The Mandalorian S2E7 "The Believer" Full Uncut REACTION!
Added 2020-12-12 01:29:41 +0000 UTCHey there PATRONS!
HOW AAAAAHHHHH YA!?
We got this weeks, and season penultimate episode of The Mandalorian "The Believer" all ready for ya and we got two specials guests!
Olllll' Billy Redface, Bill Burr is a back in action as Mayfield for this, largely insignificant, but still super fun episode AND....
Our M-Count is super high this episode, cause we're joined by the lovely Amelia to react along with us this week!
We have a blast figuring the dynamics of Space Boston, realizing the scientific formula that if the show has ZERO GROGU than we have a 100% of getting Mando without his helmet, and while getting jazzed that Din pulls a straight up TAKEN moment on Gideon, we (specifically Sean) realize that we really want MOFF GUS TO DO LITERALLY ANYTHING!
ABOVE IS A PICTURE OF SEAN DEMANDING that Favriloni write more than 2 words (and 0 in this particular episodes case) for Giancarlo Esposito per episode, who is approaching Darth Maul in Episode 1 levels of underdevelopment.
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Are we way off about the Moff? Are they gonna off him in the next episode? Did the announcement of the flurry of new Star Wars projects change your read on where this season is headed?
Enjoy the reaction and join us on the YT channel for Mando Monday Livestream this Monday at 7pm Central!
xoxo
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Comments
Under the skin was one of the very best films of the 2010s, easily! You on Discord? We got a whole random Movie/TV section where we talk all kinds of stuff!
Sean TankTop
2020-12-12 21:31:52 +0000 UTCThis is totally off the Mando thread. Do you guys have a forum for off topic discussions? I just watched “Under the Skin”. Holy crap! You guys should do a viewing. I’m seriously creeped out right now.
Randy
2020-12-12 21:29:41 +0000 UTCYeah Bill Burr out of nowhere just flexed a fat acting muscle in that scene, I'm so genuinely surprised at how good he was
Patrick Boyda
2020-12-12 18:57:12 +0000 UTCYeah leave us wanting just a LITTLE bit more
Patrick Boyda
2020-12-12 18:55:59 +0000 UTCI totally shoulda! I def thought of you when it happened!
Sean TankTop
2020-12-12 17:03:51 +0000 UTC2 episodes in a row I had predictions come true! In the 201 comments I said Mando and Boba would be allies, and last episode I said Burr would be busted out by the end of the cold open. Congrats Jai! You are sooo good at predicting things. Aw geez, c’mon 😊 I just got lucky.
Jai Nelson
2020-12-12 12:29:49 +0000 UTC@Sam omg bring it!! I know he’s gonna have to exert himself a lot physically but I want a bit more of that Richard Brake action from him. That whole screed about how people want order and we’ll be back stronger than ever was chilling! Give that shit to Giancarlo he’ll kill it so hard!
Sean TankTop
2020-12-12 09:18:29 +0000 UTCYeah, I get that & we all want to see more Giancarlo although I do enjoy the foreboding “here’s where the Baddies are” scenes at the end/near end of the episodes. Hopefully though they’ve been saving up their Giancarlo screen time minutes for a huge monologue-to-end-all-monologues in the season finale. 😂
Sam Coleman
2020-12-12 09:15:54 +0000 UTCI really like how truly nervous and out of his element he felt having to do that whole scene. Prolly my fave up and down scene of just performances in a long time.
Sean TankTop
2020-12-12 09:14:31 +0000 UTC(And we also got Pedro’s lovely face as a backdrop to the scene as well!)
Sam Coleman
2020-12-12 09:12:50 +0000 UTCDude! Simon! That scene was legit I think THE most like subtle acting scene in the entire show thus far! Just two performers trying to 'win' the respective moment. It was tension but ratcheted up in a more mature way! I loved it! Gimme more of that! OLLLL Billy Redface and Richard Brake KILLED it!
Sean TankTop
2020-12-12 06:28:37 +0000 UTCI think that's all very well said. I do appreciate it was as close to a character study of an episode that we've gotten for both Din, Mayfield and a bit of the Empire. It all informed their development to varying degrees much more than previous episodes. I liked the bits of gray area that the show was able to track and the show has never not been fun to watch. I would disagree with characterizing Gideon as Vader-esc though. Vader, man of few words as he is/was, is auditioning for Henry VI compared to Moff. I would bet every tanktop I own that the amount of screen time and literal words uttered by Vader on the Tantive IV and the Death Star with Tarkin in ANH's first half hour contains more dialogue and flourishes of motivation & back story than roughly 4+ hours of storytelling that we've had since Gideon first showed up and gave the order to blow away Werner Herzog (RIP). Vader, and the Empire at large, was always mostly visual imposition on our characters in the OT. And not with a terrible amount of nuance, which this little episode manages to have in droves to awesome effect. But, Vader is in a David Mamet play compared to Moff as far as character development and ethos as a character. In my view. That said, the show and the filmmakers are as monumentally self assured as any working in TV right now and Moff is right where they want him. I'm just having my Kylo Ren moment and want MORE! LOL.
Sean TankTop
2020-12-12 06:22:49 +0000 UTCI see what you did there. The fact that they had him opening his eyes during his dialogue-less scene was a bit over the top.
Sean TankTop
2020-12-12 05:46:22 +0000 UTCThe episode was called believer and I really felt the themes of belief and questioning of beliefs in this episode. We had Mando questioning his belief around his mask - through the transition of changing his mask to finally taking it off. With Bill Burr acting as the vocalisation of Mando’s critical thought process. We also had Mando questioning his beliefs around good and evil - again Burr acting as the critical voice - examining whether the empire is really any different to the republic. The looks of the indigenous people at the sight of a trooper vehicle would be the same if they were republic soldiers so Burr claims. To this argument, Mando then sees the troopers and empire soldiers in a more humanised light as he experiences them for the first time without them seeing him as hostile. But Burr then stumbles upon the fundamental difference between the republic and the empire. This officer who Burr served under didn’t recognise his face, didn’t show remorse for the horror he had caused and whilst Burr’s click moment was only in relation to the empire and he still remains disillusioned to the republic, for Mando this reaffirms that he isn’t totally off on his beliefs. His perception of good and evil aren’t necessarily completely wrong. At the end, Mando reaches a nuance to his beliefs that he didn’t have at the start of the episode. Burr’s disillusionment served as a critical soundboard for Mando to work out that he can still stick to his moral compass whilst adapting to survive. His creed isn’t the be all and end all, the mask can come off though he’d rather it stayed on. For Burr, being released forces him to question his cynicism just a bit, enough to see that these people are ok, specifically Dune, this republic officer who has shown mercy - something the dude from the empire didn’t. This episode really brought together all of Mando’s development from past eps - being questioned about the mask wearing by the other Mandos, seeing the problematic republic cops in the ice spider episode, meeting Ashoka - a disillusioned Jedi /Jedi-ism being another righteous puritanical religion, seeing the horrors of the empire’s occupation and the lesser but still problematic issues with the republic’s occupations. Mando has grown and learnt and is now the father figure he needs to be to rescue lil ‘yo and give him a good life. Loved this ep. Ps. I’m all for the Vader-esc Moff moments
Sam Coleman
2020-12-12 03:24:31 +0000 UTCIt feels like they're leaning a little too hard on Moff Gideon, they definitely need to use him more sparingly and it feels like y'all agree. We should be seeing him MUCH less.
Patrick Boyda
2020-12-12 02:39:31 +0000 UTC
