 I Hello Mandalorian, that's the one who not Gotham Knights not last of us. That's dead now all news. It's been several week Yeah, that's probably about right and it's Time to talk more about you guys saw the Mandalorian episode one and then two and now it's time for three The only difference with this one is that I've seen it and these four losers have not and my goodness Am I curious what you guys gonna think of this one? Holy medallion. This is not like the first two not at all. Oh, and it's okay It's gotten the episode in trouble big time. I'm curious what we will think I might be good Either way that it goes if it's a controversial one. It's like, oh, have they actually like tried to tell a story this time Well, that's the I have Trying to avoid the only opinion I want to share right now is that several several people did the clowning of Wow, you thought the mando man was eaten by a no, sorry that he fell you losers He was eaten by a fish. We saw the fish and even if that wasn't the fish that grabbed him It would have been a different fish. It was a fish. He got eaten by a fish losers Oh, that's way more respectable. It gets confirmed like three times in this episode that he slipped and fell It is not haha I think it's more respectable to have a monster pull you under the water than you slipping absolutely Yes, I think I don't need them to confirm that because I have eyes I would have argued heavily that there's no indication. It was a fucking fish There's no displacement of water except him good and I'm sorry You're telling me the giant fucking myth or so did it know and then there's nothing else in there And even if it was a tiny fish, well, there's so many other questions to come with it anyway It's fine. He fell he slipped he fell he slipped in the bath We may as well get on with it this there is enough There is a Mando episode in this episode, but there is a different episode of that's why it's an hour long There's two episodes in here. One is Mando one is something else. Oh, okay. Oh god. Yeah, it is long I will say this is very reminiscent of the last of us episode three No, this is dr. Pershing. Wow. Oh my god Back all the way Pershing it was probably the only thing Approaching an actual character in the first season. I remember you saying that back when we looked at it. Look, that's person who works for Evil This is going to be an important episode then if we're flashing back this far, right? Well, it'll be up to you I suppose or up to us. We'll figure it out because it seems like they're trying to reestablish plot thread That's the read of whenever you have something that is really old that gets flashed back to him Since the inception of previously on's they have spoiled episodes, but they do Season yeah It's gonna be relevant remember this character. You thought was gone To a slip to the bathtub that's all like a crocodile that drags Wake up in response to them. It didn't need like no, they were there Longer and gone on the more they put their characters in Remember Like c3 po r2 d2 now. It's like the blacksmith lady. I like that. She's like, did you fall? Oh my god, she's supposed to grab you, right? She's supposed to perform CPR and she just doesn't he's just dead Take his helmet off. Well, then again, you can just put it back on and go back in the water Back in the water carry a tub of the water whenever you want to take The water in another lake how much what is the concentration level of the sacred waters in normal waters before it becomes sacred Wait, but that Is it magic it's magic water, why wouldn't the empire want it? It's symbolic. Surely. I don't know. It's just well just because it's magic doesn't mean it's useful, right? Maybe it turns your skin Useless magic you see anything down there. I saw like chasm passing me as I fell. I didn't realize it was so deep Did you see anything alive? Like what? Nothing I guess I don't want to tell him because she thinks she might have saw stuff and she's going nuts Because the myth of the myth can't be real in the star wars universe with all of these crazy creatures and magic and everything Yeah, that would be why apparently but there's not gonna be a room down there Is there or maybe You know, what is it? It's like all these big critters on tattooing like what are these things eat to stay alive and these It's not like a like it eats honor or something like that. Oh god. It might actually be that stupid That's like that's got feloni written all over it. Yeah, bring me to my ship and I'll be on my way I would invite you in for a feast, but I'm guessing that helmet isn't coming off again because um Hey, look, all right. I'm I I'm still I'm partial to characters keeping their helmets. All right. Well, it's a little bit excessive Yeah, she's often does take off. Oh, just random Suddenly why are they suddenly empire? Geez, are you guys going to be able to survive this with five of the interceptors? Like shooting at you together with no other targets and also it's quite a big ship, too Our shields aren't gonna hold. I need you to back them off Why haven't they got them yet? That's a lot of tie-fires In the interceptors Shit because they're Dauntrooper We tend to get mad when you hijack their ships They're after her because she stole this ship from the empire apparently it's like you've been living here forever If they know where you are, why haven't they only why are they now? Well, she stole the ship So they waited until she was in the ship so that they could blow her up in the ship that she stole But I guess they don't really want back. It's just a principal thing Interceptors are a lot tougher than tie fighters. I thought interceptors were the super fast ones I thought interceptors and in ones. Yeah, I thought interceptors. Yeah, exactly. I thought that from the games though I don't know. Yeah from the movies. I don't know Go Mando go. Oh, wow, they really go. Did they notice that piece? It's like. Oh, wow That's number two. They did the tune the second time already. Woo-hoo You think you think that tie fighter or tie interceptor pilots would be like really good? No I don't know like how do you miss like everything? You know literally never hit a shot Because they fucking stormtroopers by dude Oh, we're doing this again But you you're literally flying right at him and he misses everything, but you don't of course. Yay So you hit him with a single like torpedo. Yep. That's it. Instead of your blasters That was stupid. That was a cool action scene I mean, it's a good thing that tie interceptors are worthless and can't fucking anything The only variables you have to take care of in a scene like this is why are they not hitting you? And how are you hitting them and that's the one thing they don't take care of so what is this worth? It looks good. Oh, jeez. Oh, he just flew into the course. Yeah, the fucking stormtroopers They crashed and her ship's way bigger Exactly. Anyways, a mountain is like the land's asteroid field. Yeah, pretty much If that's what I mean, this is this is a stand-in for something awesome, right? He's like, oh, I guess this is awesome And obviously if the tie interceptors didn't think they were good