She didn’t want him dead, just to stop bothering her with his quasi-religious nonsense that she doesn’t believe in. But then she saw he was in trouble, and her better-side instincts kicked in.
i had to laugh when the droid said there was an unscheduled visitor. does that mean she has scheduled visitors?
it is a somewhat comfortable throne… but seriously, no book? handheld game? videos? it is just ridiculous that she would just emo all day long.
Ok, watching it again that makes sense.
She’s surrounded herself with herself and needs to move on back two squares. 
some fansites are speculating this rescue is the next step towards BoMando (Mandotan?). Personally I don’t see them becoming romantic or feel that they need to but shippers gonna ship.
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She’s surrounded herself with herself and needs to move on back two squares.
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Perhaps Grogu can send an instant karma to her. 
I don’t see it, either, FWIW.
Probably not, but the thought did fleetingly occur to me. If that wasn’t their intention, then a friendship and mutual respect may be the result at a minimum, because there was some kind of social bonding going on.
New episode.
The Dr. Pershing episode! I’ve always liked him. He’s very unusual as Imperial officers go.
You expect me to believe they’d just leave the woman alone in the control room, though?
So, now Bo-Katan is part of the Creed?
Plus they’d immediately figure out what happened once they realized something went wrong. I think Bo Katan is part of the creed as a matter of convenience because she needs to hide. Bummer about Pershing.
This was an unusual episode. On the surface it didn’t seem to advance the plot much at all, but maybe it will become clearer later what it all was leading up to.
There were a few nerdy Easter Eggs, though, mostly background stuff, such as Monument Plaza (the music playing during that scene was a John Williams theme from the sequel trilogy - see below) and revisiting the Opera House from Revenge Of The Sith. But the most exciting thing it confirmed into canon was the “Come To The Dark Side, We Have Cookies” meme.
That felt like an episode of Andor, only not as good.
"We’ve taken this Imperial torture device, and repurposed it for good! Now it’s a therapeutic instrument that gives you lovely brain-relief!
…Except, we left it so the dial can still be turned up to ‘agony’ settings, for reasons."
One thing I thought was a nice touch was the prevalence of Mon Calamari in post imperial society, both in the higher class and military sectors. They were such an integral part of the rebellion that it stands to reason it would be that way.
Yeah. Science in the Wernher von Braun model: “I don’t care much about yhe ideology or the warfighting, as long as I get to do my research.”
You witnessed the post-Imperial Operation Paperclip, complete with a rather harsh de-Nazification process.
I liked it. That mountain top on Coruscant had been mentioned decades ago and it was fun to see it on screen.
One nitpick is I was a little bummed to see the New Republic has Dipshit representatives like the Old Republic did. I was hoping the Rebellion would have built something more idealistic.
Another Easter egg: The doctor told the Mon Calamari that, “It was A TRAP!”
Yeah, I thought the process seemed harsh as well - removing people’s names and referring to them only by numbers isn’t something the good guys typically do. (I know that in real life prisoners and soldiers will have ID numbers, but they keep their names as well - it seemed to me like their actual identities were being taken away from them).
I think something that’s being addressed by recent Star Wars media like Andor. In the core worlds especially, the Republic, the Empire, and the New Republic are all pretty much the same thing. The Empire wasn’t some invading force, the Republic overwhelmingly voted to become the Empire. And the Empire wasn’t really seen as bad by the majority of people until Alderan was blown up.
George Lucas said himself back when he was making the prequels, Democracies don’t die from without. They rot from within and then change.
Personally though the idealist in me is disappointed that everything the Rebellion fought and sacrificed for didn’t create something that at least started out ideal.
One thing that did improve is the empire was extremely racist towards non humans, now aliens at everywhere.
I think the people in charge are idealist (Mon Mothma and Leia?), but when you’ve got a galaxy of trillions of people, a lot of that idealism gets lost in the bureaucracy.