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Han Took Shots First Ep 26: The Mandalorian Ch 8 - Redemption
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In Chapter 8 of The Mandalorian, Mando and his crew are pinned down by Moff Gideon’s forces, who come armed with big speeches and even bigger blasters. IG-11 makes a heroic comeback, zooming in like the world’s deadliest nanny on a speeder bike to save Baby Yoda. After a fierce showdown, Mando defeats Gideon and finally earns his official Mandalorian signet. The episode ends with Gideon slicing his way out of a wrecked TIE fighter, with the help of the Darksaber’s dramatic entrance, because villains in capes never just stay down.
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Introduction and Episode Overview
00:00:05
Speaker
Oh
00:00:36
Speaker
Welcome back to Han Took Shots First. I'm Derek. I'm Jack. And this week we're talking about The Mandalorian Chapter 8 Redemption. Season finale.
00:00:48
Speaker
Yes, season finale. Original air date December 27th, 2019. Late Christmas present. What a what a gift though.
Accents in Star Wars: A Humorous Take
00:00:56
Speaker
Yeah. What a gift.
00:00:59
Speaker
And I was noticing... scores while I was looking stuff up. mean, look at this. This one has a 9.2 from people on IMDB, which doesn't mean much because most of them are not good at rating things, but nine on Metacritic, which kind of just gathers ratings from all over the internet.
00:01:17
Speaker
So yeah, good. Yeah. We didn't see anything as good as this on streaming rate wise until and or season two, like had multiple ones that were like 98, 99 crazy.
00:01:31
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, there's always that one guy. um i just, i don't know. There was no lightsabers. You know, Andor was just kind of slow. Why does Star Wars have a Mexican in it?
00:01:45
Speaker
Why does he have a Mexican accent? There's Mexico in Star Wars.
00:01:53
Speaker
Same reason that a bunch of Imperial officers sound like this. No, no, no. British and Star Wars makes perfect sense.
Directorial Insight: Taika Waititi and Jon Favreau
00:02:00
Speaker
Well, you see, they're white. on I'm being attacked.
00:02:06
Speaker
But this episode, the season one finale, is directed by Waititi. Oh, hell yeah. And written by Jon Favreau. I feel like that was the deal they made with him. It was like, okay, you come on.
00:02:20
Speaker
You're direct an episode because I know you want to direct some Star Wars. In exchange, you're going to have to voice this robot. but Yep. I feel like he wanted to anyway. I mean, like that's in that's a good Star Wars cameo is just dropping your voice in. We get a couple in this episode in The Force Awakens. like It just continues. You get a bunch of people like, I'm not in Star Wars, but my voice is.
00:02:46
Speaker
So technically, I am in Star Wars. Hell yeah. um And we get a lot of him in this one. He's like, I'm going to use me.
Emmy Win and Musical Praise
00:02:54
Speaker
yeah I'm going to use me.
00:02:56
Speaker
I'm going to use me so hard. I did see, though, real quick. The way I'm dressed, I'm asking for it. ah This episode won an Emmy for outstanding music composition for a series.
00:03:10
Speaker
Hell yeah. So I feel like they were just like, here's the one for this episode, but it applies to the show. They just have to do it for a specific. They have to have an example.
00:03:22
Speaker
Yeah, it is for the whole show, though.
Comic Relief: Scout Troopers and Baby Yoda
00:03:24
Speaker
Because like this was this is on par with the rest of the show musically, right? Yeah. I mean, I feel like it's a lot of just like the main theme kind of used in various forms in this episode. but So this one starts off right where we left off.
00:03:42
Speaker
ah Quill's dead. but We've got scout troopers zipping through the desert with a baby in a bag. As one does. This is what I signed up for.
00:03:53
Speaker
Baby bags. This is where we get Jason Sudeikis because we mentioned that last time. He doesn't do any voice work on the last one. Yeah, and Adam Pauly. Yeah, Adam Pauly or Pauly something like that.
00:04:04
Speaker
And Jason Sudeikis is just beating the shit out of this baby. Yeah, dude. You're trying to make me hate Jason Sudeikis, aren't you? Yeah. It's just like, and he's like, shut the fuck up. Punches it in the head.
00:04:20
Speaker
And then the other one's like, I really want to see it. He's like, we should check on it. You might have killed it. hu Is it hungry? Is it thirsty? i like the back and forth thing. You just want to look at it. He's like, well, you get to see it barely. You know what? Let's look at it because I'm not giving him off getting a bag of dead baby.
00:04:34
Speaker
It's the last thing I want. He's got a point there. Well, yeah, he's got a point because the guy on the radio is telling them. He's like, stand by to talk to Moff Gideon. He just killed a dozen guys when he arrived.
00:04:46
Speaker
And they call back and he's like, ah yeah, he just killed an officer for interrupting him. So I'm not going to. Yeah, if he's going to do it to them, he's going to fucking murder us for killing a baby. Yeah, exactly. 50-year-old baby.
IG-11's Heroic Transformation
00:05:00
Speaker
ah do like them talking about it too. It's like, what does he want it for? you like I don't know. Maybe he wants to eat it. but Yeah, I don't know. You see those ears? Make some good fucking pork rinds.
00:05:10
Speaker
I can make some chicharrones out of that. And we have the thing we kind of talked about a little bit before because I was asking what episode it was, but they're trying to shoot this like battery or whatever on the ground. Yeah. And just can't hit shit.
00:05:23
Speaker
I mean, they're scout troopers, man. They're not hunters. They're not. i mean, in general, this trooper era, they can't shoot. But these guys are even less so. They've got these little fucking, I don't even know what it is, like an EC something.
00:05:37
Speaker
It's a little pistola instead of a fucking actual E-11. Yeah. Well, I noticed later, too, I mean, after Cara Dune puts down her fucking minigun, all of them, except for Mando, are just running around with these same like little tiny guns. I'm like, this is not a way to kill...
00:05:54
Speaker
the 50 plus troopers that are. So the way I equate that though, is it's kind of like these action movies that we were watching on the main feed where someone has the, the, the hero is more methodical. it's like, I can just shoot once and hit my target.
