If you're looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have credit but what I do have is armor armor made of best guard and if you don't return baby owed, I think the world might end this isn't taken but this is the Mandalorian after show. I have spoken. I'm Maria Menounos and you're too welcome back every time and yes, I know. Dress there's a lot of things happening right now in our country baby. Yoda has been taken. Craft is Grand Admirals. Yeah Anderson. She's a part of the Marvel panel, but also a mega Star Wars fans with her with her. Number one co-host Grand moth Christian Blatt. That was a perfect use of my clunky to y'all McClung come to you all happy life day everybody. Hey this episode directed by Deborah Chow written by Jon Favreau epic episode. We knew that was going to happen again because she just She's a she's a beast. She's a beast and I talked to the panel about this before. I think this was the most well-written episode. I feel like they've really gotten their bearings on what they want to do with this show and we've it's still an adventure of the week, but we got back to like a more holistic story of what the bigger picture is. Yeah. So we're gonna break it down. It's almost chronologically because each step of this episode major things happened and obviously ended on a huge Cliff Hanger. It is the penultimate episode which Which means chapter 8 is gonna be crazy right there. We break down the episode. We will get into our directors Corner. We've done this with Deborah child, but there are more things happening in the Chow Universe. Yes. Ryan's gonna handle that and then xia is going to hit us with some news and gossip. Obviously, we know rise of Skywalker permit is going to Premiere this week three of us have seen it Zia Wesley is also 0 but there's news around. It's obviously causing a lot of controversy. How about a And yeah, and Christian bought is in the chat such a black chat. We're taking a look at the black chat and we'll let you know. Yeah, are they worried about baby Yoda, like we're yeah, we're good turned to be Ryan hit us with your overall thoughts overall thoughts. I need baby ODed to touch my heart and heal these wounds this episode gave me I feel scarred. I feel I feel taken advantage of I've been I've been my heart has been racing all day. I think my heart skipped a beat at the end of this episode. This was beyond the Cliffhanger. This was like a cliff. I'm gonna slap you in the face of a bunch of times and make you wait, not only a week but a week and a half because we're not getting the next episode until after the holiday not which is cool crazy. I don't know if I can make it really I think I want a Christmas present of an earlier and earlier premiere for next week. But yes, like you're saying this is one of the most well-written episodes yet. Deborah Chow is an All-Star director will get into her a little later loved loved loved this. Episode there is a through line. It's not just an adventure of the week. We had people come back into this episode happy about so happy about that thrilled to see them absolutely loved it. Yeah, I really loved this episode. I know last episode I said was my favorite. This one is a very strong Contender, but it was really good. The bride has rights too excited. Good choking on his tea. Yeah. No. I just I really really enjoyed it. We got we got Kara doing back, which I kind of had a feeling that was going to happen. They advertised her so much and I'm really really glad that they brought her back. I was a little bit disappointed in some of her lines. I feel like they could have used her a little bit better and there was one sequence in the episode that I was like unless it comes back in some way. Why did we get that that was so unnecessary. Other than that amazing episode. I was not ready for that and at all, I was not ready. I watch the episode twice today and I both times I was like I had to rewind just like yeah my card those mirrors. Those are evil. Well if you made it to the Dropship quill Have you made it to the Dropship quilt Christian? Well first and foremost, I'm going to have to point out that Ryan you're getting exactly what you deserve because if you remember just last week you considered killing baby Yoda just for just for just for a nice big bones. Are you saying that's a teaser because there is another pilot in the Galaxy who has threatened Baby Otis life and we will play that clip. I think they don't know what I'm talking about Vito we Have a different producer in the booth equally as amazing way more knowledge than just grabs actually seen a Star Wars actually, he loves Star Wars and the Mandalorian. So we're happy to have him bananas for having me and a tremendous fan of the Star Wars holiday special so welcome to video in the booth. But what I wanted to say is that I thought this was a great episode. And yeah, I think we had talked last week, you know that obviously they're building up to something. I thought we were going to get some familiar faces did not think we would get Nick Nolte. It's not quill it's cool. Real wheel wheel and so as soon as I saw him, I'm like, well, this is already a good episode and then of course a little bit of a roller coaster of emotions. I just I just worry so much about that little guy. I mean, I really hope he's okay. I don't look I hope Wheels okay, too, but I'm really worried