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Hm. This is not a sequel diss, but I found the praetorians in the Mandalorian episode to be WAY more intimidating than the red guards in both the sequels or even the original trilogy.
that's because the sequels (and this is a diss) made them so flimsy they got whipped by Rey despite the fact she had zero combat training with a lightsaber.
Sadly the fight choreography in that fight in the last Jedi was terrible in combination with the directing and oblivious editing.
Anyone with an orange belt or higher in some martial art saw several places where the Guard could have just killed Ray and Kylo but instead just stood there waiting awkwardly for their next que.
@@changlouriousbasterd9524 To me it was Snookes stupid teaching methods that crippled them. The guards may look intimidating but no match for a force user with martial combat experience.
@@JemyMwhich ray was not experienced in fighting. Nor an experienced force user
@@dogguy8603 You missed the entire first movie I guess. And the last one.
I think this episode brought alot back not just for the highly trained praetorian guards but the mandos themselves and I feel vizla has brought back the honour for his bloodline
This is the WAY!
This is the way
This episode made the Guards look badass in like a minute unlike The Last Jedi where they looked like complete jokers who can barely fight and got slaughtered by Mary Sue and unstable and conflicted Kylo Ren.
This is the way
i think we will see his son in future
Easter egg: Did anyone notice the Praetorian Guards gave Paz a "soldier's death" like from the movie "Gladiator"? A "soldier's death" was a fatal overhead sword blow to the back of the neck. It was cool to see a warrior get an honorable death.
I saw that and Gladiator came to mind.
I wouldn't have thought that being run through from 3 angles then having your limp arm just shoved away like an annoying fly was honourable personally but cool to know
@PsychoArk The Praetorian Guards showed Paz respect with a 3 to 1 odds knowing his sacrifice... a warriors code of honor, even if it was brutal, swift with no mercy. Throughout human history, the worse odds shows a warrior's worth on the battlefield. That is the point. Paz had a jetpack. He could have easily backed out of the fight, but that is not honor. To add, Paz even fought like a gladiator with his shield in one hand and a sword/knife in the other.
The soldier's death is sword to upper back severing the spine, not much pain and quick. The other alternative would be decapitation which was big with Japanese warlords who needed to bring back the heads of enemies or their armor as proof of kill.
I noticed that too; I think they showed him a bit of respect for facing the 3 of them alone considering these Praetorian Guards probably have serious experience. Maybe they have even fought against and killed Jedi before. They seemed so cold like it was effortless to them and like they'd faced far tougher opponents. But I think they honored him with a merciful swift death for making a stand and for his sacrifice; the guards are trained as warriors after all. They could have done far worse with Paz
The way the Praetorian Guards easily overwhelmed Paz and slowly ran him through with their laser pikes despite his heavy armor was horrifying. One on one he might have held his own but they were trained to work together and they walked in that room to kill Paz. (I believe Gideon dispatched them shortly after the Mandalorians began their retreat; likely because he wanted to test their prowess in battle.) They had highly specialized training and were more than a match for some Jedi Knights; so Paz had little chance against them alone with his bulky armor and being worn out from just demolishing a bunch of stormtroopers. It will be interesting to see more of these guards in the coming shows.
Also an interesting note that these red guards are still around; these 3 we see may even have been around since the destruction of the Republic. If they are they're super experienced and likely had experience fighting against and killing Jedi. Especially since that's the reason Gideon hired them, his fear of Jedi like Luke. If that's the case with these new guards then it's not surprising Paz met a swift death. They seemed so cold and ruthless like he was nothing to them, like they had faced far tougher opponents.
They were no match for Rey Palpatine though!
@@brooklyn8376This scene loses SO MUCH aura when you take into account the absolute joke of battle against Rey and Kylo. Understandable that they won in the end but they NEEDED to create a far better choreography for that fight.
