Welcome to a very special edition of The Mandalorian Guide, featuring the first episode of this eight-chapter season that I straight up did not enjoy. Folks, I do enough recreational drugs to know how fun it is to smash Star Wars toys together. I've made Bib Fortuna and Bossk kiss. I'm aware of how this works. But paper-thin "The Gunslinger" didn't do much of anything besides take a walking tour through the Stuff You Recognize Museum. "Look, some Tusken Raiders!" this episode yells, forgetting to factor the Tusken Raiders into the plot in any meaningful …

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