Star Wars: The Mandalorian serves up action galore in The Sin

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This week’s episode of The Mandalorian, ‘The Sin’, felt like the start of what the real adventure will be. Starting with Mando following through with his delivery of the child and getting a hefty payday out of it, the glimmer of regret and his questions on what their purpose is for the child is not going over well at all. It was easy to see how things would go.

But before things got moving we had to have another upgrade scene, ditching his ole busted armor for some hot new shiny duds. Though I have to ask how Mando is eating or buying fuel as the last two times he’s been paid went straight onto his body. Does he have a vast bankroll we don’t know about?

During this section we got a little exposition dump from the other Mandalorians in their contempt of the Empire and how their tribe has been driven underground. In addition, the suggestion to seek help from the New Republic is seen as a joke. The only part of the episode I wasn’t feeling had to be during this section. When during the forging, Mando had yet another series of flashbacks. The first time was interesting but I found them a bit forced here and it begs the question how often is his PTSD affecting him? We did however get a flash of what looked like a droid from the prequel era films which tracks seeing as his character would have been a child during The Clone Wars.

Mando also gets ‘Whistling birds’ which by the episodes end we see are little tracker missiles that he seemingly has already used all up after being told how rare they are. That felt like an easy out for a scene while setting up that it isn’t an option again moving forward. A little lazy in writing there.

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One great piece of set up was used in the scene where Carl Weathers tells Mando everyone at the bar got a tracker fob for the child and later they all reactivate. Just a nice visual way to cue us to how deep in it he was.

The physical acting was also very impressive in this episode as Mando, about to go on another hunt, shows his anguish in leaving the child. Without a word or even seeing his face, the physicality just tells you his every emotion.

That leads us to his sneaky though not stealthy assault on the compound. With bombs going off and a murderous rampage, Mando is not messing around. We get to see him use every weapon in his arsenal and get down and dirty with some close up fighting. This leads to a standoff with all of the bounty hunters led by Mister Weathers, yet another great shootout, Old West style, and when all seems lost Mando’s tribe comes to the rescue.

Seeing as how I’m betting we don’t see much of the tribe moving forward, it was nice to see them come together, even the ones who Mando had fought earlier, having the tribe show their sense of honor and why Mandalorians are respected warriors the galaxy over. Eventually setting Mando and child off who knows where with Weathers surviving and I’m sure soon to be in pursuit. Oh and Mando’s line about ‘gotta get one of those’ jetpacks? I’m sure that will be paid off come season’s end.

I didn’t love the episode as much as the first two. I felt like not much happened in terms of moving us forward but rather we got the plot aimed for future adventures. Having the story move off-world promises to lead us to some interesting places.

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