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Delving into THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT Chapters 6 and 7 with Mary | 022
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Join Branwen and Seah as they deep dive into all things Star Wars. Follow along as we fly off exploring all the wonders and geekery of a Galaxy Far, Far Away, chatting nostalgia, worlds, lore, sound, music, story, behind the scenes, and much more with each other and some very special guests.
This season, we're on a rewatch of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett in the run-up to the release of The "Mandalorian and Grogu" in cinemas in May.
In our twenty-second episode we're so excited to welcome for the first (and not last!) time, the lovely Mary, as we continue our journey through The Book of Boba Fett; Chapter 6 "From the Desert Comes a Stranger" and Chapter 7 "In the Name of Honor". We talk about themes, performances, story details, some deep space techno, Colicoid Creation Nest, Freetown, Cad Bane of course, and much more. Watch out for our brand new segment "West End Geek Girls", which now has a little theme tune!
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00:00:15
Speaker
Hey Branwen. Hello. What is your favourite line from The Book of Boba Fett, episode six and or seven? If I may offer an alternative, shall I continue?
00:00:27
Speaker
I'll continue. Which is David Pascasi as the Mage Domo. Nice. It hasn't got a name. i really want him to have a name, that character. ah I did wonder what his name was. Yeah, I looked it up. I couldn't find anything. ive I don't think I've ever come across David Pascasi before. I've not seen any of his films. But he's a comedic actor, improviser, and that makes so much sense now I know that. One of my favourite characters in this whole series. Sia. Hi.
00:00:53
Speaker
What's your favourite line from The Book of Boba Fett, Chapter 6 or 7? I've got several. Basically, any time Peli opens her mouth. But also, that's what I like about you, Mando. That big smile of yours lets you get away with anything.
00:01:09
Speaker
Aww. I love Pelly. That one's not Pelly. Oh, wasn't it? No. Was that Ober? That's Cobb vant as co Vanth. Cobb Vanth. See, they're all they're all lovers of Mando. so They are, yeah. Yeah. You are listening to Sisters of the Force, a Star Wars podcast with me, Bran Wen.
00:01:28
Speaker
And me, Sia. Hello. And today we're going to be finishing off the Book of Boba Fett with the last two episodes. It's mind-blowing. There's so much in these two episodes. I made so many notes. Excellent. And not only that, but we have got a first-time guest who I'm so excited to chat to.
00:01:48
Speaker
Hello, Mary. Hi, Mary. Hello. I'm also extremely excited. oh yeah Super fan of both Star Wars and Sisters of the Force. So this is a this is a very special moment for me. paul it's very special for us to too. special for us too.
00:02:09
Speaker
I'm super excited to talk to you about this one because I know you are a bit of a Cad Bane fan. Oh my God. I have got so many questions. so many questions. I'm a renowned, Claymore's, watcher. And a yeah yeah, I remember texting the two of you about just about, oh my God, Cad Bane. And we were like, okay, I think you need to come in and talk. This is a good time for you to step on board, the good ship sisters of the Force. This is the one.
00:02:38
Speaker
You know we're going to be having you back in the Clone Wars probably multiple times. I cannot wait. We need your expertise. We know nothing about the, well, I know nothing about the Clone Wars. haven't seen it yet. I think it's my favourite Star Wars. So I am so excited for you to go on that journey. yeah yeah i love it too.
00:02:59
Speaker
So do you have a favourite line? Yes. Well, I had several, but I've i've plumped for oh half of my men were either shot or eaten by a rancor. Is that what you'd call hospitable? Hospitable? Hospitidable. It's hospitidable.
00:03:17
Speaker
Which was the leader of the Pike gang who did say hospitable bit better than I did. quite like hospitidable. It just made me chuckle. In his weird Pike voice. He doesn't have a name either. Does he not? Like him and the Majordome of the Mayor don't have names. And they're like pretty key players. Yeah.
00:03:37
Speaker
That's very strange. Quite surprised because they normally name every character, like even background droids and whatnot, all have names. but So. Anyway, Mary, how did you get into Star Wars? Tell us a bit about your like Star Wars adventures. Yes.
00:03:51
Speaker
So growing up, my brother and his friends were very into Star Wars and I sort of liked to join in with them. I'd watch the films with them, but it wasn't like a particular passion necessarily. And I don't know if you found this, but in the past, I found Star Wars fans to be a little bit gatekeepy potentially. Oh, very much so. Oh, you like Star Name all these characters. okay Yeah. and But then along came lockdown and I used my time very well. I watched all of the Star Wars, front to back, back to front, in chronological order, quite a few times, to the extent where... we've watch We were watching like Attack of the Clones and then we'd Revenge the Sith and we'd like pause it to align it with, we were watching Clone Wars at the same time. So ah just to get those two, up like, yeah. That's so cool. I just love it. I love the universe. I love the characters. it Yeah. Loving all the strong female characters we've got now as well. It's just yeah, it's a great place to be.
00:04:52
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, Star Wars is great in that we did have what female characters there were were pretty good. You know, Leia is incredible. Absolutely. Mon Mothra is great as well, but, like, that's...
00:05:04
Speaker
Extended it for many years. but then we got Padme, who is an absolute badass in the prequels. And yeah, now we're just getting all of the amazing women. Fennec Shand is one of my favourite characters of all time. Oh my gosh. Yeah, incredible. This episode is a really great one for her as well. She doesn't do loads like in the final episode, the finale episode. She doesn't do loads, but she what she does is amazing. She does the impressive bits. Yeah. but yeah She makes it count. Yeah, I don't want to to the end, but one of my notes is just like literally all in caps. It just says, boo, Pikes. Yay, Fennec. Oh my God, we write notes the same.
00:05:46
Speaker
if you So when you say you were like watching all of Star Wars front to back, do you mean like all of Clone Wars and all the films? and Yeah, yeah. Rebels and ah Resistance. And yeah, just oh my god I did it in chronological order. So but rather than release order, I mean. story chronology. Yeah. And to align all that I've always wanted to do that. I've never done that. I've always been a bit like random with the way I watch it and jumping around all over the place. And if I've ever done marathons, it's been in release order, I think. I don't know. sea Did we do that? We did release order when we did it. Yeah.
00:06:20
Speaker
I feel like that's what I would normally do. But I've always wanted to do that thing. And now with Andor especially, I really want watch Rebels alongside Andor. yeah. going into Rogue One going into the original trilogy like that for me is such a like that's all my favourite things really Rebels is my favourite Star Wars I think of all and then Andor and then like the original trilogy like I just what a ride it's all so good right what a ride that's exciting yeah Yeah. I just need somebody to pay me to watch Star Wars. So if and when we get our Patreon. Any sponsors out there. Any sponsors out there want to pay us to do this, that would be great. But it's a good aspiration. It is a good aspiration. We'll get there eventually. Maybe.
00:07:05
Speaker
Yeah. So we're going to finish off this Book of Boba Fett series, which I've so enjoyed rewatching. oh it's been fab. yeah I think watching at the time, there was so much like hype and anti-hype about it going on in the kind of, you know, conversation online and everything. Yeah.
00:07:23
Speaker
It was really very distracting from actually just watching the show yeah and And to be fair, it is a very random show, like the way it flips to Mando partway through. and And you've got all those flashbacks in the first half of it. And it's all over the shop. So it is a bit confusing the first time you watch it. Whereas the second time you watch it you're just like, oh, my God, this is so good. I understand. Yeah. Yeah. I did my two watchings quite close together. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I like the way it jumps around. I don't want to be... i don't really want to have to do things in chronological... I don't live my life in chronological. Yeah. It's true. I really enjoyed how they did the the back to, like, flashbacks. I think that worked really, really well. good. Me too, me too, yeah. like And how that sort of ties into the story of, like, the finale episode and, like, that all the Tuscan stuff is amazing. it's beautiful. I was just so here for all of that. And, like, how...
00:08:21
Speaker
Tamara was obviously he was just so into it you could tell he was so into it by the way he performed in all of those sequences like the train episode is just unbelievably good so good train day yeah yeah yeah All right.
00:08:38
Speaker
Where are we starting? Chapter six. Chapter six. From the desert comes a stranger. We've got Dave Filoni directing. He is Mr. Star Wars at the moment. He is Star Wars at the moment. My first note on this is, is that the ice cream maker again?
00:08:51
Speaker
Yes. Yes, it is. You would be right to observe that. Excellent. I love that. It gets name checked as a Cantona then. can Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:02
Speaker
buy Is it the Pikes that talk about it? Or Cobb? Yeah. Somebody says Cantona anyway. Somebody says it. I don't know who says it. And then somebody says it at the end when they blow up Sanctuary. The droid says it. You forgot your Cantona. Yeah.
00:09:15
Speaker
Yeah, exactly like that. See, I bet that droid has a name. I didn't Google it, but I bet he has a name. One line and he gets a name. Entire characters erased by not having name. No names. My first line is, oh, it's Pike's up to no good, exclamation mark. That's a good note. They are so shady. Everything about them is so shady. So they were in Clone Wars, weren't they? Yes, yeah yeah. They look a little bit different, they look, but they're still the same same vibes. Same vi vibes. I find them very creepy. Yeah, shady and creepy. Sort of space gangsters. Yeah, they are. I mean, they're one of the like main criminal syndicates, aren't they, guess? You've got like the Hutts, the Pikes, Crimson Dawn, Black Sun. The Hutts are like a family, right? Yeah. Are the Pikes a family in the same way or are they just a race that are all part of the same criminal gang?
00:10:10
Speaker
Oh, I seemed more like a race. Yeah, I would have said race. like there's more to But I think the Hutts are a race as well. There is family within the Hutts, like Jabba and his son Stinky yeah and the twins who are like cousins or whatever. But there are other Hutts that aren't related to Jabba. Right.
00:10:28
Speaker
And actually, sorry, just a little small little sidebar. So one of the first times we see Cad Bane in ah Clone Wars is he's been commissioned to break Zero the Hutt out of oh yeah prison. yeah one Zero the Hutt is wild. I can't wait for you to meet him. He's quite the character. He's so not a Hutt. He's like the absolute opposite of every other Hutt. So funny. Right.
