26th Jan 2021
Chapter 15: The Believer - S2-E7
Continuity mistake: When Cara shoots down her first trooper ("Got 'em"), you can notice in her scope that the guy falls from the window adjacent to the one Bill Burr is in, but in the overhead shot Burr is still just barely coming out of it. (00:28:35)
26th Jan 2021
Chapter 15: The Believer - S2-E7
Stupidity: The Empire has plenty troops and TIE Fighters, and the locals are armed with sticks, but the convoys of highly volatile explosives have no armed escort whatsoever, despite the fact that they keep losing those huge trucks full of precious chemicals to those troglodytes with no body armor or special skills.
Suggested correction: The empire doesn't have plenty of anything, this is after the fall of the empire, this is what is left and they are hanging by a thread. It probably costs too much to have escorts, or escorts like TIE fighters are too expensive to risk, even against "troglodytes." They'd rather accept the losses they take, apparently that is more cost efficient.
Plenty more than what the opponents have, in that very base. They have TIE fighters in the base, who provide air support at the very end. They have troops. The opponents show having no offensive weapon at all other than detonators, that they fling like stones. Losing transport convoys because you provide literally zero escort to them is no strategy in times of abundance, even less in times of scarcity. And that chemical is a strategic resource that helps their war, and the only reason the base exists.
26th Jan 2021
Chapter 15: The Believer - S2-E7
Continuity mistake: After shooting the officer with the odd southern accent, Mando and Mayfeld start shooting at the random innocent people. Mayfeld shoots two officers at a table, and you can tell that the second one was already up in the first shot, but in the second he gets blasted when he's still leaning on the table with his elbow. (00:27:50)
26th Jan 2021
Chapter 15: The Believer - S2-E7
Continuity mistake: Cara and Fennec are scoping the anti-air cannons of the base. When Fennec says "Shouldn't be a problem" her left bang is gone from her face in a stark contrast with the previous shot. (00:24:45)
26th Jan 2021
Chapter 15: The Believer - S2-E7
Continuity mistake: Mando is facing the second wave of 'pirates'; he throws his malfunctioning blaster at one of them and then moves on to face him. You can see the alien just went past the second disk of junction between the cargo, but in the wider angle they are fighting with being already almost past the third. (00:15:25)
26th Jan 2021
Chapter 15: The Believer - S2-E7
Other mistake: When Juggernauts 3 and 4 are destroyed, the screams of the drivers and the explosions are practically instantaneous, it takes 5 seconds tops. When Mando and Mayfeld's truck is assaulted, the marauders take a much longer time to deal their damage. (00:13:00)
26th Jan 2021
Chapter 15: The Believer - S2-E7
Other mistake: The first guy that tries to put a detonator on the rhydonium opens its container freely; the Empire is transporting its precious deadly explosive in unlocked containers! But later on Mando is struggling and the baddies have to use their pointed sticks to open the containers.
26th Jan 2021
Chapter 15: The Believer - S2-E7
Continuity mistake: Following Cara Dune through the scrapyard, Mayfeld removes his protective goggles and holds them in his right hand. Except at the cut he has them in his left hand. (00:03:10)
26th Jan 2021
Chapter 15: The Believer - S2-E7
Continuity mistake: Mayfeld is called by the droid as he's working on the TIE carcass. He says "What!" and turns around; the hand on the drill he's using is in a different position between shots. He then holds the drill down his right side as the droid tells him to descend, and in the new shot he's still holding it up. (00:02:05)
26th Jan 2021
Chapter 14: The Tragedy - S2-E6
Revealing mistake: Once Fennec obliterates like bowling pins with a rock the ones she couldn't simply shoot, Boba Fett has another badass moment murdering the stormtrooper with the orange pauldron. Problem is, he's in the open and there's another stormtrooper directly behind him that couldn't possibly have missed Boba when he was busy poking comically the back of the officer but comes to life only when the camera is on him. (00:15:50)
26th Jan 2021
Chapter 14: The Tragedy - S2-E6
Plot hole: Mando needs to make it to the top of the hill fast (he lost the ever important high ground, but he does not seem to mind). He would have a jetpack, but he left it behind. Now, everyone can be distracted and forget some piece of equipment and realise only a minute later (although it's a huge walk, and he has to climb, you'd think he'd remember right away). The problem is, even if Mando forgot the pack and realised only a minute later, the throwaway comedy intro of episode 2.2 showed that he can remote control the jetpack and call it back to himself.
26th Jan 2021
Chapter 14: The Tragedy - S2-E6
Continuity mistake: When Fennec gets off the cliff to parlay with Mando and Boba, during the conversation the strap on her shoulder has a red clip on it or doesn't, randomly changing between shots. (00:11:20)
26th Jan 2021
Chapter 14: The Tragedy - S2-E6
Continuity mistake: We can see Mando's position when he approaches the Jedi temple the first time, and the position of the shadows of the menhirs that form the stone circle. The camera view changes, and the shadows are in a different direction. (00:05:40)
26th Jan 2021
Chapter 14: The Tragedy - S2-E6
Other mistake: Ahsoka tells Mando the name of a planet. Just the name and nothing else, we see him take off. It's a rather big planet as we can see from the atmosphere, and the Jedi temple is secret...yet Mando right away just finds "the big rock" in a planet with a complex sorta Earth-like geography.
