I didn't watch the Mandalorian, so everything I know about it is from social media, and I clearly don't know much, because I'm confused about one big thing: is baby Yoda in the Mandalorian the same Yoda from the movies, who trained Luke Skywalker, etc? Or just a different character, same species? And if it's a different character, why in the hell doesn't it have a different name?
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Steph L. - Oct 30, 2020 6:39:25 am PDT #938 of 2196
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Jessica - Oct 30, 2020 6:42:21 am PDT #939 of 2196
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
It's a different character, and officially its name is The Child. Baby Yoda is the fan nickname.
Steph L. - Oct 30, 2020 6:47:47 am PDT #940 of 2196
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
It does have a different name! Man, it turns out that getting all my (extremely limited) information from social media isn't as foolproof as I thought it was!
Jessica - Oct 30, 2020 7:23:48 am PDT #941 of 2196
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
it turns out that getting all my (extremely limited) information from social media isn't as foolproof as I thought it was!
Wait, WHAT??!!!! Next you'll be saying my compulsive doomscrolling is a terrible way to read the news...
-t - Oct 30, 2020 8:26:01 am PDT #942 of 2196
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Don't be ridiculous, Steph. Everyone knows the True Name is Baby Yoda even if no one in universe knows that.
I have actually caught up with the Mandalorian and am ready to start in on Season 2! Not like Clone Wars which I keep looking at and despairing of figuring out where I left off or if I remember anything from what I did see.
Atropa - Oct 30, 2020 10:23:24 am PDT #943 of 2196
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Baby Yoda is the red panda of the SW universe.
askye - Oct 30, 2020 3:24:53 pm PDT #944 of 2196
Thrive to spite them
I watched the new episode of The Mandalorian and I have some questions...some of which I guess I should have had last season.
Calli - Oct 31, 2020 2:28:42 am PDT #945 of 2196
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I watched it, too. Poor banthas .
askye - Oct 31, 2020 3:37:18 am PDT #946 of 2196
Thrive to spite them
Ok I don't have to spoiler font because it's weekly so non questions thoughts are:
There should have been more smof Baby Yoda's ears flippity flapping in the wind.
Also that episode was so incredibly Space Western. I kind of got distracted noting all the Western tropes.
The question is about the timeliness. For some reason I wasn't clear on when this takes place in the Star Wars timeline and also how well known Jedis were because it just seems like the armorer talked about them as a mysterious race from long ago but in the Star wars universe even though they weren't around it hadn't been that long since there were active Jedis.
Or is this more of isolation and not a lot of communication between planets.
Tom Scola - Oct 31, 2020 5:53:39 am PDT #947 of 2196
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Even when the Jedi were at the height of their numbers, there would seldom have been a reason for most people across the galaxy to ever encounter one, and they must have seemed like a weird niche cult to most people.
But then, in Revenge of the Sith, some 30 years before The Mandalorian, the Jedi were mostly wiped out by the Emperor, and all information about their religion was suppressed, so knowledge about them is even more obscure. At the time of The Mandalorian, Luke Skywalker is the only living Jedi, and he is just starting to try to revive the religion.
So it isn't that weird that Din Djarin doesn't know about the Jedi.
The Jedi and the Mandalorians have a history, though, and the Armourer ought to know more about them. Fans suspect that she does know more, and she's only telling Din Djarin what he needs to know at this point.