 What's up guys and welcome back to the one take podcast once again? I've got Jeremy here with me say hello Jeremy. Hello, and I'm Gil today We're talking about the Mandalorian Episode three will do a full recap and review this episode was titled the sin and Just at a high level Jeremy. What were your thoughts in this episode? Are you still liking the show as much as you did with episodes one and two? Definitely still liking the show I think where as part of our episode two reaction was You know you use the phrase side quest a couple times it felt like kind of a very interesting but still one off I think this was kind of back the other way we're getting more bigger picture information bigger things that feel like they're season long arc Implications and yeah, no, I really liked a good action good good fun You know Star Wars the universe's giant stuff and yeah enjoyed it a lot Yeah, same here. I feel like we learned a little bit more about the Mandalorian culture It also felt like the first three episodes were almost a setup for the overarching plot Get baby Yoda get out of town and now the whole world's after him it feels like we just got to the end of that setup and Curious to see where we go with episode four, but yeah overall really enjoying the show loving the Western vibe, you know by way of the Star Wars universe But with that, let's get right into the episode So we start off where we left off at the end of episode two with the Mandalorian and baby Yoda in the Mandalorian's ship Mando gets a message from grief Karga. That's Carl Weathers character basically telling him to bring the asset baby Yoda directly back to Werner Herzog's character who is mysteriously credited as just the client and Baby Yoda also gets out of his pod for a second and grabs a little would you call it like a knob? Yeah, it's like a knob. Yeah, like I'm like a gear shifty looking Yeah, so I called it looked like the ship's gear shift. He took the ball off it and started kind of playing with it Then Mando gets back to back on planet He walks through town with baby Yoda floating next to him gets back to Werner Herzog the stormtroopers treat treat baby Yoda a little roughly and kind of grab his pod Manda tells him easy with that and then a stormtrooper has a great comeback. You take it easy We also by the way, I think it's right there or maybe it's after when he walks out But there are more of the like spit roasted salacious from People which they just they love it and there was also that man with the giant like he looks like a Toad from from Super Mario with his like big thing. I noticed some of the same You know folks wandering around town in that little sequence, which was interesting Like you can tell that everyone's like kind of looking eyeing him as he as he comes back Yeah, and I thought when he was walking through town It seemed like he had no qualms about having baby Yoda just floating next to him Yeah, didn't even have the pod closed. It was open. I kind of felt like from a baby Yoda's expression He was sort of like, oh my good. What are we doing here? This is a nerve-wracking. Yeah, very very reckless. Yeah But I guess I guess on second thought People probably don't what this helps establish is it seems like people don't really know about the the Yoda species They nobody's looking at baby Yoda and going like oh my god. It's another. It's a baby version of Yoda, right? Yeah and I guess their things that they use later had not been Reactivated yet, so there was no You know no reason for every person to be side-eyeing as they as they walk through. Yeah Yeah, I was wondering about the logistics of how those fobs work Because later in the episode when Mando goes and frees baby Yoda all the fobs go off and right the bounty hunters Yeah, another interesting thing with that is that he like the when he gives him that job when when grief Karga gives him that job He's like at first hesitant like it's not the first thing. He says but I was like well There is this one extra job and now we find out in this episode Every single person seemingly in the world. Yeah, I was also on this job. He buried the lead That should have been the first job. That was reverse psychology. Yeah, he's had that same conversation 50 times Well, there's this one. I don't know if I should tell you this there is this one job I wouldn't tell us to just anybody but meanwhile he's giving it to everyone. Yeah So Mando is talking to Werner Herzog's character the client The client and his doctor it's unclear the power dynamic there still is the doctor working for Werner Herzog Are they kind of working together? but the doctor scans the baby Yoda and says he's very healthy and Then Werner Herzog and Mando have a conversation where it comes out that yes They've given out many of these fobs so many people are after the baby Yoda Mando gets a bunch of best car and as Mando's leaving before he leaves he turns and he asks What are your plans for it? And then as always got to do this in the Werner Herzog voice How uncharacteristic of one of your reputation you have taken both commission and payment Is it not the code of the guild that these events are now forgotten and as he says that some storm troopers kind of walk in Menacingly also in this conversation Werner Herzog says that finding a Mandalorian in these trying times is more difficult Than finding the steel the best car steel So I think it is a few times this episode where they try to underline how kind of rare it is to see Mandalorians And I don't know about you for me that felt like kind of a new idea I don't know if you were already supposed to have that impression from the first couple of episodes Yeah, I certainly don't think I would have gathered it from just the first couple of episodes I mean, I think in general in like Star Wars lore there. They're kind of like a You know, I did more secretive Society a more Rare person to run