THE MANDALORIAN
John Warren Mar 20, 2020. Less than a minute
Fanbyte Evening News March 20, 2020
Here’s your audio roundup for this evening’s news! Direct link here or use the embed below. You can find our Morning, Evening, and Sunday edition short podcasts on the Fanbyte FM feed of your favorite podcatcher.
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Victoria Rose Jan 15, 2020. 3 minute read
Baby Yoda Coming To Build-A-Bear Worries Me A Lot, Honestly
At Build-A-Bear Workshop, anyone looking for a new friend to squish can can get bears, frogs, bunnies, and… The Child? It turns out Build-A-Bear will be the next major toy manufacturer on the Baby Yoda train. According to Business Insider, which had a reporter present at the ICR Conference in…
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Gretchen Felker-Martin Dec 27, 2019. 2 minute read
The Mandalorian Chapter 8 Review: Rocket Mando
If for some reason you’ve been jonesing to see Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul fame) carefully enunciate the phrase “E-Web heavy repeating blaster” then buddy, your ship has come in. Lots of other, less famous people also say it in this episode, as a…
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Gretchen Felker-Martin Dec 18, 2019. 2 minute read
The Mandalorian Chapter 7 Review: Breaking Dad
There’s a substantial detour in this episode of The Mandalorian during which we see the Ugnaught Kuiil (Nick Nolte) rebuild IG-11 (Taika Waititi) and teach it to stack crates and serve tea. Director Deborah Chow, far and away the best of the season’s otherwise lackluster hands at the helm, shoots the…
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Gretchen Felker-Martin Dec 14, 2019. 2 minute read
The Mandalorian Chapter 6 Review: Jailhouse Schlock
A critic’s work is to approach art on its own merits, to evaluate it in the rich and ever-changing context of human creative endeavor. Nit-picking an artist’s work is seldom productive — but sometimes it’s all there really is to do. The Mandalorian’s sixth episode begins with Mando docking at…
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Gretchen Felker-Martin Dec 7, 2019. 2 minute read
The Mandalorian Chapter 5 Review: The One With Amy Sedaris
There’s an odd quality to most of The Mandalorian’s guest appearances and secondary characters. Maybe it’s just the substandard script, or the unconvincing CGI panoramas, or the fact that most of the time the only person they have to bounce off of is masked and fully unresponsive. They feel almost…
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Gretchen Felker-Martin Dec 1, 2019. 2 minute read
The Mandalorian Chapter 4 Review: I Wish They Akira Kurosawouldn’t
Seven Samurai, a film about the life-ruining generational pain of violence, has somehow found itself adapted dozens of times into stories about small squads of cool dudes kicking bandit ass in defense of wholesome peasants. The Mandalorian adds itself to this lineup with its most sentimental episode yet, a treacly…
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Cameron Kunzelman Nov 23, 2019. 3 minute read
Where the Hell is Video Games’ Version of Baby Yoda?
Recently, the internet has caught wind of something so maximally cute and memeable that it has shot its conceptual tendrils through our entire media ecosystem: Baby Yoda. The small creature is of the same species as Star Wars master Jedi/rude-ass gremlin, Yoda, and it is the breakout star of the…
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Gretchen Felker-Martin Nov 22, 2019. 3 minute read
The Mandalorian Chapter 3 Review: The Babysitter’s Club, Vibroknife, Etc.
The writing’s still weak, the score’s still hit or miss, and the show still doesn’t trust its audience, but The Mandalorian’s third episode is where space rubber finally meets space pavement. Violence with teeth and the show’s first real traces of recognizable acting along with director Deborah Chow’s welcome flare…
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Gretchen Felker-Martin Nov 16, 2019. 2 minute read
The Mandalorian Chapter 2 Review: Fire and Forget
If you’d asked me to name the thing I’d least like to see from any piece of Star Wars media, my immediate answer would have been “onscreen Jawa murder.” As it turns out it’s even less pleasant to watch than I’d imagined, though it’s The Mandalorian’s total disinterest in the…
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Gretchen Felker-Martin Nov 12, 2019. 2 minute read
The Mandalorian Chapter 1 Review: No Risk, Little Reward
A guy walks into a bar. There the otherwise nameless titular Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) breaks up a brewing confrontation between patrons, shows himself to be ruthless rather than altruistic when thanked, and leaves with his hapless mark in tow. It’s the classic mysterious gunman setup, throwing the protagonist into the…
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