Mandalorian episode of This Is. Welcome back to Film On the Rocks. This is a very fine drink along. I'm Brooker's and I'm Nate.

And today we are celebrating the second season of the Mandalorian and probably my favorite Star Wars thing to come out of Disney purchasing Lucasfilm.

We are celebrating by doing a drink along for a episode from season one. We had a Twitter poll and this was the episode. That one it is episode one from season one, The Mandalorian. And I'm actually super pumped that this was the episode that won the poll. I'm really excited to do so. Usually the people could not have chosen a better episode. Thank you, everybody that participated in the Twitter poll and also people listening. Really appreciate it.

This is, again, we're kind of doing this to celebrate season two and also to promote our Patriot side show that we will have going on. We will have weekly reaction episodes to each episode of Season two of the Mandalorian Honor Patriot Act page on Dotcom Slashfilm, the rocks that will be available where everything else is available at the two dollar level.

I also want to plug that if you enjoy this commentary format, we do have a screen commentary track on there for the movie Scream, and it was it was a lot of fun. So even if you're a freak like me, you watch screen once a month, you could definitely watch that out of season out of October. But I'm super excited to sit down and watch the Mandalorian. The episode one is in my top three of my favorite episodes from the first season.

Yeah, I think I mean, it really it's it's pretty much number one for me. Um, pretty clear as day just got to going off the whole like the whole drink along thing. This was. So we're doing like the Disney plus group watch thing right. In this kind of just I feel like, ah, do you feel like you're at the movies a little bit because I kind of do. You might not, but I don't know if I feel like I'm at the movies, but like I'm just jazzed because this is the first time I'm able to watch like Star Wars with a buddy in the since the last time I did this was when I went to go see the the last Jedi in theaters.

And you missed out on it, man. I know. I know. Birkbeck and I are in a I guess, now defunct Star Wars Book Club. It's just a little bit a little bit inactive these days. Yeah, but we had all planned to watch Last Jedi together and with two of our other friends, and I couldn't make it. But you guys had fun, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We had fun. And it wasn't like it wasn't any of our first time watching as all of our second viewings.

So it was just, you know, we got lunch afterwards, a lot of fun, but. Yeah. So I'm really excited to do this. Like watching. Thank you. Disney plus adding this group watch feature. That's really cool. It's kinda like Netflix party, but we are what timecode away is that you're the one that's a command. We're at work four seconds right now. Yeah. We're looking for seconds. Four seconds at Lucasfilm logo is about to start fading in.

We can kind of see some glow. So can I just get so excited? See that Lucasfilm logo faded. We've been staring at this logo for like the last like fifteen minutes and just being kind of like all wrapped up and ready to to get this go. I'm so excited. So we haven't pressed play yet. We will do like a countdown and let you know so you have time to get synched up. Um we'll be going. Oh we will kind of go over some drinking rules but beforehand I kind of also want to say that something really fun that we got going on the Patriots side show for this is that we have we have a couple of wagers going on for season two.

What were those bets?

OK, so I made some pretty bad bets on my end personally. But so Brooker's bet was will we see a lightsaber at all during season two, not including the dark sabre. So it can be a Jedi lightsaber. It could be a Sith light saber. Um, I said yes, but during the final episode, Brucker said literally any other episode.

So we draw a line that was the overunder that was the over under. So I kind of just backed myself into a corner right there. So the loser has to either shotgun a beer or take shots and they both have to occur for the Instagram story, for the forty hour podcast Instagram story. Uh, so I'm kind of screwed there. My bet was who will show up first, Ahsoka or Boba Fett, uh, assuming they're both in the show.

And I'm actually I'm glad with how this turned out, because you think Ahsoka and I think Boba Fett is going to be the first one we see and the ground rules. OK, I think you did, dude. I really don't think so. I really think we're going to see Boba Fett, at least liked by the. An episode, to be honest, OK, but the ground rules are that we have to see their face. So like there's the whole it could be Boba Fett armor, but we have to confirm it's Boba Fett inside because there's the whole Cobh van't possibility where he's like the sheriff attached to win but wearing Boba Fett armor.

So that's when we put in the rule. This can be like retroactively applied for insurers. So we can see Boba Fett, but we have to, like, confirm that it is, in fact, him. Like we have to have a helmet removal for at least someone saying his name, right?

Yeah, well, I think my biggest thing was like it's not like a cliffhanger at the end of an episode. Like, you just see someone's like, oh, that's definitely Boba Fett boot. So that counts as winning the weight wager. It was more like we see like Boba Fett, like, you know, full armor or whatever.

Like I'll I will admit defeat to that.

So that I was I kind of want to avoid that situation like, oh, we saw his like Cloke or whatever, like his cape, like that's it. And that guy count's like, no, do we get to see the whole thing, like be someone else. So because remember at the end of Episode five from Season one, everybody thought that that mysterious character could have been Boba Fett. I still think it is just because we know, OK, we were going to argue, but whatever.

