What sort of bugs me about baby Yoda is just that I had always assumed that Yoda lived to be 900 because he was so strong and in tune with the Force that he lived an unnaturally long time. We don’t see many Jedi die of old age, after all. But I guess that’s just a natural characteristic of the race to age extremely slowly.
Last night’s South Park revolved around The Mandalorian (and had a brief shot of Baby Yoda sipping soup.
I have not watched South Park in years. Guess I will have to check it out when it shows up on on demand.
I watched this season and it was actually pretty funny. Randy went to China and killed Winnie the Pooh for Xi Jinping. Cartman greased himself up and ran away like a piggie to avoid his vaccinations.
It’s been surprisingly fun.
Here is that scene, repeated numerous times, with…shall we say, various interpretations? Pick the one you like most.
Another solid episode, which really felt like an homage to a western I’ve never seen. Bringing Star Wars back to Tattoine again felt a little unimaginative, but the nostalgic cues were nice - I’m pretty sure Mando met Toro in the exact same booth where Han had his run-in with Greedo. I’m going to assume that Amy Sedaris’ character was the daughter of Bea Arthur’s character in the Holiday Special for no other reason than that it amuses me that the Holiday Special is now considered canon. 
Who was examining Fennic Shand’s body in the final scene? Could it be Boba Fett? Shand’s connection to the Hutt Cartel might imply he’d have a reason to go looking for her.
Best exchange of the episode:
Toro: “Are you OK?”
Mando: “Sniper bolt. It hit me in the beskar. At this range, the beskar’ll hold up.”
Toro: “Wait! I’m not wearing beskar!”
Mando: “Nope.”
In an astonishing display of supporting artistic integrity over raw cash grabs, Disney delayed production of Baby Yoda toys so that the reveal would be a surprise. No toys will be ready until several months after Christmas.
Maybe they will sell an empty box and a promise of future toys. It worked for Star Wars before.
Nice to see that the cantina has gotten over the anti-droid prejudice. And having formerly worked torturing droids for Jabba, I’m sure they won’t be disturbed by serving drinks from IG droid heads.
It is really impressive the degree they go to to get props to match the originals.
I saw another cute meme, where Baby Yoda calls Mando “Dadalorian.” I’ll go with that.
So Toro started out as just an “oh, gosh” type of newbie, but stayed true to his “I don’t care about the money” to the bitter end. I was surprised he shot Fennec…I thought he’d be stupid enough to remove her cuffs. But if she was this bad-ass and told by Mando to cuff herself, wouldn’t she have fudge the tightness a bit so she could escape?
I missed where Mando got the money to pay for his repairs. Is that what he took off Toro’s body?
If it were possible to do that with Mando’s cuffs, he wouldn’t have asked her to put them on in the first place. She wasn’t his first hardass.
Yeah. He got enough money to pay for the repairs, and then some, all of which he gave to the woman who’d been repairing his ship and watching the kid.
From her reaction, it was a lot of money. Rich kid doing it for the jollies.
Toro thought he was at Westworld maybe?
This ep a bit too telegraphed for my taste.
Don’t discount that artistic integrity might be a cover for a different kind of cash grab.
The Mandalorian is Disney’s flagship new content for their brand new streaming network. The show debuted on the opening day of Disney+. The big reveal dropped on the fourth day of the network. I would be surprised if keeping the secret isn’t making them buckets of money that they would have had to sacrifice if they went after one Christmas as the hot toy.
Every single person in the cast and crew of this show, including children, have managed to successfully keep Baby Yoda a secret. I am impressed. I wonder if they are still keeping another secret: his name.
They are doing deliberate homages. The Seven Samurai episode was obviously going to be a Seven Samurai episode from the pre-credits scene. Take for granted that there will (if not this season, then next) be a Yojimbo episode, too. (A Fist Full of Bescar?)
Jon Favreau just wanted another shot at making Cowboys & Aliens.
The thing with the cuffs also showed how Mando’s experience in the end carried the day: Toro telling the engineer to cuff Mando, instead of having him cuff himself, was what enabled him to stage the distraction with the flare.
But in the end, I’m afraid this show needs some direction sometime soon—it’s already been too much of ‘Mando and Baby Yoda arrives somewhere, Bad People try to do bad things to them, Bad People get shot, Mando and Baby Yoda fly off’. The last two episodes didn’t really have any effects that seem like they’re gonna last—although I’m holding out hope that all the people met (and left behind) along the way will have some role to play in the end.
Don’t know if everyone has seen this - when they were filming, they were prepping to reshoot a Baby Yoda scene without the puppet, so they could do him in CGI instead if they decided the puppet wasn’t working. Warner Herzog told Favreau and Filoni “You are cowards. Leave it.” It’s got to be both thrilling and terrifying for a director to have Herzog tell you you’re a coward.