I don't see why Jabba the Hutt couldn't come back. He was just choked to death on screen and then the ship he was in exploded. It's not like he was thrown bodily into the inner workings of a moon sized space weapon and vaporized in the climax of a story arc at great cost to characters the audience was invested in. No one's ever really gone.
@@peadarmc91 I don't know if you watched the movie or not but she uhh... was Force Choked by Darth Vader. It's like a thing that kills people you know ?
They didn´t do their math right. They totally forgot to add the time from the start of a new hope until the few years after return of the jedi. Around 10~15 years.
@@larzkruber822 Also Boba got some pretty bad acid burns down in the Saarlac pit. Fun fact, the same short story collection from the old expanded universe that has Boba suffering in and ultimately escaping from the Saarlac pit also has a story where Bib Fortuna gets his brain stolen and put in a robot by a bunch of creepy monks. I guess that didn't happen in the Feloniverse.
I can’t imagine anything having a worse psychological impact on a child than having their father beheaded then making them watch two zillion copies of him that don’t know who they are run around and get slaughtered.
Don't forget about that episode of the Clone Wars in which he had to destroy a Venator class destroyer full of clones And later on he is forced to execute a clone, a person witg his dad's face and voice. In the end he can't do it, so someone else kills the clone instead
How do these guys roll out the hilarious one liners constantly? I guess it’s just being naturally funny. “It looked like the Las Vegas Golden Knights logo”
@@CardCaptorDeadpool It's quintessentially basic to a degree it is painful. It's not bad but it is not good either. And some scenes have downright horrible writing. Episodes 7 & 8 in particular had some moments where I was worried I'll roll my eyes so hard they pop out.
if they were gonna bring boba fet back he shoulda looked like the boba fet actor, with the 70s glasses and porno stash also honestly, im hoping Temuera Morrison/Jango Fett actor they had in the ending shot, is another bluff like the opening of the episode, and turns out to be another random clone.
Well, the EU became really fascinated with him and blew him up in the decades between the original trilogy and the prequels. He was mysterious, looked cool, and since the movies didn’t explain anything about him, he was a blank slate for books, comics, and videogames to fill in.
bluesdealer Fett dons what Vader with the force and all his minions could not - catch Han. Fett gives Vader backchat - few do this There is a history between the two “no disintegration” He clocks Luke while apparently looking straight ahead - this speaks of his ability. In Jedi Luke is wiping out a legion of rogues with ease. Fett meets him head on and nearly takes Luke out. Only a fluke and stupid writing kills him. If you employ Orwellian double think the prequels and Jango don’t exist so don’t worry about them
Ive been rewatching a lot of their videos and Lucasfilm Creatives are 100% getting ideas from these guys it’s insane how on the money they are. Or option B is all of this stuff is super predictable idk
@@alejandroines682 the biggest reviews about what was wrong about star wars and how to fix it, came from RLM. Im pretty sure they watch the videos and get tips, never asking themselves, out of pride lmao
I'm just imagining the "no droids" bartender, finding an orphaned droid, and then having to take care of it, he bonds with it and adopts it. Then leaves his bar to his bot son.
@@tamlandipper29 all wrong the timing doesn't match up! How the @#$& can the droid son be jabbas torture Droid he's too young, also a torture Droid isn't an orphan he has a job he's a torturer. Wait is this really Rian Johnson???
I'm gonna be that idiot pointing out that it technically was made before 2019. Also what the hell, 2019 was a fantastic year for TV and cinema! I know these guys are all having midlife crises and stuff but man
Even in the Clone Wars TV show, the Mandalorians didn't wear helmets. But My favorite interpretation is that these Mandalorians are part of a cult, a warrior cult that never takes off their helmets.
"It builds character!!" Boba's father's ghost yelled at Boba. The smell of his father's last few partially digested meals was a smell that Boba never forgot.
Its weird that Mike is too happy to even dump on Rich. I was sure when he said "I'm not sure I can get into this, its a little slow" that he would say something about that being trivial and "not bothering Rich about his date after Prom." Its weird, in this video Mike actually appears to treat Rich like a person he would consider to be his...friend? I guess he stockholm syndromed Rich so hard that Mike even turned himself.