So, uh, so yeah. So those are kind of like our ground rules. That could be a lot of fun to be updating that, uh, each episode on their, uh, one last the loser. The loser terms of the same rules, by the way. Yes. Yes. But for that bit. Yeah, yeah. This is the same stakes. Um, before one last quick memo before we get to the drinking rules and then click play, um, I want to give a shout out to Ethan.

Thank you, Ethan, for joining the Patriot who what up is a super cool guy. He also has a podcast called The Uncultured Opinions Podcast. I recommend people go check them out. They're very funny guys. It kind of just like kind of rag on each other. I kind of love that sort of type of humor. So thank you, Ethan, for joining the Patriot. Seriously bienvenidos. A shout out to Katie, by the way, who's been there since day one.

So all the patients. Um, all right, Nate. So drinking rules. I actually have a lot for this episode, um, because, like, it's a TV show. There's a lot of like this specific episodes is there's a lot of like laws like good laws, but there's a lot of laws in this episode. So I kind of had to like, cheat a little bit. So here are all the rules I came up with. Whenever Mando or Mandalorian said, whenever we see the tracking Fobbs or the HP-UX, whenever the word bounty is said, this is this comes up.

A bunch is always like partners like Bounty HP-UX or Bounty Bounty Hunter or something like that. I have this is for specifically the last segment of the episode was when IGY 11 keeps saying self-destruct. I have spoken and I also have this is like a very Star Wars specific rule, but I love this. I wanted to come up with a rule that was like in the world. And so whenever we see the doors, like open up on themselves, take a drink, because that's like a very like Star Wars, because nobody you never see anybody open a door.

And Star Wars is always just like this, like slide slide open or slide close. So, yeah, those are my drinking rules. I won't be playing with only playing with all those actually.

So OK, well damn. So we pretty much had the same rules. I definitely did not have nearly as many as you actually had three.

So location fob every time we hear Bandeau or Mandalorian and then um I actually had went in there for cuteness whenever something as cute as their Q Kusaka this first episode, I think this episode is kind of dark just at the end. Just kind. Hmm. OK, how about how about this one, every time an individual shoots, not like for every single bullet, but like whenever like a person basically drink for every time someone starts shooting, but not for every bullet.

OK, so you're kind of going to get blasted at the end, both literally and figuratively. Now, you're so clever.

Uh, so already. Yeah. So this would be a trick and rules. I'm drinking. Sam Adams, October 1st tonight. Mm hmm. I've got a little bit I got this little cute little can and some Manhattan, so I'm drinking a little little bit liquor tonight. So that nice. Uh, just want to remind people, if you are doing these drinking rules with us, to please drink responsibly. If you plan on going somewhere afterwards, please get like a Lyft and Uber or like have a friend drive you or just stay where you are.

And that's the safest thing. Just kind of want to give a little PSA to drink responsibly and initially get some food on you. But yeah, I'm really excited to go ahead and do this.

I'm so jazzed, dude. Any other final, like, final thoughts before we start watching. Mm. No, I'm just super pumped for season two on Friday.

Oh really. Just as a reminder, we are at timecode zero zero four. We got four seconds in Nate's. Whenever you're ready, count is down. All right, I'm going to go. Three, two, one, go and I'll go. Pressplay All right. Three, two, one, go. Gosh, I like I said, I love that logo. I did like this, I like this little thing Disney did with, like all the other faces we see.

Do you think that sound is that? Oh, yeah, it's definitely the tracking files. The Farb. Yeah. Gosh, I love this, this is different beginning, we don't start with music, right? Yeah, and I love that it is a literal cold open. Mm hmm. Oh, yeah. It's a love like these cold ladies ice planets that we get. And this is Athena. This is like one reason why I love this episode.

Jesus, I love how they're talking about cutting somebody up and selling their body parts in a cantina, it's not even like they're hiding it. And I think it's like his genitals. They're talking about. I think about his glands. For what? I mean, because those could be genitals. I love that. Yeah, this music is fucking incredible. Mm hmm. Arguably some of the best hours music. Mm hmm. I love all the different species we get to see.

It's very reminiscent of the cantina on tattooing. Mm hmm. Oh, that door opened by itself. We'll take a drink, Mando. Mm hmm. I know it's not supposed to, but this scene always kind of reminded me of Terminator two when Arnie walks into the bar is like, I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle. And it wasn't the same, but I get that same feel of just, oh, shit, this is not to be missed with.

That should be a drink and roll every time they say Bhaskar. Mm hmm. Gosh, just off the bat, this dude means fucking business, I love it. Door opened and here comes the best door close. Oh, oh, oh. His buddy definitely got, like, the better end of that deal. He just got his arm broken. Right.

Just got Darth Maul. So they got Horatio Sanz for this from SNL, and I think he's so underutilized. It's insane.

I saw that he's going to be in season two. Oh, I don't know. It's like a big part or a small part. But he's in the second season. Is that like a new person in your trailer? I don't think I've seen it. I don't think I've seen the second trailer. Oh, and that's a bounty bug. Bounty park. Going to take a drink. I do love the design of of him, he his head just looks like a gusher to me.

