Now that was a really great episode of The Mandalorian. And I suppose that’s my only criticism as well.
Random thoughts:
I loved the ring city. One of my irks with recent SW is that they haven’t made enough weird locations. There’s a tendecy to focus to much on biome-planets like Hoth or Tatooine and forget places like Cloud City. I’m obviously all about SW being space fantasy and not sci-fi, but that doesn’t mean that everything has to happen in either a desert or a forest.
Peli’s quips does seem a little odd to me in an OT setting, but that’s a very minor nitpick, and I do find her scenes funny.
The brief flashback is one of the coolest, and darkest, scenes I’ve seen in modern SW. Was I the only one who got Nausicaa vibes from it?
I wonder if a certain little guy might end up in the dome turret behind Din on his new starfighter in future episodes?
Interesting, though not at all surprising, to see Vizla become a rival. Now that there’s two Mandos out for the Darksaber and with Din teaming up with Fett as a favour instead of pay, it now seems like we’re going to see some kind of internal conflict between the Mandos in The Mandalorian season 3. I thinks it’s very likely that Favreau and Filoni’s end-goal is to have Din become the next Mandalore.