I mean, you're not wrong, but "Dr. Mandible" (not sure if that's supposed to be his canonical name, I mean we do have an OT character named "Droopy McCool".) was in an episode of S1 so that's not strictly his doing.
@@mementomori771 Agreed. 😅 Yet, even though I just finished watching the episode, I actually _had_ forgotten about it until *Mike* mentioned it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"how about you guys help me fix my ship" "how about you fix your transponder so we don't have to shoot you down." I swear those 2 x-wing pilots felt like the highway patrol officers in Chips, riding their bikes.....
Mando did help a criminal organization break in to a prison ship, murder one of the crew, break out another prisoner and destroy several droids. Not killing Mando was about as much help as anyone should expect.
...maybe that’s why both the sixth and Jedi don’t deal with them? Cause in order to be trained by the “Yodas” you have to literally give them your young.
@Daz Mcclean well yeah, it’s an absolute boss move to make yourself a recurring character, especially when it’s earned (which he has very much earned) - I don’t mean iconic in the usual sense of the word, I mean that it’s just hilariously awesome
I mean.. she whipped out the blaster and saved the tiny creature that was and continued to eat her children.. that's all kinds of fucked up really. You could easily reshoot this entire episode as a straight horror movie.
I was just mad that she left the ship not knowing what was out there. I mean,I guess she could sense the heat (being cold-blooded and all),and therefore knew that comfort was down the way. But,they were in a cave where other creatures would go for comfort and shelter. She must have been more of a city amphibian.
I thought it was hilarious how the lizard lady explained how her eggs were the last of her kind and are extremely important and baby Yoda just eats them like they’re nothing.
I get the feeling that the eggs will perish in the next episode, only for The Child to regurgitate the ones he ate, thus saving the species. Either that or he's gonna shite oot a tadpole.
I thought the entire episode was a wonderful meditation on parenthood. In the beginning, we get to see Mando being very protective of the child when it's threatened; the frog lady is also willing to go to any length for her eggs, and the spider freaks out when the child eats her offspring. And, as a kind of mirror - as threatening and vile as those bounty hunters and spiders appear to the viewer, we get to see that to the spiders and the eggs, Baby Yoda is THE big threat predator.
I think John Favroe and Dave Filoni saw how Baby Yoda became fawned over by the internet for being so cute, and are now dedicated to making him more horrifying and gross lol.
I also notice Baby Yoda cries in this episode, which stood out to me because I spent all of S1 talking about how Baby Yoda is the most well behaved baby ever. he basically never cries. And he also doesn't usually go off on his own and cause trouble for Mando (Mando even let BY just walk around town on his own without keeping an eye on him in S2Ep1) and Filoni and Favreau have now made Baby Yoda cry more and be more of a troublemaker. Not sure I like.
@@jamesmallone i think they may be trying to portray baby Yoda as maturing a little bit and starting to move from the "baby" stage into the "toddler" stage i guess, but idk. We'll have to see where they go with it.
I thought there was gonna be a twist of Baby Yoda actually ingesting those eggs to keep them warm, then the mother was somehow gonna lose all her eggs only for Baby Yoda to spit the ones he ate up to show he was just keeping them safe. NOOOOOPE Baby Yoda is the Pennywise of the Star Wars Galaxy.
i'm still wondering if there is going to be more to that story....the child seemed to be communicating with those eggs before he consumed them, the egg container was very prominent throughout the episode and there is an action figure featuring the child with the eggs....are those eggs still alive? or he could have just eaten them! time will tell.
@@melvinlinderoth7108 lol the Witcher fights mythical creatures with supernatural abilities and I’m pretty sure he would have murdered that spider with a fucking sword
I love the beginning how Mando was willing to give his jetpack in order to protect Baby Yoda (then launches the bounty Hunter to the moon) I also loved Baby Yoda's reaction to that.
Those ice spiders are called Krykna and are, in fact, a bit of a mistake on Mandalorian part as it messes up with the established lore. Those spiders live on warm arid planet Atollon, they are out of their setting on an ice world, and they are highly resistant to blaster fire, even from starfighters let alone hand held blasters. I was actually very surprised that they added them on this Hoth-like setting and make them very squishy - because in the previous episode Krayt Dragon was quite faithfully represented.
@@Wustenfuchs109 The original concept explains they are from Dagobah. They clearly aren't just from one planet. Kinrath from KOTOR are similar to these, and they reside on Dantooine and Kashyyk.
@@ewanreilly2988 Exactly, and they would have evolved differently in this environment and habitat over the generations. They would have different strengths, weaknesses, ect... The Mandalorian has done a good job of paying homage to the SW Universe, but also expanding it in minor ways. Why not introduce a genetic deviant of the creatures you are used to seeing? On our planet alone there are countless variations of subspecies of creatures. How much more would that be the case throughout a galaxy?
@@Wustenfuchs109 everything you said is wrong. The show runners came out and said these Spiders are a new species to the show. Not the ones you are referring too
New Republic pilot : "are you with us or against us?" Mando : "I am neither with you nor against you." New Republic Pilot *aside* : "Can be do that?" New Republic Pilot #2 : "He's a Mandalorian."
It was a great episode but I was frustrated with The Child for consistently eating the eggs lol. Even after everything with the spiders and seeing the frog lady clearly treating the eggs like her children... he still eats one at the end lol. Although that really does cement that the child is just a kid with no true concept of right vs wrong yet. So props to them on emphasizing that in this episode. Did not expect the Alien/horror vibe from it. It really started getting nerve wracking once they boarded the ship. Great episode but I do think Chapter 9 is better
The frog spawn isn’t fertilised yet so not technically a child, can’t really say that for the spider baby however, but I reckon they would of all hatched anyway and chased them.
Loved the New Republic in this! This whole era is slowly becoming my favorite. I love the Wild West nature to it and basking in the victory of the rebellion is nice and seeing them be the boot to the ant that is the imperial remnant
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I like how this episode was directed by Peyton Reed. It’s like bugs are his thing now. My brother even jokingly called the ant alien ‘Ant-Man’ before we found out it was directed by Reed.
