My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 277 - THE MANDALORIAN SEASON 3 FINALE WITH CLEM

Episode Date: April 20, 2023

Robbie and Clem discuss The Mandalorian Season 3 finale, whether or not any of their predictions came true, where this leaves the series, and what the future of Star Wars holds! 3Chi: Use code BASEMENT15 for 15% off your complete order at 3Chi.com! HelloFresh: Use code FOX50 at HelloFresh.com/FOX50 for 50% OFF YOUR FIRST ORDER plus FREE SHIPPING! C4: Go to 7-11 or c4energy.com to purchase yours in all four flavors ****************************************  Subscribe to My Mom's Basement on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIeZ96PqdsJYQ7DFLRx6MHw My Mom's Basement Merchandise: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/my-moms-basementYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Bum bum! Hello and welcome to My Mom's Basement and a special Mandalorian Season 3 Finale Recap edition of My Mom's Basement. I am your host, Din Fox. With me is my co-host, Din Clem. How are you, Clem? The Din Boys! That's what they're you, Clem? The Din Boys. That's what they're going to call us now. The Din Boys, yeah. I kind of like how we're just going to throw the Din around. That's a great call. A great call.

We throw the D around all over the place. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Interesting season, Bob. We made it to the end. We got here. We got here in one piece. We've made it to the finale. It's been an interesting reception so far recording this on the

day it came out obviously it seems like half of my mentions are people saying they were a little underwhelmed and the other half of my mentions is people saying that was everything i wanted out of that finale what an amazing star wars adventure which side of the fence do you find yourself falling on clem i find myself squarely my asshole has a fence post right up because I'm right on the fence. Middleman, right? I am too. Yeah. You know, what's so funny is this is going to sound absurd, but this was, in my opinion,

one of the best episodes in the history of the show. And it also left me feeling a little bit underwhelmed. Like they left a little bit too much in the bone. They played it a little bit too safe. They didn't take enough risks, maybe. I don't know if that's just me hyping it up so much in my head, though. You know, I was putting out all the theory videos, the prediction videos. Clem, I think I went 0 for 6 in my predictions.

I didn't get anything right. And truly, yesterday, when I put out that video, I was like, I don't know if I'm just a genius but i think i'm going like six for six here and i went oh for six yeah we have a tendency to you know do things say things and being dead wrong speaking of which uh a very heartfelt apology to the armorer who we slandered for like a good 15 minutes straight last week that's on us that was a fuck up that was our fault i think the action parts of this show were awesome i think the story part of this show and the plot and just everything was either underwhelming or rushed so i think that's why we're getting these two feelings it's perfectly balanced and i'm not gonna say the all as all things should be i'm gonna do the all star wars balance here the light and the dark side

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I think that's how it has to be If you disagree with someone on Star Wars It's kind of like this season There were some good parts that can ever be happy with Star Wars, right? I think that's how it has to be if you disagree with someone on Star Wars. So, you know what? It's kind of like this season, I guess, right? This season, there were some good parts, there were some bad parts. And at the end of it all, we got this episode and it kind of fits in perfectly

with a season where we had an Andor episode, we had a Lizzo episode, we had just regular Mando episodes, and then we just had like the holy shit action-packed yet only 39-minute long episode, which I think. All right. Tell me if you agree on this. Do you feel like this could have been one giant episode with last week?

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it basically bled into it. This felt like basically when we hop into this finale, it felt like you hopped into the third act of a star wars movie and that star wars movie began last week like you said so i skip the previously ons for all shows because i feel like you can get spoiled of what's going to happen if they just show you a character or something you forgot about like oh this is gonna get wrapped up here and i did that i then start the episode and i'm fucking i have what are these fucking clone trooper Mandalorian trooper, whatever the fuck are there.

