 What's up guys and welcome to one take I'm gill and I'm here with my friend Jeremy. Hello and Jeremy's here. You know what that means. It means we're talking Star Wars Specifically the Mandalorian today. We're going to do a full recap and review of the Mandalorian episode 6 Oh, sorry. I mean chapter 6 But before we do that because we missed episode 5, you know life just gets in the way sometimes Sometimes what's the name of that guy from Jurassic Park? Jeff Goldblum. Yeah, you know, he always says life finds a way sometimes life doesn't find a way So we missed episode 5, but this is the way as they say anyway By the way But before we get into episode 6 because we missed it Jeremy brief thoughts on episode 5 I Enjoyed a lot of the moments of episode 5. I thought the exchange between Mando with the Tuscan Raiders when he is bargaining with with his buddies, you know Binoculars was awesome running at use sign language, right? Yeah, I thought the stuff in the cantina was great They go back. There's a droid bartender now droids used to not even be allowed in there There's a lot of really cool stuff. I thought the the setting and background and everything was awesome I thought the the bounty hunter Character whatever the guy that wanted to be in the guild, right? I thought he was maybe not the greatest actor I've ever seen it was a little bit over the top but you know Everything else I thought was was really good and a little dramatic story beat there at the ending with the Who is that person going back to the body there overall? I liked it. I liked I liked a lot of the moments You know fit falls in line with everything else we've said where it's kind of like This show is very episodic each one is definitely kind of a standalone thing and that continues to be a little bit disappointing a little bit of an adjustment from what I was expecting, but We'll definitely get into that with episode 6 as well. Yeah, it's chapter 6 a Lot of the same thoughts for me I was not the biggest fan of the village episode episode 4 right episode 5 I liked a little bit more than that one, but like you said definitely adjusting my expectations I could tell from the for episode 2 they got us used to the idea that this is going to be somewhat episodic I thought that it was going to be threading the needle where it was a little bit of both But the last few episodes it's been leaning very heavily into standalone stories Which just feels kind of old-fashioned nowadays. It's not what I was looking for so a bit disappointing But we're still finding things like you said, there's still moments in here that we're enjoying the show still looks incredible Sounds amazing. I'm always humming that That's been like stuck in my head on loop for a while So got good things to say about this show I'm trying to be as positive as I can because once we get into episode 6. It's a lot of stuff I didn't like right. There was also a Princess Carolyn from Bojack and and there were pit droids from episode 1 So that was that was fun. Yeah, you know sure and there's some more references to episode 1 in this episode. There are By the way end of episode 5 the mysterious figure that Approaches that other I don't know. How would you describe her? She was she a bounty hunter also? I Believe so right she was she was the subject of the bounty in episode 5 and She appears to have been killed and then a mysterious figure approaches her at the end of the episode, right? What's going on there? Yeah, I mean, I think based on the way that his walk sounds I think you're supposed to think that it maybe sounds like Boba Fett I don't think it is Boba Fett, but I think that you're Supposed I mean he that sounds like what Boba Fett sounds like when he walks and when you are you mean like I mean It sounds like like very western-y like it sounds like he has like spurs on his shoes that kind of that kind of thing But I mean, I don't think it is him I think I don't think especially based on what we're seeing so far from the show I don't think there's gonna be some big giant swerve like that Other than I guess baby Yoda was a pretty big swerve. So maybe maybe I'm wrong. Yeah Our our theory was Giancarlo Esposito, right? I was struggled at my saying his last name, right? Esposito Esposito I think I mean, I don't know. That's how I would say that's right. Yeah Gustavo. There you go Gus Mainly because he's a big actor and we haven't seen him yet. Mm-hmm. So we're thinking maybe that is a mysterious. Yeah, that Sounds right to me now in hindsight It is so weird that we saw so many of these big-name actors in this trailer and they are all in One episode basically. Yeah, I mean we had I assumed that Werner Herzog was going to be like the villain character right and maybe he's pulling some of the strings by He has to come back right at least there's too much established with him in the first one Yeah, and they didn't close out his storyline He just disappeared and you've got to think he still wants to get his clutches on Baby Yoda, right for what purpose? We don't know right, but I gotta assume he's gonna my feeling is this show is probably going to be Like the template for episodic television television seems to be your premier episode Further is the storyline it creates some kind of cliffhanger Then you have a bunch of standalone stories and the finale is where you get another progression of the plot, right? So I'm assuming maybe Werner Herzog shows back up an episode 8 Yeah, that could I mean I feel like he has to for the season to have any kind of a Ark to it at