About half way through the episode I thought "I bet Peyton Reed directed this one" - I was right. Also, anyone else think it was weird that he said may the force be with you, but hadn't even heard of Jedi in season 1?
Because it became a moto with Resistance, later New Republic fighters. He did not have to know anything about Jedi or Force, just to hear them greet each other that way. For example, imagine yourself, never heard about or seen a Nazi. And at one point, you hear some people greet each other with "Sieg Heil". You don't know what it really means, but, that is how they great each other, you just repeat to blend in, not attract attention and gtfo. Same with him - in his travels he might have heard "May the Force be with you" been used by the Republic fighters and he just used it when meeting with them.
@@Wustenfuchs109 I guess, but I feel like he would have heard of Jedi in that case as well. Tales of the Jedi who beat the Emperor and destroyed the first Death Star would have been huge among the Rebellion. You could be right, but I think its an oversight personally. I don't believe that he wouldn't have heard of Jedi in the first place. A) he was literally orphaned during the Clone Wars B) the Jedi were only wiped out less than 30 years ago (and a major event), that's like someone today not knowing anything about 9/11 or the Moon landings. Anyways, still dig the show, just some nitpicks
So many "oh SHIT" moments in this episode. Highlights: - Mando taking out two of his foes by yanking the other guy's rifle into their faces...then posing there like a boss - The second big-ass spider jumping on the ship just as I thought it was heading towards freedom - Baby yoda eating that last egg
I just love how this show has its own identity but calls back to the movies and tv shows. First showing us live action dark saber last season, and now Kryknas this episode. I enjoy the little things.
@@PurposefullyIneloquent wait was it lothal? I forget where it was that’s why I just put the spider name haha. I know it’s where Canaan and Ezra found Bendu, and where their new base was made.
This IS some weird recurring theme about the... idk cannibalization/consumption of the Young. Like in season 1, we start off the theme with the Mudhorn egg (well I mean we start it off by seeing the lizard monkey getting spit-roasted) but with the Jawas and the mudhorn, and how everyone who saw The Child would ask a variation of 2-3 questions which is "Is that a pet?," "is that your kid? or _"Is that exotic food/livestock?"_ like The Mandalorian was just carrying around a freaking *chicken or lobster!* _A LOT of people asked if Baby Yoda was food._ I figured that maybe it has to do with themes that this side of the galaxy, the dark and gritty underbelly, that whether you're "good" or "bad," the reality is that it's a Dog-Eat-Dog existence and everyone knows it. Children aren't safe, like old folktales like you said; Baba Yaga. Be careful in the woods, or you're gonna be eaten.
AND the Stormtroopers. Not in the movie itself, but it was a fan theory/joke for years and got canonized in Forces of Destiny (not sure if it made it in anywhere else)
Yea it was stupid. Out of all the things that could have had them crash land it had to be the wings. It was a misunderstanding too so Mando shouldn’t have even tried to run from them, they would have probably let him go if he was honest with them. I was just waiting for them to get the ship fixed so we could see if there really is another mandolorian and meet gecko moms husband but then the episode just ends
The way the kid was eating that frog lady spawn eggs 😂😂😂😂😂, he was proper persistent in getting some, those poor-poor baby frogs and that one spider that got eaten up. The kid caused a lot of issues though (from one thing to the next). Loved how Mandalorian just takes it on the chin and deals with the issues for the people he is dealing with. 8.6/10 for me.
What I'm wondering is how they were drawn to him when he places his hand on the container. I'm feeling like maybe they aren't actually kids. Either that, or Baby Yoda is a serial killer LOL
@Wrong Think You got a really nasty attitude buddy, and that can definitely be debated. Why would she not be worried about her babies being missing? Stop being rude. We're all fans here
The way each episode can stay so episodic yet still incorporate elements from previous episodes shows why they went with Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 instead of Season 2 Episode 1 and 2
Baby Yoda probably doesn't see the difference between him eating children, and Mando eating some Krayt Dragon meat. From what I understand the force is akin to nature, it is neither good or bad. And a big aspect of nature is predation, hunters eating their prey.
Alot of firefly vibes this episode. Ship crashes hard on a planet then drops down a pit (crash sequence in Serenity), law man lets them go after saying these are trying times (ending of train job with the sheriff), and the run to hide in a canyon on an ice planet only to be found by the pursuer (war stories chase sequence). They are working my nostalgia centers and its working.
Them showing us those Republic Starfighter Pilots was dope, and the exploration of the different species, planets and threats was dope, I'm all for it.
The Mandalorian is like an open world RPG when you ignore the main campaign and just do side quests. You get our fetch quest, your kill quests. You help random folk, you get loot, you kill giant spiders. It also means the story crawls to a halt. We're in season 2 and it still like a loosely connected series of side stories with an over reliance on easter eggs to keep things going. It was fine for the first season, but now it's a little old. We got to know Mando throughout season 1, we got to love Baby Yoda from the first second we laid eyes on that cute little creature, so it's more than time for the story to focus on them. You know, an actual story! We already got the introduction, now let's see some development.
Eating children of non humanoids isn't that rare in SW. Hutts sometimes ate Geonosian eggs as a rare delicacy....but Hutts aren't known for having a high moral standarts.
Yeah, I suppose. It still gets me feeling weird tho when he’s eating the unborn children 😂 like obviously they’re an intelligent sentient race, so it probably isn’t moral to eat the unhitched eggs lol
@@isaiahhighley8959 to be fair, Mando has been raising him for a while and killed several people and creatures in front of him. Being an infant, Baby Yoda probably has little understanding of the concept of justified murder. To him, it's just thing you can do if you want something
@@aarondsouza8235 yeah but we don’t eat the eggs of a sentient and intelligent race. Either way I was just saying it gave me weird vibes, I still found it comedic lol
It been implied and or suggested that Yoda's Spieces are carnivorous, but Yoda managed to adjust his diet to Tea made of tree bark or seeds, and chews on his stick to aid in his meditation, and what he had to hold over himself for his carnivorous side was rootleaf soup,(for protein duh!) after all Jon Favreau and Dave filoni are pulling from the books and legends into the mainstream Canon.