00:10:56
Speaker
Yeah, so they are very shady, but I think, yeah, if you think like the Mafia have like different families within the Mafia. Sure. And I think the Huck cartel is like that, and I'm guessing the Pikes are probably like that as well. Obadiah is the moon that they all come from, yeah and there's probably lots of different families there, but they're all like spice runners. Yeah. It all revolves around the spice. Sure. We saw them briefly in Solo, I think, on Kessel. Oh, yeah. Spice Mines. Spice Mines. I said that Cobb Vanth looks fine. Looks fine. here He's standing yeah looking fine.
00:11:32
Speaker
gets quite the silhouette. he's kind of He's grown on me, i will admit that. me see the yeah Yeah, the first time I saw the actor, Timothy Olyphant, who plays him was in The Office, which is like a completely different context. Yeah, of course. And he plays like a really good looking character. Like that's the whole point of his character in a way. Like he's this charming salesperson who just absolutely charisma to the end of days. Yeah. And so when I saw as Cobb Vanth, I took a moment to get my head around because it's a ah really different character. Yeah, sure. In this, he's kind of a bit of gnarly old sheriff, but but yeah, he does cut a good outline, as you say, Mary. Yes. And I wrote, which isn't very helpful, and hero music, do, do, do, do do do which at the time i was writing the do, do, do as they were sounding. As they were happening, but we don't know that I've got reference. No. It was it was very heroic. He was fast shooting. He was like, oh, yeah. My note on that was this is a proper cowboy theme. Yes. and We're now into cowboy music. Yeah. He is about as cowboy. I mean, Mando is generally, ah you know, a Western, right Western meets Samurai. We've talked about that loads of times on this podcast. But this is like Mos Pelgo, a.k.a. Freetown with Cobb Vanth is really as Wild West as we get. Yeah. It could easily be, you know, Arizona or whatever. Yeah. Backwater town.
00:13:00
Speaker
Yeah. The Mos Pelgo territories, as they're now called. What an opener, though. on It's incredible. That whole scene and then it was like. I'll stop trying to replicate this out. Whatever the der's are.
00:13:14
Speaker
I love Cobb Vance saying, think it through after he beats them. Yeah. You know, the quick draw, he beats shoots three down, leaves one. and I like the way he let the one get away to just, you know. Let them know what's happened. Allegedly to take word back. Yeah, exactly. I have some questions, please. Yeah, yeah. Okay.
00:13:31
Speaker
What's Spice? I wrote this down. Equivalent. i Like, is it a class A? What's happening? Spice equals space crack. Space crack. I think it's got like acid vibes as well. I think it's a hallucinogenic. It's hallucinogenic one. But it is very like cracky as well. Yeah. i say I'm pretty sure in Clown Wars, they go to the Pike home planet and they're just like, do you want to smoke some spice? And they're like, no, thank you.
00:13:58
Speaker
No thanks. na I think there's various different types of spice as well within spice. There's one called Glitter Stim, which is a bit more like an amphetamine type thing oh right with a little bit of a kind of hallucinogenic aspect. yeah And I think there are others. I can't remember off the top my head. It's dealt with in a few of the books, I think. Certainly in Legends, they went quite deep into a lot of like, well, there was a lot of like crime and underworld stuff in the Legends books. And within that, there was a lot of different spice related stories and i'm guessing they'll just bring all of that in well it's kind of yeah like it's behind this whole thing it's why boba is having the problems that he's having yeah yeah course by slot i did also my note was he just kind of tips it out into the sand which fine but then are you going to get some coked up crate dragon or something i don't if i
00:14:53
Speaker
A one frat is going to come and munch that down in one go and have the wildest time it's ever had. I just wondered if it was wise. Or a banther. Imagine a banther on a spice. Oh my goodness. Yeah, it was very artistic the way it drifted off going into the wind. It made me think of that. There's a study that's just come out recently about freshwater shellfish in the UK all have traces of cocaine in them. Really? Yeah. Oh, no. I know. Awful. I mean, I think the chemical makeup of so many things is so all wrong at this point. Did you hear about the headphones thing? I mean, I'm talking about this while we're like, headphones have been tested and, like, 98% of headphone manufacturers, there are, like, very bad chemicals in the headphones. Oh. particularly if you like work out with them like if you go to the gym with your headphones and you're sweating and it goes in through your skin there's lots of carcinogenic stuff and like estrogen and things like that which can really play havoc with your endocrine system so here we are here we are with headphones on already talking about spice
00:16:05
Speaker
Wonderful. Okay, let's um let's move on let's cut to Ossus. I didn't realise this planet was called Ossus. Ossus is in the Outer Rim. This is Luke's planet. Well, it's not Luke's planet.
00:16:17
Speaker
Apparently, it was talked about a lot in Legends. So it did exist pre-Disney. And there are these things called the Caldroma epics, which were introduced in a role-playing game book in 2016. This isn't West End Geek Girls, by the way. This is just a sort of sidebar. I know because you didn't play the sound. I am so excited for West End Geek Girls. You're just ready for it.
00:16:44
Speaker
Yeah, so it's it's like ah an ancient Jedi place where there was a sort of you know Jedi library of you know knowledge, an actual physical library. We can see Luke is building these huts and they're in the same style as on Ahto in The Last Jedi, yeah which is obviously a bit further on down the line. was was he taking the plans for these buildings from these ancient texts. I'm just really curious as to why he's building. As to why he's decided that that's that's the architecture for it. Because there're there's nothing like the Jedi Temple. No, they're like um meditation pods in ashrams and stuff. You get these little yeah same things and you meditate either inside them or on top of them or wherever. Yeah. I saw loads when I was travelling. Yeah, yeah. You'd find them in temples all over the place and ashrams and stuff. Which kind of tracks because a lot of the Jedi-like philosophy is based loosely on Eastern philosophies and religions and stuff. So maybe it's just a, this is how you have to meditate in one of these little pods. Yeah, yeah.
00:17:52
Speaker
But he it got me curious then about Achto, about whether Luke built those ones on Achto. Because I always just assumed they're like these ancient, yeah you know, living in West Wales and we see all these like old burial grounds and things like that. But they were very well kept. And I thought if they've been there for like 10,000 years or whatever, how are they still standing? But maybe but the locals were keeping them.
00:18:12
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, the caretaker people, weren't they? But whether Luke built them or not, or whether the caretakers were just maintaining them. Did he have his ant droids with him? I loved those. loved them too. The ant droids are so good. And they're like R2 colours. reckon R2 like commissioned No.
00:18:34
Speaker
They're so sweet. R2 is quite sassy. He would been like Raven and Blue and White. He's so sassy. I really enjoyed the, I like the robot spider noises. And I tried to pick out sounds because I know you two like sound designers. like sounds. I love it. And I can't remember because didn't attempt to write down the sound this time. But I think it was sort of a little mechanical robot-y noises. In my memory, it's a bit clicky, a bit anti-y.
00:19:02
Speaker
They sound like mechanical ants. Yeah, that's what they sound like. That was great. But they've also got this really, really cute little music cue that is just like, it's like a kind of happy nature documentary music cue. It's amazing. That's interesting. It's part Lydian again. So we've got the Lydian mode in Grogu's theme. And I think Yoda's theme might be slightly Lydian as well. And it is the the mode of like magic and mystery and and all of that, the other world kind of thing.
00:19:33
Speaker
So it's Lydian in places in a similar way. But I put that it's quite kind of 80s orchestral fantasy. Like it reminded me of like... I don't know, dark crystal marching across the plate. I don't know, that kind of fantasy world. yeah Which is a bit nature documentary-ish as well. Definitely.
00:19:53
Speaker
It had a very vintage feel it. I think Ludwig has done a brilliant job because he set up Mandalorian and he did those two seasons and they're very much a thing and he really established...
00:20:04
Speaker
a new sound for those. yeah But I think he did a brilliant job of, in the book of Boba Fett, going, taking sidesteps and like still being able to quickly, easily get back to the feel of the Mandoverse in general, musically speaking. There's a lot of other stuff going on. Yeah, there is. i mean, it like in these two episodes, we get a lot of Boba's theme like running behind other things. But there's also the Grogu stuff is happening and we're getting more Mando stuff. Now Mando's in it as well. Well, he's got his own little recorder fanfare, doesn't he? Whenever he Yeah, and that squeal that we were talking about last week, that really high pitch, like, yeah which has just become like a a symbol of Mando doing something badass.
00:20:44
Speaker
I love that the ant droids made him a bench to wait on. That was such a boss move. And it's so Jedi as well, isn't it? It's very, like, patience. Yeah, you must wait. yes We don't really know how long he's there for. R2 just kind of laughs at him and powers down.
00:21:04
Speaker
He kind of zips off, doesn't he, at some point? Yeah, yeah. He like leads him through the bamboo to to where the tempo is and to where they're going to build him this bench. And while he's doing that, R2 is doing like these kind of almost hesitant beeps that he does sometimes when he's a bit unsure about what to do. yeah In the original trilogy, especially like on Dagobah, he would have done the same thing.
00:21:30
Speaker
And then he just shuts down. He just goes, I'll make this decision in my own time. Yeah, don't talk to me. So good then we get this Grogu bit Yeah So cute Grogu's theme when he's hungry So like we hear Grogu's theme playing And it's like saying Grogu's now hungry Grogu's I like how like he's meditating And then one little eye pops open To look at the front To see if lunch has arrived yet He's like he's trying But he can't help himself I hadn't noticed that the frogs only have one eye. They're like... Frogs only have one eye. Yeah, they are. Little strange frogs. I had a note here saying I very much related to Grogu, like, because Luke's really trying to get him to focus and meditate and Grogu's not having it.