26th Jan 2021
Stupidity: Ahsoka gives the magistrate a day to surrender for no real reason - she has no advantage doing so nor it is any more honorable or humane; she is in fact giving Morgan time to organize herself with hostages as she explicitly threatens to. Had she finished her assault without this senseless ultimatum, barely anyone would have been in any danger or tortured for a full day like it happened.
Suggested correction: Tano doesn't know the strength of the Magistrate's forces. Djarin tells her that there are ex-military, hired mercenaries inside armed to the teeth and that he doesn't believe that even with the force she would survive. Tano agrees with this assessment and also asks if Djarin saw any hostages inside, so until then she didn't even know for sure whether or not there were. It is implied that had Tano continued her assault she would have been killed. There is indeed no stated reason why Tano gives a single day as an ultimatum, but it seems reasonable to assume that prior to meeting Djarin and The Child she would have used this time to plan her 2nd assault.
I think we disagree on the idea that it is implied that if she continued her assault she would have been killed; she killed 25% of their troops in their first assault, and then in the second one, which was in the open and broad daylight, she killed or disarmed everyone else including the main villain and the henchman, who was then killed by Mando, together with 2 guards. Mando was only instrumental in saving the hostages Morgan took after her threat - which, by the way, was expressed in a way that did not even imply necessarily that she was just taking the people hostages and not kill them right away as punishment. The evil henchman says it correctly "We'll be ready when she returns"; waiting only weakens her position in every way, since the stakes and/or disparity in forces is not shown adequately.
You seem to be ignoring the part where Djarin tells her that even with her skills she would be killed and she agrees. Whether or not that is actually true based on what we see doesn't really matter, it's their opinion based on what they know at the time. It seems fairly clear that she withdraws because she doesn't know what she's up against behind those walls.
She literally laughs behind his back when he says that line, and it is contradicted in every way from what we see, so it seems to be ignored by the writers first and foremost. They say the rule of writing is "Show, don't tell", I'd be fine with "Don't show the opposite of what you are telling." You can argue that it's more alike a plot hole than a simple stupidity, but I think you can agree that for what it is shown, Ahsoka had no other reason to wait for (more than) a day other than give the main character a chance to show up, and an ultimatum considerably worsens her position. It's not even clear why she took so long to make a move on the city, Bo-Katan (who does not have a direct path of communication on her) knew where she was, but the first time we see her it is also the first time she has a contact with the Magistrate.
No, I do not believe the writers included a laugh as an indication that Ahsoka believes the exact opposite of what Djarin states and that she agrees with his assessment that she is outmatched just to keep him happy. Yes, they do portray her as very powerful inside the city, but there are two people in there fighting at the same time which splits the enemies forces. Yes, giving yourself time to prepare also gives your enemy time to prepare. Sometimes there's no way to avoid that. This is neither a Stupidity nor a plot hole.
"Splits" is an overstatement; she takes the whole force down herself. We both agree that "she regroups after a preliminary assault and then prevails through teamwork" is the general idea of what it should happen, but it's not what it is shown. Remove Mando from the episode and you would only have (assuming she adopts the same effortlessy successful strategy to attack head-on a prepared enemy: she gets inside with no problem whatsoever!) a couple prisoners as casualties, which is something that Ahsoka herself brought upon her. There's not even an indication that she was preparing any strategy, since she asks about the presence of any prisoner while she is already going back to face the Magistrate.
26th Jan 2021
Continuity mistake: During the clash between Ahsoka and the Magistrate, after they parried each other's blows and take a couple circling steps, the latter assumes a stance with the dull edge of the spear towards Ahsoka, but it's the pointed edge in the next shot (when she swirls it and attacks). (00:34:50)
26th Jan 2021
Continuity mistake: Ahsoka tosses to the floor the pauldron with Mando's signet. In close-up, it lands in a grassy spot between stones, but when it is shown again it lies in a different spot with no such big gap. (00:30:05)
26th Jan 2021
Continuity mistake: The Magistrate reacts to the Mandalorian's "My price is high" statement turning towards him. Both hands are on the bowl, while she had her right arm stretched out to feed whatever lives in the pond. (00:12:10)
26th Jan 2021
Other mistake: In the first kill we see Ahsoka perform on-screen, the lightsabers don't cut anything, which is impressive since they leave scorching burn marks into a tree a moment later. (00:02:20)
26th Jan 2021
Other mistake: In the first episode of the first season, the Stormtroopers in Nevarro were wearing poorly maintained and rusty uniforms, implying they were a small detachment stranded away and cut off from any remnants of the Empire, in fact living in a clandestine condition. They also had to set up a small laboratory in the bunker where the doctor worked. Now turns out that a few minutes off the city, there's a full base the locals were aware of, with tons of equipment, that is where the stormtroopers from Season 1 finale came from, and that the research facility is there.
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