@@brooklyn8376 and yooda made them loko like nothing. but then yoda is teh grandmaster of the light side
@@Johnadams20760 okay tbh, those guys were newbies
Its kinda weird, actually beeing in pain all the time makes the senses go numb instead of hightening them
Depends on the type of pain. I live with severe chromic pain and I WISH it made me numb
@@BratFyre Pain is just another sensation but it is more likely to distract than to assist. (Disabled, and been in pain since 1991, no pain killers. Denied after major surgery. Was poor...)
I live in chronic medium-severe pain...it literally wears you completely out...I feel exhausted 100% of the time.
You've never had a tooth ache...
Read about the Moro rebels in the Phillipines during the US Phillipine war. They would do things like wrap their balls in tight wire so they'd already be in so much pain when they went into combat, that bullet wounds would hardly phase them.
I’m so glad they were used in this episode. Vizla guy got possibly the best death of any character
here's to hoping they develop younger Visla as a character now. I hope we get to see his reaction/greiving
What are you talking about, this is their first canon appearance, they didn't appear anywhere else.
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Is Canon
LOL I'm pretty sure this is a joke
Ha! I’m going with that idea too.
Sequel Trilogy so weak needs to be forgotten. These red clad dress wearing warriors might be worthy of fear now. Still, wish we could see Din with that Beskar Spear battle a few of them & take em out.
Sadly that spear was taken away :(
Grow up
@@traviswilcox3472 "it needs to be forgotten" And yet it's brought up every 5 minutes it seems.
I'd like to see these red guards versus a prime Luke Skywalker.
of course sith luke is winning wtf.
@@c0mmas "Did you think I was above using force choke and force lightning" *proceeds to Sith all over them.
luke in his prime is twice as powerful as the emporor or more. it would be nothing to him
@John Adams haha no. Theirs 2 luke. Star wars luke called legend. And disney Luke that we badly saw in the last movies.
Now, it would depend of what luke
@@Johnadams20760 no! Luke, even in legends, is NOT that powerful. He's never been shown to be that powerful, and people that think that is just fanwank. He's not even the main in the stories. The episodes are vaders rise and fall
Yeah I was kind of pissed that he went out so quickly I was hoping he would take at least one of them with him...
I think it is to show just how good they are. He defeated multiple commandos with just his hands but was taken out in a manner of seconds by them
I mean to be fair he was exhausted, his blaster melted and his jetpack had been busted
Guys ! he was outnumbered, 1 Mandolorian with less than 70% pure baskar Armor against 3 well trained well provisioned Praetorian guards. There is no chance he could survived this 😢 and of course, there was no chance for defeating one of them either.
And y’all forget that the stormtroopers he was fighting each had their own beskar armor
@@markgonzalez6016 I dont think they were stormtroopers I think they were mandalorian as well
What an Elite fearsome unit the Preatorians are. Losing their weapon midfight and hitting the evil air instead Rey.
I was surprised to see the praetorian guard this early in the timeline, as I assumed the royal guard were still around at this time and would not become active until the emergence of Snoke and the First Order.
Agreed but what least they will connect all this better in some way
@@mitchelkvedar674 if anything seeing them in this episode has got me wanting to know more about them. Do you think we could be a step closer to discovering their mysterious origins?
these were probably transitional - the helmets in the mandalorian look more smiliar to the royal imperial guards than the sequel side-quest enemies.
I think the imperial royal guards from ROTJ all become "Pretorian" guards after the emperor's death 💯🔥
Like in crimson empire. Sequels will never be good or canon.
@@Ironwalrus8989 the sequels were indeed trash, but legends was trash too. Legends and Sequels both made the stupid choice of bringing palps back
@Apom Taylor it's what happens when the directors don't read legends contents and books. You can really see Dave Filoni reads the legends contents through his series and ester eggs.
You take ideas from legends, instead of given proper credit, or better yet have said creators make content.
Facts, these guys which they could be kir kanos.
These guards were so good, that the editors of “episode 9” had to slow them down, fake block their attacks, and make their weapons disappear, just so that Rey and Kilo wouldn’t get demolished. I think that speaks for itself as to their effectiveness lol.
