Speaker 1: Warning this podcast to day spoilers for season three, episode
Speaker 1: two of The Mandalorian. Hello, my name is Jason Concepcion
Speaker 1: and on Roday Night, and welcome next Revision the Crooked
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Speaker 1: into your favorite shows, movies, comics, and pop culture.
Speaker 2: In this episode, in case Jason's beautifully read introduction did
Speaker 2: not tease this to you, we will be stepping out
Speaker 2: of the airlock and into season three, episode two of
Speaker 2: The Magdalorian. Lots of baby action here, people, So if
Speaker 2: you're on Baby want oh the Baby, there's so many babies.
Speaker 2: In fact, there's actually a new baby edition we get
Speaker 2: in this where the baby is doing a new trick
Speaker 2: again and again and again. It's delightful and in ned
Speaker 2: out from listener Swati and Emily. They've got a theory
Speaker 2: after watching the premiere of The Mandalorian that they're going
Speaker 2: to show with us.
Speaker 1: And of course, if you want to jump around, check
Speaker 1: out the show notes for the time stamps coming up
Speaker 1: next the airlock. We're stepping out of the airlock and
Speaker 1: into the mines of Mandalor for season three, episode two,
Speaker 1: Chapter eighteen of The Mandalorian on Disney Plus. This episode,
Speaker 1: titled The Minds of Mandalor, was written by Jon Favreau
Speaker 1: and directed by Rachel Morrison. We open with our good
Speaker 1: friend Pelly, Pelly Motto on moss Isley. She's doing her things,
Speaker 1: she's fixing cars, she's arguing about prices. It's boonta Eve,
Speaker 1: which means a day of celebration of fireworks, of racing.
Speaker 1: Tell us about boti Eve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, boon to Eve. You may be familiar with it
Speaker 2: because this is the celebration that the Huts put on
Speaker 2: that includes a very famous pod race. That would be
Speaker 2: the pod race that we saw in episode one Star
Speaker 2: Wars episode one, and that has been referred to many
Speaker 2: many times in legends. So this is kind of another
Speaker 2: prequel's era legend expansion that we're seeing brought into the
Speaker 2: contemporary canon. Love to see boont Eve. I thought this
Speaker 2: member we were going to get a pod race. We didn't.
Speaker 3: We kind of.
Speaker 4: Street racing, like.
Speaker 2: A little drag race, and also some great fireworks, and
Speaker 2: you know what, the baby is happy to see Pelly,
Speaker 2: and I want to say that you're about to see
Speaker 2: that number one new baby tra.
Speaker 1: Yeah baby, so a Mando returns, and of course Pelly
Speaker 1: has always got time for her friend Mandou. The cockpit opens,
Speaker 1: Grogu or beautiful baby Grogu does a full flip front
Speaker 1: flip that probably spent ten to fifteen feet of distance
Speaker 1: at least out of the cockpit of the end one
Speaker 1: into Pelly's arms, foreshadowing what, as Rosie noted, is a
Speaker 1: very flip heavy episode for a beautiful, big fifty year
Speaker 1: old baby.
Speaker 2: We go to I'm like, that needs to be like
Speaker 2: a flip counter like ding flip blanding. I was working
Speaker 2: at how I was seeing a little flip flip flip.
Speaker 2: I know this must to me, this says whoever puppets
Speaker 2: the baby was like, I've worked out how to do
Speaker 2: some wirework for the baby in this episode, like the
Speaker 2: baby's flipping.
Speaker 1: A little baby Grogu's endurance force endurance is clearly that
Speaker 1: training has paid off, because no longer does a little
Speaker 1: baby Grogu just black out after doing that for stuff
Speaker 1: he's not taking to go into a full on like
Speaker 1: catatonic sleep. So Mando lands and he's like, hey, Pelly,
Speaker 1: you haven't seen a memory trip for an IG series droid,
Speaker 1: have you, grandpa, that's an antique. They don't make those anymore.
Speaker 1: Mandal then says, okay, listen, I need some help because
Speaker 1: I'm about to explore Mandalora, which, if you haven't heard,
Speaker 1: is completely destroid, also potentially poisoned and maybe cursed, not sure.
Speaker 1: And on top of that, I'm gonna be like SPI
Speaker 1: lunking down below the surface.
Speaker 4: Speed lunking is what she says.
Speaker 1: She says, I got just the right thing. It's an
Speaker 1: R five D four astromk. Now, the history of this
Speaker 1: droid is quite unique.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you've seen the original Star Wars film,
Speaker 2: I ever heard of it? Ever heard of it? Ever
Speaker 2: heard of Star Wars A New Hope, ever heard of it?
Speaker 2: What inspired the Mandalorian? That's what you know. And it
Speaker 2: says Star Wars beforehand, that is what is referring to.
Speaker 2: So in that movie, Uncle Owen, God bless him, you know,
Speaker 2: he was trying his best and look rip, they they
Speaker 2: almost buy a different what they call in the movie.
Speaker 2: They say, oh, this R two unit, but really it's
Speaker 2: obviously an R five unit. We all know that. Now.
Speaker 2: God George Lucas like catch up. So they almost buy
Speaker 2: this R five unit, but it like blows up, its
Speaker 2: head blows up, and it doesn't look like it's doing well.
Speaker 2: And obviously what ends up happening is they buy the
Speaker 2: R two unit. The R two unit has a secret
Speaker 2: message for Obi Wan Kenobi from Princess Leah. Help you
Speaker 2: are our any hope great and R five D four
Speaker 2: goes into Star Wars history and the Jawa trashy.
Speaker 1: Until now until now It's back baby, but it's in
Speaker 1: rough shape.
Speaker 4: As one would expect.
Speaker 1: It's been through some shit, probably you know, a galactic
Speaker 1: civil war, not to mention rough treatment at the hands
Speaker 1: of the Jawas, and probably not a lot of maintenance.
Speaker 1: It also seems to be suffering from a pretty healthy
Speaker 1: case of PTSD. It just wants to live a caseful
Speaker 1: life at this point, is what I'm saying. It just
Speaker 1: wants to be chilling and HELLI is not no, and
Speaker 1: it definitely does not want to go into the dangerous
Speaker 1: and potentially cursed minds of a planet that has been
Speaker 1: genocided by the empire.
Speaker 2: Is that I do not want to go to that
Speaker 2: glossed planet. No splocking.
Speaker 5: Guess what, it just wants to be chilling, guess what
Speaker 5: it's going. You're a droid, so you have to go
Speaker 5: as it has the will just talk about.
Speaker 2: The moral quandaries of droids another day.
Speaker 4: Will we'llt's put that, let's table that for now.
Speaker 2: You've been very troubled, You've been sold in that.
Speaker 1: And Pelly's like, hey, let me sweeten the deal. Maybe
Speaker 1: you don't want this hunk of junk because.
Speaker 4: You're like, what am I going to do with it?
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. Hey, I'll make it even better for you.
Speaker 1: I will reinstall your droid port that, you know, the
Speaker 1: place where Grogu has up until now been kind of riding.
Speaker 1: In the end, one Grogu can sit in your lap
Speaker 1: and the R five can help copilot. That's what they
Speaker 1: were made to do anyway. And because it's boont to
Speaker 1: Eve and it's you and it's the baby and I
Speaker 1: love you guys half off, Mando's look fine and Rogu
Speaker 1: is clearly delighted, don't Grogu.
Speaker 2: Is loving life even though he just lost his little seat.
Speaker 2: He loves his new friend very invested. Also, this is
Speaker 2: really great because this is like, it's playing on the
Speaker 2: stuff that we love the most in the Mandalorian, which
Speaker 2: is like Pelly passes off this astromech. She doesn't really
Speaker 2: want it around. It clearly doesn't really work when it starts, like.
Speaker 4: As soon as they start lifting.
