# The Mandalorian series on Disney+ (spoilers as it airs) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [October 29, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670 "2019-10-29T20:16:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/41 "2019-11-17T04:18:01Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Second episode was great. > > I know I am playing into Disney’s scheme by doing this, but I really want a Baby Yoda stuffed animal for each of my kids. > > Looks like that Baby Yoda is an actual puppet as well. I thought he was digital in the first episode, but I do think this episode looked like it was a real puppet. I’m pretty sure they’re using both a puppet and a CGI double for certain shots. ---
**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 17, 2019, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/42 "2019-11-17T05:01:27Z")
It will be a combination of CGI and puppet, but not separate, just combinations. Digital blinks and expression enhancements, digitally removing the puppeteers and the rods. Much like how BB-8 is done, which is practical 90% of the time, but with its puppeteer digitally removed. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/43 "2019-11-17T09:37:31Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Jesus, are they BORN force sensitive? I know the baby is supposedly 50 years old - that’s a lot of green diapers - but that kid is pretty sophisticated. If they’re going with the old fan theory that Yoda’s people are the Whills themselves, then it’d make sense for them to be inherently strong in the Force. Presumably that’s why Grand Moff Herzog is so desperate for a living specimen of one. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/44 "2019-11-17T13:31:03Z")
Aside: God, does any actor on earth do disaffected and tired better than Werner Herzog? He’s great when someone can convince him to get in front of the camera instead of behind it. He’s great behind it, too, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/45 "2019-11-19T01:26:58Z")
I’ve been calling it Boda for Baby Yoda. My personal theory right now is that Boda is a Yoda clone. It would fit the timeline (they were developed for decades before Obi Wan met Jengo) and it would fit thematically with the most famous Mandalorian to us previously was Boba, a clone himself. And if Boda survives this series, how old would s/he be “now” entering episode 9 of the movies? 70 or so? How much bigger would s/he be developmentally? Also, how much more cuteness can I take before my heart explodes? ---
**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 19, 2019, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/46 "2019-11-19T03:17:54Z")
I don’t think it’s a Yoda clone, nobody in this story should know who Yoda was, but I do think Doctor Pershing wants to clone him. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/47 "2019-11-19T03:20:12Z")
They aren’t going to do the whole Trope of: Werner Herzog gets Baby-Yoda and it is revealed he intends to kill it or do some kind of torture on it…leading Mandalorian to fight for the baby-yoda’s life. Causing the Mandalorian to be outcast from the bounty hunter system. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/48 "2019-11-19T03:50:17Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > They aren’t going to do the whole Trope of: > > Werner Herzog gets Baby-Yoda and it is revealed he intends to kill it or do some kind of torture on it…leading Mandalorian to fight for the baby-yoda’s life. Causing the Mandalorian to be outcast from the bounty hunter system. Torture baby Yoda by making it watch Stroszek so it Ian Curtises itself. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/49 "2019-11-19T03:59:09Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Torture baby Yoda by making it watch Stroszek so it Ian Curtises itself. They could make it watch “My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?” ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/50 "2019-11-19T13:54:44Z")
I don’t see how they could possibly use Baby Yoda in the movie in any sort of meaningful way, or even a cameo. The Marvel division of Disney was extremely careful not to make anything in a movie depend in the slightest way, and I’m sure the Star Wars division will be at least as smart. Making casual moviegoers think they have to catch up with a TV show to understand the movie is much more likely to suppress movie turnout than it is to increase TV/streaming viewership. And given that the final episode of the Mandalorian drops a week after “Rise of Skywalker”, even a cameo would be a spoiler to the show. I think this story line is going to be completely self-contained. There’s no reason in the movie universe to believe that Force sensitives would be able to detect Baby Yoda - they couldn’t detect full grown Yoda after all, and they knew he existed. The whole “Yoda was hidden by the Dark Force tree” device is an EU thing only, not in the movies at all. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/51 "2019-11-19T14:04:57Z")
I think a lot of people make the mistake of forgetting how _big_ the Galaxy is. IIRC, the novelization of A New Hope states that there’s about one billion inhabited worlds in the Galaxy. There’s no need for this particular youngling (see what I did there?) to be related to Yoda, or a clone of Yoda, or a reincarnated Yoda, or have anything whatsoever to do with Yoda aside from being of the same species. > [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > And if Boda survives this series, how old would s/he be “now” entering episode 9 of the movies? 70 or so? How much bigger would s/he be developmentally? According to Wookieepedia, the series is set in 9 ABY. Episode VII & VIII take place a few days apart in 34 ABY, and I believe IX is set one year afterward, which would make the youngling 76 at that point. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/52 "2019-11-19T14:05:52Z")
I joined this weekend and watched the first two episodes and enjoyed them. A few things: If the baby ends up being directly connected to Yoda (reincarnation, descendent etc.) other than being the same species, that is stupid. Star Wars has enough problems with Small Universe Syndrome. Tell me new stories. In the lead up to the series since they hadn’t said much about the actor playing the title character I had convinced myself it would turn out to be a woman under the helmet but turns out I was wrong. I like that it is being released week to week. I think binge watching can turn watching a show into a chore and releasing a season all at once encourages creators to not make individual episodes. I just wish I had a better idea as to when it comes out. ---
**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 19, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/53 "2019-11-19T14:09:46Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > The Marvel division of Disney was extremely careful not to make anything in a movie depend in the slightest way, and I’m sure the Star Wars division will be at least as smart. Making casual moviegoers think they have to catch up with a TV show to understand the movie is much more likely to suppress movie turnout than it is to increase TV/streaming viewership. CoughDarthMaulCough. ---
**Author:** ![Nauplius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nauplius/32/51_2.png) [@Nauplius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nauplius)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/54 "2019-11-19T15:06:16Z")
The baby Yoda is the perfect candidate for Luke to train alongside Kylo Ren. Maybe they’re planning a Mark Hamill cameo. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/55 "2019-11-19T15:09:41Z")
I sure hope not. I love everyone’s grump Jedi grandpa as much as anyone but I really want to move on. ---
**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 22, 2019, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/56 "2019-11-22T12:36:30Z")
Episode 3 is up! And it’s awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/57 "2019-11-22T16:42:15Z")
Bloody good job. Had a bad feeling, but the solidarity at the end saved it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/58 "2019-11-22T20:50:35Z")
…was that an ice cream maker? ---
**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 22, 2019, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/59 "2019-11-22T21:20:33Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > …was that an ice cream maker? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/60 "2019-11-22T21:38:09Z")
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