That scene astounds me to this day. Even JJ would have done another take
8*
Yes, Rey should have been dead by now from the one guard who grabbed her. But no... his second blade had to disappear out of nowhere 💀 And yes, the guardians were swinging in the air at the beginning, what was that 😂 Rey's a Praetorian Guard victim
Ray had another sequel to star in… the guards did not.
@@diegohorton869 at least the guards got a prequel...
I always get jitters or a smile. always when i see these kind of guards... are never social, never talk, always cold blooded and cold. it is always impressive to see
Imagine watching them absolutely destroy an experienced mandalorian like the pros they're supposed to be, attacking precisely and like a pack,and then you watch them in episode 8 basically attacking one by one and basically hitting the air,they really gave them the respect they deserve for the show
It's worf ,hulk effect. They had to make a establish bad ass look stupid ,lame, un experience, weak, with a plot. It's played out troupe of group of new baddies, badder than old baddies.
mandalorin are nothing compare to one of the most powerful force user and the guy who take down the whole new jedi order lol
The Praetorian Guards got some cool looking Armor.
who knows how they see out of those helmets though
They literally blocked their own fellow guards attacks from hitting rey and kylo.
This.
So that was you then.
I remember seeing that lmao the one guard with the double vibro blade on the right hand side closest to the camera did a little super slow twirl, lunged his blade forward but didn’t even touch Rey, and then hit his blade against one of the other guard’s weapons instead of actually hitting Rey… and then they all ran away like children playing with sticks 🤦♂️💀
Yeah, this fight was one of the worse in Star Wars. It was embarrassing you can watch one just filp and spin and not make contact with anyone. They could have done so much better
Praetorians and red guards are cool. I think it’s be cool if we see trainees in the bad batch. But maybe seeing them too much might diminish their reputation.
There is a distinct and large difference between the red guard and the Royal Guard, just so you know. Royal Guards are far better trained and much better skilled and equipped for combat than Red Guards.
You can read the comics about how royal guards trained it’s very intense they even had to be tested by Vader in combat
@@paulcowherd5959 yeah out of a class of 50 only 1 one would make it out. Vader would kill the rest right in front of them.
i think Paz forgot he had a jetpack on him, could've just gone up through the cracks on the surface/followed the TIE fighters and the bombers
His jet pack helps cool his heavy repeater thus causing them both to overheat which is why I guess it was also overheating and sparking it’s likely if he used it he would’ve just exploded but that’s just my theory
They forget about their jetpacks *a lot*. Maybe they should strap it to their bellies so it's in front of them all the time.
I thought the same
@@WoollyMittens Bo Katan forgot about her Dark Saber until Gideon mentioned it lol.
Watch the scene back you can see his Jetpack shot at/overheating. Plus he has the blood rush from battle
I'd like to see them have to take on rebuilt magnaguards for training purposes
I suppose they lost their ability of proper choreography in TLJ
The three guards in the Mandalorian were freaking amazing, I love it. I hope we see more of them in action. 👍👍👍
Anything involving Imperials or Praetorian guards are always wins for me, I’m glad to see them making a return!
But Rey still somehow managed to bumble her way through a fight with half a dozen... disney princess syndrome at it's finest
Glad to see these guys make a return with an even better design!
The pairing of praetorians reminds me of the Sith principle of 'there being only two, the master & the apprentice'. Could be clones of Thrawn, he was shown to be very good at hand to hand combat against multiple sentry droids in the Rebels animated series. He also has Robert Downey Junior's - 'Sherlock' powers of deduction which would explain the ability the deflect blaster shots.
Best warriors in the galaxy wiped out by a woman who barley knows how to use the force and an emo moody former jedi 30 something who were fighting each other as much as they were fighting them.
Such is the power of plot armour and bad story telling 😂
Fuckin hilarious!!! I'm glad I'm not the only one!
