# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/81 "2019-11-27T00:49:54Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > CoughDarthMaulCough. CoughBoxOfficeDisappointmentCough ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/82 "2019-11-29T06:57:12Z")
I’m a bit confused by the backstory So the Mandalorians hate the Empire for killing their tribe and stealing their metal, but in the flashbacks it’s the Trade Federation killing them all? Which fits nicely into the timeline as we know it with the Clone Wars being 35 years before the series but also I thought nobody knew the Empire had been secretly backing the Trade Federation? ---
**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 29, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/83 "2019-11-29T16:29:11Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > I’m a bit confused by the backstory > > So the Mandalorians hate the Empire for killing their tribe and stealing their metal, but in the flashbacks it’s the Trade Federation killing them all? Which fits nicely into the timeline as we know it with the Clone Wars being 35 years before the series but also I thought nobody knew the Empire had been secretly backing the Trade Federation? The flashbacks are about the main character’s childhood. I don’t think he was always Mandalorian - ISTM he was adopted into the culture. So the Mandalorian history is probably separate from his own back story. ---
**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 29, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/84 "2019-11-29T16:30:30Z")
Latest episode (4) was lots of fun, IMO. Cliché and not quite as good as the last episode, but still very good. Heavily reminded me of Firefly. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/85 "2019-11-29T17:54:13Z")
It bugged me that he was taken by surprise by the tracking fob, he knew about those. ---
**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 29, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/86 "2019-11-29T18:26:16Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > It bugged me that he was taken by surprise by the tracking fob, he knew about those. Yeah, that was a bit silly. ---
**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 29, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/87 "2019-11-29T20:19:34Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > The flashbacks are about the main character’s childhood. I don’t think he was always Mandalorian - ISTM he was adopted into the culture. So the Mandalorian history is probably separate from his own back story. Is part of The Way of Mandolores that they grow by way of taking in orphans?? In the Amory he essentially tithed some of his beskar to “the foundlings” with either him or the Armorer (forgetting which) saying as a mantra “The foundlings are the future. It is The Way.” His story may be the archetype for Mandolore history instead of separate from it, and why taking on an orphan and making sure it is safe resonates with them. The bit with never taking off their helmets thereby making more cultural sense as the species we are underneath is immaterial - our helmets, our armor, what we haven _chosen_ as our skin, as our faces, is what matters, it is The Way. Imagine though if you will a Yoda species Mandalorian!! Way! ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/88 "2019-11-29T20:30:56Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Is part of The Way of Mandolores that they grow by way of taking in orphans?? It would have to be if almost all of them got wiped out in “the great purge”. ---
**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 29, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/89 "2019-11-29T20:43:20Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Latest episode (4) was lots of fun, IMO. Cliché and not quite as good as the last episode, but still very good. Heavily reminded me of Firefly. _Firefly_? It didn’t remind you of _Seven Samurai_, _The Magnificent Seven_, _Battle Beyond the Stars_, _The Three Amigos_, _A Bug’s Life_, and [an episode of _Clone Wars_](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Bounty_Hunters_(episode))? ---
**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 29, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/90 "2019-11-29T20:52:03Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > The bit with never taking off their helmets thereby making more cultural sense as the species we are underneath is immaterial - our helmets, our armor, what we haven _chosen_ as our skin, as our faces, is what matters, it is The Way. > > Imagine though if you will a Yoda species Mandalorian!! Way! Yeah, that only works for very nearly human species. You would have a pretty easy time distingushing between a “Yoda” Mandalorian, a “human” one, a [Chevin](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Chevin) one, an [Amani](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Amani) one, and a [Dug](https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Dug) one. ---
**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 29, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/91 "2019-11-29T20:54:01Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > It would have to be if almost all of them got wiped out in “the great purge”. I’m imagining a longer standing tradition than that, one that counts as a central tenet of the culture. After all, pregnancy is a bit inconvenient for a dedicated warrior. My imagined bit is that The Way has _always_ been to adopt, not bear children, and their tribe has always been a mix of many species sharing a culture that they actively choose by wearing the helmet and presenting that as their identity, not what species they are. There may be individuals who are the adoptive parents but that to no small degree the tribe raises the foundlings. ---
**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 29, 