00:06:10
Speaker
So if I have this gun, I can just being bang, boom. Whereas the bad guy who's less talented, less skilled, he's got to just fucking spray and pray. Yeah, that's fair.
00:06:21
Speaker
So that's kind of, i I put it, I chalk it up to that. But Adam Pally does get a a peek at the baby here, and he bites his finger and he just punches it in the face, too.
00:06:32
Speaker
And that's we get I.G. 11 coming in. He's like, stop that. Don't do that.
00:06:38
Speaker
um Are you a hunter? Nope. I am a nurse. I thought all I.G.' 's were hunters. Yeah, and he just beats the shit out of these dudes, like, bopping them against their motorcycles. Phenomenal scene. You say bopping.
00:06:49
Speaker
One of them, he just, he breaks, I guess it's Sudeikis, excuse me, he breaks Sudeikis' fucking arm and then grabs the other guy's head and just starts beating this fucking little, this little swoop bike into Bolivia.
00:07:03
Speaker
It is just, you're done, it's done, he's done. He's bopping. you make it sound so nice. Like, so he bo he bounces them around a little bit. No, he kills them using blunt force trauma.
00:07:15
Speaker
Yeah, well, same thing. You just did
Moff Gideon's Threatening Confrontation
00:07:18
Speaker
like made a little kid version of murder, what you did. that Tomato, ketchup, you know. Sometimes when people get bounced around um by their think heads, then they go for the long sleep.
00:07:30
Speaker
When there's damage to their central processing unit. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. So we go back to town and there's a standoff ah with our three heroes inside. Cara Dune, Greef Karga and Mando.
00:07:46
Speaker
And then Moff Gideon and his death troopers and various forces outside. And like ah starts with Cara Dune's like, what the hell are they waiting for? and oh this's what they're waiting for the e-web turret yes this did we talk about did we talk last episode how this is the 501st legion i think we did right yeah yeah you were okay i just want to make sure they get their credit because it's like man you had more story accurate costumes than disney did that's fucking crazy Yeah, well, and it's cheaper to hire these people who already did it than to build a bunch of new ones, right? so Yeah, and I think like because of how beautifully nerdy these guys are these guys and girls are, it is they move right.
00:08:31
Speaker
they They're drilled right. You know what i mean? like Even go back to that original trilogy, you got a bunch of fucking non-union extras standing around. Of course, their line's not perfect. You know, it's like kind of sparse and shit.
00:08:43
Speaker
This is much more like, hey, we drill every other weekend. You know, when we don't have our kids. Well, and these guys have to be all the ones that are that are Gideon's um troops because they come in in formation stuff. They're not the dirty, lazy ones. They're clean. They're in formation. Yeah, they are fucking cracking at it.
00:09:02
Speaker
Not a crack addict. And. Giancarlo Esposito a fitting replacement here as the villain for Werner Herzog Werner Herzog thank you yeah no I agree because that's a hard fucking that's a hard step up to make my friend yeah well we just cut to him and he's like because they're trying to shoot their way out and get into the sewers and stuff and he's just like um your panic suggests that you understand the situation.
00:09:26
Speaker
so I'm going to give you like to the count of whatever, like, and he knows all of their names. was going to say, it gets more menacing. He's like, ask shock trooper Cara Dune if she knows what this turret can do. And she's like, whoa, my name.
00:09:39
Speaker
and then does that Cara Cynthia Dune of all Cynthia. Oh, sorry. Only my mom calls me that. And then ah then the even bigger shocker was Din Djarin. And he's like, ah, I know who that is because no one has said that name since I was a child.
00:09:55
Speaker
Then the rest of this episode, he hears it so many fucking times. Well, now everybody knows. I know. It's better call him Mando. It would have bugged me where it's like, well, what did the Mandalorians call him?
00:10:07
Speaker
initiate they just didn't say his fucking name i mean i guess anonymity and hiding out
Din Djarin's Backstory Unveiled
00:10:11
Speaker
was the way to survive so that makes sense later on the armorer says like says jinjar into him she does later so but but but i'm saying from what he just said he hasn't heard that name since he was a child well meaning the mandalorians didn't call him that oh yeah okay like they retired that name once you're a foundling they're just like cool you're armorer you're big dude Yeah, I guess because he's, yeah, they just call him initiate until he's a full Mandalorian. And then he left the the covert basically to go off and bounty hunt most of the time. Well, no, he didn't leave the covert to bounty hunt.
00:10:46
Speaker
He was going up there. They can only go up one at a time. Yeah. And so he was up there going hunting and because he was still part of the covert. It was just that's what that was his work to try and contribute to, well, his armor, but also the found lanes stuff.
00:11:02
Speaker
And I do like Esposito's mention of like Din Djarin can tell you about what the damage these things can do. Ask him about the Night of a Thousand Tears. Like, that's the name of battle. Yeah. What's that now?
00:11:15
Speaker
Oh, dude. Reminiscent of our fucking terrible American history with the Trail of Tears. Yeah. You know that's not a good time. That's what the history books call it.
Torture and the Mind Flayer: Future Implications
00:11:24
Speaker
I'm assuming that's what this flashback is.
00:11:27
Speaker
ah No. It would be that battle, right? or no No. He's talking about, because he's talking about, he knows the stories of before on Mandalore. So, okay okay. I did a little bit of research. He was born 19 BBY.
00:11:39
Speaker
So he, and the name, he has a name for his planet, and it was nothing I recognized. It was like, ah something like, almost like Aqua something. Aqua V, we'll call it.
00:11:50
Speaker
But so he's 19. he's ahqua He's born in Aqua Velva. He was born 19 BBY and we're now nine years after that. Right. so Yeah. It's not like six years. I think. So I mean, he's like he's whole series is like seven to nine.
00:12:05
Speaker
So he's like late 20s. Yeah. He's almost 30 years old. but Just like Pedro Pascal. Exactly. Just like it. But so what we're seeing here is the Clone Wars and you can see it like, dude, separatists are fucking brutal.
