- [Dan Casey] Did "The Mandalorian" episode four's ending
reveal the shows endgame?
The fourth episode of "The Mandalorian" dropped
over the long holiday weekend,
and once again fans were overjoyed
by the antics of the wee baby Yoda
and his best scar-encased parental figure.
And while the outing itself might have been
a pretty standard adaptation of samurai and western troupes,
it seems that the ending may have revealed
the long-term plans for the season.
Now obviously there's going to be spoilers galore
for episode four of "The Mandalorian" up in this piece
so pause this video until you've watched the episode.
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So what happened?
Well, Mando and the wee baby Yod
are trying to lay low on a planet
in the middle of the galactic nowhere.
While there, they meet Cara Dune,
a formal rebel shock trooper,
who is also hiding out, and guess what,
it turned out this planet ain't big enough
for the both of them, tell you what.
However, the two eventually team up
after they're hired by some local villagers
who are under constant attack by raiders.
Raiders who are rocking
some seriously heavy imperial weaponry.
Specifically an AT-ST, aka, the "chicken walker".
Gah, that sounds so much cuter
than this murder machine actually is.
And side-note: While Mando and company
are eventually able to take down this walker,
it really shows how badass the Ewoks were
in "Return to the Jedi"
for taking out a couple of these bad boys,
along with a legion of the empires best troops
with basically logs and rocks.
But then again, they are a race of cannibal murderers.
But with the townspeople saved,
the Mandalorian thinks that maybe, just maybe,
he can continue his solo bounty-hunting ways
and leave the wee baby Yoda to be raised by a village,
because it's like they say,
"It takes a that."
But of course, it was not meant to be.
We see a lone bounty hunter
about to assassinate the poor baby Yoda
when they are thankfully
put out of their misery by Cara Dune.
Of course, the big reveal is that this bounty hunter
also has one of the many, many tracking fobs
that the Client handed out
to find and terminate the wee baby
so he wouldn't become a wee toddler.
And it's this detail that basically cements
what we can expect for this season's end game.
Here's what we think is going to happen.
Now even if they constantly move from planet to planet,
the Mandalorian and the wee baby Yoda will never be safe.
They're going to be hunted to the ends of the galaxy
as there's no place they can hide,
which basically means they're going to be on the run
until Mando circles back around, and resolves the fallout
with the Client once and for all.
Probably in some sort of giant showdown
like they have in every good samurai movie
and western, worth their crate-like salt.
- (spits) Salt.
- (Dan Casey) Before that happens though,
we're probably going to get more planet-hopping episodes,
where we'll meet Bill Burr and Ming-Na Wen's characters
who we have yet to see make their debut.
Plus, we wouldn't be surprised
to see IG-11 make his triumphant return,
since Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi's
going to be helming the final episode of this season.
And considering Taika did the voice work
for this bounty-hunting droid,
well you're just leaving credits on the table.
But in the end, we expect that all of the hyperspace lanes
are going to lead back to the Client and Dr. Pershing,
because the Mandalorian's big plan of laying low,
kicking back, and finding some nice people
to raise this strange Yoda baby,
has been completely trashed.
With all the tracking fobs out there,
as we saw with the bounty hunter at the end of episode four,
it's crystal clear that this guild is never going to stop.
Now it's also worth mentioning that in the third episode
of "The Mandalorian", it's revealed
that the Client and Dr. Pershing
might be working for a mysterious third party.
We suspect that this third party is going to be
Giancarlo Espisito's Moff Gideon,
and his shiny death troopers.
But it could also be another secret baddie
waiting in the wings for season two and beyond.
Either way, we're going to find out why
they want the wee baby Yoda dead or alive.
Which means we're going to finally be getting
some concrete answers about the wee baby Yod,
and its wee baby species, a first for Star Wars,
as all of this information has been tightly guarded
by George Lucas, shrouded by secrecy for decades.
In the end, it's comforting to know that this show
will have an actual massive impact
on the greater Star Wars galaxy far far away, as a whole.
But the question we have, is whether or not
teenage Yoda is going to show up 30 years later
in December's "The Rise of Skywalker".
Who knows, is he going to have a little wallet chain
attached to his lightsaber?
Maybe he's going to have some,
I don't know, frosted tips as a real way
to rebel against his parents.
He's just going to have,
they're going to be poking out the top
of his little baby Mando helmet.
Who knows?
Maybe he's going to go to prom unchaperoned,
you little scamp.
But what do you folks think?
What do you think the season's final showdown will be?
What do you think Moff Gideon's plan
for the wee baby Yoda will be?
And will we actually get to see the Mandalorian
without his helmet this season?
Let's discuss.
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