Unless I’ve missed something, the overarching plot for this current run of episodes is that Mando is trying to find other Mandalorians…in order to find the Jedi. That doesn’t make much sense to me – putting aside how weird it is that he’d not even heard of the Jedi before the Armourer told him about them in Chapter 8.
That bothers me more than anything being a ‘filler’ or ‘monster of the week’ episode. You can’t really judge whether something is critical to the story week-by-week. Chapters 5 & 6 could have been called filler episodes but this latest episode picked up several elements from those and used them well – Amy Sedaris’ character, the Richard Ayoade droid, and most of all the consequences of the prison break for Mando and how he views the New Republic.
Also, these tangents and setbacks are really fun. If everything furthered the quest it’d be tedious. I like that we’ve not seen Moff Buggin’ Out since last season, and that we’re not immediately finding out more about Fett.
Prepared to let it all slide for action sequences as fantastic as the X-Wing chase and the spider encounter, anyway. That’ll get old eventually but seeing those kinds of effects on TV is still really impressive to me.
