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Speaker 2: In this episode on the airlock, who we're in a gallery.
Speaker 2: The baby's back. We wanted him. He's back, and he's back.
Speaker 2: That baby, that puppet, that million dollar child. I love him,
Speaker 2: we love him. And we're stepping out of the airlock
Speaker 2: into galaxy far far away for the premiere of season
Speaker 2: three of The Mandalorian. And in that out guess what, somebody,
Speaker 2: a listener named Whitney came through with a very relevant
Speaker 2: theory about the Mandalorian and the doc Seba.
Speaker 1: And of course, if you want to jump around, check
Speaker 1: the show notes for time stamps. Let's go to the airlock.
Speaker 1: We're stepping out of the airlock for season three's premiere
Speaker 1: of The Mandalorian on Disney Pluce. This episode is chapter
Speaker 1: seventeen via Apostate, was written by Jon Favreau and directed
Speaker 1: by Rick Famuilla. And let's before we dive into the recap,
Speaker 1: talk about where we left off after season two, where
Speaker 1: we left our good friend Dinn, where we left our
Speaker 1: good friend Grogu, Where we left all our wonderful Galaxy
Speaker 1: far far away friends out in Star Wars land.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so obviously I think everyone remembers that massive moment,
Speaker 2: you know, where Luke Skywalker came. Ever heard of him?
Speaker 2: Luke Skywalker, once known as Luke star Killer, Now well
Speaker 2: here he is. He came, his face was ciged to
Speaker 2: look younger. It was voiced by none other than Mark Hamill.
Speaker 2: And he took the baby. He was taking that baby,
Speaker 2: and he was like, I gotta gotta take that baby
Speaker 2: and turn him into a Jedi. But Boba Fett Book
Speaker 2: of Boba fair to show that I found very charming,
Speaker 2: sequential Star Wars storytelling of the highest oldest fashioned order.
Speaker 2: There we saw that the baby. He went back to
Speaker 2: the Manlorian, gotta get the baby back. Look, nobody wants
Speaker 2: to love that baby.
Speaker 1: Baby, baby back, baby back, Babby.
Speaker 2: Babies, ribs no ribs. So so if you think about
Speaker 2: it like this, Look, Disney knew from the very first
Speaker 2: moment that they saw the end of the first episode.
Speaker 1: That the Stark started dropping.
Speaker 2: You know, the baby is not going to stay with Luke.
Speaker 2: The baby has to go back pagerber Scal. You've got
Speaker 2: to have everyone's favorite space daddy looking after everyone's favorite
Speaker 2: space baby. So in a very powerful moment that we
Speaker 2: talked about quite extensively because we thought this was really cool,
Speaker 2: very Avatar The Last Airbender inspired. It felt like as well,
Speaker 2: the baby chose to go with Din and now dinners
Speaker 2: in this hilarious space where he's just kind of like, yeah,
Speaker 2: my mission's over. But guess what, baby came back. So
Speaker 2: now I'm just with this baby, just chilling. But if
Speaker 2: you remember Dinn, thanks to his love of the baby,
Speaker 2: he took off his mask. Done dumb means he broke
Speaker 2: the Mandalorian code and the especially strict death Watch code.
Speaker 2: So now he has to find a way to redeem
Speaker 2: himself in the eyes of mandal Why does he want
Speaker 2: to do that, I don't know. He must be in
Speaker 2: a Mandalorian But so that's where in him and the baby,
Speaker 2: they're just just chilling in space in a very cool
Speaker 2: The Boos star Fighter. The baby's looking cute and look
Speaker 2: popping out in the I mean, every time you see
Speaker 2: this puppet. You're just so happy.
Speaker 1: There's some wonderful shots of the baby. Yeah. I feel
Speaker 1: my serotonin rise every time the camera graces the face
Speaker 1: of our good friend Grogu, that beautiful fifty three now
Speaker 1: year old baby. Let's go to the recap. We open
Speaker 1: on some planet somewhere. It looks, you know, very desert e,
Speaker 1: very sandy, except there is a large body of water here.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that lar in a bit. The armor
Speaker 1: is in her workshop. She is forging some bit of
Speaker 1: bestcar armor. And it is a helmet, the key of
Speaker 1: course to the Mandalorian identity. Steps out of the cave
Speaker 1: between ranks of Mandalorians that the Mandalorian tribe growing, you know,
Speaker 1: had been essentially decimated in recent years, but has clearly
Speaker 1: been growing since we caught back up with them in
Speaker 1: season one of the Mandalorian. And she presents this helmet
Speaker 1: to a youth, and then they speak the creed of
Speaker 1: the Mandalorian faith. I swear in my name and the
Speaker 1: names of my ancestors, that I shall walk the way
Speaker 1: of the Mandalor, and the words of the creed shall
Speaker 1: be forever forged in my heart. And the boy repeats
Speaker 1: this and the armor, places the helmet on his head
Speaker 1: and then they say, this is the way. From this
Speaker 1: moment on, I shall never remove my helmet. And he
Speaker 1: repeats this, and just as he does, a giant alligator
Speaker 1: like alien bursts from the waterline. Are we not best
Speaker 1: told about it? Like? Can we go a little? Did
Speaker 1: we not do an appropriate scouting of the wildlife in
Speaker 1: this area? Why are we this close to the habitat
Speaker 1: of a giant in the cave?
Speaker 2: Just in the cave, just in the cave? Like you
Speaker 2: added out you had to do this induction ceremony on
Speaker 2: the shore of Lake Placet like this, this is a alligat.
Speaker 2: And also I feel like I feel like the Mandalorian way,
Speaker 2: the deathwatchway, this kind of hardcore or vision or first Yeah,
Speaker 2: they need to rethink their connection with the galaxy and
Speaker 2: the animals of the planet.
Speaker 1: Like I agree with that.
Speaker 2: This is this alligator is just chilling in a lake
Speaker 2: and you come down, bring in a little tasty looking
Speaker 2: child into its mist Its legs are flipping around in
Speaker 2: the water as it stands.
Speaker 1: He's just hungry.
Speaker 2: You're not doing anything wrong. He just wants a snack.
Speaker 2: You're tempting him. I feel like you could have been
Speaker 2: anywhere else.
Speaker 1: Also, you said, I think something important. Listen, we know
Speaker 1: why they didn't do that, because you need a cool
Speaker 1: action seater. But like, just go back into the cave
Speaker 1: and wait it out, and then when it leaves, come
Speaker 1: out and say, okay, let's move inland and lets move
Speaker 1: one hundred yards in.
