If you strip away the Star Wars paint....This show would be considered terrible. Dialogue is mostly just exposition, there's barely anything resembling character to any of the characters.

Everything is shot in a compact environment, surrounded by digital screens, there's no depth to any of the environments. Then there's these weird moments, that feel like it's an amateur, fan film production, like in the most recent episode when the pirates are overtaking the town and one of the pirates is roughing up a citizen...I swear he pushes him over in the most gentlest way possible.

It's just a bit laughable....How do we display these new pirate characters reprehensible behavior without them harming any civilians??? Oh, I got it...They wanna drink in a school.

I watched the first three or four episodes and just have very little desire to finish watching. I received no real idea where the series was going, what the overarching plot was, or why I should care. Grogu has no real role anymore, and his presence is becoming sort of weird. And was the Krait Dragon episode really popular enough that we need a constant barrage of monster attacks now?

The show is still beautiful, acting is good. It just sort of lost its way at some point. And yes, as others point out, coming out after Andor is a hard act to follow.

The series has taken a huge dip in quality, and any perceived flaws or/quibbles some might have with the previous seasons can’t be ignored or forgiven anymore.

In the latest episode I had to laugh at the plan to run into the open flat land when the pirates bombard the city. We’ve already established there are tunnels and a sewer system under the city. They couldn’t hole up there?

That example is just a minor one with the laziness this episode, and this season, have shown us.

More like The Blandalorian this season.

I'm enjoying it, the bid to reunite the clans and retake Mandalore is really interesting to me and I can see the massive issues that will arise from it eventually and how Din will likely be forced from his own clan too.

The Grogu situation feels like it has reached an impasse currently but that's fine as the show doesn't have to be solely about unearthing the mysteries of Baby Yoda.

I do wonder though given the cameo in the new episode and the bit in the first episode with Grogu if they may alienate people who haven't seen Rebels but that's probably the only thing that occurs to me.

I'm still enjoying it but definitely feel like the quality has gone down a bit. The battle scenes in the latest episode were a bit clowney at times. Felt like Book of Boba Fett (well, not THAT bad)

They either need to go much heavier on Grogu as an independent person from Mando with his own tAsks and needs, or drop him altogether. He doesn’t need to talk, but develop his personality and skills beyond just being cute. The bit where he rescued Din was great. Lets have more of that.

I’ve never been that interested in the Mandalorian civilization, but I wish they would give Din some sort of conflict or real stake in it. It feels like he is just hanging out helping his buddies instead of driving the action.

I do like the action and the imperial subplot, though I hated what they did the new republic in general. I guess I am just resigned.

It's a bit down compared to series one. Personally, I think Grogu shouldn't be in it any more - it's absurd that he lugs around essentially a baby on risky combat missions, although I recognise this is just part of the show I need to accept to engage with it.

I found the Empire infiltration plot interesting - best sequence for me so far was the plight of the Imperial scientist working for the New Republic now. It was at least interesting and new.

I also like the general Mandalorian rebuilding plot - we'll see where they go with that.

Weak plots have been everything involving giant monsters attacking foundlings, an overused idea. I found them boring and also kind of dumb.

Awful. Especially coming off Andor, which was one of the best shows of a stacked 2022.

Mando has never been a good show. Seasons 1 and 2 were not good TV if you take out the Star Wars paint. This season, the Star Wars paint has been spread so thin (Boba and Obi-Wan being dogshit doesn't help), that the lack of production quality, fan film dialogue and acting, and absence of story depth is more apparent than ever. This show is directionless and I hope it continues to fade from public consciousness. Bringing Grogu and Mando back together in a spinoff show wiped away what little this string of shows had going for them.

Just counting down the days til Andor S2. And more Bad Batch, I really liked Season 2.

Looks cheap and story isn’t propelling forward at all, very very disappointed with it so far

First season was amazing. 2nd was mediocre. 3rd is trash. Thank god for Andor.

It's so rudderless.

When one of the showrunners said there's no plan for it i knew it would just going to meander.

It's so directionless that when Bo-Katan shows up at Mando-Land or whatever they called their hideout she automatically took control and noone complained. it was fucking bizarre.

