Continuity mistake: The pile of beskar in front of the Armorer changes wildly in size and distribution depending on the camera angles. (00:09:15)
Sammo
20th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
20th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Chapter 15: The Believer - S2-E7
Continuity mistake: When Fennec calls Boba on the radio ("We're on, start your run") her wisps of hair change position between shots. (00:28:45)
20th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Chapter 5: The Gunslinger - S1-E5
Other mistake: In the end credits, Troy Kotsur is credited as "Tuskan Raider Scout #1", obviously that should be "Tusken." (00:31:30)
20th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Chapter 5: The Gunslinger - S1-E5
Stupidity: Mando's ally breaks the fob saying he's got it memorized. Memorize a tracking device, that's new.
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Suggested correction: He means he memorized the chain code, the biometric data stored on the tracking fob. Calican already knows Fennec is headed towards the dune sea so they don't need the fob to track her location.
Beyond the dune sea, is what he says, yes, which is an enormous desert on the vaste planet. Memorizing the biometric data does not help at all without the tracking device. I took it that he memorized the positional data, but if I know someone's last known location, and that they are headed "beyond the Sahara desert" it is not really helping me find them, is it? You can make a guess, of course.
The chain code is what is used to identify the target, when they are turned in to collect the bounty. You don't need the tracking fob if you already know all the numbers in the chain code. That's the part that he memorized. It doesn't appear that the tracking fob gives you precise location data, so "In the Sahara dessert" is all you get. If the tracking fob did give more precise location data then every idiot in the galaxy would be a bounty hunter.
To identify the target he has the puck already. My point is that "Got it all memorized" is a plot device that works when your target is stationary (like The Child in the first episode), not a moving target. He smashed a -tracking - device (which took it where he is now) and then says he's "got it all memorized." You can't memorize tracking, and the chain code simply includes data like the age that are of no use for a target already well known like Fennec. What he memorized was her last known location at most... which if the fobs are as vague as you mention (one hopes that they are not just beeping dowsing rods) would make even less sense, because he wouldn't have a clue about her position and course and could be off by hundreds of miles.
The chain code contains identifying information that proves what target you've brought in. In another episode a character worries that if his chain code is scanned he will go to prison because he's a wanted man. Yes, the tracking fob is used to hunt down your target but that's not why Mando wants it and why the other bounty hunter destroys it. Without the fob, even if Mando catches Fennec he won't be able to collect the bounty because he doesn't know the chain code.
If we go with this theory, it sounds like Mando wants the money (and recognition) to bring Fennec in, but he does not care about that nor he was asking for it; the fob has a different use, and the chain code is memorized separately from that anyway (he was given in the first episode tracking The Child a fob without a chain code). The chain code is simply a code with the essential information about the subject, like a personal document. If that what he memorized, it's as if he said "Don't worry, we'll find her in the desert, I got her social security number." And if he captured Fennec, which was needed alive, he would have gotten the recognition no matter what.
I tend to agree with the mistake that the tracking fob is receiving updated biometric coordinate data, so there's no way memorize updated data, at most it would be memorizing last known coordinates. However, I would advise using terms like "Baby Yoda" if you want to be taken seriously, otherwise it looks like you haven't watched the show. There's no need to use incorrect terms just because you think people won't know who "The Child" or "Grogu" is.
20th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Continuity mistake: When Baby Yoda chirps at Winta, she has her hands off him, then on him again. (00:35:40)
20th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Chapter 5: The Gunslinger - S1-E5
Revealing mistake: Tattooine has two suns, but Mando and every object cast a single shadow.
18th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Plot hole: Seeing The Child in episode 2-1 minute 10, Amy Sedaris' character shouts "Thank the Force." Up to that point nobody seemed to have the faintest idea of what sort of mysterious energy Grogu was using. It gets worse in episode 2-3 when Mando uses as greeting for the New Republic "May the Force be with you", which is used later other times. With the concept of Force being this ingrained in people's culture, it's inconceivable that *everyone* is completely clueless about Jedi, especially considering that Order 66 with the Jedi purge happens barely 30 years before the events of the Mandalorian, and several characters such as Kuiil or Greef Karga were alive and active during the time when Jedis were powerful and part of the administration.
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Suggested correction: There's a difference between seeing the Force used and knowing what it is and the common phrase "thank the Force" or "may the Force be with you." Plus, the Child is not a Jedi.
Not technically a Jedi, but he has been trained by Jedi and does those magical Force things that people would associate with Jedi, and would be perceived as such, if only people had any memories about them. Mando and Greef do not have the faintest idea of such 'magic' having ever existed, and Kuil has heard 'rumors' of it. Less than 30 years. Really, it's a common problem for all the Star Wars saga to some extent and it has been already debated to death. In this series nobody even seems to know the concept of Force in season 1, then in season 2 it pops up with random mentions.
The sayings are just customary more than knowledge of the Force. The Galaxy is big, with 3B habitable worlds, each having up to hundreds of millions if not billions of inhabitants each. The Jedi, at their peak and fall, were around 10,000. Many never heard of the Jedi, even less seen one. Find a remote village somewhere, and ask them if they remember the Atari.
18th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Continuity mistake: Mando obliterates a guy on the roof using his long range rifle. He lowers the weapon, but he's seen lowering it again after the reaction shot on Carl Weathers. (00:27:50)
18th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Continuity mistake: When Mando repossesses the knob, the Child's ears go from straight to floppy in the space of a camera cut. (00:02:30)
18th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Chapter 1: The Mandalorian - S1-E1
Plot hole: Nick Nolte's little guy is supposedly terribly helpful towards Mando, showing him "the only way" to reach the enemy encampment, which is by riding the weird fishy beast, but when Mando surveys the target and the robot reveals itself, you can see that there are only shallow hills around the base, a large clear path of land, nobody even is on lookout...and most importantly, in the following episode, Mando makes it back on foot anyway, no blurrgs - and evidently the baddies had no vehicles, making them even less of a threat to begin with. And for being so helpful and good natured, he did not tell him to park the ship by/at his place nor warned him about the Jawas.
