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Old Friends, Deformed Clones, The child’s blood, and this amazingness…
Good Golly Miss Molly Chapter 12 was another excellent episode, an episode which dropped
some serious bombs and revelations on us. There’s a heck of a lot to discuss with
this one, so let’s dive into our top 7 baller moments from Chapter 12-The Siege.
Kicking off our list at number 7, Din and The Child working on the Razer Crest.
Guys, how freaking amazing and cute was the scene of Din trying to explain to the Child
which wire to plug in? When my man started speaking as if someone
was helping him fix the crest, Dani and I were both, like, “omg he’s got the child
working on the crest?!” We were so excited.
First off, adorable. Secondly, in what galaxy does Din think it’s
a smart idea to have a child mess around with wiring and electrical components?
Dani and I couldn’t help but smile ear to ear with this scene and chuckle along the
way. Little man getting zapped had me cracking
up. As hard as Din tries, he ain’t winning no
father of the year awards, that’s for sure. A+ job with this scene, though.
Din and The Child then have some soup and I thought, maybe, just maybe, we’d see our
homeboy without his helmet, but not yet. I definitely think this scene is setting us
up for the possibility that Din will start removing his helmet more frequently, especially
since he’s learned there’s more ways to live as a Mandalorian than just adhering to
the Way of the Mandalore and the rules of the Children of the Watch.
Din tells The Child the Crest won’t be able to make it to Corvus, since it’s in such
rough shape, so they’ll be making a pit stop on Nevarro,
Which brings us to our number 6 baller moment... The return of Marshal-Cara Dune-and Magistrate
Greef Kraga Before Din arrives onNevarro, we see Cara
Dune take out some Aqualish thugs that have holed up in the same area where the Mandalorian
covert was hiding in season 1. The Aqualish have made themselves at home
and even removed the giant Mythasaur Skull symbol at the entranceway to the armorer’s
area. That little creature Cara Dune befriends is
super cute. Seeing that little guy eat was great.
Din soon arrives on Nevarro and Cara and Greef greet him.
These two haven’t done so bad for themselves since we last saw them in Chapter 8.
Cara Dune is the Marshal of the City on Nevarro and it appears Greef Carga is the Magistrate
of the planet. Seeing that Mimbanese worker that Greef orders
to help fix the Razor Crest was pretty sweet. That species was first introduced in canon
in 2018 with the release of Solo. In legends, however, they were first introduced in 1978
in the legends novel Splinters of the Mind’s Eye as the Coway.
I also would like to add that Carl Weathers is the man. He’s done such a phenomenal
job in each episode he’s appeared in, and I loved the look of joy on his face when he
saw The Child. Weathers also directed Chapter 12 and I think
he did a solid job. On to our homegirl Cara Dune, who’s now
the Marshal of the City and has cleaned the place up quite nicely.
It’s no longer a haven for scum and villainy, and I love the statue of IG-11 in the middle
of the city. As the gang heads into the city, we see the
Mimibanese eyeing them up, hinting at the fact that this bastard is up to no good.
We then see the market is bustling, people seem happy, and they’ve even added a school
in the same building where The Client and the Imps met with Din, Cara, and Greef in
Chapter 8. Din then leaves The Child in the school, where
we get an excellent scene of The Child using the force to steal that kid’s macarons.
The Child is gonna eat Din outta house and home with that hunger of his.
We then arrive at our number 5 baller moment… Din, Cara, Greef, and the Fledgling Mythrol
prepare to clean up Nevarro for good. Our blue skinned homeboy from episode 1 returns
and we learn why Din was hunting him in the series premiere, our guy was embezzling and
stealing money. The mythrol tells Din that Magistrate Greef
is allowing him to work off his debt, which will take him 350 years to do so, and apparently
carbonite can mess up your eyesight, which, damn man.
Cara Dune explains that the City falls into a safe green zone, however, there’s still
an imperial base left on the planet that’s run by a skeleton crew.
Their hope is to get rid of the imps so that Nevarro could become a trade anchor for the
sector, but they need Din’s help, which he of course agrees to.
Taking us to our number 4 baller moment… The gang prepare to infiltrate the imperial
base The plan is to overload the reactor that powers
the base I love that Greef keeps knocking off years
off the Mythrol’s debt to get him to do things he very clearly does not want to do.
The interactions between these two were great. As the mythrol is breaking them into the lift,
Din uses his jetpack to fly up to the top of the base, tosses a stormtrooper off the
edge, and Cara Dune then drops a Dank Ferric. Once inside the base, the Mythrol points out
the Trexler Marauder, which is a similar type of K79-S80 Imperial Troop Transport, which
is a repulsorlift ground assault vehicle that we frequently saw in rebels, and actually
first appeared in canon with the Star Wars Rebels junior novel, Ezra’s Gamble.
They’re able to then make their way into the base, taking out imps along the way and
acquire a code cylinder, which they later use to access the reactor and compromise the
coolant line so that the base will be destroyed by lava.
Once the Mythrol takes care of the reactor, the gang stumble upon our number 3 baller
moment. The Child’s blood is being used to create
clones. I love the music that plays as we see these
deformed clones for the first time, It’s very reminiscent of the music that
plays while Sidious tells Anakin the legend of Darth Plagueis the Wise in Revenge of the
Sith We then see a holomessage from Dr. Pershing
describe what he’s been up to. We last saw Pershing in Chapter 3 in season
1, who very clearly had a kamino cloning patch on the sleeve of his jacket in that episode
Pershing explains that they’ve been using blood from a donor-by that he means the Child-
in an attempt to make clones, but the experiments have not gone well and they’ve depleted
the blood they harvested from the child in season 1.