He could've easily escaped with them by providing cover fire and then lock the doors and run with Bo Katan. I thought it was a cheap way to kill him off.
Yah, I mean Favreau probably was tired of the role and thought to go out in style and show how powerful the guard is
@@dogguy8603 favreau only voiced him in season one tho. They got a different actor for seasons 2 & 3
The panel was only on one side. He'd have to leave the door open to escape
@@deonte9014 Exactly, yes he could have 'escaped' but then imperials would have been hot on the tails of the retreating scouting party. He took a stand to give the party time to get clear, reorganize, plan and execute whatever their next move will be. What he did was less about 'heroic sacrifice to save everyone' and more of a tactical decision to give the rest of the party the best odds of winning what comes next.
THANK YOU. Between the giant dinosaur and all the beskar troopers, it felt like an episode of JJ Abrams-wars. "And then this happens, and then this happens, and then this happens! Mystery box after mystery box!"
What a crap episode. And I LIKED the previous episode.
They're so terrifying that they move their thrusts around enemies so they can be killed, or just...stop their blades completely for no reason when they have an open path to immediate kill their opponent. Super terrifying, those red dudes.
Ya they defeated Visla, but it took three of them and that was after he was exhausted and probably wounded after taking out an entire platoon of Beskar armored Mandalorians. I think he takes out at least one if he was fresh and seriously hurts the other two.
nah maybe two of them. Grogu could've stepped up and choked the 3rd one
Vizla gets destroyed one on one close combat, by one of them. This was very overkill
Those guys weren't Mandalorians. They were some sort of Dark Trooper.
Nope. Just no. They are literally called "jedi butchers" and you want them to die to a mandalorian? That's just stupid.
The reason people thought they were garbage is because Ruin Johnson botched the final battle int he throne room. Rey - who has had zero lightsaber combat training - trounced them. It made them look pathetic. It was cool seeing them be what we all expected before the travesty that was TLJ.
That was nice to see the Praetorian Guards get some depth built into them other than just being overglorified punching bags for Kylo and Rey in the new trilogy. I hope we see more of these menacing guards. I'd like to see real development on the Knights of Ren but I don't think that's happening in the Mandalorian series.
Watched your video on the Royal Guards a few hours before watching the Mandalorian. Coincidentally Praetorian Guards arrived. This is the way 🗿
[Spoiler].........To be fair, he just mowed down a platoon, was shot several times, and was exhausted. Even if he wasn't, it's still a 3 on 1. And those 3 were at minimum on on par with his CQC capabilities and fought together in unison. They had the number and equipment advantage as well. I would have been far more interested in a 1v1, would have been a direct show about who (generally speaking) are the better CQC combatants. Perhaps later it will be shown
Cqc?
@@davidduron3590 Close quarters combat
@@UmbralNoir kept you waiting huh?
@@davidduron3590 SNAKEEEE
Yes! I would have loved to see two leave immediately to follow the others and just one stay to fight, then paz could have died but cheated by placing an explosive charge on the pretorians back or just push him off the cliff with himself... so we don't know what happened to him since we saw the jetpack was damaged etc... twist or cliffhanger 😅
ALWAYS LOVED THE RED GUARDS!!! Their armor was so fresh & clean! Total badasses!!!
Yoda clapped them with zero effort in ROTS
I’d do the same
This made me laugh 🙌😂
Those weren't Praetoreans.
Those red guards got taken down so easily because they were practically fledglings, the only thing they had in common with the royal guard was their loyalty and appearance and picked from the senate guard, they would only become the most fearsome warriors in the empire after the empire was established.
@@TJDious they were still supposedly elite royal guards.
(Realization)
Dear God have we ever had any guards that were ever good at their job?
