 Welcome to this premiere episode of the one take podcast today We'll be diving into the first two episodes of Disney's the Mandalorian I've got my good friend Jeremy big Star Wars fan with me and my brother Alon. So with that, let's jump right into it So it's finally here Disney plus the Mandalorian. It's all been released So we're here to recap and review the first two episodes of the series Which the first one came out on Tuesday with the service and then the second one came out on Friday And I think the plan is every Friday. They're coming out. So this is kind of a special two for for the first one I'm Gil and I'm here with Jeremy say hello. Hello, and Alon. Hey there So before we jump into the episodes, I thought we could do some general Star Wars Disney plus talk kind of kind of prove our cred our Star Wars cred So first off Disney plus have you checked out any of their other? Offerings yet. Have you explored the service at all or is it literally just been? Mandalorian just Mandalorian What about you Jeremy? It was Mandalorian and then when I finished watching one of them it recommended that I would also like the Empire Strikes Back Which is true. So I then I watched that also But mostly Mandalorian and none of you checked out high school musical the musical or the movie the musical not yet I know a lot of people have been upset that they don't have the Star Wars Christmas special You're about this I have and John Favreau has said and he's clarified that he wasn't joking that he is interested in making a new Star Wars holiday special Well, they reference it not to jump in but he he the blue guy ratio character Says like I might make it home for life day, which is yeah Was the from the holiday special, that's right. Yeah, so that's what by the way That's what one of the things you can look forward to Easter eggs What? That might be it. I know only one because that was the one that I had to so So yeah, that was same for me Disney plus I haven't watched any of their other offerings But I probably will when all the Marvel stuff starts coming out, too It's also high school music high school musical the series I believe is the new thing on because it was already a movie. So it's high school musical the musical the series So maybe if there's ever an off week where there's no Mandalorian Cover we cover an episode of that show and then call it High school musical the musical the series the podcast So you mentioned Empire Strikes Back So one other surprise on Disney plus is that they have re-released the original Star Wars trilogy in 4k But as always alone, what do they do every time they release re-release the Star Wars movies? They tweak them. Yeah, they make little changes replace guns with walkie-talkies like an ET. Yeah Jeremy, do you know what the change was that they made it to the original Star Wars a new hope? It just for this specifically. No, I don't actually I think I might know I saw something is it related to Han shooting first? Yes, so originally it's a Jeremy you probably know the background of Han shot first versus Greedo, right? What's that Phil's in for people who aren't as So trenched in the original original release of Star Wars when it was just called Star Wars Han shoots Greedo first but then when they did the Updated stuff for I think the VHS release was the was the next piece of it They made it so that Greedo shoots first and Han's shot is you know in retaliation So Han doesn't look like such a terrible guy that just you know shoots somebody any Provocation so they've changed the scene again and basically what happens this time is Han and Greedo are sitting down and Then the camera cuts to a close-up of Greedo yelling Mccunkey and then there's an explosion of a laser So you can't see who's shooting and then Greedo is is dead What does that what do we gain from that? Can't you put it together what happened, right? No, so now it's ambiguous. So now the implication is they both shot simultaneously Bahaan's a better shot Like a duel, right? What was that word Mccunkey? Was there were their subtitles? No, I don't think I don't think it's been translated But the actor who played Greedo in an interview recently gave some theories on what it could mean It probably meant something like attack Maybe why would he yell attack right before attacking well, I mean, so is the idea that that makes Han slightly More Villainess because they shoot at the same time instead of Greedo shoots then Han shoots I think that's the same middle ground. I think it's supposed to be a middle ground Mm-hmm, and you could say maybe he did shoot first But there's a cloud of you you literally can't see what's happening, right in this newer version So they solved it they fixed they finally fixed Star Wars so we can finally put this to bed great All right, well, let's get into what we're all here to actually talk about the Mandalorian before going into this What were your expectations of the show the first ever live-action Star Wars TV show? I mean for for me. I'm not to sound pessimistic, but I was setting the bar pretty low I also knew that I would be excited for it almost either way I'm kind of a you know, I don't say fanboy, but like I like most Star Wars things I'm not looking to go in and nitpick and say why I hate it and how why can't every movie just be a new hope But I wasn't I wasn't going in with crazy expectations at all. Yeah Got it. Yeah, I was kind of the same Though when the trailers started coming out, that's when I started thinking this actually looks like Pretty good, and I was cautiously optimistic one. Yeah same wavelength. Yeah, basically I It looked it looked really cool to me Which was worrying me because I didn't want to get my hopes up It looked like a just this Western space cowboy type shell and the concept just seemed really cool to me And I didn't want to get my hopes up just get them broken and so far I'm really enjoying it. Yeah, same here wasn't least surprised agreed So let's jump into episode one of the Mandalorian The first thing you see or the one of the first things you notice is this new You know how Marvel before all of their movies They have the Marvel logo appear and you see all these this montage of various clips and everything So it looks like Star Wars has their version of that now. They're gonna brand. I'm assuming all their Star Wars shows with this where it's sort of a Kind of a quick flash of different helmets and droids and then it says Star Wars Yeah, so yeah, I mean it looks cool visually I think it's a little weird because they it almost makes it seem like the Star Wars saga is about droids and Beings that wear helmets when there's also aliens. There's humans and you know, most of the good guys don't even wear helmets Like Luke that's what I was thinking the people who wear helmets in Star Wars Typically are the bad guys or the anti-heroes Yeah, maybe this is only the intro for content with protagonists that wear helmets For other shows that involve less Helmeted individuals and maybe if there's an episode where Mando finally takes his helmet off the opening bolt will skip this part Like it's not really appropriate for me They'll show each of those individuals without the helmet and like yeah, so then the droids you'll just say circuitry Man all the kids watching will be like mom. I don't understand what happened to see 3PO So the episode starts off in a very western like scene Where there's a blue guy a blue monster not a monster a humanoid it being picked on at a bar and then Mandalorian shows up at the bar causing these jerks To spill their drink the jerks turn to the Mandalorian and they're like Mando and then speaking in there You need their native language. You made me spill my drink Mandalorian ignores them and so one of them comes over scratches his armor And then he turns on him and the Mandalorian takes them all out vaporizes at least one of them with his gun Thoughts on this scene. This is our introduction to the character. That was awesome Okay, and he's there to the blue guy is It was a bounty. Yeah, Mandalorian is there to take him at this point. You don't know that yet though, right? Right. Yeah, no, I thought it was awesome. I think it's just he doesn't take any crap You know if you mess with him, he's gonna mess with you right back, right? And at first you think he's basically Rescuing this blue guy. Yeah, then immediately takes his chip out blue guy realizes the Mandalorians there to take him in When he refuses to come with him. He has that awesome line. It's a warmer cold Yeah, you take you out away It's so I mean you referenced like the the kids watching making a joke with a 3po with his Wiring exposed before and this like the first scene If you go into it thinking that it's on the Disney streaming service And is it gonna be you know childish at all in in any way? They basically set the tone right away that they're not afraid to get to I mean that the guy gets cut in half By the door closing him And I just thought it remind I mean, it's obviously super Western but the the doors opening was so similar to the like the saloon doors flying open in In a you know a Clint Eastwood or whatever and he it was just a good great tone setter for everything