The hit Disney Plus show The Mandalorian has blessed us with a new season that released on October 30, 2020. With The Mandalorian being one of the most watched shows in 2019, the hype for the new season was through the roof. Many people may have missed some key moments and also some really bad ones. Obviously, this will have some major spoilers, so if you haven’t watched it yet and plan to, you have been warned.
First off, I love The Mandalorian. It honestly blows me away that a TV show can have the same amount of graphics and acting as a high-budget movie. I absolutely love Star Wars, but I really don’t like the new ones, so it’s nice to have a modern Star Wars show that’s not horrible. When I first got Disney Plus, a few months after the Madalorian first came out, it was the first thing that I watched.
My entire family would sit down every night and watch a new episode, anxious to see what would take place next. Each episode seemed to contribute more and more to the plot, even if it was taking a break from the action or focusing on more of a side event. But the new season of The Mandalorian, just doesn’t seem that way. I’ll get more into that later.
The second season opens with Mando still on his quest to reunite The Child (His name is NOT Baby Yoda) with his kind, but first he needs to locate more Mandalorian. He meets with a cyclops named Gor Koresh, who he has heard knows the location of another Madalorian. Gorr, wanting Mando’s Bescar armour attempts to kill him to get it from him, promptly causing a fight scene.
After a short fight scene, Gor tells the Mandalorian that he knows of another on Tatooine, thus taking us back. Now, this is where we run into our first problem. The acting. I’m not sure if I just didn’t notice this in the first season or if it’s just now occurring, the acting from Amy Sedaris who plays Pelli Motto is really, really bad. Her acting seems entirely exaggerated, like she’s forcing herself to play a character that she doesn’t know how to play. In all honesty, it feels like watching an elementary student acting in a school play.
Lexy Field, a junior, noticed the same thing and pointed out a few more issues that seem to be more and more prevalent. “Her acting seemed really off, like I don’t remember it being like that before,” Field said. “It seems like in these few episodes the plot hasn’t gone anywhere. He just gets pulled off into more “side missions” and keeps crashing his ship or something like that and having to go over an obstacle before he can continue.”
And she has a great point. While in the first season it was definitely necessary to shake things up a little bit and add some much needed character development for our mysterious hero, it’s made season two feel like it’s not going anywhere. “It’s happened multiple times and I can always tell what will happen next; it’s honestly kind of annoying;” Said sophomore Hannah Canfield. As annoying as it is, I’m hopeful that it’s just the producers giving us a break and preparing us for some crazy stuff to happen. Because as much as I love The Mandalorian, I definitely won’t be able to finish the season if these problems constantly occur.