into their area is Underground even though it has a huge giant Mandalorian symbol over the top of the entrance. Is that right? It's like the least well-hidden. I don't know But yeah, no, they definitely I guess in spite of being seemingly not very far from Upwards of 20 or 30 of them that they're they're hard to come by. Yeah well, so from there the Mando goes back to the hideout we were just talking about and Meets up again with the armorer or the spiky helmet lady Mandalorian And she sees that his armor is all damaged the Mandalorian makes a comment about how he may need to begin again So it seems like they've been emphasizing as part of the Mandalorian culture is almost as video game Esk just constant upgrading of your armor and your equipment which I thought was interesting and With all the steel he brings back she tells him that she can build him a full Curis You know what a Curis is? Not beyond that. It's like a chest plate, which again is mostly something I know from Video game. Mm-hmm type stuff. Yeah, but it's not just a chest plate. It's also a back plate. Oh, okay All right and back So there's a big upgrade for him But she warns him that it'll draw a lot of attention and as they're talking a bunch of other Mandalorians kind of creep in in the background Especially there's one guy that's kind of bigger Mandalorian What are you laughing at? I mean just it was very quick like everything in this show moves very quick Yeah, he's like be careful This might get you some attention and then five guys immediately walking right after she so to be it to give a more charitable read I think what got him all the attention was just the fact that he was walking in with so much best car Definitely, definitely. Yes, and then this heavy infantry Mandalorian this kind of big Mandalorian he he scoffs and looks at all that steel and says these were cast in an imperial smelter These are the spoils of the great purge. It's basically telling him. This is all blood money right and Then he comments we live in the shadows and only come above ground one at a time So again the episode really wants us to know it is rare for Mandalorians to leave this underground hideout And it's subtle foreshadowing a lot of yeah, there's a lot of that too like is the same and I mean you'll get to it in like 30 seconds But yeah Yeah foreshadowing so Mandalorian and the heavy infantry Mandalorian get into a big kind of fist fight They eventually draw blades and then the armorer steps in to break up the fight She talks about how the Empire has fallen So it's only right basically that we take all this steel back and she makes reference to the way of the Mandalorian and then says This is the way right and everybody else kind of repeats that Also in the midst of this conversation the armorer asks the Mandalorian have you ever removed your helmet? He says no and she asks has it ever been removed by others He says never and then she says this is the way the whole group of Mandalorians say this is the way and the fight is broken up Now question on that point about the helmets Did you take that literally as an even in private that helmet never comes off your head? I? Think I did yeah, I guess I didn't really consider it, but I would assume. Yeah, they just don't take it off So how did a Babe eat any other things that would require access to your mouth yeah I mean, I don't know I guess they must they must take it at least partially off Yeah, I'm thinking of watchmen now with like right the Rorschach or looking glass. Yeah roll it up above you're a can of beans Right or that little tea window in the helmet can just slide open just very specifically sized food Oh, yeah, we're straw. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we only eat tea-shaped foods Now I was intrigued by that so I did do a little bit of research and I know that in Star Wars Rebels Which is canon takes place between? Revenge of the Sith right and a new hope and in that show there are Mandalorians who take their helmets off But this show takes place five years after return of the Jedi so it's years later It seems like something called the Great Purge happened somewhere in between Star Wars Rebels and the Mandalorian So maybe they used to take their helmets off But now because they're trying to be so secretive and so protective their cultures maybe is evolved now So they literally never take it off but that's how I interpreted it and I don't know curious to see if we Learn a little bit more about that aspect of their culture I mean if it's if it's like everything else in this series when they reference a plot point that poses a Question they will return to it and it's to that question. Yeah, usually immediately So if an episode opens with there's only one circumstance under which you will ever remove your helmet, right? It's fast forward ten minutes, right? Yes, you will then see it. Yeah So she asks the Mandalorian how his armor got damaged He explains it was a mudhorn that big monster that he fought in the last episode But he explains it was not a noble kill. He was helped by an enemy the armor asked Why did the enemy help you and the Mandalorian says it did not know it was my enemy? So he's basically calling baby Yoda his enemy Which is heartbreaking to hear that I thought yeah, I mean he was the target. This is a man of he plays by The Mandalorian book right until the next scene until the next scene So she says all right, so we can't make that your sign it so instead of that I'm gonna make you some whistling birds And she explains that this is a weapon which is good against Multiple simultaneous enemies, but use them sparingly. They're very rare and in my notes here. I wrote check-offs whistling birds The check-offs gun. Mmm. Yes. Yes. Don't show the gun without without using it Then right yeah, I yeah I would have thought maybe like a much later reveal giving us some time to forget about the whistling birds or You know, but still good cool whistling at first. I thought she meant that's what the signet was going Oh, yeah, and I didn't I was that that seems very interesting Yeah, it felt weird to me that it was either a signet or whistling birds because I think she still made him the curis So I figured the signet would just be kind of chiseled into right. Yeah, so how is it one or the other I? Don't know one of the many mysteries that will be I'm sure it'll come back episode 7 remember those whistling birds we made for you. Yeah The signet do you think the signet's gonna be the final Reveal of everything. Oh, that's a great prediction final shot of the final shot is the signet going on. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna go with yeah, I think that's gonna be the final shot the signet will be Baby Yoda sure I guess that would imply he kills baby Yoda That would be a twist. Oh wow, this could be a real bummer of a season finale While the armor is iron smithing his new armor Once again every time she kind of smashes the armor with her hammer We get more flashbacks to the Mandalorian as a child So we see glimpses of what I assume is the great purge We see so one thing you were asking about last time we spoke is why is he so biased against droids and It looks like these big droids played a role in Terrorizing this community basically definitely at one point I guess probably the Mandalorian's mother This was woman throws him into a little kind of hideout Immediately afterwards the hideout gets ripped open you see a droid there and then that's the end of the flashback So I assume this isn't the last time we're gonna see this flashback I assume we're going to see more of this and I've got to assume that someone saved him at the last second there Right because that droid looked like it was about to blast him any theories on who may have rescued him Well, I mean I feel like I'm supposed to guess Boba Fett, right that seems like it Oh, I don't know. I mean I don't even know if that timeline would would would make sense, but I Maybe the maybe the armor and then that's maybe I don't know that was one of us at first I thought I basically cycled through every character. We've seen on the show, right? And there's really nobody that he has like an adopted father or mother kind of relationship with Besides maybe the armorer so and even that is I wouldn't I would not have characterized it that way Right except for the fact that I'm looking for it One theory I had is Nobody in the great purge sequence none of them were wearing armor or helmets or anything Is it possible that he was adopted into the Mandalorian culture? Maybe he's rescued by the armorer or another Mandalorian Throw a helmet on him and kind of train him in their ways Yeah, that could be or what if he's not the child in the flashback? What if he is about to walk in oh he rescued a child? He rescues the child. I don't know Child would be but yeah could be that could be the old The old bait and switch there with the who's who in the flashback, right? Who is the Mandalorian? We all assume it's the guy you've been watching Maybe it's somebody else Wow Maybe oh theory on the spot. Okay, what would be cuter than baby Yoda wearing a little Mandalorian helmet? Oh, baby Yoda is the Mandalorian baby Yoda is the Mandalorian Maybe Wow That would be very dangerous. Yeah crazy force-wielding Mandalorian like the Mandalorians don't have the force right and they are already a Lethal feared mercenary type Yeah I think they're one of the few that can kind of go toe-to-toe go toe-to-toe with a Jedi that don't have force abilities themselves So all right, we'll see. I think that's a that's a one-take original theory Yeah, it's gonna be a bummer when at the end of Rise of Skywalker Like it looks like Rey's about to die and then baby Yoda comes out in a tiny Mandalorian helmet and saves the day Baby Yoda is the Captain Marvel. Yeah Yeah, just flies out of the sky saves the whole day. Yeah So from there the Mandalorian goes to see grief Karga Carl Weathers his character as he walks into the bar Everybody's looking at him and grief Karga explains they all hate you Mando You're a legend because he's the one guy who's able to do the job. They all fail that He asks, how can I show my gratitude to my most valuable partner because grief Karga made a bunch of money off this, too Mandalorian bad-ass that he is says I want my next job and Grief Karga says hey, man. Take a break. Why don't we go to the twilight healing baths? You know the twilight car I do all right. Why don't you have the big? I mean I you might have a more apt description Than I do if it's if it's written down, but they're kind of the like I feel like the signature thing You think of is in is in Jabba's Palace. They're they're one of the like chained up Dancer creatures they have these big long Kind of tentacles I guess they come out of their head. I don't know if they're called tentacles But they come out of their head. They're like a green or blue. Yep. Yeah. Yeah, that was basically word for word But I had written my notes. Yeah, I rambled a little bit more. I'm sure but yeah No, and fun fact about the twilight When I was a kid and I would watch Return of the Jedi I would have to fast forward through any scene that they were in because I found those tentacle things Gross and then as a child I couldn't watch that scene It's a tough There's a lot of tough stuff going on in all those scenes in all the Jabba's Palace Yeah, but there's little what were they called again the little creatures that were on the spigot Oh, well Salacious Crumb is that particular one? I don't remember the name of the species Oh, so that that screaming screeching one was Salacious B. Crumb. Gotcha. Gotcha Well, he gives him his next job. He takes One of the what are they called those pucks pucks takes a puck that points him it to a guy Who's