I freaking loved the X Wings in it. My god the sounds of them send shivers down my spine. So many happy memories watching the original trilogy and the sound effects.
Yes, the lady on tatooine is hard to stomach. I'm cool with the episodic thing but hopefully he starts doing something other than just fight big monsters.
That exchange with the x-wings leading into the chase scene was so fucking beautiful, like that was some movie grade stuff. I really liked the practical costumes in the beginning of the episode too
@BlindingHornet So far they haven't named them but they are Kryknas indeed, although you are correct, that same concept design was the one that was used to create the Kryknas, and even if these have another name, they are still a variation of Kryknas in that I am 100% sure because it would be counterintuitive to use the same concept to make 2 different species in the same universe that look and are based on the same thing.
I won't lie, these first two episodes have been kind of lackluster for me. To start off a brand new season we've now had two, "Do this thing and you'll find a mandalorian" episodes with core plots that amount to "Help this person do x, they'll give you what you want. Here's a big problem mando has to solve while helping. Ok, problem solved. Still no second mandalorian though. End of episode." Just feels like filler more than anything and with the characters they plan on introducing and the connection mando and the child will be having to the galaxy at large, it feels like they're wasting a lot of time that could've been spent with Ahsoka or Boba.
@@101wizardER Oh I'm sure they will too. It just kinda sucks we've had two meh episodes and now only have like 7 or 8 to go in this season and then we'll have to wait another year or more for season 3. I didn't hate them persay, it just felt like with how season 1 ended and having boba and Ahsoka in this season that we'd dive way more into that stuff over the course of the whole season instead of continuing with these really self-contained and episodic adventures.
@@jewsco Yes the first season was very much that. But again, given the darksaber cliffhanger and the introduction of boba and ahsoka I figured they'd branch off from such formulaic storytelling.
Gecko-Mom is definitely aware of the Child eating her eggs. At the end, when he looks at the eggs, she tightens her grip on the pod. I'm thinking she noticed a few missing when she put them in the hot spring, then put two and two together, when Mando stopped him from grabbing one from the water.
Did anyone else notice it was fading out for commercial breaks and hitting right at that 40 minute mark. They are going to be putting this on TV at some point, despite all that talk about commitment to streaming.
"Flamethrower's the first thing - take out all the tiny ones." YUP. Just like in John Carpenter's The Thing: "Mack wants the flamethrower." "Mack wants the what?" "You heard me, now move!"
Theory: Baby Yoda ate the eggs to protect them since he could sense the incubator was going to eventually die. Then in the next episode the incubator will somehow get destroyed, but Baby Yoda will regurgitate the ones he swallowed, saving the species :)
@@saturncrush Why else would they make Baby Yoda out of character so suddenly? A baby-eating demon? That wouldn’t fit his brand. I think they’re trying to subvert expectations by making us think he’s eating them, and next episode we find out it was just in fact an instinct to save them. Then everybody would think he’s cute again, which is on brand. He’s been shown to be self-aware in situations and empathetic towards other life forms before. Why wouldn’t he be now? It’s either that or just off writing, which I doubt
@@LeGoldenWaffle I certainly hope that is the case. It would not make sense for them not to do it....but for some reason Faloni’s pacing and story structure has not translated fully into live action. I don’t know if it is interference in anyway by the higher ups, but something seems off. I have enjoyed the Show being a breathe of fresh air from the lack of quality control the IP has gotten with the films as they did not feel like Star Wars. This show does....it appears that the powers that be are running toward this little show throwing the kitchen sink at it instead of it not being an organic process. I could be wrong. We will see.
After season 1, I’ve come to terms that this show is mostly filler and I’m enjoying it more Edit: Oh there’s the toxic Star Wars fans. I didn’t say anything about the quality of the show being bad. Production/directing/acting are all top notch.
@@J2ojuiced95 it doesn’t cost any more money to have story (and the writing is where this series is lacking), in fact it costs more money to inject sfx extravaganzas and action into a scene than to spend the time exploring and developing the characters.
I love how the beginning of the episode reminds me of old school tv shows from the 70s and 80s. Just shows Mando getting out of sticky situation in 5 min or less and then credits.
@@geranball9678 I mean the first wasn’t entirely - it progressed the story and hinted at what is to come (Boba) - plus showed character development - I’m still so damn excited by this season - it’s fantastic so far
No he is showing that the species is naturally force sensitive and also "savage." Baby Yoda is simply responding to instinctual drives, there is very little "parenting" occuring. Also, most the characters, so far, respond to BY like he is an animal/pet, they do not see if as humanoid.
Baby Yoda reminds me of my 7 month old cat. Such a cute sweet kitten but I’m often reminded that thanks to thousands of years of evolution she’s also a perfect predator 😆
Only by 10 minutes, but yes definitely. This show is really hit or miss sometimes. I feel like the clone wars tv show would give you more story and character development in 20 mins and this episode does the exact opposite. Takes a 20 minute episode and stretches it out
Yeah, the whole time I was like, "wasn't that the planet Zeb and Kallus got stranded on?" Then the spiders came in and I was like, "I was hoping for the wolves, why are you here?" I'm not complaining though, that was pretty cool.
Baby Yoda: *Eats not just grown frogs, but the children to*
Anakin: *Approves*
what if baby yoda is the son of anakin and yoda lol
that makes a lot of sense
@@Justabadplayer12 thanks for mental image in my head. No I wont sleep at night.
Baby Yoda: They’re animals! And I swallowed them like animals! I love them! *Burp*
Fun fact: the child and Anakin were born in the same year, 41 BBY
Palpaptine you see Yoda was actually evil. Send footage of him eating frog babies.
