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Thank you Jon Favreau. Not only did you bring Ironman into the world, starting the best cinematic universe of the last 15 years, you have brought back my love and undoubtedly every Star Wars fans love for what George Lucas originally began. I have waited for the second season and you have not disappointed. Great vision and excursion and I can't wait for the next episode.

All I can say is .... BRING ON THE NEXT ONE!!!! This was so brilliant!! What an opening for a second season!! So greatful to be alive!

How 52 minutes pass so quick?? Back to beloved and familiar places and faces ,the cinematography is so beautiful and the story great .... please give these guys a movie

First off, WOW, the scale of this episode is absolutely epic and quiet the redemption from "The Gunslinger" and giving Tatooine a great episode. I was worried going in this was going to be a bit more childish because season one became the show of the year but it seems to have kept the same tone as the first season which is always a plus. Overall this episode feels like the beginning of a better season without unnecessary episodes (episode 4 5 and 6 even though I like 4 and 6) that seem to just drag out the episode count. Once again Jon Favreau for CEO of Lucasfilm and Dave Filoni for Creative Officer at Lucasfilm, This is the way, I have spoken.

Such a great start to Season 2. This episode has it all! Can only hope the others follow-suit.

Unless I'm missing something major... I do not see how this is a 10/10 episode at all. There's some cool fan-service and entertaining action scenes, but overall this episode felt like it belongs in the stretch of 'filler' episodes in season 1. This was a decent episode and a fun start to the season, but it comes nowhere close to the proper 10/10 episodes in season 1. I hope the show can forge its own world-building rather than relying on existing Star Wars settings and characters, but unfortunately it appears that Season 2 is going all-in on fan-service.

I hate this type of episode. The episodes where Mando has to help a town of people I don't care about from a big cgi thing; it was there in season 1 and it's here too. All this episode led up to was an empty fight against a monster and nothing more. The visuals were good, the music department never fails, cinematography is great as always. But just it fell flat. Hope this season gets back on track.

I watched this show a few months ago but l didn't review it. With The Book of Boba Fett coming out, I thought it would be a good time to re watch, and review The Mandalorian.

They started this season at a crazy pace. This episode was the longest, craziest, and biggest episode in the series. This episode was 100% based off a western. First of all, it was set in a desert, it also had the gunslinger aspect. When Mando, the Marshall, his village people, and the sand people teamed up to fight the dragon, I knew the end of the episode would be big, and it was. It was so big the aspect ratio changed to full screen to get a full affect when the dragon came out of its cave. There were also a few hints in this episode. The first one was in the hangar when R5 from A New Hope made an appearance. The second was at the very end of the episode, so I won't spoil it, but true Star Wars fans will know who it is when they see it. I just thought those two hints were cool to add.

Didn't think season 7 of Justified would look like this but I'm glad this is the direction they're going

After nearly a year The Mandalorian is back and it didn't disappoint. The quality of the production is looking better, great cinematography, and the stunning score. Some of the moments were cheesy, but it's part of the fun. Bring on the next episode with that fantastic ending.

All I can say is this show keeps providing us with fantastic entertainment. The 50 minutes went by super fast, and the streak continues for good episodes. Inject the rest of the season into my veins, we are only in the first episode. I give this episode an 8.6/10 for being fun as hell.

The Mandalorian goes to Tatooine to find another rumoured to be like him.

This is a strong episode that taps into the nostalgia and familiarity that many fans seek and does it in a way that fits in well with the plot.

The plot has a fairly simple monster-of-the-week structure but we have some nice themes about cultural differences and cooperation for the greater good. All of this is driven by content that provides top quality service to the fans of the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy.

It's opening sequence is superb and is a great example of how to start a series by wowing an audience and hooking them at the same time. It slows down a bit in the middle for some exposition but ends pretty explosively and with a cool reveal.

All performances are good, particularly Timothy Olyphant who could play that type of role in his sleep. I hope we get to see him again in the show.

The visuals are once again fantastic but in this episode it feels even more epic with all these amazing landscapes used to spectacular effect. This series appears to have raised the potential of what a television show does technically.

Finally something well scripted and well directed to watch these days.

Jon Favreau is pure genius.

Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... Beneath this mask... Yess Timothy Olyphant yeaaaah...

Timothy Olyphant was probably the sweetest surprise of the year for the TV world. amazing person and incredible actress. In addition, 'Jon Favreau' didn't forget his buddy 'John Leguizamo' in the episode that he wrote and directed. The two great actors made a great season debut in "The Mandalorian".

Congrats Jon Favreau

What a fantastic premiere. Amped up the production in a huge way. The western aspect of the series is played up even more (which I love) and it's chock full of familiar character types well known by Star Wars fans. Also, whoever said, "Hey, let's cast Timothy Olyphant," deserves a massive pay raise. Even in full costume I recognized him immediately from his signature walk. Pumped for the rest of the season to say the least.

Fantastic start to a a new season. Love the music, acting, very good story and a solid start. Look forward to the rest of the season

I'm baffled by all the positive reviews of this episode. It's one cliche after another, as though the writers just stirred a basket of stereotypes and then laid them out in a string. Poor direction, too. What a disappointment.

There's the thuggish mob boss at the fights scene; the obligatory punch-em-up scene; the motorbike scene; the decrepit Western town scene; the dusty bar with scruffy characters scene; something from Dune; the cool white guy drinking native hooch with the natives scene; something from a 1950s Tarzan movie with the natives stumbling around screaming and getting munched up by the monster; a flamboyant final blow by the hero scene that eclipses everyone else.

It's also strikingly unoriginal with the series itself, regurgitating last season's material with all the unique twists taken out. The enigmatic Child is reduced to cute sight gags, and Oliphant's character is cut and pasted from Deadwood with none of Bullock's originality and charm. The giant heaving CGI monster coming out of the dark cave gets everything wrong that the mudhorn scene got right.

The direction is, off, too, more rushed and mechanical, and making dumb mistakes, like having two men conduct a conversation in living-room tones while hurtling along 20 feet apart on two motorbikes at what looks like 60 mph.

Add to this a plot that makes no sense whatever (why would the Mandalorian strike any kind of deal for the armor?) and you have a silly episode that strips away all the mystique so carefully developed in the first seadon. Even the beautiful, haunting tenor-recorder theme music, so original that numerous articles were written about it, nearly disappears here, being larded up with orchestral bilge.

If the rest of the season is this bad, this series is toast, which would be a real shame.