Ok - so - I am finally watching The Mandolorian and holy fuck.
I went into Season 1 trepidatious and the show sold me on its visuals and picaresque style. But now I'm on Season 3 (after a detour through Boba Fett), and I gotta say, if I was handed the script for S3E6 I would have stared across the the fucking desk and fired the writer. Just instantly.
@abbienormal [functional.cafe] The cthulhu looking alien was called Captain Shuggoth, the pleasure planet was called Plzir-15, the drug is nepenthe but does not cause or remove sorrow, and the red herring was Jack Black going "Do you like secretions? Also! I used to be imperial"
The action scene was just Mando kicking battle droids until one attacked him, then deciding to run away through a crowded market instead of anything else. And then it turned out Christopher Lloyd signed his name on all the drugs (it was nanorobots so they checked with a microscope) so they caught him, because he had no other plan. I... don't really even get its purpose.