Anybody notice that this episode was directed by Peyton Reed (director of Ant-man, Ant-man and the Wasp) which included a gambling ant
I was saying!!ANT-ONIO BANDERAS!!! I wish he got to play some kind of percussion!!lmao
loved him just siting smiling in the final scene, like "hey I'm in a movie")))
@Derp Inshmurtz waaaaay better. I hated ant-man and the wasp.
@@ColmK83 Ant man and the wasp was not bad or at least not as bad as it’s made out to be
I mean, you're not wrong, but "Dr. Mandible" (not sure if that's supposed to be his canonical name, I mean we do have an OT character named "Droopy McCool".) was in an episode of S1 so that's not strictly his doing.
Just glossing over that jetpack kill.
I literally forgot about that scene, until you mentioned it. 🤦🏼♂️
@@CaesiusX that scene was great
@@mementomori771 Agreed. 😅 Yet, even though I just finished watching the episode, I actually _had_ forgotten about it until *Mike* mentioned it.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Pure savagery from Mando.
Did it brake after? Because he doesn’t wear it after. And what was that about it falling over after it landed?
"how about you guys help me fix my ship" "how about you fix your transponder so we don't have to shoot you down." I swear those 2 x-wing pilots felt like the highway patrol officers in Chips, riding their bikes.....
I liked it lol they are “good guys” just not entirely.
I agree. I think they meant that to be the case. I mean they kind of have the same job duties.
Mando did help a criminal organization break in to a prison ship, murder one of the crew, break out another prisoner and destroy several droids. Not killing Mando was about as much help as anyone should expect.
@@Saiyijon not to mention he's a bounty hunter. Who knows what skeletons are in his closet
They're just jealous of Mando's cool armor lol
Maybe Yoda's species are just vicious space goblins. Yoda just happened to be chill.
I mean yoda does mostly train younglings
So Yoda is a Gremlin then.
He lived on Dagobah, a swamp with a lot of creatures. He played pranks on Luke and took his things. Remember
Well... we know that Yoda’s species is carnivorous, so there’s that.
...maybe that’s why both the sixth and Jedi don’t deal with them? Cause in order to be trained by the “Yodas” you have to literally give them your young.
This is why they've insisted on calling him "The Child!"
Because the end twist is that's not his full name. It's actually "The Child Eater!"
To serve childkind... it is a cookbook!
🤣
The eggs were not fertilized so it's just like eating eggs not children but okay🤔😂
@@Mar_s-vy6js - It's a joke, not a dick. Don't take it so hard! 😎
@@richardhutnik Twilight zone
Anyone else get “alien” vibes from that Spider egg scene?
Yes.
yea also wreck it ralph 1
Totally!! I felt the same way
Absolutely, would be surprised if that wasn’t the inspiration
@@Justabadplayer12 where do you think Ralph got it from?
The spiders invading the ship was a genuinely unnerving scene. Love it when Star Wars goes Horror for a few minutes like that.
Dave Filoni making himself a returning X-Wing pilot is absolutely iconic
@Daz Mcclean well yeah, it’s an absolute boss move to make yourself a recurring character, especially when it’s earned (which he has very much earned) - I don’t mean iconic in the usual sense of the word, I mean that it’s just hilariously awesome
I dig it
it dig I
I loved Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as a X-Wing pilot
i dig it
I like how Baby Yoda is feeling more and more like an actual character, in Season 1 he kinda just felt like a cute thing Mando hauled around
"Baby Yoda, more like Baba Yaga"
- My High School quote
He's absolutely munching on those poor children
Someone get Keanu on the phone
K
Graduated a few years ago, Seniors today don’t know how lucky they have it...
This is the way.
Anyone else get Ridley Scott vibes when the camera slowly panned over all the eggs?
Yes! I thought it was just me
That was on purpose
Honestly, when the spiders were invading the ship, that was crazy scary.
Ikr!
I had my hands on my face Home Alone style
@@chanilerner6410 lol
Totally fast forward through the thing.
Still smaller than Australia spiders
Gecko Mom: (whips out blaster in defense of her eggs)
Jeremy: Worst Gecko mom ever.
Gecko Mom: (sad amphibian noises)
I mean.. she whipped out the blaster and saved the tiny creature that was and continued to eat her children.. that's all kinds of fucked up really. You could easily reshoot this entire episode as a straight horror movie.
I was just mad that she left the ship not knowing what was out there. I mean,I guess she could sense the heat (being cold-blooded and all),and therefore knew that comfort was down the way. But,they were in a cave where other creatures would go for comfort and shelter. She must have been more of a city amphibian.
I thought it was hilarious how the lizard lady explained how her eggs were the last of her kind and are extremely important and baby Yoda just eats them like they’re nothing.
He/she either doesn't understand shit about morality or is a giant asshole.
It's unfertilized eggs, she needs her husband to actually have it be babies lol
@@TheShadowboy8 I know that’s why I referred to them as “eggs”.
Me personally I watched and by the end of the episode I said that’s it
*Frog Lady
jeremy’s impression of baby yoda saying “children” is hilarious
I get the feeling that the eggs will perish in the next episode, only for The Child to regurgitate the ones he ate, thus saving the species.
Either that or he's gonna shite oot a tadpole.
My thoughts as well
lol
That's not how eating works. and I'm pretty sure baby is too small to regurtitate any of those. so pretty certain it will be neither of those
Yeah I thought the child ate them for a reason
@@itsjustforme5237 The child loves to eat frogs.
I thought the entire episode was a wonderful meditation on parenthood. In the beginning, we get to see Mando being very protective of the child when it's threatened; the frog lady is also willing to go to any length for her eggs, and the spider freaks out when the child eats her offspring. And, as a kind of mirror - as threatening and vile as those bounty hunters and spiders appear to the viewer, we get to see that to the spiders and the eggs, Baby Yoda is THE big threat predator.
You wouldn't be an english major would you? Because my brother with a degree in English would've probably said the exact same thing lol I love it
@@Road_to_Dawn Aw, thanks! (but, sadly, no degree in English)
This episode was horrifying and great coming from a arachnophobic
Me too I flipped my shit when they started hatching
Me 3 Lol
Your not arachnophobic if you managed to watch it without being traumatized.