all be other than just kicking a snowball Called baby Yoda down a hill and having just pick up this momentum, you know, right? Exactly. Okay. Well with that let's jump in to episode 6 and I guess I'll be taking the reins this week on the recap and then we'll pass it back over to you The I was gonna try and make a joke about in a Blurg taking the reins of a horse taking the reins of a word. Yeah Yeah, but I'll work on that been through the desert on a blurb with no name So first off the episode begins with a recap of previous episodes Which I find funny just because it's like a previously on but you don't really have to know any of the stuff It reminds me of Like it shows you scenes from last week where they where they kill that other bounty hunter It's like that knowledge wasn't really that important for going into this episode. It wasn't at all. Yeah. Yeah So there's that and then I think I mentioned in episode one that it's really hard to take Seriously all their use of sci-fi words because of Rick and Morty, right? And then this episode like two weeks ago. There was a Rick and Morty episode that spoofs The the prison heist right trope So putting a team together. Yeah, you son of a bitch. I'm in So Rick and Morty really doing a number on this show. Yeah, I mean, it's the exact thing They go through the people one by one. This is Mayfield. He's the best sharpshooter in the you know It's it's it's exactly that right exactly But episode starts off with Mando landing in the spaceport where he meets Randzar Malk ran for short and we recognize this guy You've probably seen him in Batman Begins Memento Those are the two I was thinking of big ones. Yeah big Christopher Nolan guy He has a great line and Batman begins that my brother a lun who you've heard on this podcast a couple times We quote him all the time so in Batman Begins He's a crooked cop and he goes to a falafel stand and just steals food from the stand and the guy running it goes Hey, man, I got kids at home and then this guy goes what they don't like falafel So Mando is there for a job apparently because he walks in he goes, what's the job? And It's a prison break. They need it. They need Mando's help specifically. They need his ship Something about how all their ships have been. I don't know would be spotted by Imperial Some they need Mando's ship. It's sort of anonymous. That was my ship on it And you can tell that ran and Mando have some history Mando says Ran says we did some crazy stuff back then didn't we? And Mando says that was a long time ago One last job very very that kind of a feel right exactly and then we meet the team That's going to be so the basic premise of this job is they're gonna break into a transport ship Which is a prison transport ship run by the New Republic which Mando doesn't know yet Right, they just tell him it's a transport ship and in the process of explaining the plan He basically says wait a minute. This is a prison ship. It's not what I signed up for and I can't take that kind of heat right now No questions That's the job that's right That's the man. That's the Mandalorian way But there's a so we meet the crew you've got Bill Burr playing Mayfeld You've got this guy Berg this big guy with the horns and they say this may surprise you But he's our muscle So I guess that was a joke because it wouldn't surprise you right big giant Devorean as it were has that a species we're familiar with We've he's not the first one. We've seen for sure But this is the most interaction we've had with one at least in a live-action sense I can't speak that well to the animated animated stuff but in terms of this is the most dialogue we've heard out of one right and This Berg was also the voice actor for Mr. Krabs that's right a lot of voice actors appearing on the shade princess Caroline from Bojack last episode. Yeah, so so the crew is Bill Burr Mayfeld Berg zero droid and Another twilight named Chien who's basically I would describe her as a cat woman basically Yeah, I get yet like a caricature of cat like the most cartoony cat woman possible Including the hissing and stuff, which I don't which was interesting. I don't know. Yeah, and at times vaguely I Don't know some it seems like she's trying to have like innuendo It reminded me of the exchange that he has with the bartender woman in In the village episode chapter four, I guess that was where I was like wait is this like her Character is the acting just not matching the tone of some of the other acting She's just very over the top whole whole episode like it was like is Is the is the character within the series acting or is just the person playing the thing not you know, right? It's just weird cuz like Mandalorian is so gritty and She in a way that's not as corny or is corny But in a like a different flavor of corny right and her with the hissing and the teeth and the tongue and the You know, oh, would you just shut up? Yeah, man, it's different flavors of corn Mando is like classic corn in the cob and then She's like creamed corn creams corn. Yeah, nobody wants cream corn. I mean, I Haven't made things with creams. I've made like a you know, like a corn pudding that has creamed corn in it It's very good. There's ways that it can combine with other corns to So it's just that we just need to adjust our expectations. We were looking for one kind of corn Yes, we're getting another which I think works as the series as a whole. Yeah. Yeah, and okay We're giving the series a couple knocks, but there was a pretty cool moment here a nice reference Where ran