The underground dwellers were right out of HG Wells The Time Machine. The bionic scavenger was pure Robocop....classic example of something Star Wars that makes you want to know more about where it came from and what it is. LMAO

THE ****ING MYTHOSAUR. Din Djarin is going to be riding that thing by the end of the series.

"Dollar General Grievous"

"Did you think your father was the only Mandalorian?" I giggled and almost cried. Some great ass kicking this episode.

Can't wait to see them find a way to bring back the badass droid. It's gonna happen.

****ing Mythosaur!!! :eek:

Now it makes me think they might want to actually push this Mandalorian mythology issue further than initially though.

The crab droid defeated Din Djarin. Bo Katan used the dark saber to defeat the crab droid. So shouldn't she be able to claim the dark saber now?Seems like she should have kept it, and he probably wouldn't care anyway.

I said the same thing to my wife as soon as she picked it up. "Well, it's hers now."

Doesn't it have to be won in combat for the possession to be legitimate?

She wields that thing better then Din Djarin. I think its hers now

End game can be seen from a mile away. They will find some middle solution between the clans. Mando will eventually reunite the Mandalorian

Question, how do they deal with Gorgu in the cannon? He might became the leader of the mandalore in 4-5 years. Sounds like they are planning a long series run.

Remember when the armorer told him it was heavy because he hadn’t found himself or whatever?

They made it notably different because Bo Katan knows who and what she is and is.

It was very deliberate and that’s the point they were trying to make.

I’m guessing it’s part of Dins journey and he finds himself and wrecks shit with the saber.

Or Grogu does it.

Not to mention she's saved him twice in the span of an hour or so.

I also find it amusing how she scoffs at Din Djarin for his belief that he has to be cleansed in the Mines of Mandalore for his transgressions, but she won't accept the Dark Saber as a gift for the long held belief that it must be taken from the prior holder through one-on-one combat. I feel that is going to be addressed very soon.

It's a really nice little nuance that they're subtly pointing out that nobody is right. The armorer is wrong that the planet is poisoned, Bo Katan is wrong that there is nothing there for them.

Thinking about the Mythosaur on second watch.

Very clearly he was not aggressive towards them. In fact they deliberately showed him vanishing from the shot, almost as if they will have to seek him out again.

I don't think there will be any taming of the Mythosaur. Rather, you must prove yourself worthy to be his rider, as a status symbol. Almost like a weird twisted veresion of the Sword in the Stone. The Mythosaur is Excalibur.

There's also a bit of Arthurian tale potential in there with the body of water and Bo Katan, AKA the Lady of the Lake

I was shocked when I saw it. I really didn't expect it to be in there, although in hindsight it was fairly obvious it would be. The Arthurian comparison is good.

So did the thing grab him and pull him under, or did Din go all bumble**** and just step too far out into the water? I thought something grabbed him like R2 on Dagobah....

Obviously grabbed him. They showed the stairs all the way down when Bo Katan jumped in.

I watched a dork video that talked about the timing of when the monster comes in both 1 and 2. In 1 the monster came when the kid said never remove helmet BANG. In 2, Din got ****ed up when he said he would keep the way in his heart. BANG. So the dork pointed out that the monsters may be attacking when they say the part that's wrong with the creed. Pretty interesting. They have to make the monster attack, so it makes sense that they'd put some intentionality behind it. Good work by the dorks.

crosshair is likely being turned into a phase 1 darktrooper

I thought the first two seasons of Mando were pretty light on worldbuilding. I was always disappointed by that, since I was super fascinated in what the world would look like right after the fall of the Empire.

It's annoying this episode is getting compared negatively to Andor --- I loved seeing this worldbuilding from Coruscant. Seeing SW's Operation Paperclip, and the complete incompetence of the New Republic as it was getting started. This episode was all table setting for the conflicts Post-Empire, and I was all about it.

The whole BoKatan line, I'm ****ing here for. All of it.

The conversation about what Din saw was super interesting. How the **** did he not feel that thing drag him down. And sets up a lot of conflict.

The Pershing stuff I was this >< close to being tired of then the heel turn, now I'm super interested.

The tie fight was awesome.

BoKatan losing her shit after they bombed her place - super interesting. I didn't see that coming and I'm guessing that's not a throwaway scene.

