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welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my Mandalorian episode for
video there was all kinds of Easter eggs so we'll break it down if you're new to
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have not seen the episode yet so we'll do top 10 and easter eggs as we go
along starting with number 10 the title and the inspiration for the episode so
the episode was titled sanctuary it was meant to be in episode where they go on
vacation for a couple of months as you would expect things do not go as planned
but the episode itself is based completely on the plot of Seven Samurai
you could also say magnificent seven but Magnificent Seven was kind of a remake
of Seven Samurai and a little bit of hidden fortress most longtime Star Wars
fans will recognize that those Akira Kurosawa samurai films were the basis
for the original Star Wars trilogy so they're going for some really deep cut
ester eggs here the episode did a great job of showcasing just how much they can
do with that baby Yoda puppet on set practically they use a little bit of
special effects to sweeten it but for the most part it's a practical puppet
that they use on set there was also an episode of Star Wars
the Clone Wars that did this exact same plot from this episode called bounty
hunters but Dave Filoni ran that show Dave felonio so works on this show with
Jon Favreau so no surprise that there's always a lot of Clone Wars Easter eggs
and episodes if you've never watched those samurai films Seven Samurai is
basically a group of samurai that are hired to protect a village that have to
teach the village how to defend itself against a group of Raiders but number
nine the episode begins on the village on a planet called sore again which is
brand new to Star Wars they created it for the TV show the villagers are mostly
farming krill to sell to the local market it's used to create those blue
drinks that you see them drinking later in the episode in those vats if that
wasn't clear the leader of the village is O'Mara
you probably recognize her from Westworld season 2 or maybe the Twilight
movies there's a big callback to the baby Yoda joke with him eating the Frog
when her daughter tries to catch one and fails they pay it off later in the
episode when baby Yoda teaches them how to catch it like a ninja
their village is rated by a bunch of creatures from Klaatu Wien if you're not
familiar with that planet those aliens actually showed up a little bit in the
original trilogy and back an attack of the clones but you haven't seen them a
whole lot before number eight back on the razor crest things were a little
more chill baby Yoda won't stop playing with all the buttons in the cockpit and
the Mandalorian starts yelling at him you start to get a better sense for his
level of intelligence in his personality when he knowingly starts messing with
the Mandalorian by flipping the buttons after he tells him to stop he's like a
little kid who won't stop messing with the door lock buttons or the window
controls on a long family car trip but when the Mandalorian was weighing his
options for a place to hide out for a few months it's a lot like the scene of
Han Solo trying to find a place to hide out from the Empire after they fled Hoth
and Empire Strikes Back and just like an empire Darth Vader finding them at Cloud
City the same thing happens to the mando and baby Yoda on sorg on the bounty
hunters start to find them he drops a big easter egg for a new hope when he
calls baby Yoda a little womp rat later in the episode he tries to get
bull's-eyed by a womp rat by one of the other bounty hunters - the thing about
womp rats though is that they're local to Tatooine which implies that the
Mandalorian has been to Tatooine before for those of you wondering if they'd
ever travel there on the series we haven't been there yet on the
Mandalorian and they're mostly going to new planets but don't be surprised
because Tatooine is also in the Outer Rim territories because most of the
episode was them in chill mode they also used it as an opportunity to show you
how much baby Yoda is mobile and could go around by himself most of the time
we've only seen him being carried around in that bassinet or carried in the
Mandalorians arms but he's deceptively intelligent and almost seems like he has
teleportation powers with the way he just shows up magically behind the
Mandalorian anytime you're not watching him number seven inside the alien
cantina there's a huge Star Wars rebels Easter Egg you all probably recognized
when baby Yoda is walking around just taking in all the sights
everything looks huge to him because he's so small he passes by this giant
cat whose mouth is bigger than his entire body
that's called a Loth Cat it's local to Lothal all from the Star Wars rebels
series that's where most of that series took place and speaking of Star Wars
rebels and Star Wars Clone Wars stuff showing up on the mandalorian series
remember all that stuff happened way back before the original trilogy
this is happening after the original trilogy but Dave Filoni himself implied
that we would be seeing characters from those original series Clone Wars and
rebels showing up on the Mandalorian in live-action form he didn't say which
characters but obviously it's going to be different for every different Disney
plus live-action series so for instance the obi-wan series is going to take
place between Episode three in Episode four where ahsoka is much younger it's
much more possible for her to show up on that series than it is for her to show
up on the Mandalorian number six the Mandalorian versus Cara dune we meet
cara dune Gina Carano's character you all probably recognized her instantly
she's been doing press all year for the show they've been hyping her up as one
of the big characters of the new series we learn about some of the special
tracking technologies that the Mandalorian has built into his helmet
when he goes to find her thinking that she might be there for them there's
probably a whole bunch of other secret weapons that he has built into his suit
that we'll see in future episodes but they wind up throwing down Gina Carano
mostly known for being an MMA fighter before she became an actress so of
course they cast her and they're going to give her a big fight scene I was hoping
that there would be some masters of Terra Cotta reference just because it's
such a deep cut but they mostly just brawl the Mandalorian tries to use his
flamethrower again he really really likes that flamethrower he's used it in