We're coming at our guys. You book a ton on the run. And I'm just like, Oh fuck. We're in the battle right now. Like I, I needed to be warmed up. I needed to have a couple of kisses on the neck,

maybe a little foreplay beforehand. And they're just throwing little fucking club into the mix. And I have fucking laser beams sailing past my head. So it was a lot to take in. I do think that if you had last week and this week together i do think there would also that's the thing if they had done that and they had the end kind of rushed it would make sense you had like 20 more minutes we would have all been happy um and i think we're going to get into it in the breakdown some of the stuff we we thought was rushed but i think they could have taken care of that easy it's like i think we're on um text read with the disney boys jeff d low

and ken jack and jeff said it perfectly it's kind of like the wandavision finale where we're just like there's like four other things other than mephisto that we want to see happen that didn't happen and then they kind of just like snapped their fingers and it was like all right we're done so i am not going to blame us for this one, Robbie. This wasn't our fan fiction ruining it. I think there was a lot of stuff that could have played out differently. And Mando has two seasons worth of story that they've showed us to kind of

like, they have a little bit of a, I go with higher expectations for them. And I don't think they met him in this episode, but I thought I had, I had a lot of fun too. It's kind of like a, maybe more of a popcorn movie than a nominee for an award show movie.

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because last season we very much built towards the goal of like let's get grogu back to his kind and then you finish it off with luke skywalker coming back and the cgi blowing our minds and we see luke in his prime you're not going to live up to that but this season also didn't have as much of a pure i guess it was taking back mandalore but it wasn't it didn't feel as much as a pure like hey we're all going to do one thing here and then like you said it felt rushed and i don't know what the rush is what's the rush netflix certain not netflix disney plus netflix too fuck them too um everyone what's the rush just take a deep breath your streaming services you don't have commercials to deal with you don't have you know sponsors and people like that that are telling you you need this

amount of breaks in a show you can make it as long as you want you made the pershing episode an hour and 15 minutes why did we have to do 39 minutes for the finale this was such an important episode a lot of these scenes i would have liked just a minute or two extra and i also don't want people to take this the wrong way i very much enjoyed the finale i thought this was a very very very strong episode of the mandalorian and as clem said it might have had the best action sequences in the entire show it was awesome okay a lot of this was getting me up out of my couch cheering i'm going crazy for grogu and everything but it did leave me wanting a little bit more and not in the oh my god i can't wait for season four way almost in the like oh i wish you did a little bit more in this episode especially because i do think there was a lot of things wrapped up. And there may be a legitimate change in the show, which I think we'll talk about later as well.

And for this to be the end of potentially that storyline or that kind of part of the show, it's like, oh, wait, you guys had plenty of runway here. So Dave Filoni, you went from Russia. So why are you Russian? Shout out my boy Nelly for that line. That was one of my favorite Nelly lines ever. All right, let's get into the episode. Before we do, make sure you like the video. Subscribe on YouTube.

Please, if you've been following along for the whole season, make sure to throw us a comment below and be like, hey, I've been here the whole season. We love hearing that. We love hearing that you guys went through the journey with us and everything. I'm going to take my Mandalorian hoodie off if you're watching on YouTube now, because after all the armor slender we did last week, we're not going to be allowed in the covert regardless.

So I'll take this down. That's a good point. I can't take my baby Yoda thing off because this is my kid's shirt and I have to take it off very carefully or else I'm going to fat guy in a little coat it. So I'm just going to wear it the rest of the episode and sweat a little bit here.

So we'll be all right. And in the comments, so everyone on YouTube, timeout. Pause it. Robbie's getting all dressed up, getting dialed up. Timeout. Go in the comments. Give us your finale rating on the ball scale. Zero to five is the ball scale.

And tell us why. You didn't like this. You did like this. Yada, yada, yada. And if you want to do a bonus one, give us the season as well. Because I think the season discussion is going to be just as like important as this episode. Yeah. So we start off with Axe Wolves and we know we're going into this thinking there might be an extra spy. Last week it was called the spies. We only saw one spy.

We didn't get another spy in this episode. This is the first thing, but we kick things off with Axe Wolves going up towards the fleet for backup and i'm like oh man sus like we were calling the armor out now it's clearly going to be this guy ax who's leaving the ship the way he was going through the rain and everything was very cool um and like you said the best car troopers right away with bow and the gang we're right into the midst of the action when this episode starts uh my my note here uh so axe is the spy huh fuck him like all right hand up axe this one's on me i took away your name when i thought your name was axewolves which was like the coolest name ever i will now make good and i will call him axewolves for now on i still don't like the character but I feel bad for calling him a spy that tried to wipe his species off of the universe, basically.