introduces Bill Burr's character as a former Imperial sharpshooter and Mando says That's not saying much and he goes. I wasn't a stormtrooper so a series poking fun stormtroopers not having the best name and Everybody on the team seems to hate The Mandalorian here they kind of like giving an instinct guy, right? You can tell they have some he has some history at least with Cheyenne the twilight But anyway, so zero with the droid goes on to the ship and he sees a portion of grief cargo's message To Mando. We can't really piece together what he's talking about yet But eventually in the episode he'll see the full transmission and realize that there's a valuable baby Yoda aboard He's got a baby Yoda on here So the plan is yeah, this is where we find out that the transport ship is a prison ship The plan is to go aboard and free someone and we'll find out who that is later They sneak on to the transport ship Or they're on Mando ship flying to the transport ship while they're on their burg the big red guy with horns Starts opening up compartments Snooping around looking at Mando's guns Mando gets annoyed it shuts the door almost on his hand And then Mayfeld Bill Burr breaks up the fight and he defends Mando. He says I get it. We're all particular about our private space But then they start kind of turning on Mando making fun of him Bill says apparently Mandalorians are the greatest warriors in the galaxy and then Burke has a great line where he says Why are they all dead and then all the actors pretend to laugh? I Mean it's a fair point kind of except I mean they're not all dead as we know from having seen other ones, but Yeah, it's a it's a good enough point. They were wiped out by Jedi though, right? I believe so. Yeah Yeah, so it's kind of like a urge if the Jedi set their sights on anybody and they're gonna be in trouble Right in that purge. I believe is part of what made Mandalorians into such great warriors So, you know, we all have growing pains and I think this Berg fellow Needs to cut Mando some slack. I agree And then Bill Bill Burr What's what's this character may felt it's confusing because Bill Burr and Berg and they're not the same character It sounds like a similar blur is a different thing and there's a lot of you know, it's too many But and then Bill Burr is basically playing himself. It feels like yes But he says he tries to get Mando to take his helmet off and he's like why won't you why won't you take your helmet off? Maybe he's a Gungan of under there And he says with all the inside Star Wars jokes is that why you said don't want to show your face Yeah, so for people who don't know what Gungans are I mean Jar Jar Banks the most famous Gungan from from episode one There's also, you know boss Nass and captain Tarpaul's and all these other people but Jar Jar obviously gets a lot of flak for being a over-the-top cartoony Character that didn't seem to match the tone of maybe but maybe the Star Wars tone is just a mismatched tone because It's basically a theme in every movie you could say like that doesn't feel like Star Wars So maybe that's just what Star Wars is. Yeah, maybe it's like a a You know, I don't know a sandwich that has some weird What's something you wouldn't put on a sandwich and like a lunch meat sandwich with it was like a Like ice cream or something. Yeah, you know like this is for kids This doesn't I don't want this in my adult sandwich a scoop of ice cream You get past the ice cream and there's like a piece of bacon on there Okay, like this though. Yeah. Yeah, I like totally lost track of what we're talking about now. So yeah I can go for a second and I would you're on Bill Burr and the Gungan Reference from him. That's right. That's right in under there I thought it was funny when he said you said don't want to show your face He said it with as little Accent as possible. I think to avoid some of the Some of the controversy around that character back in the day Sure. Yeah that it might have been sort of a racial Cliche. Yeah, so here you played it very straight. You said don't want to show your face This is pretty funny. I would love if there was a Jar Jar Binks cameo on this show there was actually in the in the Extended lore of Star Wars and one of the books they revealed the fate of Jar Jar Binks and apparently he's disgraced He's like a street performer now and everyone makes fun of him and hates him Well, he is the one that proposes that Palpatine get you know Imperial power that's technically he he sets that in motion and that's part of why there's the theories around right He is the he's the mastermind behind everything Sith Lord and Snoke is Jar Jar and whatever what is Chevrolet stuff you want a great fun watch fun YouTube rabbit hole to go We'll find out for sure in about four days when Ryza Skywalker comes out We'll find out that Jar Jar Binks is a Skywalker and he is the one who is rising this Thursday night Maybe maybe anyway in in all of this action Mando and the Berg start fighting and Baby Yoda's revealed Mando tries to cover it up claiming it's a pet Bill Burr picks up baby Yoda Pretends to drop it and then actually actually drops it It's a violent drop He like hits the ground and kind of does like a little barrel roll almost in the in the commotion Yeah, which we can blame on zero for not even giving them a proper countdown as one of the Criminal people say I forget who says leave it was Chee and yes. Yes. I think that's right. Yeah Yeah, big commotion a lot of maybe the most drama in the in the episode is when he's Because baby Yoda has