Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu

 It was cute. It was a tv episode but it was cute. The Mandalorian, played by Pedro Pascal, was on a mission and Grogu was his sidekick. Along the way I noticed Grogu created his own sidekicks and made friends. The Mandalorian worked for the Republic, and I still don't know where in the time line we are at this point. But the mission, the information, the people he has to talk to - is the Mandalorian being set up? Will he die? Will he lose a limb? And will Grogu be there to help him out? Grogu has learned things since the last time I saw on Disney Plus - like trying to steal food from Colonol Ward, played by Sigourney Weaver. I totally loved seeing Zeb, voiced by Steve Blum. The inclusion of live action with the computer animation was just amazing. I was hoping for something a little different with Rotta the Hutt, voiced by Jeremy Allen White: maybe I wanted something more alien. Maybe something with an accent from a far away world. But he just sounded like my neighbor: a cool dude, very relaxed, and he has his problems. But overall Rotta turned out to be pretty instrumental in everything. I didn't recognize Martin Scorsese as Hugo, but when I watch this again (and I will) I will look out for him. As a long time Star Wars fan, I took this movie/really long tv episode as it was: I'm in a world created by George Lucas- planets I'll never visit, dangers I don't need to be in and creatures and bounty hunters I'll never meet. And the Force - always the magic of the Force. I smiled a lot while watching this. I'm glad I saw it.

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