I kind of like it, Mithril. I think his name is, I don't know, that's his name. I like his species, but he's listening IMDB as mithril. OK. This kind of looks like Jaiku, honestly, but like snow version of how it's all spread out and it's just like one little settlement. I honestly like this planet a lot. Like I would have liked I would not have mind if we just stayed on this planet a little bit more, to be honest.

So this little scene reminds me of like Greek mythology, where you have to bring, like, two coins to the guy at the River Styx to cross it, to go to the underworld, which is kind of like what he's doing and kind of what he's doing for the the mithril, like, uh, like the underworld, meaning like like the bounty hunter, bounty hunter, underworld type of thing. I love how the Droid gets the nice car.

It's like this, like run-Down piece of shit. I also just love, like there's, you know, the little NOD's that they gave to, like, Luke's speeder from a new hope with these two. Is that like they're like like toilet waste, what he was talking about, they dumped their something. I don't know. God, I am I have such a hard on for the razor crest, I love this ship. I think it's so cool.

I thought it was like one of those the clone era, one of the gun ships. And I was like, oh, fuck. Is this dude like a clone? Uh. That lived on. Obviously not, but yeah. It looks so cool, like I'm not like a car guy or anything like that, but I've always, like, had a fascination with all the ships that we get in Star Wars. And this is like up there for me, I love this, even though, like, it just looks so bulky.

Not like real sleek or anything, but this was cool. Yeah, that was badass. I love the little sound, too. It's like very Cloverfield. Mm. And I love how they have even shown Mandalorian to react to this, yet we're just seeing the freak out of him. Mm hmm. Oh, God, that looks so good. He's like a mix between that giant fish thing in Jurassic World and like a sea lion or something, it kind of reminds me of like that fish serpent thing from the Phantom Menace that, like, latches on to the little like scuba ship that kwi gone Obi Wan and.

Oh, yeah. Or he's like always a bigger fish. It's kind of like reminds me of that.

But like Minar. Gosh, just so awesome. The music is so gosh. I think I've ever noticed that, yeah. Can I just say that it's really weird seeing Amanda without it, without him being in decked out in Bhaskar just because we get back like the rest of the season almost. It's kind of weird. He gets his armor so quick, too. I thought it was going to be more of like a progression. Yeah, I didn't think it would happen until the last last episode.

Mm hmm. I wonder how many things he's heard, like everything he's been offered, because, you know, they're always going to be like pleading so much.

It's interesting that he doesn't have, like, a cell that he just throws them in. He just throws them in the shotgun. It almost tells me he's got like a huge reputation or like they know like they're dead if they try anything. You know what I mean? That's a good point. I guess mithril as a species. Mm hmm. Back to. I love the starwars language for, like, human, yeah, I can't say toilet humor in the books they call coffee kaf so funny.

Is this the first toilet we've seen in Star Wars? I think it is. It looks disgusting. Did you look inside of it? Uh, no. You think. You think it stinks? Yeah, I'm pretty sure it does. The ship looks like it stinks. Like Muste, yeah, plus, you know, he likes what he's got to get in that suit and everything. Yeah. So does that mean that his species doesn't shit for like weeks on end?

I guess it also means he doesn't have to eat much, right? I guess so. Know, gosh, I just love this because it's like kind of scary. It's kind of like a horror movie where, like you're somebody's house, you think it's all saved, and you find all the bodies in the basement, you're like, Oh shit.

Oh, Amanda just behind him. Yeah, very Michael Myers. Cash frozen carbon in the first episode, let's go. So good. I'm really excited for Carl Weathers to come into this, he's I love his character, Mondo. So so far, like, you know, watching this episode, especially like the first time I watched it, I was like kind of shocked at, like how cold the tone was. Like, it's a pretty serious tone as like very different for some of the other starwars properties that we've seen.

Yeah. I mean, it definitely feels like the original trilogy with how gritty and dirty it was, which I guess kind of plays to the whole era. And I know people complain about that with like the prequels and stuff, but like they kind of refer to the prequels in the original trilogy as like a more civilized time. So you kind of would expect things to be a little bit more shiny, a little nicer. Mm hmm. So I never got that complaint.

But yeah, I agree. It was efficient, like a. I'd been drinking for that. There should be a drinking rule for every time there's another, like, alien language, oh, that is a good rule. We'll start doing that. I love just how quickly he folds. Save the theatrics, that's bullshit. He pays them half. Amanda doesn't even take the imperial credits. Apparently, they're useless, but I could see them still being used here.

Oh, yeah. Such great weather, there is no music for that little scene with the the bounty is coming out from. Drink for all these HP-UX. He's like, don't be so greedy. Well, he said bounty, you know. Josh, I know this isn't like fun, but it's kind of interesting to see the whole, like, economic depression that the galaxy's going through, like without the Empire, despite how bad it was, you know what I mean?

It kind of shows how it definitely with the empire being taken out, that there was a definite void that need to be filled. And it's kind of a race between the republic and the I guess what was said to be the first order. Yeah.