It is Yoda though. Few could match him in galactuc history. After Luke he's the 2nd strongest jedi ever. Not only that we don't know how much stronger he was in his prime. He fought Palpatine on even ground in the twighlight of his life
take a drink every time stupendous wave says the praetorians might be mandalorians
In terms of a modified swords versus a blaster, Yojimbo faced down a gunman in Kurosawa's movie, with his throwing knife. In The Warriors the climax of the movie is a virtual reproduction, following rules within the movie that each gang can only use 1 weapon, and the knife versus the gun seems to disadvantage the Warriors. I have a question, why can vibroblades take out Stormtroopers clad in Beskar, but not blasters?
Bingo
Because they can make their weapons disappear mid fight. Some say they they may even be able to make them reappear.
These were f-ing Brutal straight to the point lol 😂
They were the one thing to come from TLJ that I really liked; though it was sad to see multiple of members of possibly the most dangerous combatants in the galaxy be bested by an untrained force user. Seeing them here was really bittersweet to me. I really enjoyed seeing them in action and made to look nearly unstoppable but it also reminded me that no matter what, all roads end in the sequels :(
I know, the Praetorian guard was badass in Mando using appropriate tactics to overwhelm and dispatch Paz - it was sad to lose Paz but he did have a warriors death and the P guard were exactly what they should be. In the sequels they then turn into complete, incompetent donkeys in The Last Jedi - inappropriate tactics, getting in the way of each other, attacking one at a time vs collectively etc. TLJ was complete garbage and made the Praetorian guard look like Storm Trooper cannon fodder dipped in red.
Not the most bad ass, but force user, especially trained jedi "named", eat these guys lunch and take their lunch money.
I always thought the Emperor’s guards were cool as a kid. I remember when I finally got one of the action figures it was my favorite one! And in ROTJ all they did was stand there but they still were cool as hell! I think I had to send off a certain amount of proofs of purchase from the packaging of the other action figures just to get one!
I was 5 when ROTJ hit the theaters and recall loving those guys (and the 1st ROTJ figurine I got as a kiddo). The Emperors Red guard were my absolute favorite character design from that movie. The beskar spear that Ahsoka gave Din in S2 was an instant flashback to the RG spears.
This was a great breakdown
Some of the royal guards were force sensitive. Some did not train further but would benefit from this advantage while others became shadow guards.
Seeing them in this episode was a treat.... In TLJ they were nerfed so badly
Plot armor, man. Not even the most powerful of super lasers can pierce it.
The Praetroain Guard designs from TLJ are some of my favorite designs in all of SW! So happy to see a new (technically old designs in the timeline lol) design for the praetorian guards and have them back for a moment!
We are probably gonna see bo fight them in the finale to rescue din which I am majorly looking forward to as I love these guards
I’ve seen it already and I loved it❤
Hey stupendous can you do a video on anakin and ahsoka bond during and after the clone wars i also want to say thank you for the content its the best
I think the praetorian guards in this episode of the mandalorian delivered in what we always expected or hoped to see from the likes of Palpatine's royal guard. Mysterious and terrifying. I hope they don't ever elaborate on these individuals further. The mystery of what they really are is what keeps them terrifying IMO
Well considering in eu/legend we see what they can do. And sidious shadow guards ,I'll sat they are a discount nerf gun version of real thing.
No. They made a joke of them in the finale.
I would've liked to see some of the other mandalorians stay behind to help Paz. If Paz could take down all those beskar clad stormtroopers and last that long against the guards alone, then Paz plus Bo Katan weilding the darksaber and Grogu using the force could've defeated all of them and taken back Din and Mandalore. The others could have still left to warn the fleet.
No...No...No...No...No...No..
Nice timing. :)
How does that purple weapon go clean through beskar ?
Not gonna lie was not expecting him to die so quick against them.