Speaker 2: And you are right because the real truth is that
Speaker 2: looks sick.
Speaker 1: Like I that alligator looks.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable, incredible creature work. I literally was like, oh, this
Speaker 2: is where the budget of a man in the osp went.
Speaker 2: Like it literally that alligator. It looks like a real
Speaker 2: live dragon.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: I love a creature. But you know what I don't love.
Speaker 2: I don't love to see all these Mandalorians trying to
Speaker 2: blow up this alligator.
Speaker 1: Who just really did They open up with everything they have.
Speaker 1: They send the the younglings to safety, and then they
Speaker 1: start just like unleashing hell on this alligator from ground
Speaker 1: and of course from the air with their jetpacks. You
Speaker 1: got a couple of Mandalorians fly up and attached thermal detonation.
Speaker 2: That bomb and eyed of the beast.
Speaker 1: No effect. They're opening fire with all kinds of things
Speaker 1: you had a couple of Mandalorians and this I didn't
Speaker 1: get what the end goal was here. You had a
Speaker 1: couple of Mandalorian warriors shoot their grappling cables into the
Speaker 1: animal's neck.
Speaker 2: It was kind of like they thought they could like
Speaker 2: pull it down, but.
Speaker 1: Five hundred tons, it's huge, and.
Speaker 2: It's also like sixty five million years aldough something. This
Speaker 2: thing is a dinosaur.
Speaker 1: Like what you think, goes into a roll that's like
Speaker 1: twelve guys were attached to the alligator get maimed.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The armor then rushes forward to save uh, the stricken
Speaker 1: Mandalorians who are still attached by their cables. Pas Visla
Speaker 1: saves a young boy. Uh, and that opens up with
Speaker 1: that uh, that rotary cannon that he has. And just
Speaker 1: when it seems like, you know what, the fledgling Mandalorian
Speaker 1: people just getting back on their feet after you know,
Speaker 1: the U, after the purge and the Empire's depredations on
Speaker 1: their society and culture, they're gonna get destroyed once again
Speaker 1: by your fucking alligator. And n one starfighter streaks overhead,
Speaker 1: and the Mando is here and he shraced the alligator,
Speaker 1: and it's barbecue gator for everybody, and they ate this gater.
Speaker 2: They have to eat. They have to they have to
Speaker 2: be so for like a long time. Also, please, this
Speaker 2: man loves to kill a giant ancient animal.
Speaker 1: I think of it.
Speaker 2: He's kid, but like, please just just think twice he's killing.
Speaker 1: This guy has killed some realgaphone creatures. So later on,
Speaker 1: Dinn and our good friend baby Grew Grew were hanging
Speaker 1: out with the Armor, and the Armor is like lecturing
Speaker 1: Mando once again. You know, hey, you took off your helmet.
Speaker 1: Remember that thing where you took off your helmet. Guess what?
Speaker 1: You can't be accepted back into Mandalorian society. And then
Speaker 1: Mando's like, yeah, but I've been studying my Mandalorian tracts, okay,
Speaker 1: and the Creed talks of redemption, does it not. The
Speaker 1: Armor is like, yeah, but you know, redemption you can
Speaker 1: only do redemption at the living waters under the minds
Speaker 1: of Mandalor. And as we all know, ever since the
Speaker 1: Imperial Purge of Mandalor, that shit is poisoned. You can't
Speaker 1: go there anymore. So you are an outcast. Why am
Speaker 1: I even talking to you because I like you, but like,
Speaker 1: officially do this anymore? And then Dinn is like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a good point, but what if the minds of
Speaker 1: Mandolor still exist? Boom, he lays a chunk of crystal,
Speaker 1: you know, the the as the Empire bombarded Mandolor, like
Speaker 1: it turned the surface of the planet into this, like
Speaker 1: crystal is green, crystal, yes, And he lays this chunk
Speaker 1: of crystal on the armorer's work bench and it has
Speaker 1: a Mandalorian inscription on it.
Speaker 2: Oh, and I was just gonna say, the really interesting
Speaker 2: thing that that idea of the Empire, like turning these
Speaker 2: planets to crystal in it's from legends and they call
Speaker 2: it glossing, and it would happen. It was this horrifying
Speaker 2: thing that would happen. So it's one of more of these.
Speaker 2: This is an episode where we get a lot of
Speaker 2: animation nods and these little legends knots and that's so
Speaker 2: cool to see. It almost looks like kryptonite.
Speaker 1: That's so it was really a really cool moment and
Speaker 1: really like Hammer's Home, the violence of what was done
Speaker 1: to the Mandalorian people. Dinn is like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I got this from a from Jahwa's who said that
Speaker 1: they got it from a traveler, who in turn claims
Speaker 1: to a visited Mandalor and does this not prove that Mandalor,
Speaker 1: while maybe not fully inhabitable, you know, like poisoned, is
Speaker 1: at least like not super poisonous like you, I could
Speaker 1: go there. Uh. And here's my plan, Armor, I think
Speaker 1: you figured it out. I'm gonna go to Mandalor. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to the minds of Mandalor. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: under the minds of Mandalor, and I'm gonna bathe in
Speaker 1: the redemptive water living waters. Yea, what do you say
Speaker 1: about that? And the Armor is like, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is the way I can't.
Speaker 2: She's sorry, you're you know what?
Speaker 1: You got me there. It's a good plan.
Speaker 2: She's like, then come back and see me.
Speaker 1: This is the way baby Yoda clearly loves it. Now,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. This is just shows you
Speaker 1: how I would not I would not be able to excel, survive,
Speaker 1: thrive in Mandalorian society. I would just leave for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, hang out in Navarro with my buddy
Speaker 1: Grief more on him later, come back and said, so
Speaker 1: I did it. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: So it's like a magic Here's what's I did it?
Speaker 1: I gave to the waters. It was pretty cool. It
Speaker 1: is kind and uh, I'm redeemed, so what's up in
Speaker 1: my back?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And also like you probably would survive. I would
Speaker 2: say that's actually probably the smartest version. Also you just
Speaker 2: be like guess what, you know what? Don't just have
Speaker 2: to take my word for it. Cool baby was here
Speaker 2: and he also he.
Speaker 1: Also saw didn't you?
Speaker 2: And Gregor was like yeah, because greg will do anything.
Speaker 2: Gregor's like a trouble He's down and he's a troublemaker.
Speaker 2: He loves to cause a bit of mischief.
