So The Mandalorian is back and as always we're bringing you a big breakdown from
a galaxy far far away. In this video we're gonna be going over Season 3 episode 2 and
recapping all the easter eggs, plot details and things you missed. I just
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us go over over is Episode 2 and we begin on tattooine during the Boonta Eve celebrations.
We start off seeing fireworks being shot into the air and
celebrations like this of course happened at the end of Return Of
The Jedi after the second death star was destroyed. I'm pretty sure that this was
outlawed under imperial rule but The Hutts did control this sector until Boba took it over.
In the opening we catch two V-35 speeders racing through the streets and you might
recognise this vehicle as something that popped up during a New Hope. The
Boonta Eve Podcrace is something that we also witnessed during the Phantom Menace
with it being an annual event that took place during the celebrations.
Boonta Even itself came about when Boonta Hestilic Shad'ruu ascended to Godhood. This
Hutt was the first to do so and since then the anniversary of it has been marked by
this occasion. Also I love how we can catch this guy doing donuts in the opening, nice.
Anyway we are of course visiting Tattooine since Boba Fett took over and I think
it very much mirrors Nevarro and how that's became a more upper class area.
Now we find ourself returning to
Pelli Mottos...mmmm Drop a few bills then pop a few champagne bottles hmmm.
Anyway she's running a scam with some Jawas and as we learned when we last saw here she has a
furry fetish. The Rhodian that she's talking to is now also wearing upper class clothes,
resembling Greef Kargas glow up since he became the Magistrate.
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Sorry High Magistrate.
I think this is just put in place to once more hammer home how the economy
is thriving but Peli has used this opportunity to make even more money. In the hanger we can
catch her BD droid once more along with some Pit Droids who also debuted in the Phantom menace.
We can also catch a periscope droid and R5 who becomes a big character in the entry.
Turns out the Jawas have taken his engine and
they're basically stealing peoples stuff and selling it back to them.
Jawas are other creatures that I think might pop up from time to time and we
know from last week that they were the ones that gave Mando a piece of Mandalore.
He comes riding with a ship purring like a Nuzzle Shrew and we see as Grogu does a
Jedi flip out of the cockpit. This is something that he of course learned from
Luke who was trainign him in the ways of the force. Reminded me a lot of when
Yoda did it during attack of the clones and it's sort of like poetry they rhyme.
Peli brings up both Boba and then the Hutts with her asking if they're back. I totally forgot that
they left the planet in Book Of Boba Fett and I'll never forgive them for saying that the
Pykes scared them enough to leave. They, they ran the planet for centuries, what the f**k.
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I suppose there was a power vacuum after Jabba died but
either way the planet now belongs to Boba.
Anyway IG-11 needs a memory circuit but with the Jawas being unable to
provide one he ends up going to Mandalore with R5 instead.
This is to do some.
spelunking.
Which I thought might be a reference to Batman Begins.
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R5 is still completely bust up and incase you missed our last video
then this next bit is for you. So R5 was the same droid that Uncle Owen originally
tried to purchase all the way back in a new Hope. As he was going forward
his motivator bust up and on the back of him we can still see the oil leaking out.
Now there was actually a non canon comic that stated he was a Jedi and it said
that he actually self sabotaged so that R2-d2 could go with Luke and fullfill his destiny.
Here though we see the droid is scared to leave the hanger even though Peli insists
that it once fought for the rebellion. Personally I think that's all a lie and you could say that
when it comes to getting Mando excited to take him that he's a Bad Motivator.
Anyway because it's Boonta Eve Peli will give it to Mando for half price and throw in a free oil
bath. We've seen these before in the saga and C-3PO took one after Luke bought him and R2.
Now we cut to night time to see the celebrations
still going off and it's such a cool way to start the episode.
Titled The Mines Of Mandalore this sees Mando and Grogu next heading to...well you guessed it.
