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Warning, 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.159 this podcast canning spoilers for season three, episode three of 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:38.320 The Mandalorian. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.080 Hello. My name is Jason Concepcion and I'm Rosey Knight, 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:00.640 and welcome to story Vision. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.760 The Crooked media podcast where we dive deep but to 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.320 your favorite shows, movies, comics, and pop culture. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.720 In this episode, we are stepping out of the airlock 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:13.679 and into an unexpectedly diverted episode of. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:15.560 The Mandalorians Dorian. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.600 One might say it was very Andorian season three episode 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.920 of The Mandalorian, though there is very little Mandalorian and 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.800 even less Baby Booo. But it's a good episode in 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.160 that out listener, I has thoughts about The Mandalorian season 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:29.880 three episode two from last. 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:35.920 Week, and uh, as always, if you want to jump around, 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.280 check the show notes for the time stance. We understand 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.000 there have been some issues with the timestamps and their accuracy. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.600 We're working on it, but it's somewhat out of our hands. 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:46.200 Just bear with us. 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:58.160 Up next to the airlock, stepping out of the airlock 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:05.360 and back onto the beautifully constructed surface of coruscon thriving 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:11.440 the duel of the galaxy for season three, episode three 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.960 of The Mandalorian on Disney Plus, Chapter nineteen, The Convert 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:19.000 written by Noah Clurer and John Favreau, directed by Academy 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:24.120 Award nominee Lee Isaac Chung. Folks, let's get into it, 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:28.920 so we we open up right after we ended the 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.240 previous episode by the living waters under the mines of Mandalor. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.040 Din wakes up beside Bokatan, who just saved his life. 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:42.679 Grogu is very cutely standing over him, looking concerned, and 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.440 Dinn's very very first thought, first thing on his lips, 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:47.760 I am redeemed. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:48.480 He's just it. 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:52.600 He's like he's ready, I know it's happened. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.520 Boagrees, and she's like, yeah, you did it. You you 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:57.560 bathe in the living waters. 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:02.240 And it's very clear that Dinn passed out before the mythica, 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:06.840 and so Bo is just ready to get out of 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.520 there because she's really processing what she saw. She says, 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:14.000 can we leave? Din wisely takes a vial of the water. 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:14.639 Is proof? 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.200 Wisely? I say yeah, especially as we just wouldn't have gone. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:22.120 So he really like he made it. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.400 Well, if you're going to go get the proof. Also, 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.320 this will be a retiring question in this episode, but Bogatan, 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.240 why keeping that mythoso safe? Why keeping a secret? 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:33.280 I want to know? 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:37.200 It's very very interesting to me. More on that in 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:42.680 a bit. Uh Bo then quizzes Din a little further, 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:44.760 you know, like did you see anything at all? Are 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.160 you sure you didn't see anything before you you know, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.160 like before you passed out. He's like, no, not at all, 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.440 and then uh he says, well, I did see like 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:53.960 a chasm of some kind. 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.520 It was so deep, It was so deep down. 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.920 And she says, well, maybe the Imperial bombs, you know, 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.680 during the purge must have opened a fissure or something 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:06.400 like that. Anything anything alive or anything. Nope, Okay, They 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:12.280 head back to Kalavalah to get Mando's ship in thanks bow. 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.520 They both give you know, the their cursory this is 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:21.240 the ways, and just then Grogu says something in a 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.839 very kind of cute all as always, but serious tone 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.560 as well. And then right then the ship comes under 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.200 attack from Thai interceptors, the kind of upgraded. 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:31.919 Gun tie fighters. 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.640 I'm really at this stage in the timeline, we know 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:39.440 that those are probably connected to mof Gideon or his 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.799 little cult. This is not like a normal empire attack. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:49.520 There's a lot of mention of imperial warlords, these kind 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.080 of like remnants of the Empire that splintered off to 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:56.359 kind of like do their own thing. And the idea is, 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.240 you know, I think, uh, you know, the at least 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.479 the idea that they Bo and Dinner probably dealing with 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.200 is maybe this is something like that or mof Gideon. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.239 Mando gets on the guns, Boh stays on the stick. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.039 Really cool sequence where Bo brings the ship screaming over 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:17.000 her castle and Mando drops out of a door of 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.000 the ship using his jets so you can get in 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:20.400 the end one. 