00:22:24
Speaker
This definitely happens to me every time anyone asks me to sit still and meditate. i did a I did a silent retreat. I don't know if I've talked about this on the podcast before or not, but I did have a Vipassana silent retreat a few years ago. And I had to literally tell myself that I was Jedi training to in order to be able to do it. Oh, wow. Because that's awesome. I can't sit still and meditate for eight hours a day. I don't know who I thought I was. like Well, I can. I've done it. But it was. Wow.
00:22:54
Speaker
But it was really intense. And it was the only way I could get through it was to just be like, no, you have to sit here and do this Jedi training discipline. And as soon as I reframed it in my head, I could do it.
00:23:05
Speaker
But when I was like, no, you just have to sit still and meditate. I couldn't. Boring. Boring. Using the Force. Yeah. That's Jedi skills in itself, just making that decision. yeah Yeah.
00:23:16
Speaker
I remember about 20 years ago, there was a census. i don't know how often they do a census, but there was census. so I think it was in the early 2000s. Everyone was like, if we all put Jedi for our religion, they'll have to make it a religion. There's a of urban myth that if it's more than 100,000 people or something.
00:23:33
Speaker
I definitely put Jedi on the last census. Me too. I remember filling in one with my dad and we gave every member of the household a different religion. so yeah it go Just to confuse them. Yeah.
00:23:48
Speaker
One of us was a Jedi. I don't remember who was, but there was six of us in that house. Luke says to Grogu, do you remember back home? Would you like to remember? oh Let me help you remember. Which was a little bit creepy because he's kind of yeah exposing Grogu to this trauma memory. Yeah.
00:24:06
Speaker
Super grim. yeah First I noted it was too soon, i.e. for Order 66. None of us are ready. It's always too soon. It's always too soon. But also I sort of noted, he's asking about home, but the Jedi are famously taken as children. So then when he is remembering, he is remembering the Jedi Temple. Yeah.
00:24:26
Speaker
So sort of think, I don't know, I just thought it was interesting. and That where is very interesting. It's very interesting that you've been saying that because i don't know if it was last week or a few weeks ago we were talking about Grogu's lineage. Yes. I think it was when Jessica was on. I think so too. And we were talking about like Yoda and Yaddle.
00:24:46
Speaker
Yes. My speculation is that Grogu, the fact that nobody knows Grogu, like Ahsoka doesn't know Grogu. Yeah. And yet she was in the Jedi Temple training. Yeah, she taught some the younglings. Yeah, yeah. And she would have been like younger than him and older than him, if you know what i mean. Yeah, at the same time, yeah. that Weird. And the fact that nobody knows him made me wonder if he was born there, which absolutely ties into what you've just said, Mary. Like whether or not it was anything to do with Yoda or Yaddle or whether, we don't know how though that species broke if produces young. They might have eggs or something. They are a little bit reptilian. And that is very, I hadn't thought of that because I remember when I watched this the very first time, when Luke dropped that line, I was like, oh my gosh, we're going to see the home planet of the Yoda species. Yeah, yeah, sure. And no, we saw the Jedi Temple and my brain didn't yeah make that connection, but you've absolutely made such a brilliant point. yeah Maybe that was his home. Or it's it's the only home he remembers, isn't it? It certainly would be the only home he remembers, I think. But the fact that that triggered him to to have that memory is it interesting. Yeah. Well, it's classic Jedi, isn't it? They don't really want the young Jedi to remember their home. They're very...
00:26:02
Speaker
anti-attachment, etc. yeah Yeah. Yeah, it's like you're supposed to be kind of anonymous almost yeah in your life. We only see a little snippet of a flashback, but we see bunch of clones take out three Jedi and then they see Grogu and come towards him and then we cut away, which is so cool of them to give that little tiny... Frustrating, to say the least. We still know nothing about Grogu, really. Yeah.
00:26:30
Speaker
There's a real slowness to all of these scenes with lo Luke and Grogu. It's a bit like Filoni's episode, The Jedi from Mando season two. Yeah. Which again, has got this like, he takes his time and Luke is taking his time. Yeah. And I feel like Luke throughout this, I mean, he ah ultimately he's asking Ahsoka for advice, but it feels like he is figuring out. He's kind of assessing the situation, isn't he Yeah. And just trying to work out how to be a teacher. Yeah. Yeah. Because maybe he's taught Leia a little bit at this point.
00:27:00
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But other than that, this is his first student. Yeah. As far as we know. His teaching examples were like Yoda when he was kind of kind of wild, which we love. Yeah. And Obi-Wan again when he was like a bit nuts. At the end of his,
00:27:18
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, Yoda has just been in like, sort of on his own on Dagobah for years. It's kind of a miracle that Luke got as far as he did, really, isn't it? It is. Actually, I did note that when Luke like floats the frogs as a kind of incentive, look what the Force can do. it was like Yoda raising the X-Wing on Dagobah. Yeah. And I was like, I see that. Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:42
Speaker
And like the fact of Luke carrying him in his backpack, his little glass. Oh my God. Such a throwback. because I called it the Yoda papoose. Yeah.
00:27:53
Speaker
I think that's his official name from now on. I had a Star Wars action figure of Luke with a Yoda papoose that could sit Yoda in the back of. Yeah, me too. So good. Amazing.
00:28:04
Speaker
amazing Ahsoka randomly turns up. Yes. it's So exciting. Yes. I said this is quite the reunion episode. Yeah.
00:28:15
Speaker
When she says, I'm an old friend of the family, I was like, oh my God, because Anakin. Ah! I thought that was a ring a really odd thing to say in a lot of ways. Like her trauma of Skywalker, like oh somehow she's made peace with Luke. Obviously she's got to know him. We don't really know how that's happened, but she's got to know him.
00:28:35
Speaker
But where she comes from with her relationship with Anakin is a very, very dark place. Like her yeah fighting with Vader in Rebels. Sorry, spoilers here. It's fine. Yeah. And like discovering like her realisation of it all and just like, yeah and now she's kind of like chuckling while saying, but i'm a friend of the family.
00:28:56
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It certainly did it for me though. I was like, that this is exciting. Like a nod back to, I mean, there were fun times. There were good times. I wonder if she can kind of make her peace with it. Shopping down battle droids. Yeah. I wonder if she's kind of made her peace with it partly because Luke made his peace with him. Yeah. True. Yeah. With a lovely redemption arc. I think he would have helped her through it, yeah, in that way. He would have obviously told her his story of what happened on Endor and everything else. So she knows, yeah, that Anakin went to the light, you know, or into the force in a good way. Yeah.
00:29:38
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I loved her like little moment with R2 as well because Ahsoka and R2 are old friends they did many adventures together so I yeah I loving that yeah yeah So many reunions. I think um Rosario did a brilliant job of like, I don't know, she didn't do it. It was very subtle how she kind of put some of that weight and that history into, even though she was keeping it light and smiling and all of that, you could sort of feel this like massive history with Luke, well, or Anakin through Luke and R2 just because R2, you know, she's got all of that, yeah all of those memories that she's had to try and come to terms with. Wild. wild
00:30:20
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Sorry, I'm really staring us now just so you can. I was enjoying my notes. My next note is bloody Jedi and their attachments, all lack thereof. Yeah. So, like, it's so complicated. a founding, or is he a Padawan? And I was like, why can't he be both? Like, we've we've had Mandalorian Jedi, or we've had we've had a Mandalorian Jedi. Yeah, I felt that at the end of this episode. Yeah. Like, I mean, we're jumping around a bit, but that's all good. Sorry. Our podcast, our rules. Yeah. Yeah, the at the very end, she that Luke gives him that ultimatum. And yeah apart from only a Sith deals in absolutes, Yeah. like
00:30:58
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Which I'm like, what's going on here? i mean, obviously Luke doesn't necessarily know that teaching, but he's just leaning right into that this or that thing. Yeah. However... You're hearing this five weeks after we recorded it, but we've just seen the first proper trailer of Mandalorian and Grogu. Oh, yeah, course have. And around this time, they've also ah released and information about toys that are coming out, which are going to be on pre-order or whatever. And one of the toys is Yoda's lightsaber.
00:31:29
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right And it's in a box. And the box labeling says, as featured in the book of Boba Fett, Right, okay. So they're releasing that now in the context of The Book of Boba Fett, which is this episode where Luke gives Grogu the choice. like yeah And Grogu is about to be in a film, and that's why they're doing this toy release. So you don't have to put too many you know pieces together to guess that Grogu is going to be wielding Yoda's lightsaber in the movie at some point. My goodness. So the question is...
00:32:03
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Are we going to see him get it? Or ah somebody, I think it was Children of the Watch I was listening to today, suggested maybe Luke gave him the lightsaber as well away the Mando suit and sent him off on his way.
00:32:18
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Maybe. Anyway. Maybe. Intrigue. intrigue More intrigue. Intrigue. We haven't had much intrigue yet. Intrigue. I might get that tattooed or something. Well, I think you definitely need to put put it on some merch. The merch is coming. The merch is coming. Yeah.
00:32:34
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That would be a pretty solid bit of tattooing. We know a lot of tattoo artists, to be fair. I just love it. But yeah, the attachment thing is, there's a bit of a theme running through this whole episode, isn't it, really? about Yeah.
00:32:49
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Like we see Grogu reaching after the end one as it flies up. Oh my God. Yeah, and the music is sad and it's all just very emotional. And Din having to make the difficult decision to sacrifice his own feelings for the sake of Grogu. Oh, it's just oof.
00:33:07
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That was a lot. I did have a note about we get this lovely little Grogu training montage that happens. Crouching tiger, hidden dragon. Yes. But also, irresponsible to shoot at a baby, even a force. Yeah. I know, it seems as though other and I don't know. But they used it in the temple. You know, we saw them doing that. He didn't even prep him, though. No, he just went, rolls the ball. Oh, no, not like that. And then he doesn't say, like, dodge the shots or anything. It's just like, this is how it works. Yeah. I did a bit Googling of the remote because the first time we see the remote was the Millennium Falcon. Yes. So I've always assumed it was Han's thing. used it for blaster training, whatever, you know, dodge skills. Interesting. You know, why else would Han have it? And then suddenly in the prequels, we see them being used in the Jedi Temple on children. means Obi-Wan must have had Yeah. Yeah, except it was potentially, yeah.