about baby Yoda. Me, too. I'm glad we assembled our Mandalorian Avengers. We did not end on a high note, but I'm glad that we're getting character. He's back. I'm not in love with Kara Dunes character. And I wish I was I don't know if she's being utilized in the best way. I think physically absolutely she's incredible that way but her lines and kind of her her character. I'm not loving which I hate that I don't love her. I really liked her for the first episode she appeared in but this episode I just think that they the lines they wrote for her were really cheesy. They were kind of unnecessary. There was one scene the first scene that I have a Problem with which one was that? It was the arm wrestling. Yeah plane. Why when we get a jacket? Okay. So let's just jump right in Mando gets a hologram call a holographic the holo-call from please Harga weather and I instantly did not trust this. I'm like no now, you know better but he needs that money. He doesn't try and support now. It's really also has two party knows the only way to because people keep Going after baby Yoda and unless he gets rid of the the Empire love that they keep calling him the M4 Imperial I'm assuming but yeah, I just it was really funny. But unless they literally unless they get rid of the amp the clients. There's always going to be people coming after baby Yoda, so it's like a double edge. He needs the money and he wants like safety for this child that he was taken under his protection be a win-win. Yeah, and I had the same thought I'm like, come on man know you're smarter than this and at least he Assemble his his Mando vengers. Yeah, he gets like his team. He gets people you actually trust. Yeah, because I thought he was just going to fly right in there and be like, hey Carl Weathers. Let's work together. Oh, yeah, and as I should be smarter, right right right now at least at least he knew not to trust the situation. That was such a cool scene when he landed and they ride up because I knew he picked them up. I didn't know he also brought the animals with them. I thought that was and then they're just like sizing each other up. He's like you brought your team. I brought mine. Yeah, so great like they're very smart. But before that he his first stop is sore gone. And this is we see in chapter 4, which is his first introduction to Cara and that's a cool scene with her. He she's fighting as a BRAC and they're connected with some sort of power. It's pretty it's a cool way to fight so cool. Yeah. It's like a rope. That's actually how Ryan and I met yeah, we weren't he won the fight clearly impressed with her. She she wasn't convincing that as soon as he said that it's the target is Imperial. I'm in I like that you like that was cool the rebel Fighters. Yeah, I like that. She's just like now I really want to stay at it. Oh it seems okay. Yeah and what I mean, I like that she's like I just want to stay out of it, but then she's like, all right. It's important you talk to me into it and I think he kind of knew that but we jumping ahead a little bit just with her one issue another issue I had was they wanted to cover her arm tattoo sure. They only mentioned it's a FaceTime bro, and it's really simple I kind of thought that they were also referring to her face tattoo was that was it's not that that was what they were they were walking through Mordor. She could have done something. That's a great. That's a good point. Don't think I don't think concealer and a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I kind of like how we got reintroduced her though. I'll be honest the I really like the wrestling match and the vows. That's different. Yeah, I like that scene and I do think that is her that is the strength that they're using and playing to I don't think they figured out her dialogue yet. We're kind of like the depth of her character in a way, but now let's get into quill so this is when we're in our valise Evan McNulty's the home base and this this brings about a lot of interesting conversation, especially concerning IG 11 who he's reformed and it But the awesome snow. I'm sorry. That was the sequence that I was like we did not need that unless I thought that was like a ridiculous. I was like, wait. Why did we get that? I really yeah, I'm rebuilding. Yeah, I really really didn't like it unless it comes back. What am I saying? Why don't we save that for? Yeah, because that that I have a prediction about IG love. Okay? Okay. No, I think we got him for a reason. I do think that they that has to be foreshadowing something but for this particular moment in time, I was like I could have done without that in this episode that was nonsense time for some good. Laughs. Yeah, he's bringing them drinks, right? I kind of liked it because it adds another layer of suspense. We know Mando hates droids. Yeah, obviously because they like murdered his family, but also this one was specifically programmed to kill baby Yoda, you would now on his ship permanently. So I love that heightened tension. It's also it's another Bounty Hunter and so I'm digging it. I think it makes sense. You know, he would quit would obviously wants some more help with whatever farming or related things he's doing so I'm Into it and no one else shares that hate for Droids that Mando has so it kind of that's why I think I bought it a little more. I didn't mind him bringing him back