So that was on me. I still don't know if maybe we're just reading too much in the spies. Are we just? I don't know. Like, are we? I saw someone responded to me and they go, we were the spies because we were spying. And it's like, what the fuck are you talking about? No, we weren't.

We're not the spies. The spies are the friends we made along the way i would love to hear feloni and fabrel comment on why that episode was titled the spies at this point and were they like not panicked because i'm sure they don't panic at this point but when they see the entire internet be like wow it's called the spies it must mean a big reveals coming in the finale where they like oh fuck we should have just called it the spy the spy oh god yeah i i almost that must be one of the like worst parts about like writing like making scripts and whatever is seeing the internet just completely bastardized into something completely different i don't even know if bastardized is the word but we completely fucked this shit up we deal with everything true detective season one is the gold standard for that we had this basically the greatest show

ever created is in the reddit of true detective season one that was one of the greatest shows i've ever then we watch like oh that's the yellow king like oh he's just a fucking weirdo and just a weird lawnmower guy yeah my predictions by the way for this episode i don't think we're the craziest out there predictions i i can go through the list i think it was uh grogu gets shot in the chest because he had the armor made by the armor at some point this season i said this got to pay off i said bokatan rods the mythosaur because that was another big tease throughout the entire season i I said maybe Din Djarin gets his helmet removed against his will and he gets mind flayed. That was my most out there bold prediction

that I was like, that would be fucking crazy. But hey, we had the whole Pershing episode about the mind flayer, about the Empire torturing people like that. I added an extra one where I thought that maybe Carson Teva would come in with backup from the New Republic because they were not really giving them. That wasn't an official prediction, though. And then what were my other two? Do you remember them from the TikTok?

No, no. I honestly don't even remember what my prediction. Like when you said the thing with Baby Yoga and Shadow. Oh, Thrawn was one. I thought Thrawn. Oh, yeah. That was a given. A given.

An absolute layup. An absolute layup. An absolute layup. Yeah, and we, no, we didn't get any of that stuff. We didn't even get a post-credit scene. What's up with that? That's a bit, that's a bit lame. That's one thing that I will get a little upset about, because season one, we get an awesome post-credits

with Moff Gideon, the fucking Darksaber. We're like, holy shit. He's still alive. He's still out there. Season two, we get an even more badass one with boba fett going in probably the most badass boba fett scene we ever got him going into the jabba's palace killing bib fortuna kicking him off the throne and then kicking his feet up on it and then this one just nothing he couldn't even give us like a marvel one like when they give us a

comedy one you can't even throw us that bone yeah just eating shawarma i would have taken them eating shawarma on their little suburban house i yeah so i was gonna say it's not star wars has never truly established the post-credit scene but they have in the mandalorian so that is actually a fair point rob so yeah it's in all their and honestly in all their shows even in andor we got the death star being constructed in book Book of Boba Fett, we got Cobb Vantus being put back together and he's like half mechanical now. Do you think... Hear me out on this one. Maybe

they did that or didn't do it because next week there's a secret episode and that's when we're going to get the post-credits scene. Yes! Let's go! Secret episode! This is also in the very beginning of the episode we see mando break out of the shackles with that you know he was taken away by those beskar troopers and we thought oh

my god the whole episode he's going to be tortured he's going to be taken away from the crew i want to say one two maybe two three minutes into the episode he's free and he does this with the help of grogu and ig12 i loved grogu just grabbing the troopers and going no no no and there was a big flamethrower moment here when i say big the flamethrower was very present but it's not like the flamethrower had a great moment here the best guard troopers try to hit it on mando and he's wearing all i guess flame retardant stuff it seems like everyone in the galaxy is wearing this though because nothing lights on fire ever the flamethrower is the most useless weapon since the clob in double in golden eye 007 for 64 it's again i'm happy it had its moment i'm happy they're giving it a whirl they're still trying to

figure it out those guys at least have the excuse they're this is new to them this is a new weapon mando has fucked so that sucked with the flamethrower and and all the Mandalorians have sucked with the flamethrowers since day one. So yeah, apparently nothing lights on fire. I guess that's one of the things, the way that they build the armor, even the storm troopers and stuff, no one really just like melts or burns. So it is one of those weird things. We're going to get into this.