every single episode but then baby Yoda shows up like a ninja slurping on his
soup to break the tension do you want some soup we learned a little bit about
Cara doones backstory she says she's an ex rebel shock trooper who was cleaning
up Imperials after the Battle of Endor when she named drops going after ex
Imperial warlords those are basically the generals in the admirals left in the
appear old fleet after the Empire or the remnants of the Empire fled to the outer
rim to become the first order that'll be important for later in the series
because Giancarlo Esposito is playing someone who used to be an imperial moth
who was in charge of an entire sector the sector that they're flying around in
now on the Mandalorian series then number five we get our big Boba Fett
Easter Egg when the two villagers ask him if he's not a Mandalorian and he's
just wearing their armor that's actually an Easter Egg for Boba Fett and Jango
Fett neither one of them were actual Mandalorians just people who wore
Mandalorian armor he kind of explains their logic later in the episode part of
their code is that they never take their helmet
off or else you can't put it back on that's basically your sign that you're
quitting being a Mandalorian and if you go back and you watch Attack of the
Clones you see Jango Fett walking around through most of that movie without his
helmet on there are a couple exceptions to when they can take their helmet off I
don't know if he's taken it off in the presence of the kid yet but I'm assuming
that he will do that before the end of the series Mandalorians are also allowed
to take their helmets off in the presence of their significant other
someone that they're married to or made it to for life or their children that's
why I think the big payoff at the end of the season you know us maybe see him
take his helmet off will only be for the kid but the two bumbling villagers that
come searching for the Mandalorian is a bit of a hidden fortress Easter egg and
it's also a big callback to r2d2 and c3po taking the perspective of two low
level characters to get across a whole bunch of exposition they go back to the
village there's a couple funny moments with the kids playing with baby Yoda and
then eventually Cara Doon in the Mandalorian go and find that the Raiders
have an AT-ST and try to call things off the villagers aren't having it so number
four they train the villagers to fight this is really where you get to the
Seven Samurai montages during the film preparing the village for this big
Raider attack the Mandalorian arms them all with weapons from the razor crest in
surprise their leader Omera is a crack shot they imply that there's some secret
history that she has on the show some crazy backstory that they're not telling
you Cara Doon drops an Empire Strikes Back
reference talking about damaging the legs of the AT-ATs then they said they
have to set a trap for it this is also a big reference to return of the Jedi
where you have a bunch of low tech people like the Ewoks trying to fight a
bunch of high tech Imperials number three the Mandalorian and Cara doon
versus the Klaatu in Raiders they take out a giant chunk of them but they
weren't there to kill all the Raiders they were just there to get them all
riled up so that they would follow them back to the trap that they had laid at
the village when they blow up the tent with that charge and all those big vats
that's basically them blowing up all of their beer so to speak so yeah that
would definitely piss them off the special effects for the a AT-ST were
great my only disappointment with all those scenes is that you never actually
got to see inside the cockpit of it like you would see inside Empire Strikes Back
my guess is is that just for budgetary reasons maybe in a future season they'll
go for full-blown AT-ATs at some point number two the big fight at
the village taking down the Imperial Walker
it was actually a pretty decent fight scene for being so short but like I said
the whole thing here is that it's meant to be a reference to the Ewoks fighting
the Imperials during Return of the Jedi so they're not meant to be really
amazing fighters after they defeat them the Mandalorian decides he's going to
leave baby Yoda with the village and they kind of play it like maybe he's
considering staying for a brief second but it's only halfway through the series
and we know there's going to be a season two so of course he was never going to
stay at the village there's a little bit of chemistry between him and the woman
O'Mara and he explains that if he takes his helmet off he can never put it back
on again you learned a little bit more about his backstory during this episode
like he says I was about their age the little kids when I put the helmet on for
the first time the Mandalorians took me in and they were good to me that also
lets you know that you don't need to be born into one of the Mandalorian clans
to become a Mandalorian but number one the new bounty hunter almost kills baby
Yoda right as he gets the kid in his crosshairs they cut it so that you don't
quite see what happens but you hear the blaster shot so you do wonder if he's
dead for just a second but then you get the reveal that Cara Doon got him from
behind it's also a bit of a callback to him calling him a womp rat bullseye womp
rats in the t16 young Luke Skywalker on Tatooine would be proud the Mandalorian
realizes that he has to take the kid with him because not only will he always
be in danger his presence in the village will also endanger all these people they
make for a second like he's going to offer Cara Doon a spot on his crew but then
they go their separate ways saying until we meet again which will
probably be in season two because Cara Doon Gina Carano was posting pictures
from behind the scenes while they're filming season two a couple weeks ago
they've been a couple faints where you think that he's going to take new crew
members on but if you think about it there's really only space for two two
and a half people inside that cockpit including baby Yoda so it's not like
he's going to be flying around with a giant crew like you would see on the
Millennium Falcon in the original trilogy the synopsis for Episode five
next week just says that he's going up against a rookie bounty hunter so that
might wind up being bill burrs character yes bill burr is playing a character on
Star Wars the Mandalorian but have you spotted any other big Easter eggs that I
didn't mention in the video just write them in the comments below I will be
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