Speaker 2: Off, it's like wooooo, and she's like, bye, I can't
Speaker 2: hear you. But Mando the moment that droid gets in
Speaker 2: the n one, that's Mando's new baby.
Speaker 4: It's part of the tree, it's.
Speaker 1: Part of the family. Like he's not letting him go
Speaker 1: official Mandalorian. It can't take off its helmet because there's
Speaker 1: nothing under there.
Speaker 2: Doesn't have a choice.
Speaker 1: So they arrived in orbit above Mandalor. And even from
Speaker 1: that high vantage point, you can see that the damage
Speaker 1: done by the Empire's fusion bombs who was extensive, and
Speaker 1: Dinn says it was once green and beautiful back when
Speaker 1: the songs were written. It's Mandalora, the whole world of
Speaker 1: our people. And he notes to Grogu, who's kind of
Speaker 1: cooing in a way that only Mando can understand. He's like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I've never been there either, he says, and
Speaker 1: then he points out the different slusial bodies in the
Speaker 1: Mandular system. There's the moon of Concordia, former seat of
Speaker 1: power of pre Visla during the Clone Wars, the place
Speaker 1: where the kind of more militant wing of the Mandalorid
Speaker 1: people during the Clan Wars had kind of shuttled off to.
Speaker 1: And also the place where Din grew up as a kid.
Speaker 1: And there's Kalavala where Bocatan is just sitting in her castle,
Speaker 1: moping by herself, with a Droid just sitting in her
Speaker 1: in her throne, looking sad. They then land on the
Speaker 1: green glass surface of Mandalor and we learned that because
Speaker 1: of the fusion bombs and the damage onto the atmosphere,
Speaker 1: you actually can't communicate if you're on the surface of
Speaker 1: the planet. You're basically Asila cannot send messages out. Mando
Speaker 1: is then like, okay, we're here.
Speaker 4: You know what that means.
Speaker 1: Our five go get out, Go into that little cave
Speaker 1: cut out in the rock. Go down into it, okay,
Speaker 1: and take an air sample so we know how dangerous
Speaker 1: or not dangerous it is, and then come back.
Speaker 4: And the droid is like.
Speaker 6: Ah, I don't know, I don't really want to and
Speaker 6: then says a verbatim, it wasn't it wasn't a request.
Speaker 1: So they land on the surface. It's all glass, crystallized glass.
Speaker 1: It looks like a like a Heineken bottle. And we
Speaker 1: learned that because of the effects of fusion bombs had
Speaker 1: on the atmosphere, no communication signals can penetrate the atmosphere. Therefore,
Speaker 1: if you are on the surface of Mandlor, you are
Speaker 1: essentially isolated. So that's the news. Mando then says to
Speaker 1: the R five, Hey, you know what time it is.
Speaker 1: I know you don't want to do this, but I
Speaker 1: don't particular care, So get out, roll over to that
Speaker 1: little cave, that ominous looking cave behind the rock, go
Speaker 1: down inside of it, take an air sample, and come
Speaker 1: back in.
Speaker 4: The R five is like ah and then man, they
Speaker 4: stand dress.
Speaker 1: It was not a request, you will go and so
Speaker 1: and Grogu to Grogu's immense credit, the baby again so empathic,
Speaker 1: so emotional, so caring is like, gives dinn a look
Speaker 1: that's like I'm kind of worried about the R five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like this seems like a bad idea.
Speaker 1: Those beautiful dewy little eyes like a like a fawn
Speaker 1: or like a puppy, you know, and just look like yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're just kind of sagging up and down, and
Speaker 1: Dinner's like, yeah, yeah, don't worry here if you worried
Speaker 1: about him, look at this, we can watch him on
Speaker 1: the scope on the dashboard of the end one. Look
Speaker 1: there is the light that that symbolizes the R five
Speaker 1: and watch it's rolling on.
Speaker 4: Oh and then the signal cuts out.
Speaker 1: They're like uh oh, and they can't they have no
Speaker 1: idea where the R five is now. So now Mando's like, fuck,
Speaker 1: I guess I have to go in, pressurize my helmet, grogo,
Speaker 1: you stay in the cart anything. It's poisonous out here,
Speaker 1: you stay in the car.
Speaker 4: And Greg is like.
Speaker 1: Clearly very concerned, and also kind of like, Dad, I
Speaker 1: fucking told you.
Speaker 4: Did I not tell you?
Speaker 2: Did I not say to you that this was a
Speaker 2: bad idea?
Speaker 1: So Mando goes down. Uh and once under the surface
Speaker 1: he comes to like this little ledge where he can
Speaker 1: look over and see the wreckage of the city. Now
Speaker 1: little context here. So Mandalor, for years and years and
Speaker 1: years before the Empire decided to wipe the place out,
Speaker 1: had been racked by various civil wars, clan wars, and
Speaker 1: because of the devastation done to the ecology of the planet,
Speaker 1: everybody lived in these like domes or underground, right, so
Speaker 1: all the cities were like packed together, and then everything
Speaker 1: outside of there was basically wasteland. So but what Dinn
Speaker 1: is seeing now is like inside of that dome the
Speaker 1: subterranean cities that were where people lived on the surface
Speaker 1: of Mandelor. And just as he is beginning to take
Speaker 1: in the scene, he's attacked by these kind of simple
Speaker 1: but very violent creatures called Alamites. They lived in Mandlor's
Speaker 1: wastelands before the purge, but now seeing as how everybody's dead,
Speaker 1: they decided to move into the cities and make place
Speaker 1: their home. Very minds of Maria, Yeah, yeah, did you
Speaker 1: get that?
Speaker 2: Oh completely, And they did a great job with the
Speaker 2: the Alamites. They look like they might have used at
Speaker 2: least practical creature or a little bit so really good.
Speaker 2: It feels like you're in Yeah, it's like that Minds
Speaker 2: of Maura, but it also feels like you're watching something
Speaker 2: that's that more serialized as kind of like B movie.
Speaker 2: Vibe also have to say, once again, Din, I love you,
Speaker 2: but this map.
Speaker 4: Lost to kill a creature.
Speaker 2: Hot, I'm sorry, bro, these people live here now, that's
Speaker 2: just live in the house and you just come in
Speaker 2: that you're just not killing people. It's one time, my friend,
Speaker 2: one time. Just take a step. But you know what,
Speaker 2: I understand. He needs to survive. And we get a
Speaker 2: great fight scene.
Speaker 1: We get a really really fun fight scene. Mando is
Speaker 1: forced to take out the Dark Dark Saber because he's
Speaker 1: his blasters is thrown away. We see that he has
Speaker 1: gotten better with it, but also not quite good, and
Speaker 1: it's also still very very heavy in his hands, like
Speaker 1: he's easy. Yeah, he struggles to lift it. It looks like,
Speaker 1: you know, it might weigh something like, you know, fifty
Speaker 1: pounds or something like. He has a lot of trouble
Speaker 1: swinging around, but he does use it pretty well. He
Speaker 1: takes out the Alemites, he finds the R five. Now
Speaker 1: I have a theory here. The R five is at
Speaker 1: least you know, Mando's like, oh my god, the R five.
Speaker 1: The R five is like pretty beat up, but before
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 4: Beat up before war. And it's like when when Mando.
Speaker 1: Finds your vibent's like limp kind of like laying on
Speaker 1: its back. It's like little the little like sleds that
Speaker 1: it's its feet or just kind of like pointed out,
Speaker 1: you know, and just like sag down.
Speaker 4: But then I think he's faking.
Speaker 6: Because by the time they get back to the service,
Speaker 6: the R five is just like rolling right.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to get right to the ED one.
Speaker 1: I think the R five was like, uh, yeah, you
Speaker 1: gotta take me out, coach.
Speaker 4: I'm begged up.