enough They would just fly up higher and then follow them remember we went from space down to here The That's number three Is this action scene gonna have anything to do with the story? We need to have a brutal count No, this seriously is an action scene that's disposable. Once it's in and out, it'll be gone No, it's good for marketing material though. For our days on the trial when people get hyped How is Mando so good at flying a like a starfighter? He's had plenty of practice. Why is that a Why is that a skill that he where did he go? Well, and you know, the skill is transferable like just because you're good with one starfighter does that mean you're good with another one? Okay, fuck off How did that not just jerk you around inside the ship? Why do you need skill at all? They don't hit you. They never hit you. Why do you like Flat maneuvering on a spaceship? Oh the formula is so fucking old with the way they do it Yep, we've already got action scene number one I hope the baby Yoda doesn't have a concussion inside that crib from that I hope incredible maneuvers spinning around instantly But isn't this like everything is normal. This is exactly what you'd expect from a Mando episode so far just shields It's fine. They'll recharge it'll be like Mando is incredible undefeatable unstoppable and I want you guys and he never misses several people's sort of takes on this episode is wow It started really good Come on. I'm seeing something on the scope Uh-oh that destroyed the castle. Oh, no the oil fields like the page like originally That was my favorite I kind of find this hilarious the empire like this woman stole one of our ships go bomb your house Yo, like that's based Is the empire in a position to do things like this right now though if they don't exist We could tell the difference. Remember they were we said this in the previous seasons We were just like the empire just seemed fine. Gideon is in like space prison right now, but they're still fine Go get those bombers What are they doing like why the new public not involved in any of this? Oh, no flares. No countermeasures. Uh-oh It's like aliens bow. We've got company bow. Listen to me I won't say I really like the shots like the camera mounted on the uh, the ship that looks it looks good Yeah, I would always concede this all looked good. Yeah. Oh, yeah Some pretty strong resources. Oh just kill them for christ sake. Yeah, just just kill them. I mean there's only like 20 of them they should be able to kill them without a problem. Look at how many there are. Wow Considering the entire scene. They probably missed about a thousand blaster shots And you remember all those loser rebel pilots in the original trilogy who got killed by these guys. Yeah, how shit were they? Wow, how many of them Okay, bye All right, have you ever have you ever thought that we like That was that was half the mandu episode you'll come back to that Uh, oh Coruscant Yay I remember coruscant. We're back. I legit would I would I watch this? I was like, wait, we're good. Okay. Okay All right Hooray, we're here. That looks neat There are many of us who had no choice in working for the empire Now the new republic has given us a second chance. Isn't this already like wait, what? They're like, are they doing something here? It looks like they're doing something sadly My research was twisted into something cruel and inhumane at the behest of a desperate individual Intent on using cloning technology to secure more power for himself. That would be giddy, right? I presume but we also presume the work will eventually lead to or Yeah, or that When I was young I lost my mother had simple organ cloning been available. Her death would have been easily preventable It was then that I vowed to make it my life's work So, you know how you say but this is like the only character in the series Yeah, like he was the only thing approaching a character in the first they've given him more character Because he was like worried about baby Yoda the first time mando shows up and the compound and everything Yeah, we find out his intentions are pure and that it was motivated by a loss of a family member Under this In the world and he's got a public amnesty In Carson, it's like, whoa, we just did loads compared to normal in a couple of minutes Woman what is on your hand even that amount of world voting of uh people who were in the empire We're given opportunities to integrate into the new republic. Yeah, that's just nice to have that information so that we know What that transition looked like, you know, I was almost drafted imagine me serving empire rebels new republic I can't keep track so glad you're working for us now. Thank you. I find it Likely that I guess you could get both the higher up rich people who actually do be like your republic is way better than them But oh, I never even noticed. I just want to get on with my life sort of thing Yeah, and this topsy-turvy world. Yeah, just go along with your own life You know, just try to make the most of it. I see you're going to amnesty housing Ah krispy kris This was the point where I was like, what the fuck is going on who wrote this like this is not Mandalorian It's like and or it's diet and or right now. Yeah, this could have been an episode in andor But like it has like some characters talking about things that might be consequential and they're doing the meme Like we're watching him go home. We've brought this up. We brought it up last episode our first episode We're talking about some uh rhodian. I think I called him a rodent actually by accident But the point is we said let's follow that guy home We're following this guy home. This is something this world desperately needs We just need to see some like people in it. Yeah, just some normal people Do you want us for a drink amnesty officer m 34 amnesty scientist l 52 Do they have names like that to prevent people from knowing more about their past Maybe you can't track their names and What are you normalist that has just names though instead of like l 52. I'll give them like new names, you know Yeah, if that's the goal This man it is harder to learn those I think than just I think so, yeah Is that bad woman? It's a lady in the flashback. Oh, she was there as well. She went to the presentation I didn't expect to see anyone from moff Gideon's ship here. I didn't know you worked for him I try not to think about him anymore. Thanks to the rehabilitation program. I can contribute to the new republic It looks like a mix between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Qui-Gon Jinn, Liam Neeson here have some it's quite the compliment long live the new republic Long live the new republic Yeah, the guys that got wiped out by the first order easily. Oh, yeah, it does get awkward when you realize that it's all moving towards Just piss it would be so annoying to the world build all this bullshit You have to build up the Hosnian prime is basically everything that the good guys have Yeah, then the good guys lose in an afternoon because they don't do anything There are more of us here than I expected. Yeah, that surprised me at first two Wow, we're having like actual conversations