And it was a fairly brutal death for star wars
On another channel I heard a very disturbing yet quite believable theory about the scene where Paz is killed. If true, it shows the brilliance of Favreau and the power of Kathleen Kennedy. Jon was pretty pissed about how KK was intervening in the creative process and seeing the paint on the wall, decided to “throw” the writing of this season and clock out. This scene is how Jon really feels about his battle to regain the trust of the fandom while being in the crosshairs of the KK cabal and Lucasfilm suits. He killed off his own alter ego in this episode, and used one of the most iconic and arguably worst-used characters in the controversial sequel trilogy to do it. We made fun of the throne room scene where Snoke’s guard were dancing around Rey and Ben as they cut their way through the guard in overtly ballet-like moves. Jon took the silliest fight scene from the ST, made it represent the fallacy of Kathleen’s interventions, and used it to show us in coded action sequences what he’s going through and why he’s gonna check out of this place. If this is true, I say fare well, and well done, Mr Favreau.
Whether it's true or not, this is a profound perspective I hadn't considered yet
He’s known for doing this. The movie chef was about his struggle with the Disney/Marvel suits interfering all the time in the creative process. He made a movie calling them out.
Favreau is leaving?
Chapter 23 was so much to unpack I loved it
Keeping them in a constant state of pain is hilarious. It reminds you constantly that the Emperor replacement is a literal pain the the ask. Even Palpatine knew treat your guards right.
No one is talking about the fact Gideon was wearing a Darth Maul helmet. Like it had all the horns on it like Maul's Mandalorian sect. Darth Maul is a part of this story to some degree. He is dead I know at this point in this story but there has to be more than just a stylistic reason he is wearing Maul horns on his helmet. Did they use Mauls DNA to clone? Sidious said he had plans for Maul when he was captured in The Clone Wars cartoon series. Maybe Moff Gideon was dealing with Maul the whole time. Maul was a Mandlor for a bit and right around the time of order 66 he escaped the Jedi when Ashoka let him go. So while Rebels events have all already happened in this storyline there has to be some Maul connection we are all missing here.
Praetorian's are the Imperial Guard. Praetorian Guard translates cohors praetoria, the bodyguard troop of a Roman commander or emperor.
The Emperor's Royal Guard, also named the Crimson Guard, the Imperial Royal Guard, the Imperial Guard and (under the Galactic Republic) the Red Guard, Praetorians.
There should be a series about them.
“They’re the best warriors in the galaxy, the strongest and deadliest fighters….”
*shows them get absolutely massacred the whole video*
They are, the fact they can stood a chance against two of some of the strongest living Force Sensitives is saying something
rey and kylo? 💀
one of them was brand new to the force and with a light saber.. they were weak, over glorified dancers
actually he is sort of right most of the force sensitives are dead so they are one of the strongest force sensitives in the sequels
The stunt guys in TLJ completely ruined their reputation
I'd say it's more the stunt coordinators fault
@@lloydzxa7331 According to Ridley, they had to do that scene over and over again until they got tired of it and picked the most perfect version of the scene. So in all the other versions they were even WORSE
@@richietribe9487 There was no elegance or coordination in their movements...
You guys take something seriously from The Sequel? I do not consider them as Star Wars, this is the way
@@Ram.147 this is the way
As much as I love the look and technique of the PG that appeared in Mandalorian, it would have hit even harder for the three to be remnant Royal Guards and wearing armor akin to Crimson Empire.
Always loved the red look.
They’re terrifying-ly bad at fighting.
You take one on. And let’s see how you do champ.
I think it would be cool if they revealed the Empire's Red Guard to be Mandalorians. Their helmet is somewhat similar to the design of the neo crusader armor from the old republic.
From what I've seen of the Praetorian Guard(admittedly little), I did not find them particularly intimidating, but that was mostly due to poor choreography. I'm not a big fan of the armor either. With the layered plate armor it's a little too busy, and it reads a little too medieval Japan. I know Lucas was heavily inspired by Kurosawa and Darth Vader is basically evil space samurai, but I think in this case the influence is a little too apparent and it takes me out of my imaginary space opera. I do like the idea of the Praetorian Guard being an elite taskforce, but the problem with guards is that they don't do a whole lot unless they're defending the person they're guarding. What made the Imperial Guard awesome was that they looked intimidating, but then Palpatine was all like, "Leave us. It's chill. I got this Luke kid in the palm of my hand. There's no way something crazy could happen that would lead to my demise." As an audience we had to imagine how badass the Imperial Guard must be. Haven't watched Mando S3. That clip looked pretty cool though, so I'm happy that they've given the Praetorian Guard a little better showing.