I think throughout this episode, Moff Gideon, it's like he learned how to become a supervillain from like a bad supervillain, like a bad superhero movie. It's almost like he's doing his own fan acting of Darth Vader. He's trying to be Vader, but he's not. He clearly isn't. I have this super duper

badass Mandalorian who is an all-time great bounty hunter. I'm going to just have a couple guys take him back. I'm going to just walk to my little lair. Just let them take care of it. Like, they'll do the rest. And, of course, it fucking didn't go through. Yet, he somehow had dots on these two guys that were color-coded.

Baby Yoda had a green dot. He had a green dot on Baby Yoda. Yet, he couldn't figure out how to not have. All right, we're going to get to that part later. He couldn't figure out how to not fuck up that entire plan. Yet, he had the green dot ready for baby yoda it kind of goes into those little baby yoda handcuffs and all this shit it's like moff gideon he's a great preparer he's just not a great doer i guess that's what i'm that's what i'm trying to say moff gideon would have the

laminated sheet for star wars land like jeff d low if we're being on i'm not accusing jeff d low of working for the empire or anything but he would be a good fit in my Moff Gideon's whole crew. And then when rock and roller coaster, the Aerosmith ride is shut down. Moff Gideon's whole plan would just go to waste. He's like, well, we can't do the next one.

We have to just wait until it opens. Like, dude, it's not opening for like three months. And be like, well, I guess we're just going to have to just sit here and wait three months. Then I,

I have some thoughts on Moff Gideon that I'm going to get off and whole boy. I can't wait to get him off so after grogu little baby you can't wait to get him off i won't i won't after grogu saves the mandalorian mando kind of tells him listen you're a man now like we're gonna have to do some shit today let's do this come with me and we get the title of the episode the return which i was wondering is it going to be grand admiral thron's return is it going to be the return of luke skywalker of boba fett i think it's just the return to mandalore i was thinking luke at first because again you say the the r word in that sense that that's that's luke's word from episode six obviously uh we didn't get that i guess i guess it was you know we know what it ended up being. Also, we said before, baby yo, fucking fighting a guy

and also hitting no to like signal his point. What a fucking move by this guy. What a flex. I loved it. So insulting. The last thing you hear before you're knocked out by a baby is no, no, no, no, no. You're like, what? What's going on right now?

We see a TIE fleet launch out towards the Mandos in the atmosphere. The way that these things were launching straight down and then out. Oh, my God. That was so cool. That's Star Wars porn for me. The TIE interceptors, baby. They are sexy. Oh, they were sexy.

Gideon realizes Mando's broken free. Like you said, he's got the color-coded dots like they're on a fucking GTA map or something. And Mando and Grogu, when they're sneaking around and they contact R5, they want the schematics of the ship and everything. Did you get a New Hope vibes? Because I got like Ben Kenobi sneaking around the Death Star while we know Darth Vader's out there looking for him.

Because Gideon also sees that they're out there and he's like, all right, I'll take care of this. Puts the helmet on and leaves. So you're the whole time kind of looking over your shoulder. Like, where is he? That's actually a great point. And then we have obviously our five and that,

if he played the role of R2D2 for all the little things in there. So that's actually, um, as I'm thinking this through, this is going to be a hot take, but I'm going to stand by it here. Moff Gideon. I don't know his background,

so I'm making my own fan fiction for his background. Moff Gideon, I don't know his background, so I'm making my own fan fiction for his background. Moff Gideon was raised a rich man. I mean, I'm talking super rich. I'm talking went to school with the Succession kids. This guy's fucking loaded. Guy got his ranking in the Imperials because, I mean, usually rich people, bad people, gets

his role. He's a nepo baby. Yeah, he's a nepo baby. Exactly. Moff Gideon's a nepo baby. Even the name Moff Gideon, it kind of sounds like someone that would like play Polo and shit like that on their free time. This entire series with him involved is basically his like make your own murder mystery, except it's like make your own like Darth Vader fantasy camp.

