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Episode 061 - The Mandalorian & Grogu Reaction
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Before and after. From the parking lot.
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New Star Wars Day Announcement
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Speaker
Uh-oh, everybody. It's new Star Wars Day! Hello and welcome to an impromptu, quick, shorty episode of Just showing Sean. Sean's solo version, if you, uh, if can... you're okay with that, know?
00:00:20
Speaker
Um...
Pre-Movie Excitement
00:00:23
Speaker
I'm sitting in the car. I just got to the movie theater. movie doesn't start for about 35 minutes. Hold on. let me Let me turn this. Let me turn this down. I think I'm think i'm coming in too hot.
00:00:34
Speaker
Let's do that. How's that? Is that better?
00:00:39
Speaker
I'm sitting in the parking lot. I'm a little excited. I'm a little excited. It's new Star Wars day. It's in Star Wars in the movie theater. It took me about 45 minutes to get here.
00:00:52
Speaker
Watching it all by my lonesome. I'm trying to check out how how busy the parking lot of the movie theater is. think there's also an event going on nearby, so there's some like vendors in the parking lot, but it looks busier than normal on ah at three o'clock on a on a Thursday, but not too busy.
00:01:09
Speaker
It's not like 10 a.m. m traffic, but... So we'll see. We'll see how this shakes out. I'm excited. I'm excited to see it. I... I'm... I know it's going to be good. like I know going walk out of here thrilled, but...
00:01:21
Speaker
um like I'm excited to see what we get. What are we going to get today, boys? What are we going to get today, ladies and gentlemen? Are we going to get just raunchy popcorn fun? Are we going to get weird mysticism? Are we going to get tie-ins? Are we going to get cameos? What are we doing? What are we getting today?
00:01:40
Speaker
What are we doing here? What's going on?
00:01:44
Speaker
I'm excited. But I'm not going to bore you with the the beginning stuff. This is all before. I what's going happen yet.
Avoiding Spoilers
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Speaker
I've stayed off the line. I've stayed off the internet. I've stayed off social media. And I haven't even listened to the soundtrack. i'veve i have no I have not consumed any Mandalorian or Grogu content in weeks.
00:02:05
Speaker
I've avoided my friends' podcasts. i've I've stayed off of Discord. i'm I'm going in blind. Just weird predictions and no expectations. I'm ready. I'm ready for this.
00:02:19
Speaker
Let the Grogu wash over me. I don't think I'm going to walk out of here with a popcorn bucket, but you never know. I won't, but you never know. But for now, I'm going sign off. The next time you'll hear me, we'll either be, I'm probably going to be, a i don't know if I'll, I don't think I'll record inside, but you may, next time you hear me, it may be when I'm in the car or or who knows, but we see we'll see if if I'm a different person on the way out.
00:02:46
Speaker
But until then,
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Speaker
bye.
00:02:55
Speaker
All right, all righty. right, let me get out of the parking spot so I can be safe.
00:03:06
Speaker
Before I start jibber-jabbering.
00:03:12
Speaker
Alright. Whoa! Okay.
Post-Movie Impressions
00:03:17
Speaker
So, I just got out of seeing the Mandalorian and Grogu, obviously. If you're listening this far.
00:03:27
Speaker
First update, there's ah it's a barbecue fest next to the movie theater. That's what's going on. That's why there's all these cars. My movie theater was about half full, maybe?
00:03:39
Speaker
Half full? If I had to say. mean, it is weird time. um But let's skip all that. We'll skip all that for right now. And holy crap, dude. We are... Star Wars movies are back in the theater.
00:03:55
Speaker
That was... That was fun. I i enjoyed that thoroughly. Thoroughly. Was it... Did it take itself too seriously? Absolutely not. Do I love the Inzalens? Absolutely. was it Was it fun? Was it campy? Did it have emotional heart? Yes. Yes. Yes and yes. Did I... Oh man, were there parts of it that were weird as hell?
00:04:20
Speaker
Like... Really emphasizing the... ah the stop motion nature of it, including the spaceships and everything else. Yes, that was, that was super cool. I really, I thoroughly enjoyed that and I really needed it personally. I really, that was a lot of fun.
00:04:42
Speaker
Like i went in I went in with predictions, but no no real like expectations of like what I wanted, like what I really, really needed to see.
00:04:55
Speaker
And I am leaving a satisfied customer.
Minor Complaints
00:05:01
Speaker
My only complaint, which I'm sure everybody and their brother will know before I even say it, I only have one complaint about the film.
00:05:09
Speaker
One, everything else was fine to fantastic to phenomenal. My only complaint is just cut Dave Filoni out in his stupid hat. He doesn't need to be in it.
