The Mandalorian embraces good old-fashioned Star Wars heroics

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The Mandalorian embraces good old-fashioned Star Wars heroics
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Why be a cult of masked hermits when you can be a cult of planet-hopping, pirate-killing mercenaries?

Teva goes all the way to Coruscant to talk to Tim Meadows, who seems to be a former shot-caller in the Rebellion even though he’s now just some guy behind a desk, and their conversation about things happening on Nevarro draws the attention of none other than former Imperial Officer Elia Kane, last seen brain-blasting Dr. Pershing. Her vibe is even weirder here than it was there, but Tim Meadows just rolls with it and basically refuses to do anything.

Anyway, Teva then tracks down the Mandalorian covert by the big lake, thanks to his old Rebel buddy R5-D4 , and he explains that Greef Karga is in trouble and nobody is willing to help. Din brushes him off, because it’s important to him to always be Too Cool, but as soon as Teva leaves he starts trying to convince the other Mandalorians to help.

Everything from here on out is a lot of fun, with Din blasting pirates in the air as Bo-Katan drops off Mandalorian SWAT teams down to the planet to kill pirates, and the episode keeps cutting back from cool air battles to cool land battles. Even the Armorer gets in on the action, beating a bunch of pirates to death with her hammer. It’s always very cool when she gets in on the action, particularly since it highlights that she’s not just in charge because she likes making helmets .

Well, there is more. The Armorer meets with Bo-Katan and asks her to remove her helmet, explaining that she has proven herself to both these hard-lined Mandalorians and the more freewheeling helmet-removing Mandalorians and therefore seems to be the best person to unite all Mandalorians together—especially since she also saw the fabled Mythosaur on Mandalore.

I’m choosing to take it as a cute meta gag that Zeb was an obvious CG character even though all of Shard’s pirates seemed to be made with puppets and prosthetics, since everyone was a CG character onThe sequence of showing the pirates being all rowdy on Nevarro includes some of them getting drunk on green goo and knocking a big squareDin and Bo-Katan going after the engines of Shard’s ship felt like a mission out of...

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