Welcome, welcome to the second episode of Star Wars Untold Stories and Entertainment Weekly

podcast covering all things the galaxy far far away.

I'm editor at large James Hibbard.

I'm here with TV critic Darren Franage.

And we have a lot to cover today.

There are two more episodes of The Mandalorian that have aired. EW has this big Rise of Skywalker cover today. There are two more episodes of The Mandalorian that have aired. EW. has this big

Rise of Skywalker cover story going behind the scenes of the new film that's now online.

And I've been spending every night playing the new game Jedi Fall in Order, and I just want

to rant and rave about that. But let's start with Mandalorian, because we've now seen episodes two and three.

Darren, what is your feeling on Mando at this point?

You know, James, we talked about this a little bit in our first episode, how at that time

we'd only seen the premiere episode of the Mandalorian.

And, you know, James, as a TV critic, sometimes you watch a show, you see only one episode, you draw a lot of conclusions about it, and then you see a few more, and you're kind of like, oh, I was wrong, there's more going on here. You know, I'm glad that I kept up with it. That has not been my experience with the Mandalorian so far.

I still think it's kind of a snooze, to be honest with you.

But I will say, I will say,

Why do you hate Baby Yoda so much?

Well, what's interesting to be about the Mandalorian is the one thing that's really working for me is Baby Yoda.

And I would love to hear from everybody because what I've kind of found in general,

and obviously I want to hear all your thoughts in episode two and episode three, is that like

everyone, well, at least everyone our age and older, and you know, we're very old now at this

point, everyone's very aware that there's like a cheapness attached to taking Yoda, who was already a very cute character and just doing a baby version of him. You know, it's like we're now in the kind of Yoshi's Island baby Mario phase of this franchise. But I think everyone's kind of cool with that, and I feel the same way. So I'm very pro baby Yoda. The rest I'm not so sure about, how did you

feel about the third episode, which for me, the third episode was kind of the story really

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