@@jamesbaxter9123 no your not
@@myduckisonqauck7227 I am so so traumatized I don’t think I’ll rewatch this season
Yoda's specie is gremlins. Bad bad gremlins.
That half lidded "show off" look from Baby Yoda to Mando after the jetpack kill. *chefs kiss*
Ita like Legolas and Gimli all over again
I think John Favroe and Dave Filoni saw how Baby Yoda became fawned over by the internet for being so cute, and are now dedicated to making him more horrifying and gross lol.
I also notice Baby Yoda cries in this episode, which stood out to me because I spent all of S1 talking about how Baby Yoda is the most well behaved baby ever. he basically never cries. And he also doesn't usually go off on his own and cause trouble for Mando (Mando even let BY just walk around town on his own without keeping an eye on him in S2Ep1) and Filoni and Favreau have now made Baby Yoda cry more and be more of a troublemaker. Not sure I like.
@@jamesmallone i think they may be trying to portray baby Yoda as maturing a little bit and starting to move from the "baby" stage into the "toddler" stage i guess, but idk. We'll have to see where they go with it.
That baby is gonna grow up and become a sith lord.
And we thought Anakin killing younglings was bad
indeed
Baby Yoda : Devourer of Children
@@ColmK83 Hello, Lord.
@@darake2800 how's it going
"I didn't know Yodas were so metal."
Quote of the year, bro.
I thought there was gonna be a twist of Baby Yoda actually ingesting those eggs to keep them warm, then the mother was somehow gonna lose all her eggs only for Baby Yoda to spit the ones he ate up to show he was just keeping them safe. NOOOOOPE Baby Yoda is the Pennywise of the Star Wars Galaxy.
I gotta say your idea would have been way better imo.
i'm still wondering if there is going to be more to that story....the child seemed to be communicating with those eggs before he consumed them, the egg container was very prominent throughout the episode and there is an action figure featuring the child with the eggs....are those eggs still alive? or he could have just eaten them! time will tell.
@@sdb683 They weren't fertilized yet. He wasn't communicating with them just drooling over them.
"Baby Yoda more like Baba Yaga." That is gold I'm using that
The Mandalorian Season 2: Monster Hunter
Does it better than Witcher aswell imo
@@melvinlinderoth7108 lol the Witcher fights mythical creatures with supernatural abilities and I’m pretty sure he would have murdered that spider with a fucking sword
@@huhyahoiii2444 You are correct... He would probably be a grey jedi in this universe
@@huhyahoiii2444 I think he meant it does the monster hunting part better than the Witcher Netflix series
@@melvinlinderoth7108 The Witcher books really aren't about monster hunting. They're about a monster hunter who just wants to hunt monsters but can't.
I'm kinda surprised no one's mentioned it so I will. "May the Force be with you." "And also with you." Got a huge laugh out of me, that was the best.
Baby yoda eating his way through the younglings of the universe quicker than anakin with his lightsaber 😂
But the eggs weren’t even fertilized yet.
MASTA SKYWALKA
I love the beginning how Mando was willing to give his jetpack in order to protect Baby Yoda (then launches the bounty Hunter to the moon)
I also loved Baby Yoda's reaction to that.
It's hilarious that The Mandalorian gets ice spiders before Game of Thrones lol
Those ice spiders are called Krykna and are, in fact, a bit of a mistake on Mandalorian part as it messes up with the established lore. Those spiders live on warm arid planet Atollon, they are out of their setting on an ice world, and they are highly resistant to blaster fire, even from starfighters let alone hand held blasters. I was actually very surprised that they added them on this Hoth-like setting and make them very squishy - because in the previous episode Krayt Dragon was quite faithfully represented.
@@Wustenfuchs109 Probably just a subspecies.
@@Wustenfuchs109 The original concept explains they are from Dagobah. They clearly aren't just from one planet. Kinrath from KOTOR are similar to these, and they reside on Dantooine and Kashyyk.
@@ewanreilly2988 Exactly, and they would have evolved differently in this environment and habitat over the generations. They would have different strengths, weaknesses, ect... The Mandalorian has done a good job of paying homage to the SW Universe, but also expanding it in minor ways. Why not introduce a genetic deviant of the creatures you are used to seeing? On our planet alone there are countless variations of subspecies of creatures. How much more would that be the case throughout a galaxy?
@@Wustenfuchs109 everything you said is wrong. The show runners came out and said these Spiders are a new species to the show. Not the ones you are referring too
Was about to comment about gecko lady not knowing how many eggs she had.. then you said it sooo.. Great Review!
New Republic pilot : "are you with us or against us?"
Mando : "I am neither with you nor against you."
New Republic Pilot *aside* : "Can be do that?"
New Republic Pilot #2 : "He's a Mandalorian."
Mando : and here I thought I was a Witcher
@@leeviheiskanen1271 NW Pilot: What?
Mando: Nothing nothing
New Republic Pilot: If you're not with me.....then you're my enemy >:(
@@Commander_Shepard. only a sith knows nothing but the extreme
Nice pirates reference!
It was a great episode but I was frustrated with The Child for consistently eating the eggs lol. Even after everything with the spiders and seeing the frog lady clearly treating the eggs like her children... he still eats one at the end lol.
Although that really does cement that the child is just a kid with no true concept of right vs wrong yet. So props to them on emphasizing that in this episode. Did not expect the Alien/horror vibe from it. It really started getting nerve wracking once they boarded the ship. Great episode but I do think Chapter 9 is better
I was expecting some weird twist at the end like the frog ladys husband being Jar Jar Binks or something.
😂
I was expecting the twist to be that Baby Yoda was actually protecting the eggs in his stomach... but no, he's just a tiny little monster.
Her husband was Barney
we shall see
@@09spidy i thought so too
The frog spawn isn’t fertilised yet so not technically a child, can’t really say that for the spider baby however, but I reckon they would of all hatched anyway and chased them.