00:12:19
Speaker
Because like I always kind of thought like I might be on the separatist side in Star Wars, not in our own Civil War. But I'm like, dude, they just don't want to be fucking ruled and controlled. I might be on their side. They never did anything bad. They were just defending themselves.
00:12:33
Speaker
Then you see this like, oh, they were just murking women and children. Yeah, they were just fucking brutalizing them. There's a real quick mention of ah from Cara Dune about if she gets arrested, that they would put her in a mind flayer. Yeah.
00:12:47
Speaker
And I don't know if that that's
Escape Plans and Sewer Adventures
00:12:48
Speaker
just like that's just propaganda. Yeah. don't know if that's supposed to be slang for the. ah um probe The torture droid thing? No. I can't think what they're called.
00:12:59
Speaker
No, I think the interrogation droid, I think. I think we see a mind flayer in is it season three of this where Dr. Pershing gets put into it.
00:13:11
Speaker
Because she's talking about the Empire having it right. And Greef Karga is like, that's just wartime propaganda, meaning made up to make the Empire sound scarier. We find out when the New Republic repurposed them as a therapy thing.
00:13:26
Speaker
because Dr. Pershing was going to go under it. I think that's the mind flayer. I think that's what that is. Because they's he's like, I don't want to go in that scrambles my brain. they're like, no, we repurposed it. If we do low frequencies, it's just really good therapy.
00:13:39
Speaker
And of course, homegirl blasted up to 11. Kind of like, kind like ketamine or. Yeah. and and Yeah. It's a it's it's like he's they were trying to get him to micro dose and then she fed him a half ounce and took him to the woods and dropped him off with nothing but a set of earbuds and a fucking India album.
00:14:03
Speaker
I was trying to find a picture to put up because Mind Flayer, the first thing I get that comes to mind is a D&D thing. Of course course. Of course, the picture saved in a wrong format, so I can't load it up. But they're basically like... ah They look like...
00:14:16
Speaker
kind of like a Cthulhu type of thing. It's like a tentacle octopus head thing, but they were so corn. They do magic and shit like that. So a core in Jedi. And then they also you had it in Stranger Things.
00:14:29
Speaker
And the in i think it was season two or three. It was the one that was like the big, huge monster that was like they had like the red background in the storm. And there was a big like four. like monster Three.
00:14:40
Speaker
Yeah, that that was the mind flayer they did in that because that's all D&D shit. But i I really think when I heard that line, because I mean, it's in the same show, so I think they did it on purpose. We're like, that's just a myth.
00:14:52
Speaker
Fast forward a couple of years, we're going to see it. Okay. um but yeah I could be wrong. I'll eat crow on that. i It sounds right. It sounds familiar. i just don't remember for sure.
00:15:03
Speaker
ah But we do see the rest of his flashback of like his parents hiding him. One of these. ah This is the battle droids, right? where Yeah, this is the B2. Although in live action. I mean, I know it's CG, but in live action, i was looking at it. and I was like.
00:15:19
Speaker
Is that just of the ones from Battlestar Galactica called? oh I couldn't know. Cylon. Is that just a Cylon? It might be a Cylon. I really appreciate how like they had the B2 get shot because they are tankier than the B1s. They're a better version. obviously Roger, roger.
00:15:37
Speaker
He gets shot and shrugs it off, but then it's a fucking barrage because Mandalorians have 20 guns each. So it's like, boom, one shot didn't do it. All right, everyone get two guns and point him. Because the guy's like, I can handle that. Oh, my God, there's a lot of them.
00:15:52
Speaker
When it's all these Mandalorians to the rescue, just just taking these fucking things out all over town. And, you know, it's the thing you've seen in things in movies and shows before. It's the kid watching these people rescue him and being like, that's awesome.
00:16:06
Speaker
I'm going to be a cowboy. I'm going to be a cowboy. I'm going to get my fucking guns to hang a little bit lower on the left side because that's what that guy did. And this is where Gideon, I guess, found out about him because he says Gideon was an ISB officer during the purge. And this would have been like one of the last times he was without a helmet and used his name would have been. Or those records are just destroyed now. He's like, he's the last person that was there.
00:16:31
Speaker
He's the last person that could have seen those records. um And then he he's like he keeps trying to call Quill still because he doesn't know they don't know that Quill is dead for sure because Cara Dune's like, oh, maybe they jam the frequencies or whatever.
00:16:46
Speaker
And we get a call back from the baby. It's like. It's a cute moment, dude, because he is just on that speeder going full. It's like an I G is like a Quill has expired. he
IG-11's Sacrificial Moment
00:16:58
Speaker
What'd you do? He's like fulfilling my function to nurse and protect.
00:17:02
Speaker
Well, it's like, shouldn't you have just taken this baby to the ship and taken off? Well, he's going back to save. I mean, if he's just trying to protect the baby, yeah. But he knows that that the baby needs... It's Din Djar's baby.
00:17:16
Speaker
it's it's That's his baby. We were just babysitting. I can't do, like, Taika Waititi voice doing droid voice, so I'm just doing RoboCop, which is making me laugh, because I'm just imagining him being like, to nurse and protect.
00:17:31
Speaker
To nurse and protect. It's written on the side of my cop car. ah Come here, little baby. Suck my robo nipple. Awake or a nap. Either way, you're coming with me.
00:17:45
Speaker
But yeah, he he flies into town, IG does, just blasting dudes on the speeder. Cool fucking scene, man. I love actually getting... I think we talked about the first time we saw this thing. Love getting to see an IG unit in action.
00:17:58
Speaker
Oh yeah. it Before OG, the original trilogy is just standing there menacing and your brain did a bunch of work of why this would be a bounty hunter. Now you see it. And it's cool, man.