now. Unbelievable For mando. Yeah, I've been I've been tricked. This is not mando. This is a different TV show You you edited this together from something else and you're like, ha ha look at those funny guys They're just thinking this is mando Uniform did fit better. I do miss the lights of hyperspace Hey, that'd be a casual thing. They like the bad guy uniforms are better though. What do you miss l 52? I'm glad that the empire is oh not Like that. I mean more like the everyday stuff like the food. Oh, we were soulless creatures in the before times We didn't eat or sleep or do you want to be I guess these are things I feel like we've asked before maybe those yellow travel biscuits for Talking about space MREs. Oh my god. Yeah, if I never see another ration pack in my life I'll die happy. I want something dry. I'll just listen to your joke Hmm, what is happening? It's like a vibe of Where's my helmet man shooting people Oh, you can't spell a cuminopolis without cum nice Oh, no, it's glass onion. No, there's a puzzle in there We're steam from minecraft when you need them Oh, it's the ration pack the travel biscuits. There's so many of them. He just says like I didn't like them that much Oh, is this like the building now we're going to his Yeah, it is this is officially an andor episode Fun vibes. Yeah, it's not like the intro to a mario party game Look, they got space ice cream They just had regular ice cream you didn't need to make it glow. Yeah Oh space magic. Oh my god Targaryen or something Oh, look a robot. Oh look. He looks friendly. He looks great. Look at him. He's how he's living. He's living the dream You've been a course on before it's rained here at the academy. We thought we were doing good I do think about that sometimes all of my research going unfinished. Why not continue your research here? The ethics of cloning are Complicated that feels like something they'd have to explain because yeah Cloning organs shouldn't have any ethical issues at all. I mean if they because I don't think the Sort of tv shows or movies have really done anything to explain what happened to the clones Clone Wars show I think did no idea. There's kind of the thing that we skipped over It's just eventually they got phased out a regular, you know people that the peak of umate Highest mountain on Coruscant. That's really cool That's the peak of on carousel Yeah, that's really cool actually I really like that. I like that's really cool. The backing music is an actual stowa soundtrack, but like played in You want to touch it? Are we allowed to? How many people can say they touched Coruscant? Touching other planets is actually yeah, actually touched Coruscant. That's interesting Sorry Everyone trying to touch the mountain We're still with him Good, let's stay with him. So like in the timeline. How many years until all these people are wiped out in an afternoon? Do you still find your current housing situation comfortable? Yes, it's cool. This would be a part of the amnesty program Like a check-in. No, you could look less fucking creepy. That'd be helpful. I guess if I were to pursue my own research Would that be allowed? Your previous research involved cloning and genetic engineering that class of research is expressly prohibited by the Coruscant accords Which seems strange, you know, is it because of the clones and the clone wars? I guess we're not necessarily entitled to knowing why It just seems odd It feels like something that we should be exploring. I would very much like to know though I get the idea that they'd be against cloning people Well, one of the problems that they have with the ethics of cloning is the nature of like cloning a person then taking their organs You know Especially if they end up being like a full-on person that's opposed to just Yeah, exactly. And we don't want a star wars version of the island I guess that's the thing if that's the only thing that exists now And he wants to get to the point where you can get past that step What means does he have really to like set that into motion? My research and the hands of the new republic. It can actually be used for good I just need to prove it are there official channels that he can go through because he gave a big speech and everything Or he should be campaigning for it to be legalized, right? That should be his next step. Yeah, like, uh, let's put up some bulletins on the street lamps and call our congressman What do you need some supplies a mobile lab station We can get you a mobile lab station But it would require going outside our designated perimeter If they found out we'd both be sent back to the reintegration institute If your research really is as important as you say I'll take that risk It's just it's so funny to me that if maddo were to appear I see him as a cloud like an actual He's just get out of here You're from a version of star wars that I cannot take seriously in the show is desperately Trying to drag this universe kicking and screaming into something believable Something that I find interesting about all of this as I get the impression that she's gonna lure him out of basically somewhere that's safe And then you know essentially force him to do his research for what remains of the empire. That's my guess This uh equipment i'm archiving it's all coded to be destroyed It's imperial technology, but they can still be put to good use. I just think I could be helpful if I could It would require authorization from the department. All right, so it's bureaucracy is really getting in the way That red tape. I assure you this is truly helping the new republic Right, that's the problem he's having is he can't like doing this kind of work He can't really see what the good is He's got a passion and knowledge for something that he does think can't actually help It's helping this probably is helping but just not in a way that's very uh apparent I mean, we've got our building blocks for a story. We kind of do that's weird. What what's that that happened? Have you experienced any feelings of anger or resentment towards your co-workers? I find that question so interesting that they would ask are you angry at your co-workers? For whatever reason, you know Yeah, that's a really good question to ask because if you were like a stormtrooper out there shooting people You know people might think of you differently than just somebody who is a mechanic on some You know battery station. He's nervous. Do do you think again? Our main objective is to help the republic Correct and that supersedes everything else. It does. I'm just I'm actually interested in what this is leading to No, that's a mistake rags Go back to Bendo falling in the water the mobile lab station. Let's go get it. Good Tomorrow night, this is my sleuthing jacket Relax just follow my lead Look at a buddy It's definitely given me sort of prequel vibes in the good way We're just kind of having just places and people and stuff and aliens and prequel world building is a compliment Well, this doesn't feel like a cheap-ass tattooing ripoff. So, you know, I'm open. Thank you. Fuck. Am I right? Oh That's what we go away. I like his outfit. I like her outfit. I like the floor I also