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I share your questions on the show's quality. I ultimately chalked many things that made me tilt my head to some idea of the show's 'style' and decided to re-s

I share your questions on the show's quality. I ultimately chalked many things that made me tilt my head to some idea of the show's 'style' and decided to re-suspend my disbelief, but still. On the bounty hunder droid...what about it came across as an immaculate AI? It had machine-precision with firearms and apparently a pretty interesting social-relationships module, but the re-training montage showed a lot of it's limitations.

klmadfejno 6y ago
> It had machine-precision with firearms Mostly this. Star wars droids don't have machine precision. They don't 360 no scope everyone in a room and easily win 10:1 battles without taking any cover. The bounty hunter droid is far more competent than any human in a fight in this series, which feels wrong given these mandalorians are supposed to be legendary bounty hunters or something. I'm sure someone's ready to jump in with extended universe stuff to prove me wrong, but let's caveat that by noting Luke nullifies black holes in that series, so the similarities between power levels are hardly apples to apples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMQUTOh_AsQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMQUTOh_AsQ
- dhagz 6y ago
  I think this is one of those "rule of cool" things. Though I will say, sure IG-88 may have been better at shooting accurately, but his response to being surrounded in the first episode was to initiate a self-destruct. Whereas you have Mando showing some higher-level thinking and turns an "unwinnable" fight into a winnable one.
- asdff 6y ago
  It kinda undermines the premise of General Grievous too imo. The reason that he was so powerful was because he was a cyborg, with machine precision but also organic strategy making that made him far stronger than any droid.
- user5994461 6y ago
  Star wars don't have powerful droids? Really? Looking at the first movie (phantom menace). There are super powerful droids with double guns and shields https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Droideka https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Droideka The only reason the main characters don't get obliterated is because they are master jedi who managed to deflect a few repeated hits and then barely slipped away and escaped. The next episodes 2 and 3 largely feature battle droid https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/B2-RP_battle_droid https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/B2-RP_battle_droid that are owning the battlefield. They're again not killing everyone because they only show up in battle against highly skilled jedis and in the full scale battle between armies having rockets and much stronger weaponry.
  - klmadfejno 6y ago
    They have plenty of powerful droids. But those droids win by virtue of sheer firepower, shields, and numbers. You don't get the sense that they're individually more competent than a human. They're just soldiers that happen to be robots. 1-3 is generally not aligned with 4-9 either way and this series takes place in 6.1. If we're in a world where the "robot advantage" exists, you'd have to question why humans pilot the ships, or man the turets, or what not.

klmadfejno 6y ago

> It had machine-precision with firearms Mostly this. Star wars droids don't have machine precision. They don't 360 no scope everyone in a room and easily win 10:1 battles without taking any cover. The bounty hunter droid is far more competent than any human in a fight in this series, which feels wrong given these mandalorians are supposed to be legendary bounty hunters or something. I'm sure someone's ready to jump in with extended universe stuff to prove me wrong, but let's caveat that by noting Luke nullifies black holes in that series, so the similarities between power levels are hardly apples to apples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMQUTOh_AsQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMQUTOh_AsQ

dhagz 6y ago
I think this is one of those "rule of cool" things. Though I will say, sure IG-88 may have been better at shooting accurately, but his response to being surrounded in the first episode was to initiate a self-destruct. Whereas you have Mando showing some higher-level thinking and turns an "unwinnable" fight into a winnable one.
asdff 6y ago
It kinda undermines the premise of General Grievous too imo. The reason that he was so powerful was because he was a cyborg, with machine precision but also organic strategy making that made him far stronger than any droid.
user5994461 6y ago
Star wars don't have powerful droids? Really? Looking at the first movie (phantom menace). There are super powerful droids with double guns and shields https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Droideka https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Droideka The only reason the main characters don't get obliterated is because they are master jedi who managed to deflect a few repeated hits and then barely slipped away and escaped. The next episodes 2 and 3 largely feature battle droid https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/B2-RP_battle_droid https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/B2-RP_battle_droid that are owning the battlefield. They're again not killing everyone because they only show up in battle against highly skilled jedis and in the full scale battle between armies having rockets and much stronger weaponry.
- klmadfejno 6y ago
  They have plenty of powerful droids. But those droids win by virtue of sheer firepower, shields, and numbers. You don't get the sense that they're individually more competent than a human. They're just soldiers that happen to be robots. 1-3 is generally not aligned with 4-9 either way and this series takes place in 6.1. If we're in a world where the "robot advantage" exists, you'd have to question why humans pilot the ships, or man the turets, or what not.