Nah, the moment he looked at the eggs I knew he was going to try to eat them.
Yeah. Excusable when he did not know what eating them meant. But eating more when it was made clear what they were? That’s dark side.
I wasn’t a huge fan. Seems weird to open the season with what’s essentially become a repeat bottle episode for this series (stranger drifts into town, gains the trust of the locals, solves a problem to great acclaim, moves on).
The whole reason he went to the town was to hook up with more Mandalorians. Presumably that would be to move the plot arc along, but instead it was just a McGuffin.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m appreciative and entertained, but the series could be so much more than a reheated western.
Yes. Among other things, their blaster rifles are very clearly sci-fi jezails.
He’s a baby. A Yoda-species, Force-sensitive baby, but still. He seems to more or less understand “No!”, but I don’t actually think he understands “Those are unfertilized eggs of a sapient species, and apparently the only opportunity for this particular member to ever reproduce.”
Was the older X-wing pilot supposed to be Porkins’s father?
Porkins died about 12 years earlier, wasn’t Asian, and did not resemble anyone in this episode. So no. The character was played by Paul Sun-Hyung Lee from the Canadian sitcom Kim’s Convenience, which seems to have a very strong fanbase.
The TV I watched it on doesn’t have the best picture. I noticed the short beard and the white hair and thought they were trying to work in a reference. If Porkins’s father was alive in that time period I could see him possibly being in his 50s.
Yep. I love that the expression on the child’s face perfectly captured “I’m going to put that in my mouth”. It’s parental instinct.
I loved the “fuck off, asshole” dismissal they gave when he tried to bribe them.
I think I caught a Huttese accent. 
I’m probably reading too much into this, but I was wondering if he was doing something other than just eating the eggs. Maybe force-incubating them in his belly, I don’t know. Just casual ovicide seems a bit callow for a wholesome character like Baby Yoda.
I’ve said in both the Season 1 thread and this one that I didn’t think Season 1 actually had any filler episodes - every episode actually moved the plot forward.
This season, we’ve had two episodes, and…they both feel like fillers to me. Which isn’t actually necessarily a problem. The Mandalorian is a Wandering Hero, and a Wandering Hero will have random encounters. That’s fine. Except…
I think someone in the Season 1 thread made a comment that the way the The Mandalorian was plotted strongly resembled a well-plotted video game. This season seems to resemble a poorly-plotted video game. We have nesting quests - “Go to A to get the McGuffin; once you get there, you now have to go to B to get McGuffinB and bring it back to get the McGuffin; once you get to B, you now have to go to C to get McGuffinC and bring it back to get McGuffinB; once you get to C…” And this episode’s nested quest is the worst of all - the escort mission!
To Pleonast’s point upthread, the Way does once again become a key plot point (“The deal’s off”. “I guess the stories about Mandalorian honor are just stories.” “…this wasn’t part of the deal…”). So, it’s possible that’s the real plot arc of this season, and the Quest to Find Mandalorians is really a quest to find what being a Mandalorian really means to Our Hero, but it just doesn’t seem as tightly plotted and structured as the first season.
I’m still enjoying it, just not quite as much as I enjoyed Season 1.
Even Randall Terry isn’t concerned about an unfertilized egg.
Before that, they were “knobby white spiders”, and turned up in EU material, including role-playing games from Wizards of the Coast, which made a mini for them.
In the Rebels episode, they were nearly immune to blaster fire. This episode, not so much…
I thought that the episode was entertaining but without much purpose. The only way that it adds anything to the story is if frog wife or frog husband become important characters. It’s possible of course but I’d think unlikely.
In the season 2 trailer, I am pretty sure it is the frog couple getting on the boat (about 45 seconds in)
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It does look like it. Maybe there’s some method to this madness after all.
Loved the new episode. I really like these small-scale side adventures. Glad to see that Disney is learning small-scale Star Wars stories can work – and hopefully there will be more of this kind of show to come. Most obviously, a Firefly-esque show with a crew of a small smuggling/trading vessel could be great.
Maybe they’ll realize that The Child ate their eggs, their only chance at children, and play a role that way? Consider turning him in?
If my wife had frozen eggs which were our only chance for children and someone ate them I know I’d be pissed.
This ep seemed like an excuse to do some nice special effects. And maybe some Easter egg references for those in the know of the universe. Nothing of interests about the characters.
The effects were great. And anytime I notice that I consider it a bad sign. It means the story didn’t engage enough to keep me from focusing on the technical.
The eating eggs thing was just the character of The Child, AFAICT. From what we’ve seen of this character, they would try to eat those eggs if they got a chance. It didn’t quite make sense to me that this frog mother would let those eggs out of her sight for a single moment (though the hot spring scene may indicate she’s just kind of a negligent or halfway incompetent parent), but I didn’t mind that the baby tried to eat them.
I took the hot spring scene as he eggs need to be maintained at a constant temperature and her carrying case runs off a battery and this was an excuse to warm the eggs without using the battery. There was a moment in the show where she was talking in her language and pointing at what looked like digital numbers. I took that as “Yo, we need to move because I’m running out of time.”
Did Mando lie to the Jawa thing when he traded his jetpack for Baby? He said he would make the trade, and then after he did he made the jetpack basically kill the little dude. Mando seems to play fast and loose with language and nuance (“You won’t die by my hand”), but it seems against his code to out and out lie.