also the guy references best car right away the facial hair person and it's One of the things I think the episode does really well is sort of slowly lets you in on this kind of world building stuff And if you have never heard best car before this is you're kind of like Oh, what's best car? I wonder if I'll you know Learn more about that or is it important and it's just it just doesn't good. It was a great first. Yeah It's pretty it is pretty user-friendly show if you're not entrenched in Star Wars mythology. I Mainly know what's in the movies. So I hear best cars kind of in one ear out the other But they'll come back to it a few times in this episode and they give you just enough so you can kind of keep up with it You know what's important. So what's best car? Oh It's like the the stuff that I mean I we're gonna I feel like we're gonna get to it if we're if we're going down the line Yes, that thing that he gets paid in which is also then melt down into okay But he says is that real best car steel or best car armor right before you think he scratches it There are a couple other things I'd say about the scene are so one we said it It totally sets the Western style I mean even the way it looks the fact that they're in a saloon You have the bartender trying to keep the peace like don't worry. I'll pour you another drink The one thing I'll say is that one of the first things you notice about this show is how good it looks how? cinematic it looks and The one place where I feel like the seams show a little bit that it's still a TV show is any time It's close hand-to-hand combat. Yeah, I can sort of see it You see all those super quick cuts too many cuts. Yeah, it almost feels like like CW show fighting Arrow and all that. Yeah, or like Power Rangers. Yeah Yeah, I mean definitely not nearly as bad as that But that was kind of the one place in the show where I see the scenes a little bit It's especially disappointing there because we know that the actor that plays the Mandalorian We've seen him in Game of Thrones with using a similar weapon to do some amazing like fighting techniques. Yeah So okay, man, John Favreau another shooting season two right now if you're listening Just work on the fistfights a little bit. Yeah, that would take this from an A to an A plus The Mandalorian takes the blue guy he wants to bring him back to his ship and collect his reward and He has this kind of cool looking alien guy It's got a sort of snout almost which he uses to play a whistle that brings a little speeder by But it's being driven by a droid Mandalorian says no droids Brings another one is kind of a speeder. It's sort of falling apart gets on that one brings him back to his ship Blue guy and the Mandalorian are going to take off when they're attacked by a ravenac Giant monster that kind of comes out of the ground like a tremor. They were seen the movie tremors Of course, Kevin Bacon classic and that's another moment of like wow this show looks really good Fights off the unless anyone has anything else to say about that it fights off the ravenac And then why no droids was there an obvious reason for no droids? I think I was reading a little bit about this and we'll see little flashes of the Mandalorian's history as the show goes on and You see a flash when he's a kid and it's the village or town is attacked I Suspect that droids were somehow involved in that and there's some like mistrust of droids Resulting from he basically gets that guy murdered by saying I'm not murdered but killed By the ravenac because he requests a non-droid. Oh, that's right. You have a guy that dropped him off at his ship He got he gets eaten by the ravenac right way back right while they're in flight the blue guy says he has to use the bathroom the back tube as he calls it and Clearly, he's just looking for an excuse to try and escape So he leaves the front of the ship goes downstairs start snooping around looking at weapons Mandalorian shows up boom Puts the guy in carbonite that guy is such a good. It's such a smart character to have like this neurotic Guy when you when the Mandalorian doesn't talk at all and he does all this exposition because he's nervous where he's like Oh, I heard you guys never take off your helmets. Is that true? And oh, I have a pretty big bounty You know I have a lot of credits and he just explains all this stuff about the universe But it's it doesn't feel like exposition because it just feels like it's a nervous guy that doesn't want to be you know killed Even when he even when the Mandalorian puts the puck down that shows a little hologram with a blue guy Yeah, it's like is that a bounty puck look all right? Yeah, it's like when you're in a video game and your character doesn't talk and the other people have to Ham fist in all the yeah, right. All right. You're a man of few words Gordon It reminds me of as I watch a better call saw the podcast about that to saw cast for anyone who's Interested but I was listening to an interview with Vince Gilligan and he talks about how hard they try to avoid any obvious exposition and he was talking about introducing the idea that Saul and What's his brother's name in that show? I forget Chuck How do you introduce that they're brothers and he's like the lazy way to do it is you know Chuck walks in he's like Saw we're brothers, right? We haven't talked to what 20 years and it's like a really obvious exposition But you're right it was they did such a good job of it here It's you don't even notice it because nervous character blabs a lot So okay, the other thing here is I didn't realize how Available carbonite technology is it seemed like a big deal and Empire strikes back when he freezes Hanso the movie ends with Han Solo frozen in carbonite and here it seems like he had like a Rolodex of pre carbonated individuals. Yeah So I don't know if Looking to Jeremy is this yeah, I mean I agree and in Empire they do make it seem like it's a pretty Tough thing to come by and he just has all these but this takes place years later post return of the Jedi So maybe by now they struck up somebody found a mine exactly Yeah, this is like where where now SD cards first came out You know 500 megabyte SD card was like a thousand bucks now you can get a 5 gig one or uh You get like a terabyte one for a hundred bucks. Yeah, Han was on like the zip disc of Mandalorian goes back to town and meets up with Carl Weathers Who played Apollo Creed which will be relevant later in the episode kind of Mandalorian walks into to meet with Carl Weathers who asks him did you catch them all so it's probably all the carbonated Bounty people he was going after And then the Carl Weathers tries to play him tries to pay him with basically imperial money Mandalorian turns it down saying the empire is gone. This money is basically useless to me So instead he gives him calamari flan, but can only pay him half Wish it's so hard to hear that in a in a post rick and morty world Where on that show half of it is Making fun of these sci-fi world words when they go to a bar in another dimension is like do you have any uh flim flams or It's like an easily picture rick they're like any uh calamari flan Right or not pick a picture like calamari the seafood and flan the dessert Yeah It did look like mini flans a little bit. It did they looked like something you could look to latinus Carl Weathers by the way, he's that's hit john fabro. That's who you can ask how to choreograph a fist fight Yeah, exactly. That's not to do your job for you john, but yeah Who i'm sure is listening i'm sure he's very upset with us right now because you hear what they said about me on one take So the Mandalorian wants more work from Carl Weathers But he wants you want some big money doesn't have any really good offers and Carl Weathers tells him about a Specific deal That's pretty mysterious doesn't give him a lot of information about it He just goes well there is this one job Which is such a line that if i didn't love star wars i feel like i would probably hate but i think it works so well in this Context or maybe i don't i don't know maybe i'm a fanboy. Yeah I don't know how did you feel about the one I liked it. I mean For me i'm watching this show just to enjoy i wasn't looking for anything super sophisticated in this show It if if we do end up getting that great, but i'm just enjoying the ride Yeah, so to me that line i thought it fit the the world. Yeah. Yeah agreed I mean there's a few cliches you'll see throughout the episode, but yeah, no, I love it. Yeah So he takes a job and then he goes to see it's kind of crazy it feels like they they got these big Actors and immediately goes to crawl weathers meets up with Werner Herzog Who uh surrounded by by storm troopers who look kind of Kind of dirtied and I guess these are post-war leftover storm troopers empire's been taken down and uh Werner says uh About the mandalorian. He says he said you were the best in the parsec parsec another reference, right? What was the line from a Han Solo? It's the uh Oh god, he was able to the the millennium falcon won the race in like Seven parsecs or something. Yeah, but it's the whole thing where like is parsec a distance or it's a unit of time But then they do it in in in