That's what he's basically been living with, right? And the fact that they're like, listen, we got Mando and Baby Yoda. We color coded them on the map right here here all these stupid stories that have like been good but then it just like falls apart at the end it's because like he's not fucking darth vader he's not that guy and he's just he's a nepo baby he can't fucking get it done so um this is how i'm going to like trick my brain what do they call it retconning this is how i'm going to like trick my brain. What do they call it? Retconning. This is how I'm retconning the rise and fall of Moff Gideon, who honestly at this rate is a glorified Captain Phasma in my head.

I think this guy's an absolute fucking bum. Moff Gideon is a bum. Honestly, the Captain Phasma comparison is not bad. That's really not bad. It looks really cool. When it comes down to business though. They just get murked every time. I mean,

bum rushed again. We said during when they fought last time, Bando pinned them one, two, three in the middle of the ring, clean match referee fucking, you could hear the count. No.

And you're like, he didn't even get up quickly, got his ass in handcuffs and they just threw him. And didn't get like attempted to be saved by anyone he's a bum i mean how about season one clem when he's flying around in a tie fighter literally he's got a full tie fighter and mando like literally grappling hooks it and just flies onto him with a grout hits a detonator in there and boom blows him up like that like what are we doing right now there's almost like kenny with south park every season he comes back for the final two episodes mando kills him and we'll like see you next season and they're like oh and then us dumb ass like oh boy how are we gonna get out of this one with mob giddy it's like uh mando's gonna wake up and use

his left hand and kick his ass in three seconds every fucking time absolute bum and mando like loses fights to everyone else pretty much i wanted to change him from being known as the mandalorian because he was you know besmirching the name of mandalorians for everyone else yet this guy his record you're like man mando was a great record it's like well 89 of those victories are against moff gideon who is fucking glass joe he's fucking one in 99 for his career. He stinks. Yeah, he kind of does.

Moff Gideon played by Giancarlo Esposito, though. You get Giancarlo Esposito in the role, he's going to fool us every time. This was, this series was the greatest thing Giancarlo Esposito has ever done. His acting is that great. And trust me, Gus Fring is like my favorite character ever. This, making us scared of Moff Gideon three different times and watching him just get his dick kicked in by Mando every single time.

It's only because I respect Giancarlo Esposito so much in his acting. That's the only reason why I thought like any other actor. I'm like, again, Phasma, I told you the first time we saw Phasma, that shit stinks. And then she just kept getting worse. It's a glorified Captain Phasma. Cool name, sweet outfit, nothing but L's. And honestly, he died one more time than Captain Phasma. Phasma just got defeated twice.

He's got three on his record now. It's tough. It's real tough. That motherfucker better be dead too. He better be dead. I do not want to see another Moth Gideon side. I am done with him i was done with phasma i'm definitely done with moth gideon at this point we'll get into it i think

he's alive i think he's alive uh so axe sends everyone off the ship and he takes the reins as it's about to be attacked another thing where i'm like all right this is sus he's getting all the mandalorians off the ship maybe this is a safe ship he's getting them into danger he's gonna take the ship and just fly away. And we're going to be like, holy shit. But no, he's,

he's just really sacrificing himself here. At least it looks like he's sacrificing himself. And Mando then works his way down a hallway of Beskar troopers with R5 unlocking each barrier shield for him one at a time, as he just goes through them, stealing their weapons hitting them with really cool maneuvers um hitting a shield and like captain america style combat at one point i loved this as r5 is trying to unlock the doors mouse droids are coming after him and