They arrive at Mandalore and Din Jarrin brings up how the planet used to be luscious and green. This
is the case too and like tatooine it was filled with tropical rainforests and rivers. However the
centuries of civil war decimated the planet and turned it into a barren wasteland. The mandlorians
also used to be sworn enemies against the Jedi but then a Mandalorian Jedi named Tar Viszla rose up.
Weilding the darksaber he united the people and this is why it has become such a precious item.
Out in space Mando also points out his home planet Concordia. At the end of the
Mandalore war this was turned into a mining base by insurgents which wiped out most of the moons
forest. Eventually these were abandoned though and the moon once more started to thrive until
the next Civil War. The winning side exiled the losers to the moon which is where they
remained. It was a bit like Australia when us Brits used to send prisoners there but
overtime they became far more civilised than our Aussie cousins ey, having that.
Concordia built up its own govenor and became
a prosperous place until further civil war fractured the alliances.
This idea of the Mandlorians constantly being at odds with each other is something
that Bo Katan touched upon last week but I can very much see her and Mando bringing everyone
together. They both represent opposites sides of the divide but if they can work
together then everyone can. Now that Mando has been quote unquote redeemed
in the living waters, I'm thinking that he could return and bring them together.
Mando also points out where Bo is at and he gives a lesson to Grogu.
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This foreshadows him having to reach out to her later on which we'll talk about in just a bit.
Now Mando has to travel through a storm to get to the surface and we learn that
the magnetic field around the planet has been disrupted by the fusion bombs.
First mentioned in the 1977 star wars comic issue 53 it's possible that these
weapons were also used during the battle of Mindor. They've completely f**ked the
planet and we can also catch giant green gem like structures now popping
out of the surface. This is made of the same material that the Jawa gave to Din
Djarrin and its clear that they visited it highlighting how the air is safe to breathe.
As they land we see several rocky formations and shoutouts to our editor
Matt for pointing out that these look similar to Palpatines throne on Exegol.
The destruction of Mandalore is also reminicent of the glassing
in Halo and it's transformed the planet to have this almost mirror like surface.
But something lurks in the the caves and crevices and after R5 stops responding,
Mando goes into investigate. As he jumps down we can also catch the Sundari which we
get a better look at later on in the episode. This was the capital of Mandalore and it was
destroyed during the night of a thousand tears. This was playing upon the night of broken Glass
which happened during the second world war in the ghettos against the Jews. The event completely
destroyed the Sundari and most of the planet leading to the wreck that we see it as here.
Now as Mando goes deeper underground he comes across several creatures and
these reminded me a lot of the Salt Vampires from Star Trek. I also got a lot of vibers
from Morlocks in The Time Machine and they add one of the many horror vibes to the entry.
Similar to them these humanoid creatures lived underground and attacked from dark
caves. Known as Alamites they don't stand up well against the Dark Saber but it's clear
that Mando still has a lot of difficulty weilding it. Bo on the other hand doesn't
because she's used the weapon before and has found the inner peace needed to do so. Mando
still feels at odds with himself due to not having bathed in the living waters
yet and it's possible that next week he may be able to weild the blade finally.
He and Grogu dive off the edge and into the lower parts of the city and this reminded
me a lot of the descent in Waterworld. We're very much traveling into a lost and forgotten
land that was once a thriving metropolis. You compare this to how it looked in Clone
Wars and the city is a shadow of it's former self now shrowded in darkness. It very much
juxtaposes Nevarro and tattooine and whereas they've thrived this place has gone to s**t.
All that is left though are creatures lurking
in the darkness and we come across several as they drop in.
I really loved the horror aesthetic that this takes on and it verymuch
becomes similar to Joseph Campbells heroes journey. That involved travelling into the
belly of the beast in order to go about a major transformation and this could
end up cementing the change Mando has with the darksaber next week.