solo movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Basically, so he meets he meets Werner surrounded by storm troopers a doctor walks in like a fool There's a tense situation. He's like, hey, what's up guys? Everyone takes their guns out Werner tells the mandalorian to lower his blaster Mandalorian says tell them to lower theirs first Then maybe one of the best lines storm trooper says we got you four to one. What does the mandalorian say? I like those odds. I was gonna let Jeremy say because I was gonna let go so we were talking about it earlier Oh, yeah, he told me he loved that line I was wondering why he'd do it. You both had these goofy grins on just like nodding at me That's why I was I was looking at Jeremy still is a goofy grin in you. I think yeah in a fun in an enjoyable way Yeah, he's definitely this character is awesome. He just doesn't My dad, I don't think he's watched this yet But he would love this show because he always complains when a character just keeps talking He's like stop talking just shoot. Do what you need to do Again very like Clint Eastwood style like just of One thing and I mean they don't fight after that, but it doesn't talk a lot, you know, he could you know He can definitely all those storm troopers So Werner basically can't give him a lot of information can't even give him a puck You know one of those pucks that shows you an image of whoever you're going after for the bounty He can only give him a fob last known position and he could tell him that the asset is 50 years old And he gives him a one best car this kind of metallic Square so you get the impression. This is a pretty valuable piece of uh Currency and he tells him he gets a lot more if he brings the asset back And he says that he understands things get complicated So alive is the preference But if you bring him back with proof that you killed this asset that works too the doctor wasn't happy about that Doctor didn't want him dead wanted him alive Right, which gives you the impression at least when I watched it. I gave me the impression This is somebody that he'd want to study Or like dissect or something There is one little morsel of information They give us where uh Werner Herzog says and I'll try and do my my Werner Herzog impression The best car belongs back into the hands of a Mandalorian It is good to restore the natural order of things after a period of such disarray. Don't you agree? It was really good. Thank you I remember when they because that line's in the trailer too And I remember thinking he was going to say whatever his name was right after that line But it sounded like it ended on a comma and hit the next thing was going to be like, don't you agree, you know Boba Fett or whatever Uh, but that didn't happen. But yeah, the line is great. It does another like not subtle but Subtle I guess for the kind of show that this is world building thing Where you get another little bit of information about best car that you'd oh like oh it must be Something that has some significance to the Mandalorian or Mandalorians and right, you know This is where they keep bringing up the best car. Is that real best car steel? Ah, it's good to give this best car back to try and dumb it down a little bit But for some people it wasn't quite enough Well, I still have the second episode fresh from my head. I forgot all about the best car The Mandalorian goes back to uh, what looks like basically A Mandalorian hideout he goes down there. You see a bunch of kids running around He meets a lady Mandalorian who has kind of It's tough with this show. There's a lot of characters that don't have names It's like you got the Mandalorian The spiky helmet Mandalorian so this car the furry Mandalorian. She had like that fur run Okay, we can call her that too. She had kind of she looked more like He he looks very sci-fi She looked like a mix of sci-fi and sort of traditional. She had like an animal fur Her helmet was spiky Yeah, right and I mean she's like hitting a you know, like an iron man John Fabro, uh hitting a you know a thing Like a like a horn. I wrote this word down But I couldn't remember it was a smith a smith. She's like a smith. Yeah Yeah, is that there's a word for that though. It's like a something smith black smith a black smith. Yeah, smith. Yeah I mean, she's she's called the armorer, right? That's the that's right. Yeah, if you turn your uh close caption on It refers to her as the armorer armorer The Mandalorian hands some best car his best car over to uh the furry Mandalorian Yeah And she says this was gathered in the great purge It is good. It is it is back with the tribe A pauldron would be in order has your signet been revealed. He been revealed What does the Mandalorian say? No, not yet Then she uh, she says soon Melts down the best car turns it into a shoulder plate And then sticks it on his shoulder So i'm assuming they're uh the signet if it had been revealed it would have been engraved onto the shoulder pad Isn't that interesting though revealed almost as though it's some magical revelation that'll come right So I don't know if he's gonna like gradually get more parts on his armor or something But when I saw that I was like well, it's like mega man x when you just gradually get more parts And you just like cooler every time depending on which boss you defeat you get it. Yeah So I'm just waiting to see him just keep looking cooler and cooler Yeah, do you think that means it's private and it's not revealed because it's not public or it's not revealed because it hasn't been You know determined that's kind of how I read it and I don't know if it was meant to be Spiritual or Revealed as in you have some significant experience and then you decide what your signet is going to be That's kind of how I read it. Mandalorian doesn't strike me as very a very spiritual person Even though he does refer to his religion later But it was more of a badass like weapons are my religion Right And the oh unless you think he was being serious So the armor is like a priest because weapons are his religion Yeah, I don't know. So I read it as kind of a flippant. Yeah, I agree. Yeah I guess we'll see They go on so she melts the best card down gives him a new shoulder plate so upgrade And then she says this is extremely generous the excess will sponsor many foundlings This is my other favorite line Because then the Mandalorian says that's good. I was once a foundling and she says I know It just feels like it's something he just brings up all the time like, you know, I was a foundling once I know That's about So how does she know that but she doesn't know if his signet has been revealed yet, right? Like it seemed like you would maybe know both of those things or if you didn't know one you would I don't know if he was a man of more words. He probably would have made that point Like behind the helmet. He was probably muttering to himself like I didn't even know about my signets What'd you say? Nothing, that's fine After he says that we get a slow zoom on the Mandalorian's helmet and then some flashbacks play across the screen What I mentioned earlier where you see him being carried presumably by his mother as a child While all hell is breaking loose around them sort of seems like their village is under attack She throws him into a hideout kind of a ray style force awakens and Cut back as she puts the shoulder plate on and there's some kind of triumphant music And then a cool transition to to a ship Star Wars is always good at the transitions between scenes, right? Like a ship will appear and then a circle will kind of grow out of it and reveal the next scene I don't know if I would say yeah, I mean they're kind of corny, right? Like I don't know But yeah, it's a it's a definitely Star Wars Right thing, you know, it does sometimes I remember watching the prequels and theaters and thinking it felt a little Like someone who had just discovered What's uh, what's the mac or the apple version of a windows movie maker right? Yeah, I movie I movie and it's like star wipe over here, right? Do another star wipe over here Star what you remember that from the simpsons the star one thing kind of oh, I do remember that. Yeah star white Yeah, that's my george lucas impression So a couple things from that scene So she makes the comments about how the excess of melting down the the best car will help many foundlings So up to this point in the episode sort of feels like mandalorian's badass clenny swed type out for himself Here I read this scene as part of what he's doing is He's going out there trying to get money to bring it back to help the mandalorian people I don't know if that was You're reading on the show. You're reading the scene as well Yeah, yeah, possibly so it seems like he's you know a little bit more Antihero, but maybe leaning a little bit more towards hero Then you originally think when he in cold blood kills a bunch of guys at the bar earlier From there mandalorian goes to the planet where the asset is located Immediately gets attacked by a couple blorgs Which are I don't know how would you describe a blorg? That sounds maybe even more like a rick and morty thing Then he gets saved but it's it's the show doles it out slowly So it'll be a few minutes between each use of one of these Like sci-fi words. Yeah, but when you lay it all out there, it's like he grabs his uh Grabs his best car gets attacked by a couple blorgs, but he gets saved by an ugnat. So So the ugnat shows up and saves him and then says you are a bounty hunter. I will help you I have spoken Which is the bad. I love the I have spoken thing Right, which which I took to mean basically You're not going to change my mind. This is my Like that that's it. I've spoken. Yeah, I like it. It's awesome You feel even if you are not familiar with like ugnat anything you have an immediate understanding of like oh This is who this character is. This is what's going on. So have we seen ugnats? Yeah, they're in uh, they're in I think in cloud city and in empire strikes back Oh, so you know from the original trilogy. Yeah, they were around. Okay. Oh, yeah Did we hear them talk much like that? I have spoken things. Is that an invention? That's new. Yeah, that's new for this I believe I don't know. We'll find out in the corrections. Right. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Yeah Uh, ugnat explains that many have showed up here in search of this asset and many have failed He explains that they're gonna have to ride a blirk to get to get to the asset The uh, mandalorian keeps trying to get on the blur. He keeps falling off gets frustrated He's like, can't you just give me a speeder or something? And the ugnat he chides him. He says you are a mandalorian Your ancestors rode the great mythosaur Surely you can ride this young fowl And then mandalorian stands up Gets motivated rides the blirk Cut to them riding a couple blurbs and the rocky theme starts playing Uh, I love the score of this show and there is one recurring theme that sounds very rocky like. Yeah Which was the connection I was making before with uh, car away showing up It didn't really seem as a quick aside or if they did they skipped it Riding the blurb did not seem that necessary to get to where they end up He was like you gotta take the blurb. It did it did not look like you had to take the blurb No, maybe they skip maybe that's a deleted scene. I don't know. Well, we seem They like jump over a couple of rocks The show is really short right this episode is 40 minutes the next one is just around 30 And it's because this is all the deleted stuff they took out all the all the stuff We're talking about where he's like do I really need to ride a blurb? This seems unnecessary That's the stuff they cut out I love I just real quick on the ugnot too like the way that his Lips don't really match the way that he's saying which makes it look like A puppet from the original trilogy kind of to me Like he looks very realistic way more realistic than did before but still the you know Mouth moving doesn't sink up in the way that you would think it would for a human And I love that they kind of had this, you know, let's modernize it But also not at the same time make it seem like that's just the way their lips move Right. I don't know that was I feel like like I like when they do things like that Yeah, this show feels like a really good blend of the heavy cg stuff But still moments like that where it's clearly a practical effect. Yeah. Yeah, or they're blending them in some way Where it's not it doesn't just make the original stuff look like it was a horrific mistake And they couldn't get it to look like what they wanted, right? Uh, the the one thing that I I know I poked out a little bit And I don't think I think alone you didn't really agree with me on this It felt a little cheesy to me that they made it such a big deal that He was able to get back on the blurb after getting that little motivational speech from the ugnaut The music sort of swells and I was kind of like, all right, I guess Yeah, I mean, maybe I have to rewatch it when I when I saw I didn't remember It feeling like they were trying to make it as big a deal as you're making it sound now Maybe if I rewatch it, I'll agree with you to me. It just seemed like just An informational aspect of his history they were trying to point out to you Right. It didn't seem like they were trying to make it super dramatic But like I said, I only watched it once you watched it twice. Maybe I would agree with you if I watch it again All right I'm trying to be I'm trying to be picky because Since everyone loved this show so much. I was like, I got to find something to I mean, it was like a 30 second. It's impossible. I can't do it. Yes, you can. Okay Yeah, you know, it was a very quick rushed Rocky montage. Yeah. Okay. All right. Cool. So I get some validation there Uh, I'm curious at this point in the episode Did you have any any thoughts of what the asset could be? Were you did you have any theories at this point? I I had no I had no clue No, I mean No idea. No, I had no idea. I mean they they Red herring you so hard with the 50 year old thing. Right. Yeah, that I definitely was not Yeah, I mean, obviously I knew it couldn't just be a normal job I knew it was it was probably gonna be something that would Tell you like that would be meaningful to the rest of the season But I had no idea what it would be The thing I kept for some reason and I have no idea if this is a really stupid theory or not But I thought it might be Boba Fett And then when he shows up to the encampment, you kind of see this big hole in the ground And I was like, wait, is this where he got fed to them? But then I was like if he's been in the Sarlak pit for just years Waiting for a bounty hunter didn't really add up. So at that point Well, it's supposed to take you a really long time to be digested by the Sarlak pit So there could be I don't think it would have been I think people would have been upset by the logic of that but Maybe I mean definitely not because I was wrong Well, I yeah, but I mean it could have you know gotcha gotcha Or the Mandalorian is Boba Fett still, you know, we don't know that's the theory that's out there Even though in an interview recently pager pascale Just offhand mentioned the real name Real of his character. No spoilers, please. Yeah, I did not see it It was an It was an official interview released from disney plus though. So it didn't seem like so the name was Boba Fett I'm not gonna say Yeah, but what if yeah, but it also could be like a Like Robin at the end of dark knight rises type thing or we say it's one name and then somebody goes Why don't you go buy a middle name? Oh, Boba Fett Uh, so when he gets there an IG 11 robot droid is already there This is a droid that's programmed. He's part of the guild Program for bounty hunting And he causes all kinds of trouble because he just starts he goes in guns blazing basically as soon as the people at this encampment refuse to give up the asset and then Mandalorian goes down it makes a quick deal with IG 11 to work together Uh, anytime it seems like they're they're stuck IG 11's like, all right, I'm gonna do it and it's self-destruct and they go it's self-destruct. Hold on Uh, eventually they uh Laser cannon shows up Mandalorian's able to take take out the guy manning that Takes over the laser cannon turns it against the bad guys Uses it to blast open the door containing the asset And then they go in but before we get to the asset itself Thoughts on this scene. Oh, yeah, that was awesome I mean just really good action and I love how like it was like three times the bounty droid was like self-destruct commencing You're like, no stop Cover me Yeah, it was awesome. It was a good like I mean we'd seen him do the fist fight in the beginning You hadn't really seen him do too much, you know blaster Stuff And this was a good reminder of like, all right, this guy is really he's not just some guy that learned to ride a blorg 10 minutes He can do a lot of blaster stuff too. I also had the the grappling hook I think he used to kind of pull the gun. Yeah, he learned some more of his abilities here Yeah, awesome scene IG 11 was hilarious Again just to put on my my critic hat one thing I'll poke at so a little cheesy When they're like, how are we gonna get through this door? And then the man to Lord in the robot slowly turned their heads and look at the laser cannon I cut to the door being blown out. He's thinking what I'm thinking like Yeah They get in you see a little pod like a little sphere basically open it up baby Yoda big reveal Adorable So we're all those people protecting the baby Yoda species thing. Were they gonna what were they gonna do with it? That was one of my big questions in the scene. Who were the people at the encampment? They seemed like bad guys, but what if they were protecting like what if we eventually learned they were protecting him and then Mandalorian just murders all these I mean, I guess he's murdered a lot of people and he's true continues to do it And the thing we missed was baby Yoda's mother like Yaddle probably Is chasing after my baby? What are you doing? Yeah, I don't know who they were they definitely had a feeling of uh, they're bad guys But we don't know who they are as far as I know or what they were doing with baby Yoda Maybe they were doing experiments on him. You know, who knows IG 11 takes out his