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:21.200 It's super cool. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:26.600 Grogho, you know, flipping the cover of this little pod closed, 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.960 and then we get a really great dog fight. Great 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.040 for everyone except for our five and the Ties themselves. 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.600 Our five is like not ready for this level of stress. 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:38.280 He is an anxious boy. 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.080 We get a trademark Star Wars Canyon Run. Is it 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:43.880 even a Star Wars dog. 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:45.520 F there's no canyone, I don't think so. 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.960 I feel like the guys at ILM who are really 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:51.479 showing their skills him. Yeah, this is another episode where 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.080 I'm like, I feel like the way they're diverting money 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:59.640 to the MCU and to Star Wars is not making sense. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.839 But I'm happy with how good the Mandalorian looks. It 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:03.480 also might. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.560 Because ILM is like probably doing a lot of this 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.440 work in house or at least designing it, that this 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.040 shit looked so good. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:11.280 It looks if you watched it. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.960 On an Imax you would be like, this is fucking unbelievable, 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.640 Like it is trademark really Star Wars action. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.160 It doesn't look two CG. Yeah, any top of quality 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:20.720 it is. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.560 Yeah, it's this is epic and I'm I love I 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.640 imagine that there's like a little board ILM and they're 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.520 like Canyon Run, Like if there's a film that has 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:30.680 to be a canyon run, like. 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.000 I mean, it would not shock me. 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:36.919 I'm sure somebody with more technical skills could do this, 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.640 but I'm sure they have templates for like seven different 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.880 canyon runs sitting in your computer animation files. So they 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.520 just go put another canyon run, put another put just 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.320 reskin it differently and then put it in anyway, it 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:55.200 looked great. They fall into a really easy chemistry Bow 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.640 and Mando. Bow leads the ties while Mando comes up 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.640 behind them to pick them off one by one. Then 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.720 finally to take out the last one, Bo pulls it, 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.360 hits the brakes, pulls a one to eighty, takes out 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.839 the last tie fighter as our five completely just blacks 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.320 out from stress. 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.920 Mad for him, it's like, though, you know those videos 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.360 of people who go on those catapults at carnivals, Yeah, 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.760 they just and they just pass out. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:24.440 That's off five. In this moment, He's like, nah. 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.680 Certainly he would not have wanted to see the next thing, 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:31.560 which is Bo's castle, get completely wiped out by a 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:37.120 further squadron of ties. Bo is At first, I was like, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.720 Bo's gonna be mad about like the people that live 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.440 and work in her house. But she's I think she 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.280 was really just more mad about the house. 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:46.360 She's mad about the house. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.720 And like the funny thing is like in her like, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:52.880 let's put it in in the Edcomma's defense, like we've 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.640 only seen droids in that I would be sad about 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.520 the droids. Bo, you should be sad, but like we 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:00.680 haven't seen it flog. But she just cause she's like, 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.760 that was my castle. Do you know how it is 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.440 to come across a castle in the galaxy when all 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.280 your people have left you and you had apostate But 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:10.320 I had a castle. 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.440 It's gone. And this is like, okay, this is. 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:17.880 A big barrage, Like this is I mean, they this 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:19.520 meant a lot of bombs blowing out. 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.000 This is the first hint and I think the biggest 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:27.239 direct kind of connection to what this episode is really about, 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.040 which is what we're going to skip to in a minute, 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.200 because like, as they point out, they say, like that's 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.120 a lot of ships for an imperial warlord, and you 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.559 got to think, like who has that many ships and 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.640 who would waste that many bombs on this? 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:45.240 And it certainly seems like something beyond Mofkeineon's pay grade. 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:46.800 Bo is furious. 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.520 She wants to take out the ties and bombed her house. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.400 But you know, there's a whole hornets worth of ties 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.960 coming at them, and so Mando sends both some cordinates 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.480 and they jump hyperspace to go somewhere. We go to 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:06.840 Danda Da Da Coruscant. We see our good friend and 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.840 mortal enemy. And mortal enemy I use that, I use 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:15.040 that phrase, you know, Catholic. Yeah, our friend Doctor Pershing, 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:19.320 former Imperial collaborator, former will put in air quotes, is 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.839 speaking before a large audience at the Opera House from 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:25.680 the Revenge of the sith Uh. He is free and 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.920 able to give these public talks that are very very 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.120 well attended thanks to the amnesty program that the New 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.680 Republic runs, which allows those who cooperated with the Empire 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:41.320 and its remnants to join New Republic society. Doctor Pershing says, 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.320 there were many of us who had no choice, none, 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.560 I say, in working for the Empire. But now the 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.160 New Republic has given us a second chance. 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.120 Yeah, I would just say, just in case you don't 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.480 immediately recognize him, you lost saw him. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.319 He was doing days German. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.840 They the baby at the behest of Werner Herzog. So 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.280 this is not like this is not like a stormtrooper 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.199 who was like kidnapped or drafted in or something. This 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:12.000 is a scientist who is using his science to test 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.240 on the world's cutest baby, the galaxy's cutest baby. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.480 But you know he wants a second chance. 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.760 This is very interesting to learn about this amnesty, and 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:23.079 I think this episode has some quite interesting I really 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.440 like that me too. I also think this episode has 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.560 some interesting parallels with our other Pagro show that we 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.360 just said goodbye to the Last of Us when it 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.839 looks at like the way that people take over and 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:39.080 change from like fascistic regimes. There's lots of interesting and 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:40.840 all kind of comparisons in this. 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.840 This is an episode that is a lot about bureaucracy. 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.120 Everyone's favorite Star Wars topic. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.960 Definitely George Lucas's favorite Star Wars topic. 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:50.760 It's feeling very prequels. 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:58.280 Baby Pershing admits that his former research was cruel or 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:04.080 at least was employed for cruel means in cruel ways, 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:08.880 and he lays all the responsibility for that quote. Someone 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.400 intent on using cloning technology to secure more power for himself, 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.360 probably talking about maf Gideon, but who knows. 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.920 Yeah, and also, let's remember the last time in the 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:23.160 Star Wars canon that we saw somebody return via a 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:24.160 cloning technique. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.880 Let's more on that in a bit. Let's let's put 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.839 a pin on that for now. But I think a good. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.960 Thing to be thinking about. Doctor Pershing then continues it. 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.680 You know, he hopes that he'd be able to use 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:40.920 his skills as a genetic scientist to help the New Republic, 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.880 and he talks about in a very Elizabeth Holmes moment. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.600 He talks about the loss of his mother and how 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.720 her organ cloning. You know, if only I could have 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:52.120 cloned a new heart for her. 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:53.360 Could have saved her life. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.640 Pershing's work, which is, you know, built on the foundation 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:02.959 laid by the camino In researchers, who of course produced 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:08.040 and delivered the cloned Soldiers prequel Siren Gards. 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:08.280 Again. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:15.480 Yeah, it is all about splicing the DNA dunt dunt 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:21.640 dum of numerous individuals together to create a single, stronger 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.760 genetic sequence in one individual. 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.400 Sound familiar, sound familiar. 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.280 We'll go into that in more detail quite soon after 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.920 the speech. Pershing hop knobs with some of the New 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:38.120 Republic elites. They're feeding him they think it's wonderful what 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:42.480 he's talking about. However, these are like the most cynical 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:46.360 politicians imaginable. They were politicians under the public, under the Empire, 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.120 and now under the new Republic, to the point where 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.880 one of these uh, these elites can't even remember like 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.600 event one, which which one was? Which his wife has 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.880 to be like, no, no, no, honey, that was the Republic. 0:12:57.920 --> 0:12:59.839 Oh yeah, who can even who can even do? 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.360 They will live in life, they will live in the 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.199 high life. No, ma, who was in charge? That's right, 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:06.959 and that's still living now. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:08.120 That's correct. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:12.520 And they see in Pershing something of a reflection of 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:17.720 maybe a lesser evolved version of themselves, survivors who just 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.360 want to do what they do and don't really care 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.600 who's paying the bills as long as they keep getting 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.360 to do it, whether it's acquiring wealth or getting to, 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:32.360 you know, attend fancy talks at the opera house, or, 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.520 in the case of Pershing, performing grotesque genetic experiment on 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:41.400 very very cute babies. How Da, Pershing lives at Amnesty House, 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.600 which is kind of halfway house. He arrives home late 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.120 that night and he he gets to meet some of 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:53.760 the fellow former Imperials who also live there. Everyone has 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.679 to wear like a kind of like dumbed down version 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.640 of their old uniform, same kind of cut, with these 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:03.800 special red pins that identify them as ex imperials. They 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.520 invite him Pershing for a drink, and Pershing recognizes one 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.520 of them, G sixty eight from mof gideon Ship. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:13.319 They used to work together. The mention of Gideon kind 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:14.880 of changes the mood. 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:20.120 We learned that he was on trial for war crimes, 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.440 for crimes against the galaxy, but as either escaped or 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:27.240 that's a cover story for him dying while being mind flawed. 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:28.880 No one really knows. 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:33.320 G sixty eight then makes all the right you know, 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.960 makes all the right kind of notions about integrating with 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.600 the New Republic and how important that is to her, 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.040 But she does it in a very kind of robotic 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.320 way that makes you think, like, does she really want 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:46.280 to integrate with the rule? 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.680 Yeah? K, And then they then toast to the new Republic. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.880 Kat E O'Brien is so great in this role she 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:55.640 played with Kerrella in Aman and the Wasp Quantumnia. She's 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.520 so good is she's so menacing. I just want to 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.880 say something. I'm not trying to get back on a 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.360 Arlene's style hype against the New Republic. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.040 But I will say. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:08.400 If you want to instill loyalty and give people a 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.440 feeling of some kind of redemption or a part of 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.040 being able to be part of society, probably like let 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.360 them use their names and don't give them Stormtrooper esque 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.400 like numerical kind of I think that that. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.760 I understand. This is early day, So the point is 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:24.520 this is all. 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.200 Bureaucratic, right, and everyone's trying stuff out, So this is 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:28.600 like you've got so many people. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:29.680 They even make a point. 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.280 About that, But like G sixty eight, I'm like, you 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.000 could just be like you're not part of the Empire. 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.560 Now now you get a name, Like now you can 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.760 what's your name? I feel like there's many interesting This 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.960 is a This is very Andorian because there's a lot 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:46.440 of stuff in this that is about the Republic trying 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.120 its best but still making some of the same mistakes 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.320 as the Empire, and I think they're much smaller mistakes. 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.280 But I found this to be a very interesting one, 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.440 especially the arc that the characters go on this episode. 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.360 I'm going to stick up for the New Republic here. 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.120 I do agree that this is it's dehumanizing, and it's 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:07.080 unnecessarily so. But even but as the imperials themselves note, 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.440 if this had been in the empire in charge, all 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.680 the ex republic soldiers would have just been fallen into 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:18.240 a Sarlac pitt and you know, executed en mass in 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.080 their millions and billions. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:21.200 Probably it's a very good point. 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.560 So so this is actually like not a you know, like, okay, 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.400 it's a miss here with the with the numerical names, 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:32.720 but they are working to integrate them into new Republic society, 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.520 and you have to you have to hand it to them. 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:38.280 You absolutely have to hand it to them, where you 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.360 do not absolutely have to hand it to money. I 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.040 will not hand it to the Republican Republic, but I 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:44.840 will let you hand it to them. But also I 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.520 will say this scene is so good ten out of ten. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:51.280 All these actors. They bring such an interesting like depth. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.240 It's very quiet, it's very Andorian, it's very much in 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:58.520 this kind of morally gray area of there are you 0:16:58.520 --> 0:16:59.160 can see like. 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:02.960 And G sixty eight as we will call her. 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.639 They were quite high up. But it seems from the 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.320 others that you might have some like stormtroopers here some grunts, 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.239 some people who really probably didn't want to be in 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:14.320 that situation, and there's this kind of like real grounded 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:16.480 honesty to this scene. 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.080 I was just really, this was when the switch. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:22.280 Between what we usually expect from the Mandalorianto. This, this, 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.200 this kind of seemed really sold it to me. X 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:36.320 Ray Vision will be back, and we're back. 