He missed! He won't next time our blasters are useless against him. hey let's make
the baby do the magic hands thing.
come on baby do the magic hand thing!
I'm out of ideas.
I'm not.
Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my Mandalorian episode eight
video amazing episode but it's also the season 1 finale so I'll explain what's
happening next they're already in the middle of shooting season 2 right now
we'll break it all down be sure to subscribe to get all the videos if
you're brand new to the channel obviously careful for spoilers if you
haven't seen the episode yet we'll do top 10 and easter eggs as we go
along starting with number 10 the scout troopers who picked up baby Yoda are
heading back into town one of them is Adam pally who we met in last week's
episode he was the one that was trying to buy the Mandalorians helmet for 12
credits but I don't know if they did this in the last week's episode but the
other stormtrooper the one that has baby Yoda in the pouch is actually played by
Jason Sudeikis from Saturday Night Live you probably recognize his voice a
little bit and he probably seen him in a billion other things by now he was also
the one that bopped baby Yoda on the head when he started cooing really loud
they bring back that old but classic joke about stormtroopers not being able
to hit the broadside of a barn with their blasters even at point-blank range
they take a whole bunch of shots to that object on the ground and miss every
single time the thing I really appreciate about the way they pull this
joke off is the fact that neither one refers to how bad the other one is with
a blaster they just keep trying to hit it and failing they make a couple
references to Moff Gideon hurting his own men first with the death
troopers in last week's episode then just a couple moments later they also
say that he just got rid of another officer for interrupting him during his big
speechifying moment while he was talking to everyone inside the cantina that's
just a classic Darth Vader reference getting rid of your own officers at every turn
because they're incompetent or they interrupt you or they just piss you off
there are a couple more funny moments before IG 11 shows up baby Oda bites
Adam Polly's finger when he tries to poke it inside the bag the actual title
of the episode though is redemption that's a reference to IG 11 storyline
redeeming himself for trying to get baby Yoda in episode 1 and also the
Mandalorians storyline redeeming himself for his checkered past as a bounty
hunter so number 9 IG 11 springs into action to
save baby Yoda because it's part of his base programming to be basically a nanny
droid and take care of him he tells a couple jokes while he's busy wrecking
those scout troopers then he takes off on one of their speeder bikes with baby
Yoda back into town back in town Moff Gideon rolls out the e
web repeating heavy blaster to take them out inside the cantina that's
a reference to Empire Strikes Back that was one of the first times we actually
saw one of those weapons but they basically used this scene to narrate
everyone's full backstory reveal pretty much most of the secrets that you didn't
know before where everyone comes from the Mandalorian also reveals how he
knows who bought Gideon is so number eight everyone's backstories
starting with Kara dune we learned that her real name is Carasynthia Dune even
though she was a rebel shock trooper before that she is actually from
Alderaan so is blown up so that's probably one of the reasons why she
joined the rebellion we find out the Mandalorians real name is din Djarin Moff
Gideon also makes a reference to the siege of Mandalore the night of a
thousand tears that's an event that's going to be covered during the Clone
Wars season seven episodes that will air in February on Disney plus but the whole
thing here is the Dave Filoni who's an executive producer it has a lot of
creative control over the Mandalorian live-action series also did the Clone
Wars series so it makes sense that he would try to tie some of the events on
the live-action series with the animated series that's getting ready to premiere
and I will do Easter eggs for those Clone Wars episodes in February when
they do drop so just mark your calendars for that they don't say a whole lot
about greef cargas backstory they just say disgrace and magistrate but Carl
Weathers did say that they would get more into his backstory during season
two they're in the middle of filming that right now so we'll learn more about
him next season when they're trying to figure out what to do next Cara Doon
worries that she's going to be uploaded to a mind flayer that's one of the
creatures from rogue one that they connected to the Imperial pilot too it
just sucked the information right out of him but then as the Mandalorians starts
remembering the events of the Clone Wars and how Moff Gideon could have all this
information the fact that he was on Mandalore during the siege of Mandalore
he starts flashing back so number seven the Mandalorians flash back to the Clone
Wars in attack of the clones we get a much more complete version of his
flashback to his childhood in his village when the battle droids from the
separatists army come to attack they get his parents right after they stuff
him in that cell earth and just as the battle droid is getting ready to get
him another Mandalorian we don't know who it is it's just a random Mandalorian
comes to save him they start playing the Mandalorian theme song from the end of
episode 3 when the other Mandalorians from his clan came to save him it is
basically a version of that said in the past the Mandalorian that saved him
carries him off in his jet pack and he explains in present day what it is
to be a foundling and how he was raised by them I was raised in there fighting
court treated the same as any other Mandalorian and when I came of age I was
sworn to the Creed because this is the way this would have meant to be the
moment when he puts the helmet on you will never take this off in the presence
of another person although I know there's a lot of questions about this
because during the Clone Wars animated series in Star Wars rebels there are
Mandalorians that take their helmets off all the time
so I'm assuming that this rule started sometime after the events of those