00:18:10
Speaker
And it's strong, too. I mean, for how like thin those little servo arms are, it was beating the crap out of stormtroopers using the ground to make head bops. And we get the ah more use of like the way his body twists and stuff because he does like spin around because the baby is strapped to him, as we see in this picture, which, by the way, it's just that little smile on Greg's face. Pro-murder. The baby's pro-murder, dude. I'm saying. Yeah.
00:18:33
Speaker
But like he's he'll like spin around, spin his whole body around to put the baby behind him, but then flip his arms backward and start shooting. And it's just ah it's a very ah practical murder design.
00:18:46
Speaker
Yeah. Which is why they're patented. and And they can't be captured. Can't be captured. Do we don't want to see Ford or Chevy's version of this? Well, because whatever company made the I.G.s didn't want any of them being repurposed to be. It was.
00:19:01
Speaker
I think we know it was Instagram.
00:19:06
Speaker
Ah, the meta IG droid. Although if any of these companies are going to make a ah murder bot, my money's on Twitter.
00:19:14
Speaker
He'll make the X droid. he He names his kids like they're droids. yeah Yeah. He's he's practicing.
00:19:23
Speaker
and When I finally do build a droid, I'm going to have the best name. And when they kill anything, they say, you have been X'd. Oh, put that in the coding and also give me some coding.
00:19:38
Speaker
i like driving. I mean, he likes it all. You don't think you fuck around some coding syrup?
The Armorer's Fierce Defense
00:19:44
Speaker
Nah, I'm sure. A little fucking purple Jolly Rancher.
00:19:51
Speaker
don't think like getting his lean on? No, no. he's a He's from South Africa. He's anti anything that black people do or talk about. I don't do the urban thing. It's too cool. he just doesn't do it because he feels left out. He doesn't know the lingo.
00:20:09
Speaker
Why they say lean. I am leaning already. They made me look like a fool. A fool.
00:20:16
Speaker
But so Cara Dune lays down cover fire. Mando and Greef Karga join the the fracas out here, start blasting dudes because they're all fracas. Thank you. There's a ton of them, but they're all scrambled now because this fucking murder bot came out of nowhere. and sort of You broke up the ranks. We never drilled for this.
00:20:33
Speaker
No one ever ran a scenario where a murder nanny bot comes in on a speeder just double fucking fist and guns akimbo. Well, and then much like Rambo, Mando grabs this fucking E-Web cannon and starts fucking blasting these dudes.
00:20:47
Speaker
But we didn't get a Rambo four because this is Disney. I was kind of hoping to just see dudes shredded in half. Oh, yeah. Their halves tumbling down hills and whatnot. Uh-huh. Give us the rated R fucking Star Wars someday.
00:21:00
Speaker
Give us the rated R Wars.
00:21:04
Speaker
But Moff Gideon smartly takes out this battery, which blasts fucking Mando, takes him out the he shoots Mando in the head, and he's like, well, Beskar did everything it's supposed to. Ooh, battery.
00:21:19
Speaker
ah bet you Beskar can't stop this. Let's see. mean, it can. But it can't stop the concussion of his head bouncing back and forth inside of it. So they drag Mando inside, and he's he's like, dude, I'm fucking dying. like he she Cara Dune reaches her hand behind his head, and there's just blood pouring out from his head. Yeah. He's doing the go on without me hero moment.
00:21:40
Speaker
He can't take off his helmet. IG is like, I can get this fucking grate off right away. Watch this. Acetylene torch. Yeah. Grief Karga. It's like, I love IG units. Yeah. God, these guys are awesome. You want somebody dead?
00:21:52
Speaker
They're there. You want something welded? They got it in their hand. do You want somebody dead? Other hand. He can weld and murder at the same time. t I saw him once weld two guys together and then they died. It's insane.
00:22:07
Speaker
as But they send in this flame trooper, I'm assuming is just the name. Yeah, um there's probably a much better name, but I like flame trooper. He's got swag, dude. um like He yeah has swag.
00:22:21
Speaker
Because he knows he's not as drilled as maybe someone listening that's actually served military can ah say something better. But I feel like because he's only used in very certain certain situations and he's a specialist, he's not as drilled.
00:22:34
Speaker
He's not as uniform, obviously. He's got his old red paint on and shit. I think he's just like, look who's getting the phone call again. Old flame boy. Well, let me get over here and get some going.
00:22:50
Speaker
Well, it's like, ah oh, I can't remember who was playing him. i just But I was thinking the whole time, and it doesn't isn't really what ends up happening, but I was thinking about the guy from... ah I was wind talkers because I watched that recently in Nick Cage. Oh, yeah. a flamethrower flamethrower
Lava River Escape and R2 Ferryman
00:23:06
Speaker
guy. Yeah.
00:23:07
Speaker
And, you know, they're just walking around with a tank of gas on their back. i like He gets popped with that. yeah Yeah. That I can speak to. Not because I was in the military. I've just watched a lot of documentaries. They were so people hated. No one wants to die by fire.
00:23:22
Speaker
They were so feared that they were often like people would spot them and target them. Well, yeah, you know and and i mean, yeah, they can do a lot of damage, one, and they might be a little easier to take out than some of the other people you're fighting.
00:23:36
Speaker
I could take somebody out with them, too. Because you great you could shoot them. like you fire You could fire at them willy-nilly, because if you hit their body, well, you can take them down, and if you don't hit their body, you can hit this fucking 50-gallon tank of gasoline on their back. Yeah, yeah.
00:23:52
Speaker
I mean, just what a terrible way to go. But little baby Yoda, little Grogu helps everybody by stopping the fire with his force powers. And everybody's watching. It's really cool.
00:24:05
Speaker
Karga staring at him like, oh, he doesn't just stop. Like he he holds it there and then he fucking redirects it at the flame trooper. Yeah. Yeah. Blows that dude to hell. Yeah. Where he belongs.
00:24:17
Speaker
Don't come in here. Don't come in here with all that fucking hot swagger. Your guns to get burnt. So IG gets them into the sewer. Everybody goes down except for Mando and IG. And he's like, dude, I can heal you. And Mando's like, no living thing has seen my face. I can't take off my helmet. And he's like, I wouldn't worry about it.