Man those spiders, freaking nightmare fuel
Yeah, I’m not arachnaphobic but Christ those were scary
They even have drill mouths
They are from Rebels if I am not mistaken
@@gayatritripathisaxena7224 yeah i think so
@@gayatritripathisaxena7224 Speaking of rebels, was it the same ice cave agent callis and zac stranded in rebels?
When baby yoda ate the egg in the final shot of the episode... I was like.
"You Little Monster."
Loved the New Republic in this! This whole era is slowly becoming my favorite. I love the Wild West nature to it and basking in the victory of the rebellion is nice and seeing them be the boot to the ant that is the imperial remnant
The one youtuber who hasnt chnaged much over the years and just dives in to the center of giving us the content,doesnt get involved with politics just sticks with what his channel is about.Thanks for the content
There was so much tension and so many stakes in this episode, I loved it.
I like how this episode was directed by Peyton Reed. It’s like bugs are his thing now.
My brother even jokingly called the ant alien ‘Ant-Man’ before we found out it was directed by Reed.
About half way through the episode I thought "I bet Peyton Reed directed this one" - I was right. Also, anyone else think it was weird that he said may the force be with you, but hadn't even heard of Jedi in season 1?
Because it became a moto with Resistance, later New Republic fighters. He did not have to know anything about Jedi or Force, just to hear them greet each other that way. For example, imagine yourself, never heard about or seen a Nazi. And at one point, you hear some people greet each other with "Sieg Heil". You don't know what it really means, but, that is how they great each other, you just repeat to blend in, not attract attention and gtfo. Same with him - in his travels he might have heard "May the Force be with you" been used by the Republic fighters and he just used it when meeting with them.
@@Wustenfuchs109 I guess, but I feel like he would have heard of Jedi in that case as well. Tales of the Jedi who beat the Emperor and destroyed the first Death Star would have been huge among the Rebellion. You could be right, but I think its an oversight personally. I don't believe that he wouldn't have heard of Jedi in the first place. A) he was literally orphaned during the Clone Wars B) the Jedi were only wiped out less than 30 years ago (and a major event), that's like someone today not knowing anything about 9/11 or the Moon landings. Anyways, still dig the show, just some nitpicks
@@christianbrown7438 I do not remember anyone saying may the force be with you
@@dawhandaonli5925 It's when the Rebel pilots (Dave Filoni) stop him and Mando says it to them
I thought there was a reference in ep 9 as well and also found it odd.
So many "oh SHIT" moments in this episode.
Highlights:
- Mando taking out two of his foes by yanking the other guy's rifle into their faces...then posing there like a boss
- The second big-ass spider jumping on the ship just as I thought it was heading towards freedom
- Baby yoda eating that last egg
I just love how this show has its own identity but calls back to the movies and tv shows. First showing us live action dark saber last season, and now Kryknas this episode. I enjoy the little things.
Kryknas!! Lothal! That's where I'd seen them before, thank you! I thought they were Wyyyschokks from Kashyyyk as I was watching the episode.
Or the spiders from Dantooine which is what I thought
@@PurposefullyIneloquent wait was it lothal? I forget where it was that’s why I just put the spider name haha. I know it’s where Canaan and Ezra found Bendu, and where their new base was made.
@@dominicjesus96 No wait you're totally right! It wasn't on Lothal. It was on the other planet they established their new base on.
@@PurposefullyIneloquent Attolon
Disney wants us to call him "The Child"
We named him "Baby Yoda"
Now I'm gonna start calling him "Baba Yaga"
I looooove watching John wick talk about the Star Wars
🤣
And talking about Baba Yaga.
This IS some weird recurring theme about the... idk cannibalization/consumption of the Young. Like in season 1, we start off the theme with the Mudhorn egg (well I mean we start it off by seeing the lizard monkey getting spit-roasted) but with the Jawas and the mudhorn, and how everyone who saw The Child would ask a variation of 2-3 questions which is "Is that a pet?," "is that your kid? or _"Is that exotic food/livestock?"_ like The Mandalorian was just carrying around a freaking *chicken or lobster!* _A LOT of people asked if Baby Yoda was food._
I figured that maybe it has to do with themes that this side of the galaxy, the dark and gritty underbelly, that whether you're "good" or "bad," the reality is that it's a Dog-Eat-Dog existence and everyone knows it. Children aren't safe, like old folktales like you said; Baba Yaga. Be careful in the woods, or you're gonna be eaten.
the Empire were the good guys all along.
"we have to kill that monster. nobody is safe when its all grown up."
"Take a break from the greatest show on Earth!" That was so freaking hilarious.
Baby Yoda: seriel killer mysteries tonight at 9😂
Yep pretty much
Nah more like Five... Dee
(Trying to make a pun with fifty)
people keep forgetting....the ewoks were trying to EAT the rebels
AND the Stormtroopers. Not in the movie itself, but it was a fan theory/joke for years and got canonized in Forces of Destiny (not sure if it made it in anywhere else)
VERY seldom find myself laughing out loud in my lonesome. but that baba yaga stuff cracked me up XD
The show is apsolutely amazing! I'm in love with the cinematography and the general vibe.
4:00 to 4:20 had me rolling. Jeremy, you're the best with your jokes man!
I lost my shit with the accent
The effects in this are freaking awesome, but honestly, it ultimately felt like half an episode to me.
Yea it was stupid. Out of all the things that could have had them crash land it had to be the wings. It was a misunderstanding too so Mando shouldn’t have even tried to run from them, they would have probably let him go if he was honest with them. I was just waiting for them to get the ship fixed so we could see if there really is another mandolorian and meet gecko moms husband but then the episode just ends
The way the kid was eating that frog lady spawn eggs 😂😂😂😂😂, he was proper persistent in getting some, those poor-poor baby frogs and that one spider that got eaten up. The kid caused a lot of issues though (from one thing to the next). Loved how Mandalorian just takes it on the chin and deals with the issues for the people he is dealing with. 8.6/10 for me.
They aren't even baby frogs because the eggs aren't even fertilized yet.
