WEBVTT - The Mandalorian and Grogu: Roundtable Discussion 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.960 Warning. Today's episode contains spoilers for the Mandalorian and Grogu. 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:23.280 Be warned. Hello, my name is Jason Concepcion. 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:24.759 Rosie Knight. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.920 I am welcome back to extur Vision of the podcast 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.440 where we dive deep. It's your favorite shows, movies, comics 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:32.120 of pop culture, Company from my Heart, where we're bringing 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:33.200 you three episodes a week plus. 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:34.400 News had Cool. 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.800 In today's episode, we'll be doing a spoiler filled deep 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:42.640 dive into The Mandalorian and Grogu, the first Star Wars 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.040 movie since twenty nineteen, and then we will bring in 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.680 some of our super producers for a roundtable discussion of 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.120 the movie, and I'm sure it will get delightfully heated. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.640 All right, let's get into it. The Mandalorian and Grogu, 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:02.040 the round table. Please, welcome to the program. Super producer Aaron, 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:03.240 Super producer Joelle. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:07.360 How are you. I'm kind of excited to talk about 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:11.559 this film, a film I had zero expectations for, left 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.640 delighted with, and then came out with some very uh 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.040 what I imagine will be polarizing opinions about the direction 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.880 of Star Wars. I'm oh, I'm glad to hear what everybody. 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.080 Thinks, let's first set the table. 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:25.280 Yes, waitport commute. 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.680 Oh yeah, yeah, I'm excited. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:28.920 You know. 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:30.960 I feel like there's a lot of times when I 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.840 come in and I, uh, maybe have a little different 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.759 opinion of a movie than everyone else, and I've been 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.040 on the opposing side of things, and I came out 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.480 of this movie and I was like, I enjoyed this 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.840 and I'm worried no one else is going to and 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:45.399 so x ray. 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:52.040 Vision it's good. It's good and glassy of approval, guys 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:52.600 on this one. 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.360 Let me set the table. The picture is set to 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:01.280 open memorially weekend. The projection look to be about eighty 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:05.800 plus million, that's per deadline. And just to kind of 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.800 set the stick, seventy four to ninety Slash Film says 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.280 ninety to one hundred box office pro Polymarket sets the 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:19.320 market at at thirty seven percent that it's below ninety 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.400 two million. So that's where the betting lines are. And 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:26.120 here are some important benchmarks. Solo is Star Wars story 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.680 open to one hundred and three on a four day weekend. 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.959 The rise of Skywalker and Solo is Star Wars story 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:35.880 that was seen. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.839 As the lowest three big end of the Star Wars 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:41.680 story spinoff ideas. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:42.679 It was bad. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.600 Rise of Skywalker won seventy seven point three, Rogue one 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.000 one fifty five, and just some other stuff. Mission Impossible, 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.840 Final Reckoning seventy nine million, seventy nine million, four Day 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:55.800 and Leelo and Stitch of one hundred and eighty two 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.040 Best Memorial Day ever. They get kind of the ceiling 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:03.400 and the floor. Oh okay, Mana Lloyd and Grog Joelle 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:05.079 your thoughts. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.600 Wow, what a fun ride. Remember when we found out 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.720 there was gonna be like a holked out sexy hot Yes, 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.880 we were gonna have at you guys, please. We found 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:20.359 that there's gonna be a sex hut in the movie, 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:21.799 and we were all very concerned. And then we found 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:23.280 out that the sex hu was being played by Jeremale 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:24.959 and White, and there were lots of questions. And I 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:26.440 have to say, at the end of the day, Big 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:30.600 Brother sex Hi, Wow, really nailed it. Really for the 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.280 monster girlies, y'all, y'all. 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.480 The hot fine, she loves Listen. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.480 I here's why I like her. Out of the Hut. 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:41.280 I have multiple thoughts about this one. I does this 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.640 not flesh out job of the Hut as a character? 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.200 A little bit for you, and isn't that an amazing thing? 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.120 I agree these additional Star Wars stories can do for us. 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.920 Is like fill in Backhan and love that too. If 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.520 there's anything Grogunes, it's that big brother energy. Okay, here's 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.800 a little guy taken on full blown missions. Okay, the 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:01.880 guy him in armor, he's a child soldier. For the 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.080 love of God, it's not great out here. Here's a 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.320 guy who's just like, nah, kid, you can sleep and 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.840 snack and be a kid. That's amazing. I love that 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:09.600 for Grogu. 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:10.560 Sorry. 