00:05:21
Speaker
He's the head of Lucasfilm now. You don't need to be in it. Like, if you want to be a masked character like Lucas was in the prequels, whatever, that's fine. But, like, the fact that he is, like, Trapper Wolf, McGee, cool dude on the block is, like,
00:05:37
Speaker
just takes you out of it. I didn't mind the other cameos because they're just people sitting at a table. ah Who cares? But take them out. That's it. But that's my only complaint across the entire movie.
00:05:50
Speaker
I loved... I loved Rada. I loved the fact that he just spoke normal, not normal ah human English basic with an octave filter on it or something.
00:06:04
Speaker
And just, I loved it. I love that he's just the son of the damaged evil villain. And he's, you know, he's the he's too wise for his age. And, you know, he's living...
00:06:21
Speaker
living the best life he can and he's got ah he's got a fan like he's a fan of grogu oh man so fucking cool so fun good balance of humor like good balance of action uh embo was cool and his little dog meat dog thing i can't remember it its name Like, they didn't go too insane on that. Like, it was... it was really fun. I had a really, really good time. The music was freaking awesome. I'm sure that's going to be... Something that doesn't vibe for everybody. But you know what? I thought it was really fun. I really like the, like... Techno drum and bass...
00:07:04
Speaker
ah Kind of style. Like... And just kind of the the hard shifts into into into different styles when different things are happening. It's like, yes. Was there a billion callbacks?
00:07:19
Speaker
Yes. Were they more subtle than I think other things that have that have irked me? Yeah, they were. i think they were like... subtle nods that I don't think a lot of people would catch and just let it slide by and I think that's fine that's fine I'm I had a good time I had a good time with this the fucking droid gotcha was in it am I a huge fan that they were like really kind of perceived as only villains and didn't get any of their you know their sentiment out yeah i mean what are you gonna do what are you gonna you needed you needed cannon fodder and you know we don't no offense to the droid gotcha and droids rights but they're a little bit easier of a
00:07:58
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easier to handle than maybe just mass slaughtering what we would consider, you know, humans and things like that. But no, tons of fun, tons of fun. I didn't expect that we were going to get a, an all out hutty, like hut wrestling roly poly match.
00:08:17
Speaker
That was awesome. Uh,
00:08:21
Speaker
Definitely enjoyed, like, some of the... Like, Grogu wasn't ridiculous. I, personally, i know... i know i'm not gonna I'm not gonna go into my my issues with this stuff.
00:08:33
Speaker
But, like, I'm glad that, like, it had nothing to do with Bo-Katan or Darksaber or any of the larger stuff. It was allowed to just be, like, self-contained.
00:08:45
Speaker
Like, not that there's anything wrong with those things, but I'm just glad that this was a simple... A simple story, a small subset of characters, not... We didn't need to bring in every legacy character besides R5-D4.
00:08:59
Speaker
Like, was it... For people who were like in the know more and like more bigger fans, like yes, was it a little... Was a little like... Really? When they when they showed the Huey, Dewey, and Louie droids like repeatedly in the background.
00:09:18
Speaker
Yeah, ah but who cares? It's fun. I loved it. I had a great time.
Nostalgia and Humor Highlights
00:09:22
Speaker
Like, I'm not here to complain about it. That was so much fun. Like, I genuinely heard people in the theater laughing.
00:09:29
Speaker
Like, people seemed to be having, I hope, a good time. Like, it wasn't... Was it, like, the rise of... Or, like, the the Force Awakens with people clapping and things like that? No. But, like, no one expected it to be.
00:09:43
Speaker
I thought i had I had a good time. I had a blast. I thought, like Is it a billion-dollar CGI effects, whatever, whatever? No, but who cares, dude? this was This was so much fun. But this is also coming from somebody... I'm rambling all over the place, but this is also coming from somebody whose favorite film of the Star Wars sagas is, more often than not, Return of the Jedi.
00:10:10
Speaker
And so this this movie ruled, like... like like, Inzelens are, whoa, shit, Hydroplane, and holy crap, hold on, pause, take a second, not even speeding, Inzelens are awesome, like, they're a good kind of humor, it's not like, what's funny is, I'm sure people who've listened to, like, Rick and I talk on jam transmissions and stuff, are like, oh, you know, but you don't like murder droid,
00:10:41
Speaker
like Murder Droid from the Maul series, but Anzellans, you like Anzellans. It's like, well, yeah, I think, like, Anzellans are more subtle.
00:10:51
Speaker
Like, they're not quite, like, beat you over the head like like ah mint like maybe minions are. but they're more, they're more subtle. I like the puppetry. I like the, the subtlety of the gags were like, they're all kind of crammed in there or like the things they say under their breath.