Speaker 1: He would like to.
Speaker 2: Pull a prank. All he does the right idea, that's
Speaker 2: what he should be doing.
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Speaker 1: off to go do this. They're in hyperspace. You know,
Speaker 1: that beautiful kind of like web of light is all
Speaker 1: around the end one ship. As they move through this
Speaker 1: hyperspace tunnel and the baby Yoda, a look of wonder
Speaker 1: goes across this cute, little, beautiful little face of Grogu.
Speaker 1: And it's not just the wonder of interstellar travel. We
Speaker 1: see that he is looking at a huge whale like
Speaker 1: creature with tentacles. It is a pergol, and in fact,
Speaker 1: it's several pers this way. This was the first time
Speaker 1: I really felt the scale of them. They're fucking huge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was really cool. It's so huge. It really feels like,
Speaker 1: of course purgols were we first saw them in Rebels,
Speaker 1: and they they are space whales essentially that can travel
Speaker 1: hyper space tunnels just through their own natural abilities. And
Speaker 1: it really feels like they're setting the Purgle up to
Speaker 1: be part of some larger mysteries. I definitely think so,
Speaker 1: but it feels like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and in the current Star Wars canon books, there's
Speaker 2: kind of been this expansion of the idea of hyperspace
Speaker 2: is almost like its own landscape and its own ecology.
Speaker 2: And and I think that the inclusion of the Purgele
Speaker 2: is also like big hint towards like a Soca, because
Speaker 2: this had they had a big moment in the final
Speaker 2: in the and kind of of Rebels. So it's very
Speaker 2: interesting see And I love this because you're right, like
Speaker 2: in the in Rebels, you get to see stuff. But
Speaker 2: in this moment where you have the tiny baby and
Speaker 2: this Nabou ship which we've seen is quite formidable, but
Speaker 2: it is absolutely dwarfed. And at first Grogu's so into
Speaker 2: it and there's one and it's beautiful, but when he
Speaker 2: realizes there's four or five, he like runs away.
Speaker 1: It was really really wondrous. Din does not see the
Speaker 1: Purgles because he is fast asleep at the fucking wheel,
Speaker 1: which I get it. He's doing a lot and this
Speaker 1: single parent he needs to catch some shut eye, and
Speaker 1: you get this really cute moment where Grogu goes through
Speaker 1: the little tunnel that attaches his bubble to like the
Speaker 1: main cockpit and he just like pops up. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: snuggles in and he's like scary so much that they
Speaker 1: land on Navarro, the gem of the Outer Rim, and
Speaker 1: you gotta say, looking shiny. He is looking fucking great.
Speaker 1: It looks great. Uh Grogu is cooing at the sights
Speaker 1: and sounds of this lively town center. Now including we
Speaker 1: see a troop of kuwaky and monkey lizards in the trees.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and ne're free because in the original we'd seen
Speaker 2: them before in cages, but here they're just chilling like
Speaker 2: funny monkeys in the tree looking grossations.
Speaker 1: Crumb Dinn is equally amazed. It's like, holy shit, like
Speaker 1: this place is really really changed. And they go to
Speaker 1: the town square where they find a statue of their
Speaker 1: erstwhile ally come enemy I G. Eleven. You know, one
Speaker 1: of our one of our favorite robot droid bounty hunters
Speaker 1: turned unlikely hero, voiced of course by title Titi.
Speaker 2: I Know Unexpected Tika come back.
Speaker 1: Is that what this is?
Speaker 2: Promist season three?
Speaker 1: And as they're gazing up at the at the conical
Speaker 1: figure of the late I G. Eleven, the trademark booming
Speaker 1: voice of Greek cargo we love you.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: Is anyone having more fun than Carl Weathers.
Speaker 2: I'm not never impossible. This man lived to be in
Speaker 2: this role in this show, and now his town is
Speaker 2: thriving and he's feeling good. He's looking good.
Speaker 1: Oh my, he looks rich, looking rich.
Speaker 2: That cape is heavy. He has two droids who just
Speaker 2: follow him around.
Speaker 1: Floor Droid, where do you get cap droid? I need
Speaker 1: to cap droids?
Speaker 2: Definitely him.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely. I mean it's this beautiful like scarlet velvet
Speaker 1: cape with all this like gold detailing, and from the
Speaker 1: back it's like all gold and as you mentioned, it's
Speaker 1: got these little two little red droids on either side
Speaker 1: of the cape that hold it off the dusty ground. Amazing.
Speaker 1: And then we find out that Grief Cargo has a
Speaker 1: new title as well. He's the not the Magistrate of Novarro,
Speaker 1: He's the High Magistrate. And he's like, let's go to
Speaker 1: my office. Uh, and let's catch up. So they go
Speaker 1: to his office. Kargo is like, here's what's going on
Speaker 1: in Navarro. Trade is up, construction is booming. The mining
Speaker 1: interests out here in the Navarro system are just pouring
Speaker 1: credits into the planet. Money money, money, really really good.
Speaker 1: It's money, money, money money. Here's how good it's going.
Speaker 1: Would you like a free mansion, because.
Speaker 2: That's what I got for you would have to become
Speaker 2: a landown How.
Speaker 1: Would you like that? Let me ask you this, Mando,
Speaker 1: a deal you can't refuse. How would you like a
Speaker 1: prime piece of real estate out by the hot springs?
Speaker 1: Do you know how much real estate over by the hot springs?
Speaker 1: This you could? You and the little one hang up
Speaker 1: your blasters, live off the fat of the land. And
Speaker 1: Mando's like, dah a bathe in the living I gotta go.
Speaker 2: You know what, grief corganose. Yeah, he sees this baby.
Speaker 2: He's like, why is the baby still here? And he's like,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: What, you still a baby.
Speaker 2: He's like, this man obviously loves this baby. And he's like,
Speaker 2: what does a man and a baby need? They need
Speaker 2: a house. He's like, why don't you just say a house?
Speaker 2: He's right, this is giving me big the lost of
Speaker 2: us vibes. Please paydro Pascal, spend some time with your
Speaker 2: child in a safe space. Stop taking me on dangerous journeys.
Speaker 1: And we should add that while this conversation about Mando
Speaker 1: for insane reasons turning down a free fucking house, our
Speaker 1: good friend Baby Yoda, the beautiful fifty three year old
Speaker 1: baby is sitting in Grief Cargo's office chair, using the
Speaker 1: force to spind the chair.
