The Mandalorian (Disney+) TV Show • Page 20

My girlfriend who is a casual watcher of Star Wars, and hater of babies, had me pause and rewind multiple times too. Disney has all their bases covered. Haha

 

Anyone have more information on how these beacon things work and beep toward any target in the galaxy? Is that established anywhere?

 

I hope this gets explored more fully in the show, because it's a really unsettling concept that adds a darker shade to the Star Wars universe. The fact that all of these bounties can be tracked and have personalized ID numbers that contain specific identifying information would almost suggest that when they enter into business with people they agree to have a tracker placed on them in the event that they need to be hunted down to pay their debts.

But that doesn't explain how the baby is being tracked so idk. Unless the tracker beacons are using DNA samples as opposed to some kind of device on the person of the target? And that's why their range is limited?

 

Some variation of this I suppose:

Homing beacon/Legends

 

The beacons made sense at first when it Grief was saying the bounties were for people who broke bail or escaped jail (i think he was saying that). Those people having some sort of tracking beacon attached makes sense. Though it does seem to make the finding bounties seem comically easy. The whole thing gets a little gray with the baby.

 

The Yoda species lifespan is a little fuzzy for me right now too. He lived to be 900 years old. And if I'm correct he trained jedi for 800 years. But the first 50 years of his life (at least) are spent in infancy. Must mature quickly in the next 50?

 

But bail jumpers and escaped prisoners aren't the only people that will have bounties on their heads. Han in the OT, for example. What happens when it's someone who just owes a massive debt to some rich dude/crime lord? Maybe they have to give a DNA sample to be used in one of these beacons as collateral of some kind when the original deal happens?

 

This makes sense to me. It'd be too easy to disappear otherwise in a GALAXY.

 

This is all speculation, but the Bounty Hunters Guild seems to be more like a licensed company that only takes "official" bounties. In my mind that would be prisoners, people who broke the law, etc. Han being wanted by a crime lord feels more like an off the books thing.

 

This may be true, but we know for a fact that bail jumpers and escapees are not the only categories of people that get official bounties put out against them, because when Pedro asks Carl Weathers what other targets he has, he says something like "just" bail jumpers and escapees. Implying there are other types of bounties they post as well. I'd imagine that legal debtors are also something the guild would handle official bounties for, no? So the crime lord thing may be a bad example on my part, but what about legal debts owed to someone?

 

(this is the kind of fun conversation that doesn't always get to happen for bingedumped shows btw)

 

No idea haha. I'm hoping we get to learn more about the inner workings of the Guild vs non-guild bounties. Between the guild and the underground Mandolarian society, I loved the world-building in the first episode. Lot's of intriguing details to be explored.

 

Yeah it's all speculation at this point, just an interesting concept that makes the world seem way more dystopian. At least during the days of the Empire and immediately after.

 

This and the Yoda dick size discussion.

 

definitely packing a hog

 

oh noooooooo

 

oh yes

 

I'd buy it if baby Yoda was 5, but that scene wasn't 50 years before the show. Yoda fucks, but it isn't Luke's.

 

needs star wars music

 

The score seemed pretty solid to me. Though I can't remember much of it.

I really need to watch this again. Did a viewing party with friends, which was fun but I kind of distracting.

 

there were moments I really dug with the score and others where I felt it was a little contemporary

 

I really liked the score. A nice change of pace.

 

Yea the score is great. He killed it.

 

I love that within seconds of the score got going, I recognized it from Creed.