00:24:34
Speaker
ah Funny you should word it that exact way instead of saying like nobody can see my face because you said no living thing. Knock, knock. Who's there? Not a living thing.
00:24:47
Speaker
And so we do see Pedro's. Woo.
00:24:51
Speaker
All fucked up. I really enjoy it. i'm Sorry, I'm going to... be No, go ahead. Because he's he's such a mysterious... With his helmet on, he's such a cool, mysterious, suave... Not to say Pedro Pascal is not suave, but you know what I mean.
00:25:05
Speaker
Like, it's just... ah And then you his face is so... disarmingly soft, I guess. They're like, yeah, oh my God, it's it's just a little, it's just a, it's a human in there the whole time. Like, yeah, you know that, but it definitely is just like a really good humanization because Pedro Pascal's charming fucking face.
00:25:24
Speaker
And they have, I mean, he has a little bit of, um maybe there's some mustache. Maybe it's just dried blood. I think that's mostly blood. but Maybe not today's blood, but I've been yesterday's blood. But his they have him babyface too, so it makes it's even more disarming
Grief Karga's Light-hearted Request
00:25:38
Speaker
when you see him. hair's like sweaty, messed up kind of thing. like it's It's just very like, huh, that's the guy who's been kicking ass this whole time? I thought you were going to take it down and be like fucking Lance Henriksen or something.
00:25:51
Speaker
That's when we get IG cracking jokes in the midst of battle. It's like that. what I said earlier that you have been you have taken damage to your central processing unit. He's like, you mean my brain? He's like, yes, that was a joke meant to put you at ease.
00:26:04
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And it kind of does like he's laughing. He's bleeding out, but he's laughing. Yeah, he's breaking down. He's starting to like droids a little bit. This one. Well, I mean, we'll see next season. He's he's more accepting of droids. This is a perfect lesson of like love or a hate turns to love.
00:26:21
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is yeah He isn't indifferent a robot. He hates this robot. Yeah. And then he loves this robot. Because even it was last episode, Carrot Noon specifically says, like, you've really got a thing for droids. He's like, no, I've got a thing for that droid. Yeah.
00:26:37
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He put a gun to Groger's head.
00:26:41
Speaker
so they they go down into the sewers, they find the covert. It appears abandoned, but there's a pile of armor. A quick gripe. Like the whole thing is like, take him, take, take the baby and we'll be up here.
00:26:54
Speaker
And then it seems like it's a second later where Cara Dune and Kreev Garga turn around and there's Mando and IG. I mean, I know that she, she follows it up with like, it's a maze down here.
00:27:05
Speaker
It just looks like you didn't go anywhere. Yeah. It was so quick. A quick edit. say She said to IG right before she went down, though, she was like, make sure you bring him with you.
00:27:16
Speaker
I thought that meant his dead body because they were still planning on fighting it out as far as I thought. Yeah. I mean, but maybe that was their thing. They're like, well, we got down here. We can wait because we don't know where the fuck we're going anyway. We're looking for a Mandalorian covert in the sewers. Cool. Yeah.
00:27:30
Speaker
Yeah. Pretty easy. Should be fine. Yeah. I just think a quick edit to maybe like cut to Gideon and his people like trying to pick up the pieces or something.
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Mando's Jetpack Triumph
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00:29:09
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Come check us out. If you don't follow us, we will follow you home. But they do get down there. They find the covert. It appears to be abandoned. But there's a pile of armor. And I didn't quite remember how this went. So I was like, why would they leave all that armor? You can melt that down. and make I understand like honor and stuff, but they need more Beskar. Yeah.
00:29:27
Speaker
But the armor is still there. And we so it's the armor and we don't know he's alive yet. I don't think we saw him in this episode, but Paz Vizsla is still alive, too. Yeah. Well, she said some people got off planet.
00:29:38
Speaker
Yeah. Hopefully they survive. So she just fucking on her own. Went and grabbed all these dead bodies, stripped them and buried them. yeah Fucking the armorer's a real one, dude, when it comes to belief.
00:29:51
Speaker
I mean, shit, she might have buried him. She might have just been like, look, we need they they would understand because we we see in a moment here during battle that this forge can consume a human body.
00:30:02
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Quickly. so Very quickly. not even Not even like a fucking drunk person eating a ho-ho. This is quicker than that. ah We
Parting Ways and New Beginnings
00:30:12
Speaker
do get a little bit of these people figuring out what ah Grogu is in ah in a sense in a roundabout way. One of them was talking. I think it's grief. Cargo's like he can move shit. No Mando says he can move shit with his mind. And she's like, oh, yeah, I've heard about that. He looks so helpless.
00:30:29
Speaker
Yeah. Back in the old man. The Lord is a great. Yeah. and And it's very confusing because i was reading some background stuff and it was like there was a guy who was the leader of Mandalore named Manda Lore Manda apostrophe LOR and he was a leader.
00:30:44
Speaker
But then also that's just what they call their leaders. But this guy's name actually was Mandalore the Great. Right. like and And their planet's also called Mandalore. like now Now you're getting a ah brief glimpse of me trying to keep this shit straight. And then then now think about all the things you did read and I have to figure out canon or not.
00:31:05
Speaker
That's the thing. I was like, look, I'm just looking for information. I don't care if it's canon or not. because No, and Mandalore the Great would be much like, i don't know, a long line of Alexanders. One of them is going to be great. Yeah, because mean, some of this old stuff, a lot of the old stuff is becoming canon in one way or another.
00:31:21
Speaker
I should have looked it up. I wonder, is Mandalore the Great? Is he the one that you get to have on your ah party in Knights of the Old Republic, one or two? ah can't remember right now. I read something Knights of the Republic. One of the guys in your group is trying to become the Mandalore.
00:31:38
Speaker
But the in Legends, it was Mandalore the Ultimate or something like that. so it's the same idea.
Darksaber Revelation and Speculation
00:31:46
Speaker
But Mandalore the Ultimate doesn't sound as cool as Mandalore the Great.