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:40.040 They all start reminiscing about stuff they missed from the Empire, 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.480 and they're careful to be like not the not the 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:43.440 destroying planets. 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:50.080 Don't say like yeah yeah, don't yeah yeah, like the 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.879 Gray Socks, the Gray Special, the hot water Pressure was 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:55.520 really really good on the store. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.639 It's like it's really I actually thought that was a 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.000 really great moment as well to highlight this like weird, 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.400 complex situation that the New Republics got themselves into. Because 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:08.879 immediately Pashon's like, well, you know, I just loved and 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.320 they're like no, no, no, don't say. 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.480 Anything about it. No no, no, you're talking about like you 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:14.520 loved having the science to test on a baby. Like 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:16.160 now they're like, yeah, they'll. 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.560 Talk if they're like, we don't want to erase your experience, 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.720 but also like don't talk about genocide. Just be like, yeah, yeah, 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.240 the mundane day to day things you know that you 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.639 missed living under the Empire. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.480 Yeah, the Empire had a box at the pod races 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:31.320 and exactly like you get to go. 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:35.600 Like sitting and looking out at the galaxy in the messo, 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:37.840 like those are the kind of things they're looking for. 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.760 And hilariously, I guess it turns out they weren't actually 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:43.600 many good things about the Empire, just one and they. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.680 All agreed and pushing brings it up. It's the biscuits, 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:51.439 the travel biscuits in your little mual ration kit apparently 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:52.879 quite good. 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.280 Yeah, one of them's like I don't want it. I 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.600 don't want it, but the other ones, like these were banging. 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:02.840 They mostly agreed later that night. Pershing is like reading 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:06.720 up on the culture and society of Coursan, just trying 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:08.920 to get acclimated, you know, the big city. She spent 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:12.080 so much time kind of ensconced on a ship that 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:13.679 in a lot of a lot of ways is like 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.199 a small city that flies through the space, you know. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:17.160 But like now he's on. 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:21.200 This huge, vast planet size city and he's feeling out 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.720 of place, and he's reading about it when there's a 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:26.520 ring of his doorbell and he goes outside and he 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:30.640 finds the travel biscuits laying there. We get to see 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:34.720 a little bit of Pershing's work life. He works doing 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.040 data entry in the archives, and we later learned that 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:43.159 what he's doing is cataloging imperial hardware that has been captured, 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:47.320 decommissioned weapons ships, all the things that are on the ships, 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:51.000 and he's cataloging them and so they can eventually be destroyed. 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.080 I just want to jump in ahead. New Republic Syney, 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.000 she's back at it. I don't like the Empire, just 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.200 need to specify that and not supporting the Empire. Glad 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:01.040 the Empire has gone. But I found one thing. Don't 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.320 get rid of all that stuff. That's stupid. You don't 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.439 have anything. Keep that stuff, repurpose it. That would be 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.600 better on a less logical point, but a more of 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:11.280 like a thing that I thought was really powerful about 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:15.919 this episode. I kind of like how Pershing's job and 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.080 the tone of it and the vibe of his life. 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:22.240 It feels very similar to Cyril Khns Like it seems 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.440 like the New Republic some of the stuff that they 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:26.800 could take on from the Empire, the kind of data 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.600 entry and the day to day mundanity of the lower 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.479 level people is just still there and the same. And 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:35.800 that's not necessarily a judgment on them. It's just something 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:37.960 I found really interesting and I thought was smart because 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.399 it's true for a lot of people, your life on 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:45.720 the lowest level of society probably wouldn't like materially change immediately. 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:47.920 And I thought it was really interesting that he had 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.760 this kind of mind numbingly boring job where he mostly 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:53.040 just interacted with droids. 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.280 It really reminded me of Cyril early on. 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:58.760 I think that's a good car. I will once again 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:02.120 lightly stick up for you this time in that when 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:04.080 we eventually go to the shipyard, a lot of the 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:05.959 stuff is torn out of it, so stuff has been 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:08.920 scavenged out of it. But now I will criticize the 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:14.840 Republican say, I mean, this guy's got to have supervision. 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:17.160 You can't let this. He shouldn't be the one doing 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:17.600 this job. 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.840