series the reason why he remembers Moff Gideon makes that connection is because
he could have only gotten the information on his family name from
Mandalore when he says Gideon was a member of the IASB that's the Imperial
Security Bureau they're a law enforcement and security branch of the
Empire we saw a bunch of them in the white uniforms on Scarab when they went
to steal the plans for the Death Star number six IG 11 shoots his way into
town with baby Oda in tow to save everyone
baby Yoda just laughing the whole way through like he's super excited about
what's going on like oh yeah another adventure I get to go on I also love all
this is happening greef carga just keeps taking shots because they're still
inside the cantina there's still all that booze that wasn't blown up when the
death troopers blew a hole in the wall just needs a little liquid courage to
get him through the rest of the day RG 11 is able to distract the
stormtroopers just enough so they can get outside and start blasting them
themselves it turns into this big shootout remember the Mandalorian series
is inspired by classic westerns and samurai films so of course there's going to
be a big shootout in the finale the Mandalorian uses the same trick that he
used from Episode one there are a lot of callbacks to the first episode too
particularly because of what happens with IG 11s droid during the episode but
he does the same thing that he did with the giant quote-unquote Gatling gun from
episode one now this is Star Wars so they're heavy blasters but
metaphorically it's meant to be their version of an Old West Gatling gun so he
picks it up it just starts using it to mow through all of the other
stormtroopers you could kind of tell early in the episode that they're trying
to let you know that Moff Gideon isn't your typical incompetent stormtrooper
he's actually very smart so he knows to blow up the Power Cell to get rid of the
Mandalorian Early's disable him for a while they're trying to set him up as a
credible threat in the future so they don't want to make too much of a mockery
of him in this episode even though the Mandalorian is eventually able to take
him down his actions let you know that he is very calculating and smart
he is a survivor just like the Mandalorian is but he's hurt bad he
thinks he's going to die he won't let them take his helmet off because this is the
way but gives them his sigil Mandalorian pendants has give this to the other
Mandalorians tell them that I sent you they literally and metaphorically jump
out of the fire into the frying pan because Moff Gideon sends in a flame
trooper to just burn them out of the cantina but number five baby Yoda
saves them using the force he winds up barbecuing that flame trooper but then
he just completely passes out from the effort just because it took so much out
of him but he's back again pretty quickly but
that's the reason why he couldn't just Forge sealed the Mandalorian and it had
to be IG 11 with the bhakta spray they make a real big deal after everyone gets
into the sewer about him taking his helmet off I'm not a living being you're
not violating your Creed by letting me see your face in the only way we're
going to save you is if you do take that helmet off I think we'd all assumed that
we were going to see him without his helmet off before the end of the season but
initially I'd assumed that he would just do it for baby Yoda because the armor
kind of made it official that he's really baby Yoda's father for the time
being till he comes of age at least or they find other Jedi or other members of
his race that can care for him so within the rules of their Creed you are allowed
to take your helmet off with members of your direct family like if you're
married to someone or you had children you could take your helmet off in front
of them but to go back into the sewers Ninja Turtle style and number four big
he finds all of his former Mandalorian clan mates are dead their
helmets in a pile only the armor has survived although technically she did
say maybe some were able to get off planet it's really messed up like this
one belonged to jon favreau the member of the vizla family i believe his name
was paz vizla in the credits oh it just means he was a member of house vizla
which was a big callback to jon favreau playing the pre vizla character during
the Clone Wars so jon favreau himself played this character but I think part
of the idea of getting rid of some of these characters that it takes a crutch
away from them because if they can swoop in and save you anytime you need them
then it kind of takes some of the tension out of the episodes and also Jon
Favreau isn't going to show up in every single episode like they got rid of Taika
Waititi's character IG 11 because Taika waititi isn't going to be around to be in
episodes all the time in the future either so they get rid of them for
thematic reasons but also for practical reasons by the logic of the episode the
way the Armorer explains it the reason why they're
dead is because after the events of Episode three
they basically outed themselves Imperials are former Imperials found out
about it and they eventually came back to take care of them because the whole
concept of them being in the sewers as they were trying to stay off the radar
so that the empire wouldn't find out about them or the remnants of the empire
she meets baby Yoda formally and charges the Mandalorian with training him
protecting him and reuniting him with his own kind naming him a member of his
clan calling him a foundling just like the Mandalorian was when he was a child
in the fact that he's wearing that pendant at the end of the episode like
you know what you keep that you keep wearing that also kind of means like
they think of baby Yoda now is another Mandalorian they made a whole big thing
earlier in the episode saying that the Mandalorians aren't a race they're a
creed so any member of another race can become a Mandalorian as long as they
take that creed so was like saying that baby Oda is going to be another
Mandalorian you have to picture him with like a tiny little band delorean helmet
on his head and you betcha Disney is probably thinking about
merchandising a version of baby Yoda with Mandalorian armor on him the real
big thing that happens here though is that she gives him his signet he's
earned it because of his actions protecting baby Yoda and his new charge
