 What's up guys and welcome to One Take, I'm Gil and today we're talking about the Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 1, also known as Chapter 9, The Marshall. I'm joined by my brothers Adam and tech guy slash brother Alon, and this video will of course have spoilers through Season 2 Episode 1, but no spoilers from future episodes and that includes the next time on Preview, which I don't know if this show has one. Did you see one? I didn't see one, but... If there was one, I don't want to hear about it because I like to be totally unspoiled. Anyway, overall thoughts on... You know about Darth Vader's father, right? No. Neither do I. Alright, skip right past that. Overall thoughts on the episode, I'll kick it off and then you guys can jump in. I'll start with what I thought of Season 1 overall because my feelings about Season 1 pretty much describe how I felt about this episode, which is pretty mixed. For Season 1, I really liked the first couple episodes and the last couple because they were a bit more serialized and what I realized is that the more standalone episodes I didn't enjoy quite as much. The show is basically pure action adventure and when it comes to action adventure, you either get swept up in it and you love it or you don't get swept up in it and often times I didn't, mainly because I think they tried to pack so much story into a small space, sometimes under 30 minute episodes and that forces them to use a lot of cliches and shorthand, which sometimes take me out of it. Now, other times when they get really into the action, the music and the visual effects, I mean especially the music I'll say are so good that sometimes it wins me over. This episode was kind of mixed, there were moments that really worked for me, moments that didn't and we'll get into all that in detail. For that though, Adam, what about you, overall thoughts on the episode? I agree, it's sort of like a microcosm of the whole first season, which is some moments I'm like, this is pretty awesome and other moments where I'm thinking, this is still entertaining but I feel like maybe I'm watching a kid's show in the sense that maybe the writers don't feel too much pressure to make it that logical or airtight in terms of the plot. Right. What about you, Amon? I thought it was alright. It was okay. For the parts you were awake for? What? For the parts you were awake for? He went and rewatched those parts. I rewatched. He fell asleep for the climax of the episode, just the battle with the Alaskan bullworm. To be fair, he's been extremely sleep deprived so it's not a comment on the show. Exactly. Right. But anyways, rewatched the parts I fell asleep during and it was okay. If it stays at this quality, I will continue to watch it. It's better than mid-season one for sure. Right, right. The prison episode. Yeah. Which is our least favorite episode of the season. So let's get into the recap but first I want to shout out Cole, Shram and Donna Lewis in the chat. Thank you for joining. Let us know in the chat what you thought of the episode and join in on the conversation. And if you're watching this later, you're not watching it live, just a quick reminder to hit that like button, hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon so you get notified the next time we go live. And like Donna and like Cole, you can be an amazing human being and be part of the conversation. Anyway, let's get into the recap of this episode. Starts off with Mando going to see Gore Koresh. He's searching for other Mandalorians on his quest to find Baby Yoda's people. Now this takes place in a sort of fight club area. That's where he finds Gore Koresh. That was one of my favorite scenes of the episode. I thought it was just a good classic fight scene. Alon, I feel like you must have enjoyed the moment where Mando used his helmet to block that punch. That was awesome. So, for me, that was a highlight of the episode. What did you guys think of this whole scene? I was a little, this is going to be a theme. I was a little annoyed with it because it just, you know who the Mandalorian is at this point. He's developed a reputation as this killing machine. Right. So, you think you're going to just beat him by outnumbering him? I don't know. It seems like he beats the odds every time. I'm going to try to defend it here. Okay. So, in this world, I don't know of any internet or anything like that. Gil, is there an internet in Star Wars? I mean, they have holograms that communicate across the galaxy. Not as sophisticated as the internet. Right. So, they don't have Twitter. So, I'm sure they've heard the stories, right? It seemed like that guy, you know, may have thought maybe he could gain the Mandalorians trust temporarily. Right. I mean, listen, they had guns right out of his head. He had one on the... But his head is made of an armor that's known for deflecting the laser. Best car. He had one right on his neck. Right. That looks like soft area there. Fair enough. So, I'm saying if you've only heard stories and then you actually managed to get him in this position, you might actually be dumb enough to think you have a chance. Yeah. I buy it. I think you're being a little bit hard on the show because they don't know about the