Speaker 2: It's so good.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. So Dan explains why he's still
Speaker 1: hanging out with Baby Yoda and why he can't take
Speaker 1: a free house. That's the whole thing. I'm in apostate.
Speaker 1: I need the bathe in the living waters. Any redemption,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, and Cargo's like, okay, but you be landed
Speaker 1: Gentry like this is great, no, and then what about it?
Speaker 1: Think about it. But before they can really mulle it
Speaker 1: over any further Grief's protocol, Droid enters and is like,
Speaker 1: we got a problem. Some pirates into pirates, and it
Speaker 1: turns out Grief knows these pirates. Their leader is a
Speaker 1: nick do named Vain who works for pirate king Shard.
Speaker 1: Carga is like, okay, let's get off the street here.
Speaker 1: You guys are there. The pirates are like knocking, like
Speaker 1: trying to get into this building that they think is
Speaker 1: a canteena but it's actually a school now because Navarro
Speaker 1: is significantly clean. Yeah, and cars like that's a school.
Speaker 1: You're bothering The Droid teachers there. Let's just go to
Speaker 1: my office and talk this over. And of course Mando
Speaker 1: is there leaning as a tree, giving him the appropriate
Speaker 1: muscle that he might need to get these pirates off
Speaker 1: the street. And Vain is like, listen, what happened to
Speaker 1: you man? You paid us for murder and mayhem inside
Speaker 1: this building that is now apparently a school, and now
Speaker 1: you're talking about it's a school, and you're just like soft, Now,
Speaker 1: what the fuck is going on? So Vain like moves
Speaker 1: his cape away from his blaster. Cargo moves his cape
Speaker 1: away from his blaster, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they draw and Carga is a badass and shoots skins
Speaker 1: choice absolutely and then it's like, okay, I shot your
Speaker 1: blaster out of your head. You get it. Don't fuck
Speaker 1: with me, now get out of here. Uh. And the pirates,
Speaker 1: by the way they move, clearly we're not gonna get
Speaker 1: out of here, because they did, you know, they did
Speaker 1: some quick counting, like, well, there's six of us, and
Speaker 1: there's two of this guy. You know, there's one there's
Speaker 1: Grief Carga and another guy. I think we could take them,
Speaker 1: even though the other guy is wearing Mandalorian armor, like
Speaker 1: can we.
Speaker 2: Even blaster probably would be some kind of like myths
Speaker 2: around him, seeing like the fucking morons anyway.
Speaker 1: Uh So they basically make a move like they're gonna
Speaker 1: do something, and Carga and Mando gun them all down. Okay,
Speaker 1: mass murder on the streets of And then Carga is like, okay,
Speaker 1: Vane get out of here. And Man's like, are you
Speaker 1: sure you gonna let this guy go? But the High
Speaker 1: Magistrate is like, yeah, it's a great idea because he's
Speaker 1: gonna go, and he's gonna tell the other pirates that
Speaker 1: all our pirates died and uh and he's gonna say
Speaker 1: don't go back to Navarro because they're badasses there. And
Speaker 1: so that's over, and Cargo and Amanda were walking back
Speaker 1: I would assume to Grief's office and he's like, okay,
Speaker 1: but here's the thing. These pirates are coming by every
Speaker 1: once in a while, different things are happening, and we
Speaker 1: need a marshall. So Amanda's like, what about my good friend,
Speaker 1: former rebel trooper Karen Done, what's she up to? Well?
Speaker 1: Grief is like, well, she's now a notorious anti vaxxer
Speaker 1: and far right figure, but also she's been recruited by
Speaker 1: the New Republic Special Force, Special Forces. She's at social Forces,
Speaker 1: so she's out of it. We can't at her back. Uh.
Speaker 1: And by the way, since you asked about Carado. And
Speaker 1: here's what's also going on with maff Gideon and our
Speaker 1: good friend mof Gindeon, who you got the Dark Saver from.
Speaker 1: He is currently standing trial for crimes against the galaxy.
Speaker 1: Uh So what do you say, Marshall? Sounds good?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: That house still available? And Din is like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: why don't you just like ring up the New Republicans?
Speaker 1: Say you see what I'm saying. Yeah, And Cargo's like,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. The New Republic's all the way in
Speaker 1: the fucking center of the galaxy. We're out here in
Speaker 1: the outer room. What are they gonna do? Like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to. We dealt with this the first time
Speaker 1: with the Empire and previously the Republic, and it's like
Speaker 1: they're too far away to help us. And he continues,
Speaker 1: under my watch, Navarro will become the first truly independent
Speaker 1: trade anchor in the entire sector. Will you be my
Speaker 1: Marshall Mando And a free house over by the beautiful
Speaker 1: hot springs of Navarro, and Mando's like I can't.
Speaker 2: He's like, man, a man, do you have redemptive waters because.
Speaker 1: Of the area. So Cargos like, okay, I'm sorry. I've
Speaker 1: been monopolizing this whole conversation ever since you landed here,
Speaker 1: you know, you and baby Groogu, I've been I've been
Speaker 1: selfishly offering you a free house.
Speaker 2: Oh how I don't know half business.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to ask. I didn't ask you what
Speaker 1: what you needed? What do you need? It is like
Speaker 1: I got a crazy ask resurrect I g eleven what.
Speaker 2: I was like, that was all I was expecting. Also,
Speaker 2: like did he go that just to see an old friend?
Speaker 2: Did he know the statue was that? Is this just
Speaker 2: cherry picked off his head?
Speaker 1: It was just like a I think it's just like
Speaker 1: an idea that like he just came in hot gazed
Speaker 1: on the statue, was like, you know what I want?
Speaker 1: My fucking I hated. I know, like as recently as
Speaker 1: earlier in this series, I fucking hated like hated, and
Speaker 1: I mean capital h hated on droid.
Speaker 2: But this was no one who changed this one.
Speaker 1: There was a connection there. It's Tito and TD I
Speaker 1: my good buddy Hig eleven back. Let's resurrect him. And
Speaker 1: Cargo is like, I don't. He's destroyed and also like
Speaker 1: his parts are in a statue and the like, and
Speaker 1: so Mandal's like, yeah, exactly, so he's parts are still there, Like,
Speaker 1: get him out. I need a droid I can trust
Speaker 1: to help me explore mandalore and Cargo's like, listen, this
Speaker 1: is the new Navarro we're talking about here, Like, we
Speaker 1: are packed to the gills with droids. You want the
Speaker 1: fucking best droid ever? Like, I can get you your
Speaker 1: pick of the litter. You can have any droids you want,
Speaker 1: And did is like, no, I want that busted fucking
Speaker 1: droid that's currently a statue that tried to kill me
Speaker 1: and and baby Yoda the first time.
