It was an interesting reveal in this episode that those weren’t just guys using surplus Stormtrooper armor but an actual Empire remnant.
So I like to put an age with everyone: If Mando was maybe 5ish during the Clone Wars (which I’m assuming is the case with the presence of the battle droids in his flashbacks), that would probably make him about 50?
The Clone Wars were 22-19 BBY, and this is 9 ABY, so an age range of 28-31 would be more appropriate.
I really enjoyed this episode, though I’m surprised any of the other bounty hunters were willing to take on a Mandalorian when one of them is an army in and of himself and he’s got an entire tribe to back him up. I wonder if Carl Weathers is going to be his ongoing main antagonist now.
I think they didn’t know about the backup. In my understanding, the “tribe” is underground, in secret, and only one can venture out at a time. So at most, the locals would see one guy, perhaps occasionally different armor.
Dammit, that ball is clearly a choking hazard!
I assumed that from the beginning - the scientist was wearing almost the same uniform Galen Erso was when he was working for the empire, and Grand Moff Herzog had an imperial symbol around his neck.
Or did you mean it was confirmed since the stormtroopers can’t hit anything?
He has to be. They didn’t have him get saved by the beskar bible in his pocket for no reason.
That baby swallowed a frog. I’m sure it can handle a little metal ball.
Then it’s a swallow hazard. I’m sure the Mandalorian doesn’t want to spend his time fishing through Boda’s poop in the vac tube to make sure he’s passed it.
Is Werner Herzog extracting something to do with the Force so he can inject it into a clone of Emperor Palpatine and resurrect the Emperor?
Midichlorians, I assumed.
That is what I, as well, assumed.
It’s interesting to see how Dr Pershing, who is clearly from a more sophisticated part of the galaxy, and probably lives somewhere more like Coruscant (or Kamino), is being juxtaposed against the wild west-like environment of the Outer Rim. It’s an aspect of this series that I am fascinated by, to see how they are going to tie together the aesthetics of the original trilogy with those of the prequel trilogy.
I don’t think they have to venture out one at a time. But they definitely keep a low profile (aside from walking around in highly recognizable Space Templar armor) and don’t collect in numbers publicly. The Mandalorians give off a sort of 47 Ronin vibe. They keep their true numbers and strength hidden while they maintain their old traditions, but publicly they project this image of being a handful of warrior mercenary drifter bad asses.
I also assumed they were remnants of the Empire. Sure, as a kid watching the original trilogy, everyone just sort of assumes that with the destruction of the second Death Star and the death of Palpatine and Vader, the Good Guys just stepped into the role of Running the Galaxy.
In reality, I would expect the galaxy to splinter off into a billion different factions. I assumed a lot of these Imperial governors, garrison commanders and admirals operated with a lot of autonomy anyway. Those factions obviously consolidating over the next 30 years into New Order and One Republic (or whatever they call themselves;) ).
I took the “one at a time” from a line in the latest episode. I don’t recall the exact words, but I’m pretty sure one of the Mandalorians stated that only one of them at a time leaves the compound.
It was when the “Heavy Infantry” Mando was pissed at the main character for working for the Imperial remnants:
Armorer: Our secrecy is our survival. Our survival is our strength.
Heavy Infantry: Our strength was once in our numbers. Now we live in the shadows and only come above ground one at a time. Our world was shattered by the Empire, with whom this coward shares tables.
I don’t think he literally means that only one of them can be outside the enclave at a time, so they were all stuck in the hole while the main character was putting his ship back together. I think he means that they only leave/enter the enclave singly, and don’t meet each other above ground, so their actual numbers are unknown.
Right, it’s a “do not congregate in public” rule, they are not living like mole people.
I took it differently, but no big deal. We’ll see, maybe they’ll expand on this later.
Sorry for the drive-by since I’ve not been following the thread. But I really love this show. I’m amazed that Disney actually succeeded in making a really good Star Wars property.
Goddammit, we’re on the internet, and one of us is clearly wrong. You can’t say it’s no big deal. Who do you think you are?
I really like how even though the story is pretty bleak, they’ve kept ton of fun stuff in it - the first bounty talking about going to the bathroom, the Salacious Crumb monkey thing in a cage watching another monkey thing turning over a spit, the Jawa fight, followed by the Jawas eating the egg, the IG droid continuously trying to self destruct, etc.
For me that’s a feature, not a bug.
In the first Star Wars we see burned murdered corpses of Owen and Beru. We see Ben sever a thug’s arm with his Lightsaber. We see dozens of Jawas and a bunch of Storm Troopers killed by blaster fire. In Jedi we get Leia in the gold bikini clearly in some type of sexual servitude. This is a PG rated (back when that meant something other than just live action G rated movie) WAR story.
I like how our first introduction to Carl Weather’s character is him being a cheapskateand shorting the Mandalorian.
Spraypainting household objects is a Star Wars tradition since the beginning. One of the recent ones had bubble wrap seatbelts.