Star Wars: The Mandalorian

mandalorian has been a boon for youtube remix culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwzt1itvW6Q

Best episode so far.

Yeah, Chapter 7 is worlds better... it feels like the original show again.

Cara Dune is pretty awesome, too

Excited for the atacc/protecc memes

they existed after the original appearance! and within that stretch he had frog snacc

Oh I was talking about IGGY

Hey, when’s the next one? I thought it would drop today...

There’s a movie out

Haha, that’s why they dropped it early? 🤣

Yup. Next/final episode is next Friday.

a Star Wars movie, wow what will they think of next

A TV serwaitaminute

Toys?

a religion? oh wait they did that too

A self-help group?

Having now seen the movie — which I’m happy to report is pretty damn rad — there is actually a “storytelling” rationale behind making the latest episode of the show available to watch first... Nice bit of synergy, actually.

is Baby Yoda the Emperor y/n

Omg my heart 💔

xp I was really hoping the epic reveal was Palpatine ghost inhabiting a Yoda clone

Agreed re synergy -- nice touch (literally). There's also something else in the movie that made me think a bit about what in the end the whole motivations for the Empire remnants being after Baby Yoda to start with could be about, but we'll see next Friday.

The local Moff knows something few do: infants of that species are delicious

The thing that had crossed my mind is that baby yoda was used either to bring Palpatine back to life (or just to keep him living) or to create Snoke(s). I guess we'll know some day.

hooded figures in TROS where you can’t see their faces? all baby yodas

Wtf spoilers thread this is not

tbf mh's is barely a spoiler, and silverfish's is something the trailer spoiled months ago

Did I miss something? What was the tie-in with the movie? (Or are we just talking about the general downfall of the empire/first order)

Baby Yoda Force-healing Apollo Creed.

Yeah. everybody thought Ivan Drago was the real victim after Creed came back from the dead and kicked his ass, but the real losers were sportsbooks, who suddenly found themselves paying out massive +500 wagers to Creed bettors

Was force healing a thing before this episode and this movie?

It apparently appeared in some SW media previously

when you're at someone's house and they have a cat pic.twitter.com/6AdLBE2Jir

— baby yodan (@DanLaChapelle) December 22, 2019

Lol this show

I mean, in an approving way, surely.

Thought it was a good way to end in terms of setting up what a continuing series will be, a continuing antagonist, fan easter eggs all the way up to the end, etc. etc. I kinda appreciate that we still don't know why Baby Yoda is wanted, though I'm with the general guesses that it's to do with clone research of some sort.

he’s special

Good finale!

Where have we seen those big droids before, that were attacking his planet when he was a kid? I know they’ve appeared, but don’t remember in which movie or context.

Battlestar Galactica?

xp it shames me to know, but they are super battle droids, seen hassling R2D2 in Revenge of the Sith and maybe the one before it.

i know it was pure pandering but the adam pally stormtrooper taking wildly inaccurate potshots at a can six feet away was pretty funny

I'm almost embarrassed that I turned to my wife and said, "Ooh, they're bringing out an E-Web" a full 30 seconds before the word "E-web" was spoken on screen. Almost.

At the end, I also shouted, "HE HAS THE FUCKING DARKSABER."

I like this show.

"stormtrooper taking wildly inaccurate potshots at a can six feet away was pretty funny"

I watched this scene twice!

So it seems canon now that Imperial-era Stormtroopers are terrible shots cos possibly they're all the same mediocre clone, whereas First Order Stormtroopers are more capable cos they're all kidnapped and trained from birth?

I thought troopers weren’t necessarily clones anymore, by the time of the Galactic Civil War (OT) era?

maybe their guns are all shitty. he did shake it and look at it.

Eliza, my first thought was to wonder what your reaction was to that scene would be!

The two incompetent stormtroopers bit reminded me of the late 90s fan parody TROOPS tbh

Closing two episodes really made this after a couple of nondescript moments in the middle. Never bad, just sometimes underwhelming.

The fan service in this was way more satisfying than that in TROS.

Prequel-era troopers: Jango Fett clones
Imperial-era troopers: Human conscripts and volunteers
First Order-era troopers: Kidnapped children

The Clone Troopers are shown, on the "Star Wars: Rebels" animated series, to look like this by just a couple of years before ANH thanks to their accelerated aging.

https://thewookieegunner.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/star-wars-rebels-season-two-the-lost-commanders-captain-rex-commander-wolffe-gregor.jpg?w=950

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apparently it is not canon that this was Rex, but I want to believe
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Nik_Sant

Thanks Eliza. I misremembered.

I loved how the ex-clone Stormtroopers were used in Rebels