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.640 I think the limitations of Rada make him a really 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:19.000 interesting character because he's a big CGI character. He stays 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.000 behind a lot and acts as like an anchor as 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.040 a big D and D player. I like when there's 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:28.040 like a sort of formulated strategy role for every fighter 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.400 in your party and the fact that Rada is your 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.679 anchor and just holding down the foregat. That really worked 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.720 for me. At first time he's like, oh no, he's 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.200 not able to do much. And when he's fighting in 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.680 the pigaddamn, that was thrilling. I think Rada works as 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:45.640 both a lure further into the story and for possible 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.240 futures of like where the story could go. When we 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.360 go get back into our animated bag, you'll be able 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.280 to do a lot more with Rada, So I found 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.320 him interesting overall. You know, I really enjoyed this movie. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.040 I thought it was fun. I'll get into it more 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.960 a little later, but I think the be a step 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.400 of this do I mean, you know, back in the day, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.240 you have your A film play, then you have your 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.440 B film play. Your A film is what brought people 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.159 in your B film maybe say around it's kind of horror. 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.000 A lot of Star Wars is based on sort of 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:16.240 these like be campier films, and I think that this 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.560 movie plays into those tropes quite well, and I had 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:20.599 a lot of fun watching. 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:20.960 Yeah. 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:25.159 So recently, for the first time ever, the truly original 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.200 theatrical cart of Star Wars has been shown right at 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.960 the BFI, and people said they were pretty blown away 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.640 by just how minimal the effects are and how jang 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.280 it looks in hindsight, because it was originally a low 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.520 budget movie that was then you know, reevaluated because it 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.880 was such a huge hit and it was just spoke 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.039 to people. So I think in that way as well, 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:49.160 like remembering that not like not every Star Wars piece 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:53.600 is like a generation movie, is a generational, life changing masterpiece, 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.560 as much as we might want it to be. Now, 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.400 Wh're you know, ten movies deep, and I think we 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.520 can say that they're a bit more inconsistent. I think 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.520 the b movie of it all is what I enjoyed too, Aaron, 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:04.280 what about you. 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.600 I think that the movie starts off and I was 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.200 thrilled to see that everything we'd seen clip wise it 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.120 felt like it had come from those first fifteen minutes 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.000 and it was like, Okay, it's very surprising, bigger movie 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.400 than I was expecting. I think I had low expectations 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.320 going in, and it definitely unlocked a lot beyond what 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:28.080 I was expecting. I think there were some things that 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:33.599 felt too foloniesque and that he's just he can't help 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.160 but reference the past and be so tied to the 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.400 past of Star Wars, and that was some of the 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.680 stuff that I disliked the most. But for me, the 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.600 big winner and the thing that I'll talk about later 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.360 for sure, the score of this movie was incredible to 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:54.400 like the Gang, this is I think his greatest score ever, 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.880 Like I wow, yes, and like we can talk about 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:02.000 it later more. But I think that adds like if 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.000 we're rating this out of ten, that gives it an 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.400 additional one to one and a half stars for me 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:08.040 because of how amazing this. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.000 I do think it is like a vangelist doing Blade 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.400 Runner level score, Like there are moments when they are 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.880 in these futuristic cities and you hear the soundscapes that 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.080 Ludwig creates and you are just like, wait, I'm watching 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.080 like history, Like I'm watching a moment that people will remember. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:26.960 It is really cool. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.840 I completely agree with you with that. I need to 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:34.360 process if I agree with his best score ever, but 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:40.320 I will say it's eighties in the best way, yes, 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.240 And you can feel these like homages to different like 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.800 horror and sci fi and action movies within it, and 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:52.880 at the same time it's like not derivative, you know. 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.640 So he must have had a blast writing this. Just 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.240 listening to every line he's writing, it really is. 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:00.600 Yeah, I knew. 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:02.679 I just don't think you could. I think the Black 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.960 Panther score is like so legendary. I just think it's 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.640 like hard for me to compare it. But at the 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.080 same time, I do think that at multiple times throughout this, 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.600 me and Ian and even me and my younger nephew 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.600 who was there. We looked at each other and we're like, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.280 oh my god, Ludwig. Like it was standing out in 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.000 a way that John Williams stands out or Han Zima 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.800 stands out. It did feel like you were listening to 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.120 even if you don't like the movie. I don't think 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.840 anyone's gonna say the score isn't incredible, you know. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.600 Yeah, yeah, And like he took a lot of risks 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:37.439 that I was worried about. When certain pieces started, I 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.560 was like, Oh, is this is he really? And then 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.959 I've settled into it and I was like, Wow, the 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.120 way he's incorporating the theme into this, the way he's 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.280 incorporating three notes from the. 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:47.199 Theme into this. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.000 I mean, I think the score just that that has 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:52.480 more than any other movie I've seen in the last 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.040 few years. The score just blew me away on first watch. 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.679 Can I can I push back slightly on I think 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.800 the score is amazing. Yeah, I do think as a 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:08.280 as a film score buff I do believe that there 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:12.520 is like a sweet spot where if you notice the score, 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:17.319 it's either too good or terrible. Okay, true, And I 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:21.240 do think that I think that this this is one 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.679 of those scores that like elevates the movie in the 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:30.320 way that like, uh, you know Morricone's Untouchables, Like yeah, 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.360 like that elevates that movie. John coppinha it almost makes 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.600 me feel like the score is a little too good 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:37.240 for the movie. 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:38.679 But I agree with you. 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.959 I think that I think that it's a mark. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:42.200 I think it's. 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:47.280 Sixty verse forty percent. Yes, I was just saying exactly 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:53.440 versus forty, Like the movie is not at the level 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.280 of the score, but it's a good movie. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:59.160 It should be like fifty two. The score is incredible. 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.280 Yes, yes, this is nit picking. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:19.480 It's a good movie, but no, no, but. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.080 I think you actually touched on something really special here. 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.040 You know what else I think is about the soundtrack 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.160 that I'd be interested to know if you guys agree 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.640 with I kind of feel like, you know, Ludwig has 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:31.760 done so many incredible movies and they are some of 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.360 the biggest movies in the world. So it's not like 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.199 he's unknown, right, but he is known for kind of 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.319 experimental stuff. He's known for working with Ryan Coogler. That's 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.720 what he's best known for. This does feel like essentially 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:46.439 a portfolio work for him, because you get these like 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:51.160 incredible synthy eighties, like you could be working on a 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:55.280 blade run a TV show, you could be doing afrofuturism, 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.439 you could be doing dystopia. But then also, and this 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.240 is something we haven't really touched on that I think 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:01.839 is part of why I love the movie, and I 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.360 think why a lot of us enjoyed it, which is 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:08.920 the practical stuff. When he starts doing the Grogu's doing 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.160 magic in the forest and you haven't seen a human 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:16.520 for ten minutes, He's doing like John William's fucking level magical, 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.800 classical composing that makes you feel like you are watching 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.400 Dark Crystal, like you are watching Legend or Willow for 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.959 the first time. So I think, like the absolute range 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.040 that he shows here, it also does probably explain why 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.120 for some people the movie feels a little bit of 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.680 a lot of tones, because as you we're. 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.400 Describing a lot of tones, I was gonna say, like, 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.800 let's give the movie a little bit trouble that his 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.679 score is able to do all those things, because the 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.280 movie does hit a lot of different moments. You have 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.079 for a movie where I feel like, frankly, I only 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.800 cared about three characters to have so many different vibes 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:57.199 throughout works. It well three if you count all the 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:58.160 Bible fricks. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.480 As well well Vanza yeah. 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.920 Obviously, obviously, Okay, let's let's sorry, go ahead, eron no no, yeah, yeah. 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:08.760 So it just hits so many different things. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:14.000 Let's talk about our three favorite things from the movie. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.000 Any three favorite things, Rosie, Let's start with you. What 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.120 are your three favorite things about this movie? 