What I'm wondering is how they were drawn to him when he places his hand on the container. I'm feeling like maybe they aren't actually kids. Either that, or Baby Yoda is a serial killer LOL
@Wrong Think You got a really nasty attitude buddy, and that can definitely be debated. Why would she not be worried about her babies being missing? Stop being rude. We're all fans here
He needs to bust that damn child already like wtf wallop him already for being bad.
@@kyzaar2 hitting a young creature before they learn to speak any language??
The way each episode can stay so episodic yet still incorporate elements from previous episodes shows why they went with Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 instead of Season 2 Episode 1 and 2
2:37 Holy shit, he's right. It showed that Yoda have to overcome his species' nature to become a Jedi Master.
Baby Yoda probably doesn't see the difference between him eating children, and Mando eating some Krayt Dragon meat.
From what I understand the force is akin to nature, it is neither good or bad. And a big aspect of nature is predation, hunters eating their prey.
Or did he?
Well, I think all babies are violent as hell, not just Yoda's species. It just happens that baby Yoda is violent as hell and has magical space powers.
Alot of firefly vibes this episode.
Ship crashes hard on a planet then drops down a pit (crash sequence in Serenity), law man lets them go after saying these are trying times (ending of train job with the sheriff), and the run to hide in a canyon on an ice planet only to be found by the pursuer (war stories chase sequence).
They are working my nostalgia centers and its working.
Them showing us those Republic Starfighter Pilots was dope, and the exploration of the different species, planets and threats was dope, I'm all for it.
Baby Yoda just refusing to NOT eat the eggs was some fun dark comedy.
Finally, someone who realizes that it was a Gecko mom, not a frog mom
You sure? Mando, HIMSELF said he didn't speak frog. And there's a scene with her Hoping away from spiders, like a frog.
Even had the frog tongue to grab her clothes in the hottub.. geckos don't have that
I’m pretty sure the subtitles said [FROG LADY]
Ok people, it appears I have made a grave error. It is the frog lady.
@@rudrank819 I mean, she was jumping, like frogs do.
The Mandalorian is like an open world RPG when you ignore the main campaign and just do side quests. You get our fetch quest, your kill quests. You help random folk, you get loot, you kill giant spiders. It also means the story crawls to a halt.
We're in season 2 and it still like a loosely connected series of side stories with an over reliance on easter eggs to keep things going. It was fine for the first season, but now it's a little old.
We got to know Mando throughout season 1, we got to love Baby Yoda from the first second we laid eyes on that cute little creature, so it's more than time for the story to focus on them. You know, an actual story! We already got the introduction, now let's see some development.
"That wasn't flying! That was falling with style!" 🤣🤣
Baby Yoda running over to Mando after that opening fight scene was heartwarming enough to melt that entire ice spider plantet.
Eating children of non humanoids isn't that rare in SW. Hutts sometimes ate Geonosian eggs as a rare delicacy....but Hutts aren't known for having a high moral standarts.
Yeah, I suppose. It still gets me feeling weird tho when he’s eating the unborn children 😂 like obviously they’re an intelligent sentient race, so it probably isn’t moral to eat the unhitched eggs lol
@@isaiahhighley8959 to be fair, Mando has been raising him for a while and killed several people and creatures in front of him. Being an infant, Baby Yoda probably has little understanding of the concept of justified murder. To him, it's just thing you can do if you want something
Jabba once ate a person. A whole adult near-human woman.
Plus humans eat eggs all the time ;)
@@aarondsouza8235 yeah but we don’t eat the eggs of a sentient and intelligent race. Either way I was just saying it gave me weird vibes, I still found it comedic lol
It been implied and or suggested that Yoda's Spieces are carnivorous, but Yoda managed to adjust his diet to Tea made of tree bark or seeds, and chews on his stick to aid in his meditation, and what he had to hold over himself for his carnivorous side was rootleaf soup,(for protein duh!) after all Jon Favreau and Dave filoni are pulling from the books and legends into the mainstream Canon.
This episode reminded me of that very similar scene involving spiders in Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets
I freaking loved the X Wings in it. My god the sounds of them send shivers down my spine. So many happy memories watching the original trilogy and the sound effects.
Jeremy still referencing Firefly is the reason I live for😂❤️. No power in the 'Verse can stop him.
This series just gets better! I absolutely loved the simplicity of this episode but yet still so interesting
Yes, the lady on tatooine is hard to stomach. I'm cool with the episodic thing but hopefully he starts doing something other than just fight big monsters.
That exchange with the x-wings leading into the chase scene was so fucking beautiful, like that was some movie grade stuff. I really liked the practical costumes in the beginning of the episode too
The space prison guard mando saved is why the fighter pilots saved him. After they ran his tab on the razorcrest they figured out who he was
That 3:34 Batman Begins impersonation when he spread his arms had me ROLLING!
"Hell's not a bad word it's a plaece"
"Hell is a state of mind..."
A bad place
Bro Jeremy you crack me up so much in your videos, thank you
Are those the spiders from Rebels?
They are.
@BlindingHornet No thanks. I'll pass! I'm scared of spiders🤣🖕
@BlindingHornet So far they haven't named them but they are Kryknas indeed, although you are correct, that same concept design was the one that was used to create the Kryknas, and even if these have another name, they are still a variation of Kryknas in that I am 100% sure because it would be counterintuitive to use the same concept to make 2 different species in the same universe that look and are based on the same thing.
They were in Jedi: Fallen Order aswell right?
@@joshhunt4146 No, those are Wyyyshockk spiders, native to Kashyyyk.
3:34 awesometacular imitation, with the arms and everything
I won't lie, these first two episodes have been kind of lackluster for me. To start off a brand new season we've now had two, "Do this thing and you'll find a mandalorian" episodes with core plots that amount to "Help this person do x, they'll give you what you want. Here's a big problem mando has to solve while helping. Ok, problem solved. Still no second mandalorian though. End of episode." Just feels like filler more than anything and with the characters they plan on introducing and the connection mando and the child will be having to the galaxy at large, it feels like they're wasting a lot of time that could've been spent with Ahsoka or Boba.