Couple that with Pedro not being there on set at all (he's a voice in a helmet worn by another actor) and it's just a fricken cartoon. I mean it always was kind of just a cartoon in 'live action' but it's worse without any overarching plot.

how should we feel when the protagonist is no longer the protagonist in this own show?

Complete let down to me. Terrible writing, horrible pacing. I miss when the show had Din Djarin as a lead instead now its (just like Book of boba fett was) a star wars multiverse show even more than what they did to Season 2, they should have made the episodes longer so it didnt feel like the main character was sidelined, this is without even mentioning how they reverted the season 2 finale in Book of Boba Fett. Theres some well done scenes (like the Coruscant part or the last scene from ep 5) but the rest seems to be rushed. Feels like Im watching book of boba fett again with the cheap sets and cheap production. Episode 5 watching the mandalorians fight the pirates while the 30-40 people (apparantly the whole town) sat watching felt like I was watching Power Rangers. Really makes me miss how well done Andor was, a show that actually was good beyond the Star Wars elements.

I think it's maybe suffering from coming off the back of Andor, I also think the pacing of the season has been a bit off for some reason but hopefully that will improve now that they're getting further into the story (I'm actually not sure how many episodes there are in each season so I may be way off thinking pacing will improve).

The scene with the kid mando fighting a literal baby with a paintball gun was some of the funniest shit I’ve seen. It felt like a joke and looked absolutely terrible, especially with the Mando encouraging him hahahaha

I've watched the first four episodes and I'm finding it hard to get the motivation to continue watching. Pretty bored with the show at this point. I think the grogu character should never have been created.

It’s a live action cartoon.

That can be a sleight or a compliment depending on how you feel.

Andor was a great show. Mando is a fun one.

Edit: to add, I say this as someone who always thought mandalorian was overrated.

I liked the setup of season 2 finale, the reunification of Mandalorians and retaking of Mandalore, mostly because I hoped we would see other Mandalorians and Din questioning the "creed" but we've been stuck with Space Taliban. I hoped that Bo Katan may cause some reflection on the silliness of the creed, but nope, she's a Taliban too now.

I swear Star Wars nerds are their own worst enemies. The show is exactly the same quality it's been since the beginning. It got pitched as a Western like the Lone Ranger, and yet people out of nowhere are like "What's the point of this show?" The point of the show is to watch Mando be badass while Grogu gets into shenanigans. That's it. That's the show. Not everything has to be Andor, especially something as campy as Star Wars.

I enjoy it. My friends are complaining that it's meandering, but I found the first 2 seasons meandering as well. Lots of side quest.

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I enjoy the neato creature designs.

It sucks

I havent seen season 3 yet. I watched andor and then started mando and within minutes I felt like the same love and care wasnt shown. Andor season 1 seemed like they took their time and a labor of love. And im not saying there wasnt love in mando season 3 but maybe the rushed nature of production was showing compared to andors more film like composition. It seemed like a step down. Im waiting for the season to end to binge it and im sure ill enjoy it. maybe they should take some time off before season 4 to really make the show big again. would be cool if they shot on film or made it look as good as andor.

My biggest gripe is pacing. The episodic weekly release structure is the wrong format now for what they're doing. I feel like I'm watching highly disjointed chunks of a movie rather than a show with episodes.

Some things feel too slow and others way too fast. They've lost the elements of good storytelling that could cover up some of the other issues.

I'm also in the camp that Grogu doesn't need to be in this season and his return in BoBF was way too early. Everything he's done could have either been someone/something else or just cut with very little quality loss. I loved seeing his rescue but it wasn't necessary to that plot and could have waited.

I think it would have been better to have Grogu return after they reclaim Mandalore - whatever that means be it the planet or the culture.

Can’t tell ya, the Boba Fett show was too shitty to watch so now I’m not caught up. I don’t think I’m ever going to be bored enough to so I guess no more Mandalorian for me.

Just to focus on the positive: more Bo Katan, more Katee Sackhoff

I love it, I love her, all hail the Queen of Mandalore or whatever the title is. Can't wait to see her ride a mythosaur with one hand like a cowboy on a bucking bronco

It feels so disjointed this season. I have no clear understanding of the story arc this season. I had thought that it would be Din’s redemption journey but that was wrapped up in the second episode. That was a fun episode but I have no idea why they had the whole need to rebuild IG-11 in the first episode then dropped that plot point altogether. But I guess the pirates were supposed to be the focus? Although they were quickly dealt with in the most recent episode.

