Welcome back to The Real World According To Sam! Today is Force Friday and we're picking up where we left off last week. Today, we are going to talk about the sixth episode of the Disney + original series, The Mandalorian.
Chapter 6: The Prisoner
Directed by: Rick Famuyiwa
Story by: Christopher Yost
Teleplay by: Christopher Yost & Rick Famuyiwa
Synopsis:
The Mandalorian is part of a crew of mercenaries springing a convict from a prison ship.
Review:
Chapter 5 is directed and written by Rick Famuyiwa and Christopher Yost. We talked about Famuyiwa's work back in Chapter 2. Christopher Yost, however, is a brand new name in our cast listing. Yost has mainly worked as a writer for numerous animated shows, including X-Men: Evolution (2003), The Batman (2004), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2005), and Star Wars: Rebels (2016). He also had a writing credit on the movie, Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He has a decently diverse writing portfolio and he is familiar with popular animated action heroes.
This episode starts off with the Mandalorian's ship docking at an unknown location. He comes across a man named Ran, who he has an apparent history with. He is there to complete a job. The job is a prison break. The Mandalorian joins up with a 4-person crew and we get a little more backstory about what the Mandalorian has done in his life before being joined by the most adorable little alien the galaxy has ever seen. Things kick up from there, and boy, do things KICK UP.
The crew is made up of four characters apart form the Mandalorian. They include Mayfeld, Burg, Zero, and Xi'An. Mayfeld is a human, Burg is a Devaronian, Zero is a former protocol droid, and Xi'an is a Twi'lek. This episode gives us a broad, diverse cast in true Star Wars fashion. Like the last episode, this one starts off with quite a bit of talking and includes more than most episodes up to this point. This show uses a lot of chirping between characters to establish tension and develop some of the Mandalorian's backstory, up to a limited point. There is definitely lots of tension and you can tell Mandalorians as a culture are perceived very differently to different people within the galaxy.
In this episode, we get to be out in space for a bit, before we get on a ship belonging to the New Republic. As I've mentioned before, this show takes place five years after the fall of the Empire. This is also long before the First Order, so we are in the timeframe in between movies. Despite being post-Empire, we do get to see some familiar headgear on one of the extras in the episode. That was pretty cool in keeping with the visual style of the original films.
This concludes another Force Friday review. I'll see you next week to talk about the next episode of The Mandalorian.
The action in this episode is amazing. It shifts from one task, to a completely different one by the end, without becoming dull. All throughout, it is a fun ride, once the ride starts. I have to say this episode starts off much slower than the rest, and I'm not crazy about that. Once it gets going fully (about 15 minutes or so in), I was definitely onboard for it. We get to see the Child a little bit. It's enough to be relevant to the episode, but not nearly enough to satisfy our desire to see more of it. Also, there are a lot of scene cuts and transitions compared to previous episodes. There are so many characters at the forefront that we continually have to cut away to see where they are and what's going on behind the main action. A cool thing about this is we get to have more of a tense, horror-ish vibe. We have more red tones present than in previous episodes. That was new and I definitely enjoyed it. I like that the show leads to a lot of different visual styles and director visions. However, I just feel like there were too many different focuses at one point and it felt a little choppy compared to normal. It also wraps up rather quickly compared to how much time it took us to get to the main part. The finale itself is well-done, poetic even, but the tie up just before that was way too quick. However, I am curious to see what some of the actions in this episode might lead to in the future of the show.
This episode has some great action sequences and sets a different tone than previous episodes. We get to know a little bit more about our titular character, but we only see a little of our favorite alien baby. We get some visually cool sequences, but it also takes a lot of chatter to get to the really cool stuff. I give The Mandalorian Chapter 6 a Lone Star rating of ✯✯✯✯. It's a good episode, and once it kicks up it takes off, but there were some little things I was able to nitpick at this time that brought it down for me. This is still a great episode, don't get me wrong, but I would definitely rate it under some of the other ones we have already talked about. Next time, I want to see more baby Yoda, less chatter, and maybe a few less characters at the forefront the way this one does. Having so many makes for major challenges, but it also diverts a lot of time away from my favorite parts of the show.
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