And also just kind of like all like the discrepancies of the currency is there, you know, great job doing like world building and then, yeah, seriously, look at a homeless person like even homeless people in Star Wars don't look normal like she had like the Arculus on like this mushroom looking dude.

Yeah, this place seems so cold and forgotten. Mm hmm. What I love that, and I love like seeing little like stuff like that, I like nods to Javas Palace. The little nods to everything, man, like they feel so much fanservice, but it's done very tastefully, you know, totally agree and I am on my second beer. I got this thing filled up. It's not all the way like I say, this was a huge container you have.

I love that the like these stormtroopers look like they've been through hell, like they they look like they're malnourished just because, like, the armor's loose. Loose, a little broken, a little torn out, yeah, it's almost like these these people weren't actually storm troopers, but like they're now kind of being hired by the remnants of the empire. Who's the nerd? OK, he's holding a FUB. This doctor is a character that I wish that we got more time with because, you know, the whole potential ties he has to Camino Camino.

Yeah, I hope that we see it Camino in the second season. I think we'll see more of this doctor because he lives in this. It'll be really cool. I, I, I just want like a little more backstory about how he got involved in all this and you know, like, you know, obviously I think we're trying to clone baby yota, but I just I just want more. Yeah. I think John Carlos, Esposito's character, Gideon McGettigan, is definitely going to give us something because he just explains everything and I love it.

Mm. Talking about the the storm troopers were quick look like slouchy, they are they're not like pristine like that when they were in the Imperial Army. And they just remind me of like like if you ever watch, like, military movies, you'll see like the army mercenaries, like contract killers who are like former soldiers. Now, they got like big beards and knackers hats. That's what they remind me of the. I love this, it's it's like the definite, like difference between the curiosity of the scientists wanting to preserve everything and, you know, the client just just get the fucking job done.

They don't understand, like, the full grasp of it, like what goes into it. Yeah. That's such a cool way to give that information to the audience, the last four digits, it gives you this idea of this is whole code system. It's not just random like ID tags. It's like everything structure to it. Yeah. Also, this is the least helpful information, especially for this type of species that he's after, that doesn't look 50.

Yes, seriously. Door opened, probably just a couple. God doing this music, oh, I love it, and we sing that all episode, but it's really so good. See, this is fucking star. This is so dark and I bloody I did, like, laugh my ass off the first time I saw that just out of, like, I don't know how my body doesn't know how to respond. Good. This was this part, this sequence is so cool, seeing all the other in Orian's, I heard a theory almost where that's Boba Fett.

Yeah. Do you almost flip my shit when I saw that? Because I thought it, too. Yeah, I thought that too. Yeah, that was something that one the one was like the green cape. Yeah. Yeah.

They all look like a theory that I heard. Was that the reason why they made the laws like don't remove their helmets like particularly in this time is so that way they can like hide their numbers so they people can keep track of like and that's why don't we let like one or two come out at a time for like bounties for the guild. So that's why they don't take off their helmets, like hide their numbers. So that way they stay underground.

People don't really get how many that that are down there in case they need to. I don't know, Figes, anything. I wonder if they have, like, new fighting tactics, like guerrilla style ammo, because I know they used to have big numbers. So they've kind of evolved. I love the non-verbal communication. So cool. It's interesting that there's been so many purges and Star Wars. Yeah. I remember I was so confused on what it Cygnet was the first time I saw this.

Mm hmm. I don't think I found out until they actually gave him one. Yeah, I think the third episode is when that happens. I love how they intercut this, there's give like to basically just give his back story. Mm hmm. Oh, every time she, like, hits the hammer. Yeah. Dave alone is really good storytelling. Like, you know, there's some things you tell, some things you show. And this is just like a great way to just, like, show exposition.

I say that as they just tell that. One thing I will say is that this little, like cut scene that we get of, you know, his family, they do show that a little too much in the next few episodes. I remember that we just see that a lot. Yeah, and it kind of wasn't really that big of a story, in my opinion. Yeah, it was more of like this would happened and type of thing.

Yeah, definitely. I really hope that we figure out how these tracking fobs work, yeah, like the whole thing is still very confusing, like if it's like tied to their genetic code or something or. Yeah, it makes me think that all these people were once incarcerated, so they just get shipped. And it makes me think that maybe Yota was in prison at some point.

Yeah. I mean, we see in like the Clone Wars TV shows that Darth Citius at one point kidnaps a bunch of Paton's. Oh. So I'm assuming, like this might have something to do with it. I'm sure he was one of the captured, right? Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. I apologize if you hear the train going in the background. Tracking Farb. You know, this whole series really didn't turn out how I thought it was going to.

Honestly, I had no expectations. I went into it just like I have no idea what to expect. What were you expecting? I didn't think he'd be a good guy. Oh, really? Yeah, no, I'd be more like an anti-hero. Exactly. Yeah, I thought he's going to be heartless. I really thought he was going to make the shot at the end. Oh, I remember I kicked out when I saw the flames right there.

