tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post3194048328127303550..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: Force in Focus: The Mandalorian Season 2x02Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-39541650082663024522020-11-30T11:47:11.184-06:002020-11-30T11:47:11.184-06:00This one was a bit of a letdown after the premiere...This one was a bit of a letdown after the premiere, which I loved. I liked parts of this episode -- the Child eating the eggs was equally hilarious and horrific, as Blam mentioned -- but overall I just found it boring. I'm glad a bit of it was on Tatooine, at least, and I liked the callback to the first season's "The Prisoner".Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-80098724175128547602020-11-28T22:36:01.973-06:002020-11-28T22:36:01.973-06:00Glad that was of interest to you… Maybe this will ...Glad that was of interest to you… Maybe this will be too: It was mighty weird — unfortunately so in such a dramatic scene — for us locals to see the characters storm out of the diner and then walk briskly down the street while arguing to end up seconds later in front of a movie theater that’s a good few miles (that you would drive, not walk, especially at night) away. Of course that’s only the case regarding the establishments in our universe standing in for the ones in the film. A movie once included an utterly gratuitous aerial establishing shot purporting to be of the college I attended — that was of some other campus entirely.Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-23702874732585153652020-11-24T19:38:55.658-06:002020-11-24T19:38:55.658-06:00That's my favorite movie and cool to learn abo...That's my favorite movie and cool to learn about the diner. Thanks for sharing!Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02734795370457911188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-43310500681480342312020-11-16T16:23:41.528-06:002020-11-16T16:23:41.528-06:00I know that Frog Lady’s eggs were as yet unfertili...<br>I know that Frog Lady’s eggs were as yet unfertilized, but it was still at least as horrifying as it was amusing to see the Child scarf them down. She’s of an evolved, humanoid species, the eggs were directly in her care, and <i>she was taking them to be fertilized by her mate</i>. The Child’s appetite, combined with an utter lack of regard for consequences, also being responsible for awaking the ice spiders places him squarely in the constellation of natural menaces.<br /><br />Even though we’re enjoying a show that wallows in its tropes, I’m not in love with just how exactly in the nick of time the rescue proved to be, and even worse to me was the pilots saying that now the Mandalorian was out of imminent danger they had no intention of helping him repair his ship. What had they planned on doing if he <i>wasn’t</i> about to be killed when they found him — just let him know things were square, wish him luck getting out, and take off again?<br /><br />A diner near me was used as a location in the film <i>Silver Linings Playbook</i> and now a small plaque marks the booth where Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence sat. No matter how little in-universe sense it makes I so want a plaque in the Cantina noting where Han Solo killed Greedo, with a litany of graffiti arguing back and forth about who shot first.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.com