gun to shoot the baby Yoda Cut to uh, you hear the blast But then you see IG 11 fall to the ground Mandalorians shot him in the head to save the baby And they're a very cute scene where uh The man Mando sticks his finger out and baby Yoda reaches for it ET. That's right Cut right before Baby Yoda grabs his finger I love the way they introduce certain characters that you think are going to be more impactful Like they might have a main role in the rest of the story here But then they just dispose of them like first you got the blue guy at the beginning and then uh, he's carbonated They got this droid like I could see the droid and the Mandalorian be like partners and then bang droids dead, right? I hope he comes back in some way though. Yeah, we're another one Yeah, because you get the feeling this is not there's many of these droids running around Like pesky like oh crap. Is it a an IG 11's on the case too? I gotta deal with Voice by taiko with titi by the way. Hmm. Uh jojo rabbit. We were talking about earlier He directed that and plays hitler in that movie. Yep imaginary hitler Uh Oh and by the way, you mentioned ET It's uh canon in the star wars universe that ET's species of aliens right exist In this galaxy because they're in the senate. That's right in the prequels. That's right Any theories so I think at this point, I mean, I guess we've already seen episode two is maybe we can save If you have any baby Yoda theories Um for uh, once we get into episode two, but I guess just your reaction when you see Baby Yoda on screen. What's your what's your immediate reaction? Uh, I gotta be honest. I at first I would like I don't know. I felt weird about it it felt Like Yoda's and I know there's yaddle too, but it felt like Yoda's supposed to be the only Yoda and I don't know I'm I'm way more on board with it now that I have thought about it for longer Then I was at first But I did like in my gut my very first thought was like, oh no Yeah But but I like it now, but right kind of ruining the the the scarcity of or the specialness of Yoda Where I mean for those of you unfamiliar with Jeremy just alluded to That we see Yoda. We don't see anyone else of his species We don't even know what his species is called the only other example was a female Yoda. We saw named yaddle In one of the movies which movie One of the prequels right it's an episode two. She's on like the the jedi council also And she just looks like Yoda with a ponytail What I thought was funny is that baby Yoda already has gray hair All right What is he's 50 years old and so they comment on that where the Mandalorian says, uh, you know I thought he was supposed to be 50 and the robot says, you know some uh, some species age differently And they don't be such a don't be so judgmental. Not everybody's You know like you humans If the Mandalorian is even human, I don't know right Uh, so then we cut that stand of the episode and one really cool thing I thought they did is over the end credits They have what I assume is A concept art or basically paintings almost of scenes from the episode Which to me gave it almost like a mythic like legendary feel of like this is important These are important stories and here's the memories of them Yeah, I thought it's really cool and then you know now We know having seen two of them that they continue to do that and I think I do think it's a really cool, uh Technique does make you feel a lot bigger. Yeah, some cave wall paintings or something. Yeah, exactly like uh, like the end credits of walley For example Also, disney So so it's relevant All right, let's jump right into episode two We see the Mandalorian walking with the floating baby Yoda next to him So that pod apparently has the ability to to basically float so it floats next to him And we see a close-up of the the baby got very expressive ears Kind of uses them to express his emotions. It feels like sort of like a dog wagging its tail They get attacked by some some people who we see have one of those fobs those tracking fobs So it looks like they're going after the asset Mandalorian takes him out Vaporizes at least one of them and he gets sliced on his arm And one cool thing we see Right before the fight starts The Mandalorian is able to kind of swipe his hand which sends the pod like flying away and out of harm's way But one question I had about that Is how do you think he's able to do that? Well, I thought he like pressed something right before he did it So he has some sort of controller Right, so that's my question. Yeah when he found the pod Is it like had a little controller next to it? Maybe he attached something to it that gave it the ability Oh, he had a floaty thing Which he attached to the pod Or maybe Yoda's been using the force to control it the whole time That is what I thought before he did such an over-the-top like hand gesture to move it Which I don't even know if I maybe I didn't catch it the first time But he does it a couple other times later in the episode and at that point I was like, oh, it's not the not the force One funny idea I had is I wonder if baby Yoda sees him doing that and he's like, oh, wow, he's got the force Uh, this again is um, I thought not a bad fight scene, but like once again anytime it's the close Hand-to-hand combat you see all those cuts and I don't love it, but I didn't hate it. I thought it was all right Night time Mandalorian sitting there uh healing himself He has this little device that it looks like it sends a little electric thing That he's kind of going over his cut with it But while he's doing that baby Yoda keeps getting out of his pod Walking over and reaching up to the cut and starts to kind of close his eyes And then mando picks him up and puts him back in his pod So I think the uh, I mean the way I read that is yoda's trying to heal him Do we do we have any examples in Star Wars canon of someone using the force to heal? Uh I mean there must be I the first thing that jumps at me is the episode three seen when Palpatine is talking to Anakin about being able to Save people, you know when they go to that weird opera with the giant bubbles Right, right, you know that actually I have no idea what you're talking about the bubbles Yeah, they're like watching these big bubble It's when he talks about Darth Plagueis and have you ever heard the story of no, yeah Darth Plagueis fills in oh gosh This is gonna go I'm not gonna know enough to fill in all the things But they go watch like Palpatine has Anakin there at the at the opera and he's basically trying to you know seduce him to the dark side and he is Tells him the story of Darth Plagueis the wise and blah blah blah and he alludes to how the You know eventually you can use the force to prevent the ones that you love from from dying and But he to the not from a Jedi that that whole You know That whole bit so that's that's definitely been I'm sure there's a better Example that I'm just wiffing on right now, but I think you know generally the the force can do a lot of Weird stuff. Yeah. Yeah, and it does stuff We've never even even in that mean that was part of the controversy with last Jedi Leia using the force to basically float their ship Right the force can't do that Yeah, but I mean I think if you watch all of the movies there There's constantly some kind of a new thing that they didn't specifically spell out what the force can and can't do before You know it lets a tiny kid be able to control a crazy fast race car thing What is what is it doing there? He can think fat like it could probably you can envision a world where it could do everything I think to me right, right? So it looks like baby Yoda's got a lot of midichlorians running through his veins Right midichlorians That was uh from episode one the biological explanation for the force the more midichlorians you have in your blood The more access you have to the force Just wanted to prove that I know a thing or two about star wars as well In the same way that so many people don't like the midichlorian stuff because it starts to add this like Specificity to a mysterious and vague thing. Those are like my that was my initial worry of the of the Yoda Baby Yoda reveal. Oh now we're gonna learn too much about Yoda Pull back the curtain too far and the details are way less interesting than a You know being able to do a podcast speculating about things for example, right? That was my worry about the carbonate Too much carbonate I'm like, oh, I'm worried about the carbonate and then a Yoda shows up You know carbonate I could picture it actually being something rare and he just on submission stole a bunch. Yeah, you know Yeah, we'll get an episode about that. Yeah running low on carbonate. We're gonna have to go to the flim flam planet So then they're walking in the desert with uh, baby Yoda Sees then he sees a bunch of Jawas stripping his ship for parts vaporizes a few of them and This is one thing in this show which I they're they're killing people. It's left and right Oh, I find interesting. Yeah right in front of the baby 50 year old Yoda Like they make a point where it's like some kind of like Leon the professional type thing or something where he has the gun up looks at the kid Is like I'm gonna do it. Anyway. Yeah