I just love this getting introduced to work creatures is a weird Parana looking things like Parana Frog tadpoles.

This character is interesting. Mm hmm. Oh, he said bounty that. For those who don't know, like where this species been seen before, we saw it in Episode five, they were the ones working on Bestman when they froze Han Solo in Carbonite. Aren't they called ignorance? Yes. Mm hmm. There are so many huts in Star Wars like Yoda lived in a hut. This guy lives in a hut.

There's Jabba the Hutt and it's a lot of huts, but was funny. OK, his head is massive, like proportionally to his body, especially when he stands up as very obvious. He's a smart guy. All that knowledge he. I have spoken. I will say that, OK, I don't dislike this, but I'm also dislike it training to write the blog Plurk thing I probably could have done without it, but like, I don't hate it.

Yeah, I think they're just kind of really harping on the whole cowboy thing where it's like you've got to tame your Mustang, you know what I mean?

OK, that makes sense. It just kind of like came off to me. I was like, all right. They're trying to, like, pad their own runtime a little bit. But I mean, again, I don't hate it. I guess it's also kind of use it good, I guess is kind of cool to see him fail at something at first. Yeah, well, they kind of use it to tie in that whole Mandalorian law, like, right here.

Hmm. Very true. The creature. I wonder how much that, like, made him feel insecure because, you know, we find out he's not like a true Mandalorian, like he's not from me and the lawyer, he was a family and he wants to be indoctrinated into this culture so bad, badly least. I wonder if that, like, made him feel insecure that like maybe that was like something he didn't know about, like ancestor the laws that they rode, the Mitha sauce.

Mm hmm. And that was probably the motivation he needed. Yeah. I kind of have a feeling we're going to see Amitiza at some point, like later in the series, and that this was all like allusion to it strikes I that they were like an extinct thing. I don't know that for a fact, but I think they are. I think they are. But my thoughts are that because like Dave felonies in this, he also made the show called Avatar The Last Airbender.

And in the show, there's like this fire bender Zuko. And there's all this talk about, like the Dragons, the dragons going extinct. And then at some point in a show like he loses his fire bending ability and he learns it from dragons that appear and were thought to be extinct at this point. So I feel like this was kind of like, Dave, felonies influence right here where it's like we're going to see that or but not for a little bit.

You know, they'll be really cool. Mm hmm. And that him like kind of going through this little trial and tribulation was training for that like eventual outcome, him writing the mythos or oh oh and then, like, we'll definitely hear like wheels like voice in his head during that point.

Uh, they'll be good. They'll be like a good payoff from going all the way back to the beginning of the series. They'll be like a really good payoff.

Yeah. This is so interesting. Because apparently these guys have been here for a while, bunkered down, it just adds to the mystery of like where babyhood is from and everything, like who is in possession of him or her right now?

I kind of had this hmm. I don't know, I feel like that I have spoken. There you go. Obviously, obviously, there's hired help. I think that somebody is definitely involved and like the whole hiring of this crew to protect the baby Yiota. Mm hmm. Um, have you ever seen Tombstone before? I haven't. But I know that's a movie my dad had on all the time when I was a kid. Yeah. This this looks a lot like Tombstone where they have like this big showdown at this big like like a state board type of thing.

Yeah. Yeah. This looks a lot like it. That's interesting that he's able to put the telescope just like anywhere on his visor, on his helmet, and he just sees it because it looks like he put it like right in the middle of the T or like previously. Yeah. I kind of hope that we get 11 back, like his memories are put into like a different droid because he was really funny. Oh yeah, I was hoping that we would get like a more like a buddy cop thing with them, too.

Mm hmm. Gosh, it's so cool seeing like the like the mechanics of how this droid works, like it's all just like rotations around, you know, there's like a central axis. It's so cool.

Mm hmm. He shoots, shoots first, ask questions later.

OK, that's a fog, so it's funny, as I thought, that this guy named Jemaine Clement voiced this character, but it's actually taken Waititi, who's one of the directors of Mandalorian that's still best friends. So I was close. This is acceptable. I love it. I love him trying to negotiate with this robot. And he's just so practical. I have a big theory about the whole thing. I didn't want to share too much because I knew we were getting into the scene, but remind me to share it later, OK?

About like all these characters guarding him. Dude, this is like the scene I like will let you if you're playing by your rules like that for every person you see with a blast.

Well, it was the boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I do remember like me, you and like the rest of the stars, bookclub group chat, just like freaking out about this scene. I think I was at work. I was like one of my lunch break to watch this. And I was just sitting there in my cube just like screaming. I was like, oh, my God. This part, Kyra, I just love the rotations, like his eyes, his arms, his legs, the elders rotate around each other.

I love that at the end of the shooting up without woman. Cash in this cash, I love the show, it just feels like a video game, but I mean, like in a compliment, like it feels like a fun video game that I want to play. So there is a video game. Have you heard of Shadows of the Empire? Oh, I've heard of it. It's an old Nintendo 64 game. And one level you face off against egads eight who's like the known bounty hunter.