I completely understand Mike's point. Once you start messing around with established sewer grate density, you really can't trust anything else in the story's world
You know what’s funny, in the scene where his head gets cut off and you see the helmet fly, you can see the shadow from his head flying out of the helmet off-screen. So when boba picks up the helmet it’s empty
@@gaminggoose2329 I was recently told that scene were you see the shadow of the head was added for the DVDs. The theatrical one was different and had no shadow. That explains why I spent 2 decades with the idea that Jango's head was stuck in a helmet.
@@nearlydead7510 it would make sense that carbon freezing itself is common but only prisons or bounty hunters typically use facilities designed specifically for humans, while most others are designed for hazardous materials containment or something.
He straight out guessed correctly that they’d bring Boba Fett back for season 2. And Disney were so impressed they decided to add a whole Boba show on top of it.
@@michaelshultz2199 That's why I don't get why he doesn't like the prequels; Star Trek is silly as fuck - I mean, I like TNG, but I don't _love_ it. It's nerdy as all get out. But nah, tHe PrEqUeLs ArE tOo ChIlDiSh!
@@hanburgundy4317 he took the piss out of the Star Trek movies, too, so what is your point? He loves both Star Wars and Star Trek, but not the new stuff.
I'll wager that they disliked season 2, based on what they said in this review of season 1. Season 2 has light sabers, jedi, and CGI Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, which Rich Evans will most definitely hate. Plus the show has moved away from that Western feel to blockbuster movie type deal - with big set pieces and characters running through corridors and gunning down storm troopers like the sequel movies rather than the tight and compact episodes of season 1. They got rid of the lazy storm troopers with dirty armor and now their all brand new and shiny again and they get knocked over like bowling pins. They literally brought Boba Fett back and he became part of the main cast. The appearance of the same two X wing pilots from the prison break episode on three more occasions was a bit too serendipitous. Season 2 also introduced the idea that blasters can run out of ammo and get jammed, which doesn't make any sense. There were a lot of deus ex machina moments. I doubt Rich and Mike would like any of this stuff and I would wager that it potentially ruined Mandalorian for them.
@@johnhammond9633 Eh, they don't strike me as just automatically hating something cause it has some things they've complained about before. Mike in particular never hated lightsabers, just how over used they were. They're only used sparingly in the Mandalorian.
In season 2 the blue guy says he still cant see from one of his eyes after the carbon freeze. So they did take into consideration the hazards of the carbon freeze.
40:37 “Are they gonna try to extract Force from him?” First Boba Fett now the extraction of Force (kinda) from the most recent episode. RLM calls it again.
I literally sang “ooooooooooooooh, you got a nasty reputation...” the first time we see the ship in space. My wife laughed so hard she cried. We had to pause to get the giggles out of our system. But every time after that when we would see his ship flying in space, we’d both say in Lord Helmet’s voice, “LONE STAR!”
@@mattrocde I think both. I can hear them debating whether it's good to have such a good show recycle old characters, when it was already standing on its own 2 feet. But I think they will also give credit on how well those old characters were handled.
@@yurtyybomb I don't know - none of them are Star Wars fans, and I'd be amazed if any of them even saw much of the old legends or current extended universe stuff relating to these characters. I could very much see them just being disgruntled that they were there at all - case and point, their reaction to Boba Fett being confirmed was incredibly demeaning to anybody who may have been excited to see the character finally get some justice in a modern Star Wars entry. I hope they look past the fact a lot of it is fanservice, and see that it is *genuinely good story telling* that was born out of a desire to give the people what they want. At the same time, I wouldn't be surprised if they say it was all a massive member berries circle jerk and a waste of the show's time and resources.
I'm surprised Rich didn't see the parallel for when the Mandalorian flew with baby Yoda over his shoulder to when the Mandalorian himself was rescued as a kid by another Mandalorian who flew off carrying him much the same way. It was a pretty obvious tie-in that the creators of the show were trying to do.