actual steaks attached to him as opposed to all the other people in this episode, right? The Star Trek or the red shirts. Yeah, like one of the everyone else in this episode is that yeah, yeah Well, you didn't find that you became emotionally invested in Berg I did not Not Berg no So they land on the Transporter ship very roughly as Jeremy said and once they're on there Bill Burr tells everyone We got to be careful the second we engage with these droids They're gonna be all over us and then they proceed to walk very casually through the ship Talking pretty loudly. I thought and then Berg sees a little robot and shoots it Mastroid and as promised the droids are all over them So I think they've they've basically gotten together the worst possible team for For any kind of a heist that involves needing to be sneaky, right? big giant muscley guy You know someone that hisses a lot and makes side comments Yeah, it's not a good and extend up comedian jobs to talk So the droids show up and this is where else this is probably the best scene of the episode Because Mando basically goes John Wick on these droids He makes full use of his flamethrowers grappling hook and I've complained before about whenever this show does close quarters action It doesn't look good here. It looked awesome. It did Then afterwards though, I mean everyone Stands back and let's Mando do all the work. They give him crap after right I thought it was my younger brother. I was watching this with he compared it to Shawn of the dead There's a great scene where Shawn is basically left to his own devices to fight these zombies Then afterwards turns to the rest of them and he's like feel free to step in any time But Mando's not the quipping type generally so he just takes crap for it and moves on Yeah, it was like it was like they were seeing if he could do it You know it was can he live up to the Mandalorians are supposed to be the toughest warriors like well Let's see if he's got it like a nobody makes their first jump kind of a moment, right? But yeah, no, it was awesome. It was a great fight scene. Yeah No, it was awesome blows the hole through the droid and then you get the classic like see through the droids head Oh, yeah shot at the end of it. It was cool Yeah, it was awesome And it didn't it easily could have suffered from fighting basically fighting a bunch of CGI droids It might end up looking kind of weightless or not real, but everything in this episode looked incredible It's probably the best thing I could say about this episode is it looked great and a score throughout this episode It was just awesome or was very awesome They get to a room and find a guy who works on the ship in New Republic He's wearing one of the classic big Star Wars hats. Yep. It's kind of like a mullet helmet Big hat, it's funny And then Bill Burr says nice shoes matches his belt Didn't really get that Yeah, I don't know. He's just trying to demean him and accidentally complimented him. Yeah, I guess I'm gonna try and use that next time I walk into a meeting. I'm not feeling very confident, right? I'm gonna try to throw the guy off and by the I'll be in like nice shoes Matches your belt. Yeah, I will say if someone said that to me I would immediately become insecure like whenever someone at work says like hey nice haircut I'm like, I great my hair is messed up. That's what it I do think that right away. So maybe he assumed that this guy was also an Insecure type this guy who voices Anakin in the Clone Wars cartoon series. Oh, that's right. That's right Easter egg Easter egg Easter suga nice So they end up and basically a Mexican what's it called? Standoff Mexican standoff. Yeah. It's like when did they go to a Mexican restaurant? And the guy the the New Republic guy pulls out a little beacon which he activates and then bill Burr explains that He activated basically an emergency distress signal and he says that when those ships arrive based off that beacon We're finished. Well, I think he doesn't activate it. I think they don't realize it's you're right You're right. Yeah, he pulls it out. He says if he activates it, we're right done Right ships are gonna show up blow us all to hell She and it's like you left out that detail and Burr says I didn't think we'd get to this point But he left out that detail. Did you really need the concept of reinforcements explained to you? Like you didn't assume that if we get caught They're gonna call for help and they're gonna kill right probably I mean Mando definitely assumed that because he says they're like I can't afford that kind of heat right now You know, he'd like that she must have been very confused in that scene heat. What's he talking about? Right? Yeah, it was a true. Yeah, it was a warm planet that the she probably thought that She's like Doc Brown every time he's like, why do you keep saying if this is heavy? There a problem with the gravitational pull like why do you keep referring to temperature? I don't understand Mando it doesn't want them to kill the guy So I think my theory of why he's so careful. He doesn't want to kill him I was gonna say he's only okay with killing helmeted people. He's to kill the bunch of stormtroopers But I guess no, I mean the guy he's a good guy. He doesn't want to kill good guys He's okay with killing gangsters and stormtroopers Jawas and Java. Yeah, Jawas. He doesn't give a crap about yeah But Jawas don't seem to care about Jawas either as we've just established Before they can as the Mexicans standoff is really heating up Cheyenne throws a little knife a