and explaining it. I just didn't need the flashback of showing it Montage. I think it was writing and the clients writing that I was like, this is magnificent when he was saying droids are not good or bad. They're neutral reflections of those who imprint them. That's that's I wrote that down to yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's absolutely Let me guess you know, it's like people will talk about pets or children. You know, it's yeah, that's a bad dog. That's a bad kid. It's like well, what about the owner / parent and quills just take on being able to help baby OTA and when he says None will be free until the old ways are gone forever. And I love that. They're playing more into the politics of what's happening right now. And I think that is such a strength that they haven't tapped into as much as they should. Yeah, and I love when Star Wars does that in a way that's not not too intense because we've seen that kind of fail in in some of the movies, but I do think it's important because it speaks on the cultural significance that can relate to us. It's also really nice to get a little glimpse into what it was like after the empire fell because they're still they're still out there. They're still people the client in his speech that he gave Mando in the canteen and the bar is talking about how he how much he believed in the Empire like he's still He was in that vision and that it was going to create a better world for everyone. Well, then there's still all these Stormtroopers that are still working for people that like the Empire is got they lost the war but they're not gone and it's interesting to see a little bit of that this you know getting getting that because they're not going to disappear all at once they blew up the dust blew up the Death Star they didn't kill everyone. Yeah, and I think you know Werner Herzog has some just where he's just like, you know, we went into a system and we made it better. It's just that that belief that no no this This is what was right. This is what we did, you know, everybody's lives were better. It's sort of like to bring it to Marvel's like Thanos. It's like no no we made everything but did you ever go hungry under the Empire? Sure, you weren't free, but you know, yeah, right exactly, you know, so I think that that defense was just interesting to hear because now you do here and yeah, it's a kind of, you know, just it's a little bit but it makes it easy to believe that this is five years after Return of the Jedi that whatever it is 20. 30 I guess. It's like 30 years Force awakens is like yeah, that's how the first order was able to come about because this doesn't go away even over 30 years, you know, there's still remnants of it. You still have people who are True Believers. They're just kind of for higher like those Stormtroopers. Yeah, and this series exactly. So now the whole force is assembled and this is my problem with the following scene. The one that I spoke to earlier. We have Mando and in Cara Cara arm wrestling. I feel like this was just a scene to show that baby OTA will use the force in force choke her and to me that doesn't make sense because if we remembered chapter 4, he saw them literally fighting that was actually based in aggression, whereas this was based in pure fun and he was sipping suit. Well, I was gonna say to be fair there was no soup on the ship. So it's interesting because it gives you the idea of like, oh, you know, Whole time we think about like how cute baby Yoda is and of course think of adult Yoda. We think of Master Yoda. Yeah, but what if like this guy is is like this, you know sleeper agent for the Sith. He went straight for a city like immediately tries to show me. I think it was a protective move. Yeah, Daddy. Yeah, it's cool, but it just got me to start thinking of Mike. Maybe we're looking at Baby out all wrong it is maybe the Empire wants him for a reason. Yeah. No, I do well in speaking of an Empire the only time we've seen Luke do this once or twice but really the only people who use this are Darth Vader and kylo ren. I mean, it's pretty exceptional to see another Force sensitive creatures. Yeah. No, you didn't do any choke all believe Luke did it to a good morning guard and Return of the Jedi? Yeah sorta he was like, but I mean it wasn't me. Joke, it was I maybe with some kind of like tickle joke. No. Yeah, but you did it but it's not it's not usually use right. Right. Right, right. That's it's a stiff move. I think I think it I like this scene because it adds another interesting layer. Like what Christian just said, I don't know about sleeper agent for the Sith but the idea that he could go bad what's going on with him that the Empire could use him? Yeah, just hit me speaking of quills lines that it's about who is parenting or overseeing in the right? Same with babies are impressionable as the droids. Well, and totally really I think a lot of that too is the fact that baby Yoda sees I mean stuff you brought up such a great point that he literally saw them fighting before and didn't do anything. But in that I guess he's sitting there and he's watching his protector this person that he's grown very attached to possibly lose it something and maybe doesn't understand the stakes of it, but he understood enough to to jump to jump in there and try to protect this person, but it was just interesting what he