There’s a bigger chance that he is the son of Yoda and Yaddle who were both alive concurrently during that time period.
My personal theory is that, like Anakin, Baby Yoda is some creation of the force and/or palpatine, as they both arrived on the scene 50 years prior to this story.
And Ron Howard’s daughter, perhaps helping to explain her flair for direction.
That probably explains why I was initially impressed, and then realized that I saw similar, and in many cases, better.
Not to mention an episode of Doctor Who.
My wild-ass theory du jour is that Snoke was a botched attempt at creating a clone body for Palpatine out of the material that was extracted from Baby Yoda. It would certainly explain his affinity for the Force, how he came out of nowhere to become the leader of the First Order, and how easily he swayed Ben to the Dark Side.
Favorite moment of this last episode:
Baby Yoda: (flips the green switch)
Mando: (turns the switch off)
Baby Yoda: (flips the switch again)
Mando: “Stop touching things.”
Baby Yoda: (slowly reaches over and flips the red switch)
Then the whole ship starts shaking.
I am not a full on SW fan, so there’s a lot I don’t know.
Like BBY as a date - I’m going “Before Baby Yoda”? Make no sense!
Before Battle of Yavin (which saw the blowing up of the death star in the original movie; Yavin IV being the location of the Rebel base that the empire was attempting to vaporize).
I really liked the Monty Pythonesque “You wait here until I get back” scene too. Honestly, I’m hoping we find out in the last episode that baby Yoda is actually mentally a fully mature adult, and he’s been trolling the Mandalorian the whole series.
More like John Ford, as Lucas stole entire sections of The Searchers for multiple of his movies.
And will it turn out that the attractive widow who’s an excellent shot is actually a Mandalorian who took off her helmet?
To briefly lay out the timeline;
Phantom Menace - 32 BBY
Attack of the Clones - 22 BBY
Revenge of the Sith - 19 BBY
Solo - 13-10 BBY
Rogue One/A New Hope - 0 BBY
Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi - 4 ABY
Mandalorian - 9 ABY
Force Awakens/Last Jedi - 34 ABY
Rise of Skywalker - 35 ABY
Something that only just occurred to me after re-watching the first four episodes over the long weekend: I have always assumed Jawas were native to Tatooine. That made me assume the raid to capture Baby Yoda took place there but:
- I am now pretty sure that was supposed to be a different planet than Tatooine.
and
- We definitely see Jawas on a planet other than that Planet even if it was Tatooine.
So I guess now canonically Jawas are not native to Tatooine?
My understanding is that canonically, Jawas are in fact native to Tatooine, but they’ve spread throughout the Galaxy, or at least the Fringe. Just like Rodians and Trandoshans and Humans and so on have spread out from their respective homeworlds.
I noticed this too, so looked up Jawas on the Wookieepedia. It currently lists their homeworlds as Tatooine and Arvala-7 (which is the planet The Mandalorian finds them on). I assume this entry was updated after the airing of the episode, so canonically, it would seem this is a new development with the Jawas’ location in the galaxy.
The Star Wars series borrows a lot of stuff from a lot of different films and genres. A New Hope is basically a retelling of Kurosawa’s Hidden Fortress.
Probably several if you look at the whole history of the series. I’m sure Farscape and any number of Star Trek series must have had a “Magnificent Seven” episode as well.
The Viking setting of the episode you referenced would make it derivative of The 13th Warrior / Easters of the Dead by Michael Crichton. Which is derived from the classic Beowulf poem.
I have to say, I’m a bit bugged by Baby Yoda. Yoda always was the Grand Master kind of archetype to me, having mastered the force through years (centuries) of experience, but now it appears they’re just born like that—a whole race of Chosen Ones. The new one, at least, seems to be.
Also, if we consider Baby Yoda to basically be the equivalent of a one, maybe two year old infant, then either there’s some kind of growth spurt in its future development, or Yoda was at most early middle age when he died…
I think baby Yoda is more like 4 or 5, which would fit the decade to year age difference with Yoda dying at 900. Should be verbal by now, but maybe that species always has difficulties with language, hence Yoda’s strange syntax.
I’m confused by the dates about BBY. I thought that the baby yoda was 50 years old not 9.
Never mind, BBY (Before Battle of Yavin). So Baby Yoda was born about 9 years before the Phantom Menace, so is about the same age as Anakin.