There were weird monsters, strange environments, mysterious guides, and innocents that needed his help. ![]() Like the Mandalorian, he was a highly competent individual with limited resources for whom things constantly went against his expectation. Jack was a skilled fighter, but by no means infallible. Structurally, every new episode was an excuse for a new environment, a new hurdle, a new weird monster or tribe of creatures to parlay with. Textually, Samurai Jack was about another eponymous-yet-unnamed character, a samurai warrior in the far future who was trying to get back to the past. Well, until he “gets it.” Orchestral chords swell as he and Kuiil go on a not-so-majestic journey of little hops.īut in “Chapter 2,” after The Mandalorian climbs up a sandcrawler, Jawas pelt him with garbage, and he’s electrocuted into a pratfall after he’s forced to trudge back up to old man Kuiil with his floating baby bounty in tow, a frame of reference fell into place: Genndy Tartakovsky’s 2001 animated series, Samurai Jack. And while the Client (Werner Herzog) says the Mando is expensive and an expert - and it sure seemed that way as he picked up that blue fish guy - he’s totally flummoxed by a two-legged potato head creature. The way the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) could touch down on a new planet and immediately befriend a small hairy man who knew exactly what was going on seemed contrived. I enjoyed The Mandalorian “Chapter 1” in spite of some messy tone and characterization. The Mandalorian is Samurai Jack, but Star Wars. Was he a hypercompetent badass? Or was he a scrapper in damaged armor befuddled by the appearance of a bounty droid? What kind of hero was the show trying to show me?īut only a few minutes into “Chapter 2: The Child,” a frame of reference snapped into place. I wasn’t sure what to make of The Mandalorian - either the show or the masked protagonist - in the first episode of Disney Plus’ new Star Wars series.
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