Star Wars fans it's been a very long time since i've spoken about The Mandalorian and well I wanted to put that to an end since for the past few days now i've been thinking about reviewing an episode of The Mandalorian. However with so many good episodes to choose from it was honestly really freaking hard for me to pick just one episode for me to review and well i've finally made up my mind on what episode i'm going to be reviewing and so join me as I review that caused Star Wars fans to cry with joy ad that caused Pablo Hidalgo to cry in anger and pain with that / the episode in question being called simply just "Chapter 16: The Rescue" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is after Baby Yoda (yes I know that he has a name but he'll always be called Baby Yoda to me so deal with it) is kidnapped it's up to The Mandalorian and his various alleys to save him before something dreadful possibly happens to him. Now then in terms of what I personally thought about the plot of this particular episode in all honesty I thought that the plot of this particular episode was really good it was a nice simple plot that was honestly perfect for this show and was the perfect story to end this season on.
Starring in this episode is Pedro Pascal as The Mandalorian , Omid Abtahi as Dr. Pershing and Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett. Also starring in this episode is Gina Carano as Cara Dune , WWE Superstar Mercedes Varnado AKA Sasha Banks as Koska Reeves , Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan , Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand , Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon and the absolute legend and the Star Wars legend that is Mark Hamill as The Voice Of Young Luke Skywalker / Luke Skywalker.
Now then as for what I thought about the acting that's featured / presented to us in the actual episode itself in all honesty I really did like the acting that was featured / presented to us in the actual episode itself. Which shouldn't come as a surprise to absolutely anybody since pretty much all of these actors are really good actors and so it only makes sense that all of these actors would turn in some really good performances in this episode but what does let the overall quality of the acting down is the fact that the extra's in this episode or either over acting or under acting.
Doing the CGI effects for this episode are Important Looking Pirates , Legacy Effects and Lola Visual Effects. In terms of what I personally thought about the CGI effects that are featured / presented to us in this episode in all honesty I thought that the CGI effects that are featured / presented to us in this episode were really good and since this show makes great use of practical effects as well it was honestly really hard for me to tell what effects were done practically what effects were done inside of a computer because / since all of the effects looked that good in my opinion anyways / at least.
I'll very fully admit right now that the only reason that I decided to review this episode was because of the fact that Luke freaking Skywalker is in this episode and honestly the CGI / technology that used to make him look like how did in Return Of Jedi is so much more better then how they did a young Princess Leia in Rogue One A Star Wars Story. This is because in my opinion there's not much lighting Luke's face and so the team could get away with making the face not look quite right which simply isn't the case with the scene in Rogue One where a young Princess Leia appears however it's also because the technology needed to replace a human face with a CGI face has advanced so much in the years inbetween making The Mandalorian and Rogue One A Star Wars Story and so of course young Luke Skywalker is always going to look better then young Princess Leia does.
Honestly if I have any criticisms about this episode it's the fact that Luke's face look a little bit to plastic looking and Luke's face a little bit to smooth. If you run your hand over your face you'll notice that your face is a little bit bumpy and none of that comes across in this episode but alot of that comes down to the fact that the technology to create an accurate looking human CGI face just isn't there and it's also because / down to the fact that creating an accurate looking CGI human face is incredibly hard work just due to how complex the human actually is and so I give them credit for at least trying to create an accurate looking human face.
The other thing that I really didn't like about this episode is that when both The Mandalorian and Baby Yoda made it to the the bridge of the ship neither of them had anything to do other then just stand there and wait for Luke Skywalker to come and rescue them. Which for your two leading characters isn't really a good thing since it makes both characters look dumb since from what I can remember both characters have gotten out of worse situations then they were in in this episode and so there was no reason as to why they couldn't do more when they reached the bridge.
This episode has a total running time of forty four minutes and one second and I have to be honest here that running time suited this episode perfectly. Simply because there's not much story there to cover anything that's even close to one hour and so to try and get this episode up to one hour without opening or closing credits would be stretch and heck without the opening or closing credits this episode comes at thirty eight minuets so even then that running time still works because it allows every single scene to be about advancing the plot of the episode which means there's no filler scenes at all which is always a very good thing in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then boys and girls this show is an action show after all and so that means that there's action to be found in this very episode and that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's featured / presented to us in this actual episode and if im being really freaking honest here I loved the action in this episode. Simply because the action that's featured / presented to us in this episode was so fun to watch with all of the characters both good guys and girls and bad guys getting a chance to shine and to some really cool moves and those those cool moves that make the action in this episode really freaking fun to watch for me personally.
Overall this was a really good episode and it was a good episode to end the second season of this fantastic show. Now then since i've talked about all of the good things that are in this very episode in this very review and as well as all of the bad things that are in this episode in this very review that means that this particular episode of The Mandalorian get a 9.5 out of 10 from this particular Star Wars fan.
As for where I got all of the images that I used in this review well then I personally got all of the images that I used in this very review from the official The Mandalorian fandom wiki page , the official Star Wars fandom wiki page and from Google Images. With my personal preferred website to use to get images from this particular website being either the official The Mandalorian fandom wiki page or the official Star Wars fandom wiki page since both websites have images that are both extremely high quality and as well as being extremely high definition.