whistling birds. People hear legends about the Mandalorians, but if you saw one, you've all got guns. I totally buy that Gore Koresh would think that he could get the upper hand. Also fun fact about Gore Koresh, I remember watching the trailer thinking there's something about this guy, like he has gravitas and we found out in this episode played by John Leguizamo. Now, who is... I know who John Leguizamo is, but can you remind me of some prominent things he's been in? He was Luigi and... Oh. For some reason, that's where I know him from. Yeah. Anyway, so from this conversation... That's his claim to fame. After he gives John Leguizamo... He gives Gore Koresh a hard time, he finds out that there is a Mandalorian on Tatooine. Now immediately, where did your minds go for who could be on Tatooine waiting for him? Stop looking at my notes, Adam. Well, before I looked at the notes, I thought of Boba Fett, and then I remember the videos we made last season about someone in Boba Fett's armor. So, I was like, aha, they just think it's a Mandalorian, but it's probably someone wearing the armor. Cobb Vance. Vance refrigeration. That's right. Oh, what about you? Were you thinking Boba Fett? Yeah. Or you were like, what's a Mandalorian? What's he talking about? Anyway, he arrives on Tatooine and is greeted by Princess Carolyn from Bojack Horseman. Really... Oh, one called that. Yeah. Her voice is so recognizable. Molly Mato is her name in the show, played by Amy Sideris. We get some three Stooges-esque droid stuff. She reminds us, you know he doesn't like droids. So, we remember that Mando has a thing about not liking droids. But he's warmed up to them a little bit. He has. You can see he's kind of softened on them. I will say there was a moment here where sometimes, and I kind of blame Rick and Morty for this, when you have conversations where you use words like calamari flan and things like that, it just sounds kind of ridiculous. And I started to feel it here when he arrived. He's like, hey, welcome to Tatooine. You know my droids, right? The toll here is 15 Schmeckles. So, it threw me a little bit. I also love this one line in the scene where Mandalorian says, I've been quested to bring this one back to its time. Quested. That's funny, because I was thinking all along, it's like every episode's a side quest in a video game. Right. Well, for me, I've never heard the word quest used as a verb before. I've been quested. But that's a new life goal of mine. I want it to be quested one day. That's where the word request comes from. Is that true? No, I'm just coming on. I'm figuring it out, connecting the dots. You have to request something is to grant someone a quest. So, your quest for today was to watch Mandalorian and join me for this live stream. Yes. And so far, I've been successful. So, he borrows a speeder bike and then heads over to a bar to find the Marshal, Cobb Vance, who is in possession of Boba Fett's armor. And by the way, if you want to know Cobb Vance's backstory, I do have a video out called Who is Cobb Vance? I put that out a few months ago when they first announced that he was going to be in the season. But long story short, he was introduced in one of the recent Star Wars novels called Aftermath. And throughout the episode, we hear his backstory, which you can also get from those books or that video. Basically after the Death Star got destroyed, and I love the moment where he specifies the second Death Star, the Empire left Tatooine. But immediately after that, as Cobb Vance says, power hates a vacuum. So it got filled by the mining collective that immediately enslaved Mos Pelago, the town where he's hanging out. So Cobb Vance thought quickly. He grabbed a Camtono, which he had no idea was full of silicax crystals. And thank God for that, because then he got picked up by some Jawas after he was going through the desert. And then when he was in there, he was able to trade those crystals for the Boba Fett armor, which they salvaged from the Sarlacc pit. Now, I don't know much about silicax crystals, but knowing the Jawas, I think they probably just ate them like rock candy. It's just like that. What was that egg in episode two or three? Tsuka, tsuka, tsuka. That's what I was trying to remember. So he comes back with the armor and it scares off the mining collective, saves the town, becomes the marshal. And he has used this armor ever since to protect the town. So what did you think of all this? What did you think of the Cobb Vanth character, his back story and all that? It made sense. And I thought it was a good way to frame his character. Because when you first met him, when we first met him and also when Mandalorian first met him, I thought this seems like a person who's kind of open to reason and is probably somewhat of a good guy. But which is why I actually turned to a lot and I was like, I don't know why the Mandalorian is coming out right with it and just threatening him and saying, you hand over that armor to me. He seems open to reason. Let's sit down, try to get some information from him. Maybe he could even be an ally. I turned out I was right. But Mandalorian was really antagonistic toward him at first. But anyway, his back story makes sense to me because he does see