00:11:10
Speaker
Um, I did finally, i did finally figure out who i think they sound like, like their voices because it's always sounded familiar, but I finally, it finally clicked for me in the movie. I'm like, oh they sound like, like eighties and nineties Huey, Dewey and Louie, from like the old animated,
00:11:30
Speaker
ah DuckTales and stuff like that. Like, that's... When they're, like, excited, that's what they sound like to me. It's like, oh my gosh, I finally clicked. So that's that's something off mine tip pay off off my table.
00:11:42
Speaker
but But no, I think they're i think they're a more subtle humor. I think they're more fun. They're not, like... ah Like, they move they're they're critical to the plot because they move things along and they're, like, a device that moves them... Moves the... Makes things happen. They're catalysts.
00:11:58
Speaker
But they're they're not, like... the like critical, like murder droid was where it's like, Oh, you know, we, we need him to kind of do everything and fill in the blanks and also have this like ridiculous language when he's talking to himself, like in Zelens are just like, it's kind of their caricature, their character and their nature. I love them. I think they're fantastic with Grogu. I loved Radha. I love his interactions with Grogu.
00:12:29
Speaker
I love the, um, It's but bananas to me that like, Rada's gonna help with the New Republic. Like, that's hilarious and awesome. Like, I'm like the whole cheesy part at the end when they're like, I think I got a, I think I got up a uniform that'll fit you. Let me buy you drink. It's like, okay. All right. right. Just don't mind me. Don't mind me. I'm Rada. I'm like,
00:13:00
Speaker
1200 pounds of, of, of like sinewy muscle just rolling up to the bar with my big, with my beaten big meat fist hands. Like, Oh, don't mind me. That was my dad.
00:13:13
Speaker
You may be confusing me for my father. Uh, wild, wild stuff.
Looking Forward to Rewatch
00:13:18
Speaker
Um,
00:13:21
Speaker
some, like, there's just couple, I don't know, it was a lot of fun, this was, like, I'm, no, I'm i'm not gonna talk about it too much, I'm gonna save some for, for talking to Rick, and, and doing some reactions stuff, but I wanted to get on here, and, and do, like, an initial reaction, i'm not normally a fan, always a fan of some of these, but, I don't know, figured give it a shot, and capture it for myself, maybe, even, um, maybe for those times when the internet and stuff gets to be a little too much, and,
00:13:50
Speaker
everything seems so negative in the, in the fandom and stuff. Maybe I'll, maybe I'll pull this up, uh, and be like, you know, i remember that time when you walked out of Mandalorian and Grogu and you were just like, ah hell yeah, brother. Hell yeah.
00:14:04
Speaker
Brother. Hell yeah. So I wonder what everybody else thought. I hope, I hope everybody enjoyed it. I hope it does well. Um, I hope you fun. Like,
00:14:17
Speaker
i I would like to... I know I messaged Rick about this. It's like, I think I was the only person in my theater, granted it wasn't full, who didn't have a popcorn bucket or a mug. Like, just sitting there with my bowl of nachos, or my plate, my thing of nachos, and my icy, no souvenirs. That was a lot of fun. Oh, man, was so fun. That was cool.
00:14:40
Speaker
Um... I don't, like, I'm not, I don't normally go and see it a bunch of times while it's in theaters, like, back-to-back-to-back. One, because it's 45 frickin' minutes to get there over the top of this hill.
00:14:54
Speaker
But, like, I will be in, I will be ah out of town with, like, visiting family and stuff here in another couple of weeks, and maybe, maybe I'll go see with my nephew and stuff, you know? may Like, that'd be fun. Like, I think it'd be fun for everybody to see. I feel like it's approachable, and, uh,
00:15:13
Speaker
Yeah, I'm excited to see it again. I'm excited to see it. Like, I don't feel like I need to watch it because, like oh, there was all this like nuance that I missed. But I just want to watch again because it was just kind of like lean back and and have a good time.
Listener Engagement
00:15:27
Speaker
That was cool.
00:15:29
Speaker
ah But yeah, but well, all that being said, what do you think? Uh-huh. Send me a DM or not or write into the show or not.
00:15:42
Speaker
Listen, check me out on a, if you want to hear more, like any more in-depth, more coherent um review or thoughts, like check check out Rick and I on jamm and trimi dram the Jammed Transmissions.
00:15:57
Speaker
no We'll be there chatting it up, checking out like how how our predictions did. And then also, if you want to hear it, If you didn't hear, I was on Scruffy's, the Scruffy-looking podcasters. We did our true-false prediction show, and they had me on.
00:16:14
Speaker
um There's some I definitely got super wrong. There's some I got close to. So I'm curious to see how we did. ah But, yeah, check me out on there on the on the follow-up or just see how I did if I'm not able to make it. But, yeah.
00:16:31
Speaker
Yeah. I hope everybody enjoyed it. And until next time, by the force to be with you. Bye.