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Wow. The dune rip off, as you call it, was my second favorite episode so far. And this episode, we got x-wings again, and Baby Yoda eating those eggs were gold.
I do wish they’d advance the plot a little bit more but damn these two episodes have been fun. I think they went for plot advancement the last 4 eps of last season so maybe we’ll see the same again.
I don’t want to do spoiler tags bc I don’t think it’s spoiler stuff, but yes my interpretation is that it’s a big universe and there isn’t a cable news network or the New York Times to reveal who defeated the empire — just the rebels. So given how big the universe is and how people like the Mandalorian stay out on the margins, it seems possible to me he wouldn’t have heard of Luke, etc.
About 5-years after the Jedi.
Others have answered the time line for you but your son being grounded in Rebels is going to serve him well. All indications we have is that this season is going to have plenty of Rebels tie ins. Even the Spider crabs from episode 2 look directly lifted from Rebels.
This is the "plot." The show is the A-Team in outer space. Instead of being fugitives trying to clear their name, he is a fugitive trying to find Baby Yoda's family. That isn't the point of the show. The show is a series of one-off episodes loosely held together by the Baby Yoda arc story where each week he meets someone who needs help and does his thing with a makeshift group of good guys.
they weren't though... apparently they were based on some original trilogy art work: https://screenrant.com/mandalorian-season-2-episode-2-spiders-species-krykna/
I think the baby yoda arc is more important than you suggest. While there are certainly a lot of one-offs, I expect those new republic guys we met in ep 2 to show up later to help. Have to introduce them first.
It looks like they were both sourced/inspired from the same material as they look so similar.
My 17 year old was complaining about the serial nature of the show, and the A-Team is the exact show I came up with to explain how it works. Instead of running from General Stockwell, Mando is looking after Baby Yoda. Each of these moves the main character(s) from encounter to encounter, but aren't what the show is about in the end.
I don’t think so. Baby Yoda is a plot device. The individual stories are pretty much unrelated. If you’re hoping the arc story gets advanced I think you’re looking at x-files type disappointment. The story isn’t the show.
Agreed. Even my son mentioned that it was a focus on one thing type of show, i.e. didn’t go anywhere. The dragon last week was a fun start and “mission” episode but at least felt let you accomplished something getting the armor. They could have just sat in the cave and not dropped and no change in any story arc. Other than baby yoda eating the eggs, the rest was meh and a complete Aliens rip-off. I’d be interested in the physics of frozen baby spider pods somehow opening a million years after the ice age started on that planet. Didn’t seem like there was much to eat but those spiders got huge. Anyway, when you get 20+ episodes a season a throwaway isn’t a big deal. When you get 8 episodes a year, a throwaway is a lot.
That would be disappointing. I get it, but even in the X-Files they did have longer story arcs. Whether you liked them or not, X-Files did have longer story lines intertwined and to a certain degree investigating the one offs was their actual job. I’ll still watch and it wasn’t awful, but if it’s just episodic and nothing else it won’t be as good for me.
I think they advanced it quite a bit last year. It definitely turned less episodic at the end of the season. We’ll see.
Are you sure you wouldn't rather be watching Star Trek? Don't they have one or two new series out there atm?
I was more joking about that. Let’s be honest, it was basically Aliens mixed with the spider above from earlier Star Wars lore. Frozen solid sacks seem like a bad way to spawn and mom and dad spider were just asleep for millenniums. Anyway, I was only bothered that we didn’t even get frog lady anywhere, so now we have another episode of baby yoda eating her kids.
Disagree. Krayt Dragons have been established in Star Wars well before Mass Effect and are distinctly lizard like. Thresher Maws are just literally giant worms.Andy Dufresne said:
Not really kids. They're unfertilized eggs. Basically like the dozen chicken eggs you'd find at the store as far as Boda is concerned. The only cringe worthy part is that he eats them raw. Unless he's doing some Rocky montage training soon. Kid has an iron stomach.stbugs said:
I'm not looking that deep. I think he's just a bratty kid ignoring his parental figure.
That's how I took it. It's like the old serial shows that ended with an implied "and everything worked out in the end."
This is what threw it for me. I get the notion of suspension of disbelief, but this one was a step too far -- he fixed a ripped apart hull of a spacecraft with a handtorch, and brought the ship back from a smoking wreck not once, but twice in the same episode? C'mon.the rover said:
Watching that poor frog woman numbly grieving for the lost eggs -- the last link to her entire lineage -- completely unable to utter her despair and heartbreak to anyone around who could understand her, her croaking desperate pleas for help and intervention simply bouncing off the cold, hard shell of a faceless mercenary who knows full well what's going on but can't be bothered to do anything more than gently chide his monstrous, ravenous, neonate-killing grub of a carnivorous humanoid toddler...
I think he’s just tired of people giving him the wrong food. Pretty obvious he needs a critter-based diet. (And 900 year old Yoda was still a brat and snatched Luke’s rations on Dagobah).
Maybe Mando was just negging her and it worked. She was pretty quick to get nekkid in the hot tub quickly enough...
Did you watch the show or did I completely miss something? Unless they gloss over it, frog lady’s husband is the one who knows the Mandalorians. Now they could just gloss over it but wouldn’t he have to talk to frog dad?
They don’t have to show every single thing that happens, it’s not a children’s book. Some things can be implied, but yes I suppose we could see the husband in the next episode. Personally I hope he’s just moving on with his search.
Correct. Next episode we will be on whatever world the husband is on. A waterworld I presume.
Not dumb, it's probably the most likely outcome outside of baby yoda being a d.This is dumb, so don't read it
Something happens to the remaining eggs and the kid burps up what we all saw go down to save the day
Scarif? Mon Cala? Kamino? Naboo?
It’s not surprising. At first, I thought he was communicating with them when they came towards him but then I thought oh crap he’s going to eat them. If they stopped at the first, I don’t think people would have cared but they even showed him eating one at the end as a ha ha moment. People still get offended as if it really happened. We thought political correctness had hit a high before, just wait it’s getting worse.
I’m assuming the same as @Leeroy Jenkins above that because the husband knows where the Mandalorians are that we were going to see them again. Like you I was hoping it was over. Only 6 episodes left, don’t care about the frogs.
Didn't the next preview show them walking around with her and Ahsoka hiding in the background?
