Well, we also saw them get attacked by an Imperial force, and Mando said it seemed way too strong for just an old warlord. I can only assume they’re connected.
They also casually mentioned that Moff Gideon might have escaped.
Watching this episode made me wonder what if the producers got Katy O’Brian to play Cara Dune?
My son and I watched it and were trying to guess what would happen and he guess the biscuits were poisoned, I guessed they were part of a honeypot. I was closer though it seems a bit odd to me that Kane got everything she wanted from Pershing and then dumped him off to have his mind flayed. She probably could have used him more or made him a reluctant accomplice.
I’m guessing she’s still working for whatever Imperial remnant is still out there, and they wanted to make sure his full work was kept secret and not recreated.
It’s possible that she may even be brainwashing him so he’ll work with her. Something I didn’t think about earlier.
What exactly did she want? I thought all she did was screw him over.
I must have missed something. What did she get from Pershing? It seems like her whole goal was to get him caught.
I thought at first she was trying to get him somewhere where he could be kidnapped and put to use by Imperial forces holdouts. Now I don’t know what her goal was. It seems like it would have been easier to get him someplace quiet and kill him if she wanted him neutralized, rather than get him captured and hope she’d be left alone with Pershing and the Agonizer booth.
I was thinking Katy O’Brian would have made a great Cara Dune replacement, or some new character to take her place. So far, I’m not seeing anything to make me think that’s what they’re using her for. She seems unrelated to that part of the story.
She was already in the show as that character, they couldn’t use her as Cara Dune.
I know that. I was wondering how O’Brian would do cast as Dune instead of Gina Carrano. I think she’s a better actor than Carrano is plus she probably wouldn’t go nutty on Twitter…
As for Kane’s actions - I was under the impression that she got the mobile lab.
She definitely had it as she walked out of the spotlight, but she was working with New Republic security – would they have let her keep it? And what would she have done with it if she still had it? If she’s still working for the Imperial Remnants, I doubt they would really need a carry case of assorted lab gear if they can field squadrons of latest-generation TIE Interceptors and Bombers.
And unless there’s a deus ex machina genetics genius in the wings, she betrayed and mindwiped the only person who could use that lab gear or any other to advance the state of the art of strandcasting. If the sequel trilogy is still canon, it certainly looks like the New Order didn’t get much farther than where Pershing left it. Snoke was a cobbled together abomination, and freeze-frame moments in the first season of The Mandalorian shows they already had him in prototype.
It just occurred to me that this is set between the middle and the third trilogy so maybe what she wanted was an expert to point her to the correct cloning equipment that they then can ship to the center of the galaxy to raise Palpatine.
A reasonably fine stand alone ep but each ep seems written by a different team?
I think that’s where everyone thought the plot was going originally, but Pershing’s idea of splicing clone DNA together didn’t seem to fit with Palpatine’s plan does it? (I never saw Rise of Skywalker). I think they’re going a different route. Otherwise it would be pretty boring if the end to the plotline was “and now we wait 20 years for the plan to come to fruition.”
Specially since they mind wipe him basically, instead of kidnapping him and using him which is where i thought it was going most of the episode.
Jon Favreau is the writer or co-writer of pretty much every episode, including this last one.
Reality of what is re writing staff is not the point of the comment. They are very disconnected from each other. If this was a one off of that feeling well maybe it will tie together maybe. But each ep seems very disconnected from the last.
I would be completely shocked if this was just an unrelated one-off. I thought was pretty clearly setting up something. We just don’t know what yet.
When they first mentioned using a mind-flayer in this episode. I thought that they meant one of these:
Normally I’d believe that. But I kept expecting Boba Fett to tie together and it never really did, and the disjointedness of this season has that feel.
I hope to be proven wrong!
Meh. Bad timing for a Star Wars / Dilbert crossover.