00:34:03
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In the radio drama that referred previously on this podcast, yeah we get much more stuff and Obi-Wan finds the remote on the Falcon. Now, that radio drama is by no means canon. Right. But i feel somewhere else along the way it was made clear that it was Hans, but maybe I'm just remembering it from the radio drama.
00:34:26
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But yeah, potentially what you've just suggested is a better answer is that Obi-Wan had it with him and yeah because he knew he was going to be giving Luke some lessons on their way to Alderaan. Yeah. So he would have bought it.
00:34:37
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But it's cool. It's got a name, this thing. It's called a Marksman H training remote. or Yeah, used to help train younglings and padawans fighting skills, which I can see is a good tool for doing that.
00:34:52
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Yeah. Grogu drowns it. I don't know if it still works.
00:35:00
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Grogu's got the best response to it is just, let's get out the sky. He's just like, no, do you know what? ats you know Put it in the water, it'll be fine. And then he has a cheeky nap on a rock, which is very cute. While he's trying to balance, I think it's on that same rock maybe. or yeah yeah another one He's trying to balance and we get Grogu's theme again. And I've...
00:35:19
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I think previously when we talked about Grogu's theme, I've said it's a synth kind of thing. But listening to it again today, I'm not sure. it feels like it could be a like a Fender Rhodes or harp or something like that or a piano really soft. It's got this really warm, soft, it's just playing the little chords, yeah at the kind of Lydian chords. It's really...
00:35:38
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like It's very lovely like warm, fuzzy sound. yeah I don't know what it could be. Anyway, it's nice to hear it again. is nice to hear it again. It felt like classic Star Wars Jedi training with jumping, balancing. Yeah, it felt really good. was like, yes. Climbing up bamboo. Oh, I did. I did make a note to say, bet Sia could climb bamboo like that. So we'll expect to see that on your Instagram. I don't have any bamboo. You've got a pole. I've got poles, yeah. You've bragged about a couple of Jedi moves that you could do. So I'm just here to really put my money where my mouth is. That would be great. Earlier in this same episode, you've imbibed yourself with Jedi. That's true.
00:36:32
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A picture is coming together that you are in fact a Jedi. Yeah, but when they locked me in one of those little pods to meditate on my own, I used the time to do headstands instead of... i mean that feels pretty Jedi. is I definitely got the feeling through all of this slight training sequence that Luke is kind of still learning himself, which obviously a teacher is always learning, you know. but I love to see that he's kind of embracing that as well. Yeah. When he is at the top of the bamboo with Grogu and he's kind of breathing and he's talking more for his own benefit when he's sort of just saying what what to do and like feel... whatever he's saying i can't remember all of the sort of like self out of mantras almost he's saying yeah he's like keeping himself calm and and yeah yeah checking in with the force i guess but it was such an unexpected thing like seeing the mandalorian episode in the previous one yeah you know that didn't surprise me as much as this did yeah like having all of this luke and grogu content really shocked me at the time watching When we're like halfway through the episode and only now are we going to Tatooine to rejoin Boba Fett and Fennec and see what's happening. For the first time in one and a half episodes, really. We haven't seen him for ages. And even now, we're only going to get this little bit of a meeting where Fennec is sort of laying the and the story out for us. Oh, I love it. yeah And then Dean appears and goes off on a new mission that we go with him
00:37:58
Speaker
To get some foot soldiers, I can help with that, he says. Yeah, off he goes. i have I have a question here, Jawaz. Is that a sand dragon skull? Question mark. The great... Oh, i okay, it is. I thought it was the great dragon. I thought was the great dragon. He said great dragon on Wikipedia. Did it? Incredible. because Because I sort of... I watched this like a little while ago, but then I did the rewatch of these two episodes specifically, so it was sort of yeah out of my brain. I think it's the c great dragon, but also my question was, have they nicked that?
00:38:29
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I think the implication is that the Jawas have nicked it from the one that they blew up in Mando season two. Yeah, totally. Because we're near Mos Pelgo, which is where that was. And it's just such a Jon Favreau writing thing. Yeah, let's just show that the Jawas like raided the camp. I love it. Now they've got the great dragon. Just for the loss.
00:38:51
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I've got this feeling that somewhere else we've had showers with c great dragon skeletons. Interesting. There was a novel called Kenobi in the old legends books, which was set on Tatooine and there was a great dragon in that. Maybe I'm imagining that.
00:39:07
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Anyway, Cobb is really gutted to not see Gregor. He's like, where's the little girl? Yeah, that was so sweet. I noted that. I guess we both lost something we were fond of. oh My heart.
00:39:20
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It's during this conversation that we get the, that's what I like about you, Mando. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Smile of yours. I love how Cobb is like really reserved with Mando. He's like not keen to get involved particularly. he that And we get the Wee Kwe barman who's called Tanti calls out something about like we're called Freetown and like yeah we establish. We're not getting involved.
00:39:47
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It's time! I knew you were going to clip at that point, you f***er. Did you? I've really, really toyed with doing Juros for this episode because that's what Cad Bane is. But the Juros entry in the early source books didn't tally as well with Cad Bane as well. The kind of entry about Weequays tallies so nicely with Tanti. So we're going to have a little bit about Weequays.
00:40:14
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They're a rugged species with extremely coarse and gnarled black, grey, brown, or tan skin, which very much describes them. They're well adapted to the harsh desert terrain of their home world, which makes them ideal workers in similar climates, such as Tatooine or Ryloth.
00:40:28
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like They tend to wear these ser ceremonial top knots, which he's got like... They kind of come down the side of his head. Yeah. The females are completely bald, apparently. I don't know that we've ever seen a bald, a female weak way, maybe.
00:40:42
Speaker
Not sure. and They evolved on a planet called Streeler. don't know if pronouncing that right at all. Called what? Say that again. Srilur, S-R-I-L-U-U-R, two U's, classic Star Wars, yeah which is the fifth planet with the same name. It's in the disputed border of the periphery, which is a region adjacent to the Outer Rim Territories and hut space, which is why we often see them in the employ of huts. Okay. Like Jabba had some as gift guards on...
00:41:13
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Tatooine in Return the Jedi. yeah um They're often viewed as dangerously quiet individuals, which I feel Tanti, like he is noticeably quiet and has been consistently, as we've yeah have only seen him in a couple of episodes, but he's always been very reserved. yeah But they often let their explosive, let strangely unemotional, violent tendencies express themselves.
00:41:35
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They're rarely known to speak in the presence of non-weak ways. And when they do so, it's normally only in the company of trusted companions. So I think he absolutely trusts Cobb, which I really love. And he does. He clearly does. He's like devoted to to his sheriff marshal, whatever he's called now. So I thought, I think now incorrectly, that he was the same species as the pirates, like Hondo. Yeah.
00:42:00
Speaker
yeah Hondo! Is Hondo a Klatooinian? I don't know. i just thought they looked very similar, which might... I mean, Hondo might well be a weak ray, actually. so We might have to Google that. He's famously sort of outspoken and pops up lots of times in Clone Wars and in Rebels, and I'm completely obsessed with Hondo. Yeah, Hondo is a weak ray.
00:42:24
Speaker
He is a weak ray. And weak rays often are pirates, yeah. goodness. I wrote down here, because it looks like Hondo. but There are these three species that I often get confused. Weequo has been one of them. Yeah. Which I kind of remember because I had a Star Wars figure of one from the Skiffgard. It was like called Skiffgard or something. Skiffgard 3. Yeah, exactly. And then there's Klaatuinians. which are one of the three yeah light races that are established in Mos Espa. And then there are the Niktoes, which are often pirate types as well. yeah They are often seen in similar circles and they've all got slightly kind of leathery looking or at least, yeah. Yeah. And like the the braids sometimes as well. the Yeah, think so. know if it's hair or what, but there yeah. Yeah.
00:43:19
Speaker
Anyway, and that's all about Wee Krays. Tanti is a Wee Kray. I love him. I loved him even more at the end of Episode 7. Oh, yes. He's a really good guy. He's like Wee Kray gone good. Not that all Wee Krays bad, but by the sounds of it, they are quite reserved and keep themselves to themselves. yeah He's obviously ventured out. He's thrown in with Cobb Vanth and Nos Pelgo, which he's so excited that it's called Freetown, which is why he interrupts at that point. He is great.
00:43:44
Speaker
Someone who I do not love. The deputy I've written. Oh, Scott. What a I here. You can't park can't park there. Oh, my God. just Absolutely terrible.
00:44:01
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yeah So Mando leaves them to think about it. yeah and He's quite confident though. Yeah, he is quite confident. I think he knows Cobb Vanth will do it. And although Vanth gives off sketchy vibes of like, I'm not sure about this, as soon as Ding goes...
00:44:15
Speaker
He's like calling a meeting. Call a meeting. We need think about it. To persuade everybody. And he's even, you know, Tante's now the antagonist saying he's not very keen about it. But you can tell that Cobb really is. And I love, again, we see the townspeople, he knows their names and they give him respect. They're really respectful. If I had to live anywhere in Starrows, I might want to live in Freetown. It's pretty good. Not that I'd do very well in the desert, but do quite well.
00:44:41
Speaker
I'm living on Naboo. Living on the moon. no, Naboo. Oh, Naboo. Oh, yeah, Naboo is, yeah, luxury. Naboo Alderaan pre-Empire. Pre-gone. Too soon.
00:44:54
Speaker
Too soon.
00:44:57
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I noted down here that we get this ridiculously slow shot, which just feels very, very threatening. Is this the stranger from yeah oh and The Desert Comes a Stranger? That's incredible. And the music's so eerie. yeah yeah Yeah. And there's that classic, get everyone inside. yeah I'll deal with this myself.