murders Yeah, but even the Jawas don't seem to care that much. Yeah, that was crazy too. That was my biggest issue I think with this episode I know we're going ahead now a little bit, but like they they basically kind of laugh it off Yeah, more or less. Yeah, they're almost like I mean like sophisticated insects were like And so really care if you kill a few of them in fact part of their strategy is to let a few of them die Right, it's funny. You say that actually because I was reading up on Jawas I was wondering what do they look like under those ropes? And in Star Wars canon, it's actually a mysterious thing that people talk about There's a theory that under the robes that kind of are rodent like so they might be vermin In which case maybe not the biggest deal that uh, like gerbils type so no those aren't rodent Trying to think of a cute rodent Hamster, I mean mice are cute. Yeah, that's true. Yeah So they might be cute All right, it might be cute glowy red eyes. They're kind of cute as is like a little Yeah, like cute like they're like frat boys shanting this Oh, that would be great actually for this is what we gotta do for the finale Mandalorian watch party Let's make like a jungle juice In a big egg make a yellow sure So the Jawas have this big I don't know how you describe this thing. It's like a it's like a big boat Are they called it a fortress something moving forward? I think it's called a crawler right or a crawler. I think it has yeah sand crawler. Maybe something like that I mean it was a big Structure like a big building almost on wheels and moved slowly through the desert The Mandalorian tries to jump on the ship Wants to climb up get his parts back as he tries climbing up the Jawas keep dropping garbage on him He leaves baby Yoda by the way significantly far away when he does this that was what I was thinking the whole until you know You know that I was like wow this thing is moving probably pretty fast and he has left this baby Very far. That's right. But but Very quickly the camera turns and you see baby Yoda's baby Yoda zooming along In his pod following this whole thing As the Mandalorian gets up to the top of the structure They all use their Shockers or whatever tasers basically they shock him and then he falls Oh, no, I skipped a part actually right? He used his grappling hook. Yeah to get onto the gun And then they knocked the gun off the structure. So he falls cut to The top of the building thing Mandalorians up there. That was we I don't know how he got up there If he was a little closer to the top it would have made more sense But where he was I don't know how the hell he got up there But the geography of it didn't really make sense. Yeah, because he's falling like three seconds later surprise He made it up to the top when you weren't looking Maybe he had a second grappling hook that that he used as soon as he fell Yeah to get to the we haven't seen evidence of a second grappling hook One one wrist is a flamethrower and the other is grappling hook One thing I actually like is the grappling hook. It's not like a cheap grappling hook like Batman Where you shoot it and it pulls you up like spider-man He still has to climb. Yeah, like even after he's hooked onto the thing like like, uh, Adam West Batman. That was what I thought of when he's climbing sideways up. Yeah, like it looks like the opening So then he gets to the top they use their big tasers and he falls to the ground. That looked painful It did and it sounded painful. He fell far. It's a good thing. He had best scar steel. Yeah, right? That's our sponsor Speaking of falling and it wouldn't hurt bestcard.com slash podcast promo code All right, so he wakes up goes back to his ship And sees that it's all it's all messed up The wires are sticking out everywhere. There's holes where there shouldn't be holes Try turning it on and it doesn't work So he goes for a little walk. It's a good walking montage here And he finds the ug knot it's nighttime by the time he arrives And the ug knot finally gets to see what the asset was that people keep dying trying to get And he says one of a one's favorite lines The ug knot says This is what all the all the all the fuss This was what was causing all the fuss Mandalorian says I think it's a child. Yeah Like you think it's a child I know it's a child He's just communicating no information Uh So the ug knot explains that to get your parts back You can't go in there and fight where he's not going to be able to do that. He already tried that But with jawas you can trade so we have to go trade with them And baby Yoda eats a little frog Yeah, you thought that was disgusting. I thought it was hilarious. Jeremy Uh, I it was another thing that made me worried about like the tone of the show for a second But then I remember star wars always does you know Silly stuff like that, right? Oh In episode one, I forgot to mention the the salacious crumb guy like on the Roast outside of that doesn't matter right, but that was I don't know Those were the those were like little creatures that hung out with Jabba the hut. Yeah Yeah, salacious be chrome was like the the one that you he was like, you know My one of my favorite characters as a kid because I thought it was such a funny name And it's a dumb. Why does this little character have a name and a story and stuff I felt bad for the little guy in the cage just watching his buddy getting ousted. Yeah It really is like this that was one of the things of this show is nobody So many people are dying and just seems like no one really cares Yeah Like he didn't when they were picking on the blue guy in episode one. It was like a bar brawl I don't have to kill him. He killed every person Like you punch them in the face they get knocked out, you know If I if I know anything about westerns If you hit them over the head with a bottle That gets the job done. You don't have to slice them in half Anyway, sorry. Yeah, baby Yoda eats the thing baby Yoda eats the thing fine with it, uh, rocky music comes back We see them riding through the rain on their blurbs for about three seconds Then it's sunny again that it's sunny again They get to the jaw was hanging out the ugnite tells the mandalorian that he's gonna have to put his weapons away mandalorian says Weapons i'm a mandalorian weapons are part of my religion So that's the religion thing talked about earlier But then he says fine. I'll put him away The jaw was in exchange for his ship parts. They want the best car armor armor The ugnite basically explains them that you can't he's in a mandalorian. He's not gonna give you the best car It's gotta be something else And they turn to him and they say uh the egg If he can go get the egg Then they'll give him his parts back And then and that's where they all start chanting right sukkha sukkha sukkha When you hear that they want the egg, what's your reaction to that? I mean like my my reaction was this is a side quest like very clearly right right Is that first I was like maybe they're talking about the the thing that Yoda was in because it is kind of egg shaped Well, he already they already tried to give and then mandalorian yells get away from that. Yeah, that's right. That's right All right. Well, he goes to get the egg They drop him off at a at a cave And mando leaves baby Yoda outside Goes into the cave. You hear some blasting or it's one of those classic things where he looks at the ground And you're like wait a minute. That's not the ground. Yeah, I oh, yeah Like the Hank is area Godzilla That's what I think about that bit from the eye opens That's right the classic the beloved classic Godzilla remake A reboot. I don't know what you'd call that. I don't know. I feel like that was that was a reboot But it's before the word reboot was thrown around As often as it is today. They probably called it a reimagining But it's been brought into original Godzilla canon Because a few years ago, maybe even 10 years ago. There was a big Like the Avengers of Godzilla where every iteration of Godzilla showed up and in one scene original Godzilla Like wipes the floor with american reboot Godzilla. Really? Yeah Enter the they enter the spider-verse of Godzilla's So he gets thrown out of the cave and you can immediately tell like this is not good news His armor's all messed up And there's a fight where the the monster is basically like a giant rhino is what it looks like And it is just destroying the Mandalorian And this is where you see him again as the rhino goes after baby Yoda Swipes his hand and sends Yoda like flying flying away just in time Tries the flamethrower doesn't help tries the grappling hook, you know doesn't help At one point he gets hit so hard. There's this kind of weird slowdown effect And you can tell he's messed up. He gets up Tries to kind of shake it off takes out his knife, but you can tell he's kind of given up at this point This is like a last stand type situation, but at the last second baby Yoda raises his hand And uses the force Raises the monster like a foot off the ground Just enough so he can't really move After the Mandalorian collects himself Baby Yoda is like I can't do this anymore falls asleep Monster hits the ground Mando sticks a knife in him