14th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Chapter 15: The Believer - S2-E7
Stupidity: Bill Burr tells Mando off for using his little blaster pistol next to the cargo (he was nowhere near, actually), but greets with jubilant cheers the TIE fighters cannoning right next to them. Likewise, it's incomprehensible with a material of such volatility why the locals, who have abundance of thermal detonators, don't just toss them like they do in their last ditch attack (they are magnetic) or for that matter why at all the Empire uses land trucks to transport them, in a world with freely available and cheap hover technology.
14th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Chapter 15: The Believer - S2-E7
Plot hole: The Imperial terminals have facial scan recognition...or just facial scan, really, since ANYONE regardless of being part of the army or not can just access any information of any level, as long as they have ANY face that the app can scan and identify as not being a known criminal.
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Suggested correction: The facial scan prevents droids from stealing data from terminals.
And also criminals from doing that. It runs a check, as I said in the entry. Against "Any New Republic registry", even, which should disqualify also Mayfeld being a convicted felon, but that's another issue. Who designs a security system that does complex checks about who is a wanted criminal or part of 'the other side' but does not check if you are part of their side? Also, any low level trooper (or nobody, even the janitor) can just access any information of any level, including the location of their special forces cruiser.
Maybe it just checks if you're human. You never see non-humans as part of the empire. A lot of non-humans are as "subspecies" by the empire.
14th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Chapter 15: The Believer - S2-E7
Continuity mistake: When Mando faces the third wave of marauders on top of the truck, he punches the first one in the gut after dodging his assault. He disarms the second one, then turn towards the first, that is already weaponless and reeling without having been hit (he was hit in the stomach as he was running past Mando, he wouldn't be facing him standing, some of the fight must have been cut). (00:16:30)
14th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Chapter 15: The Believer - S2-E7
Other mistake: Before the tunnel the truck drivers communicated with the base, and the base itself is warning another vehicle about their speed. Despite this level of monitoring, the heroes board the truck taking their sweet time to change in suits and have friendly banter. Considering the convoys are attacked frequently by terrorists, it's hard to imagine that a large discrepancy of that kind would have stayed unchecked.
14th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Plot hole: Mando's ship was completely wrecked, but two mechanics fixed it to top performance level and aesthetic pleasantness in a time shorter than it took for the Child to eat a small packet of macaroons.
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Suggested correction: His ship was badly damaged, but mostly repaired by the Mon Calamari. The remaining repair work was less complex, but still took place over the course of several days. A space-faring civilisation being able to repair a damaged ship is not a plot hole.
His ship is literally falling apart (we see pieces falling off as it moves), the engines are barely functioning and looks like hell. It's not at all a mistake that a "space-faring civilization" is "able to repair a damaged ship", it is when the editing of an episode makes it look like two dudes fixed to pristine condition a wreckage in the same time it takes for a kid to munch his cookies.
14th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Stupidity: Why would anyone put the controls for the reactor of the power station on a tiny circular ledge with no railings over a precipice overlooking a sea of lava? What sort of possible practical purpose would such a device have? It's not about the evil Empire cutting some corners and not caring for safety measures; here they had to consciously build a platform outside the rest of the structure, in a really impractical and dangerous position, that could get their own technicians killed anytime when they perform their routine duties on a curved surface barely wide as their feet.
14th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Continuity mistake: In the little scene inside the school when Carl Weathers sits the muppet at the desk, the kid extras are not exactly the most disciplined extras available and their positions and what they do change between shots. Examples; look at the Asian kid who is looking at Baby Yoda in a shot and in the next is busy reading her board, or the two girls who talk to each other and point in the first shot, whisper more discreetly in the second. (00:09:05)
14th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Chapter 7: The Reckoning - S1-E7
Stupidity: In this episode, Mando tells Kuil to go to the ship and enable "ground security protocol", saying that nothing on the planet will breach the doors. That begs the question; if the ship has such a function, why on Earth Mando did not enable it in the first episode, leaving the ship entirely vulnerable? He's been on the run ever since so it's pretty unlikely to say the least that he'd have such a function enabled just lately, in particular since he has always worked on worlds with Jawas and other kinds of raiders. In the rest of the show, Mando leaves his ship wide open all the time, causing all sorts of problems.
14th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Chapter 7: The Reckoning - S1-E7
Revealing mistake: There's some sleight of hand involved when Cara gets her cup of tea from the repurposed IG-11. Maybe it was costly to have the animatronic arm working to the point of actually supporting the cup and hand it to her, so pay attention to what Cara actually does; Gina Carano is ALREADY holding the cup, taps the mechanical hand with it as if the fingers just released it from their grasp, and retrieves it. (00:11:50)
14th Jan 2021
The Mandalorian (2019)
Chapter 6: The Prisoner - S1-E6
Plot hole: When the distress signal is launched, approximately 20 minutes are left till the arrival of the New Republic fleet. From the control room the team arrives to the prisoner's cell with 15 minutes to spare. They lock Mando up, and next time they communicate with their getaway robot dude, it says there are only 10 minutes to go, meaning it took them an astonishingly long time to navigate the ship without being really much closer to the exit, having met no opposition. Then the episode turns into a slasher movie of sorts, and somehow Mando manages to find them separately, hunt them down and as it turns out, not simply disposing of them, but also drag their unconscious carcasses to the empty cell he escaped from. There's nothing coherent about this timeline.
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