feel like this feels like a real public transport place, but not really a real one I guess that was a star was equivalent of like jumping over the little turnstile Hey, dude He's so happy. He's just like uh, he's like a yeti kind of guy star wars headphones Yeah, those goggles don't think they're gonna look like they'd fit The way they'd fit it Is just makes me happy. Yeah Mando fans must have been panicking at this point There's not a blaster or dark saber anywhere. We haven't had a flight stated like 20 minutes. Isn't that crazy? I seem to kind of cut back to Mando soon He's like no, where are we going? Disposal yards. Have you done this before or do you think I got the biscuits? Hey, dude That's that's the third time he said hi to them, but they won't respond. He's like, okay They find my best to be the therapist said to be social No, there's no sad story here. He's just happy I like that contrast of sort of the look of these areas and even though it's paced like a show Yeah, it is. I was that state. We are we're taking our time. We got a lot of just, you know White oh no tickets tickets, please. Oh, why is the ticket? You're it's so jacked No, we can't reference that show anymore. It's evil Bye, dude. See you buddy So you're like, wow peasants. What the fuck? Oh, he's angry. Oh my god Am I right? You could just have normal you could just have tuesday. You don't need twang day He's got to be a space version of that. Don't worry. I can believe Tuesday is it's dull Oh, that's cheating. That's not fair. I'm supposed to exchange carts while the train is in motion Geez, he's coming He really wants those tickets very curious about your tickets For some reason there's just something in my programming that it makes this a little suspicious This counts as an action scene This is tense though. I mean, I guess it's there is a chance. Yeah, that's right because they might get caught There might be consequences. Oh, I don't think you're gonna make that jump. It's a bit far away Allegedly madder dialogue finally. We're gonna jump. What? Trust me Uh, okay I don't trust you. I don't think that'd be enough for me. I'd be like, we're how We just I mean, I know the ticket man is scary, but god Oh, you're going fast. Oh, that's no good Oh All right momentum doesn't work that way. No, I don't believe it for a second Listen, they get one point for landing on something soft, but that's that's not enough. Yeah, that's no good I bet the ticket man gets to the end. It's like, oh, no, I just want this awesome at your tickets I wonder why they ran all the way through the train and jumped off And I wonder if they will get reported by a robot. Maybe it this is carousel. There are a lot of people here, you know, like Maybe only if they were like violent or something, but maybe a couple people getting uh, oh, wow. Yeah, there's no reason to believe that Breaking down, uh, yeah Stuff is here. There's a reason they're going here Last time I saw a whole bunch of star destroyers. I cringed and almost died Last few episodes we were talking about why don't they repurpose old tech and well, they're literally repurposing old tech We're still with this cat Yes, yeah, and that makes me happy because we're it's we're watching a story unfold for once Why did they like suddenly decide to make it good? That's what i'm curious about maybe it'll become clear at the end of the episode I swear to god if people online say this this is a boring episode I mean, I can't believe that people say that because Mando's not in it. We haven't had the action scenes. We haven't had shitty action scenes. That's right Oh This is gonna be vibes of the issue more of in bed space two for some reason well It'd be interesting to walk around a decommissioned imperial ship Especially one that's in the midst of scavenging, you know the whole show out of that, couldn't you imagine a series of prisoners that Like get a star destroyer and break it out of you know Oh, and what if they do like weapons gun running like we talked about in the uh In their previous episode for anybody who's seen it it basically fast-scape at star wars because that's the premise of that Is a bunch of prisoners of the ship. Oh, I'd be interested in seeing like if they were scrapped salvaging anything that they like picked up That was more uh exotic and then finding ways to sell it makes some money on the side Yeah, I mean if we had an episode where there were imperial loyalists like sneaking around trying to Take imperial stuff and get it back and work in order and do like terrorist missions That could be interesting I just want that one payoff We're across like a few seasons of following these like smaller characters and stuff We find out that the transition from empire to republic happened, but it never affected their lives at all That would be yeah, because for some people it just wouldn't matter Hey little bug. Do you think that on Coruscant you just occasionally find those guys in like your house? The little bugs. Well, there's more little bugs probably. Oh, what if they like eat electricity or something? They look like kind of techno bugs. That's the kind of star wars stuff I believe like yeah, these are these bugs that eat electricity electrical currents like charge their bodies with energy Well, because that's actual and that's like energy Yeah, it's You don't believe the one that There are bugs that eat honor, but They're unmanned to lower. I must have passed you on giddy and ship a hundred times. I'm sorry. I never introduced myself You like a cane Dr. Penn Pershing It's everything you need here. I mean, I don't know. It's been three seconds I remember the first time I was in a place like this. I couldn't believe I made it I like how he's starting to get excited now that he's sort of in Yeah A lab You always knew what you wanted to do as far back as I can remember. What about you? I didn't really have a chance to think about it. Curiously put her face in shadow when she But that's the kind of shit that I just don't think you'd have in a normal mando episode No, none of this feels normal Keep packing I'll keep watch just in case I don't believe her. I also don't believe her either. She's up to something She's not but she's not even a really a communications officer. I bet she's not even real. She's a hologram Kind of neat touch. She didn't say run. She's yeah Run they fly now Stay quiet Silence Wouldn't it be interesting if she actually was setting him up to get captured and she changed her mind No, ah damn Raise your hands Oh, no betrayal. Good morning, doctor. I think there's been a mistake. I want her to help you This is a mind flayer. It's a similar device, but we found it low voltages. It can be used call it a mind tickler Oh, jeez. Oh Oh jeez this show just got Oh man, oh my god, the empire was right. You're gonna wipe my mind. Absolutely not. This isn't the empire son She brought me there It was a trap I know this will help him. You are a real credit to this program This should offer him some relief Um mark, she's gonna turn it up Do you mind if I stay? Yeah, she's gonna turn it up I still care about him. You're welcome to stay It's really creepy is that he didn't