and it dies basically immediately So thoughts thoughts in the scene alone. I saw a plethora of emotions As I was describing that You know overall, I like the scene. I thought there was some odd moments like for instance He just kept getting hit way too easily Like it looked like he was just letting it happen. Like I understand he was already in some pain He took that fall earlier. He got knocked out of the cave but every time like He just stood there and took it from the rhino and then when he finally just gives up and just holds a knife like I just felt like he was accepting his fate too easily um, and then when he Goes and stabs the rhino and rhino. I didn't understand why it just it basically just died instantly Unless there was some effect from the force as well But it looked like the force was only being used to lift him So I don't know but then almost like but then it was weird because after he stabbed him And he like fell and looked dead when he pushed the knife in further It made another noise. So it's probably just gas escaping. Yeah, maybe So it all the knife looked like it was like barely in it was like halfway in I feel like I could take that. I'd be fine. Yeah, certainly less effective than a flamethrower. You would think So I mean, oh, I thought they could have done the same thing more logically We needed a scene it's probably on the cutting room floor of an the ug not being like if you encounter a ring block Make sure to I was trying to come up with a fake name sound like rhino A rhinosaur make sure to stab it in its flim flam They also use when he gets knocked down on the ground right before he takes the knife out There's like a slow motion shot. Yeah, which jumped out so much to me And maybe there is an example that I can't think of but it just looks so weird and so And also the music there sounds even though it fits everywhere else. It just sounds very like 70s 80s It's this like synthy like Thing that at first I thought was the breathing of that. I asked the lawn while we were watching Is that the breathing or the music? Yeah, you said it was the breathing I think it was the music and but then it's like a weird Framie slow motion shot that just looks I mean, I feel like I'm trained to say it looks bad because we have the technology to do better slow motion than that now But it just looks very I don't know. I mean, I agree. I thought it looked bad Yeah, like I thought they could have had the same effect on But I don't mean they could they didn't even need to do that. They could have had him like move his head in a way Where he clearly looked like dizzy. Yeah, you know, yeah, it was like a weird like Wayne's world Like it was just sort of cartoon birds flying around Right, right, right Honestly, I think what's happening is they're worried about the fact that he's always covering his face And they're trying to figure out how to communicate to us So he's struggling and you can't show Pedro Pascal like wincing or looking weak So they're they're I think I think it works But I feel like they're worried about it So they go over the top to communicate those things to us I think that overall he's been doing a good job of expressing Emotions through body language, you know the way he moves his head the way moves his hands And I think I think they could have done the same thing here Like he could have just like shaken his head a bit like maybe wobbled a little right, you know But when he did that and he took out his knife as kind of his last stand he looked weird Yeah came out of nowhere to me it felt like came out of nowhere just because I didn't think he took enough Damage yet right to be in that state So I think you know that that his body language clearly made it seem like You know, he doesn't have anything left in him. Yeah, I just didn't believe how he got to that point If you had seen him without the mask on though like head bleeding and like a skull like Cracked a little bit then it would be believable. Yeah, yeah I think I won that one. I think his helmet would be cracked if his skull was cracked fair fair, okay So he goes into the cave and he retrieves the egg just weird looking thing. It's all kind of like straggly hairy Tries to wipe alone pointed this out to me. Yeah, he was like you see how he tries to wipe the mud off But then he realizes it's not mud. It's just what it looks like. Yeah, it's like a coconut kind of but like a gross Very pasta cover I wouldn't need it. Yeah, I wouldn't go near that definitely wouldn't need it It cuts open very cleanly though. Yeah, that was a nice swing Yeah, and it looks like a like a a paint bucket almost thing inside like the inside is very very clean It looks like an egg yolk I like how the jaw kind of right the jaw that was holding the egg didn't even flinch when his friend slices right in front of his face So it so he brings it back to the jaw was One of them grabs it takes out a knife slices it open He tastes a little bit and he goes Kind of nods his head like sukkah like yes sukkah and they all immediately start taking yellow goo out and eating it So you know who would have loved this the uh The daniel day lewis spoof in south park. I'm a goo. Yeah I just like the idea that it's it's I mean they're chanting for it Which makes it sound like like my brain goes to like oh, it's like beer They're like a fraternity that wants beer and I just love the idea that that was the third They're like we need your really valuable armor. Okay. No, you can't have that. All right Well, we need this crazy valuable asset that everyone dies to try to get all right Well, I guess we'll do it for like a keg then You can have your stuff back for a keg actually So I was reading up again on jawa history And in one of the tie-in books, which is a recent one. So it's it's part of the canon Apparently on tatooine Kids who are underage they'll dress up as a jawa and kind of hide their face to get into bars So the mandalorian uh, when he gets back The ugnat is uh, he tells the ugnat like I'm surprised you waited ugnat says I'm surprised you took so long And on the ride back Another another piece of dialogue that alone was a big fan of Um, the ugnat asks mando. Is it still sleeping about the baby Yoda? Mando says yes. Was it injured? I don't think so not physically And then one's favorite line Explain it to me again I still don't understand what happened Neither do I I don't know that exchange was just so weird Yeah, very very on the nose. Yeah, like yeah, obviously we all saw it. We don't need to hear that part Yeah, right when it's not even telling us what happened. It's literally just saying like, I don't know what happens Also explain to me what happened again like so he already told them what happened Okay, the rhino floated in the air Right, right explain it to me again. I mean is it setting up that they don't Like even though we know what the force is that maybe they don't know what the force is That's what they're trying to communicate because if you watch the current star wars movies People know about the force But in force awakens they talked about it as this mythical thing like maybe it's not real So I think they're establishing here The force is not something that everyday person knows about right So I think there's there's a purpose to the scene. I don't think there's a purpose. It's just oddly delivered. Yeah It's all true. That's like when han is all yeah I So quick montage with a mando and uh ugg not worked together to fix the ship at first mando's like It's gonna take days to fix this ugg not says not if you help maybe we'll go faster And then alone, uh, what's the part of the montage that you loved? Oh So the men Mandalorian the way he's repairing the ship. He's like putting bits like sheet metal up on the wall And they just lightly tasked with his leftist twice like it's doing anything at all It's like that is not re-ed hearing it at all like that's not doing anything. Yeah dunk dunk It is funny how many and I mean, I guess it's everything in star wars But maybe it's more obvious than this because you're just following one character But every single thing is just set up impossible task. Does it set up impossible task does it just it's just a continual Of that but I mean, it's great. That's a testament to which I think is but always star wars was like it doesn't need to be a crazy elaborate story to be Is very, you know Engaging and the fact that it takes place in such an interesting world There's all these tiny things that you keep wanting to know more about or like oh, what is that or I bet there's a whole backstory You know, right? Yeah, that's it's even the the story of the mandalorian having to protect the baby yoda On this quest, you know, that's like a story. We've seen so many times But i'm excited to see it in the star wars universe and there is the added mystery of Who is the baby yoda? What do people want with him? What are we going to learn about the species behind it? So it's yeah, I don't mind seeing these things that we've seen versions of before After they fixed the ship That the mandalorian tries to invite the ugnats to come with him. He's like I could use a good someone with your skills And he says I have worked a life to be free of