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We have fallen into another trap, but another to escape! The fourth episode of Disney+‘s The Mandalorian Season 2 is titled “Chapter 12: The Siege,” written by series creator Jon Favreau and directed by Carl Weather.
Minor spoilers ahead for those who have not yet seen this episode, the Season 2 premiere, last week’s episode, or episodes of the previous season. If you have not yet done so, get to that now, then return to this article when you can!
If you’re looking for a good Star Wars story, this may not be it. This week’s episode centers on the Mandalorian, Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal), as he and the Child return to Nevarro to repair his ship the Razor Crest but Cara Dune and Greef Karga (Carl Weathers) talk him into destroying an Imperial base. What the group discovers is something that only the audience has known since the Season 1 finale: Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) is still alive.
While the characters do not develop much, we do have a long spectacular action-packed sequence on board the base, which, instead of being a military operation as the group supposes, turns out to be a laboratory, where the Child’s blood was used for experimentation. Speeder bikes and TIE fighters chase the group, ending in Mando saving the day with his ship, unbeknownst to the heroes that it is bugged with an Imperial tracking beacon.
Mythrol (Horatio Sanz) returns after his capture in the series pilot — now working off a debt –, and the Child is placed into a newly built school away from the danger, where they use the Force to steal macaron treats from a student. Starfighter captain Carson Teva (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) returns from two episodes prior to investigate the intergalactic matters. It is revealed that he and Dune share background on the former planet Alderaan. Gina Carano has some terrible acting in this episode, not even bringing a convincing show of a character who has a huge loss on her shoulders. Teva delivers better performance at exhibiting a man who has this same weight.
Some scenes of this season’s episodes have paid homage to various popular culture films and television. It seems here that the opening scene with Mando speaking to the Child holding wires is reminiscent of a scene from Disney‘s Sky High in which a superhero school girl shapeshifts into a guinea pig and crawls through her high school’s vent system to prevent it from plummeting to the ground.
Overall, this may be a skippable episode save for its chase scene toward the end of the episode.
The Mandalorian Season 2 is now available to watch!
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