That's the same type of robot is IJI 11 and it is fucking impossible.

It is like the hardest level in the game. So you can experience this. Oh, shit, that kind of reminds me like what we just saw with him trying to hotwire the the door while being shot, that kind of reminds me of Han and Leia when they tried to do that on Indore and return the Jedi. Oh, yeah. Good catch. In an hour, two gets a little fuck up. Wow.

Self-destruct, guys. Every Tavis's. I take a drink, folks. Got great humor. And it's basically like here, here's the here's the big boss, stop. Oh, damn. Gosh, I love it whenever he uses his gadgets. Mm hmm. That would be a good drinking rule. Bah bah bah bah bah. Yeah, this was the part where I was, like, losing my mind the first time is just. And it's like floating everything floats in Star Wars, gosh, it's so cool.

It's like all little, little tiny details, like everything that they can do that's abnormal to like that in my.

I guess something we haven't talked about is his like prejudice against droids. Mm hmm. I feel like they did a good job of, like kind of like pulling a little breadcrumbs for that throughout this episode. Yeah.

And like the payoff at the end where he kind of like empathizes with the idea and, you know, especially, you know, it's like, you know, referencing back to the first episode where he had issues with that same exact igy droid. Yeah. From like the Clone Wars and the the separatist droids and get fucking wrecked. That dude got lit up. I do wish we get some sort of hint, maybe I'm missing a hint, but I like who does this bunker like belong to?

I'll share my theory. OK, because unlike you, it looks just like Hitler. It just looks like it's just part of, like, I don't know, like the furniture that they don't care to use right now, that there's, like, putting it to the side.

Mm hmm. Looks like my apartment, it's got just like blankets draped everywhere. It's my girlfriend's doing. This was such a good review. This was such it was like I didn't expect a baby Yiota species to pop up at all. We didn't see it at all in the trailers. No, they did. I'm surprised that this wasn't leaked. They did a great job with that. OK, were you freaked out by that the first time I was OK, I thought he shot him and I was like, damn, he's fucking cold.

Yeah, I was like, oh shit. I fucking love him.

That is. This I remember you were texting the dude, the the little pod thing is floating, he's making it float and then we learn it like it just it just floats.

Yeah. I was very much like that painting. Um. In the Sistine Chapel, is that what you're about to say? Oh, I didn't think about that. Nobody I like touching the finger of God. Yeah, I just want to add, I love all of the artwork that they showed during the credits. Mm hmm. It's so cool. Like I always watch them. But that looks like Miles Canada right there, by the way. Oh, it kind of does like without the glasses, though, or goggles, whatever it is, space glasses.

Yeah, I almost think it was her. And then, like, now let's make it a look. Not and then it looked a little tall for her, I think. True. Got this fuckin music, this music, fantastic, it's so good we get this little sun set, looks like the double sun. I mean, I love that we're just like watching these paintings. Yeah. Yeah. We're getting commentating to these commentary for it, for these illustrations.

It's great.

It look so cool, like the razor crest. And that's a little like trimmer monster coming up to it. It kind of looks like the little dropship from Halo in a way. And look at that, he's got this cape, he looks very much like, um, Clint Eastwood's character in the Dollars trilogy. Mm hmm. What a. All right, OK, I'm going to go ahead and just pause that and we can go and pause it, OK?

Um, oh gosh, I feel so good. I feel so much better now that I've watched that. Yeah, that was great. I think something that I'd always been hoping for. Um. For a long time, just because, like my dad and my dad and I used to, like, watch Westerns together, it was just like some sort of Western style Star Wars. And like, I really wasn't sure what this show was going to be like, but I felt like the Mandalorian was like the perfect character to kind of capture this.

And I'm glad they didn't kind of. Make let me make up like a new species for us to kind of go off of like something that we can't really relate to because this one that we kind of already have like this established. Knowledge that Mandalorian are bad ass, but we still get our own character, our own person, to build from somebody we don't really know a lot of back story on. And for them to kind of go throughout this and like like what you were saying before, like there's a bunch of locals, but those locals don't kind of like Lolita sleep.

It's more of like breathing room. And I love how this the show just kind of lets itself breathe. Yeah.

It's just like letting it's just like letting it expand some of those as this is like, all right, here we're talking like fill this with like we're going to let this seep into your, like, mind. And it's just. Yeah. And you made a good point about it, about this show being about a Mandalorian like something that we've all heard about. Like just no, it's cool, but we don't know that much about. I think I was like really like strategic and like smart on the creators of the show, like Dave Filoni.

Because in Jon Favreau, because like if it was, say, like about a Jedi, we would have all these expectations of what we think the character should be like, what they should do, like what their adversaries are and everything. And it would be like one of the things where it just doesn't make anybody happy because everybody's expecting something.

But with this, it's kind of like starting over four Star Wars in a way. You know, it's kind of like when you're back, you're going to see things that you're familiar with. But it's a blank canvas for a character nobody knows about. And so, like, it's like finding that imagination again and wonder like, oh, like the opportunities of this person, you know, kind of like when everybody's introduced it. Luke Skywalker for the first time, it's kind of like that.