himself as kind of a protector, but also knew that sort of the shortcut to this kind of authority and the way to hold that society together is to have that armor. Right, right. I enjoyed the back story also. And I actually would have liked to have seen more of it. We saw the glimpses of it. I would have loved to spend more time with that character. The one thing is it did feel a little bit silly to me, just how much of a savior this armor was. Like the thing that was missing to save this town was a stronger like exterior that would protect me. Well, maybe it also gave him the confidence. The armor was inside him all along. It also gave him that awesome back missile where you can kind of bend over slightly and then shoot the missile at you. It also has the extra effect of being Boba Fett's armor. And he's I mean, I imagine he's pretty well known to so it's just got this intimidation right. Nobody said Boba Fett. He just said this is some Mandalorian armor. Maybe they're just like, I recognize that from somewhere. I know it's really intimidating. Right. Anyway, going back to the first meeting, like Adam said, Mando quickly challenges him to a duel, because it's not right for him to wear that armor. He's not a Mandalorian, so he demands it back. But they're interrupted by a crate dragon coming through town. By the way, crate dragons have appeared in Star Wars. You probably don't remember them. But in A New Hope, C-3PO walks by some bones. And those were crate dragon bones. I knew that they were part of the universe. I'll say that. Nice. And our dad was watching with us and he kept saying they just stole it from him. That's right. At one point they used the word Dune because they said that the sand dunes. I thought maybe they said doom. Oh, no, no. No, they said doom. Anyway, so they were like, hey, it's the worm from Dune. That is probably what they would have said if this was Rick and Morty. Yeah. Anyway, so Cobb, Van, cannot protect the town from the dragon, so Mando agrees to help kill it in exchange for the armor. This was about the moment where I said, damn it, this is a standalone episode. Because then I realized this is the side mission that they're going on. Anytime they say, I'll help you with this, Mando, but we need you to do this. OK, nothing's going to happen. That's like a trade quest from Zelda, right, Lin? Exactly. Also, I don't understand Mando's incentive here because he still could have just threatened the guy and gotten the armor without helping. Like, I don't know. Well, I think once you realize it's not just this one jerk. There's a whole town of people and he's actually using the armor for good. I think it tugged on his heartstrings. Yeah, he's using it for good and he still ended up taking it. Yeah, that's true, actually. At least just take the helmet. Well, but maybe after that mission, first of all, the threat is destroyed. They made peace with the sand people. That's right, the Tusken Raiders. The Tusken Raiders and maybe sand people's derogatory. And then also with the they've gotten rid of the worm. So he doesn't need the armor anymore and also maybe succeeding at the mission has cemented his role as the authority figure. Yeah, I think that's all right. So Cobb decides to show Mando where the dragon lives. And by the way, they both hop on a couple of speeder bikes and get off. I really want a speeder bike. So yes, but did you notice anything special about Cobb's speeder bike? He's asymmetric. No, he was off to the side. It looked like a pod racer. It looked specifically like Anakin Skywalker's pod racer. So it looks like they maybe scavenged some of the pod racers and used their parts. Oh, it was like half, it was like just one of the engines in the front, right? That's right, right. Or a couple, I don't remember the specifics of it, but if you look at that, pull up a picture of the speeder bike, it looks like a pod racer. So he just inherits all these, he just keeps inheriting these artifacts. That's right, that's Cobb's thing. He just takes artifacts from Star Wars and uses them. So he's got Anakin's- Whoa, look at this double-sided lightsaber. That's right. The pod racer, the Boba Fett armor, and the next he's gonna find, what's his name, the guy with the- Darth Maul. Darth Maul, he's gonna find Darth Maul's lightsaber. On the way to the dragon's home, they run into some Tuscan raiders. And apparently Mando knows how to speak their language now, which looked pretty funny, I would say. They did a lot of that in this episode. Which was pretty funny. And then they agree to all work together, which is pretty tense because Cobb's people do not like the Tuscan raiders because they're raiding all the time, right? Raiders gonna raid. So the next morning, the raiders show how they've been able to keep the dragon at bay, basically by feeding it banthas. So they put a bantha out there and then instead of eating the bantha, the dragon comes out and eats one of the raiders. And then- Wait, this is right after they said that they have been maintaining this ritual for generations. And they're one of my favorite lines in the episode. When they see the Tuscan raider get eaten, Mando says they might be open to some fresh ideas. I have two comments on this. First, it's the