ratting him out mouse turns into a rat oh rota chump el rata alada the batman but the entire vibe of this scene gave me like prequels meets originals the r5 stuff felt very much r2 i could see that in one of the original movies and then the action sequence felt out of the phantom menace but in a good way you know in the well choreographed way i really really enjoyed this scene maybe my favorite in the episode honestly hand up i gotta say it i had no faith in r5 as soon as they when they're like r5 we need you and he was like playing the chicken roll he's like he's shivering he's shivering up here and he's a fucking droid he's like almost almost falls off the goddamn cliff i didn't do a droid could just fall off a cliff by mistake and you know what like obviously he got a little gummed up when all the little mouse droids were around him

which again i love that i love that they brought that one back from the original trilogy which kind of gave a little more of that original trilogy vibe uh but i gotta give him credit he fucking got it done at tip of the cap to r5 he was an absolute chicken shit for a good chunk of this series but he came through when it mattered most make r2 proud um also with woes when he was in that ship i think we all thought the same thing where they're like oh my god he's this is how he's going to be a double agent i don't know why a ship on fire is a good thing to have if you're a double agent but i thought it was i imagine the people who wrote it were like yeah you dumb motherfuckers

the spies was just a fucking name we came up at three in the morning after we were so tired writing out the episode he's not the fucking spy so uh and also did he like ever i i know what they end up doing with the ship but did he ever think like i could just leave the ship instead of blowing up on it potentially like that was crazy to me when he's not like dude what are you doing are you sacrificing yourself when you have a jet pack on your back right now and then at the last minute he does break a window and he leaves right before it

crashes but he waited till the last possible second I think he probably could have just autopiloted it down there yeah yeah exactly that could have been done too could have fucking hyper dragged it down there too we learned that right hold on maneuver yeah mando and grogu discover some cloning tanks after they make it through the hallway these are the cloning tanks that we saw last week we were like is that snoke is that him is that who's then all these tanks it is moth gideon they're all gideon

clones uh current gideon and we have a very kind of cheesy eye-opening scene where it's kind of a jump scare. When they showed the zoom in, I was like, are they about to do the eye-opening jump scare? And they fucking did it. It scared Grogu. A little cheesy. It's Star Wars-y, though, so I'm like, all right.

It's kind of the campiness that comes with an original trilogy or whatever. And Mando just destroys them all very quick. No? You're out on that? it's it's kind of the campiness that comes with an original trilogy or whatever and mando just destroys them all very quick no you're you're out on that that was sequel trilogy that shit would have happened in the sequel trilogy i'm just telling you bob that would happen in the sequel trilogy george wouldn't have done that in the original trilogy and i'm not saying the original trilogy is by any means perfect that was a sequel trilogy it it made me roll my eyes a little bit and then mando destroys them all so quick. This is one of the scenes that I could have had a little more time to digest.

This felt like it was a 30 second. We were in the room and we were out of the room and he destroys all the clones, kills them all. Give me an extra minute. Give me he discovers more papers, more information on the cloning project on i guess gideon reveals later like i was trying to take the best parts of me and give myself the force and that's my new army but like i don't know this this the entire cloning part it's been going on for three seasons now we're building to that reveal let it sink in that was that was tough the whole reason we met baby yo was because they needed him for the you

know i want to see the baby and obviously they're using him for the force and all his genetics and shit like that and the fact we we find out it's mop gideon which was a reveal i didn't see that coming i thought snoke was going to be the thing or it would just be faceless people we don't know anything about and then they zoom in ken jack said like why wouldn't you zoom in like clone like 25 gideon instead of like 60 year old gideon and then there's like a fucking like basically they're like mando it was like uh with christopher um lloyd it's like hit this button and all the clones and the millions of bazillions of dollars and man hours into it oh we'll just be wiped away and destroyed what are we fucking doing here bob like tell me these things cannot

be destructed unless you're 17 it's it's harder to get into the nakatomi safe and die hard in 1989 that is to fucking wipe out like a dozen clones that god knows the amount of units uh excuse me credits have been used to create these fucking things it was a that was just and again you could do this with you know empire strikes back oh darth vader's his father what a lazy fucking way to like write it around i understand you can pick apart star wars every time this was a tough one for me and the jump scare i think we all said don't do it please yeah you did it and that was a sequel trilogy thing that happened to me many times it's all music i didn't like the jump scare what i I do like is HelloFresh though. HelloFresh is one of our favorite sponsors here in the basement.

