was unsurprised at the end to find out that Robert Rodriguez directed this one. It definitely looked like his style.)


(That reminds me, I forgot when I was talking about Chapter 13 to mention the presence of Michael Biehn, who I completely did not recognize. That man used to be a god if you were into, like, early James Cameron movies - Terminator and Aliens and stuff. Nice to see him, but I was hoping he'd have a role where he was around longer!)


ADDENDUM - this is what I put in the Holidailies blurb (almost a spoiler in itself, but I guess not quite):
With an episode name like that, you know what to expect, I guess. (I did have to explain to Rob who the weird scarred guy who wanted his armor back was!)

I need to make a tag for, like, Mel's middle-of-the-night opinions, or something like that. When I write this stuff before bed, it's gets very stream-of-consciousness. (I'll try to at least go back and clean up the typos when I wake up!)