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.439 The baby? Obviously, baby, the baby. You know what, there 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.280 was a great tweet that everyone's been sharing, and it's 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.360 the video of the baby on the red carpet and 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.920 a guy sorry to this man that I don't remember 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.120 his handle, but he says, he's like, I don't know 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.120 what it is. Man, I should be sick of him, 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.360 but he's still got it. And that's how I feel 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:43.239 about the baby. Like, but they created something so enchanting, 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:48.120 with so much personality, and it is showcased at all 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.520 times in this This is not your you know, even 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:52.920 though I was a kid when I saw this, so 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:54.480 I thought it was pretty cool. But this is not 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.120 like Yoda doing backflips with a lightsaber. Everyone's going to 0:12:58.160 --> 0:12:59.720 be like, why did you do that with the character. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.920 We worried it was gonna be a bit like suddenly 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.160 the baby has to drive a car, he's going crazy, 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.520 But it's very much an understanding of exactly what makes 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.560 the character lovable. Like this movie has some crazy action 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.599 sequences that my nephew sitting next to me said, the 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.680 man Laurian might be the most badass mother. He didn't 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.240 swear because he's a good boy in the world. But 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.760 you know what his favorite scene was. His favorite scene 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:28.040 was the scene where baby Yoda armors up and is 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:32.040 like putting on their own Like even a twelve year old, 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.520 even a kid who's going into puberty, who does love 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.000 the shooting, who does love the nineties action vibes, the 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.760 thing that moves them is this creature because it feels 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.840 like you're seeing something that you couldn't see in real life. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.760 You know it, but it feels real, And I think 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.800 that's the magic of cinema. So definitely that the Anzaliens. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:52.000 I think all the sequences where it's just puppetry, like, 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.000 I think there is a five star movie here that 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.880 could be seen as like a Dark Crystal level success. 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.480 I also will recognize Dark Crystal is a huge financial 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.840 flop at the time. We've never had a big puppeteering 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:04.679 movie that's really made a lot of money like that 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.599 that wasn't also heavily cgi like Jurassic Park, but like 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.240 it is so magical and like there are those moments 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.800 in the forest where the baby's sitting and he's meditating 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:18.280 and the Anzalians are talking. There were like full throated, 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.240 whole movie theater laughs, like but not like, oh it's 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.000 a quippy Josh Whedon thing you're meant to laugh at. 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.640 Just people literally like unable to contain their laughter because 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.680 the performance with the puppets is so funny and so lifelike. 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.560 That stuff, to me is what elevated this movie to 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.640 where I think it's worth all of us having a 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.160 round table talking about where we like it because everyone else, 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:42.160 you know, other people don't like it. And a lot 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:43.720 of times I'll be like, well, maybe it's just not 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.000 for me, but I think that is truly magic in 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.880 those scenes. So yeah, all the practical stuff. And also, 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.800 you know what, Pedro Pascal, he's still great in this movie. 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.360 He reminds you why you love him. Him and the 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:58.320 baby have absolutely great chemistry. They keep the dad stuff 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.320 just enough on the side where you want a bit 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.840 more of it, like it's cute. They don't overplay it. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:06.640 And I do think even though rot of the Hut 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.600 was not particularly for me, I think again, Pedro really 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:15.960 his emotional side came out to look off the Rota, 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.720 and I loved, like even I loved the moment where 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.000 he said to the baby, go get Rotta, like, go 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.200 save him. I love a found family, you know, so, 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.040 so I think really it's I could Pedro be the 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.800 one human I would allow in this movie if I 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.080 did my version, which is just all puppets. But I 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:32.960 actually don't think you need any humans. I think that 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.000 Dave Filoni wants to make a puppet movie and we. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:35.800 Should let him. 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:37.600 And then he won't put himself in it three times 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.240 because he won't be a poonty, because he he'll make 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:41.200 himself a puppet. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:44.160 They'll wear the hat too. 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.640 Definitely, Joelle, your your top three favorite things? 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:53.520 Yeah, piggybacking off of the baby, the babies. We got 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.880 a hot baby who was super cute. Who if you 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.040 watch Clothes Doors, you've seen Runda before when he was 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:01.080 a little baby. You know, he made me get a 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.720 Rodian baby, which is a Gredo's species. At one point 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:09.240 in the show so cute. Please continue to make more 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.400 alien babies and put them in movies for me to 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.760 be like, oh my god, they're so cute. Really genuinely 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.840 had a good time with all of the creature work. 