The Mandalorian Season 2, Episode 2 has finally been released on Disney+,
and with it we were taken to the icy world that we saw in the season 2 trailer and that many of
us have been speculating about ever since it came out. So I’m going to break down everything that
went down in the episode and how it connects to the other Star Wars TV series and films.
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To start off the episode, we immediately see Mando rapidly racing through the sandy dunes of Tatooine
with Boba Fett’s Helmet and jetpack from the last episode on board. Moments later however, he is
ambushed and flung off of his speeder, sending him tumbling to the ground and destroying the bike.
One of the tiny bounty hunters who did this immediately took the Child Hostage, holding
a knife to his throat. In order to save the child, Din Djarin offered the bounty hunter his jetpack,
but as soon as he took it, Mando pressed a button, sending him flying into the air,
and eventually back down with a crash, killing him.
After the child is brought back to safety, Mando begins his long stroll into Mos Aisley,
where he eventually finds his way into the very familiar cantina. Inside,
he meets up with Pelli Motto, the lovely woman who repaired his ship and looked after the child.
The woman is playing sabacc with a creature called Doctor Mandible,
who says he can give Din Djarin a lead to yet another Mandalorian,
if he covers his call for the game. Surprisingly, this creature was actually also inside of the
Cantina in Chapter 5 of last season, as Toro Calican was calling Din Djarin over.
The mando pays the creature’s call, and Pelli Motto eventually wins the game,
because of an “idiot’s array”. This is of course a reference to a hand
that could be played in Sabacc, but also the Solo: A Star Wars Story,
and the Star Wars Rebels episode that has the same name, featuring Lando Calrissian.
After the creature loses the game, Pelli Motto introduces a contact
who has a canister of her eggs, which need to be brought to the water moon of Trask,
orbiting the gas giant Kol Iben. This almost certainly rules out the planet from the trailer
actually being Mon Cala or Serelia from the Star Wars 2020 comics unfortunately. It is
still possible that they can’t make it to Kol Iben, so are forced to reroute to Mon Cala,
but Mon Cala is a significant distance away from Tatooine, so that is unlikely.
Interestingly, this Frog Lady was also in the Cantina during Chapter 5 of last season,
unless this was another member of her species who looks exactly the same!
The frog lady then also promises to bring Din Djarin to a new Mandalorian Covert nearby
if her eggs are safely transported, which of course, the Mando cannot turn down.
Awesomely, the frog lady is being voiced by the man himself, Dee Bradley Baker,
who of course voices Captain Rex and every other Clone Trooper in the Clone Wars series.
As the Mando is about to embark on his adventure, a pit droid first seen in the Phantom Menace
brings Pelli Motto some of the cooked Krayt Dragon meat, which they of course gathered last episode!
As the group board the razorcrest, the Child begins to have a weird fascination with the eggs,
and even uses the force to pull them towards him, inside of the jar before savagely eating
one of them. Really goes to show you that this Child is a completely blank slate, who will be
taking all of his morals and life advice from the Mando himself. Can’t wait to see how he evolves.
Following this, the Razorcrest is swiftly intercepted by two new republic X-Wings,
with one being piloted Trapper Wolffe, who of course is played by the man himself, Dave Filloni
and the other being played by Paul Lee. The Mando then awesomely attempts to end the interaction
by saying May the Force Be with you, but Once Trapper Wolffe realizes that the Razorcrest was
in the proximity of the New Republic correctional vessel from last season, Mando immediately flees
the area, beginning a massive chase. I think it’s awesome that Din Djarin knows the phrase “May the
force be with you”, but has no idea about the Jedi. That really shows you how much a myth they
had become and how effective Palpatine’s propaganda about the Jedi actually was.
Unfortunately, this results in the Mando crash landing brutally down on the ice
planet from the trailer, knocking everyone on board unconscious for a short period of time.
Because the Razorcrest obviously never went into hyperspace after leaving Tatooine, this of course
destroys all of the theories that we had after the trailer came out, that believed this was Ilum.
It is still definitely possible that we do see Ilum in the show because the Child or din Djarin
certainly need a weapon to take on the Darksaber, but now that becomes a lot more unlikely.
When the Mando wakes up, he finds the Child eating the eggs once again,
much to his annoyance. Following this, the frtog lady, who of course doesn’t speak galactic basic,
hooks herself up to the RA-7 Protocol droid from season 1’s vocabulator,
allowing her to speak with Mando clearly.
