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mellicious) wrote2020-12-04 10:59 pm
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The Mandalorian season 2 (spoilers!)
Re spoilers: let's say this may have spoilers up through Chapter 13. I'm still processing the latest one.
But, Ahsoka!! That I'm ready to talk more about. You should know that I had never watched much of Clone Wars or Rebels until lately. (I think I had seen the Clone Wars movie, and most of season 1 of Rebels.) But now that I've had Disney+, for the last year, I've been - well, not so much bingeing my way through it as taking my time and enjoying it, honestly. I'm still not done. I got through season 6 of Clone Wars and then switched to Rebels, and I figure I'll wait and do season 7 last, since it came out the most recently. I'm on... I've lost track, I'm well into season 3 of Rebels, I think? I need to get back to that, it's been a couple of weeks. Anyway, so I've seen a LOT of Ahsoka recently. Teen Ahsoka in Clone Wars, adult Ahsoka in Rebels. And now, almost-middle-aged Ahsoka in The Mandalorian. I enjoyed that. Oh! and just the week before this came out, I read the Ahsoka book, which I'm glad I did. It was good and it talked about where she went while she was offscreen.
And hey, Baby Yoda has a name, finally! (A name that a lot of people had trouble with, including me, I admit. It kind of feels like it came out of a blender, but that's ok, we'll all get used to it - I wrote down "Grogo" at first. I've also seen other people say "Gorgu" a bunch. But no, it's Grogu.) Actually I guess I can talk about the beginning of episode 14, because it's not a spoiler - I loved the way Din kept saying the name over and over, like he might be having a little trouble with it too. Or maybe he was enjoying watching Grogu react to his name.
The other episode that I especially enjoyed was the one where Din meets other Mandalorians, ones who were apparently raised somewhat differently. And including the famous Bo-Katan. (I've seen some of the younger Bo-Katan, but I'm pretty sure there's more in the parts of Clone Wars and Rebels I still haven't gotten to.)
It's not that I didn't like the other new episodes. I enjoyed Timothy Olyphant and the Sandpeople and the Krayt Dragon in the first ep of the season. The second one had way way too many spiders for my taste but was pretty interesting just the same. And "The Siege" had some good action, and the return of the blue dude from the very first episode - who I think still doesn't have a name, does he? IMDb just says "Mythrol" and as I understand it that's his species, right? Or do they just not have individual names?
(I'm trying hard to be coherent here, but it's difficult, there are just too many topics. But I'm not sure most of you want to talk about Star Wars as much as I do. So I'll stop here for now.)
But, Ahsoka!! That I'm ready to talk more about. You should know that I had never watched much of Clone Wars or Rebels until lately. (I think I had seen the Clone Wars movie, and most of season 1 of Rebels.) But now that I've had Disney+, for the last year, I've been - well, not so much bingeing my way through it as taking my time and enjoying it, honestly. I'm still not done. I got through season 6 of Clone Wars and then switched to Rebels, and I figure I'll wait and do season 7 last, since it came out the most recently. I'm on... I've lost track, I'm well into season 3 of Rebels, I think? I need to get back to that, it's been a couple of weeks. Anyway, so I've seen a LOT of Ahsoka recently. Teen Ahsoka in Clone Wars, adult Ahsoka in Rebels. And now, almost-middle-aged Ahsoka in The Mandalorian. I enjoyed that. Oh! and just the week before this came out, I read the Ahsoka book, which I'm glad I did. It was good and it talked about where she went while she was offscreen.
And hey, Baby Yoda has a name, finally! (A name that a lot of people had trouble with, including me, I admit. It kind of feels like it came out of a blender, but that's ok, we'll all get used to it - I wrote down "Grogo" at first. I've also seen other people say "Gorgu" a bunch. But no, it's Grogu.) Actually I guess I can talk about the beginning of episode 14, because it's not a spoiler - I loved the way Din kept saying the name over and over, like he might be having a little trouble with it too. Or maybe he was enjoying watching Grogu react to his name.
The other episode that I especially enjoyed was the one where Din meets other Mandalorians, ones who were apparently raised somewhat differently. And including the famous Bo-Katan. (I've seen some of the younger Bo-Katan, but I'm pretty sure there's more in the parts of Clone Wars and Rebels I still haven't gotten to.)
It's not that I didn't like the other new episodes. I enjoyed Timothy Olyphant and the Sandpeople and the Krayt Dragon in the first ep of the season. The second one had way way too many spiders for my taste but was pretty interesting just the same. And "The Siege" had some good action, and the return of the blue dude from the very first episode - who I think still doesn't have a name, does he? IMDb just says "Mythrol" and as I understand it that's his species, right? Or do they just not have individual names?
(I'm trying hard to be coherent here, but it's difficult, there are just too many topics. But I'm not sure most of you want to talk about Star Wars as much as I do. So I'll stop here for now.)