by Mack Olmsted
“The Mandalorian” is back. After waiting a year, fans finally have the return of their favorite show on Disney Plus. The season premiere of season 2 was out of this world. The season starts off with Mando (Din Djarin ) looking for information about where to find more Mandalorian allies so he can return the child (Baby Yoda) to his people. When Mando hears that there is another Mandalorian on Tatooine, he’s intrigued to go back there. He gets information that the Mandalorian is in a small town. Ultimately, the Mandalorian on Tatooine was not really a Mandalorian. He’s called the Marshall; although he wears very familiar armor that die-hard Star Wars fans would recognize – The Marshall wears Boba Fett’s armor.
The Marshall agrees that Mando can have the armor if he helps him kill the krayt dragon that terrorizes his town. So they team up with the citizens from the small town and a tribe of sand people and blow the krayt dragon up. The story is fantastic. It is a mix between a classic western story where a stranger rides into town to help solve a problem and a medieval story where a knight in shining armor slays a monster. The visuals were stunning. Everything in this show just seems so big and it makes you feel like you’re walking on another planet. The krayt dragon is a mountain when compared to the characters in the show. From this first episode, you are reminded why this show was nominated for fifteen Emmy awards.
The second episode of “The Mandalorian” is a different story. Mando meets an alien frog-like person who knows where another Mandalorian is. But to gain the information, Mando has to take her to a planet so she can see her husband. Along the way they get into a fight with New Republic officers and they escape by crashing into an icy planet. On the planet there are these huge spiders that come after them. Mando is close to giving up hope when they’re rescued by the New Republic officers they were trying to escape from to begin with. This could have been the worst episode in the series. Nothing exciting happened in the episode until 26:16. Honestly, it seems like they took a page out of Harry Potter. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets almost the exact same thing happens where there is one big spider who tries to get them while the small spiders just get squashed or in this case burned. Even the creatures in the episode looked fake. It’s like the show knew this episode wasn’t going to be the best so they didn’t even try. I highly recommend “The Mandalorian”, but before you watch, I apologize on the behalf of the show for this episode.