Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my Mandalorian episode 7
video so much stuff happened there was a bunch of Easter eggs so we'll break it
all down there's also a change to the schedule again with next week's episode
episode 8 will be the finale so be sure to subscribe to get everything also
start talking about what's going on with season 2 when we get to next week they
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to do to enter is be a subscriber and leave your best finale theory on the
video so 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 title
of the episode the reckoning so it's mostly a reference to the reckoning for
the mandalorian because Moff gideon is finally here Giancarlo Esposito is
character and things are looking very very bad for the mandalorian and his
crew and baby Yoda by the end of the episode since the events of episode 3
when the mandalorian took off with the help of the other Mandalorians things
have gotten way worse on Navarro we get more back story on that planets history
- in its role in the Galactic Civil War between the Empire and the rebellion but
grief carga sends a message to the Mandalorian offering him a new bounty an
opportunity to earn some money and clear the air between them to some easy cash
to help get rid of the Imperials obviously it's way more complicated than
he lets on so number 9 welcome back Cara dune because the Mandalorian doesn't
trust great carga anymore he goes to get some backup she's back on sore again
where he left her the planet from episode 4 with a village of krill
farmers that they helped when they did their Seven Samurai
inspired story she's been keeping herself busy brawling with the locals
mostly for fun because the xab rack that she winds up defeating later sort of
passes by gives her her credits for her win she says thanks come again like it's
a regular thing for her beating up people in the tavern her big reason for
not wanting to jump back into the fight is there still a bounty out on her head
from the New Republic because technically she's a deserter but she's a
former rebel shock trooper so she has crazy good skills that he needs in this
situation the thing that turns her around on it is when he says they're
going up against X Imperials who she hates just as much as the Mandalorian
hates droids it just imply that she lost a lot of her friends during the Civil
War to the Empire so this is just another opportunity for her to stick it
to them and most of you probably saw earlier
they kind of explained why the mandalorian hates droids so much is
because the separatist droid army rolled into his town where he grew up as a kid
killing his parents and the rest of the village most of you will recognize that
the zabrak is the same race as Darth Maul although his tattoos are nearly as
crazy as Darth Maul's and obviously his skin is a different shade but that's
just a normals zabrak he's not sis or anything like that in the tattoos that
they wear aren't just sith at ooze they're part of their culture so most
SAP rack if not all them have tattoos like that but the tattoos themselves are
all unique to each different person speaking of tattoos they also reference
Cara Dune rebel tattoos identifying her as a rebel shock trooper later in the
episode you might want to cover that up we're heading into Imperial territory so
it's going to get pretty dicey one of the funnier things to earlier in the episode
when it's just the two of them is that you notice baby Yoda poking his head
around while they're talking it reminded me of that scene during Empire Strikes
Back when Luke Skywalker first lands on Dagobah
there's also another Dagobah reference later in the episode that I'll explain
in a second but it's the funny scene where Luke Skywalker spins around and
Yoda's there and he says it feels like we're being watched
so there are several times in the episode where baby Yoda makes it seem
like he knows way more than he's letting on remember he's 50 years old so a lot
of people are kind of confused as to how intelligent he is because you would
think something that's 50 years old knows way more than an actual baby
because of the way his race ages it's kind of open to interpretation
he's basically a child by the standards of Yoda's race but because he's been
around for 50 years he probably knows more than a typical baby would something
that's really relevant to that too is when he grabs the flight stick controls
and starts messing around with the ship it almost like he senses that something
really bad is happening they're heading into a dangerous situation and he's
actually trying to take them somewhere else like no don't go I've got a really
bad feeling about what's going to happen we need to go somewhere else the way
mando and Cara Dune play it he's just a mischievous child somebody needs to
watch him or he's going to get himself into trouble but I think the kid was actually
trying to take them somewhere else knowing that they're heading into a
really bad situation so number eight welcome back eggnog who will they go
back to recruit him for help and taking care of baby Yoda during the trip the
andalorian mentions he thinks that baby Yoda is a strand cast now that's not
something that's been mentioned in Star Wars canon before but they're basically
referring to something created in an artificial gene pool as in something
that you cast create with strands of DNA I think this is also a reference to the
plans that Moff Gideon has for the kid using his DNA with dr. Pershing in the
cloning facility at Caminos helped to create a super army of clones that are
force sensitive and easily controllable Kuiil mentions the site okay is of Nora
those are also just a new location they created for the purposes of this episode
where they also do genetic engineering so there were several references to
genetic engineering in the episode talking about baby Yoda so I think
that's just giving you an idea for what's really going on with Moff
Gideon's plan we also get quills full backstory he says he was sold into
indentured servitude in the empire during the course of the original
trilogy and paid off his clans debt to the empire earning his freedom after
which he came here he hated working for the empire but he was forced to serve
and he did it to help his people the big we also learned that he found in
reprogrammed IG eleven Taika Waititi comes back as that character even though
it feels like the biggest twist from his character is to come during the finale
but he's basically a helper droid now he's not a hunter anymore as he explains
but he does have really good defense capabilities they have a big long
montage with a couple funny moments of him having to reteach him everything so
he became this complete blank slate and IG 11 becomes a metaphor for baby Yoda
so number 7 the parenting lessons in baby Yoda foreshadowing when quill is
giving his big speech about rearing IG 11 back talking about how droid aren't