going to be in the ocean dunes of Carnac very far away a nobleman's son who skipped Bale And he is of the same species as it's a trap. Yeah, Admiral Ackbar. Yeah, Mon Komari Nobleman's son right gift bail. Maybe the nobleman. I mean it's in now, but maybe the Is Callum what's his name again Admiral Ackbar. Yeah, Admiral Ackbar. Is he a nobleman? I mean, he's a he's a storied war hero. So I'm sure I would think so. All right I don't know. I don't know what qualifies. He was a nobleman or not. He's just like you're a person of stature or Yeah, he's a hero. So he's a I feel like they would have said a war hero son Or oh, maybe he's he's enjoying the spoils post-war and now he's a nobleman. Yeah, could be so he Takes the job and once again, he's concerned about baby Yoda. So before he leaves He asks grief cargo any idea what they're gonna do with it the kid and grief says I didn't ask It's against the guild code Mando says they work for the Empire. He's worried about what they're gonna do to him and Grief says the Empire is gone all they have left now are mercenaries and warlords Basically tells them if you've got a problem with it go report it to the new Republic and Mandalorian says that's a joke The new Republic that's basically the government that took over after the rebellion Knocked out the Empire, but sounds like at least to these people. They don't see them as really having that much power Yeah, I mean I would agree with that. I feel like that's always the case in Any government, but it's specifically in the when you're in like the bar in this kind of you know CD Cantina area, right the government's useless. Yeah, he's not gonna place an anonymous call to the police, right? Hey, I've got a tip for you. It's a baby Yoda out there. What it's a baby Yoda, right? I murdered about 500 people to get this tiny baby And I turned him over to a creepy doctor and a cloaked man and I killed people there, too And anyway, you should probably look into it. Yeah click So he gets on his ship, he's about to leave but then he sees that little ball that little knob that baby Yoda was playing with and This is it's interesting because I see you laughing. I mean, it's funny. It's a funny. It was a well done, you know Yeah, the It's funny how the show it has to work around the fact again that you can't see Pedro Pascal's face So the music in the camera kind of do a lot of the work here He picks up the little ball stares at it You have a slow zoom into his helmet the music kind of communicates to us what he's feeling But you know what he's feeling. I mean, I'll say one thing as this episode was going I felt kind of sick to my stomach Just like you abandoned the baby I knew he was gonna go back but still just seeing baby Yoda get dragged away by stormtroopers And it turns your stomach a little bit. It certainly does. Yeah, cuz you're I mean you said it You know, he's not gonna actually leave him, but the whole time you're like, well Wait, he's not gonna he's not gonna just give him to him now, right? He's gonna go I still like those odds and then shoot and blast all of them or something like that And the episode is titled the sin So it's almost at the red herring of is he gonna leave baby Yoda? And this is the sin that will eat away at him for the rest of the series That would have been extremely dark. The show is already pretty dark. Yeah, extremely dark So he goes back to a Werner Herzog's place the client and he sees baby Yoda's pod and a dumpster It's not funny, but it's just it's very dark. It's just it's it's so dark And so he goes kind of from a distance takes out his rifle and this rifle has pretty cool feature where he can Zoom into the building. He can sort of see through walls with almost like what the predator sees Oh, yeah, that's a thing But not only that he can also hear what Werner Herzog and the doctor are saying to each other Werner Herzog says I order you to extract the necessary material and be done with it Dr. Pershing says he has explicitly ordered us to bring it back alive So again the power dynamic you're not totally clear between the doctor and Werner Herzog And who is he that they're talking about it's a great question he I mean is you know, do we think it's like a Palpatine whoever's in charge for them is like a Palpatine type person Is it you know is was Baby Yoda a Yoda clone that they are trying to figure out what the deal is with and You know, there's less force users in the world now than there were Previously, maybe they're trying to harness this there's so many different Possibilities right that there could be was he a clone that escaped and they and that's why he was Hiding in that base and then you need to get him back, but you know a lot of good a lot of good stuff A lot of answers that could be out there. Yeah. Yeah, exactly And that's the the other question here that you're just deluding to is what material are they trying to extract And the first place my mind went was midichlorians, right because we saw him use the force But it's not an in show reason for why I don't think it's that but just a meta reason Of I feel like the fan backlash if they brought midichlorians back as a crucial plot point Just wouldn't go over very well Right. I think there's a way to do it where like have the same implication without actually saying midichlorian You know the blood of a force user or there's probably some other Way to be able to do it or maybe uh, you know, their their hair is really rare or something Fetch is a good price on the You know There should die black market or something like that. Is that an actual star wars term or was that that's a that's a place I don't know if they're I assume they have a black market. It's like a seedy place Gotcha, gotcha a lot of seedy places in star wars. There are and that's this show I feel like is uh is showing us the underbelly. Yeah that we don't we only normally get to get glimpses of it in the star wars universe Oh, yeah, I meant to call out two in the last I might have said it too But in episode one, I believe the first time we've seen a toilet In star wars. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so they're really showing us all the details that you don't have time for In uh in a rise of sky. Yeah, I mean, I guess we've seen like a trash compactor Which was true will likely some of that was you know Was waste sewage and waste but but uh, yeah, no, I think that's true. Yeah um And from there so he he's spying on them and decides this is time for him to make his move Mandalorian blows up a wall and uh, you you mentioned earlier the show gets kind of dark sometimes These stabs people this part was this was the best This one might have been my favorite sequence in the whole series That's far other than that. I love the you know cantina and different aliens and all that stuff. This sequence was awesome What were your highlights? Uh when he like grappling hooks the guy and then stabs him. I mean that was all I had a uh A buddy from work that was also watching it and described it as like he went John Wick And I thought that was a very that you know, he just it was awesome This is uh, we've seen him combat. We've seen him, you know Vaporize some of the or disintegrate whatever some of the jaw was uh, this was a like yet another kind of phase of his abilities that we've seen like Hand to hand, but he's kind of in stealth attack mode. Uh Just really awesome. Yeah, definitely. I think the best action sequence we've gotten in the series so far And he is brutal at one point. He flame throws a stormtrooper and burns him alive Yeah, zoom in on the body when it hits the floor Yeah, and the armor is all like burned and you know on the inside of that armor There's a husk of a of a guy That I just I don't know. I just was so dark. Yeah. Yeah. What kind of guy though We don't know is he left over a stormtrooper. Is he is he a Cloned kind of person again. Yeah clones don't matter Right. Well, although at that point there were, you know, many stormtroopers that were not The clones right of a Mandalorian. Yeah. Oh, that's right. Yeah, wasn't it was it Boba Fett? That was the Django Fett was the Django Fett and Boba Fett was the like naturally aged Clone of Django Fett. That was his like condition. You can you can clone me, but I want one of them to Naturally age so I can like raise it as though it's a son. Got it. Okay. That's Boba Fett. Gotcha. Gotcha So Mandalorian Buses his way through all these stormtroopers makes his way to the doctor and he finds baby Yoda in a machine There's some kind of scanning happening He asks the doctor, what did you do to it and the doctor says I protected him He'd be dead if not for me In fact, the doctor thinks that the Mandalorian's there to hurt baby Yoda. He says, please don't hurt him It's just a child So he seems to be It's hard to tell where he stands in all of this because he seems to be pretty protective of baby Yoda But he's clearly allied himself with some pretty dark characters That can't tell if he's kind of in over his head or something Mandalorian takes baby Yoda shoots his way out at one point gets surrounded by a bunch of stormtroopers And that's when the whistling birds come into play They basically a bunch of mini rockets fly out kill all the stormtroopers Which felt very iron man to me. I mean, it's identical to that exact sequence in Iron man one where you're like, how is he gonna get out of this? And then Very easily is the answer because he has that like, I mean, I guess in iron man I think that comes out of his shoulder. Maybe I think so. Yeah. Yeah, but it's it's the same very similar concept of vastly outnumbered But I guess at least in this I don't think in iron man They had set up that he had that Specific subset of technology and there's how it works. It was just kind of he has a crazy suit That can do a lot of stuff that we'll see as it goes but Not that we knew specifically what whistling birds did but you know, he does it and then you see the Oh, that was the whistling birds. Yeah That's that's how I reacted when I watched it just whispered to myself. Yeah. Oh, it was whistling birds. Right. Nice Uh, so that was a few examples in the show of uh, I mean, we've made fun of it a little bit the heavy foreshadowing Of uh, Mandalorian's never come above ground. The whistling birds To me even seeing baby Yoda's pod in a dumpster right outside the hideout It all kind of feels unsubtle. Yeah, is it does it bother you at all while you watch the show? Or is it just kind of part of the package? No, I mean I'm not I'm not like disappointed by it or anything Because I mean it's Star Wars. It's not there's no You know in spite of Empire Strikes Back having one of the most iconic, you know twists of all time it's not like a I don't think you're supposed to be able to have seen it coming if you go back and piece together the clues and watch all the You know 96 Easter Egg YouTube videos or whatever. That's not that's not kind of the point of Star Wars So I'm I'm I'm okay with it, you know if it was if it was something different if it was Like a watchman or a west world or something like that Then maybe I'd be like, ah, this is too I'm not getting out of this what I want out of this But I want like awesome action in a in a really giant world and cool characters and Uh, and it's delivering on all those fronts. Yeah, no agreed. I'm glad you feel that way So we don't have to shut the podcast down. Yeah Yeah So he grabs baby Yoda leaves the hideout and then like we alluded to earlier Everyone in town All their fobs start going off because baby Yoda is back on the market and That's the slug that's the tagline for this episode Now if there was a if this if there was a trailer for this like ooh, baby Yoda's back on the market Bam bam bam bam So do you think someone hit