Used to try to do that how he tried to protect him but he still did he still he has it at this attachment to Mando and that's kind of like his person you see it anytime he gets taken away to that. I the way his because a lot of the way he emotes is with his ears and the way his eyes and his ears are any time he's taken away from and oh, he's like, oh my God, I don't like this also with quill I just have this I trust you, whatever you say I'm with you like and he snaps at Kara few times definitely. So side of clear, enemy, you're also more comfortable with him because he just made a new crib. He just designed this like awesome way for it to like open and close. It looks like bulletproof Blaster proof, everything-proof lint-free human lifetimes and then he snaps a character like that was that was like an old Uncle freak drunk freaking out yelling Nick Nolte kind of scary. Yeah. Yeah a little bit before we move on. The next section of this episode I do want to show everyone out in the chat. Thank you for riding with us live. We really appreciate that. You are definitely part of this panel with us. Make sure to hit that like button leave us a comment after this video ends. And also if you're listening on a podcast hello, give us a five star rating will shut you out on there. So let's talk about this meet up with grief carga and they kind of were sizing each other up, which I love that scene, but then it led to To a really epic scene where we get like venomous bats. Yeah. Yeah, that was crazy fireside chat things were crazy. Everything's gonna be fine. Immediate timing the thing I don't get is. How did how they were there if that's their sort of Home especially grief car guy, he does business out of that off that planet. He should know that those are creatures that are somewhere that like, they should have known about those. He should have realized that that was a threat unless there. Came out of nowhere that is possible. But yeah, but you got to figure that's a good point, you know, even if he doesn't hand out here the riverbed very often. He should know like well, you know, they heard about of the Flies around out there. So you should be careful keep your eyes peeled. Yeah, and he didn't all know but it was very funny. Everything's going fine. And then instantly everything was not fine. So yeah, I thought it was a it was a very exciting sequence because it was like wait what is so fast? Taste and so much happened and just those few minutes. They would have been so funny if he got his arm bit off like chubs and Happy Gilmore because he's happy. I think that would have been amazing like you took his eye but it didn't happen but he gets scarred. Yes pretty and it's like a gnarly Scar and saying that a force choke is healing which we have never seen in the in the Galaxy never know and it's never seen a verse is not the first time. He's attempted it. This is just the It's time that again Kara our car going you'll get this thing out of here and quill and all his in all of his wisdom being like just calm down. Let's see what happens and look what happened because he tried to heal Mando. I think it was an episode 2. Yeah, and he put him back in the stroller immediately. And this was the first time that quill kind of realized. There's something very different about this child. Let's see what happens. All right, because he goes he did touch him into. Yes, ma'am. I tried to get out of the way. Thought we had all thought that that was what he was attempting to do and it's in that's this reversal of earlier. You know, we saw the choke and now this is a bringing back to life in a way his healing feeling I believe his instinct is based in goodness, right but he's gonna have a choice like you said now he's raised. Well, there was an interesting and chat believe Steve Owen said baby. Yoda is learning violence for Mom and oh, yeah. I thought that was a good nature versus nurture but because of this grief Admits that he was going to bamboozle him and screw him over but he ends up killing his own men, which was a cool turn of events because I mean this little angel child saved your life. So it's well deserved but they that leads us to the client. And this was another such a well-written scene. I was obsessed with this the tension was incredible. It was shot and edited so well Ryan, what did you think about this loved this scene so much also, Him just talking about the Empire. Yeah for a second. I'm like you're convincing me. You're like, he's very like I'm all this hate and darkness. I'm ready to enlist everyone Prosperity. Every opportunity piece is the world more peaceful since the revolution show me a kid just like the world sucks. Show me the child, right? Yeah, I guess that's why we do need baby. You know, he kind of laid it out there for us and I really yeah awesome scene in Sting plan where they're like, I have a plan you bring them back to the ship. We now have Carl Weathers on our side. Let's go visit the client. And so we know what's at stake. Here. We but nothing ever goes according to plan and that just made the perfect Stakes for this entire entire scene. Yeah, and then we get the call from off Gideon Giancarlo Esposito. What Christian what did you think about the introduction of this character? I know we've been waiting for him and I thought it was great. We what's his full name off Gideon off Gideon. It's good to