00:31:50
Speaker
I mean, there's different ones. I'd be Mandalore the... ah Don't want to go do that today. Mandalore is staying inside. there There were past battles between Mandalore the Great and sorcerers called Jedis.
00:32:04
Speaker
So they learn a little bit about that. That's why it makes me think of KOTOR because it's like, I think, 2,000 years before Battle Yavin, give or take. And the whole thing is like these Mandalorians are fucking just sieging the galaxy. they're just they're Everywhere they go, they're they're conquering.
00:32:20
Speaker
Yeah. And a group of the Jedi wanted to go stop them. The council's like, that's not our fucking deal. There's a rift. There's a big war between Jedi and Mandalorians. And this stuff applies to the next episode.
00:32:32
Speaker
So I might cut it. But there was a talk about the the, their mission going to kill the Krayt Dragon was very much just a mission taken straight from either the one ah One of the Knights the Old Republic games or maybe Bounty Hunter or something like that. Yeah, probably KOTOR. The full thing was literally a mission from one of the games. so And then lest we forget, a lot of the Mandalorian armor and weaponry, a lot of it is designed purely to combat Jedi.
00:33:03
Speaker
That was the first group they went up against. They're like, oh shit, we we got fucked up a little bit there. Wow. Yeah, that was one of the things I read. It was like, that's the armor they still use and improve upon to this day. Yep.
00:33:14
Speaker
Yep. I don't know why they keep putting a tether on there. Hasn't worked once. You try and tether up a fucking Jedi, they're all snip lightsaber. Nice try. But basically, she's like, well, now you're you're this little green things, Papa, until you either reunite it with its family or it comes of age.
00:33:34
Speaker
And big question mark on when that'll be since it's 50 years old. ah You'll know it's going to start getting harem places or, you know, you'll know. It when ah when when you find her out starts growing little scraggly hairs on the top of its head. That's that's like like Yoda, you know? Is your ball sack on top of your head, dude, as a race?
00:33:56
Speaker
ah When the refresher on your razor crest seems to always be occupied, you'll know. of age. You can't take showers that long. We have a very limited amount of water. ah Our hydro supply is low.
00:34:12
Speaker
But he does now get his Mudhorn Signet. um They are a clan of two. You are a clan of two. I love Emily with Swallow's voice for this, dude. She is so fucking good. The armorer is just already one of my favorite characters because of this...
00:34:26
Speaker
the The fucking um zealot kind of behavior, like her zealot-like belief, just being the lore keeper. And then coming up, it's about to be so much more fucking better of why we love her.
00:34:38
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah, because... Basically, some stormtroopers come in. She gives him ah Rising Phoenix, which is the jet pack. And she's like, hey, don't forget to refill your inventory and get the fuck out of here.
00:34:52
Speaker
Get some healing potions. Make sure you get. Did you save? Make sure you get a save point here. yeah Yeah. Grab re-up your whistling birds. this is This is a Disney thing. you know They crash all the time. You don't want to save like it's a Bethesda game.
00:35:07
Speaker
So they get out. The stormtroopers come in and the armor proceeds to beat these men to death with forging tools. Oh, keep on that scene. I want to point out, see how his fucking mask is shattered.
00:35:21
Speaker
Yeah. It's showing the difference between their little plasteel and her fucking most likely best car hammer. yeah like it's showing It would have to be if it's forging Vascar. I guess it would have to be. It would fucking have to be. You're right.
00:35:36
Speaker
So, yeah, it's just showing a difference of like cut your cute little armor. Damn, it almost looks like his head is on backwards there. If it wasn't for those titties, it would look like he's straight up.
00:35:47
Speaker
His head might be. That might be the back. His arms are going the other direction.
00:35:53
Speaker
ah Oh, man, that is wild. She's badass, man. She grabs one of these dudes with with the hammer and tosses him into the forge like we mentioned.
00:36:05
Speaker
And this dude goes straight into that thing and just immediately disappears. He he ceases to exist. Like there's no there's no crime scene. There's no fucking or ah ah looking into this. It's just, oh, here he goes.
00:36:20
Speaker
Yeah, it's a it's a moment like, oh, God, even she's like, oh, I'd actually oh I didn't mean to kill. i was just trying to hurt him and knock him out a little bit. Well, it's going to smell funny in here for a while.
00:36:34
Speaker
It turns out that all these guys are dead. All these Mandalorians are dead because of the Imperials. So she did mean to kill. I got it. I got it. You know how it's like really tough to forge Beskar for most people.
00:36:45
Speaker
There's a reason this forge is shaped this way. You need a little human sacrifice to forge Beskar.
00:36:52
Speaker
We to get these eight flames extra hot. Throw some people in How Mandalorian is it if it's like this best scar was forged with the ashes of Imperials? Kind of cool. Yeah.
00:37:03
Speaker
That's very Mando. That's very metal. I mean Mando. That's very, yeah, Mandalorian. So they escape via ferry on this lava river. When the moon hits your eye like... Oh, wait minute.
00:37:17
Speaker
this It's a dark picture because when they're in dark, it's very dark on this show. When you're in dark, it's dark. This very tall R2 unit that's like their... ah ah ferryman across the river sticks kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Caron.
00:37:33
Speaker
Yeah. I just thought of like R2D2 watching this, but I had upgrades like that available. You're going to tell me I could have had arms and legs this whole time. i would' have been kicking your ass.
00:37:44
Speaker
I guess this was an unused concept for like helper droids on the farms in a rogue one. Oh, really? i like that. Yeah. That's That would have been terrifying. This is scary because it's surrounded by lava, but just like R2s walking around with like legs that make them seven and a half feet tall.
00:38:03
Speaker
I kind of did want it to sing a little bit because like where you want to go droid speak and it's like that way. Well, and it kind of does. It starts whistling like R2 whistling and the subtitles. But it should have done like a bum bum bum bum um i around when i'm The subtitle said whistling rhythmically.
