# Mandalorian Season 2 Thread \[Open Spoilers\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [October 12, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794 "2020-10-12T12:55:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/121 "2020-11-08T22:30:05Z")
Sure it’s in his character, but we were clearly meant to sympathize with the frog lady and her plight. Having the baby just casually destroying her entire race was just very clashing. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/122 "2020-11-09T00:23:00Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > The only way that it adds anything to the story It’s not this kind of series. It’s a series of stand alone stores with an over arching plot the occasionally gets added to. ---
**Author:** ![DarthVander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@DarthVander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarthVander)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/123 "2020-11-09T10:39:01Z")
Hmm, well… The first episode at least had lots of Easter eggs for SW nerds. This one I just wish I had skipped completely. Oh, and Baby Yoda is a jerk. Yeah, he’s a baby. I get it. Still, I hope he gets up to more in the season than just putting everything gross he comes across in his mouth. > [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > Was the older X-wing pilot supposed to be Porkins’s father? That’s sort of an oblique way of calling the actor fat 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/124 "2020-11-09T11:23:04Z")
The eggs are Mrs Frog’s own personal last chance at reproduction, not the last chance of her entire species. I was a bit concerned that she apparently did not count the eggs and has no idea that some have gone missing. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/125 "2020-11-09T12:28:05Z")
And she routinely let them out of her sight. You’d think she’d keep them strapped to her at all times. ---
**Author:** ![DarthVander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@DarthVander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarthVander)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/126 "2020-11-09T12:42:05Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > I was a bit concerned that she apparently did not count the eggs and has no idea that some have gone missing. Poor parenting or poor writing? ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/127 "2020-11-09T12:51:32Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > I was a bit concerned that she apparently did not count the eggs and has no idea that some have gone missing. At first I thought she did. Just before she went to the hot spring, she was pointing at the container and trying to tell Mando something. At first I thought she was trying to tell him some of the eggs were missing. Upon second viewing it’s apparent she was saying that it was getting too cold for the eggs. Towards the end I do think she’s giving The Child the stink eye, having realized what he / she did. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/128 "2020-11-09T13:26:49Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > And she routinely let them out of her sight. You’d think she’d keep them strapped to her at all times. or…you know…put a lock on the container. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/129 "2020-11-09T16:59:01Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > This season, we’ve had two episodes, and…they both feel like fillers to me. Exactly right. It seems like quite a big step backwards this season so far. So far the season seems far less interesting than last season. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/130 "2020-11-09T17:30:07Z")
The show’s always been fairly episodic. For example, last season we had the Magnificent Seven episode with Cara followed by the “help a bounty hunter on Tatooine” episode followed by the prison break episode. It’s hard to call something “filler” when we don’t know how this season will turn out. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/131 "2020-11-10T01:41:36Z")
Yeah but the stand-alone episodes were stand-alone interesting and fun, if nothing else for their twists of standard tropes through this SW universe specific lens. As a stand alone episode this was boring and trite. The foreshadowing is that mama frog lady is going to at some point realize that The Child has eaten her eggs and go her version of mama Ice Spider on his green ass, or at least should be. I’m hoping they pick up the quality of the writing and the stories soon. Easter eggs and good special effects are not enough. I guess though I don’t get what is cute and funny … early on in the movies Jabba eating both Leia’s ovaries would have been SO CUTE. Awwww. Just his character. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/132 "2020-11-11T03:50:05Z")
Sigh. > **[Lucasfilm executive defends controversial Baby Yoda moment in 'The Mandalorian'](https://ew.com/tv/the-mandalorian-baby-yoda-eating-controversy/)** > > Lucasfilm creative art manager Phil Szostak tweeted a defense of that controversial Baby Yoda moment in season 2 of 'The Mandalorian.' ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/133 "2020-11-11T04:27:50Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Sigh. > > [Lucasfilm defends The Mandalorian's controversial Baby Yoda moment](https://ew.com/tv/the-mandalorian-baby-yoda-eating-controversy/?amp=true) It seems that “Controversial” doesn’t mean what I think it means. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/134 "2020-11-13T10:11:10Z")
So. Wow. That’s another rumour\* not just confirmed but better than I had hoped. This one really does require knowledge of the animated series to get the most out of it. Boy howdy, that was fun! \*_More than one rumour, really._ ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/135 "2020-11-13T10:53:02Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > So. Wow. That’s another rumour\* not just confirmed but better than I had hoped. Yep. Next week is the one to look forward to. Just a passing moment, but loved the All Terrain Non-attack Crane. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/136 "2020-11-13T15:42:43Z")
Katee Sackhoff looks better than ever, had to remind myself that she is not really too young to play Bo Katan, she just looks that way. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/137 "2020-11-13T22:03:03Z")
Loved the latest episode! And it confirmed that our Mando is part of a small fundamentalist-ish sect of Mandalorians, and the “don’t take off your helmet” thing is not common among Mandalorians. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/138 "2020-11-13T22:06:19Z")
Another very enjoyable episode. After we watched it, I remarked to my wife, “so, this explains why the Mandalorians in _Rebels_ took their helmets off – those Mandos were Reformed, and our Mandalorian is Orthodox.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/139 "2020-11-13T22:11:12Z")
I really liked that. And the fact that Mando isn’t even aware of other Mandalorian sects suggests they’re super insular. Which explains how he has no idea what a Jedi is. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/140 "2020-11-13T22:22:53Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Katee Sackhoff looks better than ever, had to remind myself that she is not really too young to play Bo Katan, she just looks that way. I’m sure there are better informed experts than me who are figuring this out, but Bo-Katan’s birthdate is unknown, so if we factor in a lowball guess at 25-ish during _Clone Wars_, that would mean she would be ~55yrs during this episode. Katee is 40, but has looked much the same for the last 15 years, so maybe wouldn’t look too different 15 years from now. So I’ll allow it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794.md?page=8)