The lack of crisp one-liners is especially disappointing as Jon Favreau is a noted disciple of the original three films, and turning Fennec into a roguish, wisecracking Han Solo type would have been inspired: the “regular girl” that the audience can relate to. Unfortunately, the dialogue doesn’t have that screwball snap-and-pop quality that Lucas (or was it Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz?) brought to that original film, or Lawrence Kasdan to the later entries. The mission alludes to the original rescue of Princess Leia so many years ago, but it’s nothing audiences haven’t seen in several episodes of The Mandalorian (not to mention the prequels, sequels, and other spin-offs). As much as Star Wars has been about family, it’s also been about friendship, and the people in your life that become your surrogate family. So much of the fun of the original film-which this episode is heavily cribbing from-is watching Luke, Han, and Leia become friends over the course of their first adventure. “The Rescue” is at times too crowded for its own good, and doesn’t deliver enough smaller moments between the characters. There is some tension between Fett and Reeves that elevates into fisticuffs, and while the tussle seems like it would lend itself to a payoff later in the episode, it never does. It doesn’t end well for him, and you can sense that even Mando is unnerved by Dune’s blood thirst.įrom there, Boba Fett and Mando seek to recruit Mandalorian associates Bo-Katan and Koska Reeves to stage a daring rescue of Grogu, who’s being held captive on Moff Gideon’s Imperial cruiser (a daring rescue is apparently a typical Wednesday activity in a galaxy far, far away). He incurs the wrath of Dune, gleefully telling her that he saw her home planet of Alderaan destroyed, and, in what may be a first for Star Wars (outside of a gag on an episode of Newsradio), the Imperial pilot refers to the Rebel Alliance as terrorists. After disabling Pershing’s Imperial shuttle, Cara Dune and Mando board Pershing’s Imperial shuttle and dispatch an Imperial true believer who assassinates his co-pilot before recounting the millions of Imperial lives lost on both Death Stars. But instead of Darth Vader chasing down the stolen Death Star plans, it’s Boba Fett and the gang looking to get their hands on Dr. The season-two finale, “The Rescue,” is a deliberate throwback to George Lucas’ 1977 original (at least in the middle section), opening up in the thick of the action with a high-speed outer space pursuit.
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