My review of The Mandalorian. Enjoy!

I wanted this show to be good. I really wanted to like it. The first season was really good, the second season had the potential to be even better but they fricked it up. I'm mad. I'm just gonna rant.

The last season, specifically the last episode, fricking sucked. The whole show has led up to this and then Mando beats moff gideon like half way through the episode. It's just all that build up and then the problem just gets solved, and they just end up filling the rest of the episode with a sub plot of the dark troopers attacking Mando and the crew. But that gets conveniently solved when Luke Skywalker shows up out of nowhere and just takes Grogu after knowing Mando for less than five minutes. The whole show has built up the relationship between Mando and Grogu and then suddenly luke shows up and takes Grogu away to train him, Mando let's him, and that's just the end of it. What the frick?

And the whole midichlorian blood thing? Never really got explained why the empire wanted it or what their endgame was. The dark saber plot? Resolved in like two minutes. The fight between Gideon and Mando that we've been building up to? It lasts like a minute and ends with mando easily winning in the middle of the episode? The entire relationship between Grogu and Mando that's been developing? It gets resolved in five minutes and Luke just takes the kid after a cheap, predictable emotional moment that everyone knew was going to happen at some point, but it still didn't feel earned because there wasn't really that much buildup because the show spent half the season doing nothing.

The plot could be a lot bigger and it had potential, but it ended up getting packed into a few key episodes with useless filler episodes in between the "plot episodes". Most of the time the plot is barely getting developed, and Mando is just fricking around doing side quests that he has no reason to do or care about and the audience has no reason to care about either. Because the season spent most of it's time on random crap that doesn't matter, the actual plot didn't really get fleshed out.

Sure they're weren't really any plot holes. But the plot was the bare minimum to not be just a bunch of scattered plot points coming out of nowhere. It did the bare minimum to justify getting to the next plot point without it being completely illogical to get to that point.

Rather than a fleshed out plot, it felt like a series of bullet points with the big plot points with no buildup or substance between them, spaced out by cheap filler. Because the plot doesn't really get fleshed out and their isn't much actual plot progression between major plot points, the plot feels rushed. Because the plot is spaced out between filler episodes, it feels like it's barely moving and nothing's happening.

The plot of the show, at least this season, is simultaneously way too fast and boringly slow.

I was kind of disappointed. Was the episode that good? No, but was it ok? Yeah.

Could it have been WAY FRICKING BETTER? Yes.