Speaker 2: It was a US actually programmed solely to kill baby Yoda.
Speaker 2: So I just really need him back. And He's like,
Speaker 2: I guess, I guess In the in dinger inside, He's like, well,
Speaker 2: this guy was about to give me like a house,
Speaker 2: and so I'm sure he would just give me this
Speaker 2: old pop of a statue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it is. I think it's a It's actually
Speaker 1: emblematic of Din's personality. Which is like other Mandalorians, he
Speaker 1: is extremely set in his ways and beholden to the
Speaker 1: creative and the culture and society of Mandalori. But unlike
Speaker 1: all the other Mandalorians we've seen up to now, and
Speaker 1: certainly any of the ones that he's interacted with, he
Speaker 1: does have the ability to change, to learn, and when
Speaker 1: he does do that, like his connection with Grogu is
Speaker 1: taking off his helmet. The bond he clearly formed with
Speaker 1: Ig eleven, it is it that bond with whatever surprising
Speaker 1: person that is usually outside of the sphere of interest orience,
Speaker 1: is very very strong. And now that he has had
Speaker 1: a good experience with this one droid, his his ban
Speaker 1: on like ever interacting with the droids is gone. But
Speaker 1: he only wants to interact with with this one. I
Speaker 1: had the good experience with the one droid. Rest of us, he's.
Speaker 2: Chill without the droids to them, like he's not saying
Speaker 2: I hate droids all the time, But he doesn't want
Speaker 2: to bring a droid on this important mission to have
Speaker 2: a bath.
Speaker 1: This needs to be aid. He can trust, I can
Speaker 1: and he knows, and he also knows like listen, you
Speaker 1: eleven can handle it.
Speaker 2: Will sacrifice his life for the baby and the Mandalorian.
Speaker 2: So that's a good person to have on your side.
Speaker 1: So, uh, carg is like, Okay, here's here's what a
Speaker 1: good friend I am and I have been ever since.
Speaker 1: You have come back into your house your job. Now,
Speaker 1: come and drag this busted fucking bounty hunting robot to
Speaker 1: my office. Not like any workshop or to my office.
Speaker 1: Bring it to my office and you can fix it
Speaker 1: on my desk. So so Mando is like, okay, you know,
Speaker 1: he's doing his thing, and he gets IG eleven comes online,
Speaker 1: eyes immediately go red. It has you know, uh gone
Speaker 1: back to its original kill Baby Yoda program, And like
Speaker 1: the T eight hundred at the end of the first
Speaker 1: Terminator is like crawling around on the kill that asset,
Speaker 1: destroy the asset, kill the ascid.
Speaker 2: It's very nightmarish and extremely well done and really creepy.
Speaker 1: And Mando is just like firing off blaster shots in
Speaker 1: the office. He then this was so funny to me.
Speaker 1: Then like laterals, Baby Yoda's grief like a target.
Speaker 2: It's all a baby Yoda. It looks like you just
Speaker 2: he's like a kid. He's just like Heydary Yoda.
Speaker 1: Baby Yoda can take Baby Yoda like has the I
Speaker 1: shouldn't be worried. Baby could probably have like yes, not
Speaker 1: a problem, but still it was a funny visual to
Speaker 1: just like so funny eat Baby Yoda into the arms
Speaker 1: of grief cars.
Speaker 2: Always hilarious to see a puppet like with its legs,
Speaker 2: you know, like so immediately lots like a doll. When
Speaker 2: you see the bike, it's like come riding a bike.
Speaker 2: It's just like and obviously Carl Weathers was ready to
Speaker 2: catch it those hench muscles. He was like, the baby's fine.
Speaker 1: So then I g is like just laser focused on
Speaker 1: this baby and like it turns and is crawling down
Speaker 1: to a grief cargo and baby Yoda and quick thinking
Speaker 1: by the man streets protocol Driid who drops a pretty
Speaker 1: substantial bust of grief cargo. Then he just has yeah
Speaker 1: IG's head crushing it. And then Mando gives a very
Speaker 1: schwartzenegria Yeah yeah yeah yeah, like line, now that's using
Speaker 1: your head.
Speaker 2: They're doing a lot of fun like predator esque like
Speaker 2: Mando and Car and Grief do the do the like
Speaker 2: your son of a bitch like.
Speaker 1: Honold dr There was a lot of like hat tips
Speaker 1: to predator in this movie, Like that what that line
Speaker 1: was clearly in sportsnigger?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's It's such a fun sequence. And also
Speaker 2: like now I feel like, bro, just take the Protocol Driid.
Speaker 2: Like that droid is a quick droid saved joy life.
Speaker 2: He saved your life. He thought of that plan when
Speaker 2: you and you guys were about to get muked by
Speaker 2: like a fucking half a dead body. Why don't you
Speaker 2: just take that guy?
Speaker 1: Why you need this? I g that protocol droid was
Speaker 1: like like a rookie in sports just having a great game.
Speaker 1: It's like, can we appreciate the quick thinking? This protocol
Speaker 1: doid is just here to be like the pirates. You
Speaker 1: hear and speak eight thousand languages, and here he is
Speaker 1: saving the high magistrate end his friend's life and a
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Speaker 1: and we're back. But of course, Mando is not giving
Speaker 1: up on this crazy notion to resurrect IG eleven. He's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I still want to do it. I still want to
Speaker 1: know that.
Speaker 2: Now his head is crushed, He's like, but maybe we
Speaker 2: can find a way.
Speaker 1: Is there not something we could do? And carga again.
Speaker 1: I have to respect this man's dedication to doing pr
Speaker 1: for Navarro at every turn. He's like, well, in addition
Speaker 1: to the beautiful hot springs, to Navarro being the gem
Speaker 1: of the Outer Rim, to the burgeoning construction boom that
Speaker 1: is going on here at our local wildlife that you
Speaker 1: can see all throughout the town square, did you know
Speaker 1: that some of the finest droid smith's in the galaxy
Speaker 1: have been drawn to the low taxes and friendly business
Speaker 1: environments in the Outer Rim.
Speaker 2: My favorite thing about this as well is you have
Speaker 2: to be like, You're like, I love that, and you
Speaker 2: are so right. I respect his sales pitch Old time.