00:38:22
Speaker
Yeah. I that was what they were implying was that it was it was singing. Don't imply it. Show it. Show me droid whistling, you cowards. But they think they're in the clear.
00:38:33
Speaker
But there's a bunch of sh troopers waiting at the mouth of the tunnel here. And IG is like. I'll take care of the enemy and you guys escape. And no, you're not going to make it.
00:38:44
Speaker
You yeah know, that's stupid. I just like, there's no way there's no scenario in which I survive. And the child is safe. He shows his he child. Cause he shows his logic where he's like, I can't be captured. You know, and Mando's like,
00:38:55
Speaker
Yeah, but you got to take care of this baby's like true. But if I do this, I if I don't do this, we all get captured. I get I get captured, which I can't do the baby gets captured, which I can't do this way, at least the baby can survive that supersedes everything.
00:39:13
Speaker
and And you hear the distress in Pedro Pascal's voice because he's like, no, but you can't. You can't go. ige I just started liking your buddy. Can't you see?
00:39:23
Speaker
can't you see? We do want you There's no there's nothing to be sad about. um not sad. I'm not sad. Yes, you're crying. I'm a nurse droid and I have analyzed your voice.
00:39:37
Speaker
Actually, I could tell that you're ordering some French cries. so He walks out through the lava and he's like, I cannot be captured. I must so self-destruct. These guys are like, what now?
00:39:48
Speaker
And then you you can see him like lower their guns a little bit like, oh, that's a thermal detonator. I don't have time to run, do I? Yeah, huge explosion takes all these dudes out.
00:39:59
Speaker
I love when they come out of the mouth of the cave and it's just bodies strewn everywhere. They're like, oh, all right. Well, I guess they were ready to shoot. They had their guns up and shit. They're like, oh all right, well. Because, I mean, how many people is he going to take out with that little thermal detonator? He couldn't possibly take it. He took out the whole garrison.
00:40:16
Speaker
Okay. Okay. But Moff Gideon's TIE fighter comes in and starts blasting him. And this is one of the biggest laughs of the whole episode, for me at least. It's fucking grief karga. This is the biggest laugh of maybe this season.
00:40:30
Speaker
Make the baby do the magic hands. Come on, baby. Do the magic hands. And then the baby's just like, hi. He puts up three fingers, by the way, because that's all Grogu has. So he's like, do the magic hand thing. The baby's like,
00:40:46
Speaker
I'm out of ideas. Straight up. That was the best plan I had was and magic hand thing, baby. I got nothing.
00:40:56
Speaker
ah But Mando, I'm surprised I didn't hear complaints about this because of all the people that complained about Ray being a Mary Sue. Because Mando flies off in this with his Rising Phoenix thing right after moments after the the armor told him it will not obey your commands until you train with it.
00:41:15
Speaker
I think he said he trained with him when he was younger. And she's like, cool, you won't obey your commands until you master it kind of thing. To me, that meant you're not going to be great. And he's not. I mean, like, dude, his arm is ripped right out of his socket if I know anything about science and I don't.
00:41:32
Speaker
But like he flies up in the air narrowly missing this TIE fighter. and then was like, let me just lasso it going fucking Mach 1. Here we go. Now I'm going for a ride.
00:41:43
Speaker
And he's just getting fucking dragged around to this fucking thing. I don't think he meant to do that on purpose. i mean, I have no problem with it. I do recall. He gets much better. Like next season, he'll be season two where he's training with it and he keeps fucking up though. Right.
00:41:58
Speaker
But he gets much better. Yeah. But I think this is just like training and he can't handle it. But I guess in this, he's just going straight up and straight down. That's it. He literally goes straight up, lassos it, attaches a fucking bomb and then gets down.
00:42:13
Speaker
yeah um I like that he had the he had his fucking pistol shooting the hatch. People don't realize like the TIE fighters don't have shields, but they are quite thick of a hole. Yeah, he can't shoot his way in.
00:42:25
Speaker
Right. Although Gideon wasn't 100% sure because he's flinching and looking up like, oh fuck. he's I mean, in practice, I know that's bulletproof, but I mean, in theory, I know it's been in practice. I've never been under it.
00:42:36
Speaker
I don't want to be the one that fails on, dude. But yeah, he blows up blow the the arms off the ship. The wings, I guess it would be. Yeah. Arm panel thin.
00:42:47
Speaker
And it's a solar panel. The TIE fighter goes down. Is it? Yep. right. That makes sense. And they have their little wrap-up moment. Cara Dune's talking about staying behind to make sure that the Imperials are all gone.
00:43:02
Speaker
i like i love. He's like, dude, join us, man. Like, come come on over. And she's like, yeah I got a little problem with my chain code. If you're my enforcer, that's not a problem. Who am I going to send after you?
00:43:14
Speaker
He says to Mando, he's like, well, now that all the scum and villainy have been washed away, Navarro is a risk is respectable again. And he's like, as a bounty hunter hideout, he's like, some of my best friends are bounty hunters.
00:43:28
Speaker
when Gideon is calling everybody's name and middle name out, he does call grief, Cargra grief, Carga, a disgraced magistrate. Now, is that from this planet?
00:43:41
Speaker
Is he like, was he the magistrate before? Like, I just always thought he was head of the bounty hunters guild until later seasons when he's like, I am the, once he keep calling himself the chief magistrate, whatever, something magistrate.
00:43:55
Speaker
So that led me to believe. Was he the magistrate of this planet or this city rather and then was disgraced because the whole Mandalorian thing? Or did he become head of the Bounty Hunters Guild because he was a magistrate somewhere else and fucked up?
00:44:11
Speaker
That could be because he like yeah he fucked up and got... got booted and that's why he was like, I got to find a living somehow and I can manage people. Yeah. I'm good at, I'm good at running stuff to a degree.
00:44:22
Speaker
So yeah, I'll just be the head of the Hunter's guild. I guess I just wondered, I never thought about that until this rewatch. We don't have a lot of grief cargo backstory or any. Yeah. I mean, sadly probably won't get any.