have a chance to like explain himself or like there was no like trial You know, there was no I guess would be that they would treat it like uh, this happens all the time Like people are, you know, just whatever just fast trying. Yeah, of course But why though surely they'll know that she did this Alarm If you like I just I find I found that was that's it. That's it. That's the whole thing. It's just like What happened? Why did you do this to me? Why is this why why did you inject almost like you you built me up to knock me down? You know, like you showed me something that I found interesting and now it's like Ah, yep back to good old That's the thing We'll get back to mando We will I just want to talk a bit about that for what it was because you've just you've gotten all that in your heads now So let's just we we could do that and then we'll do mando later We'll let him back into our lives in a moment But so it's like what's going on exactly and it's like well There's a couple of things you could really build on that It's like is she if you if you notice when he actually says to her that um, I want to do it She says sleep on it and the following morning. He says I want to do it. Uh, she does not look happy She's like oh Like like oh you fucker you had a chance the better judgment of you didn't come through And so like the impression from that expression makes me think that she offered her chances Like the role of finding the the ones that are turning sort of thing and she can use that to climb and I think rags Was spot on with the um, I don't think she sees a difference between the republic and the empire right now And the she's just kind of just get up the ladder so she is yeah, this is the kind of work. She does this is She's trying to yeah, this is for you know getting her career better Maybe she doesn't she doesn't just see anybody is anything else other than people to be used Or exploited or yeah, and it might be he doesn't get to have his fair trial So to speak because of the fact that he's already on probation and he's just done something incredibly like maybe Yeah, it might be that's that's stretchy to me the thing that I uh rags already pointed out The big issue I have is that surely they'll know exactly who just did what just happened Right man, and that should get her in trouble because she's torturing somebody So, you know, what can I draw out of it character wise it seems like You know, there could be so many different reasons for why she did that I'm not 100% sure. I don't know if we'll see her again. I don't know if we'll see him again I don't know because I don't know what the fuck's going on. I mean, I'm happy it is here But I don't know why it is here. Well, it's incredibly out of place from everything else that is mando But it's it's it's an actual story. It was a tv show episode. Yeah, somebody like um Somebody turkey based it essentially a story in the middle of this nasty Mando episode with nonsense bullshit and it's a complete if the if it ended here This would be a complete story, but one that's tragic Which is an interesting choice for them to take tonally for a mando show or really I guess sort of star wars in general now with the vibe they're going for Um, because andor seems to be its own thing doing its own thing just off there The bix right does it sound reminiscent of that where you just watch someone get broken And it's just like damn, you know, and it's just a reality that they want to show you as part of this world And like I said, I really like the track that uh the republics like we're not like the empire We do this for good reasons. This feels good. It's just like these aren't these aren't evil pills. These are happy pills Take them now, please healing device. It's just uh something I appreciate to throw out all of it as the sort of impersonal nature of this Program they don't really have names They get checked up on by droids instead of humans and then of course like when things go wrong It's a really expedition and and and like him, you know, working in the office He obviously has ambitions and goals to do something else and it's just you know, do this like Trust me, it's gonna it's it is doing good But you just you know, just do this, all right And then how all of that funnels into this character feeling a motivation to essentially Go back to doing the thing that he was doing but for a good purpose, hopefully and then this Really tragic ending of that ambition is so funny, right? What do we have working for him? As a person from the previous two seasons. It's like, well, he worked for Gideon He seems like he might be a good guy. That's what rags is talking about when he said he's more of a character than anybody Which is amazing, right? And that information you get from this episode anyway, he could have been brand new But they just worked with someone they had and it's like, yeah, he's got core motivation He's got the talents and skills to use it. He was picked up or poached even by Gideon He was never a bad person. He's just in the wrong places of the wrong time Ends this episode and his life ends like that Presumably, I don't know if he's gonna make I don't know if he's gonna get his mind wiped. I don't know what happens to him exactly Yeah, I don't know. I hope I really don't want him to have a bad end because if you if you for some god knows reason Go back and rewatch the mandalorian and if you pay attention to sort of how he acts and the things that he's concerned about How he tries to protect baby yoda, even when he doesn't have a chance The first time that mando when he goes to the compound in that third episode Like he put himself in between mando and the the baby thinking that this guy was here to kill the baby And he he tried to stop it. He was really concerned in the first episode about the baby being returned dead He said, you know, it had to be returned alive and unharmed There's there's these little things that kind of actually make him a character That people probably have really forgotten about because he had such a small Planet I don't mean to be hyperbolic at all, but is he not the best character in mando now Oh easily. I think he was before In a way he was before by kind of default But there was actually something there and now he is actually and easily the best if not the only character in mando And then the part that was that wasn't necessarily a hyperbolic, but I wanted to introduce that way Is the second best character the girl Yes, yeah, she's interesting because I don't have full answers on exactly who she is what she's doing I have a couple of gases and stuff. So I hope we get more of This is the fundamental thing people find this incredibly shit boring. I'm like this is the most It's the most interested I've ever been in I want to see what happens to this me. I want to see what happens to this charity bonus What happens I did story I want to qualify with like I don't think it's great. It's a star. It's not as good as andor I think what what it writes you said like let's die at andor. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's what I just It's but it's good. It's better than anything that we've seen And I know it's like storytelling Pretty much ever just imagine that there was like a season Of star wars a star war show and it was just a bunch of little episodes like this Had yeah, like an anthology 10. Yeah hour ish 45 minute I mean that was that was what that was 35 minutes a half hour. Yeah, it seemed like it So if that's what you can do in a half an hour and you have 10 or 20 of these little anthology episodes that you Release and maybe sometimes the characters know each other and meet most of the time It'll just be their own isolated things But if it was all stuff like that well, somebody man, what an insane amount of world building we could get done It's what I haven't cared. I could all be I could all be leading somewhere, right? Yeah Imagine we come back to him Because people always say like never do this again. I'm here like no no more more please This is like the the prison stuff in and or where it feels like its own sort of thing But it's really good and it ultimately involves characters that we know kind of being there and getting out man There's episode Lead into the next, you know We could the next one could be not the same characters or storyline But I say, you know, I mean some kind of like ethics officer investigating Well doing the 22 short stories of our street field. Yeah an attorney Attorney who works for the new republic trying to argue that this kind of stuff isn't okay And that's the next short story If the end of every anthology episode ended With the characters from the next one being sort of quote unquote introduced in one Where even if it was just someone someone sits down Like like maybe there's like a heist or they steal something and as they're getting away They just sit down on a piece of public transportation and make their escape And the next episode begins with oh the person that was just sitting next to them Now it's their story now. We follow them probably so cool. We get to we get to go visit Big happy guy, right big happy guy is going back to his planet Where they have some sort of an issue and then we get an episode with him and then you can Is like his his wife recently passed away and he's been trying to find a way to move forward and uh And rediscover happiness and he's trying different things from like different joining different Social groups finding different hobbies trying different jobs to see what brings him fulfillment And then by the end of the episode he's going to realize And grab that from within while latching on to the memories of his beloved wife And then you know you move on to the next episode with the new characters and their own personal tribulations You can even just not have him talk because he just does like the grand thing and everything You can actually get experimental To deliver a story maybe close off this pitch inspired by a certain episode of Buffy Which I don't need to go further than that but bringing you what I'm talking about Um, maybe the last episode at least a season finale We're following a janitor who ends up, you know losing his job the republics He goes maybe off the grid to use his skills ends up I'm trying to think of how we end up with a janitor on a empire Related ship something he searches for a job like that and then you know halfway through get get to pretty pretty much But get to know he's like an alien though and you get to know him well enough and then you know His stormtroopers doing their thing and and Gideon walks past they're having conversations that are like intelligible He's just there maybe listening to his fucking music or something and then you know Mando some Jedi some other people they all burst on the sea. They're all killing everybody He's just hiding it like a closet because he's terrified and then you know once it's all over It's just death everywhere and they're gone and he's just like You know There has been this underlying like need for this show To explore this concept of the empire was like Super security and the republic was almost it was like in the other direction like the republic kind of fell apart because it was Not really structured and then they went from that to you know the the sort of opposite So the galaxy almost in a way got a taste of both sides and there are people who support both of those sides and we never really explored the You know the elements of the people who lived in there and stuff and it's it's something that we've been wanting for years You know, can you give us a sympathetic story about just some stormtroopers here just people Doing their jobs Interesting as that we get to explore the perspectives of Relatively speaking pretty normal people when in the star wars world We are very focused on the most important people ever getting the perspectives of pretty normal people with different Principles and different means of navigating this world Just having that is interesting and it's like we kind of got that again here and even if it doesn't lead anywhere I'm pretty happy with that as a story But if we could get more of that just wedged into this otherwise garbage show That would be swell. Well, and so I want to try and bridge the gap a little bit with the people who can't stand this episode I want to be like if if I were in the offices of them making this and they said this is mando episode theory I'd be like, what are you doing? Not a mandalorian episode and then they'd be like, well, that's fine. It's good, right? Look as much as I can call it good. What do you expect is going to happen when you do this like This should be its own show. This should be a side story Its own tv show or shit. Fuck it. I think it makes me make it a disney short I throw this into the ad door selection that I would before I know right. Yeah Exactly it wouldn't be the strongest episode of andor at all, but like it would belong I just don't know what they were thinking with this like because we're about to get back to the mando shit Well, and especially placing it because you think about like what people probably want from mando You've just gone to mandalore You've just had the mythosaur and all of that stuff to then pivot to a story that seemingly has Nothing to do with any of that right now. Yeah, it probably wasn't the smartest place to put it in terms of garnering a positive reception I guess you would appreciate you would just hope that an audience would be able to look at it and go even though I can't see where it's leading to yet I can appreciate it for what it was Yeah, and it's got plenty of character world building and it's it's more substantive than anything we've seen in mando before But you were right as you said there's no action scenes. So there's no right And and people I know because even I would say this Like mando wasn't even in it and you'd be like, well, is that a promise to say? I don't know It just what do you expect is gonna happen you in a way? I'm kind of annoyed because it's like you've kneecapped this story already by putting it here And I would hope that I don't look in response and go well, let's not try that again. Exactly That would be lame. Yeah, you're taking a it's like if you make a If you you've made a steak and it's a yummy