"Do they have one sewer grate manufacturer in the galaxy?!" - Yes, mike - if you read the expanded universe comics and novels, you will know that Frangoo Jumpjet founded 'Frangoo's galactic drain construction concern' in 18BBY after he went bankrupt from funding his uncle Dexter Jettster's diner. They were wildly popular, and used all over the galaxy due to their strength and durability, which was improved over time. If you pause it at time index 1:12:34 in Rise Of The Skywalker, you can even see one of them used in the big Sith chamber that Palpatine resides in. That is canonically the most modern model of sewer grate he constructed (made from the metal S5-B66), which is very exciting.
I hear they also have those sewer gates at the Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Center. That’s where most of the funding went, instead of Vader’s suit.
@@michaelstein7510 I was really hoping they'd reference that in their Rise of Skywalker review, since Palpy was back. Didnt have the budget for fingers! *sad gameshow trombone sound*
I love that this show is just finally exploring the "Space Western" side of Star Wars. I mean it was always there. Right from day one. But over time... people seemed to forget about the part with blaster and rogues and bounty hunters and all that in favor of focusing solely on the 3 Foot Laser Compensator. Which... made sense in its evolution. But I do feel like this is the untapped potential of Star Wars to mine. And if all Star Wars really turns into is just a long running Mandalorian series at this point? I'd be happy with it. It's good, simple, episode of the day Space Western stuff.
The way in which season 2 of Mandalorian used Boba Fett was subtle and clever, two words that would be on the bottom of the list of words I would use to describe Boba Fett's actual show.
My favorite part of the "lore" they made for the Mandalorian people was that it was straight out of Mike and Rich's discussions: It's armor. The entire character and concept is built off of "cool looking armor guy with gadgets." So that's what they ARE. Their culture is their armor, their identity is their armor, their matriarch is an armorsmith who makes them armor that makes them who they are within the tribe. It was a perfect direction for them to go. They had one card to play so they played it up as high and mighty as it could be played, and they smacked it onto the table with such force the whole thing buckled. All the prose and poetry and pedantry of the new shit, the ambiguous First Order, the non-existent New Republic, it all pales to "My weapon IS my religion". It feels like a perfect accident that wasn't supposed to be as good as it is, and THAT is STAR WARS.
they also missed the point that the mandalorian culture is more or like like the spartan culture. a Warrior race ( or people with the mandalorians) were fighting and war is everything for them. Also their helmets are heavily influenced by spartan helmets and not really knights like mike things
@@greyghostinfinite No! You thought that mandalorians were a race. Everyone else knew already. Everyone who plays star wars video games ( knights of the old republic, for example) or read some books already knew that Mandalorian is a culture and not an ethnicity.
@@greyghostinfinite Mandalorians originated from a single race that died off but they managed to spread their culture to others. I seem to remember they didn't care about anything outside of their creed to the point they didn't bat an eye at homosexual relationships. Though I don't exactly remember them having a problem with taking off their helmets, that's kinda silly.
It doesn’t take special powers to predict the predictable. Especially if you know how to write stories, how to structure movies and have seen enough movies to notice the general trend of the popular movies versus the quality movies. Just think of the most common things the average person likes and chances are it will happen in a popular series. That’s what makes modern cinema so depressing. There’s no incentive to make anything new anymore. People want the same and familiar.
i love when you hear jay bauman laughing in the background after you hear when mike said that Bryan Singer is directing an episode of season 2 of the mandalorian but mike calls it if brian introduce a new character it's called the namblalorian haha. so funny.
The carbonite freezing makes perfect sense and it's done very well IMHO. They don't make a huge deal out of it. We can assume that after the success of freezing han, it was adopted more widely. There are huge advantages to having the bounties frozen: no trying to escape, no feeding or bathroom, you can be more efficient and go around and collect a few different bounties before returning them all at once. I like it.
@@monmothma3358 nearly a decade had passed since Han’s freezing. Dead or Alive bounties would be a perfectly cromulent time to utilize Carbonite freezing since it’s a wonderful way to transport a being. You don’t have to kill someone in transit if they get squirrelly. Then you’re stuck with a rotting corpse of any number of stinky aliens.
It's just gonna be them sitting in silence for an hour😂. It's more action oriented and way more lore heavy with Ashoka, Bo, and Boba. They would be super confused.
