Star Wars without a shadow of a doubt The Mandalorian is the only thing that's keeping Star Wars going right now as there's no new movies coming out. As such there was a lot of eyes on season three of this show as there was also alot of controversy surrounding it and well it's just released it's final episode and I thought that i'd check out both episode eight and episode 7 of this shows divisive third season and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE review of the episodes that are really brutal with the episodes in question being called simply just "Chapter 23: The Spies" and "Chapter 24: The Return" enjoy.
The plot of these episodes is The Mandalorian and Bo launch their attack to reclaim Mandalore but have one last threat to deal with. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad with the plot of these episodes being so good that there almost movie quality because that's how good the plot of these episodes was in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in these episodes is Pedro Pascal as The Mandalorian , Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan Kryze and Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon. Also starring in these episodes is Katy M. O'Brian as Elia Kane , Simon Kassianides as Axe Woves , Mercedes Varnado as Koska Reeves , Emily Swallow as The Armorer , Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Carson Teva , Carl Weathers as Greef Karga and Wesley Kimmel as Ragnar.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. With the cast for these episodes really making the most of what little this script gives them to work with as this script gives these actors and actresses nothing to work with in terms of what their characters respective personalities are.
Doing the CGI for these episodes is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Image Engine Design. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episode was in all honesty really good and was alot better then what it really had any right to be with the CGI being really close to feature film worthy.
To me this season really did over use the character of Bo-Katan Kryze which is a shame because she is a really cool character. However she's a character that works best in small doses where as here in this season she's pretty much in every single episode and when alot of her screen time is just spent hitting home the same message over and over again not only does it get repetitive but it also gets boring as well and instead of cheering whenever she's on screen I found myself getting bored whenever one of her scenes came up because I knew exactly where it was going with her character.
What I really liked about these two episodes is that we got to see Grogu being brave I won't say why because of spoiler reasons. To me this showed just how far he;s come as a character and how far the relationship between Grogu and The Mandalorian has developed as the Grogu that we met in season one wouldn't do any of the things that we see him do in these episodes and in the early episodes of the show The Mandalorian would get rid of Grogu if he could have and yet here that's not the case with the two needing each other just to survive and just to talk to each other.
Even tho this season of the show has been very mixed to me these two episodes were rather solid episodes. As they did give you everything that you'd expect to find in what is basically a two part finale however that's also the problem as it does everything that you'd expect it to do without giving you anything new and while having a huge scale battle might work for Star Wars it doesn't work for The Mandalorian as The Mandalorian works better when it's finales are rather small in scale but at the same time tho having a big scale final episode does make the episode seem all the more epic then what it actually is.
Now then these two episodes has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty minuets and thirty nine seconds for episode 7 and thirty eight minuets and fifty six seconds for episode 8. I have to admit that I really didn't like the fact that the actual series finale had such a short running time as a series finale by it's very nature has to wrap up all of the storylines of that particualr season and that's also true with this season finale as well and it just can't do that and still tell a good story at the same time and as such it would have been if these two episodes swapped running times as episode 7 doesn't need to be as long as it is and episode 8 needed to be longer but to both episodes credit they both had some fairly good pacing to them tho.
So now then since this is an actin show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes and well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty super cool. With both of these episodes having action scenes that are chock full to the brim of really cool action scenes and cool moments in those action scenes as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this was a really fun pair of episodes that really did deliver on certain aspects but at the same time they also failed on other certain aspects as well which is a shame because when these episodes are good there really good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that that are in these very episodes in this very review and as such that means that these very episodes have a grand total combined score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Star Wars fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being the official Star Wars fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are featured / up and on the official Star Wars fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.