Speaker 2: Anywhere. The kid the kid on like the the marathon,
Speaker 2: they realizes he can't run and he's like, oh no,
Speaker 2: my leg, yeah I can't do it. I love that
Speaker 2: read because it gives the off five has such a
Speaker 2: good personality here. He doesn't want to do this and
Speaker 2: he just fell through a giant hole because you send
Speaker 2: him someone he didn't need to go. I know, like
Speaker 2: just let him be. And I like this idea that
Speaker 2: he's kind of like, oh no, I'm so faine. But
Speaker 2: then the moment they get onto the days like.
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Speaker 1: and we're back. So they get to the End one
Speaker 1: and Mando's like, okay, but I know you got attacked
Speaker 1: by several alimites, but you did your job right, and
Speaker 1: it took the air sample on our Five's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did the air sample and guess what, Just like
Speaker 1: Bocatan said, the atmosphere is fine, mandal Or is other
Speaker 1: than the fact that it is completely destroyed and devoid
Speaker 1: of probably ninety five percent of its life now is
Speaker 1: not first Mandoh. Then it takes Grogu out of the
Speaker 1: End one and they together go to explore this subterranean world,
Speaker 1: go on a little adventure Grogu in. It's a little
Speaker 1: floaty pod.
Speaker 4: It is very dark. Some might say too dark.
Speaker 2: Yes, depending on how your TV saying, you may say
Speaker 2: too dark.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, some potentially might say that.
Speaker 1: And you can just kind of see different, strange and
Speaker 1: dangerous looking creatures kind of wriggling around in the shadows.
Speaker 1: Didnn then says, okay, well we have to go to
Speaker 1: the living waters. The living waters are below the mines. Therefore,
Speaker 1: here's how I'm gonna find I know exactly how we're
Speaker 1: gonna find the living waters. There's some water dripping down
Speaker 1: this wall. We just follow the water down.
Speaker 4: It's like, okay, did this is okay?
Speaker 2: Now I can tell you've never been there before. It's
Speaker 2: almost yeah, this is.
Speaker 4: Like millions of people lived here. This is not the
Speaker 4: most specific place.
Speaker 2: I'm also thinking, like, bro, I know that the astromach
Speaker 2: you're giving him a rest, and I shaate that as
Speaker 2: someone who loves a droid, But also I feel like,
Speaker 2: could he not have done some kind of scan? We
Speaker 2: know those droids have always got some kind of secret
Speaker 2: situation occurring, like they can always say, oh, maybe there's
Speaker 2: like a hole here. It seems like a bad plan.
Speaker 2: I will say that I love this sequence because we
Speaker 2: get these great character moments with Din and the baby,
Speaker 2: where like Din, we'll walk a little bit further ahead,
Speaker 2: and then Grogu will like see a creepy subterrate and
Speaker 2: like alligator and he'll speed up in the little pod.
Speaker 4: It is a wonderful Grogul reaction episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, lots of lots of gro going going on here.
Speaker 1: One more thing on the could you not have pinpointed
Speaker 1: where exactly are going when you went to visit bow On?
Speaker 1: You could have said, hey, listen, I know that you
Speaker 1: think what I'm doing is stupid and childish, but like,
Speaker 1: do you have a map of where they're?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 4: Do you just tell me where they are?
Speaker 2: Like if you don't care where they are, then you
Speaker 2: don't care to share it with me?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Also as well, like I do feel like a minor
Speaker 2: and I'm not really a plothole guy because I am
Speaker 2: going to just go with the flow. But I do
Speaker 2: feel like He specifically does a speech, really great speech
Speaker 2: that pays off later on an episode, where he tells
Speaker 2: Grogu why Mandalorians learn where everything is, why they care
Speaker 2: about maps, because if you know the way, you'll never
Speaker 2: be lost. Like if you know where you are, my friend,
Speaker 2: the magical minds of Mandalor are like a very famous
Speaker 2: location in Mandalor history. Wouldn't that be wouldn't there be
Speaker 2: some kind of definition of where they are in one
Speaker 2: of your many stories. I'm sorry, I know it was destroyed, bro,
Speaker 2: I know you've never been there, but I do feel
Speaker 2: like could have had a little bit more preparation he wants.
Speaker 4: He's just very excited. He's like, he's just like tremendously.
Speaker 2: He wants to be back in the cult. Baby's wait
Speaker 2: and his.
Speaker 1: Big again, his big like breakthrough was like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: water drips down because of gravity's.
Speaker 2: Look, he's got a jet pat because you're going to
Speaker 2: go far down anyway.
Speaker 1: They enter this larger tunnel, Dinn sees sticking out of
Speaker 1: the dirt there, you know, a Mandalorian helmet. He picks
Speaker 1: it up and he examines it, and just then we
Speaker 1: realize that this is an ambush.
Speaker 5: These like metal jaws spring shut trapping Mando in a cage,
Speaker 5: and then we see that the cage is actually the
Speaker 5: belly of this beetle like craft that then flips over
Speaker 5: and walks away on It's terrifying, very scary.
Speaker 4: Wonderful design. This was I love the design of this
Speaker 4: love Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 2: And it leads into something that I feel like we
Speaker 2: don't really get see very much, which is kind of
Speaker 2: this like this Giamo del Toroy like body horror Pool
Speaker 2: Viehoven even before Christmas, you know, the bud that will
Speaker 2: snatch you up. It's really cool and such a good design,
Speaker 2: very unexpected.
Speaker 4: It feels unexpected.
Speaker 2: It feels like a really big juxtaposition to the kind
Speaker 2: of natural wonder of what man law has become, because
Speaker 2: there's no civilization as you expect it. But then to
Speaker 2: see this incredibly high tech and quite terrifying invention that
Speaker 2: leads to an even more terrifying kind of space is
Speaker 2: really cool. Unexpected little twist.
Speaker 1: Grogu quietly follows floating behind just out of sight of
Speaker 1: this vehicle piloted by a very strange alien creature. The
Speaker 1: alien then steps out of this beetle craft and we
Speaker 1: see that the alien it's unclear at this point, like
Speaker 1: what actually is the alien's body, but we understand that
Speaker 1: it's piloting what is it? It's an eyeball, yeah, just
Speaker 1: an eyeball, But we don't know how much more of
Speaker 1: them it is, how much more of its biological body
Speaker 1: is there, And we see that it is piloting its
Speaker 1: body so.
Speaker 4: To speak, air quotes is like a general grievous like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it definitely.
Speaker 2: It feels like grievous is the closest thing we've seen
Speaker 2: that kind of super mech. So, but this is this
Speaker 2: kind of nightmarish Freddy Krueger almost like version where he's
Speaker 2: got these mechs that he can move between any what's
Speaker 2: he gonna do with Manam and barbecue him? It looks
Speaker 2: like he's getting ready to do something terrib terrifying.
Speaker 1: It takes Dinn's weapons, throws them aside, and then goes,
Speaker 1: I guess to prepare the spices.
Speaker 2: Or something, you know, the delicious marinade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh And at that point grog who sneaks
Speaker 1: over and tries to force open the cage, but that
Speaker 1: triggers an alarm. The alien comes over. Uh, and this
Speaker 1: whole thing's falling apart. Some man who's like, hey, get
Speaker 1: out of here, kid, go contact bo. So Grogu, then,
Speaker 1: who had left his little pod to try and force the.
Speaker 2: Land, was doing some delightful puppet walking, one of the
Speaker 2: best things a puppet can do.
Speaker 4: Anytime you see you're just like, thank God.
Speaker 2: But guess what he learned new skill and he's gonna
Speaker 2: use it.
Speaker 1: Here comes another flip, a beautiful like ten point zero
Speaker 1: from the Russian judge flip into the floating pod and
Speaker 1: then it's a floating pod car chase. As Grogu is
Speaker 1: just barely evading not just the alien but also like
Speaker 1: the sewer crocodiles that are down there, and they end
Speaker 1: up pursuing him all the way back to the surface
Speaker 1: to the end. One uh, grogu with let's give him
Speaker 1: some props R five's help.
