Cameron and Adam present a spoiler review of The Mandalorian | Chapter 8: Redemption. Join The Infernal Brotherhood of the Scruffy Looking, Nerf Herders on this Star Wars episode review live in YouTube chat and share your thoughts with the hosts & audience.
Show Notes
Cold Open
David Charles Prowse
July 1, 1935–November 28, 2020
David Charles Prowse MBE was an English bodybuilder, weightlifter and character actor in British film and television. Worldwide, he was best known for physically portraying Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy; in 2015, he starred in a documentary concerning that role, entitled I Am Your Father. He is survived by his spouse: Norma Prowse (m. 1963)
Intro
Welcome to The Infernal Brotherhood of the Scruffy Looking, Nerf Herders! This is a live streaming Star Wars video podcast—made by Star Wars fans for Star Wars fans. Today we are continuing our episode reviews of The Mandalorian with Chapter 8: Redemption!
Episode Links
- https://www.starwars.com/series/the-mandalorian/chapter-8-guide
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_8:_Redemption
- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_8:_Redemption
Discussion
- Initial Thoughts
- Episode Details
- Written by Jon Favreau
- Directed by Taika Waititi
- Released on Disney+ on December 27, 2019
- Nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for Ludwig Göransson
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series for Jeff Seibenick
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Esposito’s performance as Gideon
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for Waititi’s performance as IG-11 (the first such nomination for a live-action series)
- Won the award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series.
- Episode Recap
- The child is being brought back with the scout troopers, and wait at the check point,
- The banter is fantastic, and they punch the child and play target practice
- The child is rescued by ig-11 the nursedroid
- Moff gideon uses the threat of an eweb on the mandalorian greef and cara, while they try to escape to the sewers
- Carasynthia dunn is from alderaan
- Decommissioned mandalorian hunter Din jarren
- The night of a thousand tears when the web laid waste to mandalorians
- Disgraced magistrate greef carga
- Moff gideon was identified by din as an ISB office during the purge. He was supposed to have been executed for war crimes
- We learn how din became mandalorian, watching his town raised to teh ground by super battle droids
- Watched him saved by death watch
- Din contacts IG-11 as he brings the child into town, killing troopers on the way
- the battle commences and din uses the eweb against the troops
- Troopers infiltrate the building with cara, while mogg gideon shoots teh eweb battery supply, knocking out din
- Cara, greeg, ig-11 and the child retreat in the building and moff commands troopers to burn them out
- Ig-11 starts cutting through the sewer grate as din orders them to take the child and leave him
- The torch trooper comed in to burn them all and the child uses the force to protect them, redirecting the flames back
- Cara, greef take the child to the sewers and ig-11 removes din’s helmet to heal him
- They rejoin in the sewer and come across mandalorian armor piled up and destroyed
- The armorer explained the emperials arrived after din left in chapter 3 and killed them all. She is staying to salvage what she can
- The armorer tells about the mandalorians and jedi, and explains din must reunite the foundling with its own kind
- The armorer tells them about the underground river for escape and she stays behind, fighting the imperial pursuers
- The mandalorian earns his signet, the mudhorn and declares they are a clan of two, and is given the rising phoenix
- Ig-11, the child, din, cara and greef get on the lava river and are rowed by the modified r series boatman to the lava flats
- They see there are troopers at the mouth, and IG-11 decides to go out to kill them, and self destruct
- Moff comes in his tie and strafes them, din puts on the jet pack and latches onto the tie
- He takes out a tie wing and moff crashes
- cara and greef stay at navaro as din and the child leave to bury kuill then head out looking for the childs people
- Moff gideon cuts his way out of the wreckage with the dark saber
- The child is being brought back with the scout troopers, and wait at the check point,
- Favorite Moment
- Least Favorite Moment
- Hopes for future episodes
Outro
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