Episode 3 was a poor Andor-esque glimpse into the issues of the New Republic. It just felt jarring and hasn’t really flowed with the next few episodes.

There have been a couple of fun episodes but overall I’m starting to lose interest.

Andor has spoiled me when it comes to dialogue and storytelling. I don’t care about perfect sets or bad CGI, but give me actual dialogue between characters. Repeating “This is the way” multiple times doesn’t cut it.

Exposition is fine, but I’m not feeling any character motivations or any sense of urgency or tension from any of the characters.

I could go on, but in the end it doesn’t matter. The Mandalorian gets higher ratings than Andor did, so there is no motivation for Disney to make any changes.

Yeah, I dropped the show( for now), the dialogue is so weird almost as if its setting the next "action" sequence. I actually hoped that the Grogu storyline was done at the end of s2(which was just okay tbh). Its a massive drop in quality from when the show started.

I will eventually finish s3 but not sooner.

The training sequence in The Founding episode was poorly done and while I like the Pershing character and most of his sequence, it dragged too long and was repetitive.

Aside from that, the structure has more direction and production all around has improved by a lot. The connecting tissue both story wise and tone and texture being developed across the shows is also getting more interesting and fluid. Their current approach just might mitigate some of the damage from the Sequels.

Din is the Mad Max of Mando's who propels the development of other key Mando characters who are all at different stages of being a Mandolorian along with other characters across the galaxy.

The show runners need to be more self critical and tighten up the show around the more cringy or dragging scenes and sequences, but I feel like you're trying to be that guy with this post. You even take a jab at the fan base with pretty lazy generalizations as if you're one of the few who aren't fooled by some kind of sinister attempt by the show runners to tank the franchise.

They had me at Purrgils. I think I’m mostly excited for tidbits about Ahsoka but maaaybe Grogu ends up mattering to that story too.

The Skywalker saga is so uninteresting after IX that the First Order hints are not very engaging imho.

It feels like the Bo Katan show. I didn't watch Clone Wars and nothing she's done in the Mandalorian has made me even remotely interested in her character.

Mando himself has no purpose, unlike the previous two seasons (and season 2 was just a bunch of cameos and backdoor pilots). Bathing in the waters of Mandalore was wrapped up in the second episode. What's his goal now?

Episode 4 was the best one (saving the Foundling from the nest) and even that didn't contribute anything to the overall plot. I guess that one Mandlorian (Visla? The big guy with the laser minigun) is less of a jerk but that's really it. Pedro Pascal's performance feels phoned in and it's sad how obvious it is when something is shot using The Volume; about 100 Mandalorians training in the same spot when they have a huge cliffside area to do it in is a dead giveaway. And I'm normally not the best at noticing that kind of thing.

Show took a nosedive in quality starting from season 2, when the show got popular and the suits inevitably meddled. Couldn't be bothered to start season 3 when I saw that they had put part of the Mandalorian's plot in Boba Fett.

My theory is the showrunners of the Mandalorian and Picard have switched places and aren't telling anyone.

I like it

I enjoy each episode but the story overall is disjointed. It appears that it’s all starting to come together though.

I like it! I want to see what they do with the darksaber, like will Din learn to wield it or will Bo challenge him for it?

I mean it's still good all things considered but for what is basically one of if not the biggest and most anticipated shows on at the moment this isn't living up to the hype. The writing, the stories, the action, the sets, it's all just ok.

I like it. I really only want The Mandalorian to be a series of disconnected episodes so I don’t mind the criticism that it’s not building to anything. I hated season 2 for getting way too big with too many characters and I really just wanted ”The Adventures of Mando and Baby Yoda Just Doing Things I Guess.”

Like, I actively didn’t want Luke Skywalker and the return of a great evil in my Mando show. I just want a monster of the week show.

It’s not perfect but it’s way better than I thought it’d be when Luke Skywalker showed up last season. It also clearly was shot around Pedro Pascal’s availability.