00:45:19
Speaker
Terrifying. Did you know, Mary? Did you know immediately? The first time i watched it, I knew... Not immediately, because like you don't want to hope for these things. Yeah, you go through other levels of expectations. It's just the hat, it's the classic shape, and then the minute it kind of tipped up, and like yeah I've written all in caps. I wrote CAD, F***ing, Bane.
00:45:43
Speaker
So exciting. I wrote caps as well, but I didn't write F***ing in the middle. I probably did say that when I saw him the first time. Okay, so to complete noobs like me, who is Katrin? What is his significance? What?
00:46:01
Speaker
Because this is the first time I've met him. And yes, he's terrifying, but I have no idea who this guy is. So I was excited because of how much he shows up in k Clone Wars and in Rebels. Big character there. A sort of bounty hunter-esque character. Okay. All around bad guy. Has a bit of a history with Boba. Okay. Yeah.
00:46:22
Speaker
He does talk about that a bit in the next episode. Yes. Oh my God. Yeah, that's so touching. I don't want to ahead, but when he's like, I'm not a boy and you're an old man. Like, oh. Anyway. So that that was my excitement, just because I recognised him and had this background on him. And he features in Clone Wars as some of our favourite characters, as you'll find out, fighting with Anakin and Obi-Wan. He's very, very shady. he Yeah. Wasn't he part of, like, hunting down children? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Force-sensitive children. He was all over that. Tried to explode the Senate.
00:46:53
Speaker
Stole a holocron? Stole a Jedi holocron? Sorry. Okay. And doing stuff for the, I'm sure, was he working for Huts at one point as well? Working for Palpatine? don't know, he's all over the top. Oh, and then he's in Bad Batch. Yeah. Sorry, I'm shouting. You can shout. That's okay. No, no, no, it's all good.
00:47:11
Speaker
Pops up in Bad Batch. He was sort of training Boba as a bounty hunter because obviously Boba lost his father, went off into the galaxy with the biggest chip on his shoulder imaginable, had it in for everybody, and Cad Bane sort of took him under his wing a little bit in a kind of gnarly way. LAUGHTER and did teach him while he was a kid. So, yeah, they were running around. with Was Aurra Sing part of the gang as well? I think so. The white-skinned bounty hunter, and I think Dengar was involved. One entire season of The Clone Wars is like pretty much devoted to bounty hunter. Right.
00:47:45
Speaker
We'll get there. He is terrifying. He is, yeah. Really well adapted from from animation to live action. He just looks so cool. And it's the same voice actor it must be, isn't it? i think so i assumed that but i've not checked it my note was this is one of the most scary standoffs we've had and yeah the sound design is just ridiculously ominous throughout this entire yeah sequence it's a proper showdown like it is a real hardcore showdown with the low angle shots of the hands next to the holsters and all of that stuff yeah yeah yeah it's tense it's so tense Yeah, Cobb is like this planet's seen enough violence and he tries to just like close it down yeah before it gets out of hand. But yeah, it doesn't end well.
00:48:32
Speaker
Yeah, deputy's gone. Oh God. Cobb's down. It's just, yeah, brutal. It is really brutal. And then almost instantly out of that, you have no time to like recover from that. And then we're straight into the sanctuary where there is some, yeah frankly, incredible bangers playing. yeah This is my music cue of the two episodes, hands down. Excellent. My favourite music cue, Bomber House, no questions. This is the best music I think I've ever heard. It's certainly the best diegetic music i ever heard in songs. Yeah, yeah. Because I was like, is this a DJ? Because I could see a, I think it's a Bith or somebody in the background, like looked as though he was tuning a guitar thing.
00:49:10
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Yeah. And I thought, oh, that brand the band are on a break. This is a DJ. Yeah. But then like we do see like Rebo and and the Bith and the robot drummer all there. Yeah. And knocking out this amazing tune. want this tune.
00:49:24
Speaker
oh so good it's really good but even that's really like short yeah yeah it's speedy isn't after the slow jedi training and then we're like bam boomm bla boom yeah breaks my heart the sanctuary blew up i mean i know yeah bomb in the camp yeah i wrote camtona yeah there we go the your ice cream thing your ice cream thing yeah got this yes That's where it happens, the Cantona bit. But then you have zero time to process that that's just happened before we're back with Luke. And I'm just like, what is happening? Yeah, and this horrendous, like, yeah, this or that situation. Oh, yeah. They don't give you time to breathe at the end of this episode. After we've had all this, like, lovely, lovely slow bits. Then it's really intense. Then it's bang, bang, bang. And then you're left on a massive cliffhanger. Yeah, yeah.
00:50:16
Speaker
To be honest, at the end of this episode, I didn't know if I was mourning Cobb Vanth or Gars of Whip more. like Yes, be fair. Two of the hottest. The hottest people on tattooing. In Star Wars. In Star Wars. Fair enough. We've maybe not lost one. you know with I think the implication, spoiler alert for the end of the next episode, Vanth looks like he's he's survived in some form. It's going to be in some robot Vanth.
00:50:43
Speaker
And then... We don't know about Gars of Whip. She was in the main room. She was right. It was pretty big explosion. The whole thing was gnarly. Yeah. It didn't look like there were any survivors of that. Yeah. Because it was pretty grim. We see the exploded sanctuary, don't we? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. They go there. And it's just... It's completely decimated, yeah. My note here, like...
00:51:08
Speaker
We've been given no time to grieve. We're back with Luke. Luke's giving an ultimatum. But he also, like, he shows Grogu the lightsaber. Yeah. But, like, k Grogu's been threatened with a darksaber. Yeah. So he looks genuinely quite scared. Yeah, well, and his flashback showed that yeah He's seen the Jedi's wielding them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he's, like, he's fairly recently been threatened with a darksaber. Yeah. Yeah.
00:51:35
Speaker
And now Luke's brandishing a tiny lightsaber at him. Yeah. And was it like, well, he seems a bit nervous of that. Maybe not. And kind of like forcing him to make this decision, which... Yeah.
00:51:47
Speaker
Yeah, as you mentioned at the beginning, Mary, like, has Luke not heard of Tar Vizsla? Probably not. I'm guessing that wouldn't have been in the Jedi text that he's read. Because Tar Vizsla is this, like...
00:51:58
Speaker
the original Mandalorian Jedi combo. Yeah. And he was the one that forged the Darksaber. Yeah. And that's clearly a thing, but maybe yeah maybe Luke doesn't understand that you can do both. i mean, Luke, to be fair, he's struggling to figure out how to start a Jedi Academy, having had very little treatment of his own. He's struggling. Like the idea of taking on like a very niche...
00:52:22
Speaker
yes student who is like following the the Mandalorian Creed at the same time is like well that's quite a lot isn't it quite tricky but then yeah that's the end of the episode that's an amazing episode that so much to to deal with after a lot to digest The more I talk about this series, the more I watch it, the more I talk about it. It's just, oh, so good. It is good. I can't believe i had haven't watched it before now. I can't wait to watch it again, i think is what I'm feeling at the moment.
00:52:55
Speaker
Chapter seven, In the Name of Honor. Chapter seven. Oh, In the Name of Honor. Oh, my God. That whole chat. Anyway, yeah. The whole chat. We'll get there. We will get to the chat.
00:53:07
Speaker
So we got Robert Rodriguez directing again. So we're straight in with war planning. Yeah, and yeah, we're into war planning. Fennec is the one who's got her head wrapped around this thing the most, I think. Yes. She seems to be seeing what's going on. yeah Is it her that's like very doubtful about Freetown because shutting down the spice trade would ruin the whole of Tatooine? It's like if you take something away, eventually you could work to like clearing the spice trade from Tatooine and replacing it with something a bit more wholesome.
00:53:39
Speaker
But you can't just take it away like what Boba is intending to do. But Boba is very strong about anti-spice, isn't he, really? He is very anti-spice. Say no to drugs, kids. Yeah, he's really...
00:53:51
Speaker
Do you think that's partly to do with the train and the Tuscan land passage? Yeah, I think that definitely scarred him. But also this the Cad Bane thing, like from his history with Cad Bane that we were talking about earlier, he will probably know how tied up with...
00:54:09
Speaker
spice running Cad Bane is. Yeah. And how dangerous Cad Bane is. And like, if you want to get rid of one, you've kind of got to get rid of both in a way. Yeah, sure. Somehow, I think that's his thinking.
00:54:20
Speaker
But that is a bit of a kind of idealistic way of looking at the situation. Yeah. On a planet that's been a crime centre for so long. Yeah. I like the way that Scad comes up with the idea to sort of stay here and wait out and wait for backup that they're hoping that backup's going to come from Freetown yeah rather than, you know, Rather than hide. Yeah. Rather than look like you're hiding, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you're not retreating, but you are in a sort of defendable space. And I like how Boba listens to, you know, takes on board what he's saying and yeah that's what they do. They follow Scad's suggestion. I love that ragtag bunch of mods and wookiees and big guys. Oh, I just love it. Okay, if you love them, there's a podcast called Blast Points, right which I've spoken about a few times recently because I've just been getting into them. There's a couple of guys They're really funny. Their comedy is stupendous. but they recently did an episode about the mod gang.
00:55:19
Speaker
And it's just an entire episode about how amazing mod gang is. And they talk about like the who and, you know, quadrophenia and all that stuff. And like 50s, like rockers versus, you know, yeah it's so good. It's really la Mods with mods. like I just thought that was so clever. yeah Highly recommend Blouse Points. Definitely go for listening. If you want some Star Wars like...
00:55:44
Speaker
Retro Star Wars comedy. It's great. Incredible. I love that while we've got this war planning going on and yeah in Mos Eisley, we've also got the evil meeting going on Mos Eisley. Yeah, I had to keep like writing down, now where are we now? Which one is this? In the the Desert Survey office, which is where the plates have just hang out. have shopping.