I would suppose that carbon freezing would become common practice pretty quickly within the bounty hunting circle once they realize that this mining equipment can easily and efficiency store any bounties they pick up.
@@georgemcmarrinyolfsnouzerw3949 A frozen prisoner doesn't need to eat, drink, sleep, urinate or defecate, and they certainly are quieter than their non-frozen counterparts. Small ship. Mando is transporting multiple bounties at the beginning of the show.
After watching Mando, I assumed that carbon freezing of people might be a common thing but in Empire they didn't have the people freezing unit at hand, but they did have this industrial carbon freezing machine. Which is why they thought they could modify it to freeze people, but they weren't sure the industrial version wouldn't be too strong and kill the person.
Not that far off actually, if you replace "Keep winning the best village award at any cost" with *"Find the biggest, meanest badasses around (besides us) and FIGHT THE EVER-LOVING $!#@ OUTTA THEM!!!* Similar mentality for doing it though.
At 9:30 there are two shadows revealing that Jango's head separated from the helmet before it hit the ground. Its kid of subtle, but if you slow the film down you can totally see that.
The other being its really easy to see just the character and not the actor. Example being on the planet with the small village a lot of people saw "pillboi" lol. Another being we don't feel the heavy narcissistic vibes of "the audience has to see my face all the time" shit when a character would have no reason take a mask or helmet off the vast majority of the time
i think he was probably on that wall for a good long while as well, Jabba probably had a lot of bounty hunters passing through, boba fett probably bragged to those slave girls, ect ect.
And still they didn’t know what Jedi were. An famous order that has been around forever before being dismantled in around the Clone Wars and after, just some 30-40 years prior. Kinda like if no one would remember 40 yrs back in the past, and this no one would even remember the OT anymore... 😂
@@gbrogo7139 bruh just cause they didnt watch some cartoon in a series with decades of movies and shows doesnt mean they're fake fans Edit: I'm dumb and didnt realize your comment was a joke, nice profile pic btw
Star Wars and even the new Star Trek need to remember what magic slow movie can be. No lighting fast cuts, taking time to admire the view. Setting mood, building tension, less is more.
@@basedchimera5859 Oh, well in that case - I completely agree with them! Star Wars fans are gonna get mad when RLM finally review Season 2 because they dissed "muh Luke Skywalker." Didn't you see that Lucasfilm pulled the same trick in Book of Boba Fett? They knew people would find the storytelling poor and the characters boring, so they decided to shoe-horn Mando into the show midway and gave him his own episode. I rolled my eyes when I heard the Mandalorian theme song at the end of Episods 4. Fans moan about the quality of Star Wars but when they are offered cheap fan service, they forget all about the stuff they moaned about - easily pleased ultimately. That's why I admire The Last Jedi, because it slapped fans in the face with an *attempt* at richer, more meaningful storytelling, a far deeper and more interesting play-style drama, and actual risks being taken - as well as beautiful filmmaking techniques from Steve Yedlin. But of course most fans went "muh canon" and hated on the film. That film is flawed but of course SW fans hate it for the (mostly) wrong reasons - they'd rather have TFA or Rogue One repeats, as much as I enjoy the latter film. The Mandalorian combined such fan-service elements with mundane storytelling and fans went insane - just shows.
Y'know, I figured with the carbonite thing that some enterprising Cloud City technician was like, "Huh, I could update this and sell it to the Bounty Hunters Guild". 10 years later, Mando's got the personal ship sized version.
The carbonite thing makes total sense. No one has ever used it in that manor. I mean who would be that crazy. Suddenly you have the means to preserve life in a cryo-sleep style but protected in a sheath of carbonite. Just the ability to freeze and stack livestock alone would make it a viable thing unless the carbonite was expensive. But since it was already being used on inanimate objects I don't imagine it would be costly. Moving 200 chickens stacked in squares makes it a lot easier than 200 that need food, water, grazing space, etc. which could contract disease or exposed to toxins. That could ruin an entire batch. But with carbonite that's no longer an issue.