You mentioned the, "guards, leaves us." These guards where no regular Praetorians. They where trader Jedi, sworn themselves to the Emperor. And so Palpatine force bonded them to him. Why didn't the Guards sense something going wrong with their Emperor? And show up to kill Luke and Darth Vader. It's was a standing order, "If Palpatine died, Darth Vader will be eliminated." Also, Darth Vader was doomed to die and he knew this. His suit was connected to Palpatine's life monitor. In Legends, Palpatine slowed his body down sooo much that the monitor thought he was dead. Sent a signal, through all known hyper net stations in the Galaxy, to slowly shutdown Vader's life support suit, increase the pain, and play a really f-ed up message for Vader. Palpatine did this to Vader a couple of times.
star wars can save people from pretty much any injury if the writers want them to. i think its 50/50 we see that mandalornian heavy gunner again.
They’re tough to take down in video games
I was kinda hoping Paz would've just turned his flame thrower on when he had the one by his throat roasting him alive. Also we all just gonna ignore bo and baby Yoda having the ability to breach the door and save their friends
I think I would have liked that with the addendum of it absolutely doing nothing to the Praetorian guard in question, not even phasing them.
@@dungeonguy88 It would fry them like it did with a normal stormtrooper, the Praetorian guards don't have lightsaber proof armor as shown in TLJ so they should not be able to tank flamethrower either
@@davidkosiba624 Praetorian armor actually specifically is resistant to lightsaber strikes, requiring direct strikes to have any effect on them. Their armor is comparable to Darth Vader's which also could resist mild strikes from lightsabers.
They'd be able to easily shrug off a wrist-mounted flamethrower.
The fact that they're meant to be so good just makes me more irritated that rey and kylo beat them in that total chaos
Yep Rey Skywalker is a god. She doesnt need training to take them out. Hell she needed no training to defeat Ren. Man those movies are a mess haha
They’re so powerful they can manifest and destroy weapons with their mind
If I was Snoke I would have been guarded with about 30-40 IG 100 Magna Guards special trained to fight force wielders like General Grievous guards.
Well they can kill Paz Vizla, sooo…
You know what that means. It’s leading straight to the sequel trilogy.
and?
tbf the story of the ST is not even that bad if you think about it.... the main problem was the lack of cohesive storytelling, in fact, those seemed different stories at times.. so with proper world building it can actually be cool to see...
see it this way, apart from minor issues (such as rey [and yes it's minor. but idc to elaborate on this now haha]) imagine if lucasfilm started making these shows BEFORE and then making a crossover movie and then the ST... things would have been way more cohesive
@@dragonchannek4843 they were crap,Period.
@@darthdredd4148 the movies? totally not... the story? that's more debatable yea, but with proper worldbuilding, they can be at least decent (in my opinion)
the "prequel" treatment you know
@@dragonchannek4843they were pure crap...the way they portrayed Luke Skywalker alone was a freaking travesty and betrayal of the TRUE fanbase.
@@dragonchannek4843 them and the troopers look half modern day star trek (all new and shiney smoith and round puke)the other half 3d printed apple products .
Nothing can fix those 3 films kick them to some other time line start fresh there is plenty of stories to be told with out rushing the time line forward just so Kathleen Kennedy can have her wet dream that the force is female .
They treated our main characters like canon fodder .
Those films can not be saved .
I’m still angry about Snoke.
Dilly Dilly!!! I agree
idk if id say stronger going in 3v1 with a weakened opponent, but they are powerful indeed. Either way, I'm looking forward to the next episode 😄
They’re so terrifying that a video has to be made to convince you of their terror.
Hopefully the guards have better fight choreography in the Mandalorian
They are so terrifiying that one Mandalorian with his kid can take down three of them.