Speaker 4: Surely, yes, I would.
Speaker 2: Say this, truly, he is an astromach. Let's let's forget
Speaker 2: this is a big moment for Grogor, who's also just
Speaker 2: force choked out an alamia and he's back in the ship.
Speaker 2: This is a huge moment of him, and it shows
Speaker 2: his connection to the force, shows his connection to manned
Speaker 2: law because he can navigate. But let's not right out
Speaker 2: the our fudition of our five, because I feel like
Speaker 2: BO does. Bo's like she's so ill, he was so great.
Speaker 2: I'm like, our five is an astromch. This is what
Speaker 2: he does.
Speaker 4: R five really helped. Now Bo is once again just
Speaker 4: like down the dumps, just like feeling sad. Sheeels sorry
Speaker 4: for some She's gonna kill, She's gonna kill the Madelonie.
Speaker 2: She's like, let's get rid of him once and for all.
Speaker 4: I'm sick of this shadow.
Speaker 1: As soon as her droid comes up and is like hey,
Speaker 1: unexpected visit her.
Speaker 4: Mando's back.
Speaker 1: She is like, fuck this guy, I'm gonna give him
Speaker 1: a piece of my mind. And she runs out to
Speaker 1: the landipad already screaming at the Mandalori. At the Mandaloris,
Speaker 1: it's like mad at him, making sure he's never gonna
Speaker 1: come back. And then the cockpit opens and guess what
Speaker 1: you've been yelling at a baby? How do you feel now?
Speaker 2: How about it? Have you heard of him? The baby?
Speaker 4: The baby?
Speaker 1: And she immediately realizes, oh my god, something's wrong. So
Speaker 1: she flies off with Grogu in her own ship. They
Speaker 1: land back on Mandalor Boa takes off her helmet because listen,
Speaker 1: she's kind of on the outs with the whole Mandalorian stuff,
Speaker 1: with the creed, with every she's she's feeling very disconnected
Speaker 1: from her culture and her identity. And she's also, as
Speaker 1: we see over the rest of this episode, feeling like,
Speaker 1: you know what, a lot of our beliefs are just show.
Speaker 4: It's a sham. It's a trick that is.
Speaker 1: Being used to pull the wool over people's eyes so
Speaker 1: that my family could remain in control. Is all bullshit,
Speaker 1: It's all stage managed bullshit. So she takes over her
Speaker 1: helmet and she says, of the planet, this was once
Speaker 1: a beautiful civilization.
Speaker 4: My family ruled it all. Now it's a tomb.
Speaker 1: And then she tells Grogu about the days long past
Speaker 1: when Mandalorian is a Jedi actually cooperated. Now, they also
Speaker 1: fought for a good portion of history, but there was
Speaker 1: a time when they fought side by side.
Speaker 4: We watch it in rebels.
Speaker 1: And then she says to Grogu, I don't know what
Speaker 1: they tell you about us, but there was a time
Speaker 1: when we got along quite well. And then she says,
Speaker 1: so you know, how are you with the force?
Speaker 4: Strong with it?
Speaker 1: And she says, you must be strong because you escape
Speaker 1: from here and you got back to me, so you
Speaker 1: clearly must know what you're doing. And they head down
Speaker 1: to the lower levels. And then, because Bo is a
Speaker 1: native these parts, and she understands the signs and sees things,
Speaker 1: she sees something about this tunnel that they're standing in
Speaker 1: front of is off to her, and she immediately sniffs
Speaker 1: out an Alimite ambush and there's a big fight and
Speaker 1: Bo pretty easily dispatches a number of Alimites.
Speaker 4: The baby is super impressed.
Speaker 2: The Baby's like, wow, you're so cool, and she's like, oh,
Speaker 2: did you think your dad was the only Mandaloria?
Speaker 4: Guess what?
Speaker 2: She's like, guess what, there's others and I'm one of them. Also,
Speaker 2: I really like the moment where she takes off her
Speaker 2: helmet because we know that Bo was the first person
Speaker 2: who told Dinn that it wasn't cursed, but she was
Speaker 2: so pissed that everybody left her. She's just been sitting
Speaker 2: in her little tempole, like Mandela's actually cussed. It deserves
Speaker 2: to be cast. But when she comes out, she she
Speaker 2: knew it wasn't cussed, she knew it wasn't poisoned. She's chilling, Like,
Speaker 2: I kind of love that. There's some really great moments here,
Speaker 2: and it's nice. I really like angry Bo, who is
Speaker 2: really quite justifiably angry.
Speaker 6: Yeah, cynical angry, like betraying, but it's kind of nice
Speaker 6: to see.
Speaker 2: What the baby brings out in everyone, which is this
Speaker 2: more kind of amicable, Like she wants to tell the
Speaker 2: baby like, you know, we used to get along, like
Speaker 2: and the low it can happen. Everybody wants to give
Speaker 2: that baby.
Speaker 5: A huge What you spend even five minutes with that baby,
Speaker 5: you are telling it everything. You are telling all of
Speaker 5: your feelings, all your You're telling him about your flight,
Speaker 5: the history of your family, your history of your every
Speaker 5: secret everything.
Speaker 2: And the truth is Yeah. This is like one of
Speaker 2: the most foreshadowed prescient lines of All Star Wars. Yeah,
Speaker 2: was when Werner Herzog said, I want to see the baby.
Speaker 4: I want to see that.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. That is just everyone. That is just everyone's
Speaker 2: feelings about this show summed up at all times, and
Speaker 2: they know it. This season has been really great. I
Speaker 2: love that baby car chase where you don't even have
Speaker 2: any dialogue. It's just him and he's in his way
Speaker 2: through and he's controlling it and he's the creating the
Speaker 2: It's really fun and it's that great mix of the action.
Speaker 2: I feel like they do even in this very dim,
Speaker 2: quite CG heavy episode, like in the Minds, they do
Speaker 2: give you these moments of practical texture and feeling, like
Speaker 2: when R five gets out of the ship and you
Speaker 2: really see his foot hit the floor, it feels like
Speaker 2: you're in a real place. And the Baby brings so
Speaker 2: much of that with the incredible puppetry, like those little
Speaker 2: moments of reaction and this kind of connection between them
Speaker 2: and Bo because remember, look, the babies are badass. When
Speaker 2: it came down to it, the baby was force choking people,
Speaker 2: but he did not care. So I think that I
Speaker 2: love this moment of kind of like cool respect and
Speaker 2: kind of bonding between it, like the baby and Bow
Speaker 2: because when Bo beats a bunch of Alimites up, the
Speaker 2: baby's like that was cool.
Speaker 1: That was so Bo beats up the Alamites and she's like,
Speaker 1: she gives the history of the Alamites, how they used
Speaker 1: to live, you know, in the wasteland. Uh, and she says, gosh,
Speaker 1: if they survived. I wonder what else did.
Speaker 2: Dun't dumb dumb.
Speaker 4: Back with din?
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: The alien stabs Din with something. I initially thought it
Speaker 4: was like a meat thermometer, but then it did, I
Speaker 4: really did.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, he really is gonna
Speaker 1: get barbecued. Yeah uh, but then proceeds to drain his blood.
Speaker 1: So I would just I think that the alien was
Speaker 1: going to drink his blood maybe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, I was gonna I was trying to this out. Obviously,
Speaker 2: drain the blood. You can like jerky him or something. Yeah,
Speaker 2: think about this. I think you're right. Jerkied mandalorian A
Speaker 2: delicacy on Mandolore.
Speaker 4: But I think you are.
Speaker 2: I think when you see the way his body works,
Speaker 2: it looks like he has liquid pumping through these pipes,
Speaker 2: and I wonder if he needs juice. I wonder if
Speaker 2: the blood is kind of his oil. Which is this
Speaker 2: really creepy good horror try.