like an sos button? But how did the what was the signal that happened very quickly? I don't know it would have had to have been like the doctor I guess or unless uh, you know the client uh was somehow was Nearby in a way. Yeah, where is Werner Herzog and all this? I don't know. I kept thinking anytime they revealed like the next set of stormtrooper Guys there. I thought he was gonna be one of them, especially at the end when the doors open up and like, oh here He's gonna be but no he was right You know, I guess he I it was also unclear if he got what he needed or not Like did they get the payoff of that? Heat vision predator scene where he says just get what we need Right extract the material did that extract the material and then left and yeah, you know Yeah, unclear. I'm sure we'll see Werner Herzog again But it could have been a tooth too a tooth tooth. That was the they were trying to extract the tooth My my theories went from midichlorians Or something in his blood right the other theory was cloning maybe but I feel like if you wanted to clone The somebody you wouldn't say extract the material you'd say like extract the dna right stem cells Right grab his stem cells I My other theory was maybe there's something that was placed inside baby Yoda like a data chip or something That's interesting, right the galaxy is in a ryan's belt From the first men in black where it's on it's on the cat's thing the whole time. It's not the cat. It was the His little pendant. Yeah, that's right You remember when you were you were outside my house and you like whispered to somebody you're like, you know What that movie what movie that's from it's on a ryan's belt and you didn't know I could hear you and I was like Men in black I don't remember that but that that sounds right I like men in black. Yeah, did you see um international? No, I did not. Yeah, I heard it was I heard it wasn't very good Yeah, it didn't look great So everyone's fobs go off The Mandalorian just walks through town Even though people are coming out of the woodwork they're coming out of their various bars buildings or whatever And he just keeps walking But then a grief cargo stops him before he can reach his ship And he tells him to put the baby in the speeder The Mandalorian walks over to the speeder and instead of putting the baby in he jumps in Tells the droid to drive droid doesn't listen. He pulls his gun out and he says Does that make sense it droids have self-preservation of like he's got a gun. I better do what he says. Yeah. Yeah I don't know. I mean, I guess I don't know. I just thought it was funny. I believed it I'm fine with it. I wouldn't have changed anything about it. But it's funny and again droid dynamic Mando and droids. Yeah, he does not care for droids. Definitely not Yeah, I bet if you met bb8 That would change things for him. Yeah, bb8's the baby Yoda of droids. Exactly So he jumps into the speeder the droid Listens to him after the guns pulled on him and they drive off as they're driving. He's blasting away at people Eventually grief is able to take the speeder out He starts to get surrounded and he pulls out every trick he has he blasts people He uses his flamethrower until it runs out of I guess fuel is a kind of cool shot where he shakes his hand after the fuel runs out And then he again kind of gets saved at the last minute where he looks down at baby Yoda I kind of read that scene as sorry kid. I did the best I could right and then all the mandaloreans By the way, Jeremy, you know mandaloreans never leave their house never one at a time But this is that they all showed up one at a time That's right. And they saved him Including the heavy infantry guy Who uh, who tells him to uh, you know drive off will hold them off The mandalorian says you're gonna have to relocate the covert And heavy infantry guy says this is the way the mandalorian says this is the way So um, overall, I thought that was a cool scene as cheesy as it was that they they kept so heavily setting up How rare it is to see mandaloreans. It's still it worked for me. It was it was again I mean this episode overall, I think had the best action we've seen Between this scene and the earlier one Uh for you seen work. Yeah seen seen definitely worked. It it was fine. Again, it's one of those things I think where if you I didn't necessarily predict specifically that that was gonna happen But if I probably was thinking about it really closely and was like, oh what possibly could save him here You know, maybe you put it together, but it was it was cool. The action was great It worked off the this is the way it was a cool payoff I kind of wish we had heard it in episode one Also, so it wasn't like it feels unnecessarily forced into just this episode when we had Like he interacted with the armorer before I guess he didn't talk to other Mandaloreans, so maybe that's why but like I wish it had a cooler Thing, but it's still it's awesome. They come in they all say the day If if there was a part of it that was over the top cheesy I think it's that as he when he's going away and that guy like Iron man's next to him Salutes him. Yeah, and then he says to himself or I guess to baby yoda too Like I gotta get me one of those or something like that, which again was like really what is this? What is this? It was the it's that's what that feels like Yeah, yeah, it was it was just very Strange, uh, but but cool the act the action sequence by itself was awesome And I definitely don't mind the You know mandaloreans coming I guess other than that they're supposed to all be ruthless warriors Who only care about themselves and if we're seeing One guy flip I believe it and maybe it's weirder to watch a whole Sect of their tribe of them right the entire cove willing to yeah, they basically all Break their code by helping him break the code. Yeah kind of I don't know. Yeah But no, I mean the action was awesome. The