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Indeed. It’s clear the Imperial Remnant were more interested in getting a living Grogu in their mitts. Makes for a constant donor.

I do suspect IG was sent by someone else.

It's certainly possible, but Karga says every other bounty hunter in the guild took that contract too, and IG-11, as a member of that guild, says he's acting on that contract.

Besides that, the client is more than willing to accept a dead target, and says as much when giving Mando the job. It seems more likely to me that a live retrieval was more expensive, and the beskar was more valuable to them as a bargaining chip to that end.

They clearly had no qualms about sending multiple bounty hunters after the same target at once, and I could see them rationalizing that if Mando was good enough to capture the target alive, he'd be good enough to keep him safe for the journey home. Beyond that, the Empire isn't going to care about a bunch of rim rats killing each other over the bounty, even killing the kid in the process may have been preferable to any one party hanging onto him for long enough to think about turning him over to the New Republic.


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Going in even further: Alphabet Squadron makes it clear that Luke's famous connection with the Jedi has given rise to any number of Force based cults around the galaxy. It's also entirely possible that they saw dead as better than lost, as if any other interested party in the Outer Rim got word of Grogu and exactly what he is, he could just be scooped up by any of those parties and never be seen again.

Ahhh, but IG could still have taken another contract.

Let’s say he takes the Puck, and the pay off for Dead or Alive is the same - 10,000 credits (or whatever currency).

As he’s prepping, the same target comes up as a Wanted Dead, for 15,000 credits.

If both just want proof of death, and only the Imperial Puck requires the body itself?

One shot, two contracts fulfilled, maximum profit. After all, he’s a Droid. He’s recording what he’s seen.

That's entirely possible, but it feels like more of a stretch to me than just the Imperials calling for the contract to be killed in the name of expediency or lack of complete knowledge of what they need.

Of course its something they could elaborate on and make a whole storyline out of in the future though.

Another observation. In episode one Mando is told he has to learn to ride the lizard thing, because you have to ride one to get to where he’s going. In episode two he walks all the way back.

 AduroT wrote:
Another observation. In episode one Mando is told he has to learn to ride the lizard thing, because you have to ride one to get to where he’s going. In episode two he walks all the way back.

Episode 2 is, in general, very weird. It feels like its supposed to be a slap-stick comedy, and Mando suddenly seems incredibly incompetent. The show seems to cycle through that. Episodes where he's normal, episodes where he's _hyper-competent_ (the premiere and the prison ship), episodes where he's incompetent (the frog mom ep where he basically has several layers of crashing and burning, and the follow-up where he gets kicked around by some random fishermen) and then the ones where he's just a passive observer (usually because a Guest Star SW celebrity has arrived, and we all have to watch them).

Mando has trained for a lifetime to fight normal person sized beings. Anything bigger, or smaller, and he doesn’t know how to compensate anymore. But man, if you’re a normal person sized being, he will mess your stuff up something fierce.

 AduroT wrote:
Mando has trained for a lifetime to fight normal person sized beings. Anything bigger, or smaller, and he doesn’t know how to compensate anymore. But man, if you’re a normal person sized being, he will mess your stuff up something fierce.

Which makes sense since Mandalorian's tend to favor small group tactics against other such groups. The whole soldiers versus warriors, as it were (which goes back to TOR games.)

 AduroT wrote:
Mando has trained for a lifetime to fight normal person sized beings. Anything bigger, or smaller, and he doesn’t know how to compensate anymore. But man, if you’re a normal person sized being, he will mess your stuff up something fierce.

That’s my takeaway.

We see him being highly skilled in corridors and the like. And in all instances we’ve seen, he knows what to expect (Stormtroopers, Security Droids).

Take him out of that? And he’s not brilliant. Not a disaster as such, just far less effective.

Didn’t the Mando grow up in a series of tunnels and rooms? So he’s like the humanoid equivalent of one of those cats psychologists raised in a room with no vertical lines?

 AduroT wrote:
Mando has trained for a lifetime to fight normal person sized beings. Anything bigger, or smaller, and he doesn’t know how to compensate anymore. But man, if you’re a normal person sized being, he will mess your stuff up something fierce.

Well, unless you're a fisherman. Fisher-squid. Whatever.
And he did pretty well against the Krayt Dragon.

 AduroT wrote:
Another observation. In episode one Mando is told he has to learn to ride the lizard thing, because you have to ride one to get to where he’s going. In episode two he walks all the way back.