00:44:35
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I'm not now a comic book or something. You think they're goingnna recast him or just write him off? I think they'll just write them off. They probably, i'm I'm wondering if they had, cause they've been filming the movie for a while. So I wonder if he filmed anything.
00:44:52
Speaker
i don't think they've been filming that long. I could easily be incorrect on that. Yeah. Cause when he passed away, been a little over a year. So yeah, it's probably been too long.
00:45:03
Speaker
I think. Uh, but we, we wrap it up with, ah Mando burying Quill. He gets a little grave and he goes off for more adventures.
00:45:15
Speaker
And of course, we have to cut over to the wreckage of the TIE fighter. The Jawas are scavenging it. Houdini. And suddenly this blade burst through the side, cuts a hole out, and there's Grief Karga with the Darksaber. Nope, Moff Gideon.
00:45:31
Speaker
Sorry, Gideon. Grief Karga with the Darksaber. I'm also four, by the way, Derek. You put it you put a whole image in my head I'm really okay with. Sorry, we were just talking about him. I know. I got excited, though. There's Moff Gideon with the Darksaber.
00:45:44
Speaker
And that really this cool shot of him standing on top of the very time. Yeah. And I had heard of the dark saber. So when this happened, I was like, that's a dark saber.
00:45:55
Speaker
That was about it. I think it was mentioned in Rogue One. Was it Rogue One? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's in the Clone Wars cartoon. I mean, like, it's just.
00:46:09
Speaker
it's hard to express in the words how exciting it was to just be sitting there but to myself. Like, that's the Darksaber. That's the Darksaber. That's the Blackblade. No, nobody? That's the Darksaber. Rewind that real quick. That's the Darksaber right
Conclusion and Future Plans
00:46:22
Speaker
there. Look at that.
00:46:23
Speaker
Wow. Yeah, and there's a little bit of stuff I read where it was like, it was... something vizsla who was the first i only remembered vizsla because both past vizsla but he was the first mandalorian jedi kind of like bridged the gap between those two because they had been at war he made the blade and it's uh it's shaped more like a sword it's got that black color and i guess the size intensity our vizsla um I don't remember. I just remember Vizsla.
00:46:54
Speaker
Yeah. But I guess the size and intensity of the blade, because it is generally smaller, I guess, than other lightsabers, but the size and intensity varies depending on like the mental state of the person handling it And we'll see that we'll see that coming up next season.
00:47:10
Speaker
We will definitely see it when we eventually get to Rebels the cartoon. Yeah. Yeah, we do see it. Oh, at the end of we definitely see it in those last three episodes of Boba Fett where it's actually just Mando season two point five. yep Because that's when he's walking around trying to fight ah past Vizsla and he's just he can't even lift the thing. Exactly.
00:47:32
Speaker
Um, it is. So that's, what's funny about this because the i was current on rebels at this point. And it's like the last thing that we fucking saw was Sabine gives it to, Bo-Katan Kreeze like, and she was supposed to rule Mandalore.
00:47:49
Speaker
So when this season, this series came out and it was like, well, Mandalore is gone. It's in it's uninhabitable. And it's like, Whoa, No, it's not. The last time I last time i checked, it was fine. Then it was like, here's the Black Blade. Here's a Dark Saber.
00:48:02
Speaker
that No, no, that's not how this is going. What are you talking about? like So with there was a lot of questions of what happened between Rebels and here. Because Rebels ends and none of this has happened, obviously.
00:48:15
Speaker
Well, we do touch on some of that because I remember that's that's the whole thing with Bo-Katan is she's trying to get it back so she can rule. Right. yeah But it's just at this point, I mean, I'm sorry. I'm speaking just season one. yeah this When this got done, it was just – and, of course, it's the end of the season, so there's just like we have nothing but time to do – nothing but time to speculate on.
00:48:33
Speaker
So everybody was just like, well, let's follow the fucking tracks and what was the last thing that we know happened. And, yeah. So that's the end of the first season.
00:48:45
Speaker
So we can do we can do our ratings. Does the five lightsaber scale? Mm hmm. Including halves and quarters. But. I don't know if we're going to have to worry about that. I don't think we do.
00:48:58
Speaker
What's your rating, Jack? Five lightsabers, dude. I mean, this came at a time when we needed it more than anything, where it was a serial-style bounty hunter show that almost every fucking Star Wars fan can get into for one reason or another. You don't like Jedi? Cool, there's not really much here. You do like Jedi? There's a little bit of Force Baby here.
00:49:19
Speaker
You like Star Wars guns and ships? There's a bunch of that. And, you know, its it reminded us of a lot of things that we grew up with, whether it be a samurai movie or a western movie or a combination of the two.
00:49:31
Speaker
It had everything I didn't know I wanted. Yeah. Now, I mean, five all the same reasons. I'm going to sit here and repeat everything you said, but it's that's pretty much it. I mean, it's five lightsabers because everything is exactly what what we had hoped for and didn't couldn't have possibly expected.
00:49:48
Speaker
Not at all. So. So that'll be it for season one. We'll be back next week to discuss chapter nine, which is episode one of season two, the Marshall.
00:50:01
Speaker
Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Yeah. And I was, I was watching that. I was watching that earlier and my wife walked in and and she was like, I know that swagger.
00:50:13
Speaker
Yeah, you do. Your wife's got a thing for buds too. That's cut to our main feed when she's like, that's not Cynthia Rothrock. I know those cheeks.
00:50:24
Speaker
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00:50:44
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00:51:01
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00:51:12
Speaker
um So that's it. So until next week, watch your feet. That's molten lava. Oh, my God.
00:51:57
Speaker
But we'll be back next week to discuss chapter nine, which is the first episode of season two, ah Redemption. Or is that this one? This was red this is Redemption. This Redemption.
00:52:08
Speaker
Try it again. We'll be back. try Try three. like There's like a gnat flying around. you Better gnat talk about it. Which is season one of episode two.
00:52:19
Speaker
Damn it.
00:52:22
Speaker
Fourth time's charm. Fourth time's a charm, my friend.