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.240 To expand out from there. I think my favorite was 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:24.040 the swamp gator alien who I'm sorry I don't be 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:28.160 able to find. Yeah, yeah, what species he is? But 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.560 I thought like, he's just really fun. I love a 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:35.880 bayou moment. It doesn't matter like sci fi actually in 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:41.160 w Orleans. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.920 Yeah, he just catfish guy. 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.480 He kind of absolutely yeah. I thought he was divine, 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:51.000 just just from a creature work, design aesthetic like, I 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:55.840 thought he was an excellent character. Add on and three, 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:59.120 I really liked when Mando was knocked out and we 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:03.040 get suspended so much time with Grogu just navigating the 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.000 world like we see our boys growing up. He could 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.280 create a shelter. He doesn't have good depth yet. Okay, 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.680 he's figuring it out. There were some knocks on the head, 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:15.400 but he tried. I love that he like disobeyed orders 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.119 to stay behind. He's like, absolutely not. We are a 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.200 family unit. You could try to sacrifice yourself I'm not 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.040 gonna let you. I just thought that whole sequence of 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.720 him surviving protecting Mando as far as like, what is 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.320 this movie doing for this portion of the franchise? 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:30.560 Right? 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.400 Like, I was really nervous when they were like those 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:33.960 are gonna be TV series and then we smashed it 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:35.320 into a movie. I was like, Oh, this is gonna 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.639 be a mess, or it'll feel too much like a 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.040 TV show. They're just trying to project in a movie theater. 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.080 But actually, for my money, and I know not everyone agrees, 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.719 but I thought this was like a really great arc 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.680 for these two characters. It was simple but clean, and 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.919 what it really reinforces is like, not only are these 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:57.119 guys like family and together, but like Grogu's growing up 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.639 into a Mandalorian and it's like a little bit of 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.480 thing to watch, I think, because there's still this anticipation 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.159 of he's so connected to Yoda, and I feel like 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:09.280 he became more Grogu and like just Grogo. 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.159 He doesn't use the falsest much, so is he richly 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.879 like growing up when we say growing up, So like 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:18.440 one hundred two hundred. 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.560 Time I thought he was gonna speak, I thought he'd 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:23.560 a word in this movie. 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:25.840 He had said that too. We thought he was gonna 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:27.359 maybe and. 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:31.359 It was giving Like Yoda in his most like meditating space, 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:33.600 I was like, oh, will he'd be meditating in the 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.840 swamp and like finally start to speak. I'm okay that 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.680 he didn't. I do think one hundred and fifty issues 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.760 when we'll start to see you, like, you know, if 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:43.560 we're gonna be like doing human years like a ten 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.480 or eleven year old Grogu who can like speak and 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.000 have his own thoughts and all of this stuff. But uh, 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.680 his growth here was delightful. I think he's coaching toddler 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:52.520 stage and it's nice. 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:56.359 Yeah, Yoda was like eight hundred nine hundred, that's what 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:57.160 are yours? 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:57.400 Again? 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.840 So say the babies, I would say the creature work, 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.200 and then I would say the just the entire sequence 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:09.200 of grom Aaron. 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:14.960 The score number one, number two. I loved the continuation and. 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:20.280 Evolution of Mando and Grogu's storyline and their growth. I 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.400 absolutely lost it at I'm gonna I'm like gonna lose 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.800 it saying it again at the young or the old 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:28.399 take care of the young, and then the young take 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.639 care of the old. I thought that was the best 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:35.720 like use of this is the way in a in 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.520 a new element that we haven't seen in previous you know, 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.760 iterations of that phrase. So that was you know, we 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.560 got some fun stuff like Joel was mentioning with Grogu 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.080 hidding his head like over and over again. Then we 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:51.720 got like the incredibly sweet him like getting in under 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.840 his arm to fall asleep kind of thing. So like, 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.720 I loved that whole section and that segment, and I 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:01.000 think that I felt like a lot of this move that. 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.120 My third thing is that this movie wasn't too goofy 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.359 and silly while still being what I would say is 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:08.000 a kid's movie. 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:12.200 Like we we didn't have three or four jokes about 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:13.600 Grogu wanting to eat something. 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.080 We got two and like or maybe it was three, 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.240 but it didn't feel like there were too many of 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.840 those jokes, like any. 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:23.680 Fart jokes or anything like that. Yeah, that's a really 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:25.639