Down there we can see several lizard like creatures lurking in the shadows and they
carry Green eyes similar to the Alamites. It's possible that the fusion bombing actually turned
their eyes like this but that might be a reach cos...we talk nothing but nonsense.
Anyway as he goes further in he finds a mandalorian helmet and when the first
trailer dropped many believed that this was Tar Viszlas. He was the mandalorian
jedi who crafted the darksaber and brought the people together. Hwoever that isn't the
case and instead it's bait so that Mando can get grabbed by a modified crab droid.
These machines were used by the Confederacy of Independent systems during the clone
wars and they were used heavily on soft terrain like sand and dirt like what we see here. It
carries Mando off and we get a similar shot to what happens in Gladiator when
Maximus is being escorted away. The droid carries a cage on it's stomach
and inside lies a biomechanical droid that's modified itself similar to general grevious.
I absolutely love the design of this creature and it has flashes of massifs,
frenzy from transformers and so on. There are yellow pipes on it's body and these reminded
me a lot of the ones that we see in Palps base at the start of Rise Of Skywalker. To me they
looked alot like snak skin and I love the design of this thing. The cyclops eye on it appearing
like it's left one throws you off balance a bit and it adds anohter dimension to the entry.
Grogu sneaks over to mando but he's unable to free him and Grogu force
flips out of there before returning to the surface. Like Ellie he's now out on his own
without his dad and we see one of the crocodile creatures lurch out at him revealing it's wings.
I think that this might be a slight redesign of the Pterosaur from the
Star Wars universe. They are also native to Mandalore and
pull from Dinosaurs like what this crocodile creature here looks like.
Now one of the Alamites goes to grab Grogu on the surface but he force pushes it like
it's the like button before the bat swoops in and attacks. As Peli mentioned earlier,
r5 has the ability to pilot the ship and thus Grogu just has to point the way.
This takes us to Bo Katan and I legitmately thought that she
was just gonna go out there and shoot him.
Was all like.
lets get rid of him once and for all
But nah upon seeing Grogu is on his own she's shaken out of her Apathy. Bo says that she wants
to be left alone but knowing how lonely this can be she heads out to Mandalore with him. At
this point we see her ship the Gauntlet which I think is one of the coolest crafts in Star Wars.
The Kom'rk fighter has a class one hypedrive and four laser
canons with the capabilities of both forward and backwards fire.
It cuts through the skyline and I love watched the view as it passes over the
destroyed Sunari. This is very much symbolic of how Bo feels at the moment and she's a shell of
her former self just like that is. She longingly stares at it and I love how you can see little
details on the wings such as them vibrating as they move through the air. When desinging the
concepts for the universe, Ralph McQuarrie wanted to give everything this lived in
feeling which I think is definitely hammered home in moments like this. Watching the ship
land just gives it this feeling of weight to everything and it's such a cool moment.
Nowas Bo and Grogu head in we watch R5 plug into the ship. This is a data port
and it's a similar thing that we've seen characters like R2-D2 and Echo access.
As they go closer in I also got a lot of vibes of the original krypton design in the superman
movies and this crystaline surface carries both a feeling of beauty and horror within it.
Inside Bo gets reminicent of her past and talks about how her family used to rule it all.
This is correct too as her sister was Satine, the Duchess of the planet. Due to all the civil
wars that had wrecked Mandalore she wanted to bring peace to the planet and she was
a pacifict. Many Mandalorians rejected this ideology though and eventually she
and the planet were pulled into the Clone Wars. Obi-Wan was besotted by her and at
one point he even admitted that he wouldve left the jedi order if she'd asked him to.
Bo says that she fought alongside the jedi
and this is something that we also saw throughout the show.
She and Ahsoka became allies after they started
off on the wrong foot and I'd love to see the pair reunited in the series.
Down here she encounters the Alamites and busts out her double pistols,
wire and also her shield. Known as a personal combat shield they are activated from the
Mandalorian vambraces and are capable of blocking blaster bolts and lightsabers.
