November 12th 2019 will be a date long remembered in years to come as a historic day that bought with it something truly unique and special for Lucasfilm and Star Wars fans as The Mandalorian made its debut as the first live action Star Wars television series ever and bought the galaxy far, far away to the small screen. With the launch of Disney+ in the Netherlands, US and Canada came the first of the eight episode series and introduced us to the mysterious Mandalorian as well as some of the side characters including Carl Weathers as Greef Karga and Nick Nolte as Kuill. How much of them we'll see going forward has yet to be determined.
Unfortunately, Disney+ for now is only available in the above listed regions and will be launching in Australia and New Zealand on November 19th. The rest of us have to wait until the first quarter of 2020 for the service to launch in our respective locations (mine being the UK, obviously). However that hasn't stopped many of us watching the series premiere and won't stop us from continuing to enjoy the show until we get Disney+ and that is thanks to the wonderful folks who go to great effort to make the episodes available though...less than conventional methods, shall we say?
i will include a link and instructions at the end of the review for those who want to torrent the premiere and future episodes.
The Review
Well it's safe to say that The Mandalorian absolutely gets mine and i'd think many others approval. It sets an immediate standard for both Disney+ and Lucasfilm alike on any future series such as the Obi-Wan Kenobi series that is currently in development. From the get go, it feels like you've been pulled straight back into the world of Star Wars and carries the tone of the Original Trilogy well with elements of both the Prequel and Sequel trilogy thrown into the mix. The Mandalorian is incredibly cinematic in scale, it genuinely feels like it should be viewed on the big screen & it's very obvious that both Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have poured their utter devotion and love for the Star Wars universe into the creation of this show and the final product couldn't better reflect that in my eyes. It doesn't spend any time at all in giving Mando any kind of origin or beginnings and chooses instead to just jump straight into the swing of things which is incredibly refreshing. Star Wars generally spends the first hour or so setting up plot elements and new characters in the movies and that's totally skipped here and the show is probably better for it.
The cast between the likes of Pedro Pascal,, Nick Nolte, Werner Herzog, Carl Weathers and a certain Taika Waititi as IG-11 really shine in this episode, especially Taika who is positively hilarious as the witty bounty hunting droid. One would certainly hope we see more of him in character but he is also on directing duties for the season finale at the very least.
Overall
I'm already a fan of The Mandalorian. Its dark, its funny, its action packed and its Star Wars on TV. That really is all i can say without spoiling too much (which i'll be trying to avoid at least for a little bit). What i will say is that there's definitely an interesting story set up with the premiere as you'd expect but i don't think anyone who's not yet seen it will see it coming at all, i know i didn't. It's already in safe hands with Jon and Dave who are both lifelong Star Wars fans and its off to a fantastic start. Hell, its already the most downloaded show on PirateBay.
Downloading instructions
1. Make sure you have a torrent client i.e BitTorrent or uTorrent (you can find installation instructions on the relevant website - use the free download).
2. Click this link to navigate to the same torrent that i mentioned earlier.
3. Click 'Get Torrent'.
4. Click 'OK' on the torrent client when prompted.
5. Let the torrent download to 100%, wait for the bar to appear green and 'seeding'
6. Navigate to your downloads folder on your computer, find the relevant folder, open it and double click the video file and open it with your choice of media player (i use VLC Media Player)
7. Sit back, relax, enjoy.
Chapter 2 review coming this Friday!
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