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Got to get my Zarg nuts in me. So Bo is taken to a nice cave with plants. It's the underground gardens. I think this was just a quick scene to show that there's hope for Mandalore. You can rebuild. She realized, oh, I didn't even realize we could do gardens like this. And they're like, oh, yeah. So we know Mandalore is is on its way especially after the

ending of this episode and they drop out of ships now they go up into ships all the mandalorians they drop out and they go to war in the skies with bokatan leading the crew like this see that i just brought the dark saber on the pod if you're not watching on youtube i i stole this from jeff d lowe's desk today and i promise i'm not gonna crush it for you this wasn't the one he got in disney though this is like a cheap hasbro version i was gonna say i can't believe jeff you had that on mandalorian finale day no not as not as legit one from galaxy's edge oh by the way something i wanted to bring up from galaxy's edge on this podcast in particular and i forgot when we were talking about the mouse droids they had in one of the shops like a life-size mouse droid hung up somewhere way bigger than i expected that

was another thing where i was like much like the probe droid where i'm like holy fuck mouse droids i would be a little bit more intimidated by them if i knew how big they were the emperor the empire is definitely an intimidating kind of place that would have those things being bigger than you would think right it makes sense yeah so then moth gideon confronts mando they finally have this face off they begin to fight and moth gideon gets the better of them right away that new suit you could tell it's just robot you know technology all over the place praetorian guards show up and this separates them very much a video game-esque scene where it's like uh praetorian guards show up and this separates them very much a video game-esque scene where it's like uh praetorian guards show up and it's like you got to take out the boss's goons to get to the boss

again you know and then grogu comes in as soon as he sees the praetorian guards he's like oh i gotta go save my dad he runs in and then they really get separated grogu's brought into a separate room with the praetorian guards and they take down the IG-12 suit pretty quickly with their purple energy weapons. Now this is an important scene for you to break down Clem. I think you in particular because earlier in the season we talked about Baby Yoda's jumping, Grogu's jumping and you said if it ever comes down to an important scene where he has to jump they have to do that CGI a little bit better. I feel like this was a pretty important scene where he has to jump they have to do that cgi a little bit better i feel like this was a pretty important scene where he did a lot of jump and he jumped on top of the lights jumped away from them how did you feel it looked it was all right again i had it in my head as soon as i

started jumping like oh this is exactly what i was worried about happening it didn't okay it didn't seem it definitely was not as bad as the paintball scene. The paintball scene is when it looked extremely goofy. It does look weird, but it's also like a little one-foot creature doing fucking jumping somersaults or whatever. So it was just kind of odd. But I can live with it. It was fine. It was passable for me. I thought it was pretty good because they were quick cuts too.

I thought that really helped. It wasn't as much like the paintball scene was like it felt like a slow motion jump and then they reversed the shot it's literally the same shot they just reverse it this one was more of a quick jump jump jump jump jump you're over here more of like a yoda attack of the clones pinball little guy yes that's that's that yeah that's a great way to put it i was fine fine with it. By the way, I put that on Instagram. I'm still getting fucking comments and likes on it. That thing is moving. So there is a faction of us out there that believe that that was a little silly. You got 400,000 views on TikTok.

I think there's definitely a faction out there. We're talking like a motherfucker right now. That's right. Me and Baby Yo. We just have to do TikToks about Baby Yo, and we'll become bigger than anything else in barstool history we just although my tiktok now with my finale predictions is going off post finale because people in the comments are like aha look at this nerdy went over six i'm like idea just thought of this content idea give that video to big cat and he does the oh no oh no oh no no no and we'll get the views big big cat gets the big cat and baby yoda baby

that'll put us i'll get a b we're gonna be next to the views on that one you just have to yeah you have to duet it is that still a thing on tiktok we do the duets i don't know if tiktok is duet or remix i know and i think tiktok is duet yeah and ig real is remix i've never done one of those to be honest well we got to get the, no big cat. Cause he's hot right now on, on TikTok and your predictions. Again, as a guy that has gone over six, plenty of times with my predictions,

