The Mandalorian S2E4 - Chapter 12: The Siege

I hope the child isn't called Minch or Buffy. These were the first concept names for Yoda.

 

@DarthSnow you get one of these....

 

After eating the frog spawn and everything else that was able to shove down his pie hole, Minch would be the perfect name for the little yeeter. lol

This is NOT the way.

Minch is retcon because somebody got weak

kneed over Yoda killing a Dark Jedi on Bpfassh.
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Okay so real talk about the cloning lab.

Either it is Snoke, or they want us to think it's Snoke.

I think we're all a little burned out by Snoke theories. Rightly so. But I think that's actually giving a lot of us a bias against the obvious.

It's nearly a perfect visual match to the floating Snokes in Rise of Skywalker. Plus the soundtrack cue. You can say it's a different note, it's not an exact match, all that. Of course it isn't. But this is obviously a call back to the Emperor and Snoke themes. Show me somewhere else in all of Star Wars where they use this low male vocal droning.

I could be totally wrong. But I think the evidence is really stacked toward Snoke here.

 

I think everything is telegraphing Snoke, from the vague floating things in the vat to the music to all the talk of cloning. It is all deliberate...

But then the very last scene is of the dark troopers. Does their existence in a different lablike setting throw doubt on what we saw in the Nevarro lab? As in, were we totally wrong with our first impression that this is about Snoke or the "science" behind Snoke?

Or is it trying to point us to what the story is behind the dark troopers? Trying to generate Force sensitivity, cloning in order to make them? Because if we hadn't seen the Nevarro lab, we wouldn't be doing nearly as much speculating about them.

I don't know...

 

I think they're connected to the dark troopers, which in legends had force powers IIRC, maybe the lab subjects are used for that? But my initial thought was Snoke. It seems to me that the project in the Nevarro lab is something of Gideon's design. Either way I'm very intrigued and would be happy with either one so long as it's done well.

 

I knew when Carl Weathers was directing this episode that something would happen, and here it is... oy vey...

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I'm not too fond of the Razor Crest for some reason but I've heard my beloved ship will make an appearance this season so I'm looking forward to that.

Spoiler

Slave One is said to make an appearance this season

 

As for the floating Snokes.... my inner fanboy hopes we get a holo recording from uncle Palpatine where he cackles about using the remains of his dead master as the basis for the First Order of the Old Empire's Force Sensitve Cloning Project. Its as close to having some form of Darth Plagueis in the Sequels as we'll ever get.​

 

The child is called:

Spoiler: Heavy Spoilers

Grogu, source: at approximately 3:45

 

It's name is Biggus Dickus.

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"You will go to the Daghobah system. There you will learn from Buffy, the Jedi Master who instructed me."

 

The Child (in full Moff Gideon voice): You have something I want.

 

I could see three possibilities:

1) It's Snoke. We're not meant to think too hard about it. Gideon wanted Baby Yoda for Snokey stuff, and now he's gonna do other evil stuff too.

2) It's for those weird troopers in the end. Dark Troopers, Shadow Troopers, whatever they end up being. Really, could be almost one of those Force Sensitive Clone Troopers from the old Ep III video game. Either way, it's Gideon's new terror he plans to unleash.

3) It's for Gideon himself. He fancies himself a bit of a sith lord, but has never found himself able to master the force. In a way, I like this a lot, because it flies in the face of the sequels message of the Force being more accessible and shows how wrong Gideon really is.


Either way... it's gone now. Unless there are other sites (which is likely enough) or the data needed was already transferred off site for the project, that lab is deep under a lava drift now.

 

"After THAT post.... I like you alot, fren."​

 

I think they want us to think it is Snoke. It's on the other side of the Galaxy, why would Palpatine build a lab so far from his Exegol? That makes no sense. I think the story line of Palpatine/Snoke/First Order is not interleaved with The Mandalorian and they will make everything possible to keep them apart. After the fiasco with TRoS

 

If Palpatine used the charred remains of Darth Plagueis as the foundation of his cloning project, then I'm all in.

If Supreme Leader Snoke is the result of Palpatine's DNA going bonkers in the lab? I'm out.

No way Snoke is from the same genetic stock as Cosinga's force sensitive bastard.


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I haven't really seen anything to get me to buy into the blood transfusion to gain force sensitivity angle.... yet.

 

That's right. I think it is too early for Snoke and the FO.

Me too, it seems to be too simple, get a force sensitive drink his blood and get force sensitive. Too simple to be true!
My best guess is that they need the force assistance to make some sort of genetic manipulation, something they cannot achieve just by technology. I guess this has something to do with Palpatine's Sith Alchemy, he was very skilled in it. Perhaps he found a way to transform a human into a super soldier. Something like Dark Captain America project

I wonder, can they develop something new and original, or we have to watch the same ideas again and again just remade!