the scene was great Yeah, yeah, I enjoyed the the point you brought up about kind of wishing they'd set up the line This is the way earlier. It's sort of the show feels weirdly episodic Like they're not acknowledging the fact that people Are going to watch this in a serialized way and you can set stuff up in earlier episodes It feels like they have to set up in the payoff all within one episode every time Yeah And I guess if they're trying to strike a middle ground between having the serialized story But still being able to come into one single episode and get a kind of complete arc Yeah, that's yeah, that's true. Yeah So mandalorian he's safe right he got away goes back to his ship. But wait a minute Grief karga it's on the ship waiting for him And he holds him up at gunpoint. But as always mandalorian has got a trick up his sleeve What if he had said I'd like to file a grievance and like that was how he revealed that he was there That was his entry line So I think yeah, I wish you if you were on the writing staff for this show You'd have been like I've got two ideas number one if you could set up the Uh, what's the line the uh, this is the way the way. Yeah, that's a great idea I've got another if you like that one. I have a grievance like I mean he says gotta get me one of those. It's basically. Yeah, that's true. Where's the line There's also a kind of funny scene where where the mandalorian Once all the mandaloreans show up you can see there's all this chaos and there is a quick shot of Of grief kind of looking around and you can tell he has the idea to go sneak on the ship It would be pretty funny if you rewatch it Uh, so mandalorian shoots his grappling hook out at some piece of the ship which releases a bunch of steam And in the chaos he's able to shoot grief cargo knocking him out of the ship But grief had some mandalorian steel in his pocket, which saves him I think though mandalorian was shooting to kill right? Oh, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know It's a very specific shot And I feel like we're maybe supposed I don't know how he would I guess When he showed him that he had that did he show him that it was in that pocket. He did he did That's right. He he lifted his shirt and kind of showed he had the steel there Some mandalorian would have known exactly where to shoot him Man again his that moral gray area with him. He breaks the code He shoots the guy, but wait. He knew he had it there the whole time But uh, why though he killed so many people this episode. This is this guy Yeah, that's true. They've worked together a lot. Yeah Yeah, okay. He just he also just paid him like a ton of money even if he was he's got a you know He just did him big favor kind of he doesn't get that job if not for grief. Yeah, that's true. Okay I wonder if if grief will one day Take on a sort of alliance role with him is right now. It seems like they obviously work together, right, but uh I have to imagine he created an enemy here by shooting him unless grief recognizes I would think so unless grief recognizes that he spared his life shooting him destroying the town Yeah Maybe that was grief speeder if he had a grief in before. Oh, yeah So mandalorian flies off and as you mentioned earlier the big mandalorian war machine flies next to him Salutes him and he says I gotta get me one of those Weird Like I star wars is very corny. I don't I'm not trying to say that it is this very sophisticated, but it just was I don't know it felt like something like uh You know child anakin jake loyd would have would have said like some kind of uh Now this is pod racing style line for a character who even though those lines are not uncharacteristic of star wars Like it just didn't feel like it felt like fit, you know The mandalorian Necessary, I mean there's precedent for a han solo had a very similar line in force awakens after he tries out chubacca's Uh, what's it called the um bowcaster. Yeah, is that what it's called the gun thing? Yeah Yeah, the bowcaster bocaster and then afterwards he shoots it and he's like I like that And that's fine. I think that's okay. Yeah, and at least he was saying it to chubaca But arguably mandalorian was saying it to baby yoda Maybe and maybe he right after because the episode ends so maybe right after he said, uh, that was a whiff Yeah, I missed the the the cold or warm line was pretty good. That was a good one. I like those odds pretty good one gotta get me one of those Cross the line This is when he's flying in the ship by himself. That's when he practices all his one line. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you know what? I would that's very realistic. Yeah, that is very never mind. I like it. All right, cool I'm glad I was able to make a convincing turn to baby yoda right after and says don't tell anyone I said that It didn't work. It stays between us kid. You owe me Yeah, and then he says I haven't been training a partner. I've been training a replacement. That's from the end of men in black Oh, and I should say that baby yoda is reaching for that little ball again. Yeah, and uh, mando drops it to him Yeah, very cool moment. Cool moment So yeah, overall like we said really solid episode Uh, I love how much it leans into the western vibe. I know I keep bringing that up a him walking through town Getting stopped on his way out. I hold it right there. Yeah Love it and uh, I can't wait to see the the kind of lone wolf adventure he's going on now with Baby though, how is he gonna travel with baby yoda? It isn't that pot anymore? The thing about that, I don't yeah, I don't know. I have to make some kind of baby Bjorn. I guess Yeah, what is that the thing that you um That's like it straps to your chest and the baby's attached to you Gotcha. Gotcha. All right Well, and also, um, yeah, so really solid episode can't wait to see where it goes next Uh, and by the way, this episode was