Frankly speaking, and anyone that has known me here for years knows in what regard I make the following comments, this has been the only thing that ranks with the OT since the OT. TESB has been my favorite, notice the semi past tense. This episode has been the best post anything since the original trilogy films.
I have liked David Filoni with what he has done, but today he has shown that he is and has always been one of us. Period. Jon too. Sign me up for anything Deborah Chow does too from this point on. I went and rewatched this three times while writing this. My little girl now wants to cosplay the Mando Armourer. Done.
I rank the footage of the fight scene that starts around 29.02 as the best film we have seen since ROTJ. Rogue One, which I really, really liked isn't even close to this in my opinion. I know we, as a fandom, have been less than impressed (outside of the awesome Clones) of anything post OT other than glimmers here and there of what our favorite verse can be. The current films have left a lot of us wanting more. This series is giving us what we have wanted for years. Hands down period. End. Set. Match. Whatever you want to call it. I might just be in the euphoria of this latest episode, but like I said, I have been around here for years and haven't been this excited for Star Wars since I was a kid and watched The Empire Strikes Back and saw that Walker roll across the screen.
Hats off to Disney, Lucasfilm, the director and producers I noted above. You had us hooked with the first two episodes, but this one has us all going APE. I find it poignant that SID was saying we were all going to go ape cause I started saying that well before I logged in here and saw those Mandos rocketing into action.
Can you imagine when we see Boba Fett show up? I mean the timeline is right for it. I can't even imagine where we go from here. And giving us a bit by bit explanation of Mando lore from each episode. Priceless.