banthas. They are across, in my opinion, between like an ox and a catfish. If you look at the mouth, it really looks like a catfish. That's number one, as insightful as it is. And then number two, I'm really impressed with one of the things I love about Mandalorian is like the costumes and the way they design aliens and things like that. So with the Tuscan raiders, they're just cool to look at. And the more attention I paid to them, the more little details I picked up. So first of all, they have like these little like tubes that they see through. Then they have these other smaller tubes off to the side. And they have this other thing hanging from their neck that almost, it's like when someone has one of those harmonicas that they're playing while they play other instruments too. But it's just a really cool looking costume and well designed, I think. There were two things I sort of forgot about that I was reminded of watching this episode. One is like I said, the music is so good in this show. It's awesome. And the special effects are incredible. When you see the dragon pop out of the cave, it looks cinematic. It looks like you could see this in a movie. And the episode, by the way, this was a directorial debut on this show of John Favreau created the show. This is the first time they actually directed an episode. And I think it really showed in all of the action sequences. One thing I noted is that it's shot in, in my opinion, a very classical style. You don't have a billion cuts in the middle of it. And that's part of why I think the action looks so great in this show. Anyway, they're going over the plan to take out the dragon. And basically the Tuscan raiders have bones on the ground. They throw down some pebbles and Cobb asks, what are the bones? The Mandalorian explains, that's the dragon. So not only as the audience, the moment you see it, you know what it is. And also he's been watching them set it up the whole time. And he still doesn't know. Yeah, I found that kind of funny. I also thought it was funny that Cobb was so freaked out by the size of it. So is that the scale? Yeah, I think it's the scale. He's been living with this thing. Well, but he specified he's only ever seen it really from the neck up. But if you knew a giant snake was attacking your town and you saw its head and you knew it was a giant head with learning that it's really long, like really freak you out. I thought it was just a head like Pac-Man. So I thought that was kind of funny. And here's also where we learned that apparently the Mandalorian volunteered Cobb's entire town to be reinforcements in this battle. So that's tough because he's going to have to sell his town on that. Anyway, that's where he gains their trust, right? And after that, he won over their trust and then cashed in on it like he succeeded and he accomplished the mission. So he doesn't need the armor anymore. Exactly. But they do say it's a... So they form a peace between the Tusken Raiders and the people of this town. It's tense though, because the Raiders basically say, we're not going to attack until you do. And you know one moron is going to mess everything up at some point. Probably that one guy that got pissed about the explosive dropping. Oh yeah, it was an accident, it was an accident. That's one thing I could do without on this show is it seems like so many of these episodes where they hatch some kind of plan, there's just people who are for some reason just angry and belligerent and antagonistic. And it's like, like you're clearly trying to accomplish the same goal. Why don't you just work together for like three hours? Well, I know you're referencing the prison breakout episode where they're all jerks to Mandalorian, even though he saves them a couple of times. This one at least makes more sense because these two groups of people have been enemies for so long. So I understand the distrust. But anyway, speaking of the distrust, they need the Raiders and these people to work together. So Cobb and Mando give a speech to the townspeople and convince them to work with the Tuscan Raiders. And this was one of those things where it feels to me like they're trying to fit too much into a short episode. But it felt like shorthand. Like they're basically saying to the audience, you remember in Game of Thrones and other shows like it where you need to convince everybody to work with somebody who used to be a sworn enemy. We're doing that storyline. Because they don't really develop the townspeople at all. So you see all these people, but they're basically extras. So this whole tension between the Raiders and the townspeople, I just didn't care about it. And I kind of felt like you could have cut that whole conflict out and the episode wouldn't have lost anything. Right, the story would not have changed at all if they said, oh yeah, instead of the Tuscan Raiders, they're just the Tuscans and we trade with them sometimes. Otherwise our paths don't cross too much. Right, so I thought it was cool in theory. And, but yeah, I just didn't feel a whole lot for it. I will say when the Tuscan Raiders arrive into the town and you kind of have all of that ominous music, that was another moment that I thought looked great, sounded great and felt like