This show is awesome but not as deep as y’all have convinced yourself it was between seasons 2 and 3. That’s why you feel a dip in quality. Check your expectations against reality. It’s a fun weekly adventure show. Always has been. Still is.

This is Iron Man 2, but for Favreau Star Wars.

It doesn't make a lot of internal sense, it isn't very fun to watch, there's a ton of money being thrown at it and it looks really good, but it's just extremely half-assed and disappointing as a television show, although it's very likely this will end up being key to 3 or 4 other Star Wars shows that will follow after it.

(Worth noting: For all the setup Iron Man 2 ended up doing for the larger MCU, it's still arguably bottom 3 all-time Marvel films, and Favreau was removed from the creative teams going forward. Probably won't happen here, though)

Mandalorian doesn't know how to be what it was, and all it really wants to do is set up a bunch of other shit. Favreau is 100% focused entirely on MYTH and "LORE" and the problem is that he sucks at that shit, and also, it's not that important to why the show was beloved in the first place.

Mandalorian S3 is primarily now setup for the live-action Rebels sequels that Ahsoka and Skeleton Crew will likely end up becoming. And that version of Star Wars, might finally be what people have been hoping Star Wars would become for awhile now (a completely separate-from-the-saga thing set way far away from anything familiar) but it looks a lot like Mando S3 is gonna suffer for it.

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I thought redeeming himself in the waters would be the whole series but nope, they did it in 2 episodes.

The pacing of this season just feels very weird, needs more than 8 episodes IMO.

I watched 15-20 minutes of episode 1 and just couldn't do any more. Between the kid's helmet (from the intro with giant gator thing) looking like they bought it from target, the space pirates saying shit like "aye, avast yee Mandolorian", and the pirate captain looking like he was made out of green party streamers....I just checked out. No thanks, moving on.

Only managed one episode, I realised that I needed to of seen book of fett so felt a bit lost, but mostly I was super aware that it wasn't andor and I really want more andor.

All I have to say positively about it is the problems it's shown the New Republic having in season 3 and 5 are sort of interesting. I like seeing what is in effect the rebels have the problems of governing and policing rather than just inexplicably seeing them be rebels again like in the sequels. That's about it though, there is shockingly little plot in this show and Grogu is getting old to me.

I have not seen season 3 yet and while I enjoyed the first 2 seasons I never saw the hype. It wasn’t until I watched Andor that I got what I wanted from a Star Wars show. I feel like the show is the same as it’s always been, but people are now liking it less because they saw the potential that a Star Wars show has after watching Andor. Andor was probably the first show on Disney+ that actually felt serialised. I mean plenty of them were but they didn’t really feel like shows, but stretched out movies.

I'm loving it.

I am enjoying it! I think the first 5 episodes of this season are more enjoyable than the first 5 episodes of the previous 2 seasons. I personally like how most of the episodes are longer than the previous seasons as well and it seemed like faster pace.

Seems like I am in the minority here.

It's more like a Saturday morning cartoon for kids than a show for adults now. Which is totally fine, it's still a fun watch but nothing about it lingers in memory.

I think it’s going fine. Why the hell we gotta take sides on this? Like it or don’t but there’s nothing to prove here except you wanna gatekeep Star Wars.

You don’t win anything by convincing people to join your side. Let people have their own opinions.

Hated season 3's premiere. But I personally enjoyed yesterday's episode. I think the Mandalorian story line is decent, especially some of the character development.

I hate the Grogu stuff and think it's just fan service. Even last week's episode had a flashback with a cameo that was clearly meant for fans. Took me out of it tbh.

I also didn't really enjoy the little back door subplot thing going on with the new republic on coruscant. I think they're just trying to save money by decreasing how much Pedro Pascal is in it.

some lazy writing but still enough good stuff to justify watching.

Though I'm worried that we are delving into late-GoT territory. These mysteries they are teasing have hooked my interest. But if the payoff doesn't live up to the expectations (Thrawn) then it's all gonna come down like a House of Cards on them.

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pretty much 1:1 on all the previous dog shit SW content that Disney has been spitting out lately. I have no idea why i am still watching, probably coping or smth