Speaker 2: But I have to ask you, Grief, I have to
Speaker 2: ask your question. If that is the case, and it
Speaker 2: seems to be, why didn't you just take him that first,
Speaker 2: take it to your office and let this reckless babysitter
Speaker 2: do this dangerous situation, like take him first to these
Speaker 2: he little guys.
Speaker 1: I think that is a fair question. I also think
Speaker 1: that from what we know of Mando, Mando.
Speaker 2: Is he's going to do it.
Speaker 1: You know, he's like, yeah, he's like the guy. He's
Speaker 1: definitely the guy that if he's driving and he misses
Speaker 1: the exit and you try to tell him, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: going the right way. Yeah no, no, I'm this is the
Speaker 1: correct way to repair a droid that has been fully destroyed.
Speaker 1: Do I know how to do this? I've ever done
Speaker 1: this before? No, but I've seen it done. I know.
Speaker 1: I'm so Carga takes ig the carcass of ig Din
Speaker 1: and a little baby Grogu to the droid smith's and
Speaker 1: guess who they are. It's our friends then Zellen's, uh,
Speaker 1: the same species as are good friend Babu Frick. You
Speaker 1: remember the cute little Anzellen's. They have this wonderful little workshop.
Speaker 1: It's such a good scene. It's a practical workshop and
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: I have to fall through the door to get there.
Speaker 2: And then Mando's sitting there and he's giant in this
Speaker 2: kind of tiny sized workshop where everything's made for.
Speaker 1: The love this and they.
Speaker 2: All have big babo freak energy. There's like really great
Speaker 2: moment where like the baby is trying to like hug
Speaker 2: and anzelling because he thinks it's cute, and and the
Speaker 2: Azelin's like, bad baby, bad baby.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. It was so yeah. Grogu's like, can
Speaker 1: I just like have an inzell and like as a pet?
Speaker 1: It was so I absolutely love the design here. It
Speaker 1: reminded me of the for those of U for anyone
Speaker 1: that remembers Fragle Rock ye yeah users from fregle Rock.
Speaker 1: It was just like it was just really cool. So uh,
Speaker 1: the droid Smiths are like, Okay, here's the deal. This
Speaker 1: droid is really really fucked up and we can get
Speaker 1: him back online. But if you want to do it,
Speaker 1: we need to get the memory circuit. And but like
Speaker 1: I don't know where we get one side quest and
Speaker 1: now it's time for a side quest. And as they're leaving,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, Grogu is like trying to pick up
Speaker 1: his answer.
Speaker 2: It's like take it with them, yeah, and it's like
Speaker 2: I love this. They do this great comedy moment here
Speaker 2: where car Weathers really gets to shine, where like you
Speaker 2: can kind of understand lands Ellen's but it's almost like
Speaker 2: a it's like a mishmash of English and their own language.
Speaker 2: So so Grief is outside and he keeps kneeling down,
Speaker 2: and at first his translation is like really helpful, but
Speaker 2: by the end, the guys, the little guy's just like, eh,
Speaker 2: no memory, and Mando's like I can literally understand, but
Speaker 2: Grief just keeps translating. He's very helpful friend, he is.
Speaker 1: So then man do Grogu head off to go find
Speaker 1: this memory circuit wherever it is. They're in space, they're
Speaker 1: in the end one, they're flying around. Mando is unlike
Speaker 1: unlike Paterro, Pascal's other character Joel, teaching his young charge
Speaker 1: like how to do stuff, you know, like, Okay, here's
Speaker 1: how the ship works, and here's what this dial does,
Speaker 1: and here's what this display does. And look at this.
Speaker 1: Guess what we have enemies in the area. It's the pirates.
Speaker 1: The pirates are back and they're here to take revenge
Speaker 1: on Mando for killing a bunch of pirates, you know
Speaker 1: on the surface. Navarro Vain is of course leading them,
Speaker 1: and he radios in. He's like, okay, we are pirate
Speaker 1: King Goryan shardsman and you will answer to him. And
Speaker 1: then a dogfight pops off. But Mando Mando is really good.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen Mando work and there's no way
Speaker 1: he's gonna get taken down by like six idiot pirates.
Speaker 1: So he picks him off one by one. But in
Speaker 1: Vain is like, okay, I'm out of here. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: gonna rab it. But Vain is leading them to the
Speaker 1: flagship of pirate King Shard. We see Shard, who is
Speaker 1: like a green spinach momk yeah, he's like swamp thing.
Speaker 2: He's got green spinach fay red eyes. I mean, it
Speaker 2: looks like something good on Marvel forgetting that one in
Speaker 2: that fuss.
Speaker 1: It was really cute. So he gets uh, Pirate King
Speaker 1: Shard gets a lock on the end one and is like, hey,
Speaker 1: here's what's up. I got a lock on your ship.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna destroy you. Surrender your ship. I'll let you live. Uh,
Speaker 1: and Manda then imparts some really really great space, says kid.
Speaker 1: Never trust a pirate, and then they make a run
Speaker 1: for it, and of course they get away because pirates
Speaker 1: are idiots. They fly to the Mandalor system, specifically the
Speaker 1: planet Killavalla, and they land at this beautiful Mandalorian castle,
Speaker 1: like on the seaside on a cliff. It's absolutely gorgeous
Speaker 1: if it's the home of our good friend Bocatan, he says,
Speaker 1: and she's like, well, guess what, there's nothing to join
Speaker 1: and fuck you. And also where's the Dark Saver? I
Speaker 1: don't see it. And by the way, if I had
Speaker 1: had it, my entire army wouldn't of like left me
Speaker 1: because I came back with the Dark Saber and nobody
Speaker 1: wants to follow me anymore. So you know you're an asshole,
Speaker 1: she says to Din. Well, since you've got the Dark
Speaker 1: Saber wherever the fuck it is, why don't you use it?
Speaker 1: You rally an army yourself, and then they'll just do
Speaker 1: whatever you want to do. She is very, very salty.
Speaker 2: She's saying that helmet off looking mad doing the gang
Speaker 2: on the throne with the leg up. She is definitely
Speaker 2: uh posed as more of an antagonist than an ally
Speaker 2: at this point in time.