little blade at the guy it kills him kills him But not before he can activate the distress beacon. It was all for nothing He didn't have to die. He hit the button anyway. Yep poor poor Anakin poor Anakin So the distress signal has been set off The lights on the ship are blinking so you know what something bad's going down They leave the room and there's these two big droids Berg picks up one of them throws it at the other takes them out and Unlike Mando when he does something badass Berg actually gets props for this. Mmm. Bill Berg gives him an approving nod He like cracks his neck is like a you know Just getting warmed up like that kind of yeah, do your worst And then they find the guy they're there to free and it's another twilight named Quinn and Then Quinn jumps out of his prison cell they freed him from and what does he say? Sister brother and then she says brother. Yeah thus telling us that they are brother and sister And that's the kind of deep dive content. You'll only get on this podcast Hey, Jeremy, what do you think he meant when he said brother and sister? It's interesting and I did think about it. I assume they have some sort of a biological relationship Which connects into I mean Star Wars? It's like race parents that they care a lot about lineage and family right Legacy exactly that's Watchman And then they throw Mando into the cell and very cool moment here where a laser Blaster gets fired and the laser bounces around in the room. It's pretty cool hits him in the best car That's right. He's got that best car. Yeah, it's a good thing He's got that best car steel because it's coming in comes in handy a few times this episode. Yeah They leave him in the cell But then as a droids walking by Mando uses grappling hook to pull the droid in He rips the droids arm off and then uses that to escape that was impressive I didn't like is it just that easy or do you think he had like computer knowledge to be able to do that? Like if I had a droid arm, could I get myself out of that prison cell? Is it the same as just scanning a fingerprint the classic like cut the guy? I think it's a step or two above that Because you have to know that the droids I bet you it's a fairly well-known thing That the droids on that ship have a key like built into their finger to right unlock the doors so I bet Mando had to have that pre-existing knowledge and Also, it's probably not typical that you would be locked in a cell with all your tools and your weapons That's true So he happened to have his grappling hook on him and he was because the team they didn't really have time to like strip Um of his armor before throwing him in there. Yeah, so lucky for him So Mando gets out. I will say though. I do feel that the droids on this ship are all acting pretty casual In spite of the fact that a distress signal was set off clearly an escape is happening, right and bad stuff is going down Yet this one droid is just casually on his patrol. Just normal patrol. Yeah So he wasn't alerted when Berg shoots the mouse droid the same way that the three droids that come in after that Obviously were alerted right he wasn't alerted when Berg killed the mouse droid or when Mando killed like 17 more droids Right or when the new Republic Guard was killed and set off a distress signal Yep Berg kills the other two droids after that kills destroys. I guess. I don't know. Yeah terminates terminates Anyway, still pretty cool escape sequence and then we get into a pretty cool part of the episode Where Mando goes to the control room Puts basically puts the ship in emergency mode all the lights turn red Oh What yeah, it's a photo development ship. That's what that that's why they have that setting he also cuts off communications So Berg and the rest of the crew can't talk to zero the droid who's still aboard the ship Yeah, they went from communicating with zero to zero communicating. Oh Good night. Who's just end this here? And then Mando also starts shutting doors, so he's separating the crew it kind of breaks him apart and Quinn as he's walking along seats a bunch of dead droids and says Mando always did hate droids So I don't know Jeremy you think it's an important point Mando apparently doesn't like droids very much. They have gone out of their way to hit us over the head with that He doesn't like droids And we haven't really had to I mean we got a little bit more payoff in whatever what When did we get the last flashback episode three because that's when he returns to the Mandalorian headquarters, right, right, right and we get slightly more extended view of the flashback where the droid points the Points his arm at him is about to shoot him and then something happened You know, we don't know what happens after that Presumably the droid gets shot in the back of the head by somebody else because that's the calling card of this show Yeah, that's this show is a trick which we'll get to but anytime they're when they're in the writer's room like this episode I don't know it needs something. It's missing a little something What about a sequence where it looks like someone's about to get shot? We hear the gun go off, but then that person wasn't shot the person who was about to shoot was shot This man is a genius and then they fall to the side and we reveal who really shot them So Mandalorian basically one by one systematically takes out each of the other people in the crew Berg walks into a room and unbeknownst to him Mando is above him in kind of an event Yeah shoots his grappling hookout around the Berg's neck, but that's not enough