directed by debora chow Who was I believe the first female to direct any live action star wars? And not only that she was just recently tapped to direct obi one Yeah, the uh series that's coming to disney plus I would say this made me feel not that I wasn't gonna feel good about that and watch that and You know do a podcast about that too, but uh, but this this was a good, uh, definitely vote of confidence for me Yeah Definitely and oh that reminds me actually, uh, one of the fan theories I heard who saved the little kid mandalorian Yeah Obi-Wan Does that make sense? I Does wait no hold on. Obi-Wan would be dead by that. Yeah. Oh wait. No. No, this would that would be before It would be weird. I think the timeline might work Anna can't I think was a kid? Um, no, I have no idea. We have to research this. Yeah, I gotta figure out because how Do we know how old the mandalorian is? No, I was gonna say 50, but I was thinking of baby Yoda. Yeah. Wow. What a twit baby Yoda older than the mandalorian I mean presumably he is. Yeah, it's still funny. I guess we always knew that. Yeah It's dumb that was a dumb point This is like that that was Jeremy's I gotta get me one of those moments. Yeah, I just did it. Yeah Jeremy Gil There's weeks mere weeks left until the The conclusion of the Skywalker saga a story you've been following Since you were even younger than baby Yoda True way younger than baby way younger I'm still am so how yeah true. How hyped are you for this movie? I would say that I am extremely hyped for this movie as as I have been I'll give the disclaimer For every star wars release of of my life Uh, I'm very excited. I keep listening to the music from the trailer, which is which is a weird doesn't really sound like a John Williams type thing necessarily because it's this like slowed down melodramatic version of the star wars theme But it is still it is still very awesome. And I I'm excited. I didn't watch they like released some snippet of a scene today online or at some point online That I have now like I'm I think I'm cutting myself. I don't want to watch any new I only barely wanted to watch the trailer. I'm glad I did it made me very excited But I kind of like I didn't need I'm gonna be there opening night. Anyway, I don't need to do you have your tickets I do. Yep. Nice Because I was gonna say I got I bought five. I got really excited just bought five tickets and I don't know what to do with them I'm go. I will be there uh, December 19th at uh, you know, nine o'clock or whatever. Awesome. Yeah Yeah, and then uh, right afterwards you run back to my apartment. That's it We'll do the star wars immediate reaction immediate reaction Gonna want him to get you on mic saying this he can't back out Yeah, I'm on mic I'm on mic No, I'm gonna be excited and I'm probably gonna be immediately like very excited about it right after two and then I'll think about it more and probably ultimately remain excited because I You know star wars is something that I want to like. Yeah, exactly try to like it Yeah, and I've got to think that they are being very careful. I shouldn't say try to like it That makes it sound like I'm a really big apologist. I don't try to do or do not. Oh gosh. There is no try Jeremy true. Yeah Uh, yeah, no, but I mean I like it. I'm very excited. The trailer is awesome The scenes look good. What is 3po doing? Why is he saying goodbye? Will I cry in the theater heartbreaking scene when I saw the last Jedi right when the uh, when the Opening hit someone in the middle of the theater in the dark raised a lightsaber Above his head and just went like And the whole theater went crazy Um, so maybe that'll happen again. There's a lot of stuff. I'm I'm I'm excited new new creatures new droids probably Are you what's your opinion? That's what I was gonna say I want to get your take on that because I know that was controversial palpatine coming back Yeah, I mean, I there's so many different contexts that he could come back or not I mean Yoda was in the last movie like palpatine. Yes, there's the shot in the trailer that makes it look like he is in some kind of a Mech like he looks very tall, but I don't wild wild west style giant spider. Uh, yeah Wow, that's what that's you know what that that I would dislike I guess Would maybe be the only possible thing is if there's a uh, Whatever that, uh, why can't I think it was why can't I think of the villain's name from Oh from wild wild west. Yeah. Oh, I'm not gonna remember that whatever if that if if palpatine is in A mech spider suit although wouldn't be the first time that star wars has brought back a seemingly deceased villain with a mech spider paraphernalia But no, I mean, I there's so many different things that they could do like how could I possibly hate it in advance Everybody loves palpatine as corny as everything in the prequels are he seems to be immune to that with Unlimited power and all that stuff like he's gonna have some awesome lines You know, he's great I'm excited. Yeah, and I I yeah, I was nothing but happy when I heard that because I Want this I mean they're trying to strike the balance of wrap up this current trilogy And also somehow bring closure to the last nine movies And I want them to bring something back and somehow close the loop and Yeah, yeah, if they don't do it in a clever way and it feels shoehorned in I'm not gonna like it But we have no reason to think that yet. In fact, I thought JJ Abrams did a solid job with force awakens Yeah, so I I have some trust in him. Yeah, I'm definitely excited what if palpatine comes out in a mech suit and then Luke Right turn it comes back and says I gotta get me one of those At like the halfway point in the movie and then the end duel is luke versus palpatine both in like mecca Godzilla megazord form I think we got to end there. Yeah, I love that idea. That's it. 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