an awesome setup. So that's one of those things where even though the storyline isn't totally grabbing me, visually it's so good. I'm like, yeah, okay, I'm into this. And by the way, Andrew Flynn in the chat says, do you think this episode was inspired by the new Dune Remake, like a little wink-wink sandworm? I mean, it's possible. I know that there was, this is a really deep kind of reference, but there was a show in the 90s called Sliders. It aired on Fox, I love this show. And basically the show over time became just a sort of money grab where every week they would try and just rip off a popular movie. So I remember when Tremors came out and you had the Underground Snakes, they did an episode like that. So maybe it's not intentional, but who knows, Dune is in the zeitgeist right now. Maybe Jon Favreau was like, I want a Dune monster in here. But I would say in Mandalorian's defense, they didn't just create this creature, it's been around in the past. So it's been around for a few decades. Star Wars though, originally I think George Lucas was inspired partially by Dune. So I mean, nobody would accuse him of ripping it off. If at worst it would be an homage, I think. I'm sure someone out there is, but. Yeah, like an Andrew here, you know? How could they rip off Dune? Yeah. Just kidding, Andrew. I know you're not saying that. Anyway, so then we get to the actual attack. They're gonna try and take this dragon out. And we get one of those scenes where the Mandalorian describes how they're going to attack it. They're setting up all the weapons and the traps. Here the music worked for me again, got me pretty charged up. He says that the belly is the weak spot, so they gotta get the dragon out of the cave and then blow it up. Then Joe gives a detonator to Marshall and he says, you stay safe now, which is just another one of those moments where I say, I don't even know who this Joe is. The townspeople very underdeveloped, but. The townspeople in every planet of the Mandalorian are underdeveloped. That's right, yeah. And then when the monster shows up, I did notice a cool moment where you had what's called a dolly zoom. Did you pick up on this, Adam? This happens a lot in Alfred Hitchcock movies. Is that where it zooms in but the landscape actually shrinks? That's right. It's like a change in the lens. That's right, they do that with, it's hard to describe exactly what it is, but Google dolly zoom and you'll see the effect and say, oh yeah, I've seen that here and there and they use it in this episode. I think you're sort of like widening the view angle while also getting closer. That's right. I think that's exactly right. Anyway, so the dragon comes out but I think it kind of notices that it's walking into a trap. So it tries to go back into the cave. They pull it back out. They try to blow it up and it doesn't work. And then it shows up on top of the mountain and it starts spitting basically acid or something not good on them. I was trying to figure out, is this acid and it's harmful or is it just like it's in distress, it's been attacked and it's like vomiting? It's that green stuff that they used to spill on you in Nickelodeon. Oh yeah, it's slime time live. So I was trying to tell if they were showing the Tuscan raiders, if they were like melting and I couldn't tell. I thought maybe they were just getting kind of smushed by the puke but I agree, it did look like an acid. It felt a little bit like they didn't want to show the total violence of them. They were shying away from it. It's the show's kind of inconsistent about how graphic it will get because one of the things I thought was great I think in episode one was you see someone get sliced in half by this automatic door. Right, right. I was trying to remember, I was just thinking of that. I don't remember if you see him get sliced in half or if it was implied. I remember a lot of implied violence in season one. Yeah, you do, I'm pretty sure you see him get sliced in half or it was at least guaranteed to be implied which is already pretty graphic. Well we know Star Wars is not shy away from, I mean Darth Maul got cut in half. True. Spoilers for Phantom Menace. And Cole in the chat says yeah, it looks kind of acidic like bile. As a person who has seen bile, I agree. Doctor background. That's right. Studied medicine. True. Anyway, so in the midst of this whole battle after that failed explosion, explosion Cobb and Mando fly together you get this sweeping music. This was one of the moments where I got swept up in the action adventure and this is where I noted I love the way they shoot action in this show where, I mean it's like a low bar now because you get these action movies where everything moves so quickly. Born Identity ruined it. It did because it was cool in Born Identity but then everybody took on that style. Here you can understand the geography of the fight. You can see everything and it felt like watching a classic action adventure movie and I loved that. Anyway, so Mando lets himself and a bantha covered in bombs get swallowed by the dragon. It burrows underground and it comes back up. Mando flies out of its mouth, uses the detonator to blow up the bantha which is now inside of the dragon and they kill it. And I thought it