in his mission to find his people if he couldn't make this out before it's
actually meant to be the face of the mud horn because as this giant horn on it
was just a reference to baby Yoda saving him and him saving baby Yoda but also
taking down this giant beast but that's what it's going to look like I'm sure
they'll start selling merchandise with that symbol on it pretty soon too as
they start to leave the last thing that she gives him is a shiny new jet pack
paying off the reference from episode 3 I gotta get me one of those the formal
name that she refers to it as is the rising phoenix you have trained in the
rising phoenix yes well you'll need to practice with it again or it will not
obey your commands they have a really badass fight scene with her later in the
episode just to let you know that she can back up all this hardcore talk that
she's spitting out she was also basically the leader of their clan and
because there's such a military marshal like society usually the leaders wind up
being some of the fiercest fighters there's a big episode 3 Revenge of the
Sith moose too far reference when they go to the lava flow the lava river that
takes them to outside I was a little disappointed that nobody
made a reference to the stormtroopers having the high ground there's another
r2 unit this is a fairy droid but they make a big joke about it being super
super tall because every time you see an r2 unit you'd expect it to be really
really tiny the number 3 IG 11 sacrifices himself using his self
destruct mechanism to save everyone it's another big callback to the first
episode because he tried several times during the end of that episode to blow
himself up I cannot be captured I must activate my self-destruct this is also
part of his Redemption like the title of the episode is Redemption so it's a lot
about what idea leaven does in the episode to redeem himself but the
Mandalorian is also redeeming himself too for his past even baby Yoda kind of
seems sad to see him go like he's watching it all this zoom in on his face
like I was only with you for a little while I understand that you used to try
to kill me but now I kind of care about you Moff Gideon shows up in his Thai
fighter to get them greef carga makes a joke about the magic hand thing can he do
his magic hand thing even baby Yoda kind of waves his hand a little bit
understanding what he's talking about the number two the Mandalorian uses his
new jetpack the rising phoenix to take down Moff Gideon's TIE fighter but it
was a badass takedown move you actually saw this scene during the season 1
trailer that's how far along they were in production when they released that
trailer they used this last couple of scenes to set up what the characters
going to be doing when we head into season 2 greef carga is going to stay on navaro
cara dune said that she's going to stay behind to to make sure all the Imperials
are gone he formally offers her membership in the bounty hunters guild
as his enforcer and says that when she does join he'll take care of her chain
codes so that there won't be a bounty on her head anymore the reason why there's
still a bounty on her head is because she's a New Republic deserter so they're
going to take care of that once she joins going to guild greef carga drops a sly
obi-wan Kenobi reference when he says all the scum and villainy are gone the
land was all about obi-wan Kenobi explaining Mos Eisley he says you will
never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy the Mandalorian says that
he's going to be busy trying to find other Jedi and members of Yoda's race to
take care of baby Yoda the way they talk about the Jedi during the episode with
the armor is kind of funny too because she makes references to them as
sorcerers that fought with the ancient great Mandalore they're talking about
the ancient Jedi wars with the Mandalorian people that was thousands of
years ago when the Mandalorians controlled
the planets in this sector of space called the Mandalorian sector it was
right down here a little bit further south in the galaxy cluster he buries
quill gives baby Yoda his sigil pendant or at least lets him keep it he finds an
item oh I never thought I'd see that again you know what you hang on to that
that's just another metaphor that baby Oda is now considered to be a
Mandalorian as per their Creed but then because you have to have that tag seen
at the end number one the darksaber ending scene
in the season 2 teaser so in the tag scene at the end the Jawas come to pick
apart Moff Gideon's TIE fighter just another callback to episode 2 when the
other jaw was on that other planet picked apart the razor crest but all of
a sudden he starts cutting himself out of the wreckage with the darksaber the
minute that it punctured right through the hole I knew instantly what that was
I was oh my gosh I can't believe they're actually doing a live-action version of
the darksaber finally because of what the Mandalorian revealed about Moff
Gideon's past in the siege of Mandalore I think it's assumed that Moff Gideon
probably stole that during the siege of Mandalore the last time we actually saw
it in an official Canon Star Wars series was during Star Wars rebels at the end
and it was Bo Catan Crees played by Katee Sackhoff who was uniting the
Mandalorian clans again that was all taking place before a new hope so
obviously I think the great purge happens sometime during the course of
the original trilogy so sometime between then in Return of the Jedi is probably
when Moff Gideon acquired the darksaber but I will do a separate video all about
the darksaber and all about season 2 stuff they're about halfway done filming
right now so we won't have to wait too long before they give us some footage if
you spotted any other big Easter eggs or references during the episode that I
didn't mention in the video just write them below in the comments and like I
said I will be doing the Clone Wars Easter egg episodes but those won't
start happening till February I'll just remind people when they drop another
trailer I'll be posting more Mandalorian this weekend more which are Netflix
videos while you wait for all that click here for my video about where baby Yoda
was during the rise of Skywalker and click here for all my Mandalorian Episodes
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