I love it. Yeah. And it's also one of those characters, too, where like where they introduce them to you and we already know, like what they're like potential outcome would be like, for example, I think with like when they introduced Ahsoka into the Clone Wars, they introduced this character who initially like we didn't like and then we kind of grew to love. But there was also this kind of doom in the back of our heads, like, well, fuck all the Jedi die at the end of episode three.

So we're like we kind of know her fate, but then they kind of create this whole new, like, twist to it where she she survives like that whole situation. And I like that they kind of we have that character in Mandu where we don't really know what his potential fate could be like. It really could be anything. Like you're saying. It's a blank slate, a blank canvas, and it's fun. Yes. No, like you were saying, you had no expectations for the show.

I had a few. But at the same time, it was more so about character qualities rather than direction of the show. So let me share my my little baby Yoda theory. Oh, yeah. You told me to remind you you had some like some points to say during that last segment. Mm hmm. OK, so this is why I think that Ahsoka is relevant in season two and why we're going to see her. So throughout the Clone Wars TV show, like the little cartoon, we see a lot of like pirate characters and they're kind of led by this one pirate character, I Hondo Onaka.

So Hondo is like the leader of the the pirates. And we see a lot of this character, like he initially was kind of like a throw away guy, though. So they brought him into Clone Wars and then the rebels, which was the follow up to Clone Wars, and they bring Hunter back. And so they kind of have this theme of like we keep we keep bringing in these pirates really building, like, character qualities around them where, yes, they're kind of self-serving in a way, but also like they do have like a conscience and they build like a very strong relationship specifically with Ahsoka.

And I think that the guys that are guarding baby Yota are a part of these same pirate crews that we see and like Clone Wars and rebels and they've been tasked with guarding Baby Yota by Ahsoka. Well, Ahsoka goes off and does, you know, whatever she's doing. My theory is that she's looking for this other character called Ezra. I think at some point she probably goes back to that little that little foothold in the galaxy and discovers that baby is gone and that she's looking for Mando.

And then that's what that encounter comes. Because I feel like at some point when when Mandu in a meet each other, they're going to be enemies. And like she's going to think he is not he does not have maybe best interests at heart. And then she's kind of going to go after them and then she's going to be an ally. Oh, yeah. I can definitely see them being adversaries at first, especially with help, because I know, like, the history between the Mandalorian and the Jedi is like very twisted and like they've gone to war against each other.

Is that correct? Yes. Yes. Yeah. So I could definitely see I could see that playing out like that. But I'm so excited for season two, dude. I am just I am so excited to see, like, new planets. I also hope that we see some old planets like I don't really care to see anything from the original trilogy unless we go to hard disk because I like it a lot for some reason or maybe even. Jacob would be cool, but I really mean they go to Digable to find like Yoda and they fight like his little hut, he's just like dead.

They're the cool kind. But I really, really, really hope to see some Clone Wars era planets like Koushik or Camino Camino's high on my list. I really wanna see Camino and Khorosan just just sort of like fanservice. Honestly, I just want to see it, I think to be like, really cool. And yeah, I don't know. But I like obviously new planets are would be really fun too. Yeah. I'm open to anything. I mean but definitely I do want to see Camino, I want some explanation, maybe not even like a setting there, but like a flashback to Camino.

Maybe we see Dr. Pershing. I want something in the lab. I want, I want to talk to him. I want to like I want them to like want me Mando to, like, find him, because I think that it's possible that, like, mandola that Mando could be it might be kind of a thing where he plays offense instead of playing defense and hiding from not Greive Kaga. That's his friend Moscati marketing and think you like instead of like playing defense, he plays a little bit offense and he goes after people that like they've hired to help track down baby yota, like including this Camino in Kloner person, the doctor, and maybe he hunts him down and he gets information from him.

But like for him to figure out why is it they want to be able to say that way he like play a little bit of offense on. That's like that's something that I'm going to predict that we might see. It's him instead of like just like being on the run the whole time, he goes, OK, what is it that they want from him? I want to just like kind of like cut that off somehow. Mm hmm. Oh, that'd be fun.

That'd be fun. And I would definitely like switch up the tone from, like running away and kind of hiding away and all these different towns and doing journeys along along the way to. Yeah. Grabbing life by the horns.

I guess a bold prediction, I'm going to say, because season three has already been confirmed. I don't know if you saw that. No. Yeah. Season Season three has already been confirmed. So I think that season two is going to end on a massive cliffhanger. And I think it's going to be that like baby Yota gets captured in season three is going to be like mad Mandalorian and trying to season three is going to be the the rescue. That's my prediction.

And I'm doing waybill of a prediction.

I haven't even seen the first episode of Season one yet, but I'm just going to go ahead and throw a dart and say that, OK, so my my thought is that so in our in our previous, like, trailer reaction thing, I said, I asked you, who do you think the villain is? And then you said, obviously, McGettigan. So I, I agree. Um, I think it's marketing, but I think he's more of like a background villain throughout the whole show.