looked awesome. Like I said, what about you Alon? This whole action sequence, what did you think? So he slept through it the first time. Yeah, well then I watched it again and I thought it was pretty cool. I really like the visual effects when he comes flying out of it. I bought it. It's like he's electrocuting him from the inside. And you know, if I were that giant worm, I would probably make sure I bite the person before. Right. Don't swallow them whole. Everything whole. Yeah. But yeah, no, that was awesome. And from there, Mando drives off like any good Western. He gets the armor that he wanted and then he drives off to parts unknown. But that's not where the episode ends. Then we see somebody in the distance watching and you guys are not big Star Wars people. So when you saw this, what did you think? I was like, this is the villain of the season probably. But otherwise, I don't know who it is. I just thought it was like, I was thinking maybe if someone really knows they're Star Wars, I know who that is. But to me, I'm watching, I'm just like, just feels very random. Like even if it is someone like important to the series, like it's still completely random that he just shows up all of a sudden at the end of this. Right, so everybody watching this is probably like, how could they not know this? But it's Timur. I always forget how to pronounce this guy's name. Mr. Morrison, let's say. Timur Morrison. He played Django Fett in the prequel trilogy. Oh, this is an actor. He's an actor. He played Django Fett in the prequel trilogy who Boba Fett is a clone of. And or Boba Fett's his son. See, this is why I have a couple of friends. Son is a 50% clone. Hold on, hold on. Wait, Jamie, like in Joe Rogan, can you look this up? Pull that up. I mean, it's already too late. We're going to look stupid now. By the way, while we're waiting for Alon to pull that up, Dona Lewis in the chat said, LOL, excellent advice for the worm, which Alon's advice was chew before you swallow. And in the chat, Boba Fett is his clone son. Okay, so we're both right. We're taking Andrew Flynn's word for that. So basically the assumption is that this is probably Boba Fett. That's my assumption is that this is Boba Fett who somehow survived the return of the Jedi Starlack Pit. Now it's not guaranteed because the entire clone army in attack of the clones all would have looked like Morrison. But I just assume it's Boba Fett and he's watching to say who the hell is taking my armor. What's the cooler? Boba Fett armor, or let's say Mandalorian armor or Stormtrooper armor. Cause that's what the clones are wearing, right? Wait, wait, Boba Fett armor or Stormtrooper armor? Yeah. I mean, Boba Fett armor for sure. You guys have a missile on your back. You have the cool thing that pops in front of your eye that lets you aim in this one. You know what's cool? When I was a kid, I always thought that was an antenna. I didn't know it flipped down. Did any of you think that the Boba Fett armor looked like it didn't fit? Yeah, yeah. I had that in my notes, but I felt like we were being so negative. I wanted to skip past that. I mean, it not fitting properly could be intentional. Like it didn't fit him. I'm not complaining. It didn't belong to him. I think it would make sense. I just thought it looked a little funny. Added to the silliness to me that having this ill fitting armor or so much of your body is still exposed would be enough to save the whole town. It just, it kind of felt sort of funny to me. By the way, we have some Trekkies in the, no, I'm just kidding. Trekkies, you know, Sawers fans in the chat there. Right. Who have some more insight for us. All right, so Darth Thor says that Sam Whitworth, the voice of Maul, Darth Maul had a cameo in this episode. He was one of the first town people you see. Very cool. Andrew confirmed Boba Fett is his clone son and usually clones age super fast, but he wanted Boba to age normally like a son. So there you go. And Max Barker 21 says, are these guys brothers, they look alike. We're actually clones. That's right. I cloned myself and I wanted him to age faster. So, yeah. Now we are brothers. There's two of us on screen. One of our other brothers is over there, off screen. And then we have a couple more brothers, maybe more than that. And I want to reveal the total number. No, there's a lot of us out there. Spoiler alert. That's right. Paul in the chat says, I thought that was a dead giveaway that somebody else was wearing Boba Fett's armor. They're the fact that it wasn't fitting properly. I see, yeah. That's right. And also he took the helmet off, which is, you're not supposed to do that. Yeah, that's like rule number one for Mandalorians. Which Alana- He said that it wasn't his. That's right. He did say that. Alana and I theorized that maybe the helmet, not being able to take it off in front of other people, that's a way to stay at a healthy weight, prevent yourself from eating too much because you can only eat in private. Oh, okay. It's a way that you have to restrict your calories. You have no choice. By the way, that beverage looked delicious. Didn't it look kind of like- That blue thing? Like a pre-workout or something? Oh, let's say I had a name written down here. It looked like Blue