She quickly warns the Mando that they must urgently bring the eggs to the water
planet because it is the only planet that is hospitable to their species and even talks
down to him about the stories she heard about the Mystical Mandalorians. Because of this,
she absolutely panics, and rushes to a nearby hot spring, where she releases all of her eggs so that
the ycan grow. While this is happening however, The Child does something truly horrifying. He
eats a white ice spider whole… I wish that was all, but unfortunately this awakens the mother
spider and all of her children, sending them on a horrifically creepy chase through the ice caverns.
Noe these do looks very similar to the Kinraths from the Old Republic and unfinished clone Wars
episodes, but also the Kryknas from Star Wars rebels. Taking a look at the Ralph McQuarrie
concept art, which is the inspiration for the design of the Kryknas in Rebels,
these are the exact same creatures. Even the eggs surrounding the Krykna in the concept art are
the exact same ones that Baby Yoda ate from, and hatched once the mother awakened. Now maybe Jon
Favreau and Dave Filloni have simply created a new creature with a slightly modified design,
based on the same concept art, but these really could be the same Kryknas that took Captain Rex
Hostage in Rebels. They are missing the fangs on the Kryknas that we see on the
Rebel Base on Attalon in Star Wars Rebels, but maybe were initially the same species but soon
evolved in direct directions after being split up, and dropped on different planets.
So let me know down below if you think these really are the Kryknas from Star Wars Rebels.
Mando is eventually backed up inside the razorcrest with hundreds of these creepy
creatures crawling their way around the ship, until he is eventually able to successfully
trap himself inside of the cockpit, and keep the ice spiders away...for now.
And I don’t know about you guys, but this episode almost has the same feel as “The
Honourable Ones” from Star Wars Rebels, which is of course when Agent Kallus was stuck inside
of a deep crater on one of the icy moons of Geonosis with Rebel agent, Zeb.
The spiders then frighentingly make their way right to the child,
where one mounts his little green head, about to take a giant bite,
but, the Frog lady saves the day and blasts the spider with pinpoint accuracy.
As a last resort, the Mandalorian then frantically attempts to get the Razorcrest to lift off,
but is viciously held down by the ice spiders, putting him in an incredibly dangerous situation.
Luckily for him however, a mysterious figure begins blasting rapidly,
killing all of the ice spiders in quick succession, giving Mando a chance to
escape and investigate. When he exits the Razorcrest, he quickly discovers Trapper
Wolffe and the Other X-Wing pilot have returned just in time to save his life.
The Two X-Wing pilots then begin to list off the Mando’s long rapsheet
of crimes that he committed on the New Republic prison ship,
but quickly change their tone when they mention that he was seen attempting to stop the three
criminals and took action to save the life of the Man from the New Republic Correctional Corps,
Davan, who of course was played by Matt Lanter, the voice of Anakin Skywalker in the Clone Wars.
The pilots then tell Mando that he really should be in holocuffs right now,
but because of the reasons they already stated, they let him free,
but warn him that he must use a transponder next time he travels in New Republic space.
From this scene, we also get a cool little fact which is that the purple Twi’Lek prisoner,
Qin from last season actually had the prisoner code “X-Six-Nine-Eleven”.
Following this, we get another small little awesome easter egg,
with a slowed down version of the Resistance theme being played as Trapper Wolffe
and Carson Teva leave the area in their X-Wings. This is probably a small amount of foreshadowing
for the formation of the resistance not that many years down the line from where we are now.
And to end the episode, the Razorcrest bursts out of the ice caverns of the
planet and into the dark void of space, ready to fight another day.
This episode will of course be a two part episode, where next week we will definitely
see the continuation of this arc and also visit the Kol Iben, which was the original mission.
But let me know in the comment down below if you were happy with this episode or
underwhelmed. The episode was great, but I would of course love to see the plot pushed
forward much more quickly than this, especially with only 6 episodes remaining in the season.
So that is my full breakdown + recap of the Mandalorian Season 2 episode 1
“the Passenger”. Make sure you like the video and subscribe to be notified as soon
as I release my breakdown video for next week’s video, Chapter 11. Thanks so much for watching,
really hope you enjoyed the video. Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one!