The experiments he’s referring to are in reference to clones being developed as hosts
for Sidious’ essence. 100% has to be the case.
Aside from the music that plays, which again just points to Sidious, Dr. Pershing states
that the blood they acquired from the Child has a very high m-count, aka midichlorian
count. In the Rise of Skywalker Novelization, we
learn that many clones were made for Sidious, but, since his power in the force was so strong,
the clone body would rapidly decay, which is why he looked decrepit and was hooked up
to that machine in the film. What we’re seeing here is the development
of clones for Sidious and The Child is the key to developing them, because the experiments
require blood that has a high midichlorian count, which the child clearly has.
They need more of the Child’s blood to continue their experiments, because Dr. Pershing was
only able to harvest so much blood without killing the Child, and the supply has run
out. Talk about a goddamn bomb of a revelation.
Din and the gang have no clue about the magnitude of what it is that Dr. Pershing is saying,
but yeah, this is a huge revelation. We now know why Moff Gideon will do anything
to get the Child, which makes me wonder, at some point, will Sidious possibly appear in
this series in later seasons? Maybe and that’d be dope as hell.
The group also learns that Moff Gideon survived their fight and that the child is still in
huge danger, bringing us to our number 2 baller moment…
Get the Child and get the hell out of dodge. Din escapes the base first, using his jetpack
to bust out and make his way back to the city and get the child.
Cara, Greef, and the Mythrol, on the other hand, use that Trexlar Marauder from earlier
to get the hell out of there. After driving that Trexler Marauder over the
edge of the cliff the base is on, they’re hunted by stormtroopers on speeder bikes,
and then TIEs, before Din returnS in the Crest to help them out.
Seeing the Child’s happiness and joy as Din hunted down the TIEs, all while eating
space macarons was wonderful. And then little man spits up all those cookies
he ate, so good. The gang says their goodbyes and Din and the
Child begin to head to Corvus in the fixed up Razer Crest.
We then see our old Friend Carson Teva-the New Republic Pilot from Chapter 10 that let
Din go-has returned to get a report from Greef of what’s happened on the planet, and then
he speaks to Cara Dune, trying to convince her to join up with the New Republic, but
more on that in a moment. We then arrive at our number 1 baller moment…
Moff Gideon you old so and so, what are you up to?
After Din and The Child leave Nevarro, we see an Imp on a Star Destroyer receive a message
from that Minbanese from earlier, and we learn they’ve placed a tracking beacon on the
Razer Crest. Loved how the Imp tells the Mimbanese they’ll
be well rewarded in the New Era, referring of course to the eventual rise of the First
Order. The Imp then informs Moff Gideon that the
tracker has been placed on the crest, and we see that Gideon appears to have some clones
or droids or something for himself, which hmm.
Are these some kind of super commando stormtroopers, dark troopers or droids?
The imp in the room with Moff Gideon has a symbol on his outfit, which is the symbol
for the Imperial Dept. of Military Research, which
That organization was a military research organization within the Galactic Empire that
manufactured the armor used by Imperial stormtroopers, as well as the flight helmets worn by the
TIE fighter pilots. I’ll guess we’ll have to wait and see.
There is so much to digest with this episode. First, One of the things that I’ve been
thoroughly enjoying with this season is the hints that the show has been dropping about
the New Republic struggling to maintain order in the Outer Rim.
When the Republic was around, they too had trouble maintaining peace and order in the
Outer Rim, and that has only compounded for the very young New Republic.
Early in the episode, Greef makes a comment to Din about the Empire being unable to settle,
nor can the New Republic. At the end of the episode, our Boy Carson
explains to Cara Dune how the New Republic needs all the help it can get.
These little details help showcase that, even though the Empire fell, it’s not like the
galaxy went right back to how the Republic was before it was toppled by Darth Sidious.
The New Republic definitely had a hill to climb in rebuilding the galaxy following the
Galactic Civil War And roughly 4 years after the Battle of Endor,
we’re learning the New Republic is still slowly chugging along in that department.
I also don’t think it’s a coincidence that we’ve been getting these little nuggets
dropped about the New Republic struggling to maintain order in the same episode where
we learn that the child’s blood is being used to develop clones for Sidious.
Same thing in regards to when the Imperial officer refers to the New Era when speaking
to the Mimbanese. We’re seeing the foundations being laid
for Sidious’ return, for the rise of the First Order and the Final Order.
this episode did such a magnificent job in providing those seeds that will blossom later
in the timeline, resulting in the events that play out during the sequel trilogy.
An argument could be made that Gideon could also be experimenting with the blood of a
force sensitive for other nefarious reasons, but I’m going to say I think we’re seeing
the early experiments for the clones that will be used for Sidious.
I absolutely freaking love it, guys. I wouldn’t have ever guessed that season
2 of The Mandalorian would start dropping easter eggs that could potentially connect
to the sequel trilogy, and that would be so damn awesome.
Season 2 has been absolutely stellar so far, and this chapter was dope in so many ways.
Next week’s episode will be directed by Dave Filoni and its title is The Jedi, so
you know we’re in for an amazing ride in Chapter 13.
But what do you guys think about Chapter 12? And what’s the purpose of the clone experiments
Moff Gideon has Dr. Pershing doing? Let us know down in the comments.
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