Raspberry. Yeah. The two snorts of Spotchka. Spotchka. That's right. That was another sort of Rick and Morty effect. Yeah. A couple of squirts of Spotchka. So that was a big drink. I thought it was funny also how Cobb Vanth was like, at first he was disgusted by that like, kind of that drink they gave him where they popped open- It looked like a little coconut. And then later on you see him drinking it again because he started to like it. So I thought that was funny. I wanted to see how Mando was gonna drink the blue drink. Maybe he's gonna use like a little straw to stick under his helmet. I remember in season one when he says, I never take my helmet off. Mandalorians never take it off. And I interpreted that literally. Like it never comes off to shower, to eat. And I spent all this time theorizing, what do they do? And then a couple episodes later you just see him just take it off. In front of a window. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, my only disappointment for this episode is that we didn't get a moment where it looks like someone's about to shoot Baby Yoda. And then you hear a gunshot and it turns out the bad guy's the one who got shot instead of Baby Yoda. Did that happen a lot in season one? It did. See if Jeremy, where I have a couple of friends who are big Star Wars fans, Dan and Jeremy, there should be on some of these future reviews. But Jeremy was on last year when we were talking about season one. And we always kind of laughed at the fact that that happened so many times last season. Here's my favorite Baby Yoda moment of the episode. Okay. It was any time they were on the speeder, his ears were flapping around in the wind. I liked when he closed his little pod, but they already gave that away in the trailer. They showed up in the trailer, yeah. It reminded me of the gif of Homer Simpson receding back into the bushes. Are there any Baby Yoda moments you guys don't like? No, I will say that when you hear the baby noises. It's a little, it doesn't sound right. Yeah, it doesn't sound right. You like it? I think it's funny. It's human-like. I wanted to sound like something I haven't heard before. Yeah, it makes me really feel like I'm looking at a puppet because I imagine they just recorded a baby and then played it over Baby Yoda just kind of moving around. So Adam, how should he sound, do you think? Uh-huh. Right? That's a better, isn't that better? Because it at least sounds kind of like Yoda, but he's not forming words and it's a little bit... It actually sounded like you were doing the Yoda voice. That's right, yeah. That's exactly why I did it. That was great. I think that's a perfect place to wrap up. Any other thoughts on this episode or season two in general, where we're heading? Okay, so I would say I'm probably the most negative on the show as a whole here of the three of us. I didn't, all right, confession time. I didn't, I gave up on season one about like six or seven episodes in because especially after the highest episode, I was like, that's it. This show, it kind of blows. I'm back on board. I enjoyed this episode enough. I'm the only one who stayed awake for the entire thing the first time through. Well, I stayed awake. I watched it earlier by myself. I'm the only one. I mean, Alon and my brother, it's not my brother, my dad. But I enjoyed it enough. I was entertained. I'm still curious about the story. I know there's gonna be some, I hope there's gonna be some payoff about the relationship between Mandalorian and Baby Yoda. I'm very curious about it. And overall, it's just fun to watch. I really enjoy the fight scenes. Like, same with like, John Wick is like light years ahead in terms of fight choreography compared to anything else. But it reminds me. I think the fight scenes in John Wick are more impressive than the ones in Mandalorian. Than the ones on the Disney show. But that said, it reminds me of it in the sense that they want you to actually understand how the fight is progressing. Like, this person punched with this arm at this place and then they moved this way and died. It's not just a bunch of cuts. And I really actually do enjoy watching that. Visually, it's awesome. The stories are entertaining enough and logical enough to keep me interested. So, this episode salvaged some of the series for me. Cool. And the thing I'm most excited about, and this is probably, I don't even know if we'll get it this season, but bringing Baby Yoda back to his people. Like, are we gonna see a bunch of other Yodas? Cause in the movies, I think we've only ever seen two. There was Yoda. And then there was Yodel, I think. You know the name. That's the name of Yoda, basically. So, there we go. I want any other closing thoughts? Ah, I just, I want to see what other upgrades Mando gets. Yeah. It really does feel like a video game. Like a Mega Man. That's right. A lot is the gamer, I would say, of the family. You're most, the one who's most into video games. So, you would be watching to see what other armor upgrades is the Mandalorian gonna get. Like, when he got the jet pack, I gotta get me one of those twirling birds or whatever. The whistling birds, yeah. Anyway, I think we can wrap it up there. 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