I'm all for the new republic conflict, or whomever BoKatan pissed off. They were bringing that smoke.

For an episode that not much really happened, a lot of shit happened.

Looks like they are setting up BoKatan vs. Din for the Dark Sabre. When BoKatan saw the Mythasouar and did not remove her helmet, you can see that she is plotting to take the Dark Sabre from Din.

So the horribly ex-empire lady was basically ensuring the cloning tech doesn't fall into the Republic's hands? I also loved the mountain bit. I'm not sure what music was playing there but it was highly recognizable.

I think I heard the doctor playing the Jabba's Palace ambient music when the Good Doctor was on the brain zap table. ROFL

They did a great job of showing us an absolute banger of a space battle before it got more lowkey. That ship was ****ing BADASS.

the carnival music playing in the background is The March of the Resistance from the Force Awakens

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that line about warlords wasn't an accident...nobody should have that many tie fighters...except the guy who left the core worlds in a star destroyer decades ago

the entire strategy of that scene was very thrawnlike, too

get them chasing you by bombing their castle, sacrifice one pawn while hiding an entire wing in the clouds that flies right into their path

Din’s ship was left unsupervised on bo’s landing pad, i bet they put a tracker on it and let them lead them to the rest of the mandolorians. Moff gideon and thrawn could be pooling together resources.

There's almost no shot that we get a "Hippie Commune Party" episode next week where Bo becomes one with the Covert, it feels like we might start off that direction, then be ripped back into action with some kind of attack on the Covert, or on Navarro and Mando being alerted to the issue. Maybe both, maybe the Imperial forces were able to put a tracker on Din's ship while they were away on Mandalore, and the attack was a ruse to get them to expose the Covert. Now Thrawn attacks the last bastion of mandalorians as foreshadowed earlier in the season by the Liopleurodon thingy attacking the Covert, symbolizing there is no place else in the world that they are safer, than back on Mandalore.

Then, perhaps in an effort to protect Grogu, Din seeks out Ahsoka to protect Grogu while the Mandalorians reclaim their home from the wastelanders. Ahsoka is visited by Ezra while babysitting Grogu, the three of them have a pizza party while Ezra explains where he's been and that Thrawn has returned, and needs Ahsoka to send a message to Sabine for him. Sabine, on or off screen, learns about Ezra's return, but also that the Mandalorians have returned to their home on Mandalore

I also wonder if perhaps that plotting earlier in the season about Navarro and the pirates was a red herring, and it is in fact Thrawn attacking the town in the trailers. Perhaps its both, perhaps Thrawn recruits the help of the Pirates to attack them, or perhaps its them who tip Thrawn off to their whereabouts.

Thrawn is probably going to end up being the Disney+ Star Wars version of Thanos where all the shows tie back to him or someone working for him and then we inevitably get the team up series to take him down.

Pershing was killed because his research of clones was going to lead him to something that Thrawn didn’t want to be discovered. The reason for this is that Thrawn has already discovered how to clone force sensitives as he has a successful clone of a Jedi turned evil working with him.

This leads me to believe that C’Baoth’s role will be fulfilled by a dark side Ezra later revealed to be a clone but not before having an emotional and violent encounter Ahsoka, Sabine, and Hera.

The Imperial Remnants want/are using Mandalore as a staging ground.

Through the show we hear everyone refer to Mandalore as a "wasteland" or "cursed" implying few, if any, people frequent the planet. In s2e2 we hear Din say immediately after entering the atmosphere that "the fusion bombs disrupted the magnetic field around the planet" and that they were essentially "cut off from the rest of the galaxy." And finally, in s2e3 dozens of Imp fighters seemingly appear out of nowhere, heavily implying either a local base or destroyer in the area.

All this sets Mandalore up as a perfect secret/concealed base for the Imps. Also, having the Imps on Mandalor would be an easy way to push the plot forward, and ensure a reason to bust out the Mythosaur....

From the Mandalorian season 2 we learned that Asoka is searching for Thrawn but we also learned that Thrawn was working with people who strip mined planets to build warships. Recent Star Wars shows like the Mandalorian and the bad batch have showcased a lot of plot threads with cloning lately.

When both points of information are taken together it could point to a future plot where Thrawn is amassing a massive fleet and staffing it with clones. If this is the case it points to something similar to dark force rising.