She says that the Alamites used to live in the wastelands and that if
they survived they other things may have too.
This very much foreshadows the reveal at the end which we'll talk about in a bit.
As she heards further in we find the creature in it's lair. We dont
actually find out what its up to but it seems to be draining blood from him
and this could be being used to keep its tissue alive inside the machine.
It's clearly been draining several mandalorians
due to the helmets and it might work as sort of vampire parasite.
Now Bo launches her attack and though she cant use the force she pulls the darksaber to her hand.
She then stabs the creature and I got a lot of vibes of John Carpenters Thing when the head
came off the body and crawled away. No matter what part of that you killed it was always
able to keep going if another part survived and it ends up jumping into the crab droid.
This plays out kind of like a quick time event and by a small fire Bo makes him some Pawg soup.
I think this might mean Pawgs...and....urrrr my bad Luke.
She says grogus a good navigator and it's possible that all jedi carry this
innate ability due to being one with the foce. Luke managed to find dagobah and
navigate his way to Yoda instinctively and Grogu may have done the same thing.
I love how Grogu reaches out for the Pawg soup desperate for some and after he drinks it he
ends up getting up to go and get to the mines. Bo very much sees everything like
this as a pointless myth but come the end I think she starts to believe. She encounters
a literal mythosaur...and....yeah bit on the nose but it works.
Now they head out with the mines themselves echoing
the mines of Moiria from Lord Of the rings.
She says that the civil wars made them weak and
that she also grew to dislike the pacifists as both made them weak.
Bo also brings up her father Adonai. First mentioned in Build The Millenium Falcon he
was killed during the great clan wars which is when he was then succeded by Satine. Bo and her
story actually reminds me a lot of the myth of Anastasia who apparently managed to escape
the execution of the Russian Tszar. It was thought for some time that she got away and
I dunno if I'm reaching or not but I saw a lot of similarities in their stories.
Finally they reach the chambers of the living waters and Bo brings up how it
ties in with the history of Mandalore. Mandalore the great apparently tamed
the first mythosaur here and the beast then became their signit. These stories
are documented in ancient songs that you can find on the star wars wiki.
In another Lord Of The Rings reference we watch as Mando
is pulled under the water similar to how Frodo was by the watcher.
This is the second time Bo has had to save him from some water and she dives in after him which
is when she comes eye to with the giant mythosaur. It's such a cool way to end the episode with it
appearing almost like a Kaiju. Up until now they were thought to be extinct but clearly that was a
f**king lie. Similar to the curse the rumours of their deaths have been greatly exaggerated
and it leads to a number of possible routes that they could take things in the future.
Now personally I think that the Mythosaurs likely lay dorment on the planet and thus
the Mandalorians started to believe that they'd been wiped out. They'd been hunted
to an extreme and it makes sense that they'd retreat. However the bombings may have awakened
them and upon returning they couldve seen that the Mandalorians had been either killed and returned.
I very much view this scene as an awakening and it could
highlight what will happen with The Mandalorian next. Book Of Boba Fett
featured the titular character taming a Rancor and he rode this into battle.
I think a similar thing could happen in the series with Mando taming one
which is set up by the line in which Bo discusses mandalore the great.
If he masters that and The Darksaber then he would be a fearsome symbol
riding into battle that would echo some of the great Mandalorians of legend.
Him sitting on top of a Mythosaur weilding the blade would be such a
cool sight and I definitely hope that's the way that things go.
Now as for my thoughts on this episode, I thought this was way better than last
week and even though I enjoyed that one I think this one had a lot more style
and substance. You know I love my horrors and seeing this seep into the show was so
cool. The creature design at points was so good and it added an extra dimension
to everything. Always good watching Bo Katan busting people up too and though I initially
thought that they would be enemies I hink having them work together is way better.
Really strong episode and this is pretty much the episode 2
that I think season 2 shouldve had. Both were monster stores
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