2019, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/92 "2019-11-29T21:05:07Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Yeah, that only works for very nearly human species. You would have a pretty easy time distingushing between a “Yoda” Mandalorian, a “human” one, a [Chevin](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Chevin) one, an [Amani](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Amani) one, and a [Dug](https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Dug) one. Yeah and you can tell Heavy Artillery is a bit different than the others. Big ass human or another species underneath? Maybe others stand out even more. But no shortage of humanoid species in the SW universe and no shortage of ones whose parents are killed off or otherwise absent either … It would be a nice contrast to the bloodline importance of the Skywalker saga. Among Mandalores our true family is who we actively chose to be of our family as the conscious choice symbolized by never removing the helmet, and our talents are not by accident of birth but by learned skill. ---
**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 29, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/93 "2019-11-29T21:08:13Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > _Firefly_? It didn’t remind you of _Seven Samurai_, _The Magnificent Seven_, _Battle Beyond the Stars_, _The Three Amigos_, _A Bug’s Life_, and [an episode of _Clone Wars_](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Bounty_Hunters_(episode))? Those too! ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/94 "2019-11-30T23:35:38Z")
Really enjoying the series. I’m getting a firefly vibe as well, not because of the Ep 4 plotline, which as pointed out was hardly original to Firefly, but from that high-tech/low tech mix, I mean you have a droid using a cane basket to catch krill! 😛 One thing that is bugging me a bit is those trackers. What are they actually keying in on? Surely not some kind of tracking chip on the subject, I’m sure Mando would know of those and destroy it. I know this is space magic, but tracking an individual by what? DNA or something over interstellar distances? I find that hard to swallow. For me it makes the the whole bounty hunting profession a little less impressive. “Yeah, so I just follow the blip anywhere in the galaxy, and capture the guy, easy peasy” Where’s the tracking and hunting skills, that would impress anyone? ---
**Author:** ![ralfy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ralfy/32/600_2.png) [@ralfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralfy)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/95 "2019-12-01T03:28:20Z")
Looks like allusions to various Westerns and samurai TV shows and movies. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2019, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/96 "2019-12-01T05:39:47Z")
> [@GreedySmurf](#): > > Really enjoying the series. I’m getting a firefly vibe as well, not because of the Ep 4 plotline, which as pointed out was hardly original to Firefly, but from that high-tech/low tech mix, I mean you have a droid using a cane basket to catch krill! 😛 > > One thing that is bugging me a bit is those trackers. What are they actually keying in on? Surely not some kind of tracking chip on the subject, I’m sure Mando would know of those and destroy it. I know this is space magic, but tracking an individual by what? DNA or something over interstellar distances? I find that hard to swallow. For me it makes the the whole bounty hunting profession a little less impressive. “Yeah, so I just follow the blip anywhere in the galaxy, and capture the guy, easy peasy” Where’s the tracking and hunting skills, that would impress anyone? My impression is that the tracking fobs are short-range - a few hundred meters at best - and that the bounty hunter arrived at the village following rumors of a Mandalorian being involved in a fight. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2019, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/97 "2019-12-01T07:03:48Z")
This was a really good episode that actually got me a little teary-eyed at the end - it was hard having to see Baby Yoda leave behind the friends he made in the village and knowing that the Empire is just going to keep hunting him. There must be very few of his species around if Grand Moff Herzog is so fixated on capturing this one individual. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2019, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/98 "2019-12-01T07:48:46Z")
Incidentally, the latest episode was directed by Bryce Dallas Howard, star of the _Jurassic World_ films. Maybe that’s why the AT-ST was basically a T-rex. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/99 "2019-12-01T18:31:45Z")
That was literally the best AT-ST driver in the Star Wars universe for not immediately crashing into their boobytrap. > [@ralfy](#): > > Looks like allusions to various Westerns and samurai TV shows and movies. Sure, in addition to the Seven Samurai & associated remakes and retellings, you can also see references to Lone Wolf & Cub; 47 Ronin, The Good, the Bad & The Ugly, etc. The Star Wars universe owes a lot to Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leonne. ---
**Author:** ![Taesahnim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taesahnim/32/84_2.png) [@Taesahnim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taesahnim)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670/100 "2019-12-01T18:39:10Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > A thought about the ending: > I just read speculation elsewhere that the baby is Yoda reincarnated. That doesn’t fly. The timeline, according to IMDB, is set approximately 5 years after Episode 6. The “baby” is supposedly 50 years old. Now, Son of Yoda, I might go for. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-series-on-disney-spoilers-as-it-airs/842670.md?page=6)