know that he runs the off Gideon's fried chicken and then he of course came there to me. I mean, she's playing the same character. Let's be honest. Oh my God. I think it's different and I actually did. You might talk when we saw the Hologram. It was like, okay, we'll get him next next episode. So when he showed up, I'm like, all right, this is great. Great. I thought that I thought it was really cool to see him what I love about this sequence is so great moth Gideon Mama Kitty in my like like Moff Tarkin like me. Yeah Grandma Christian, so I thought that you know, it was interesting because they kept talking about like see only for Stormtroopers and then of course, it's like four battalions. End of Storm Troopers, which I thought was, you know, we wouldn't be Star Wars if the plans went according to plan. Yes, your Shadow Troopers. Is that what death Troopers definitely we also saw the Speeder bike down troopers from Return of the Jedi? So there was no shortage of Troopers. They're cool. I know and they said more and then was like see I told you four and then like eight more come in right after that. Yeah immediately. Yeah, so I thought the whole sequence was great because it just shows you what the stakes are and It raises it to a point where you're like, yeah is Mando really gonna get out of this, you know, definitely enjoyed the what I really enjoyed about that was the fact that they had no qualms just shooting up the entire place and killing Werner Herzog the client. Yeah, no issues with it. They killed him and all of the Storm Troopers and the child's what's important and we knew he answered to someone bigger than him and so the but it was interesting that he was like, I don't I mean you're just a casualty in this way. To set up your villain now, like I think what better way to make an entrance like you said Eugene Carlo Esposito as an actor, he has such a presence but there are moments in shows like Breaking Bad where he doesn't even say a line. He just one action and you're like this guy is a badass and in this it's like you just killed Werner Herzog who is very I mean he is a it was worse as well. Like this guy is terrifying and he's not like a lot of other Imperial generals. I feel like you either get like a no-name that's I have on screen comes in and out or you get someone like a Moff Tarkin or even like an admiral thrawn from the books and now in the rebel series like this is definitely going to be a massive villain. Yeah, and it's interesting that we get him the episode before the finale at the very end. So he's going to be I wonder if he'll go into season 2 or if you would imagine what yeah, that's what I was thinking. I think so too. Especially when he says it means more to me than you will ever know and that just interesting because we get some quick Will form he kind of says that he does not think that he doesn't use the word clone, but he's kind of talking around that time of a terminology and so it just makes me wonder what the heck is going on. What why does baby Oda means so much how do you know because quill doesn't know about the force but he alludes to it. It's obviously in some sort of discussion, but there's not much more that we know about that with where we are, right and there's there's conversation about just what baby Yoda is you When they started there's yeah what they talked about in terms of, you know, genetic farming and reference to care and all this. So it got me thinking a lot about like it. What is this? You know, we still don't assume that Yoda is actually this creatures father and I could certainly be it just doesn't seem like the most likely scenario. So is it like, you know from a sample of his DNA, you know and just like was it made in like a farm and Then this one got away and they want it back. You know, there's and it raises so many questions that I hadn't really thought about and it's like well, yeah, we biota we just want to know you he's a great article about that on AfterBuzz tv.com written by Yours Truly about the what is a baby Yoda, but hey check that out. We have to talk about the events that followed this because yeah. Wow Commando trying to check in on quill You there? Yeah, cool. Are you there yet? So urgently so urgently only to seek will on the floor and to say smoke coming out of his skin. Well, you just got shot up. Yeah. Oh it was terrible. I couldn't tell if that was his ride. It might have been might have you actually right here my friend. Oh my gosh, but then Baby Otis years are peering out and he is picked up like a football scoop those damn spiders are so fast. So fast, they were racing across the desert and through Mordor again. I was like sitting on my couch like this. Like is he going to make it is he going to make it? Why are they so fast? Damn it works like freaking out in my living room. Also, I want to see what the defense protocol was. He's like going the ship. I demand some defense protocol. Like what's the ship gonna do Rick and Morty episode like I don't know what's gonna happen and we don't get to like that was such a realistic move and really daring like I respect it. Heck out of that. I've this show is taking massive risks and I'm going to be with me anxious the rest of the week quite frankly. Yeah, I'm Ryan's not even okay. He's not going to be able to celebrate Christmas because he's going to be waiting the 27th the death