Speaker 4: I think you're onto something there.
Speaker 2: And Mandalorian, he's not looking well. I mean, he taste
Speaker 2: like dream being drained and he has had enough. He's
Speaker 2: not fighting through it. This is not if it was
Speaker 2: Joel Pedro, Pascal's other fatherly character that we've been talking
Speaker 2: about recently. If somebody tried to drain Joel's blood, that
Speaker 2: would power Joe up. He'd be like, don Jay, I'm
Speaker 2: going to get to my baby girl. The mad Laurians,
Speaker 2: like any of us who are having our bloodrain, he's
Speaker 2: just like just as a little nap.
Speaker 1: So luckily bo arrives right then and shoots out the
Speaker 1: blood pump. But I have to say, even having shot
Speaker 1: the blood pump out after like maybe five seconds, maybe
Speaker 1: three seconds, a lot of blood, Kings.
Speaker 2: I love, blood came out at least the pine at last,
Speaker 2: like a seventh of his all of him. The blood
Speaker 2: in his body He literally like I know it was
Speaker 2: a lot because like he sold it. Whoever was in
Speaker 2: that helmet in that moment, in that body suit, if
Speaker 2: it was Pedro, good for you. If it was just standing,
Speaker 2: good for you. But like in that moment when the
Speaker 2: blood starts pumping, a lot of it's gone.
Speaker 4: He's struggles immediately gone.
Speaker 3: It needs to go.
Speaker 2: It's a sick tribe and it's multiple tubes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, multiple, and it's like as soon as it comes up,
Speaker 5: like a lot, a lot, a lot, that's a gallant.
Speaker 4: I don't know, a lot. It was a lot.
Speaker 2: And the truth is that he really needs to go
Speaker 2: in those minds now. He needs the revitalizing loss because
Speaker 2: the baby cannot force ad blood to your system as
Speaker 2: much as I'm sure he would love to. So Bo
Speaker 2: arrives gets in a fight with this alien. The alien
Speaker 2: has like a shock staff. Bo zip cables the dark
Speaker 2: saber which she sees there on the ground into her hands,
Speaker 2: stabs the and we see immediately, wow.
Speaker 4: Bo is good with this thing.
Speaker 2: Like this thing is like a Samurai saw. There's no issue.
Speaker 2: This is like Luke at his best or Anakin with
Speaker 2: his lightsaber.
Speaker 4: This is like light on sheet.
Speaker 2: She looks like it weighs nothing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she is good with it.
Speaker 1: She stabs the aliens through the chest, which, if this
Speaker 1: was grievous, immediately dead because that's where the heart is.
Speaker 4: But uh, that is just some sort of suit, and
Speaker 4: the creature.
Speaker 1: Itself is just cling off. It's just in the helmet
Speaker 1: and very reminiscent of John Carpenter is the thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The the alien then detaches its head, which is like
Speaker 1: this tick like vehicle.
Speaker 4: And then crawls over to a larger crab like battlesuit.
Speaker 4: Bo Is then, you know, has a recturn.
Speaker 1: She's trying to get Mando out of the cage and
Speaker 1: Manda's like, look by you, and she turns and has
Speaker 1: to fight now this crab suit. It's a wonderful fight.
Speaker 1: Wonderful again, super fun vehicle design.
Speaker 4: I really enjoyed this. Bo wins and the alien who
Speaker 4: like just wanted to drink some blood.
Speaker 2: He's trying to live his life in the minds of
Speaker 2: mad Law also as well, I will say, like this
Speaker 2: is one of those fights where you're just like bo,
Speaker 2: it's so lucky you had the dark Saber because nothing
Speaker 2: else would have done it. Like you're just chopping limbs
Speaker 2: off this huge mechanical monster, right and left maybe a
Speaker 2: light say it bends which one? But like the dark
Speaker 2: saber was the correct weapon for this fight, and you
Speaker 2: smashed it. She just ends that guy, no question.
Speaker 1: Sorry, that a piece of that alien who honestly, that
Speaker 1: was a bad career move to decide to press the
Speaker 1: fight there.
Speaker 4: Just leave, just like, yeah, just gone all away weeks?
Speaker 2: Did you really need the Mandalorian blood so much?
Speaker 4: No, get one of the Alamites, you know, I mean,
Speaker 4: can you think truly?
Speaker 2: Can you imagine that man?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Well, that bug?
Speaker 4: Actually we're like, this is the Alamites planet. Let them
Speaker 4: and then we're like, just fucking go kill one of
Speaker 4: the elements.
Speaker 2: Look, that's their own ecosystem, all right.
Speaker 3: But the truth is, yeah, this this bug, the amount
Speaker 3: of unbelievable technological knowledge and invention we got this bug
Speaker 3: out that we we did just kill like somebody who
Speaker 3: is clearly.
Speaker 2: Now he was a space maniac, clearly, But also I
Speaker 2: feel like Bowen, did they very quick to murder someone
Speaker 2: They don't really think about the Yeah, this situation, but
Speaker 2: you know what, he was drinking our friends much.
Speaker 4: I'll allow it. It was some kind of tick alien.
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Speaker 4: And we're back. So you know, Din has just had
Speaker 4: like one twentieth of his blood dread, so he's got
Speaker 4: to eat.
Speaker 1: So they're sitting around a fire now and and bo
Speaker 1: is cooking up a nice big cup of pog.
Speaker 4: Soup, and dinn is like, I've never heard of this.
Speaker 2: The hell what it was?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Bo Is like, are you kidding me? Every kid on
Speaker 1: mandle or drink pog soup. It's like, bo, you were
Speaker 1: basically a princess.
Speaker 4: You lived, you were a rich kid about she drops
Speaker 4: the roar.
Speaker 2: She's like, oh, isn't that ibronic? The Mandalorian and he's
Speaker 2: never drunk pog soup. And I'm like baby kidnapped and raised.
Speaker 1: By the death watching in the palace with the rest
Speaker 1: of the cruises drinking pug soup out of silver gobblet. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I was from the dusty streets of Concordia.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Bo is shocked by this, Din slurps it down
Speaker 1: with keeps the helmet on, and we get to see
Speaker 1: the very funny the technique is very funny there. I
Speaker 1: thought there would be a hat like a tube that
Speaker 1: comes down.
Speaker 2: Or something, you know, you know, he probably would have
Speaker 2: invented that. That bug guy they just idea.
Speaker 5: Bug would have immediately ad Although we have to say
Speaker 5: this is a conversation we've been having, many people have
Speaker 5: been having, but like it's been in our discord.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, how does Dinn keep his hair nice
Speaker 4: and neat and tidy? How do you brush your teeth in.
Speaker 2: A specific thing?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Is the Mandalorian rule? Is it you will never remove
Speaker 2: your helmet asterisk in front of other people? Or is
Speaker 2: it you will never remove your helmet in case, in
Speaker 2: which case, how is their hair or not?
Speaker 4: Like super like, you can't I go into the bathroom
Speaker 4: and take my helmet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Also, what is the technology within the helmet? I
Speaker 2: feel like this is an episode that really begs that question, because,
Speaker 2: like you said, no little straw to come out to
Speaker 2: eat anything, but the helmet can just automatically seal itself
Speaker 2: around your face and make it so you don't die
Speaker 2: of a poisoned air. So I want to know, like
Speaker 2: what it's not just clearly just a cool metal helmet.
Speaker 2: Also another question, what is the power source of the
Speaker 2: light that is attached to the helmets in the armor.
Speaker 2: That's the other thing I've been thinking a lot about
Speaker 2: lots of armor questions.
Speaker 1: I wonder if if you are never ever ever like hard,
Speaker 1: never supposed to take it off. I wonder if there's
Speaker 1: some sort of like I guess some kind of like
Speaker 1: low frequency laser or something can trim their hair and
Speaker 1: then I don't know, like you.
