Ever seen one of these from years past strike me down with all of your hatred
and your journey towards the dark side will be complete
Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my new mandalorian season 2 video for grogu
in the darksaber there's a very important reason why they have that scene they're foreshadowing a
lot of big things for later this season in the finale but also the path that he's on for the
future seasons as well as well as what's happening with the darksaber in future seasons is obviously
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to enter is be a subscriber and leave all your theories about the darksaber and grogu on the
video careful for spoilers for everything that happened during the episode even though it was
one of the shortest episodes of the season they still pushed the plot forward in a really big way
but the episode ends with moff gideon taunting grogu in that scene with the darksaber asking
him if he remembers it from years past referencing his time training on coruscant at the jedi temple
before the clone wars order 66 in the events of the original trilogy of movies so not only
is it cool that grogu recognizes the darksaber like he reaches out for it this also lets you
know that moff gideon knows more about grogu's own history than the show has led on previously
giancarlo esposito did an interview kind of hinting at grand admiral thrawn's connection to
all this saying that he had some sort of really amazing information source feeding him all this
during the series here's the weird thing though he doesn't refer to grogu by name even though he
probably does know his name he just calls him the asset but i think that just feeds into the
idea that he only sees grogu as an asset in his grand plans like he's not a person he's just an
object to be exploited this is kind of his default mode of operation as we've seen is another way of
just baking a lot of darth vader references into his villain character a lot of darth vader themes
vader never cared about any of his subordinates or anyone around him they were just tools to be
used in pursuit of whatever his objectives were in any given scenario most of the time when you
look at easter eggs and references like this they're more for comedic value like all the
memes of darth vader choking his subordinates out congratulations next guy you just got a promotion
that's why moff gideon pauses to stop his men from saving the other stormtroopers from grogu
when he's using the force to just wreck them all over the prison cell he even seems like he enjoys
all that violence coming off of him everyone post all your emperor palpatine memes good do it let
the anger flow through you i've already mentioned the obvious darth vader princess leia referenced
during this prison scene of him interrogating her on the death star but the scene also takes a very
return of the jedi luke skywalker turned when emperor palpatine was trying to turn luke to the
dark side by having him give in to his anger he wanted luke to try and kill him knowing that by
doing so he would one fail because darth vader was there to stop him and the emperor is super
powerful but even if he did fail it would be like his anakin skywalker tuscan raider moment when
he went around killing all the tuscan raiders it wouldn't immediately make him a sith but by giving
into his anger like that doing something so messed up it makes them temporarily much more powerful
just giving in to that much emotion it makes it kind of euphoric and it makes it much more likely
for them to react in a similar way the next time they're faced with an impossible situation like
the next time a bunch of stormtroopers try to force grogu to perform tests and take his blood
samples he's much more likely to give in to hate and start tapping into the dark side of the force
instinctually to save himself but talking more about the darksaber history and grogo's history
in the jedi temple even though he recognizes the darksaber during the prequel era of movies
even though it was widely known it was widely documented in most of the years leading up to the
phantom menace in the clone wars the blade mostly rested with john favreau's pre-vizila character
he was the leader of the death watch mandalorians from clone wars they were also featured during the
mandalorian season 1 episode 8 in that flashback scene notice the symbols on their shoulders
that's the death watch crest they're the ones that save mando that's why bo katan says you're
a child of the watch because they're referencing the death watch mandalorians to be fair bo katan
was also a member of death watch for a little while too just for a hot minute the reason why he
had it is because it was created by their family's ancestor tarre vizsla over a thousand years ago he
was that first mandalorian to ever go to the jedi temple and formally become a member of the jedi
he's the mandalore the great that they keep referring to during season 1 when the armor
is talking about mandalore the great like bo katan wants to name herself the new mandalore eventually
tar vizsla after he became a jedi and created the darksaber came back to the planet mandalore
named himself mandalore and united all the mandalorian clans there have been force sensitive
mandalorians before who just went untrained he was just the first one to actually go through
jedi training formally may the force be with you they sort of get into this when ahsoka tano is
talking to mando about grogu and the dangers of the dark side during episode five there are many
many different force sensitive people in the galaxy that just go untrained they never learn
