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13 Nov

The Mandalorian: Who Is Mercedes Varnado’s Koska Reeves?

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This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. Chapter 11 of The Mandalorian, “The Heiress,” packs an absolute punch. Not only does the episode mark the live-action debut of Mandalorian warrior Bo-Katan Kryze, who is played once again by the wonderful Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica), but it also brings Mercedes Varnado (better known as the WWE superstar Sasha Banks) to the franchise. After weeks of speculation, we finally learn during the action-packed half-hour that Varnado plays a new Mandalorian character named Koska Reeves. Koska is a member of Bo-Katan’s group of Mandalorian operatives known as the Nite Owls, a faction…
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13 Nov

Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 3 Review – The Heiress

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This STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN review contains spoilers. The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 3 After a Western homage and a puppetry episode, The Mandalorian returns to its “toy box” beginnings in a mixed adventure that’s Star Wars through and through. “The Heiress” wows with some jet pack action and a surprise betrayal, but it also feels less grounded than the other episodes, and not just because of the multiple starship crashes. Bryce Dallas Howard’s direction, seemingly meant to evoke the animated series The Clone Wars, has a slipperiness that makes otherwise thrilling action a bit harder to follow than it should be…
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13 Nov

The Mandalorian Season 2: Bo-Katan Kryze’s Return Explained

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This Star Wars article contains spoilers. A few well-known characters from other parts of the Star Wars saga have already appeared in The Mandalorian season 2, including infamous bounty hunter Boba Fett and Timothy Olyphant’s Tatooine marshal Cobb Vanth. Next up is Bo-Katan Kryze, the character voiced by Battlestar Galactica star Katee Sackhoff in The Clone Wars and Rebels, who reveals in the episode “The Heiress” that she’s on a mission to take back Mandalore from what’s left of the Empire. A Mandalorian soldier who fought to unify her people as an independent society connected to their warrior ideals, Bo-Katan…
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06 Nov

The Mandalorian Spiders Explained: Krykna and Star Wars Movie Connections

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The Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. What seemed like a clear reference to the classic sci-fi horror movie Alien at first turns out to be a major blast from the past easter egg. This week’s episode of The Mandalorian, “The Passenger,” takes us deep into a deadly spider nest where Baby Yoda clearly bites off more than he can chew, all while reintroducing a piece of Star Wars history that goes all the way back to Ralph McQuarrie’s original concept art for the Original Trilogy! Midway through the episode, Mando and Baby Yoda wander into the nest while…
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06 Nov

Why The Mandalorian Doesn’t Know How to Cook Krayt Dragon Meat

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In The Mandalorian season 2 premiere, Din Djarin a.k.a. The Mandalorian a.k.a. “Mando” pulls off perhaps his biggest feat of badassery yet. With the help of some Tusken Raiders and a devastatingly handsome Timothy Olyphant as Tatooine marshal Cobb Vanth, Mando takes down an enormous and fearsome krayt dragon. This means the Raiders get the valuable dragon pearl, Mando gets Boba Fett’s Mandalorian armor back from Vanth, and most importantly: the people of Mos Pelgo and Mos Eisley get some yummy krayt dragon meat. But then, in episode 2 “The Passenger,” something goes horribly awry.  As Mando arrives back in…
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06 Nov

Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 2 Easter Eggs Explained

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This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. The Mandalorian takes on a new job in “The Passenger.” This time, he’s ferrying an alien mother to her homeworld and runs into a lot of trouble along the way. That trouble comes in the form of quite a few fan-favorite aliens and creatures from other parts of the Star Wars universe. Here are all of the Star Wars easter eggs and references we found in episode 10… Stream your Star Wars favorites right here! Frog Lady “Frog Lady” is truly the star of this episode. We don’t know the name of…
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06 Nov

Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 2 Review – The Passenger

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This STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN review contains spoilers. The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 1 The Mandalorian might as well have heard the criticism that the Child was scarce in the season premiere, because he’s back in a big way in a fun episode filled with monsters. Peli gives Din a lead on another covert of Mandalorians, but there’s a catch. He needs to ferry “Frog Lady” (that’s her official name at the moment) and her unfertilized eggs to her home planet. Traveling through hyperspace will damage the goods, so it’s going to be a slow ride. Eventually, they get stranded on a…
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03 Nov

How The Mandalorian Solidifies Timothy Olyphant as TV’s Best Marshal

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This article contains spoilers for The Mandalorian season 2 premiere. When people talk about great actors, they often mention versatility as a defining characteristic. However, not every actor needs to be a chameleon. Some of Hollywood’s most successful performers channel their inherent likability or tap into specific personality traits within themselves to find a character type that they can portray time and time again. Sometimes when an actor finds themselves portraying a similar role in every project they’re attached to, it can be seen as limiting, but in other cases this typecasting occurs because it constantly bears fruit. There’s something…
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02 Nov

Link Tank: The Mandalorian Composer Talks Season 2 Music

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Ludwig Göransson, the composer for The Mandalorian, spoke on how he changed the original soundtrack in Season 2. “The propulsive theme for The Mandalorian not only redefined Star Wars music, it’s also become the soundtrack for millions of people’s motivational playlists. The hard-to-categorize score, composed by Ludwig Göransson, doesn’t just transport us to a galaxy far, far away, it also feels somehow closer and more intimate than the John Williams space opera that came before.” Read more at Inverse. Bohemiam Rhapsody by Queen is one of the greatest, most recognizable songs of all time. Here are some fun facts about…
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30 Oct

Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 1 Easter Eggs Explained

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This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. Mando and Child return to Tatooine for The Mandalorian season 2 premiere, “The Marshal.” As you’d expect of a modern Star Wars production, the season kicks off full of familiar alien races, locations, and other minutiae from the galaxy far, far away. If you’ve ever wondered what daily life in the deep desert was like for Luke Skywalker and his distant neighbors, this Tatooine-set episode provides a perfect chance to find out. Plus we get plenty of references to characters from Star Wars‘ past, including one big cameo from galaxy’s most infamous…
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30 Oct

The Mandalorian: Cobb Vanth Origin and Armor Explained

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This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. Timothy Olyphant makes his Star Wars debut in The Mandalorian season 2 as a very minor character from the Star Wars Expanded Universe that no one ever expected to see in live-action. The character in question is Cobb Vanth, a mysterious figure who was first introduced in the Aftermath series of novels that take place just after Return of the Jedi. Cobb appears in interludes in each of the three books, and they chronicle his adventures as the marshall of a Tatooine settlement called Freetown, although the small mining town is referred…
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30 Oct

Star Wars: The Mandalorian – How Is Boba Fett Alive and Who Plays the Bounty Hunter?

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This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. From the very beginning, Boba Fett has inspired The Mandalorian. Showrunner Jon Favreau’s “toy box” approach pitched protagonist Din Djarin as a Boba Fett-like figure, and although the two are quite different in terms of personality and history, the iconic silhouette of the space western gunslinger is very similar.  But now Boba Fett himself is back in The Mandalorian season 2, played by none other than Temuera Morrison in a very brief cameo. At the very end of the season 2 premiere “The Marshall,” we find Boba watching from a hill as…
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30 Oct

Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 1 Review – The Marshal

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This Star Wars: THE MANDALORIAN review contains spoilers. The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 1 The Mandalorian’s season two premiere is a well-structured example of the show’s Space Western ethos, showing deft technical skill on the part of its director, showrunner Jon Favreau, a fun menagerie of monsters, and exciting action. While it didn’t move the story forward or offer new characterization for the titular Mando, Din Djarin, or the Child as one might expect from a premiere, the show is certainly good at what it does. It’s expanding the Star Wars universe with anecdotes full of old-fashioned charm while updating…
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30 Oct