00:56:12
Speaker
Of course. What else are you going to use a desert survey office for? They've got the mayor there who didn't actually leave. No. I think they've been told that the mayor had gone, but he's just hanging out with the bikes as well. It's a scheduled vacation, actually. It's a scheduled vacation. And we get the reveal about the fact that the Pikes were all part of the Tuscan. Yes. Oh, my God. Yeah, they're baddies. They're real baddies. They are baddies. We don't like them. No. They really are shady. To do all of that and get a biker gang that, you know, they're a biker gang causing trouble and vandalising places, but to use them to take the blame. Chuck them under the bus. Yeah. Knowing that Boba is going absolutely decimate them. Yeah.
00:56:52
Speaker
Which he did. Yeah. but One of my other favourite quotes here where, ah oh, the X-Wing is landing. and Hello, officer, Pally says, and then she's like, hide it. entire speech, because nobody else is speaking in this scene. and She's the only one with dialogue because we've got Grogu and a load of droids that don't speak. So she is Amy Sedaris just carrying a scene.
00:57:20
Speaker
like I mean, I don't even know what would have been on set with her. Like, she wouldn't have had the pit droids there. I don't think they're not puppets. So she's having to do a lot of extra legwork in the acting department.
00:57:30
Speaker
I found one of my lines since only this morning. So good. Did they teach you how to fly an X-wing already? oh yeah And bring him some, did she say dungworms? She said bring him some dungworms or something.
00:57:45
Speaker
I love that she's just chatting to R2 as well. you oh you know Don't be so hasty, the boy's got to eat, doesn't it? Just chatting away to R2. R2 tells her Grogu's name. like She must be really good at her binary like to understand a new name that's like quite advanced droid language. Yeah. 6D role or whatever.
00:58:08
Speaker
Yeah, it's really advanced. She chats to all of her droids like that anyway, doesn't she? so she's Yeah, yeah. She's just constantly monologuing with them. yeah I think I can relate to that. Like, I don't know what my equivalent of the droids would be, but I think I go around monologuing. Just all of the tech stuff. To something, yeah.
00:58:25
Speaker
monologue to a lot of things. yeah I say thank you to cash machines. Yeah. I definitely talk to my laptop, but it's not always very polite. Yeah, shame. Me and my laptop have lots of words.
00:58:40
Speaker
I love, what does Pelly say about his name? She says, it's a terrible name. I won't be calling you
00:58:47
Speaker
is that. aes that Amy Sedaris being meta, like improv? Or is that Jon Favreau being meta? I think it's Jon Favreau writing meta, because that's such a meta thing. Because at the time, fans were like reeling from the name and like, we don't think he should be called that. And like, just, it's a name.
00:59:04
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Get your head around it. So I think that line was specifically aimed at them. For that. i Loved it. Any Peli content is good content. and if yeah Again, reiterating, I think I said this last week, there's got to be a chance that she's in this movie because of where else does Mambo get Razor Crest? Where else is he going to get a Razor Crest? Yeah, that's true. What? I've not seen this trailer. Oh God, we'll watch this after. What?
00:59:31
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Yeah, it's a really trailer. It doesn't spoil anything, but it's so, so many scenes of like, what is going on? It's like intrigue. All this week i've been listening to podcasters break it down and I've heard so many theories and so many, and they're all saying different things, but like, I love all of it. I'm here for all of it. yeah Oh my god, so excited. It's going be great. We start to see the plan come together. I love how like members of the FET Gotra, as it's now called, are yeah scattered. We've got the Grimorians in the Klatooinian spaceport, aerial starports, they call it. I love this as a sequence because FET is just telling us what's there. And we're seeing people doing their thing. So rude. is they're watching city hall in the Trandoshan territory like why would you put Kassantan a wookie the Trandoshan territory why are you putting him there yeah they just want to get him fired up like it's going to be trouble whatever and then the mobs are in the workers quarter which is i think where they were originally hanging out in the first place which is an acrylis so yeah I can kind of see why they're there yeah that makes sense Bane comes to call on Boba oh And there's this incredible shot of like the sun is shining like behind his hat. I love when we get like those sun like light flare things or light leaks or whatever, when we've got a sort of a CGI element like Cad Bane. I'm guessing there was somebody on set dressed as Cad Bane, but they've clearly done some CGI to get his face to do. i don't know. guessing that's what they did.
01:01:04
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I know, seem to remember in the making of, like yeah I think they was they were pretty close. It could be one of those situations like they've done with certain other characters, like Quill from season one, where yeah it's a puppet, yeah like a remote puppet. And so there's an actor in the costume with a mask on, but a puppeteer is doing the facial movements and stuff. Okay. There is a single gallery episode of The Book Boba Fett.
01:01:30
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Yes, I've watched half of it and then I got sleepy last night. Really, really good though. Really insightful. I watched it at the time and I loved it, I can't remember what there was about Cad Bane. It came up and suggested. I didn't get to Cad Bane. Okay, that's something to research, to put in our socials. How did they do Cad Bane? How did they it? Because, yeah, when you've got that messy light leak stuff going on with the cinematography, it's a lot harder to do that if you've got CGI hybrid elements. Involved as well, yeah. Mixed in. That's kind of tricky. Bob has got one of my, another line I nearly went for when he's just going, I can take him. thought you were going say, I thought I smelled something. This is first.
01:02:15
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And then we get another iteration of, if that's not the practical, you're mistifting slimy. Yes! Yes! So good. think three characters have said that now. Yeah. Pelley said it. Did Fennec say No, Boba said it, I think. Oh, yeah. Yes. Yeah. in the When they go to find Bo-Katan in yeah the finale of season love it.
01:02:43
Speaker
Cad Bane is dealing. He's like, we're keeping the spice coming. in And Boba's... Boba's like, no. no Yeah. Stand off. Fennec was essential in that moment, though. i you know, she's like, well, we're going to face him on our terms. Yeah. Not now. And she's such a good job of talking him down. like You're emotional. Stop it. Yeah. Yeah.
01:03:05
Speaker
Boba is so lucky that he's got Fennec there. Yeah. Apart from being like an incredible assassin, as we're going to find out later. Yeah. She is just really good at moderating him and steering him right. Yeah. And he seems to listen to her, which is good. too Yeah. It's an incredible partnership, I think, because they're both really strong in their own ways, but then just really balance each other so well. Yeah, that's all in response to Cad Bane telling him about the Tuscan massacre and how it's the Pikes. Yes. yeah Oh, my God. So Boba's now got like a bit of a fury in him. He's got more drive. About the Pikes, which is fair enough, really. And, I mean, he knows he's got to get the Pikes off Tatooine, whatever happens. Yeah.
01:03:43
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But things are starting to happen in the three different zones. We've got the mods phoning in. Can I just go, it's a trap.
01:03:57
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It's a trap.
01:04:00
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One of those Star Wars all-time greats. I love it. Yes. Oh, my God. And I just, I wrote loads of no's on my page because i was just like, no, no. It was stressful. know. We start to see all these terrible things happening. oh Like the mods are getting attacked by the Aqualish.
01:04:16
Speaker
Black Santan's getting... No, but it's like completely swarmed, isn't it? You think like it's not coming back from that. No. No, they're like hiding their weapons in their baskets or something. Yeah, yeah. The Katowinians rush the Gamorreans who we've become so fond of. Who knew that we'd get so attached to a couple of Gamorreans but watching them fall off the ridge. no!
01:04:39
Speaker
Oh my So horrible. im reliving it. blocked it out. mean, to be fair, the their tactical position was pretty awful. Yeah, that was a terrible place to be. i don't know what they were thinking there. I don't think Gamorreans are that great in terms of thinking. Oh dear. Not great with depth perception either, apparently.
01:04:57
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the The major Domo appears like my favourite character. Not my favourite character. One of my favourite characters. Suddenly appears and and tells the gang where the pikes are hiding in Mos Eisley.
01:05:08
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Yeah, with a bit of persuasion. Yeah, yeah. ah I mean, I think he loves being the holder of information. He just loves talking. He seems to get off on a bit, doesn't he? They have that little chat where Mando's completely ready to go down with Boba. Oh, my God. In the name of honour. In the name of honour. We'll both die in the name of honour. We'll both die in the name of Yeah. And Boba gives him so many outs and he's like, no, I'm staying. This is the way. This is the way. Yeah.
01:05:37
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So good. I think that was a point for Boba. I think because Boba's always, you know, he's a Mando and he's part proud of this heritage and he's got his chain code and his dad and everything else. But he's never been one to be like the creed, you know. Yeah, never been part that. I think he even like didn't take Mando seriously when he first met him. But I feel like he's coming around.
01:05:54
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Well, he's definitely come around. He does say, do you believe in all that Bantha fodder? Yeah, another one of my kids. guys yeah but each little thing that mando does it's like by action he's persuading yeah which is really good fennec has gone to do the business in masso and i love that she just stops on the way to help the mods yes yeah and but they say thanks and she's like manners i like it you're like it and then just parkour's off yes in the way that she does but she's so good she is great isn't she The Bobo and Mando jetpacking off, I thought, this looks so but yeah just Yeah, so freaking cool. And they they're doing well with their jetpacks. They are. They're surviving the jetpackers. They're doing so well. I'm in touch with.
01:06:44
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I wrote, surprise Mandalorian attack. yeah I mean, they save the, well, what does he call him? Tailhead. Tailhead, yeah. To page it over. is so rude. Yeah. not really very offensive. like that. I think that is like a proper offensive term for Twi'leks. Like Twi'leks are used to being called Tweaks and all the other permutations of their name, but feel that that's probably pretty bad insult.
01:07:10
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Yeah. But then he is very annoying, much as I love him as a character. He is. Incredibly annoying. He is really irritating. Yeah. I had a note here. we get one of those situations, which we have several times over this episode, where it's like, they're backed into a corner. There is nothing that can happen. And then... Freed Yay!
01:07:33
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I called it British and Sundance vibes. Yes, it is British and Sundance vibes. It like the last two. Yeah, last stand. But yeah, Freetown turned up. I mean, we're into the fight properly now. Yeah. like it's all kicking off. The pikes are there, shooting everybody up, and they just keep coming and keep coming. Yeah. And even with the people of Freetown and their land speeder thing that they use as cover, they all crouch behind it and everything. Tanti's on the big gun. Yeah. My boy Tanti. I love him.