Troopers. So the black yeah traversed, you know, they were introduced in Rogue one. They are these Stormtroopers that don't miss, you know, they are the ones that are have good aim, as we clearly saw the only ones who actually shoot something and in Rogue one, we didn't really get to see them in like a All action, so this is just setting up like the highest States yet for the for the show next week. Like I cannot wait to see what happens. Yeah. I'm really excited. I'm really nervous because Mando and Care are alone. It was grief carga and mean numbers are so down. It does not look good. No, and I mean look, they're good, but they're surrounded and even with baby Oda becoming more comfortable with his use of the force. I mean, it's still I don't know what they need. They need friends. Yeah, I need allies. Well, that's what I'm I'm and I'm kind of wondering and kind of hoping this is a callback that I wouldn't mind. They've done it once and I wouldn't mind if they did it again. If the other mandalorians also showed up to sort of help them get out of the situation might be a theory that that I was saving for people that I think are coming to the okay. Okay by people I mean character that's actually interesting because one more quote that I it'd pull from the client was when he said why did Mandalore resist our expansion? So it's an interesting take specifically on the really warming that's his whole point is that you know that we make everything better like Mandalore would have been better if you had just submitted to the Empire also the character did we never got anything back from the feet that showed up we literally just saw his feet and he showed up forming not well yesterday. Yes. Is that going to happen? Play it or do you think that this except that that was Gus Fring Giancarlo Esposito Grand Moff Esposito. Do you think that was him that steps? That's awesome what I was thinking? Okay. That's who that was at the end of the episode. Wow. I know I know despite Ryan's theory that it was a character from animated series. I just feel like that might be who it is. Yeah. I just I think just again with the directors will talk about the directors later. I really do think that that is still CAD Bane because Dave filoni man directed the episode did the whole Clone Wars series, but that'd be a great birthday sense if that's who it is. But yeah, I mean, I guess yeah those feet and we haven't done anything. So that has to come and look at that quality Footwear. If only we know who has he six. Yeah, some good art important. Are those Bruno Molly's shoes is that o j-- and that is where we were directors Corner again, Deborah. Now doing her second episode this season. The last one she did was episode 3, which was full of Praise. That was when we had all the mandalorians the and yeah, how can we forget killing it once again with this episode she is going to be directing as of now six episodes for the Obi-Wan spinoff series. She's showing that I am so psyched for her because really I would have felt like for us, right? Yeah. I mean, we're just going to need to give me a call to show. Okay watch you clearly is such a great knowledge of the universe and is awesome at tying all this stuff. Together and directing these action scenes and just establishing so much tension. She also has a new film that is in early development called the possibility of fireflies. It's going to Star Courtney Love. So she is stepping back into the world of features. She's only doing one feature before and that was a film. She did like right out of film school was Zach Braff. So this I'm just so psyched for Deborah Chow because she's so talented and clearly the Mandalorian is opening up more and more possibilities for her. So just Bravo but those are really the only two things going on next week. We got tiger. TD who obviously plays IG 11. You also had JoJo rabbit come out this year. He is directing the season finale of the Mandalorian. I can't wait to see what he does that he's mostly known for his comedy drama with his films. You know, we did what we do with this Shadows, which is just a straight up comedy like a mockumentary about vampires. He did a hunt for the older people which again another comedy-drama film shot in New Zealand. And then this year JoJo rabbit, which this it's not getting so much Oscar attention. It might get nominated. For a couple of awards so he's like the height of his powers right now and it comes to directing and I can't wait to see what he does with this and I mean, yeah, he's also done Thor Ragnarok so we know he's done. He's big Blockbuster. He's been in the space before so hopefully he knocks out of the park and maybe he has a film on the horizon, but we'll see him next week. Yes. Thank you. I Zia. Can you help us with some news and gossip? Okay. I've got to I have got obviously there's the rise of Skywalker that just came out what now? The last rise of I've never heard of that episode wait small one first Pedro Pascal came into my work today, and I freaked out panic attack. She texted all of us I did I took a group text at all capital letters. I was about to lose my mind and no one else in the restaurant seem to care and I was like you guys Hey Hey, where's babe? That is the top news. She's really nice. And he also tips really really well just on that any Pedro very very well. Yes like 50% Well, I asked you to ask