The Mandalorian Chapter 11: The Heiress (directed by Bryce Dallas Howard, written by Jon Favreau, original air date November 13, 2020) was a triumphant return to the writing desk by our man Jon.
We have to suffer through some more ship-based humiliation, wherein Razor Crest looks like a complete pile of unreliable junk, literally losing pieces in space as it limps along. Then it has a "difficult water based landing episode". Then it gets "repaired" by what seems to be a practical jokester Mon Calamari. It's tough to watch our ship be so terribly mistreated.
However! We get much more excitement in return! We meet Bo-Katan Kryze and her small band of merry Mandos (Koska Reeves and Axe Woves).
We get to meet Frog Man to go with Frog Lady and her spawn eggs. They even get to babysit baby Yoda for awhile (and we get to hope that baby Yoda doesn't try to eat one of their kids). In other food related news, on this planet (moon) of Trask the seafood chowder fights back, apparently. Let's be honest, baby Yoda deserves a setback or two in the eating department.
The Mandalorian: [to the Child] Don't play with your food.
We also get to see an Imperial Gozanti-class cruiser in real life. That's cool. We also get to see 4 jet pack-equipped Mandos attack the vessel as its taking off. So cool! For some reason they station stormtroopers on the outside of the ship (along a catwalk-like structure Nate would love) during take-off. Interesting. We also have to ignore that Bo-Katan says there'd be just a "squad" (i.e. 8) of stormtroopers aboard. When they seem to have to fight about 30 or so.
Bo-Katan: You see that Imperial Gozanti freighter? It's being loaded with weapons as we speak. According to the port's manifest, it's scheduled to depart at first light.
The Mandalorian: So we stow away?
Koska Reeves: We've been hitting 'em pretty hard. They scan for life forms as a precaution before pushing back.
The Mandalorian: If you wanna do this with four, you're gonna need the element of surprise.
Bo-Katan: Exactly. The freighter will maintain trawling speed while inside the shipping lanes and then ascend in orbit. We'll jet up when they're cruising in atmosphere. The tower won't allow them to climb until they've left the port's airspace.
The Mandalorian: Troopers?
Bo-Katan: A squad, at most.
Axe Woves: And they couldn't hit the side of a bantha.
As the episode ends we get one more Razor Crest humiliating moment when shown the sad state of the repairs...
The Mandalorian: [disappointed by the repairs to his ship] Mon Calamari. Unbelievable.
...and one more moment of Mando having to save baby Yoda from a sea-based creature who becomes the Child's food.
All in all, a great episode, especially as it introduces us to more Mandalorians, and gives us our first solid lead on a real-live Jedi to contact: none other than Ahsoka Tano! This is getting very good, indeed!
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