delicious steak and you threw it into like the elephant pen I suppose that is a good analogy. I just think it's uh, it's I'm happy to call it good. I really am I just uh, I do I don't think strategy wise. This was the best plan Yeah, because that's what I was uh What I meant it's like I I mean I like this but I I don't know where to put this In the mando series. So is this gonna follow up on some things? It's gonna make sense So they just randomly throw that in there for reasons speculate too hard here. This could totally be tin foil, but like If you if they have a couple of these in the season, will that be What was here to replace the chunks they took out and put into? Oh Because you lost a solid two episodes there. Yeah point actually. Yeah, that's so interesting Fucking mess on my first run through this episode when I saw him, I was like, no There's music as well It's literally a mea. It's a fucking meme at this point. It's like I was on back to the Mandalorian group. No, I'm blacksmith lady Remember this dude is literally uh complete in the quest. You gotta go speak to her and you'll get your xp What's crazy is that he's saying this is how we survived exile I was like, why don't you just go to curson and get a job? They still live by the old ways It will go smoother if you keep your helmet on of course Again, damn it. It's Fucking sound effects sure that Into whatever and look out just in case like Friendly show up. Oh Do they have a signal or Hey, go away. He almost prevents their entry here. Okay, which I think is hilarious considering the first time He got here. No one stopped him from talking to her And he did save all of their lives from the giant crocodiles So I think you should appreciate it. And also he's bathed in the living waters. So you got nothing on Nothing This background looks like shit. They just blurred it really badly. Yeah, that didn't look right. People are losing Hey guys, what's up? Let me through. I have the duck saber. I'm a leader. You you got the lime and burgundy armor Geez, okay. Come no further You're an apostate Do you they're like you're not allowed in here? It's like come here yesterday. Shut up I have been to the minds of mandalore Impossible impossible. I Remember they don't know either because everyone's stupid. How do we know that it is not you who is lying? I was witness And who are you? I am bokeh tan of clan crease She says bokeh tan So it has to be barka tan. You know most people say bokeh tan bokeh tan bokeh tan bokeh tan of house crease Bokeh tan of clan crease. I don't fucking get it. You were both apostates. We have been to the living waters Why are they all chatting now when he already said he said living Shouldn't they be more blown away by the fact that they can go home? Yeah, yeah They should be like holy fuck You mean I can take my starship that I have just over there right now and go home in five minutes the thing You wanted to do your whole lives That's not as interesting as mando gets to go in here because he had a bath Wait, but if we leave and go to mandalore then who will be eaten by the crocodiles? Oh, no, you're right We should leave a few behind. So how they're gonna check if that's like the actual Unfortunate It is just because it's nice magic. It's literally magic water that does magical thing Oh, the blacksmith had that little water thing like the pool of water in a little workshop I bet they'll pour it in there and it'll be like But why didn't they just say yes, this has the compounds because of the datada that which is unmanned Oh, you think that someone in mandalore would have figured it out what the actual compounds are Well, you know what? We wouldn't be in this fucking mess if she didn't require that to get his on about whatever Does she always blacksmith or does she occasionally like do other things? Well, do you see how much of a waste all those flames are she uses? I was about to say that too T'Jaren claims to have bathed in the living waters. I have proof I was witness. He fell into the depths and I pulled him out He fell there. Oh, you didn't have to tell him that dude. Why did you tell him that? Knit the sword dude He was a demon, he grabbed me We talked about this on the way over here What did you fell? Arkansas said that she fell. Sorry guys Yeah, Pocotaw made a cannon Oh, yes, it did I told you, it has a quarter These are indeed the living waters D'Jaren You are redeemed. Oh, okay You are redeemed. She fell after me Well, that's the thing Mel, technically she's done all this so quiet And Pocotaw and Crease you too are redeemed. How fucking interesting is this? That changes everything It really is just like dunking your You just take some water and you get to be part of the club Don't take your helmet off. No, I'm not Those are the only two rules to be a part of a cool club Bathe in the water and don't take your helmet off To be fair, he said when they were arriving here don't take it off because it'll make things less complicated Which I actually buy, but there's no reason for it to keep it on the whole time earlier Yeah, because she's never has before she always lounges around and flies around without it Exactly, it was Yeah, good job, buddy Yeah, you did it, you went into the water Oh, he's not happy Boo, you had a bath, boo So one of them, boo, maybe you should be part of the way There we go. We're done. Okay. Thank you. All right. Now. Let's see you wrote this Okay, oh, so Noah clore, whoever you are We know Because we know it's not that guy Oh It's uh, it's unreal, isn't it like it's such a weird fucking thing that just happened Yeah, but I mean I liked it. I enjoyed watching Thought bad though. That's what I enjoyed. There's like half a good episode in every one of these episodes It's gonna be so awkward to like show people the series because like, yeah skip 20 minutes and then watch half an hour We go from literally joyously picking a part laughing and predicting to like silent investment And then back to hilarious laugh and picking a part They squeezed a story in there But I guess I can understand that the placement was probably not just pragmatically It probably wasn't the best choice if you wanted people to engage with it I think it was an awful choice And I think that you have like made it so the people if you would start up a new show The anthology thing that was suggested or literally dr. Pershing's own show and this is the pilot or the finale, whatever you want Uh, I could have taken it so much more seriously But what is this doing in the middle of mandalorian and you might be like no, no, no It's gonna make sense. It's gonna make sense. It's like Okay, I'm constantly gonna be disappointed We don't go back to that story with people that I care about because I legitimately want to know what happens to dr Pershing and her and and like where that leads to you know Does this essentially take him down? But does he become punished pershing and he's like, you know, I'll make them see or I've got to do something I you know, this is you know, he's trying to do the right thing and he's being treated like this So, you know, he turns until almost like this this evil but means well doctor like that