Speaker 2: Teeth, you just brush your teeth and wash your face,
Speaker 2: like you know, when you have like a cast on,
Speaker 2: you just put like a ruler with like a little
Speaker 2: sponge she like.
Speaker 4: Do you know what kind of like how we drink
Speaker 4: the soup where.
Speaker 2: Somebody made such a good point in the discord. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I cannot remember off the top of my head who
Speaker 2: it was. But like they were like, if that kid
Speaker 2: is never going to get to take his helmet off again,
Speaker 2: why wouldn't they shave his head? Like surely you'd shaved
Speaker 2: the head before, but every Mandalorian has also. Obviously this
Speaker 2: is different with Bo. Yeah, because Bow takes off the
Speaker 2: helmet all the time. Bow's hair always looks immaculate every
Speaker 2: time she pulls off that helmet.
Speaker 4: I take my hair. I take off my helmet all
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 2: To me too, Like every time, it's like Boom, like
Speaker 2: because I'm worth it. But like the funniest ship to
Speaker 2: me is like maybe there's like some cool hair technology
Speaker 2: in there. I don't know, there's like some cool like
Speaker 2: laser designed to be tiny droids in that cut in
Speaker 2: their wash out of ice.
Speaker 1: So Dinn slurps down his cup of pog and uh,
Speaker 1: and then it's immediately like, okay, see you guys, I
Speaker 1: gotta go. I'm going to and I mentioned I'm going
Speaker 1: to Living Waters and Bo is like, dude, you're fucking
Speaker 1: nuts for why you almost got a blood drain. Second
Speaker 1: of all, this is like some kind of childish fantasy,
Speaker 1: like there's nothing special about them. Uh you know, basically
Speaker 1: she is suggesting my my solution to the redemptive waters thing,
Speaker 1: which is just say you went.
Speaker 2: You also, and to be honest, in this case, you
Speaker 2: found out that Mandalor is not cussed. Yea, with some
Speaker 2: real information, they're probably going to be so distracted by
Speaker 2: that that they're not going to care. And I also
Speaker 2: like the way that Bow is kind of pissed because
Speaker 2: she's like, I'll just take you back in my ship.
Speaker 2: You can come back with me to my palace, which
Speaker 2: is what Dinn originally wanted. But now then it's like,
Speaker 2: now I'm going to the mines. She's like, okay going.
Speaker 1: She's like, well, all right, well I'm gonna go since
Speaker 1: you have no idea where the fuck you're going, and
Speaker 1: your big idea is like follow water dripping down.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: So Dinn is amazed at the sites as they walk
Speaker 1: the kind of ruined streets of Mandelor. He can't believe that.
Speaker 1: You know, the city is vast and millions of people
Speaker 1: must have lived here, and he says, it must make
Speaker 1: you really sad.
Speaker 4: To see this Bow.
Speaker 1: She says, what pains me is seeing her own kind
Speaker 1: fight one another time and time again, and she says
Speaker 1: it was this squabbling, this these this long series of
Speaker 1: clan wars that made them too weak to resist the
Speaker 1: empire when the Empire eventually did come to wipe them out.
Speaker 1: And she's one hundred percent right about that, that is
Speaker 1: a fact. They then arrive at the mines. The minds
Speaker 1: are are thousands of years old. They are a place
Speaker 1: of legend. They are kind of the truly the birthplace
Speaker 1: of Mandalor culture. This is where Bo as a child
Speaker 1: took the creed and bathed in the waters amongst all
Speaker 1: her family. But now her face is shattered, and she's
Speaker 1: is essentially, you know, poking holes in this kind of
Speaker 1: like cultural memory and saying like this is all just pomped.
Speaker 1: This is all it was all bullshit, Like it was
Speaker 1: all just so we could maintain control of the planet.
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, it's this heartwarming spectacle.
Speaker 4: It was nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and talks about her father Adnai, who died during
Speaker 1: the Civil Wars defending Mandelor and Din when she when
Speaker 1: when Din hears oh he died defending Mandelor, Dinn is like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is the way that this is.
Speaker 2: The way, Like that's what I gotta do. I love
Speaker 2: this moment too, because I think it has really unexpected
Speaker 2: kind of like Princess Leah echoes this kind of idea
Speaker 2: of the way that when you're like a woman in
Speaker 2: a royal family in Star Wars, they sort of just
Speaker 2: use you as a symbol. And obviously Princess Leiah had
Speaker 2: brilliant supportive parents. But if you've read the books and
Speaker 2: if you've seen the kind of way that people underestimate her,
Speaker 2: it's because of this idea of like, well, you're the peacekeeper,
Speaker 2: you're the young princess. We also see the way even
Speaker 2: in and Or we saw that, you know, with mon
Speaker 2: Mothma's daughter, there's kind of echoes there. And even mon
Speaker 2: Mothma's constantly underestimated because she's just this figure of kind
Speaker 2: of pomp and circumstance who plays this political game. And
Speaker 2: I thought it was really interesting to Abou talk about
Speaker 2: how she feels when also being Mandlorin is like so
Speaker 2: ingrained in who she is, yet she's so tired of
Speaker 2: the system.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she thinks she I think she knows quite accurately.
Speaker 4: This is kind of a conversation.
Speaker 1: Another conversation we had in the discord that you know,
Speaker 1: for a long time, Mandalora caused its own problems, you know,
Speaker 1: like just really cause its own problems, and any politics
Speaker 1: that tried to forge a more peaceful path for the
Speaker 1: people were.
Speaker 4: You know, effectively.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just caused such schisms in this society
Speaker 1: between those who wanted to maintain a more warlike path
Speaker 1: those who wanted to live peacefully in a more politically
Speaker 1: based system, that it just tore the people apart. We
Speaker 1: can the planetary system, and clearly Bo is like, there
Speaker 1: must be something about how we decide to govern ourselves
Speaker 1: that is essentially unstable, is basically interesting.
Speaker 4: And they arrive at the mines. There's an inscription there
Speaker 4: and Bo reads it. In part.
Speaker 1: It says, according to ancient folklore, the mines were once
Speaker 1: a mythosaur layer. Mandal Or the Great is said to
Speaker 1: obtame the mythical peace. And is from these legends that
Speaker 1: the skull signet was adopted and became the symbol of
Speaker 1: our planet. Din again shouts to whoever this actor in
Speaker 1: the suit is, whether it's Pager himself or whether it's
Speaker 1: the double, because you can feel the weight of the
Speaker 1: moment on Dinn. He's clearly very very emotional. Uh, this
Speaker 1: is it, this is what he has been waiting for.
Speaker 1: This is the moment of his redemption, of his cleansing.
Speaker 1: He takes off his cape, he takes off his weapons belt,
Speaker 1: he wades until the waters groove.
Speaker 4: But I guess, I guess he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Grogu is cooing. It's this huge, huge, weighty moment. Oh,
Speaker 4: this is awesome. We've done it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna bathe in the water. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, boom. Din is seemingly it doesn't look like
Speaker 1: he felt. It definitely looks like he's like he's pulled
Speaker 1: underneath the waters. Din is reciting the creed. I swear
Speaker 1: my name and my names of my ancestors, that I
Speaker 1: shall walk the way of the Mandlor, and then she'll
Speaker 1: be And then all of a sudden, he's seemingly drugged
Speaker 1: down under the water. Bo immediately without thinking and shouts
Speaker 1: to Bo, just dives in right after him.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Really cool moment where she's swimming through. They light it
Speaker 2: really well so you can really see this kind of
Speaker 2: huge action moment of us suit and Alma's.
Speaker 6: Going it's down, down, down, down, down, down down, And
Speaker 6: she finds them all the way at the floor of
Speaker 6: the Living waters cauldron or whatever it is, and she
Speaker 6: picks him up and swims up, and all you can
Speaker 6: see really in these dark waters is what's illuminated by
Speaker 6: her headlamp, and just as she is kind of going up,
Speaker 6: the headlamp illuminates a massive eye.
