The Mandalorian - Season 2 (SPOILERS possible)

[Matt_Fury]

I really liked it.  This episode really felt to me that they were setting some things up for future episodes.  Mando’s definitely going to have future run ins with the New Republic and getting the frog lady to her husband (before the child eats all the eggs) will be interesting.

Seeing the Kintrath spiders was a nice Easter egg.  They’ve shown up in Rebels, KOTOR II and even in The Empire Strikes Back: Revisited.


So for the next several weeks, I’ll be living Friday to Friday!   

[GrandMoffNick]

I thought it was a fun episode. And agree I feel like they are setting up future parts of the story.

I also get wanting Cara and Grief and Gideon to show up.

Assuming the final storyline narrative is finding somewhere for the child, I don't want that story advancing too quickly. I don't need the next clue each week to where they're heading next.

[Matt_Fury]

I want to go on record now that I don't believe the child ate the eggs for food.  I think he's protecting some of them because something's going to happen to momma's backpack.

[Jeff]

I want to go on record now that I don't believe the child ate the eggs for food. 

This is a HUGE debate for the six people in our house.
- 1/3 think Baby Yoda is a monster for eating the young of another sentient species
- 1/3 think Baby Yoda is somehow protecting those eggs somehow to save the day
- 1/3 think it's just a sight gag that isn't meant to be anything other than funny and the other 2/3 of the family need to just relax 

[GrandMoffNick]

Thank you Jeff!

[Matt_Fury]

Just look at the first time the Child looks in the tank and the reaction of the eggs.  I just think there could be something else going on there.

[GrandMoffNick]

I'm not sure whether he was eating them or saving them. What I do know is people should calm down about it. It's a fictional show where some creature who is relatively young and saw something tasty so he ate it. If my three year old liked the taste of them and chose to eat them I wouldn't tell him what a horrible person he was for eating them. He didn't understand. Obviously the show creators could have not written the gag, but again let's just keep it in perspective people.

[Dave]

Is the rest of the Internet losing their mind about the egg eating/protecting?  I guess I've not ventured out too widely to see responses and just got a chuckle out of it.

[Matt_Fury]

I didn't realize I was walking into a hornets' nest of controversy.  I just was re-watching the episode and thought about it.

[GrandMoffNick]

I've read it's as bad as if it had been a human woman's eggs for in vitro fertilization.

[Diddly]

What the episode clearly indicates is that Dagobah was probably a thriving planet before Yoda decided to hide out there. He must have completely ruined the ecosystem, with being at the top of the food chain and able to eat anything he could get his hands on. It must have been a huge relief when Yoda died.

 

[Jeff]

I've read it's as bad as if it had been a human woman's eggs for in vitro fertilization.

I think I saw that same article - someone was arguing about unfertilized eggs vs fertilized eggs.  Another person compared it to eating unfertilized eggs like humans eat chicken eggs - whether that is "bad" or not depends on your opinions on veganism I guess.  it made me lol that some people have enough time to go on and on about a show like that.

One of my kids (daughter) was so sad that baby Yoda was eating Frog Lady's "kids".  One of my kids (son) was wondering if he was using the force (kinda like Matt said where the eggs looked like they were moving towards him maybe) and sometime later Baby Yoda's going to regurgitate the "saved" eggs.  I just thought it was supposed to be funny like a little kid stealing cookies from the cookie jar.

[Rob]

Couldn’t care less about the eggs thing, but I thought that episode was pretty boring and didn’t advance anything.

[Jesse James]

Chalk me up in the I just thot it was funny block.  I am frankly shocked adults flipped out over it being insensitive to people with fertility issues but hey, whatever. 

I just lold about him being a little bastard the whole time.  I have seen a couple speculations now that there is more to it tho too.

[Qui-Gon Jim]

Anyone in and/or past the toddler years can attest that BY's behavior was on brand for that age group.

I think this episode laid groundwork we are not aware of yet.