And I really do believe that, like, we see Boba Fett and I think Boba Fett takes baby Yoda like early on and that this is the like this season is what you're saying season three is going to be of like trying to go after him and try to find him, which is why we see Ahsoka kind of come into play maybe. Oh, for sure. Yeah. OK, cool.

Yeah. I'm just so excited that I just uh. Gosh, a Friday. Can I get here soon enough. Um, I know, I know. What are you going to do. Are you going to watch it like first thing in the morning. Are you going to wait all day.

No, because I know Kat well we might watch in the morning because um actually no. Because I thought I don't know, I want to see what my girlfriend's schedule is because we watched the show together. OK, so she would be pretty furious if I watched her without her.

So I was if her morning is available, we'll definitely watch it like first thing in the morning with a cup of coffee. And then I will just be probably watching on repeat, like all day at work. Well, in the lab, at the microscope. Um, but if not, then you have to like wait to like the very end of my date like 9:00 p.m. So it will be like a long day going like complete Internet blackout.

That's awesome. That's awesome. I definitely I think I have to watch it first thing in the morning and I definitely want to watch it with my girlfriend. But I work I start work at seven, so maybe she won't want to get up before that bell. So we'll see. We'll see.

Um, well, I guess kind of like last thing I wanted to like mention since we're already at the hour mark. So I kind of like spend just five minutes on this little piece. So instead of just asking what the message of this episode was, what did you, like, kind of get away from? Like what was the message or theme of season one? And what are you like what are you predicting? But like the tone or the message to be for season two?

I was thinking that it's more of like. Don't let your home, your character, character, can't be judged on who others believe you to be like, you can be an individual and you can kind of set your own path. And I think that really came out with the whole, like, exactly what I was saying where we thought I thought Mandalorian were like heartless killers and going after bounties for whatever reason. But in the end, like, he found like a bit of a conscience in baby yota and he saw the innocence that he had lost.

And he's kind of protect us at that point, right? Yeah, that's a really good point from this season. I kind of got that from this season. I kind of got that. It was about just like forming relationships and, you know, being able to trust other people and, you know, like making those bonds. And that's what we kind of see Mandalorian do throughout the whole season. You know, we see that he starts out as a loner, like a loner, gunslinger kind of person.

He forms his bond with maybe Yoda. He forms a bond with grief Kaga. He forms a bond with Carrott D'une. And he also kind of forms a bond with this. I don't know her name, but just this woman in episode four in the village, like the villager, they dress like some like a little bit like a romance between them two. I wonder if she comes back in season two that we kind of cool. But so I kind of just and obviously IJI 11 and his like relationship with like Droits as a species is weird to call them species, but, um, instantiates.

So I feel like they kind of do have their own OK. Yeah. Thing. Um but yeah. So I kind of see that this season was just more about, you know, the message of like, you know, being able to establish trust and relationships with people. Also totally forgot about Choiseul. You made a relationship with him. So yeah, I kind of saw it was about that. And then season two, I think it's going to be about, um, like possibly like Liberacion and Timilty breaking free of like like breaking free from being on the run from the Empire and mothe getting in and possibly will find that like he'll find like other packs or like tribes that are Mandalorian descendents and they are somehow enslaved and he's going to feel some sort of obligation or duty to liberate them.

And also he's trying to liberate baby yota from the empire as well. And so that to me plays into why I think he will be playing more offensive to the defense in season two. So that's kind of like my my prediction. OK, cool. I like it. Awesome. Well, um, any, any final thoughts or anything, um, that I let you say a prediction for a message of season two. I think I shared my prediction of just kind of how things might go.

Um, now I've just check out the the Mandalorian reaction episodes on The Patriot and afterwards we're going to turn around on those pretty quick, too. Yeah. So, yeah. So I'm really excited about that. And we will have weekly posts on there, like what were your reactions. So that way you can comment below on those. And if you can try to comment those on Friday or maybe like Saturday mornings and we will mention your thoughts or your actions in kind of like respond to those in those episodes would be really fine.

But thank you, everybody, for listening to this drink along. We love doing these. This one is like a little bit more serious than our scream.

It was. Yeah, it was really cracking jokes and like having it like a fun time was also like two hours of us drinking. But there is this was a lot of fun. I like that each one's a little bit different. It depends what the tone is, but I feel like it's because we're both huge Star Wars fans and that we kind, uh, we know so much. We've read books and like we know a lot of, like, background on these characters, locations and things that I don't know.

It's our bread and butter. They want to take it seriously. This is our craft. Yeah.

Oh, well, thank you, everybody, for listening to this and watching this.

And please, you know, drink responsibly, be safe. If you feel a little drunk, stay home or get a Uber Lyft call a friend. This has been filmed on the rocks. I've been brucker. I've been joined by Pollinates and we'll see you next time. I guess I have spoken. Oh, that's what I'm ending it on. Oh.