It’s only episode 2...I’m sure things will ramp up but definitely see your point here cause I agree
@@101wizardER Oh I'm sure they will too. It just kinda sucks we've had two meh episodes and now only have like 7 or 8 to go in this season and then we'll have to wait another year or more for season 3. I didn't hate them persay, it just felt like with how season 1 ended and having boba and Ahsoka in this season that we'd dive way more into that stuff over the course of the whole season instead of continuing with these really self-contained and episodic adventures.
@@LEGOMAN1319 it’s the show have you not been paying attention
@@jewsco Yes the first season was very much that. But again, given the darksaber cliffhanger and the introduction of boba and ahsoka I figured they'd branch off from such formulaic storytelling.
@@LEGOMAN1319 so you admit to knowing the show is formulaic with it’s story telling and builds up to a big ending but now are shocked by it ?
Baby Yoda in this episode: "May the Insatiable Force be with you"💀💀😂
Gecko-Mom is definitely aware of the Child eating her eggs. At the end, when he looks at the eggs, she tightens her grip on the pod. I'm thinking she noticed a few missing when she put them in the hot spring, then put two and two together, when Mando stopped him from grabbing one from the water.
Did anyone else notice it was fading out for commercial breaks and hitting right at that 40 minute mark. They are going to be putting this on TV at some point, despite all that talk about commitment to streaming.
"Flamethrower's the first thing - take out all the tiny ones."
YUP. Just like in John Carpenter's The Thing:
"Mack wants the flamethrower."
"Mack wants the what?"
"You heard me, now move!"
I don’t know if anyone else noticed this, but when the X-Wings leave Mando near the end, you can hear March of the Resistance play!
Finally!! we get to see ICE SPIDERS......just on the wrong TV show
Theory: Baby Yoda ate the eggs to protect them since he could sense the incubator was going to eventually die. Then in the next episode the incubator will somehow get destroyed, but Baby Yoda will regurgitate the ones he swallowed, saving the species :)
If only that were true.
@@saturncrush Why else would they make Baby Yoda out of character so suddenly? A baby-eating demon? That wouldn’t fit his brand. I think they’re trying to subvert expectations by making us think he’s eating them, and next episode we find out it was just in fact an instinct to save them. Then everybody would think he’s cute again, which is on brand. He’s been shown to be self-aware in situations and empathetic towards other life forms before. Why wouldn’t he be now? It’s either that or just off writing, which I doubt
@@LeGoldenWaffle I certainly hope that is the case. It would not make sense for them not to do it....but for some reason Faloni’s pacing and story structure has not translated fully into live action. I don’t know if it is interference in anyway by the higher ups, but something seems off. I have enjoyed the Show being a breathe of fresh air from the lack of quality control the IP has gotten with the films as they did not feel like Star Wars. This show does....it appears that the powers that be are running toward this little show throwing the kitchen sink at it instead of it not being an organic process. I could be wrong. We will see.
After season 1, I’ve come to terms that this show is mostly filler and I’m enjoying it more
Edit: Oh there’s the toxic Star Wars fans. I didn’t say anything about the quality of the show being bad. Production/directing/acting are all top notch.
It's as if people just forgot what TV shows used to be like before the 2010s.
@@MNGN101 with 25+ episode seasons that also explored and developed their characters each episode
@@MNGN101 Was gonna say the exact same thing
This is a pretty expensive show tbf so you can’t have big events happening all the time.
@@J2ojuiced95 it doesn’t cost any more money to have story (and the writing is where this series is lacking), in fact it costs more money to inject sfx extravaganzas and action into a scene than to spend the time exploring and developing the characters.
I love how the beginning of the episode reminds me of old school tv shows from the 70s and 80s. Just shows Mando getting out of sticky situation in 5 min or less and then credits.
It may have been filler, but I loved this episode
Yeah but why the Fuck have the first two episodes been filler.
@@geranball9678 I mean the first wasn’t entirely - it progressed the story and hinted at what is to come (Boba) - plus showed character development - I’m still so damn excited by this season - it’s fantastic so far
It may have been a filler, but it was an awesome and well made filler
@@geranball9678
i mean - to be fair most of season 1 was filler. it’s still good tho.
@@idurisu930 Exactly, and this show’s filler never seems like a waste - love it!
The jet pack scene at the beginning was hilarious fair play! 😂😂😂 loved the whole episode too!
Is Baby Yoda possibly darkside? He's Force choked, he eats babies.
@mickor the spider he ate wasn't an egg. Just a baby
I think the previous episode is the worst. Just a bunch of nothing to me
No he is showing that the species is naturally force sensitive and also "savage." Baby Yoda is simply responding to instinctual drives, there is very little "parenting" occuring. Also, most the characters, so far, respond to BY like he is an animal/pet, they do not see if as humanoid.
Baby Yoda reminds me of my 7 month old cat. Such a cute sweet kitten but I’m often reminded that thanks to thousands of years of evolution she’s also a perfect predator 😆
is it just me or did this episode feel a lot shorter than the previous one
Only by 10 minutes, but yes definitely. This show is really hit or miss sometimes. I feel like the clone wars tv show would give you more story and character development in 20 mins and this episode does the exact opposite. Takes a 20 minute episode and stretches it out
this was the funniest Jeremy video in a while lmao. refreshing
That scene is lowkey an Alien homage.
The part where it's all quiet then the X-Wing's wings unfold into attack mode. Gave me chills, love me some sexy X-wing's wings!
This episode combined two of the best episodes of Rebels: Honorable ones and mystery of chopper base (both of which are better than TOTA fight me).
@A Honest Opinion it was a joke. They’re not better than TOTA. I’m just sick of them being (Maul voice) tossed aside.
Yeah, the whole time I was like, "wasn't that the planet Zeb and Kallus got stranded on?" Then the spiders came in and I was like, "I was hoping for the wolves, why are you here?" I'm not complaining though, that was pretty cool.
I have to imagine Mando tried to keep hold of his flamethrower as it was their only source of heat for when it got dark.