Speaker 1: And so then Mando is like, well, here's what I'm
Speaker 1: in town to do. Get this. I'm going to Mandalor
Speaker 1: and she's like why. She's like there's nothing there, what
Speaker 1: do you What are you gonna do there? And he's like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go under the mines and I'm gonna bathe
Speaker 1: in the living waters and I'm gonna be redeemed. And
Speaker 1: then Bo's like, you're a moron. There's She's like, it's
Speaker 1: all the planet is wrecked, it's radioactive, destroyed, no one
Speaker 1: could live there, but like, listen, who am I to
Speaker 1: stop a fool from his errand if you want to
Speaker 1: go the Living Waters are underneath the civic center in
Speaker 1: the city of Sindari, And Manda says, guess what I'm
Speaker 1: fucking going. Yeah, Peace.
Speaker 2: I have to say. I feel like Mando is so
Speaker 2: concerned with having his little bath that he does not
Speaker 2: realize BO is pissed, and I'm assuming he's like this
Speaker 2: feels like Bo saying like, yeah, they're under the civic
Speaker 2: center in the city of Sindari, and what he's really
Speaker 2: gonna find there is an ambush so she can get
Speaker 2: the doc save it back like it doesn't feel like
Speaker 2: she's given him good faith advice.
Speaker 1: I completely agree with you. I also feel like, Mando,
Speaker 1: you're not using it. Can't you just like, can't you
Speaker 1: just like stage a fight? Yeah? Yeah, like that you
Speaker 1: die like, oh my god, you got me on the
Speaker 1: chin and I'm going down and now you own it?
Speaker 1: Surely it's yours? Yeah, why did you just like it?
Speaker 1: You don't need it, You don't use it. You're shooting everybody.
Speaker 1: You didn't use it on the pirates.
Speaker 2: That would have been a good thing to use one.
Speaker 1: Give it to Bokat. She needs it. She's an actual leader.
Speaker 1: You don't want to lead. Just give it to her.
Speaker 2: You don't need that thing with the baby. It's dangerous.
Speaker 2: I love Okay. Do you think the baby's gonna wield
Speaker 2: the dock saber? Is that why he still has it?
Speaker 2: I feel like, now I've just said it, I'm like maybe,
Speaker 2: I'm like, there has to be a narrative reason, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, I guess maybe the baby told it.
Speaker 1: I will say that, I do. I think that whenever.
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be in this I don't think
Speaker 1: it'll be in the Mandalori right because the time jump
Speaker 1: that would need to happen is insane. But I do
Speaker 1: think that at some point, obviously what where we're headed
Speaker 1: is Grogu is going to be in, is going to
Speaker 1: be part of the Mandalorian culture, Right, That's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: He's gonna take the he's gonna take the oath. He's
Speaker 1: gonna put it on a little helmet.
Speaker 2: I would love to see that the helmet with his
Speaker 2: ears sticking out.
Speaker 1: And I think at that point, by hook or by crook,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get that dark soon. It just makes too
Speaker 1: much sense, Like it feels like this is where this
Speaker 1: is going. What do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so definitely. I'm I'm very interested to
Speaker 2: see how they build it in. There's like a lot
Speaker 2: of rebels law here, like rebels locations, the pure girls, Like,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm excited to see where this goes. I also
Speaker 2: like that they just came back and they were like, look,
Speaker 2: do you remember what the Mandalorians about. It's about a
Speaker 2: baby and a guy, and they're just having fun. Go
Speaker 2: into his face, see us some cool shit, seeing a
Speaker 2: familiar face, like shooting some people like they would. They
Speaker 2: did not come back at this with any other angle
Speaker 2: than just like, this is the fun Star Wars show
Speaker 2: and I love it. I also love to see Rick
Speaker 2: back as the director because he directed one of my
Speaker 2: favorite episodes from the first season, and the fact that
Speaker 2: he's on like three of these episodes this season is
Speaker 2: very exciting to me. I'm also stoked that Carl Weathers
Speaker 2: is directing another episode. I can't wait for that and
Speaker 2: for him after the Book of Bobafet episode that made
Speaker 2: everyone realize Bryce Dallas how it should be able to
Speaker 2: direct a Star Wars movie, I cannot wait to see
Speaker 2: her episode because her episode of Book of Boba Fett
Speaker 2: was like unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I think you're right about this ambush. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like it makes too much sense to me
Speaker 1: so easily.
Speaker 2: She's like nah, She's like sure, go there. Also, he
Speaker 2: makes a really good point where he's like, weren't you
Speaker 2: the one who told me it wasn't poisoned. He's like,
Speaker 2: but now it's poisoned. He's like, hmmm, something doesn't really
Speaker 2: add up. But he's so desperate for this redemption and
Speaker 2: to be part of his culture again that he is
Speaker 2: ignoring what I feel like our red flags she even
Speaker 2: says to him it. Then she's like goodbye din jure
Speaker 2: In and I'm like, yeah, goodbye, because you're about to
Speaker 2: kill him. And the dark say ask you.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this is Do you think that
Speaker 1: the the the Mandalorian instead of kind of gathered around
Speaker 1: the armorer now on planet to be named later, are
Speaker 1: they the people that melted away from Catan's army.
Speaker 2: She does say something really interesting at the beginning of
Speaker 2: this where she's like the death Watch, all these different factions,
Speaker 2: like they destroyed Mandalor. But she was also a separatist,
Speaker 2: so I think it's unclear. And she sort of said,
Speaker 2: you know that her crew are now like mercenaries. So
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I do think that we're going
Speaker 2: to end up in a situation where there's going to
Speaker 2: be different sects of Mandalorians who are going to have
Speaker 2: to come together if they actually want Mandalor to kind
Speaker 2: of exist in any coherent way.
Speaker 1: I like the way they're setting up too for Dinn
Speaker 1: to be this unlikely and in many ways unwilling leader
Speaker 1: of the Mandalorian people, because it feels like he's going
Speaker 1: to be thrust into a situation where against his nature
Speaker 1: he's going to have to be not just like the
Speaker 1: warrior military leader, but a real political leader for this
Speaker 1: like fractuous yeah, and windling people that, in Poketan's words,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, is just like divided by different schisms, yaho,
Speaker 1: different factions.
Speaker 2: I think that's a great point because something that is
Speaker 2: really interesting that I wonder if they're going to play
Speaker 2: on is we've talked about this a lot, how Hum
Speaker 2: and Grogu they almost are like they're becoming this kind
Speaker 2: of melding of Jedi culture and mandalinc culture. And I
Speaker 2: do wonder if part of the lesson of Dinn being
Speaker 2: a new leader for Mandlaw is going to be about
Speaker 2: them changing their ways or adapting to new people or
Speaker 2: new thought processes, or not changing the creed but being
Speaker 2: more open to different readings of it. You know, I
Speaker 2: feel like that kind of seems like it's an adapt
Speaker 2: or It's like adapt or die kind of situation.