servitude But I know one slowness laughing I don't want to rip on the show too much because we love the show But I just feel like we've had a rapid fire of criticisms last few minutes But so he said he thanks him he thanks to ugnat for helping him And he offers him a part of the reward the ugnat says you are my guest therefore. I am in your service mandalorian asks him to be on the crew and he says I have worked a life to be for a lifetime to be free of servitude Like seconds earlier. He was like I am in your service. Yeah, I will never be in your service. You know, there's odd timing But I I loved the relationship between the two of them. I was hoping he was going to accept that that offer But I mean maybe we'll see him again at some point The show has been doing a great job of introducing these awesome characters like ig-11 If you only spend a little bit of time with them and then move on So the ugnat says wishes him luck Says of the baby Yoda may it survive and bring you a handsome reward. I have spoken And that's his final line. I'm just very very poignant. You know if we don't see him again Mando flies off into space Kind of turns back while he's flying shakes the pod to see if baby Yoda will wake up And then he does And then that's the end of the episode So thoughts to be like the episode Yeah, I love baby Yoda Great, baby Yoda is awesome very cute What did you think about I mentioned the length of the episode earlier It's kind of interesting the first one was about 40 minutes this one Clocked in at about 30 minutes and from what I hear I think they do stick to that length I mean in in general I'm enjoying them So I feel like the easy answers to say like I wish they were longer But if they're going to be if the storytelling and every all the scenes are going to be like this tight Then I think I'm fine with it I just think the thing that star wars stuff always has to try it is that it's not just Like the the ride learning to ride the blurb thing Which if it was blurred 20 scenes at blurb, sorry if there's 20 scenes in a row That that progressed that quickly from I can't do this Yes, you can yes, I did that is that that quick Then I think it would I'd rather there would be a little bit longer and right It would take longer to do things or something, but I'm fine with it in general. It's really good Yeah, same here one interesting thing if you look at the chatter online I know you've mostly avoided people have tended to like the second episode more than the first episode I've even I've seen people who were iffy on the show and the second episode is what convinced them Yeah, this is a great show interesting. Yeah, that's surprising to me. I I thought both episodes were great But I did like the first one a little bit more. I would agree with that Yeah, same here. You just get more interesting stuff like I want to see more, you know People in a cantina and weird characters that I want to know more about and like why are those storm troopers dirty? Are they did they used to be storm troopers that just using the arm like I like all that's again I like all the other stuff too. I liked episode two but episode two felt a lot like Less essential it felt more episodic like a side quest right so great. It was good But yeah to me episode one. It was just a lot more there But yeah, I liked them both quite a lot Especially because we're at the end of episode two. We're basically in the same exact place We were in at the end of episode one more or less. Yeah, pretty much. They're I you know going on to whatever I had one really dumb That this definitely doesn't hold up But like a you know a shower thought style. Yeah theory on it Which is that what if Yoda actual Yoda knew the whole time that there was this other Yoda? And that's what he was actually saying to Luke when he was dying because he says there is another Skywalker and But what if he wasn't saying there's another Skywalker, but if he's saying there's another comma Skywalker There's another Yoda You know, he's like Luke right before is something to the effect of if he can't go And he said what if it doesn't matter that I'm going because there's another Skywalker Why would you phrase it that way? That's intentionally confusing What if you were a character that always phrased things in an intentionally confusing way? That's his calling card. Wait in what movie did he say that? Was it ever turn of the jet? It's when he dies and you haven't watched the updated version of return of the Jedi on Disney plus yet, right? Uh, correct. What if we rewatch it? Maybe they edited the dialogue. Oh, there is another baby I could George Lucas would do that. I think if he had his Wait at Trothers at this point that that point did they know that leo was Luke's sister already when when he says that no, that's it's Clear that that's what he's talking about. Oh, Yoda's telling Luke that A sister that he doesn't know about. Oh, okay. Luke. There is another like you But also a baby like me There is another comma Like if you came to my apartment and I had one water out and you're like, oh man I really would like a water and I'd say, oh, there is another gill What? There's another gill I Any theories on What Werner Herzog wants with the baby Yoda? I mean, I think he knows Yoda has the force and wants to exploit that somehow And the doctor wants to cut him open and figure out how this force stuff works at least experiments. Yeah Do you think that There is some remnant of the empire around and Werner Herzog is part of it Or do you think it's literally just Those stormtroopers are either hired guns. They just have the outfits from when they used to fight for the empire Or do you think there is some empire presence here? I mean In general, I there's definitely remnants of the empire around. I don't know if I I think he's probably a good guy, but maybe I'm just trained. You think he's a good guy old white guys with You know in cloaks like that are good guys in star wars. I don't know That's true. Yeah, he could be the next obi one obi one would never surround himself with stormtroopers No matter what I mean, unless that was like the best way to remain safe and dodge imperial Interference was looking like you're the empire also. Did they do dan luke put on a stormtrooper? Yeah, you're a little short for a stormtrooper. Yeah I think he's definitely a bad guy because he was okay with killing baby Yoda That's true. Yeah, it's true. Well, the doctor seems like bad too, right? Who is the authority in that? Is he more important than the doctor guy or is the doctor? I took it as he was because if the doctor was more important, he could have put his foot down and said no It's gotta be alive Very interesting. Yeah All right Yeah, that's kind of my it's right now. My assumption is that it's empire related The the one quam I had with that or One concern is that one of the cool things about What they can do with a show like this is explore the corners of the universe. You don't see in the movies And if this turns into This is all tied into the overarching battle of the empire versus the good guys Uh, I I'll go with it But part of me will be a little disappointed if this isn't just a smaller story That doesn't connect in some meaningful way to the the skywalker saga I agree. I mean, I'm happy with some like small connections here and there But like I think the movies are for the larger story. I like this narrower focused story Yeah, I don't want to be watching the next star wars movie and That baby yoda comes out to save the day and and and everyone's like, who is that? I'm like, well, you must not watch the mandalorian and disney plus, you know, I don't want to Because I that's stupid for a million reasons But I also like the idea that the movies can exist by themselves One of the executives, uh, I forget who at some investor conference or something for disney Was asked about the possibility of a mandalorian movie and his answer was so Non-unenthusiastic he said he's like, yeah, it's a pretty cinematic show Like I could see us. I don't maybe cutting it together into like a two-hour movie or something Like we don't want to see like a cut down version of the season shoved into theaters Yeah But yeah, I could see uh, kind of a teenage yoda showing up in rise of skywalker I was like the baby Are you about to say that? Yeah. Oh, I mean you've set it up. But yeah Yeah How do you feel about that? They say mando because to me in the way he says it in the first scene is like Oh, this is like a racial slur. Like you are not supposed to say that Like that seems very offensive, but then the agnot uses it too I if I don't even feel comfortable saying it. I feel like it feels it seems like the context in which you use it To determine if it's an insult or like friendly. I maybe we should end here actually If you watch the lives if you watch the live stream I did on episode one I purposely avoided saying mando And then when I heard agnot the agnot say it in episode two, right? That's why I felt more comfortable saying it In this in this uh in this forum Yeah, I don't know it just or I feel weird about it. Stop the presses. Jeremy feels weird about something. Yeah. 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