Star Wars fans it's that time of the week again and I have to say that this is the episode that made me want to cover this show on a weekly basis just because i'm a huge fan of one of this episodes guest stars. As with all of these Mandalorian reviews this review is SPOILER FREE and the reason why I chose to wait a day after the episode premiered to review the episode is because there simply wasn't enough images available and so here is my review of The Mandalorian season 2 episode 3 with the episode being called "Chapter 11: The Heiress" enjoy.
The plot of this weeks episode is The Mandalorian has to help a group of unexpected allies acquire some weapons from The Empire. Plot wise I feel that this is a step up from the previous episode just because this episode also advances the plot of the show which for me at least is a huge plus plus it helps that the plot of this episode doesn't like it's a video game level nor does it feel like it's a filler episode either.
Starring in this episode is of course Pedro Pascal as The Mandalorian but we also have Misty Rosas as Frog Lady, Also starring in the episode is current WWE Smackdown Women's Champion as well former five time WWE Raw Women's champion and former two time WWE Women's Tag Team Champion Sasha Banks (Mercedes Varnado) as Koska Reeves , Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan , Simon Kassianides as Axe Woves , Titus Welliver as Captain and the legend that is Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon.
As you can no doubt tell i'm a huge fan of Sasha Banks (Mercedes Varnado) so you just know that I had to give her the best intro for a guest star ever plus i'm a WWE / wrestling fan as well hence why I credited her under her ring name and not her actual name. As for what I thought about the acting in this episode it was honestly a bit of a let down which is hard to say but for a TV show it's to be expected since no TV show has great acting in every episode but even so the acting in this episode is much of a let down as it is it's still better then the acting in alot of other TV shows.
The CGI in this episode while for the most part it was up to the shows very high standard there are still some CGI effects that didn't look as good in my opinion. I'm not going to spoil what the shot in question is because it is just one effect but to me that effect looked like it hadn't been fully rendered and so it looked like something that you would see in a behind the scene featurette where the film makers or effects artists are planning a shot and that's me being very freaking kind.
I honestly wasn't expecting this episode to delve deep into the lore of Mandalore which I honestly see as both a good and bad thing. It's a good thing because it shows that the show is respecting the lore of the Star Wars universe and the backstory of certain characters but it's bad thing because if your like me then you didn't watch that much of either Star Wars The Clone Wars or Star Wars Rebels or even read any of the books or comics and so the lore can be a bit hard to follow or even make sense of but that's just what I think tho.
Again without giving anything away either next weeks episode or an episode within the next few weeks is going to feature a huge Star Wars character. I'm trying not to give anything away because of two reasons number one being it might not be next week's episode this character appears in and number two there might be some people who don't follow the news surrounding the making of this show and so it's wouldn't be fair to any of them if I spoiled which huge Star Wars animated TV show character might be popping up in the next episode.
This episode has a total running time of thirty three minuets and one second which I honestly feel is the perfect running time for this episode. This is something that i'm noticing quite alot of the time because all of the episodes for The Mandalorian season 2 have the right amount of running time for whatever story there telling that week and I have to say that I like that fact because it means that every scene is about moving the plot of that weeks episode along and so there are no or very little filler scenes or at least that's what I think anyways.
Now then boys and girls since there was action in this episode and this is an action show that means that I have to talk about the action that's in the episode. I honestly found the action in this episode to be rather enjoyable there are alot of cool moments that happen in those action sequences which for me at least made the action alot more fun to watch and it helps that the action doesn't boil down to who can hit who the hardest.
Overall this is honestly a really good episode in my opinion as it does a good job of advancing the main plot of the show as well as being generally quite entertaining. The episode however does feature some issues all of which i've mentioned in this review but those issues don't stop the episode from being a good episode as such this episode gets a 8 out of 10 from me. All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official The Mandalorian fandom wiki page , the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page or the official Clone Wars fandom wiki page.
I honestly have no idea which website would be best to use so I say any of the websites I mentioned since your going to get really high quality images from any of them but only the official The Mandalorian and the official Clone Wars fandom wiki page are relevant to Star Wars tho so please keep that in mind when looking for images from this episode on any of those websites and I might leave it a day or two next week as well just incase there aren't that many images from the episode out when the episode drops on Friday.