01:07:58
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This planet deserves better, he says, or something like that. Yeah, he does. And all the rest of the gang, they killed Cobb in cold blood. Tiny gun, comparatively. Tiny mod guns.
01:08:10
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The gang comes back, the mods are there, Kersantan's limping in. nearly he throws that he throws the pike at a pike. Yeah, he's amazing. It's so funny.
01:08:22
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Classic Wookiee. Great. But then we got real problems and these two Scorponok Annihilator droids turn up, which it turns out were designed Colicoid Creation Nest, which are a bunch of insectoid designers who created the droidekas, the destroyer droids.
01:08:43
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And the tri-fighters that think we see in Rebels or Clone Wars. Clone Wars, I think it might be. Okay. Okay. And to me, I couldn't find this confirmed, but to me, they just look like buzz droids from the beginning of Revenge of the Sith, but just huge. And buzz droids have got that insectoid thing because these insectoid designers, these colicoid, whatever they are, they built the droidekas in their image. And if you go and look at the pictures of them, they look like they're insects that walk... kind of backwards like droidekas do and these things are a very insectoid looking yeah and so are the buzz droids and the buzz droids have got that single red eye as well which yeah these things have got to got at which we see the rancor puts his thumbnail into one of them in the same sort of way yeah yeah and sorry I just did a little deep dive there where do they come from you know when you see something impressive like that tech wise where do these come from My note for these was ah I'm loving their shield sounds. yeah Someone clearly had a lot of fun making those. I bet. Yeah. And the way the shield sounds change when the shield starts to get light impaired, you know, when it goes red.
01:09:54
Speaker
The shield reminded me of that, like, is it one episode in Clone Wars or a little sequence where Ahsoka and I think Anakin are there and they're teaching that yes yeah the locals. Is it on Saul Guerrero's planet? That's where we first meet Saul Guerrero.
01:10:08
Speaker
And he's a young boy and his sister and yeah, and they, you have to... yeah I did make a note of this ah from Clone Wars. the The trick with the impact shield is if you have to roll in the thing very slowly...
01:10:20
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ah yeah Yeah, but not not too fast or slow, just for the right speed. And then it does the electric thing and and takes it out. yeah Yeah. I think Mando says something. He's like very specific about the way he says, like, our lasers aren't going to work. And he says something about kinetic energy or something. Our kinetic weapons have too much velocity. Velocity, yeah. yeah Which is exactly what you've just said, Mary, about the Clone Wars trick of just being gentle. But they don't actually get to figure that out. And maybe the Colicoid Creation Nest saw that as a flaw and adapted the shields to make it better than the Droideka shields. But it does look similar. I just love it. The design of it is so cool. Similar vibes. I noted that there is an incredible, fun little mod twirl. They go to rescue... Yeah, it's so good. So they go to rescue Chrysanthemum and like two mods go out to get him and they do a little twirl and then land in a lunge and fire the guns at the party. Amazing. So good. I think that's Scad and Drash, the two main ones. I'll tell you what, I want Drash's leggings. She's got these red leggings. They look like the red mermaid ones that Yeah, it's like big, super big fishnet type design, isn't it? It's like a sort of a big black overlay. Yeah. You must be able to get them, but they're kind metallic, like those mermaid ones. But bright red with black. She's, oh, yeah, her style is...
01:11:53
Speaker
so If I could be if i could upset that already this episode i could be in the Star Wars Galaxy, I would be a mod, but I'd move to Freetown rather than stay in the mod. I wouldn't hang out in Mos Espa. We were saying last week, Mary, and we're going to post about this when that episode comes out. If you could get a mod, would you?
01:12:14
Speaker
And if so, what mod would you get? would it Oh, that's interesting. I probably would. Yeah, I think I Yeah, quite like, well, I like tattoos and piercings and things. it's just like a really useful one of those. That's what I was saying. said I'm quite modded already in terms of like... Maybe you can have like an extra arm out your chest to like hold things for you. Write notes. Another arm. That would be quite useful, I guess. Yeah. That's not my final answer. I need thinking time. Yeah, ponder it. That's a first guess. You've got a heads up for women. You've got a heads up, yeah. That sounds like the extra arm that, what's his face? Yeah, Mayfeld has got. Mayfeld has got. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God.
01:12:59
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Mayfeld arm. Into all of this complete chaos comes Pelly. Yeah, on a rickshaw. Oh, God.
01:13:12
Speaker
So these rickshaw droids, I knew I've seen them somewhere. And I know we talked about this, I think, already, that we saw them in Phantom Menace, maybe, Tatooine. No, it was Attack of the Clones, when Anakin and Padme go to see Watto. Yes. But also in Attack of the Clones, you remember the Outlander Club with the font above the club door where the Death Sticks guy is? And we were talking with Cashin about the different sports. Yes. One of the sports are these same droids,
01:13:40
Speaker
that are RIC series general labour droids playing some kind of match that is called Noonaball. Amazing. So not only are they good at pulling rickshaws, but they can play Noonaball as well.
01:13:56
Speaker
I don't know that this one's going to be playing any more Loona Ball. No, I mean, this one gets a bit beaten up out of shape. It was a very cool slow motion crash. Yeah. Super cool. It's a vehicle flip thing. It's just amazing. Which is closely followed by, well, apart from Mando saying, what's he doing here? And Peli says, the force works in mysterious ways. Mysterious ways, yeah. Nice, you know.
01:14:22
Speaker
But we're immediately followed by possibly the most badass thing we've ever seen in Star Wars, which is Boba Fett, a Strider Rancor appearing above a building. i This is like peak. I love it.
01:14:33
Speaker
Peak, just peak. It's so I was delighted a few episodes ago when we find out Rancors are actually really friendly and tender and Danny Trejo is there. and yeah like Yeah. Just yeah so much joy.
01:14:47
Speaker
So much joy. There's a theory about the Bad Batch episode where they rescue a rankled baby. oh my God. Like, is that the same, is that this rankled? Oh, maybe. Like, timeline-wise could be, don't know. Let's look into that. Yeah, we said before about how in sort of Mando and Boba we're finding out it's busting a lot of misconceptions we had, like that Tuscans were evil and that rankles are monsters. And actually, no, Tuscans are sort native people trying to survive and... Rancles are just misunderstood. Rancles are pretty sweet. Yeah, an absolutely bad batch. She called Mushy? Is it Mushy? Something like that. Yeah, something like that. I need to look it up. So cute little, oh my God. Yeah. Oh, I love this theory. Boba Fett goes through this, like, our perceptions of Boba Fett. Yeah. That's what a lot people had issues with with this show is that Boba wasn't this ruthless killer. Well, no, he's not. He's like a misunderstood who had lot trauma when he was a kid and got some bad lessons as he was growing up and is just trying to figure out the world. So this whole show is about misconceptions. I think kind of clawing your way out of the Sarlacc pit is going to change a person. It's a life changer, yeah. It makes you re-evaluate everything. I love that. And I love that there is a meta thing, and I'm sure it's intentional, around this time where we'd had all the hate for the sequels and the dialogue in the fandom.
01:16:17
Speaker
It's not even dialogue. I've forgotten what the word is. Like the argument in the fandom. Yeah, yeah. And I think... Jon Favreau is just like, let's just make this series and make you question everything. Take a load of that out. Yeah. yeah I love that, Mary. That's a really nice... I hadn't observed that. I haven't zoomed out far enough to see all of that. It's really cool.
01:16:37
Speaker
I love that just as we get this rancor coming out over the top and we get this crash, Pelly stands up and spits one of her teeth out. oh Yeah. like Yeah, I noticed later on that she didn't have a tooth, but hadn't noticed that that's where she lost it. That's where she loses And then it carries on because she pops up again in Mando season three without a tooth still. And she's just great.
01:16:57
Speaker
I couldn't love her anymore. She's fab. But we've got Gunner versus Mando. Yeah. And Rancor versus Gunner at the same time. Yes.
01:17:10
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It's a whole load of chaos. It's become chaos. And this is where I found the Wilhelm scream. So I've put, Rancor holds up the pike for Boba to shoot. Yes. i flew up And then when he chucks him, Wilhelm scream. And I think it's an OG Wilhelm as well. It is an OG Wilhelm scream. Yes, you right. I'm going to give myself a gold star. Yeah.
01:17:35
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The line that happens just before that is ah Pelly going, nice head tails, get behind me pretty face, Pelly's got you covered. Oh yeah. That was another one of my favourite. I can't believe I missed that. So funny. And the gun, she's got this like blunderbuss type gun with like a kind of trumpet thing on the front. and i'm So Pelly. Of course Pelly can fight as well. She's just like, oh, I've come barrelling into the middle of this chaos. Here we go, let's pick up a weapon guns. I've just realised...
01:18:03
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I don't have a Pelley action figure and I'm sure there must be one. no Straight after this recording, guess what? That's where you're going. That's where you're off to. Cad Bane turns up at this point yeah and he's got a flamethrower. We get a zoom shot.
01:18:19
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Yes. We get a zoom shot on Boba. Clear out and take your hoodlum gang with you. That's so Boba.
01:18:28
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And yeah, this is that conversation where it's, yeah, we're talking about their history and it's obviously building to this shootout. Yes. Which Cad Bane wins, really.
01:18:38
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Yes. Yeah, yeah. As an older older man, he's still faster. Yeah. He wins the shootout, but it's pretty poetic that then it's that reaffirming of the you can only trust yourself and then Bubba's straight up with a gaffy stick. Yeah, the gaffy stick. Yes.
01:18:56
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Perfect. That's just so great. The resonance ripples back through the earlier episodes. Yeah, yeah. That's beautiful. Okay, so is Cad Bane dead? Because...