Speaker 1: It can only be the eye of the mithosaur. The
Speaker 1: misosaur is real, folks, And then they break the surface
Speaker 1: a little bomb and are just like.
Speaker 4: Holy shit, did we really see that?
Speaker 5: This is that? This?
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a huge can the altering reveal
Speaker 1: that the misassaur. It's something that they have been teasing
Speaker 1: for quite a while. We've seen Din in season one
Speaker 1: ride large beasts.
Speaker 2: Right, and they always talk about how he's going to
Speaker 2: be able to ride the largest of beasts, you know,
Speaker 2: And obviously the lot of that is leaning back to
Speaker 2: that really fun Star Wars Holiday special animated thing, but
Speaker 2: it hinted at something bigger, and the idea was that
Speaker 2: the mythosaur was either very extinct or very mythological, and
Speaker 2: the Mandalorians took it on as this symbol that we
Speaker 2: see that's the symbol of the Mandalorians, but nobody thought
Speaker 2: they were alive.
Speaker 4: Pretty amazing, I believe it.
Speaker 1: Now we've gotten a lot of Bo talks about it,
Speaker 1: a lot about the how divided the Mandalorian people, not
Speaker 1: just are now where they're basically on the brink of
Speaker 1: extinction at all times, but how divided they were for
Speaker 1: you know, many of the last years of of their society.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of legends tied up in the
Speaker 1: appearance of this mythosaur and who rides the mythosaur.
Speaker 4: Exactly we've seen him ride Bass. He also has the
Speaker 4: dark Saber.
Speaker 2: He's definitely riding that mythsaur, like absolutely no question whether
Speaker 2: it's that I think it, Oh maybe it was the
Speaker 2: baby imagine if.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm asking, it's because we've got I
Speaker 1: think we've got three, you know, main suspects of who's
Speaker 1: going to ride the Missisaur. It's one Din two Bo,
Speaker 1: who is real good with the dark Saber, has wielded
Speaker 1: it for a period of time, and you know it
Speaker 1: comes from the ruling a natural like ruling family of
Speaker 1: this place.
Speaker 4: And then you have the rookie Mandalorian, our.
Speaker 1: Beautiful Grogu who has yet to wield a lightsaber or
Speaker 1: the dark Saber or any kind of uh you know,
Speaker 1: light based weapon, but would be really fantastic atop that minisaur.
Speaker 1: I so I ask you, who who do you think
Speaker 1: is going to ride that misisi.
Speaker 4: I think Din is clearly the I think.
Speaker 2: Dan is the leading. I also think something I'd love
Speaker 2: about this is the Mythosaurs was like a Star Wars
Speaker 2: comic invention in like the seventies, and I love to
Speaker 2: see that kind of how these little seeds can become
Speaker 2: these huge parts of the stories, part of the myth
Speaker 2: of the Mythosaur. And we've seen it talked about in
Speaker 2: the show and in Cannon. Now is this idea that
Speaker 2: there was a time when, like many Mandalorians wrote them.
Speaker 2: So I wonder if we see all three, or if
Speaker 2: we see Dynn and the baby and then you know,
Speaker 2: Bo on her own mythosaur, this kind of idea of
Speaker 2: I love that reconnection.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean, you know, from the ground up,
Speaker 6: not just not just the rebirth of its people, not
Speaker 6: an ideology, but an actual I like a real rebirth
Speaker 6: of it.
Speaker 2: I would love to see it. I think it could
Speaker 2: be very cool. I definitely the question is now. I
Speaker 2: think there's been interviews recently where John Favreau is like,
Speaker 2: I don't know when it's end. It's not like they
Speaker 2: don't have a it's not like and or where they
Speaker 2: know where it's gonna end. So this show is going
Speaker 2: to go on. It's incredibly successful. I would love to
Speaker 2: see them right at Mithsol by the end of this season,
Speaker 2: but that's probably not gonna happen. But maybe maybe we
Speaker 2: will see Dinn have a moment of connection with a
Speaker 2: mythosaur or grogu or someone. Maybe we'll start to see
Speaker 2: that connection being built as the season goes on. But
Speaker 2: this is I mean this and the R five D
Speaker 2: four moments are like really big cannon reccons even though
Speaker 2: they seem really small, And that's what this show is
Speaker 2: so good at. But yeah, the mythosaur. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2: I love a giant beast, and I feel like they've
Speaker 2: been seeding it.
Speaker 4: I have a prediction.
Speaker 1: That's a mythosaur baby. I think that the were extinct,
Speaker 1: but their eggs were somewhere.
Speaker 2: Down Godzilla style and in the.
Speaker 1: Years after the purge, one or more as hatch and
Speaker 1: that is actually this is a little one.
Speaker 4: That's a small one. I love that one.
Speaker 2: That's a cool idea. Who doesn't love to see that.
Speaker 2: It's like everyone loves that in a Kaiju movie in
Speaker 2: Pacific Rim, you know, you get that thing of oh
Speaker 2: it's it's or even in the meg that really fun
Speaker 2: Megosaurus movie, Oh oh no, the Meg's coming, and then
Speaker 2: you're like, oh no, that's just the baby. The mom
Speaker 2: is coming, you know, the big monster. That would be
Speaker 2: really cool to see. Also, who wouldn't want to see
Speaker 2: Grogu riding a baby mythysaur. If there is a smaller
Speaker 2: mythosaur for him to ride, I would love to see
Speaker 2: him ride it while didn rides a big one. But yeah,
Speaker 2: this is huge. I'm very interested. I love this episode.
Speaker 2: I definitely feel like there's been a lot of conversation.
Speaker 2: I think for a lot of people, this leans into
Speaker 2: a bit more of that Boba Fet book of Bobafet
Speaker 2: style creature work, weird adventures, kind of like strange myths
Speaker 2: and lork.
Speaker 4: I love all that stuff.
Speaker 2: I love the pulpiness. So I really enjoyed it. I'm
Speaker 2: interested to see where the show goes next because This
Speaker 2: still feels very much in that vein of adventure and
Speaker 2: fun from the first episode, and I think people will
Speaker 2: probably be looking for a bit more meat on the
Speaker 2: Mandalorian bones going forward. So it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 2: how this redemption of Dinn, what happens now he's done it.
Speaker 2: That could have been a whole season journey, but now
Speaker 2: he is redeemed by the Creed.
Speaker 1: It feels like we are going to get some sort
Speaker 1: of crossover with the Book of Boba Fett, either characters
Speaker 1: or storyline, more than just what we've seen with these
Speaker 1: kind of like intersecting characters.
Speaker 4: But it does feel like and it'd be I'd be
Speaker 4: surprised if we didn't see Boba fet in this season
Speaker 4: like in the season, Yeah, it'll be. I would imagine.
Speaker 1: Dinn's very next move is to return to the Armor
Speaker 1: and announce to the coven there, to the gathered Mandalorians
Speaker 1: that Hey, our planet is livable, let's move back.
Speaker 2: What do you think they say? I'm really interested to think,
Speaker 2: like we know that they say, oh, this is the
Speaker 2: way the Armor sent in, then this is the way.
Speaker 2: But are they really gonna want to let him back in?
Speaker 2: Like does this idea of redemption fit with this more
Speaker 2: militant small community of Mandlow. That's what I'm most interested in.
Speaker 2: Maybe they'll say no, and then when he reveals the
Speaker 2: truth about the Mythosaur, they'll want to go or something.
Speaker 2: But I wonder if they're gonna just welcome him back.