about their abilities or their abilities are so weak that they never really think about it
so when ahsoka tano is saying that it's safer not to train grogu and let his powers wane
eventually if grogu were to go long enough without using the force he'd just forget how to perform
the most common abilities he'll still always have that same potential for power it's not like his
midichlorian count is going to change or anything like that just get technical but it's just like a
skill that you have to learn if you go long enough without practicing it you'll forget how to do it
so ahsoka tana was actually thinking about this kind of scenario where moff gideon is able to take
advantage of grogu and manipulate him into turning to the dark side like emperor palpatine did with
anakin skywalker pushing him to eventually become darth vader grogo is a very big part of moff
gideon's plans for the galaxy and it goes beyond just using him like a forced vampire he wants to
use his midichlorians in his cloning experiments to make even stronger dark troopers but also he
would love to use grogu himself as another darth vader style pawn just a really powerful dark side
force user potentially to execute his will around the galaxy just another kind of super weapon for
him to roll out potentially in the future if he were able to actually turn grogu to the dark side
i'll probably do more videos about this because there's so much stuff that they're foreshadowing
grogo's storyline in this season and future seasons as he gets more powerful in future
seasons it's going to get crazier and crazier i think this part of the scene is also very clever
foreshadowing and setup for the season finale in future seasons for a number of different
story lines not just grogu's storyline but think about it this way look at those tiny
little hands on him while he's cuffed and grogo's hands are so tiny themselves there's no way he'd
be able to wrap his hands around the hilt of the darksaber even if he could take it from off gideon
but here's the other reason i think they showed you grogo using the force to throw around the
stormtrooper so easily in a couple key scenes from previous episodes of him using the force because
one of the more common jedi abilities especially if you played any of the video games in the past
20 to 30 years is using the force to throw around a lightsaber grogo actually doesn't need to hold
it in his hands to use it when he's not exhausted like this he can just snatch it adam off gideon's
hands the way he was snatching the ball out of mando's hand so now you see the importance of that
foreshadowing scene when they were testing his abilities it's meant to show you what grogu can
do and foreshadow a bigger twist later on possibly the season finale definitely future seasons
where moff gideon gets really overconfident like he is here look at the smile on his face giancarlo
esposito is so good at doing evil guy scenes like this so think of a scenario where he gets
super overconfident like this starts waving the darksaber around and grogu who is not tired uses
the force to snatch it from his hands then throws the darksaber around the room attacking moff
gideon and his men and the other really important part of this scene here is when moff gideon says
possibly the most leading thing ever when he says you're not ready to play with such things
you could take someone's eye out which means he's probably totally going to take someone's eye out
with the darksaber also think about it this way grogu spends most of his time stealing things
he snatches eggs all the time he snatches those cookies all the time obviously it's hilarious
to watch him do that but it's also part of the foreshadowing for eventual big twists in the
finale in future seasons like oh snatching things stealing things just taking things that he wants
there's also a lot of foreshadowing for darker grogu story arcs in future seasons but like they
say during mando and ahsoka tano scenes in episode 5 it's just one of many possibilities and a lot of
what ends up happening to grosgu the path that he chooses to take as ahsoka says will be informed by
the people around him mando is like the good dad influence like qui-gon jinn wanting to help anakin
skywalker when they found him obi-wan kenobi hilariously didn't want to have anything to
do with anakin skywalker at first in moff gideon being more like the bad dad like emperor palpatine
trying to create a negative father-son bond with anakin in order to manipulate him but the other
side of this darksaber scene is meant to remind you of the bokatan storyline that they teased
during episode 3 for the other mandalorians she's on a mission not only to take that back but also
to kick the rest of the empire and moff gideon off of mandalore the planet and name herself
the new mandalore taking everything back from moff gideon and now we know grand admiral thrawn
that they've stolen from their people i also realize everyone would love to see mando use
the darksaber at some point there's totally a way they can do that and pay off the bo katan
darksaber storyline because i do think that bo katan will ultimately be the one to take it back
and keep it but probably not to way later in the series but post all your theories in the comments
below do you think that groku is going to be able to take the dark saber at least for a little while
during the finale or future seasons i've got a couple more videos about the jedi answering
grogu's call about boba fett and grogu in future seasons so as long as you have alerts enabled for
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