him if I could sit on Mandos lat. Yeah, he has a moment for it though it ya like it has to be one of those things, right? Okay. So after the small news, I was just lost my mind Hey big news Raisa Skywalker is out and it's interesting because the river is getting a lot of negative reviews, which I just I don't understand because an obviously we're not going to get into spoilers Ryan's giving a look but I'm just speaking of reviews. You can see our review on 5.0 non-spoilery boiler is up on popcorn talk and I will say AI as Star Wars fans, I suggest you don't read these reviews and we don't just get hyped Get Hype for The Saga to end and just enjoy it just don't listen to the critics and veto in the booth. I can say I was in the room for the non-spoiler non-spoiler to help them guys keep us accountable to not people he held us accountable. This is someone who's dying to see the film and he was in the room while we did our review just so you know already so we didn't spoil anything. I didn't get any spoilers either which I'm one of those weirdos that I don't mind spoilers but Christian text him and I'm so weird. So you would mind me. She loves spoilers to no, no don't know anything for this is like now, but I don't know anything but Christian texted me afterwards and was like, yeah, I really liked I really liked it and he said it was good. And I trust I trust here. That's what that's what I was thinking like if you watch the show and you like the way we talk about Star Wars, you know, you can take what we say, but don't worry about anything. You know, it's just before we started I find it obscene that we live in a time where people need to check something with this dumb of a name as the Tomato Meter how stupid do you sad we remembered I gotta check it Tomato Meter and look how many movies that people that you have liked have Tyler gray cell Christmas have terrible ratings on there, you know, like even movies that I don't love I mean, you know the like Batman v Superman is like a 29 I'm like, well, it's not that bad. You know, you look at these ratings and you're like, okay, but there's a critics and like You read a Critic review and you're like that's exactly how I feel about it moving. I typically don't agree. I mean something fans are writing reviews sure, but I'm talking about someone who is a film of the capital F critic and like, you know, they go to see Star Wars today and then they go and see the Oscar movies the rest of the week. They're not going to see it in the same way that those of us do but we were all I didn't see it with you guys, but we all saw it on Tuesday with sorry everybody except see I saw a Christian we all saw it and if you watch whatever movie goes, you know, we always see the movies without Xena. It was just so much fun. And I had a great time and I'll be kind I did not love the last I did not love The Last Jedi and I am not a fan. That's the thing. This was so great. And I had watched The Last Jedi the night before I re-watched it and I already forgot about how much I didn't like it because this was so good. Well, that's how I felt too. And so the fact that you said it was good. I was like, okay. I trust him. I trust his opinion because I didn't Lasted either was what do you get? If you don't trust us just go see it for yourself. If you don't like it and you have all the you know, you have all these problems with it. That's fine. Just see it the the even worse than the stupid Tomato Meter is like yeah. I read the summary sounds like it's gonna be a real shit show like what you just read a summary of the one you spoiled it for yourself dummy. I know you like spoilers, but it's just like just see I just see it figure out what you think about it something also really important last week. Ryan was posed with the question when he he said that he would literally do anything to be a pilot extra mile in any Star Wars Adventure Jeff Graham pose the question. Would you kill baby Yoda, I hesitated he has a dated thought now there's another pilot in the universe Poe Dameron Oscar Isaac pode Anna Cameron, and we're just going to play the clip. He says I was a little boy. We were on the same wavelength thick and tell this listen I was a little bit love with him until I'm I'm upset. I think you have well now little baby Yoda to become a pilot in the resistance. Okay. Okay a blur and we are not going to have this slander, especially on the you're right on the money. Right. You are Leah. Right, right. I really think about it. I messed up you watched you watched him get taken. Can we just talk about how PBA to Poor Man's R2D2 enough of bb-8 and are like, he's not that cool. No, he's not. He's not going but I mean baby. You're amazing. Not only that has hit Star Wars Galaxies just any sort of sci-fi creature period and that's the period. All right. Let's get into some prediction your AfterBuzz TV. The prediction Christian I know you had some that you spoke to I've spoken to a few. I think that I G11 is on the ship even though I'm not gonna hang him I think will was like, yeah, we're going to need him and maybe he was deactivated and he was hiding somewhere and I think he was able before he got shot to activate him. So I think IG 11 is going to start. He's directing in case that's not enough. I think the rest of the mandalorians are going to come back to help out. I don't know blah. We didn't hope you