01:19:10
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I mean, this is the first time we've seen his head, I think. i don't think we've seen him with that as hat before, and that was pretty yeah ah felt pretty symbolic. But there's like a shot of him lying there in the dust, and there's like a ticking noise. And he's got like his breathing equipment thing. Yeah.
01:19:27
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And nobody dies. Even when you set them on fire. Even when you're cut in half. When you're cut in half. Yeah, I can't help feeling like they've gone to all the trouble of creating a live action campaign.
01:19:43
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Are they just going to use him in like one and a half episodes? Surely. don't know. I guess. I don't know. He looked pretty dead. He did look. Mary's waggling her eyebrows at me i don't know if you can see that. yeah I feel like it would cheapen Boba Fett's like Tusken journey. Yeah, definitely Like i feel like him killing him with the gaffy stick is like you say poetic much as I love Cad Bane and I don't want him to be dead really. I mean he's an awful person. Piece of work. Yeah. I was excited to see him but he is a horrible person person what excites me about it is it really opens us up to just bring all manner of animated characters into live action kind of opens the door to that which is very exciting which when you watch the trailer of Amanda and Grogu in a bit we'll watch you after there's a little another Clone Wars character brought to life
01:20:41
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Oh my gosh. Okay. Oh my God. I haven't seen this yet. I'm so excited. We've got a King Kong ending for the Rancor. Yes. I did note that that was very King Kong. Yeah. I found that so emotional. I just wrote things like, don't shoot at her. You're scaring her. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fogu saves the day, really, at this point. Well, we have this incredible... Mando goes in to try for Yeah. And Mando's just like, right, don't worry, you stay here. And he's very like, stay here. and ah
01:21:13
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he goes off and Pelly goes don't worry kid your old man's crafty and then the Rancor instantly bites down on his helmet and she goes oh spoke too soon fuck I did think that i at first I put Mando gets because he was like you're scaring it don't shoot but then tries to just ride the Rancor with no prior experience or relationship that's not how that works you can't just ride the Rancor you can't just ride the Rancor It's like when he first started to ride the... and The blurg. Yeah, the blurgs. It is a bit like that. But then, yeah, Gregory's like, don't worry, I've got you. He does the magic hand thing.
01:21:50
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And we have this beautiful iteration of... There's part of the theme at the end of every episode and we get the full Mando theme in the Mando series, obviously not in the Book of Boba Fett.
01:22:02
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There's a little bit at the end that happens that's like twinkly bells that play like this little kind of pattern. It's almost a bit Steve Reich-ish. We had a version of that when Quill died at the end of season one of Mando.
01:22:16
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But here, while Grogu's doing his like calming thing, we get this slow version of it. And then the strings kind of come around it and add to the harmony and it takes on a new life, which is really cool. It's like Grogu...
01:22:28
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is discovering more control in his powers somehow. He's doing it more intentionally, consciously, unlike with the Mud Hoon thing. That was a reaction. Yeah, he was kind panicking. Whereas the stakes are higher here because this is like an even more vicious monster.
01:22:44
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Yeah. Yeah, i feel like the music was giving us a bit more... clue into like Grogu's intentionality I suppose it's like it's ah I don't know what it's actually called its like a sort of force calming thing where you're connecting with the animals that like Ezra does it a lot with yeah the loth cats and stuff and Obi-Wan as well he's always like What am I thinking? They were like those Rey-type creatures on Kamino and he's sort of like... Anyway, sorry, I've sidetracked. No, no, no, it's cool. It's one of the Force options. One of the Force options.
01:23:20
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Yeah, it's not it's not like a brand new Force thing. like Sometimes like when we saw Force healing for the first time, we're like, oh, what's this? But this is something we've sort of seen before, but it's just lovely that Grogu has got it. I mean, Grogu does seem to have quite a range of possibilities. He does have a range. And we're only just beginning to figure out What you can do, I think. But he does get sleepy. does He Peli says, I'm guessing there's not going to be a barbecue. That was my second pick for life.
01:23:46
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Because she had the steak barbecue for after the Great Dragon escapade.
01:23:52
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So the only way they could follow that whole wild sequence was coming back to Mos Eisley and the Pykes and the Cook Gang. and It's just the most concise bit of assassination ever. It's quite impressive, isn't it? wrote down she's just she's incredibly brutal and she just sneaks in. yeah Ninja style, gone. They're all dead. Yeah, but don't make deals with space gangsters. yeah like That's what you get. so Don't mess with them. Back in Mos Espa, the townspeople are rebuilding. it's very sweet. Everyone's paying his their respects to Boba. I've got in all caps, Gonk Droid. Yeah, there is a little Gonk Droid there. With quite a big vocabulary, he said a few things more than just Gonk Droid. Speaking of vocabulary as well, just nipping back to when Grogu first arrives in Peli's hangar.
01:24:47
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She says something. Yeah, he says almost says something. It was very, very close to speech. saying. Anyway, sorry. Distracting. Some kids come up with some melaroons or whatever they're called. Oh, melaroonian fruit, is it? Which pops up in yeah in climb walls, pops up in rebels. Yeah.
01:25:09
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you made Yeah, Rebels episode one. Maylurian fruit? Maylurian fruit, yeah. may i I can't read the writing right now, but yeah, classic Star Wars fruit. Yeah, it's the thing that the mods crashed into, or the mods made the Majordomo crash into, like a whole crate them in in the speedy chase. So we get like... First epilogue? get yeah That's the first epilogue, yeah. The official epilogue is like Mando. We've got a really nice music cue as we're kind of rebuilding the city. The music is telling us that all is well yeah and yeah everything's fine.
01:25:44
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And they have a little laugh about the Baxha tank and the melon and the wookie. Yeah, yeah. Ha ha. I noticed that like the gang is kind of in the town square or wherever we are. And amongst them, as well as like Kassamton the mods and everything else, there's the little weird server droid thing from Jabez Kahn. Oh, yeah.
01:26:04
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The one that looks like rabbit hole. He's just hanging out with them. Yeah. Somehow found his way into the gang. Didn't do anything in the battle that we saw. He's there all the same. Super cute.
01:26:18
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Meanwhile, there goes Mando with his little grovie pod. Oh, so funny though. I love that sequence. And he's like, no. All right, but this is the last time. It's like every dad ever.
01:26:32
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is rolling their eyes at that point. Just to make you Just the noise that groggy rates when they accelerate. Yeah, and the G-forces push you back into the jumps. It's so funny. The final musical cue of like the over-credits music. have a question. Do we ever hear the theme in this way before? Or is this the first time? No, this is the first time, I think, that we've heard it. yeah So there's always been vocals in it, but they've all just been like... It's kind of been cut. Yeah.
01:27:05
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Yeah, it doesn't say Boba Fett. We don't get Boba Fett. Whereas this time around, which, mean, we've rarely had lyrics. There's an Acolyte episode that ended with a song. Okay. Which upset a lot of the fans, as you can imagine. Of course, of course. I loved it. It's like a...
01:27:21
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a really banging R&B tune with like the lyrics to the chant that happens in the episode. it's just like really cool. It's kind of, yeah. Like, is this diegetic? It's kind of crossing the... And the same with this, really. It's like, well, we're talking about a character, but the music totally suits. It's good. It's just, yeah.
01:27:40
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It's such a good theme anyway. I think it is one of my all-time favourite themes of anything ever. Yeah. Yeah. But to have it suddenly chanting Boba Fett was great.
01:27:50
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like Nothing else, just like Boba Fett. And then all the original vocals are still there. like yeah so funny. So good. But then we get a sneaky epilogue, which I was so happy when this first aired. was like, oh, thank God. Thank God we haven't lost him. And we just see the mod artist, Thundercat, um as the mod artist igniting his little thing.
01:28:14
Speaker
And Cobb Vanth is in the back to tank and we can rebuild Cobb Vanth. He's coming back. He's coming back. Strong feelings that he's going to be in the film, the Mando and Gregor film. Cool. Pretty feeling quite strongly about that, I think. Yeah, yeah.
01:28:30
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He's certainly coming back into... If they can get Fennec Shand back from... Yeah. Yeah. And they can get Bobbent back. We can mod anyone back. Yeah. I love it. Now that we've got this mod guy, like anybody, know... Gunshot wounds are no longer a problem. Boba will just have him on a retainer so that he can...
01:28:52
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What a ride. What a ride. A Incredible. i loved it. Thank you so much, Mary, for coming chatting with us and bringing your Cad Bane love and your Clone Wars It's made me so excited to do Clone Wars. It's a big journey ahead of us, no doubt about that. It is a big journey. It's daunting, but we're going to have so much fun doing it and I hope you'll come along with us for some episodes. You're going to love it. I'm so excited for Sia to watch it for the first time. too. It just brings so much stuff together.
01:29:29
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Ah! It does. It's wild. It's foundational. It's incredible. yeah But, listener, thank you for sticking with us. If you're still here, well done. has been quite a long record, actually. I'm normally the listener. That's We have smashed our way through yet another season of Disney Plus Star Wars. And we've got one more season of Mando to go before the film comes out, which means...
01:29:58
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We're not very far off from the film. We're not very far off at all, are we? Super exciting. So next week we're going to be breaking down chapter 17, I think it must be. think it must be. Season 3, episode 1. Yeah. Which I can't wait to re-watch. It's going to be a one. Ooh, how exciting. Until then, make sure you're following us on all of the things.
01:30:19
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Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Blue Sky. Talk to us on YouTube. Talk to Jessica on YouTube. It's not... Yeah. but Our YouTube is a very niche audience. There's not many on there, to be fair. But Jessica is loud amongst them, which we love. Jessica will answer the questions that you She's our YouTube correspondent. Yeah, she is. Yeah, I think that's all the places, isn't it?
01:30:46
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Yeah, those are all the places. Obviously, follow the podcast if you're not already. And please tell your friends. We're trying to get a bit of organic reach out there. If you're enjoying listening, spread the word Bring more people in.
01:30:59
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yeah I've been handing out badges. Nice. This is what we need. Actual real world. Yeah. Real world badges. go Until next week.
01:31:11
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Bye for now. Bye.