to stop a Berg Berg pulls him through the a devorean Berg's your names. Yeah, don't be a Species or no, I guess you're being a Name is I was I was calling him by his name You're the one who's trying to reduce them to just one member of some species right right, but what a species they are Yeah, just fire effect them. No does not Not only that so they struggle a bit and Mando manages to close a door on him Yeah, but that's not enough the Berg pushes the door back up right then Mando closes another door on Him, but maybe not maybe just in front of him. Maybe yeah, that was unclear Well, we know you know from episode from the first from chapter one He's not afraid to kill people by closing doors on them. That's maybe is the first thing we see him do basically Yeah, that's true his introduction to the show was slicing someone in half with a door so he knows how to use a door as a weapon and I Then he approaches a twilight she starts throwing darts at him and What I thought of in this scene it was dark night rises where he's taught where Batman's talking to Lucius Fox. Yeah, and Fox is in dark night actually and Fox tells him that the suit should do well against cats And then I think an episode in the third and dark night rises Basically says that he's got to be careful around blades because they could always sneak in right in the armor parts of his suit So right here twilight's throwing darts at him or blades. They're bouncing off a steel But it's one of them hits him It's not enough to stop him they get into some hand-to-hand combat and Mando gets the better of her it holds a knife to her throat I thought there was gonna be something of like where she has intimate knowledge of the where the spaces are in his Armor and she can get sneak a knife in there, you know, cuz they had some kind of intimate history and she knows I Don't know some openings or something knows her way around best car steel. She knows They've never figured out how to properly shape best car around the hip or something. Yeah, so that's where you can attack them, right? But yeah, maybe she did. I don't know she did sneak the one in there. Yeah But wasn't enough to stop him and then maybe the coolest part of the episode if you want to break down the Mayfeld attack Yeah, I mean it was it's kind of a clat like a horror movie trope where we see Mayfeld with all the Lights flickering behind him. There's like a strobe light going on in the distance a very Half-life one style Flickering light and then you see the Mandalorian get Closer and closer to it kind of alternates between getting close to him And then you can't see him at all getting close he gets even closer. You can't see him at all Bill Burr may felt turns around and then Mando is right behind him, right and bill brush shouts. No. Yeah Very cool very cool sequence. Maybe my Probably the most obvious cool sequence in the in the episode, I guess I know when it Mandalorian first fights the droids that was awesome, too But this is probably the other the signature moment. I would say yeah, this is the one people are talking about Yeah, it's because the other one was cool, but it was just wow that was cool action Yeah, this is doing something interesting or a horror movie you almost like Xenomorph from alien vibes, right? Yes Also extremely similar to a scene in scary stories to tell in the dark Did you see that? I've not seen it not a big scary movie person. Okay. Well, there's a there's a sequence where flashing red lights and A monster is approaching a character every time the character turns the monster is closer. It's a very similar but Also just a similar sequence. We've seen in many things. So I'm not saying they stole it from that movie, right? Right, right. That was a who was that was that Gabriel? Who did that movie director? I know Guillermo d'Otoro produced directing director classic swerve like What's the Jet Lee movie hero? I know exactly what you're talking about. I got Quentin Tarantino. Awesome. No presented by Quentin Tarantino One is a fine hero is a is a is a you know a fine movie But it was just not what a similar to Mandalorian not quite what I was expecting right, right? Then that Mando finds the last remaining person and that's Quinn and Quinn's like you killed the others and Mando says they got what they deserved and Mando's holding his gun to Quinn Quinn basically says look turn me in finish the job get your money, right? You're a man of honor. Isn't that your code? Mando lowers his gun take some in and And then meanwhile though back on the ship. That's right zero the droid is on the ship He sees the rest of grief cargo's message realizes baby Yoda character It's worth something so he starts looking for baby Yoda And we were actually cutting back to the ship sequence throughout the episode right Basically a game of cat and mouse where droids looking for baby Yoda can't find him Eventually he does find him. He's poking his head around the corner very cute. Very baby Yoda And then no, he's in danger knows he's in a bad spot. Yeah, he definitely should he shows a level of Understanding of the situation that's definitely he's he's more than a baby perhaps even more than a toddler Perhaps So what happens here Jeremy when zero finds baby Yoda for some reason you assume that he read the he gets the message So he understands baby Yoda very valuable commodity. He appears to still want to kill him Which doesn't seem necessary, but I don't know. He's a droid. He knows more than I do He finds him He points the big blast rifle at him baby Yoda raises