didn't say but I think Mandel put out the Mando signal and they're there and they're they're ready to have a Mandalorian huddle. I try even if there's no longer be good people logically, he needs to be dead digested for thousands of years in the stomach of the store. Like if one of them is Boba fed, I'm just gonna lose my Geo whee we're gonna be all right. Fam. Yeah, we good. Why is spoken xia? What do you think you calm down? I definitely also thought that I know I you know said this earlier that the other mandalorians might make a might make an appearance in this one to come back because they really are backed into a corner and something has to get them out. Like I said, they're Mando is great. He's good, but I don't know if he's that good with death Troopers and all those Stars Troopers and he likes those odds, but he's outnumbered. He's my little my prediction and Is sorta is taking some context clues into account. There were some awesome trailers for the series and there's one shot my favorite shot that is not popped up yet. Oh every shot hammer. It is the one where Mando exits the door of this room. They are currently stuck in blasters blazing like this and that is so happening next week. I cannot wait for this episode. I think it's going to be a complete shootout. This is like the the climax of your Western of Your Samurai film this is going to be epic. I hope it's a longer than 40 minutes. I really do. It'll be 41 we 41, but I just I think it's going to deliver incredible prediction from Christian bladder over there involving IG 11, but I do think we're going to get maybe some of those bounty hunters. Yeah. I think we're getting the bounty hunters back. I think I've tried to see jet pack on Mando where I can wait a little bit Ahsoka Tano. Can I Your prediction yet, but because this is the penultimate episode who here thinks that we will see Mentos face in the season finale great question. Not me. I don't think so. Yeah, I'm with you stuff. I don't think so. We're not seeing an ounce of Flesh, you know, if you do it, you know what I think is helmet like you can't even like see and I we're talking about Captain phasma before the show honesty. See her eye. I don't think that that would happen with best car. No, I don't I yeah, like even if I saw hand I'd be like, yes. Yes, I think sorry you think you think Mom Gideon's going to be like I shoot baby Odo or you take the helmet off and there's no no, I don't think he cares that much. His helmet is on. Yeah. You're probably right. I mean like yeah. On your wall Just Go With It. Yeah, sometimes a good at hunting hunting hot taking the chat Jenna James baby. Yoda is a Sith Lord Jenna. Okay. We know Jenna from joining us. I give it to you very interesting Theory. All right, we do have to wrap. I'm just Really looking forward to the finale and we will make sure to social out when we are going live with that. Yes until next time. We're happy holidays first and foremost, but Christian, where can I find you in your Christmas sweater? Happy life day everyone. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Christian DMZ and tomorrow Thursday. 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Steph Sabraw (@stephsabraw), Ryan Nilsen (@rynilsen), Xia Anderson (@xia_land) & Christian Bladt (@cristianDMZ) break down “The Reckoning”. Episode Synopsis below (spoilers) The Mandalorian receives a message from Greef Karga. Karga’s town has been overrun by Imperial troops led by the Client, who is desperate to recover the Child. Karga proposes that the Mandalorian use the Child as bait in order to kill the Client and free the town. In return, Karga will square things with the Guild, which would allow the Mandalorian and the Child to live in peace. Sensing a trap, the Mandalorian recruits Cara Dune and Kuiil the Ugnaught to assist him. Kuill has also rebuilt and reprogrammed IG-11, and the group journeys to Nevarro. Upon arrival they meet Karga and his associates, but en route to the town are attacked by Mynocks. Karga is injured but the Child uses the force to heal his wound. In return, Karga shoots his associates and explains his original plan to kill the Mandalorian and take the Child to the Client. The group formulates a new plan: Karga will pretend that Dune captured the Mandalorian, and all three will enter the town to meet the Client. Meanwhile, Kuiil will return the Child to the ship. During the meeting, the Client receives a call from Moff Gideon, whose troops surround the building and open fire, killing the Client. Gideon arrives and boasts that the Child will soon be in his possession. In the desert outside town, scout troopers track and kill Kuiil and kidnap the Child. Disney takes us to the deepest depths of a galaxy far far away, and we’re here to talk about it in THE AFTERBUZZ TV THE MANDALORIAN AFTER SHOW PODCAST. Set after the stories of Boba and Jango Fett, The Mandalorian follows an unnamed bounty hunter in the outer reaches of the galaxy and away from the New Republic, capturing targets and collecting his rewards. Tune in as our hosts breakdown each episode of the new series! About The Mandalorian: After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe. The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the empire and before the emergence of the first order. The series depicts a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic. 