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The latest episode of The Mandalorian is called ‘The Pirate’ and naturally is all about the pirate threat that’s underlying things. Finally we get a real push forward of two quite major storylines, one about the missing supervillain Moff Gideon and one about Bo-Katan and her efforts to lead all of the Mandalorians. Both plots are kicked by the same thing, our old buddy Carl Weathers as Greef Karga and his city on Nevarro getting bombed by the returning swamp monster pirate and his bomber ship.
Some of the logical bits of the Nevarro citizens are a bit inconsistent — apparently most of them escape bombardment and I guess none are killed? And when we see the fleeing citizens it’s not even a hundred people — seems pretty small for even this small city, but I guess they didn’t really have the capacity for a lot of extras.
The actual fight gets initiated by the return of Kim’s Convenience actor Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as starfighter Captain Carson Teva and his desire to help out a bunch of innocent people. After getting stymied by a Coruscant bureaucrat (an always welcome Tim Meadows) and the ridiculously obviously still evil and Imperial-loyal Elia Kane, he notes that there seems to be some unusual pattern of something going on and boy isn’t it suspicious about Moff Gideon being ‘missing’?
The following battle between the Mandalorian cult and the pirates in practical makeup (which was a lot of fun to see) was a decently tight, fast-paced set of action moments with some very basic battle strategies and a fun little moment when the Armorer (and leader, I guess, of the cult) completely bodies a bunch of random pirates.
She also seems to have something in mind when it comes to bringing the rest of the Mandalorian exiles together with the leadership of Bo-Katan — how many are out there I really have no idea about, but we’ve seen a few here and there outside the fairly small group of cultists we have already seen. At least they now have a planet that (if not exactly the coolest place) is independent and without all the crazy predators they had to deal with in the hideout planet.
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It’s a certainly wide-spanning plotline that is actually not really aligned at all with our buddy Mando (Din) and his foundling Grogu. On the other hand, they are certainly still aligned with the missing superboss Moff Gideon, which is the other connected plotline. I have to say I was really expecting Captain Teva to be killed in some sort of trap when investigating Gideon’s destroyed transport ship, but I guess the idea that they’re framing the Mandalorians (or hiring other ones we haven’t seen) is a more interesting plot to go down.
You have to assume Teva won’t be misled so easily and that Kane is mentally assigning him to be killed whenever possible. It’s one of those mixed episodes, it was fun enough and feels like it’s actually moving the season somewhere, but I also feel like we’ve lost track of where it came from with Din and Grogu. I don’t know how well the show will be able to balance all that together, the Disney+ teams of writers have sometimes struggled with handling all those storylines. So I guess we’ll see.
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