good or evil they're just measures of the imprints that people put on them so
they're whatever you make them which i think is a metaphor for the Mandalorian
and baby Yoda baby Yoda could swing evil or good depending on who raises him and
those values like we could actually genuinely wind up with a sin of baby
Yoda should the Empire in moth Gideon get their way and then to reinforce that
idea number 6 something something something dark side baby Yoda
he totally forced chokes Cara Dune when she in the Mandalorian her arm wrestling
thinking that she's attacking him mando rushes to tell him no no no she's
a friend please stop and it seems like baby Yoda doesn't totally understand
what he was doing was wrong he's like oh I thought you were in danger I was just
trying to help you who will kind of lets on that he knows
what's going on with baby Yoda even if he doesn't totally understand the force
he's one of the few people that's actually talked about Jedi or force
abilities in any kind of way but they don't directly reference the Jedi or the
Sith but then number five back to Navarro in the bog wings attack so they
meet with Greek carga and his bounty hunters one of these is actually a weak
way just like Hondo from the Clone Wars to that you probably recognize when
Greek carga talks about baby Yoda he makes a reference to a little bog wing
the bog wings are those giant raptor like creatures with wings that
attacked them around the campfire just a little while after this they're native
to Naboo and Dagobah another reference so calling him a little boggling
Dagobah member of Yoda species just a nice reference to Yoda himself from the
classic trilogy but just to be clear even though he's calling him a little
bog wing and that is a Yoda reference baby Yoda isn't actually a version of
original Yoda he's just a member of Yoda's species so that's why we call him
baby Yoda we're not calling him the literal Yoda he's just a member of his
race grief carga does the one thing that you never do in a situation like this he
says everything's going to be fine we'll totally be Kuiil right before the bog
wings attack they carry off two of the Borg's so press F in the chat to pay
your respects for them but then huge twist baby Yoda force heals grief carga
paying off that moment from Episode two when he almost healed mando before he
stopped him he's using the force to not only get rid of the poison but close the
wounds if you're not familiar with this particular force ability it's actually
something from the legends expanded canon so it's not something that we've
seen in the movies or the TV shows before it doesn't seem like it drains
him quite as much as it drained him when he was lifting the mud horn because
later in the episode you seen with his eyes open when they're running back to
the razor crest so he's not completely passed out for the rest of the episode
but number four the new Imperials so Greek carga double-crosses the bounty
hunters they go back to town and we see scout troopers for the first time on
this series on their speeder bikes nice callback to Return of the Jedi the one
that offers to buy Mandalorians helmet for 20 credits is actually played by
Adam Pally who you might remember as this guy from
Iron Man 3 or from Happy Endings he's done a bunch of character work on TV so
you probably seen him somewhere almost everything that comes out of
Werner Herzog's mouth in this episode every sentence he utters is worthy of
its own meme he also gives us way more backstory on what happened to the
Mandalorians during the great purge that they keep referring to during the series
why did your people resist the Empire's expansion their home planet of Mandalore
has been occupied by different governments throughout history a couple
different times but recently it sounds like what happened during the original
trilogy is that the Empire officially wanted to take over and bring them into
the Empire they didn't want to have anything to do with that and that's what
led the Emperor to call his own version of order 66 on the Mandalorians we get a
little teaser for Moff Gideon Giancarlo Esposito 'he's character when he takes
the call please don't think me rude I got to take this Skype call with my boss
so it kind of makes it seem like he's been working for him off Gideon this
whole time they give you an idea for how much sharper he is than Werner Herzog's
character to because he instantly senses that they're being double-crossed by the
Mandalorian & grebe carga oh really he brought the child you might want to
double-check on that any kind of chuckles do himself and then continues
to smile while he watches them gunned down Werner Herzog's character like he
expected this to happen so number 3 the Mandalorian kills Werner Herzog's
character it's almost unceremonious but everything just kind of erupts into
chaos so there's a nice quick action scene bridging to a much bigger action
scene and big ending to the episode but as all the Imperial reinforcements
start rolling in number two the scout troopers capture baby Yoda and seems
like they get Kuill's character and his blergg
but remember IG 11 is still fully functional and waiting back on the razor
crest to swoop in and help them out in the finale in number one probably one of
the best moments of the episode next to Darkseid forced choking baby Yoda
Moff Gideon descends from on high in his regular TIE fighter
revealing himself as the real big bad of the season so if it wasn't clear he's
been pulling the strings this whole time he's been the person behind Werner
Herzog in all the efforts to find the child they have a really Kuiil special
effects scene of them showing you what it looks like when a regular tie fighter
lands he's wearing a slightly modified beefed-up version of a tie pilots
uniform but the black gives you some Darth Vader vibes because
he's wearing a cape which isn't super common for Imperials so anytime you see
someone dressed in all black armor wearing a black cape you're meant to
think of Darth Vader and here's a really important thing too there's a lot of
people that thought this person at the end of Episode five with the Spurs in
the Cape was Moff Gideon it's not because listen here when he walks in his
boots don't make any kind of sound he's not wearing any Spurs or anything like
that so we couldn't have been him we'll have to find out who that is hopefully
in the finale I don't know why they would tease that and then not paid off
in the finale but he starts evil guy monologuing about the true importance of
baby Yoda I've already done a couple videos about my theory what their big
plan is like I said creating an army of super clones using his DNA that are
force sensitive and also have longer lifespans because he lives so long
naturally big reminder that episode 8 will be next Friday like normal this
episode just came a couple days early because rise of Skywalker is hitting
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