could be interesting The point is there's like a story there I just don't know how so like what we if you remember episode three of the last of us I'll remain the spoiler free as possible But we talked for a while about everything It's going to mean to the main characters and the main characters literally interact with the the area And we have they have a history with the characters. Then of course, there's the letters There's all this stuff. What does this have to do with mando? And if you say something like well, he's gonna meet her At the end of the season and shoot her with a blaster or something actually like fuck's sake That's the concern isn't it that in in the case of this show when we're watching the last of us We can see how this will be constructing a theme and in keeping with like the quality bar that was there, you know In those early episodes even there's like reason to believe that it's gonna be meaningful, you know Well, if you remember part of that letter There was a quote of like, you know Damn any son of a bitch that comes between us and the ones we love or something like that in in Frank's letter After seeing the finale, maybe you could understand the point of that episode Better whether or not letter you mean, right? Sorry. Yeah, but this like I enjoyed this. Why did you do this? Yeah, you you presented me with something really cool. And unfortunately, I don't have a lot of uh I'm a lot of faith in this show. Yeah What else there is to say the mando portions were embarrassing as usual. They were exactly what it's always been the portion of Fishing and this uh, I don't I don't know whether she's empire because the thing is she could very well be empire affiliated And that she's just trying to rise up to get power I find it more interesting what you rags was talking about that it's just she moves up the the ladder She doesn't really have any allegiance. Oh, yeah, I thought we went over that one. I'm saying that the other options are still there It's just like, oh, sure. Hopefully we find out what they are Yep, I heard that we get more like storytelling throughout the season because I do like stories I like places people events ideas. Oh my goodness. We had plenty of that instead of Oh, no, suddenly the empire chasing us. Let us kill every single one of them in a crappy action scene Why are they chasing you? Oh, well, because I stole one of their ships. Why are they bombing your home? Well, why is this happening now? What is going on? It's just like action scenes. Shut the fuck up Okay, that's right. There was in there with her He's What happened to the blue robot? I hope it's okay. The cool robot who we really liked Yeah, you know, we we we peed into the tiny little peephole. This episode was full of tragedy, wasn't it? Yeah, are they gonna remember um the r4 unit? or whether or not uh The droid that was replacement for id actually keep him around. Yeah. Well, hopefully we actually did drop the ig thing Come up again. Yeah. I think I'll go back to Navarro and it'll be oh, yeah. Oh good You can put him in Frick's or fix it or whatever. They found the part they found it. They had one spear. Oh, cool Yeah, uh, they can put them in this car. Oh wait. No, it doesn't have a cargo space This the thing andor was like this is a new show It's about this guy and it's going to be about other people that he moves through in his life And we're going to follow them past when he visits them and it's like, okay, cool This show is like lalalal clowns lalalalal Oh character. You make what what has happened? What back to clowns you're like. Oh, hey No, what if there were enough clowns Why did you do that? Why are you doing this to me? Because if I didn't hate you enough because that's the thing I don't really hate mad though I just thought it was really dumb, but now i'm like kind of annoyed What's going on why you doing this And then meanwhile I have to watch everyone else say its shit because it's really boring It has no No peppers which is validity to some of it, but like I really I can't relate on the boring thing. I just can't. Really can't. I found it interesting, not as interesting as Andor, but still way more interesting than what we typically see in this show. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, easily. What if Mando just becomes an anthology series, but it's always bookended by like a random- I'll take it, I'll take it, I'll take it. Yeah, if that's the only way that we get it. It's literally like someone on stage is pouring their heart out about their life under the empire, that they get moved off stage that Mando comes out on a unicycle, go do do do do do do do do. I was like, yay, Mando, whoo. Stay the thing. This is the way. Yay. They really refined the format. Mando gets a house, but it's like a dangerous part of some city, and every episode it starts with some guy being like, hey, Mando, I've got a problem with you, because I don't like Mandalorians or whatever. And then the guy tries to beat him up, and then Mando has a quick action scene with him. And then it comes to the interesting. Cut to a decommissioned battledroid, and everyone recognizes what it is, and it has to deal with its life, where everyone's like, hey, I know what you are, you're one of them battledroids. And he's like, I'm actually trying to forge my own identity out here. Can we not have this whole preconceived notions thing? And then it explores how he does with that. And then it cuts it back to Mando, who's now defeated the opponent. And then another knock is on his door, and he's like, oh no, I wonder who that will be shooting next week to find out. This sounds like a fucking actual parody series though, but I don't know what the fuck's going on anymore. Disney, what are you doing? What are you doing with Star Wars? Can you decide? Because it almost feels like this is inspired by Andor. It does feel like that, yeah. Maybe the writer was. Maybe the writer saw Andor, and then he was like, man, that's cool. Wait, I can make stories with characters. Am I allowed to do this? That's allowed now. John, am I allowed to do this? And Favre was like, whatever. It's actually a story about himself working for Disney. He used to remember the old times, and now he just wants to go back to what he likes, writing stories. But New Disney's like, no, that's not allowed. You have to do your thing. You have to archive these CGI frames or something. What I've heard is we're back to normal length episode next week, like a 30 to 40 minute one. And I saw Advertise with Bo Katan and Mando both with the pistols out. And I was like, yeah, I'm sure it'll be great. Yeah, I can't quite. I'm sure they'll be like, Mando, I must get revenge for the blowing up my thing. But in order to fix my current ship that took damage during the fight, I'll need to quickly go. And that's totally fine and so on and so on. My interest level has never plummeted this much based on a timestamp before. Well, that's Mandalorian season three, episode three. What a crazy weird adventure we're on right now. Who knows what happens next week? I guess we'll find out. Doodle pip. Here we go. See you later, everybody. See you. Glumpers.