That honestly makes the last Jedi fight scene so much better
I was pissed with the other mandolorians retreating, I thought they could take out gideons forces together, as soon as I saw those guards I knew they made the right decision 😅
This fight need Luke and Ahsoka. This season of the Mandalorian is really Star Wars lore loaded and the most Star Wars story they have told since the actual Purge we call the sequels.
Terrifying ? After seeing SW8 I will never see them more than as clowns.
This fight so badly choreographed, between the one who turns on himself because Rey was not in position, the one who sticks a knife in Rey but the knife has been erased in special effects, the one who comes to block Kylo with his arms then that he can't do anything else after such a move (apart from dying) and all the guards disappearing offscreen for a few seconds because otherwise Rey and Kylo would never have gotten away with it. They're just jokes, they'll never be intimidating anymore
I would like to see a Star Wars show about the imperial guard from their perspective
Now we all know Din Jarin just wants to get in lady Bo-Katan's armor
If their armor is beskar how did Kylo Ren stab them through the armor?
Because that fight was not real whatsoever, Kylo and Rey shouldn’t have won that fight. Especially Rey but Disney made her into a god so…
@@Watchmanandres right. Rey is Palpatines grand daughter so she has a lot of potential sure but a newbie beating off the guards, ren, then killing palp himself? 😂😂
Maybe Gideon wants to turn din into one of the guards
Your on to something.
praetorian guard: **tries to even touch luke**
luke: "are you sure about that?"
The final blow from Praetorian against Paz reminded me of HBO’s Rome and Titus Pullo’s assassination of the Senator Philippi.
Meant to fight and kill Force users with relative ease, yet all of them were taken out by two who are, at best, Padawan level.
They were compeletly useless in the Last Jedi because even Rey was able to defeat them so I REALLY hope that they are much more effective this time.
you missed the point of that fight scene then. She was suppose to be a jedi badass at that point weather you like her character or not.
Let's not forget that she was in cooperation with Kylo Ren the second part of the Dyad. And he did the hardest part.
@@waynebrown1283We can't forget Kylo Ren. She is in alignment with him, because of the Dyad.
@@waynebrown1283 SUPPOSED to be. It failed.
@@marcoslaureano5562 Your immaturity failed you
of course, the guys who spin around in circles are soooo terrifying
At least there were (finally!) some badasses also with the imperials, not only cannon fodder for the heroes. Until now it seems that the imperials were a Red shirt army (no pun), then these three guys appear and make short work of one of the best fighters of the show.
They still are, outliners don't count.
I love the praetorian guards they look freaking cool in mandalorian season 3
Well at the movie they suck at fighting against a Jedi sooo how are they terrifying. If they suck at fighting a Jedi but they do look cool tho.
Love that they were actually scary.
This definitely helps put the praetorian guards in better perspective. Rewatches of TLJ has kinda made me feel less impressed with them b/c of how quickly they all died. Hopefully this and other new content puts them in even better perspective
It's the Star Wars fandom. They'll never allow anyone to move on.
What is with the baddies in star wars thinking constantly subjecting someone to pain makes them better? Lol
Guards must be masochistic...
Yeah these guys were really cool but they were completely wasted and their choreography was so terrible and absolutely pathetic in that throne room fight scene that it made them look like clowns... Instead of attacking as a group they literally danced around each other and then waited for 1 to go after the other. I don't know what was worse the way Kylo Ren fights with years of training or the way they fought and how convenient it was when weapons just disappeared after Rey gets a lil booboo... I'm actually shocked when people say that this is the best choreographed seen in the entire Star Wars library... That upsets me on many levels because whoever thinks that just has not watched anything else...
I know right, there was a bit where Rey blocks three of them as they strike down at the same time and watching like. . . “Really”!
Now imagine a force sensitive with the same training as a royal honor guard. I wonder how the jedi temple guards would square up
The ballet dancing weapon dissappearing idiots are truly terrifying