his hand very similar to when he lifts the Giant creature from episode chapter 2 And then as he's about to fire Yoda seems to twist his hand Zero has been eliminated Baby Yoda looks at his hand kind of in a like my god. What have I done? I do that type right type moment like in this awareness of his powers and then you're not gonna believe it zero falls over Mandalorian was behind him. He shot him. Baby Yoda didn't do anything But what a moment or maybe he did maybe maybe zero actually had already pulled the trigger, but baby Yoda stopped the Blaster bolt with his force, you know powers But classic Mandalorian again, yeah That's both didn't come from you the blaster bolt didn't come from who you think it did Yeah, it is a cool baby Yoda moment though where he's like a oh my gosh, do I have this power right to kill the taste of blood Good And now that would be As soon as he his first words it turns to Mando. He's like Mandalorian. I have a question Why does someone have to die for me to feel good? Yeah, so then so Mandalorian Eliminates his zero He seems to have a thing for killing droids. Yeah, he does not like droids doesn't doesn't like him And this is not gonna help the cause right. There's a second time a droids tried to kill baby Yoda What if this show does go like Akira style where baby Yoda does end up realizing his power Yeah, coming evil. Yeah, and then it becomes we got to put down baby Yoda That would be cool season two. Oh The hunt for baby Yoda. Yeah. Yeah as opposed to protecting him now you're going after him kind of like a inverted terminator Twist yeah going from two to one And then and then like at the end of season two when Mando approaches baby Yoda Mando's like you were like a brother to me Yeah, I have the high ground Which was also referenced. We didn't say that in our Episode five tiny episode five recap. They make a higher ground reference when they first are because she has the Higher ground. Yeah Laryon had some good lines in that episode too. Yeah, and Mandalorian has been I think the thing I've loved about Mandalorian or the thing that makes it so enjoyable is you're watching a competent character Yeah, be a badass. Yeah doesn't talk when he doesn't need to and In the first three episodes, I think the focus was so much on him Yeah, but that was pretty much all you were getting and it was great and these next few episodes They've tried to introduce other characters and it's kind of diluting the awesomeness of Mando But uh, but I mean when he's still great though. I still love the character. Yeah, the character is great So yeah, baby Yoda looks at his hand very cute moment and then uh, they get back to ran The uh, yeah, they don't like falafel guy that sent them on this mission When Mando returns ran says, where are the others are more like where are the others Mando and Mando says No questions asked. That's the policy, right? And yeah hoisted by his own petard. Oh That's right Then Mando leaves, but they're not done because ran at turns to Qian and says Kill him so they want to kill Mando But they don't know they don't know that Mando has planted the distress signal device on their ship Which means that x-wings are on their way. They show up one of them flown by David The uh, David Filoni. That's right Dave to cook to his closest friends. Yeah, that's Jeremy calls him So a nice cameo there And deep cargo So the x-wings, uh, they blow up they start shooting at the ship and presumably kill ran and Quinn Uh, and then Mando as they fly off turns to baby Yoda and says Told you that was a bad idea So are we to interpret from that that baby Yoda was a big proponent of this plan? This is like is it come on we should land on the you know, ran's a good friend of yours He needs help we should go help him out and is I don't know. I don't think it's a good idea Baby Yoda talks a lot. We just don't see it on camera Baby Yoda talks when Mando's taking his helmet off off screen. Oh, yeah Um, yeah, he can only talk to the when he sees like a human face or you know, when he sees a face Perhaps a gungan face. Perhaps a gungan face. Yep Uh, I thought oh, yeah, and then episode's not done yet Don't worry Mando is not as cold-blooded as we thought because we see that bill bur Chien and berg Are in prison On the prison ship right berg the biggest twist there because he and we just rewatched this again right before we started I mean it looks like he is crushed to death by the doors. Absolutely that door I've never seen a door closed viciously. Yeah, that door closed. Yes viciously. There was no That's not an elevator you'd want to get on if it had doors closed like that now to be fair You do see berg kind of rubbing his forehead and going like Right Close call with that door. Whoo that kind of thing. I found it strange that Mando I mean, I wasn't surprised to find they were still alive because This show when someone is killed has not shied away from showing them killed Mando kept giving vague answers like you killed them. I did what I had to right doesn't say yes But it's it's kind of odd that he made the choice not to kill them Especially considering he does make the choice to kill Quinn and ran at the end there But I guess that's because he knew they were going to try to kill him I don't know how he knew that But I don't know I found that kind of well, especially because they all know about baby Yoda also They all were there when baby Yoda was there right to me that would be enough to You know They had they knew baby Yoda was some kind of valuable commodity that they were joking about taking and stuff I think that would be enough. Yeah, I guess. Okay, if I was gonna if I'm gonna have charitable read on this Yes, they know baby Yoda is there Bill Byrne in Berg and chien they don't know that baby Yoda is valuable just because zero found that out Uh on the ship right and he tries to tell Mayfeld Bill Byrne, but he word doesn't get out says like yeah, whatever whatever Yeah, and then I was trying to think if somehow Quinn and ran could know that so he needed to kill them But I don't think they would have I don't think they had that knowledge I don't think zero got maybe he knew he they were going to try to kill him It's gotta be I guess maybe he's morally gray Morally gray. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right, I guess so I'm Mandalorian. All right. So that's the end of episode six Obviously, I was not a fan of this episode. I'll say when when Jeremy first got here I said that may have been the worst episode of television. I've ever seen seems like an aggressive take And then you said that and yeah, you're right. It was definitely not the worst episode I've seen Um I was trying to think of a worse one, but Yeah Episode four just kidding I mean, I think the thing is that if if you if you start to look at them It's disappointing when you know how much it cost and the Probably approvals that it had to go through to get this kind of thing made But I think the best way to try to look at them is just standalone episodes that are more about learning about the Or becoming acquainted with the Mandalorian as a as a character And I think they kind of set up Expectations that there's going to be a lot of big reveals based on the first episode with you get all this Who is the client? Who is he working with? What do they want to do with this guy? Oh my gosh, baby Yoda and then every episode after that It doesn't really have anything that crazy pushes the story You get a little bit more details about the Mandalorian's background You get whoever the mysterious figure is at the end of episode five chapter five But there's not really any overarching thing which is very counter to as you mentioned before basically every other modern tv show that Uh, you know somebody would do a podcast about it's not like right, you know There isn't a there probably is but a king of queens podcast or something It's where you're breaking down. You're not gonna believe you're not gonna believe what happened this week The troubled Doug's gotten himself into right that all manages to reset itself by the end of the episode and we start where we ended with Mandalorian and baby Yoda on a You know on the ship right right and uh Yeah, and I I wouldn't I don't think I would mind a show where every episode or most episodes are standalone Uh, if they were done better. I mean it feels to me like Every character on the show besides mando is just the acting is rough like it's so over the top and Yeah, and it's just disappointing because the show looks so good and sounds good It sounds great, and I thought it started really strong. I love the first three episodes um So I mean I I do think that it's just gonna be one of those shows where you like some episodes and you Don't like some But I'm I've got high expectations for the next couple because the next episode which PSA is coming out this wednesday not friday That episode is directed by Deborah chow Who did episode three? I believe which I was a big fan of yep, and then the finale December 27th is directed by taiko with titi So I think that the next two are going to be it's funny to say this about a show That's only been on for a few weeks. It'll be a return to form for mandalorian Fans of the first three episodes rejoice. Yeah Was that a joke about like the first three episodes of star wars like the prequels or I don't know It just felt like a fun phrase. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know I mean I still I still like it at just my expectations of it have changed a lot Like there's not going to be any kind of crazy high drama. It's just going to be Some classic misadventures in set in the star wars world. Yep, and I think you said this the last time we spoke We will certainly have another example of a character pointing a gun at baby yoda And you think they shoot but they don't somebody else shot taking out the Perpetrator. Yeah. Yeah And at this point they've done it so many times. I don't want them to stop Yeah, it's it's a thing. It's a signature, you know Uh, the Joker laughs Um, I don't know. I Batman Disappears when you turn your back on him for a second The mandalorian Makes it look like someone else shot, but then he shoots. Yeah, exactly And we've accepted that that is part of the show. That's canon. Exactly More like blaster Thanks for listening to this week's episode of the one take podcast And if you enjoyed this episode make sure to go into itunes leave a rating Leave a review and tell your friends also if you're a fan of watchmen We will be doing a deep dive into the watchmen finale which airs tonight You can look out for that episode probably monday or tuesday And I'll definitely be bringing jeremy back To talk about star wars because we're going to be seeing rise of skywalk or opening night And uh, I was on the fence for a little while wasn't feeling that hyped. I'm in hype mode now I can't wait for the movie. I can't wait to see how they're gonna wrap up 30 years of star wars More Yeah 77 1977 30 40 42 42 years of star wars Anyway, thanks for listening and we'll talk to you on the next episode