Speaker 1: Yes, that feels like the underlying theme of this show,
Speaker 1: in addition to like hangout time with with Din and Grogu,
Speaker 1: is this idea of a culture that is so said
Speaker 1: in its ways that really is like, yeah, not to blame,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it would be victim blame you
Speaker 1: to say the Mandelarians brought some of the stuff on themselves,
Speaker 1: like the Empire destroyed them. But there is an aspect
Speaker 1: of their culture that is so war centric that it's
Speaker 1: like self defeating in a Clone Wars. Yeah, we saw
Speaker 1: a lot of this in Clone Wars, where you know,
Speaker 1: when political leaders attempted to bring a more progressive, more
Speaker 1: peace centric style of politics to the Mandalorians, it turned
Speaker 1: into basically like a low level civil Wars. And now ten,
Speaker 1: this very small surviving sect of the Mandalorian culture adapt
Speaker 1: in order to survive. I think that that is the
Speaker 1: theme of this series. I think, so too interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really interesting. I was also going to say,
Speaker 2: like I thought the score was really good for this episode,
Speaker 2: but it obviously wasn't Ludwig, and I thought that was
Speaker 2: really interesting. So Ludwig did do the first two seasons
Speaker 2: and Bobaffet, but I guess for this it's a composer
Speaker 2: called Joseph Shirley. But I really liked it. It felt different,
Speaker 2: but really Star Wars.
Speaker 1: Uh, Yeah, it's it's fun. Like I'm happy to have
Speaker 1: it back in my life.
Speaker 2: It's so cheery compared to the last of us, like
Speaker 2: I'm really the last of us, and I was like,
Speaker 2: I need to see the baby again. I was like this,
Speaker 2: the last of us is so good, but I am
Speaker 2: happy that our Pedro Prescal double bill is now like
Speaker 2: cheery baby, sad baby.
Speaker 1: I need to see reality. The milky web of hyperspace
Speaker 1: reflected in the beautiful dewey eyes of my fifty year
Speaker 1: old baby friend growth.
Speaker 2: We need a baby Yoga Yoda. Actually for the studio.
Speaker 2: I'm like, Lucasfilm, send us a baby. We need him,
Speaker 2: send us a baby that baby. Tony agree, Baby, you
Speaker 2: know what we're talking about up next nerd out In
Speaker 2: Today's that Out, Why you tell us what you love?
Speaker 2: Am why or a theory that you're excited to share.
Speaker 2: Whitney shares the latter, and it's a very interesting question
Speaker 2: that I feel like leads on extremely well from our conversation.
Speaker 2: So Jason, I will let you read this theory about
Speaker 2: season three of The Mandalorian.
Speaker 1: Hey, guys, love the show. You're both amazing. Jason great
Speaker 1: child on Jeopardy Fistry and Rosie I'm on team Maternals
Speaker 1: with you. I don't tell you Team maternals is growing. Grow,
Speaker 1: it is growing. I've been diving back into the Mandalorian
Speaker 1: a preparation for season three. I'm not as deep on
Speaker 1: the lore as a lot of people, so I don't
Speaker 1: know if there is some sort of answer or theory
Speaker 1: on this. But is there any reason to believe that
Speaker 1: Mando might be better with the Dark Saber because of
Speaker 1: his relationship and attachment to Grogu. Is his relationship with
Speaker 1: a force user going to somehow enable his ability to
Speaker 1: use it? Well? As Grogu taps back into the Force
Speaker 1: and as didn't use the Saber more, and as their
Speaker 1: relationship strengthens, will Din's ability grow? I think that that
Speaker 1: is a I think that's a fair assumption. I think
Speaker 1: the history of the Dark Saber tells us that it
Speaker 1: comes from a place back, you know, centuries and centuries
Speaker 1: in millennia go, when there was a Mandalorian who was
Speaker 1: a Jedi. And I think that's where we're trending towards again.
Speaker 1: I think that we've seen Din's influence on Grogu. We've
Speaker 1: seen Grogu's emotional influence on Din, and Din's willingness to
Speaker 1: do things to move out of his comfort zone. Take
Speaker 1: off his helmet, et cetera, to to display his emotional
Speaker 1: bond with Grogu. But the but is there something else?
Speaker 1: Will Rogu find some sort of connection to the force
Speaker 1: in Din that is there to amplify It's an interesting question,
Speaker 1: and I would love to see that.
Speaker 2: I would love to see it. This is the kind
Speaker 2: of thing that makes me so excited about Star Wars.
Speaker 2: There may be a canon answer, there may be a
Speaker 2: distinct jess or no, But to me, this is the
Speaker 2: kind of excitement. I love this idea of the Force
Speaker 2: as something that flows through everyone and around all of us.
Speaker 2: You know, that's one of the most magical things about
Speaker 2: Star Wars. So I love this idea that the nature
Speaker 2: of Din and Gogu's connection would allow Din to almost
Speaker 2: access the Force, or at least be more connected to
Speaker 2: it than somebody else. It's that kind of magic of
Speaker 2: the end of the Last Jedi. This either of the
Speaker 2: democratization of the Force or you know, Bays and Chirru
Speaker 2: in the rogue one. This idea that like people can
Speaker 2: connect to the Force through different and unexpected ways. And
Speaker 2: it would make sense that if you were a great
Speaker 2: swords person and you did up with this incredibly powerful
Speaker 2: sword with Jedi connections, and you were chilling with it,
Speaker 2: incredibly powerful Jedi. There may be some things that happened there.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's one of the ultimate Star Wars fan arguments.
Speaker 2: Is you know, is hand solo force sensitive? Because the
Speaker 2: argument is if you're such a brilliant pilot that usually
Speaker 2: Anakin Skywalker is a brilliant pilot. Luke Skywalker was a
Speaker 2: brilliant pilot. Is hand solo? Is he tapping into the
Speaker 2: force when he does that? Is he a force user?
Speaker 2: And I love that gray area of the force, and
Speaker 2: I think it's so much fun. And I love this question,
Speaker 2: and I think we will at least see a hint
Speaker 2: of this as we move forward. With the way that
Speaker 2: I like that correlation between Grogu learning more about the
Speaker 2: Force and did learning more about the Sayer. Those two
Speaker 2: things seem like a great parallel to explore.
Speaker 1: I totally agree and thank you so much Whitney for
Speaker 1: your question. Folks, if you have theories or passions you
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