I just watched episode 1 of season 1 The Mandalorian on Disney+. I was prepared for a somewhat inferior story but was greatly surprised. The script by Jon Favreau was excellent. His sense of humor, sometimes dark, shows throughout the episode. The setting is shortly after the fall of the Empire and wild-west-like anarchy exists on the fringes of the New Republic. The Mandalorian is a bounty hunter operating alone. There is the usual assortment of strange creatures as supporting and background actors, some are very recognizable from the main films. (To say more would be to spoil it.) The CGI and SFX are first-rate. Their credits read as long as for the principle Star Wars films. The landscapes are bleak but beautiful, probably in southwest America or Mexico.
Disney has poured a lot of money into a 40-minute episode. They expect to get it back from the subscriptions, of course.
REVIEW: The Mandalorian
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REVIEW: The Mandalorian
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The next episode will be available Friday and each following Friday for a total of eight episodes this season.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
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Re: REVIEW: The Mandalorian
Tattooine wasn't available? --BobBob Juch wrote:I just watched episode 1 of season 1 The Mandalorian on Disney+. . . . The landscapes are bleak but beautiful, probably in southwest America or Mexico.
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Was there a wall?Bob Juch wrote:The landscapes are bleak but beautiful, probably in southwest America or Mexico.
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Actually, since Death Valley was used in addition to Tunisia for Tattooine, it might have been used in The Mandalorian.Bob78164 wrote:Tattooine wasn't available? --BobBob Juch wrote:I just watched episode 1 of season 1 The Mandalorian on Disney+. . . . The landscapes are bleak but beautiful, probably in southwest America or Mexico.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.