He also got attacked on the way back, and I think Kuiil assumed he had died because of how long it took to get back - can't we chalk that up to Kuiil underestimating his ability to tackle a dangerous, but not literally insurmountable journey?

 Captain Joystick wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Another observation. In episode one Mando is told he has to learn to ride the lizard thing, because you have to ride one to get to where he’s going. In episode two he walks all the way back.

He also got attacked on the way back, and I think Kuiil assumed he had died because of how long it took to get back - can't we chalk that up to Kuiil underestimating his ability to tackle a dangerous, but not literally insurmountable journey?

Or just being a jerk and wanting to see the bounty hunter fall off the lizard a few times. The walk back honestly seemed a lot safer than jumping over magic floating rocks with dividing crevasses.

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 Captain Joystick wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Another observation. In episode one Mando is told he has to learn to ride the lizard thing, because you have to ride one to get to where he’s going. In episode two he walks all the way back.

He also got attacked on the way back, and I think Kuiil assumed he had died because of how long it took to get back - can't we chalk that up to Kuiil underestimating his ability to tackle a dangerous, but not literally insurmountable journey?

Or just being a jerk and wanting to see the bounty hunter fall off the lizard a few times. The walk back honestly seemed a lot safer than jumping over magic floating rocks with dividing crevasses.

That whole plain looks like a dried out mud flat, but bigger. Maybe a random storm could whip up at any minute, melting the crevices together and turning the whole place into a quicksandy nightmare?

It kind of does look like a mudflat, but the camera pans down into the 'crevasses' several times. It's a canyon network, but with the 'mudflat' somehow layered on top, and staying there for... Reasons.

Like the ice planet with the not-spiders, it's entirely unclear how it works. Which its Star Wars, not Trek, so it doesn't all need a detailed explanation, but having him walk back (with baby in tow) when riding was sooooo important just magnifies the questions.

Handwaving with 'alien planet, whatever' works in the background (like the giant Dinos on the dead forest planet Ashoka). But not when it's a plot point.

From FactFiend, for your viewing pleasure.

Folks. We have the cast of Kenobi.

Going to be interesting to see how Hayden does if this has something approaching decent dialogue and a competent director.

So who do we think will fall to the dark forces of the twitter mob first,

at least one of them is bound to have tweeted something objectionable (or that can be spun to be objectionable) in their lifetime,

and as the mob has had some success they're going to be emboldened

Ok, cool, they've got the same actors back for Owen and Beru.

Huh, I did not previously clock that!

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
So who do we think will fall to the dark forces of the twitter mob first,

at least one of them is bound to have tweeted something objectionable (or that can be spun to be objectionable) in their lifetime,

and as the mob has had some success they're going to be emboldened

Can we please not try to create drama before it happens? Star Wars threads tend to turn into cesspools without borrowing trouble.

Streaming May 4th, because of course it will...

So that girl.
She is called "Omega"
Some think she might be another clone experiment, this time to make a female clone.
Not sure why.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
So that girl.
She is called "Omega"
Some think she might be another clone experiment, this time to make a female clone.
Not sure why.

Wouldn't be hard, at least not once you have have cloning tech. Just override the Y with a copy of the X you've already got.

A better question is 'Why an energy bow?'

Don't even need to override the Y. Just block the production of testosterone at the right time and the fetus will be female.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
So that girl.
She is called "Omega"
Some think she might be another clone experiment, this time to make a female clone.
Not sure why.

This just started a cascade of weird thoughts for me.

Is Omega a letter in a Star Wars language? Is it the same language that gave us the X, Y, A and B of their respective wings? Don’t they use Aurebesh to write Basic? That’s their alphabet, right? But there are no Aurebesh letters shaped like an X or a B, so how does that work?

So it'll be renegade Clones on the run during the Dark Times of the Jedi purge.

I'm in.

As for Omega... just assume everything is translated for our convenience. Her 'real' name might be the last letter of the Pre-Republic language of Corocaunt or whatever, but Omega works for us.

Star Wars has used alpha numerics for years. Maybe not this obviously, but she wouldn't be the first character in the franchise to have such a name.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
So that girl.
She is called "Omega"
Some think she might be another clone experiment, this time to make a female clone.
Not sure why.

This just started a cascade of weird thoughts for me.

Is Omega a letter in a Star Wars language? Is it the same language that gave us the X, Y, A and B of their respective wings? Don’t they use Aurebesh to write Basic? That’s their alphabet, right? But there are no Aurebesh letters shaped like an X or a B, so how does that work?

Pretty sure they have two alphabets.

There we go. High Galactic Alphabet. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/High_Galactic_alphabet