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be controversial, and I think it
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see in miniature the kind of
Speaker 1: acrimonious fractures or apart the clam or in society before that.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be Maybe you might have some
Speaker 1: people that are like, yeah, didn't that sounds good? He's
Speaker 1: got the dark saber. Also, let's move back. And I
Speaker 1: think you're going to have other people say no for
Speaker 1: X y Z reason. But I think it's I don't
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a hard yes or a
Speaker 1: hard no. I think there's gonna be people on both
Speaker 1: sides of it. And I think it's going to take
Speaker 1: some outside thing that unites the Mandalorians that they have.
Speaker 2: To cit against.
Speaker 4: I don't know what that is yet.
Speaker 2: But also, Saul just ask a question which links to
Speaker 2: thing I've almost forgot to ask you. So Saua said,
Speaker 2: do you think Bo is going to go back to
Speaker 2: din with the armor right because Bo jumped into the
Speaker 2: waters of the minds of mandalor is she now redeemed?
Speaker 4: That's the thing because she saves Mandalorian, you have to
Speaker 4: do so.
Speaker 2: So I think that's a really big key question going
Speaker 2: into the next episode is does she choose to do that?
Speaker 2: Does she want to stay there? But that didn't spread
Speaker 2: the word? Does she embrace this as a new part
Speaker 2: of her life of being redeemed? I'm very interested in that. Also,
Speaker 2: I feel like the biggest thing here and we know
Speaker 2: that she's going to show up in Ahsoka, right, but
Speaker 2: the biggest thing that does still feel odd here is
Speaker 2: to have no hint of Sabine Wren not.
Speaker 1: Even that's that does bump me a little bit too,
Speaker 1: Like how do you hit because I would I'd be
Speaker 1: I guess I'd be surprised if Sabine showed up in this.
Speaker 2: I don't think she's going to show up, but I've
Speaker 2: had some good so a few different people have messaged
Speaker 2: and I think come up in this quart as well
Speaker 2: as like why hasn't there been a hint of like
Speaker 2: Sabine's art, yeah, you know, or something like some little
Speaker 2: visual nod and when will that happen? Because that really
Speaker 2: feels like the missing Mandalori, the missing part of the
Speaker 2: wider Mandalorian world.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, super fun episode Love Baby Yoda, Love Baby
Speaker 1: Yoda's Beautiful Eyes.
Speaker 4: Up next nerd Out.
Speaker 2: In today's nerd Out, where you tell us what you
Speaker 2: love them why, or a theory that you're excited to share.
Speaker 2: Swati and Emily are doing the latter, sharing a Mandalorian
Speaker 2: theory that they thought of after watching the premiere.
Speaker 1: In Book of Boba, Fette pas Vistla says, there are
Speaker 1: three of us now because the Covid got fucked somehow,
Speaker 1: and the Armor and paz Visla are hiding out in
Speaker 1: the space station. So who are these Mandos. In the
Speaker 1: opening scene of season three, my lady thinks they could
Speaker 1: be new recruits to the Children of the Watch, non
Speaker 1: Mandalorian recruited by the Armor and paz Visla, which would
Speaker 1: explain why they're so bad at fighting the Crocadle.
Speaker 4: Or maybe they were.
Speaker 1: Using existing Mandalorians who are now choosing to be part
Speaker 1: of the Children of the Watch. Would be curious to
Speaker 1: hear your thoughts as it does seem surprising. There were
Speaker 1: so many thanks, thank you Swaddy and Emily. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it makes sense that these.
Speaker 4: Are new recruits.
Speaker 1: The question is from where and where's all the best
Speaker 1: car coming from. I think some of them are survivors,
Speaker 1: like a handful of them would have to be also
Speaker 1: because they'd have to teach the others like how to
Speaker 1: be Mandalorians.
Speaker 4: But I think like that child.
Speaker 2: Is probably is that's again style.
Speaker 3: New.
Speaker 1: There also might be much like you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think that Bo lives alone on the entire planet of Kalavala.
Speaker 1: I think are probably othersn't probably other survivors, maybe even
Speaker 1: gone Cocordia.
Speaker 5: And so.
Speaker 1: I do think you're right though that these are probably
Speaker 1: new recruits, but to what end? And it would also
Speaker 1: it would also make sense that they're so they were
Speaker 1: just terrible at fighting that thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like that's the thing that really sells
Speaker 2: me about that is like they hadn't had enough training.
Speaker 2: They were just kind of spars and out. Yeah, Like
Speaker 2: I'm sure, I am sure that the world I feel
Speaker 2: like this has to connect to this kind of like
Speaker 2: almost a wider recognition of Mandalorians because of Boba Fett
Speaker 2: taking up his kind of residency and also having you know,
Speaker 2: surely the rumors have gotten around that there is a
Speaker 2: Mandalorian going around with the force sensitive baby.
Speaker 4: Yeah, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like, I feel like maybe the reawakening of even just
Speaker 2: the recognition of Mandalor and the fact that there are
Speaker 2: still active Mandalorians might also draw people out of hiding
Speaker 2: if they were survivors, or you know, enable people who
Speaker 2: maybe had wanted to join like the Mandalorian way before
Speaker 2: to kind of seek them out, or.
Speaker 1: If you listen, if your family were refugees from him
Speaker 1: and managed to get out during the purge, and you
Speaker 1: hear that.
Speaker 4: The Mandalorians, though still very very small.
Speaker 1: In numbers, are coming back, and in fact, as you know,
Speaker 1: the great example of this is a Mandalorian warrior who
Speaker 1: is currently a venturing on the galaxy, as you noted,
Speaker 1: with a full sensitive baby. You might think it's time
Speaker 1: to reconnect with my identity and my culture, and I
Speaker 1: want to find where this COVID is.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Especially actually, as we know, Bo mentioned as well
Speaker 2: that most of the Mandalorians who had followed, like most
Speaker 2: of her crew, they'd become like mugs so again that's
Speaker 2: people going around not necessarily following the secrecy of the way,
Speaker 2: talking about the things they've seen. I think it would
Speaker 2: be easy for those stories and the kind of legend
Speaker 2: that Mandalor is rising again to kind of get out there,
Speaker 2: which is very exciting and good for them.
Speaker 4: It's very exciting. Thank you Swadi and Emily. That was
Speaker 4: such a fun question.
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Speaker 5: Bye, Hey Mike, this is his stuff from Marin.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I want to talk about the living waters on the
Speaker 5: mines of Mandla today. Yeah, I just I wanted to
Speaker 5: make announcements. Some of you may know this that I
Speaker 5: had broken my creed is a member of the Mandalorian culture.
Speaker 5: And I took off my helmet. Okay, I took up
Speaker 5: my helmet. I was taken the Long Island Railroad back
Speaker 5: and I and I wanted to get get a little drink.
Speaker 5: As a long day at work, I was a little
Speaker 5: parched and I couldn't get the tall boy under the helmet,
Speaker 5: so I had to take my helmet off to drink it.
Speaker 5: All right, That's what happened. But listen, I just want
Speaker 5: everybody to know. I went on my own dime, flew
Speaker 5: over to Mandlow because I heard it's not cursed and
Speaker 5: poisoned anymore. That was some disinformation. We got some fake
Speaker 5: news out there that it was poisoned. It's actually fine.
Speaker 5: And I went over there and I went down to
Speaker 5: the mines and I and I bathed in the waters.
Speaker 5: It's what can I tell you. It's wet down there.
Speaker 5: It's really dark. It's under some buildings. If you just follow,
Speaker 5: you'll see water dripping from the ceiling off the surface
Speaker 5: of the planet. You just follow it down, you keep going.
Speaker 5: It's under there. So I just want everybody and I
Speaker 5: want to announce it here. I didn't take any pictures
Speaker 5: or anything like that, or any water samples because I
Speaker 5: frankly I forgot about it. But I just want everybody
Speaker 5: to know that I did go. I went, and I
Speaker 5: am redeemed now. So if anybody has any questions about that,
Speaker 5: Please just know that I did it. Okay, I'll take
Speaker 5: my answer off you.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mine,