Star Wars: The Mandalorian – Baby Yoda Explained

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This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. The Mandalorian is back for a second season featuring more adventures for Mando and the Child, better known as our beloved Baby Yoda. Ever since the Force-sensitive Child was introduced in the first episode as a helpless bounty sought after by Imperial agents, this little character has stolen the show, giving us a new twist on the well-established concept of Jedi Master Yoda. Not that the character is related to his famous movie predecessor. In fact, we don’t yet know where Baby Yoda comes from or who his people are, which is…
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30 Oct

The Mandalorian Recap: What You Need to Know Before Season 2

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This The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. Five years after Return of the Jedi, a gunslinger comes to town in the latest Star Wars phenomenon. The Mandalorian took the internet by storm last year, thanks to the central duo of Pedro Pascal’s titular bounty hunter and the adorable Child, aka Baby Yoda. Even if you aren’t a hardcore Star Wars fan, the story of a heavily armed mercenary suddenly becoming a father figure to protect the mysterious and Force-sensitive Child is very charming. With the show returning for a second season on Oct. 30, you might need a refresher on how…
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29 Oct

Star Wars: Why The Mandalorian Season 2 Won’t Solve the Baby Yoda Mystery

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At the end of The Mandalorian season 1, Din Djarin was given a pretty specific mission from the Armorer: find the people who are supposed to take care of “the Child” and deliver this helpless little green guy back to them. Presumably, this means Mando is going to track down some Jedi and/or other characters who look like Yoda. But, the strangest thing about this huge, overarching plot point is that there is no way the audience actually wants Mando to complete his quest. In adventure stories, orphans like Baby Yoda don’t get reunited with their parents, because if they…
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28 Oct

Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2 Release Date, Trailer, Cast, and News

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The Mandalorian arrived like a ton of bricks on the heads of Star Wars fans who hoped that the show would fulfill all of their Boba Fett fantasies. What they received was more than even they could have expected. The first season wasted no time in revealing that this homage to spaghetti westerns and samurai films would not just be about a faceless bounty hunter but also a child with a very familiar visage. From the very first episode, Baby Yoda completely changed the dynamic of the show. Marketed as a story about a gunslinger making his way through the…
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20 Oct

The Mandalorian Season 2 Might Have Confirmed the Return of Boba Fett and Bo-Katan

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The Mandalorian season 2 will see the return of quiet bounty hunter Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and cute little Baby Yoda, as they try to navigate a galaxy full of bounty hunters and Imperial forces out to get them. Along the way, the heroes must discover where the little Force-sensitive Yoda came from. With a third season already in development, their journey to find Baby Yoda‘s home will likely be a long and arduous one, which means Mando will need all of the help he can get. As the special look trailer released by Disney during Monday Night Football yesterday…
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19 Sep

Star Wars: The Mandalorian – Who is Mandalore the Great?

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As The Mandalorian season 2 approaches, Mando is chasing clues that might help him discover Baby Yoda’s origin. And of course, the Child is along for the ride in the cockpit of the Razor Crest, pressing buttons he’s not supposed to. The trailer for the second season teases that the search for Baby Yoda’s home will be the focus of the season and that the journey might lead to the “sorcerers called Jedi.” At one point, the Armorer mentions the name of Mandalore the Great, a powerful Mandalorian leader who fought Jedi in ancient galactic wars. Stream your Star Wars…
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17 Sep

Star Wars: Will Sabine Wren Be in The Mandalorian Season 2?

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The Mandalorian season 2 trailer set the stage for what will likely be another explosive year for the Star Wars live-action series. The second season picks up where the first left off, with the Mandalorian searching for the home of Baby Yoda, the most sought after prize in the entire galaxy. As the trailer teases, the journey could lead them to the Jedi, the “sorcerers” who were once known as the enemy of the Mandalorians. At one point in the video, specifically a clip referencing the Jedi, we see a mysterious cloaked figure watching Mando and the Child from afar.…
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