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#205. 197 – Good News And Bad News
13 Jan 29, 2014
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#204. 196 – Suffering From A Code
12 Jan 22, 2014
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#203. 195 – Oh, You Didn’t Know?
14 Jan 15, 2014
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#202. 194 – Suzie Get Your Gun
16 Jan 08, 2014
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#201. 193 – Got A Bit Of Red On You
17 Dec 25, 2013
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#200. 192 – Bridging An Understanding
23 Dec 18, 2013
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#199. 191 – No Waiting
21 Dec 11, 2013
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#198. 190 – Exceptional Service
22 Dec 04, 2013
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#197. 189 – Bad Mojo
20 Nov 27, 2013
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#196. 188 – Calm After The Storm
18 Nov 20, 2013
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#195. 187 – Drama Surgery
20 Nov 13, 2013
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#194. 186 – Technicalities
19 Nov 06, 2013
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#193. 185 – The Sixth Stage Of Grief
19 Oct 30, 2013
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#192. 184 – La Siesta
19 Oct 23, 2013
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#191. 183 – Communication Breakdown
24 Oct 09, 2013
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#190. 182 – Isolated Incident
18 Oct 02, 2013
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#189. 181 – What Happened Last Night
37 Sep 25, 2013
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#188. 180 – Nothing Up His Sleeve
35 Sep 18, 2013
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#187. 179 – The Most Dangerous Game
39 Sep 11, 2013
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#186. 178 – Revision History
32 Sep 04, 2013
Thoughts on the returning character…
I’ve gushed about The Mandalorian already, and I’m pleased that it has continued to reward my faith. Turns out Dave Filoni is a really good storyteller. He not only has an encyclopedic knowledge and appreciation for Star Wars canon that he didn’t create, but also the stuff he did. Star Wars: Rebels is well worth your time and I just finally got around to watching how he more-or-less seamlessly developed the final season of The Clone Wars so it intertwines with prequel canon and at least tries to make some parts of Revenge of the Sith better by proxy.
Without getting into spoilers, it’s all coming around full circle now. People have been excitedly speculating on some of Filoni’s characters, heretofore confined to cartoon form, making the jump to live-action, and The Mandalorian just recently delivered in a big way and is promising even bigger reveals to come.
But Filoni by all I’ve seen is a humble dude, and one of the things I most appreciate about the episode I just watched on Friday is how he doesn’t hinge the story on you having ever heard of Character X even if the person next to you might be squealing in recognition. You get the gist of things by watching and can connect important dots internally within the confines of the current show (and its previous Season). The important questions are covered and any subsequent Googling or watching/reading of external material is supplemental; enjoyable enhancement but not required.
And that’s great. Some of us met an old friend and some of us met a new one but all of us got a thrill. That’s not an easy balance to pull off, and kudos are in order. And I continue to look forwards to Fridays for the time being in a way which threatens to anchor my quarantine haze.