My take was that when Jabba received Han in carbonite, it turned a lot of heads. Jabba with his reputation has the ability to set trends. Soon, criminals and gangsters across the galaxy demanded that prize bounties be delivered in carbonite, and some quick witted entrepreneurs created carbonite freezing systems that could be installed in ships, etc. If you were an up and coming bounty hunter, investing in a carbonite freezer for your ship would go a long ways in promoting yourself and raising your income.
@Mike Marlowe are you an ADD 6 year old? Mandalorian is rich with MOOD....AMBIENCE.....etc. NO NEED for Dialog when you can tell a story with images. Then again, you thought both Wonder Woman films were masterpieces.
Werner hertzog is so god damn captivating to watch. I could have watched a whole show just about him just hanging out around the galaxy thru the years.
I Re listen to this review maybe once every 3 months, it’s just so good to hear them talk positively and hopefully about the show and brings back the same excitement I had watching it the first time
I love the music on this show. It's completely original and not just playing into star wars nostalgia. And like Mike pointed out with the mix of eastern and western styles, the music is the same. It doesn't sound like it's from any particular area of the world, it's amazing. Some of my favourite TV/movie music in a long time
On Carbon Freezing, since Mandalorian takes place AFTER Empire, the Carbonite freezing could be a method used by bounty hunters BECAUSE of how well it worked on Solo. If it were the prequels and they showed prisons of Carbonite people going around like dry cleaning racks, I would understand the memberberry hatred, but I think the method would catch on after knowing it works.
Well unfortunately they did. There's an episode of Clone Wars where the Jedi all carbon freeze themselves like it's no big deal. Lucas approved that because he's an idiot.
See I always figured it was the other way around… carbón freezing was a way to transport people, but an unusual or maybe illegal one, and thus the mining equipment on Bespin was dangerous because it wasn’t designed for human use, they just rigged it up as an impromptu solution to immobilize Luke. I feel like that makes perfect sense, and of all things it’s an odd detail to really complain about. Oh well, that’s just how I’ve always rationalized it. Edit: since I maybe worded it poorly, im saying carbon freezing was probably common for transport of (possibly hazardous/volatile) materials, but only occasionally used for humans if it was even legal to do so (maybe it was considered unethical), so Vader modified equipment designed for non human use in Empire. But if you had a facility designed for use on humans, or had the engineers to modify one, you could use it so it would make sense that shady bounty hunters would and that both the Empire and the Jedi temple would have the resources to create their own solutions. I don’t think the clone wars ruined it, especially since it’s an interesting, different use of the concept than in Empire.
Dave Filoni deserves some big praise for what he has accomplished in Star Wars storytelling over the past few years. He honed his skills directly under Lucas (with Clone Wars), and carried on some of his best qualities in his work. I hope Filoni continues to build and expand the universe. I trust him with the franchise more than anyone else right now.
Dave actually gives a shit. Is is a 501 member and cosplays ploo koon. Kat Kennedy reminds me of my successful sister that has a personal elevator in her house. Smart successful but ultimately disconnected from society but means well
If he did clone wars then this could be good. Big fan of the Lucas era Clone Wars series, and I don't watch much animated anythings but I was a fan of that series.
Easy. He also directed the worst episode and isn't super adept with live action as of yet. There is no one man who is a lone savior. But he makes a solid team with Favreau and I think Debra Chow is their best director.
You know what would've been great? When if the Mandolorian was debating to save Baby Yoda, he would look back at the compound, then back towards his ship, then back towards the compound, then shout, "NOOOOOO!" and throw the scientist guy down a shaft. That would've made me understand his motivation way better since I had no idea what was going on there.
I doubt we'll get a re:View episode for Season 2 even though I would like to see it. Given the universal acclaim for Season 2 there is a lot of fan service in it which goes against what these guys didn't want to see in Season 2.
The Reason the Mandalorian works so well, is that it doesn't play down to children. Like a good mystery movie, they leave a lot of the story up to the viewer. They don't narrate everything that isn't explained, effectively boring the viewer to death. They leave questions, curiosities, that eventually get answered, but not by a narrator and it's not immediate. There is a payoff for the answers and it's worth waiting for. So many shows have forgotten this, about how the viewer's interest in a show.