that is ripe for the picking right there. So I was fine with it. Um, I actually, when, when the guards went in with baby Yoda, I thought it was going to be the, um,

row shark from, uh, Watchman where he's like, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he was just going to be the um roshark from uh watchman where he's like i'm roshak yeah yeah they're in here with me and he was just gonna fucking murk them with the forts and all he kind of he would just kind of like just move their weapons away like baby yoda was just causing minor inconveniences with the force but i guess he made it work seeing the ig just get crushed dude it crushed me it like broke my fucking heart into a million pieces it was it was really fucking sad um now this is the part about moff gideon that really upset me in the

beginning of this fight he basically monologued the entire clone chambers like plan and he's like you ruined my i try to do this make myself out of the forest blah blah blah i'm like oh that's what it is and then he just started that is out of a bad 90s comic book show or movie i thought that was bad so that was that was another problem i had with the mop gideon thing did you kind of agree with that it was it i don't know if i would say it was bad but i just wanted more like when he was done with his little monologue i was like oh, oh, that's it. That's like the three seasons worth of cloning was just for that 30 second monologue. It was just so quick that I was like, I would have liked to see more of that in, you know, trap him in that cloning room for a second and have his voice come over the loudspeaker like Mando's in a fucking funhouse. Like when the Joker's talking to Batman and the killing joke, stuff like that. Like, give me more of him being a sick twisted,

like I've got you trapped here on Mandalore. I'm going to, instead of just like, all right, here was my whole plan. You want to attack me? Yeah, it was.

Thank you. Okay. Cause that, yeah, I was, I was on the same page with you as that. So it just, it was like almost game of Thrones.

He, which again, when I'm, I'm bringing up game of Thronesones the final season it's like wait i understand okay that's what happened could we have just done this in like a little more time and it would have made a lot more sense instead of just like i won't even say the spoilers but just crazy shit happening like i didn't really see the descent in terms of all that so and he's just explaining the entire thing he's almost it the last three seasons worth of that plot line where we explain why moff gideon seemed really upset there he's like this is when you didn't even call and you didn't like forget about he's like you didn't

even blow curfew you fell asleep at 6 a.m right now you didn't call me i was worried sick last night about that was i felt like john carlos bozzino was my dad And I was being yelled at It was probably the The The yell that, what's his name What's Ferris Bueller's friend in the movie Oh Conor Roy in Succession Cameron

That's the way Cameron's dad talked to him When he finally saw his car He's like, I've been working on this car forever And you ruined it By the way, are you all caught up on Succession Cameron's dad talked to him when he finally saw his car. He's like, I've been working on this car forever. And you ruined it. By the way, are you all caught up on succession? I am all caught up on succession. Yes.

Bro, when Connor Roy says, Mikasa is too Kasa. And he closed the doors on him. I was in tears. That was one of the funniest lines of the whole season. I think it's safe to say after hearing that the basement is officially a Conroy place. I ride the shiv wagon for life. But if you're not a cop, I say you can have your factions. I'm a shiv wagon, a womp skin wagon, Kendall's crew, whatever the fuck you want to call it. Everybody has to be Connor.

If you're not Connor, you're not fucking watching this show, in my opinion, because that guy. You're not in the one percent voting him for president. Come on. One percent is all the viewers of Succession back to the mandalorian bo katan saves mando's ass once again mid-fight mando's getting his ass kicked and bo katan comes down for the save with the dark saber boom and she goes go save your son she's like go save your fucking kid so he goes and he he does save his kid He goes and with the help of Grogu, defeats the Praetorian guards.

Really cool father-son fight. It's like watching Ken Griffey Jr. and Sr. out there. Grogu's helping him with the force. Like you said, moving the weapons out of the way. It almost felt like he was doing like a Muhammad Ali, like a rope-a-dope. Like, oh yeah, you can't hit me here? Well, my dad's about to hit you from the back.

And then Bo-Katan versus G versus gideon we finally get the the fight because we heard earlier in the season you know there wasn't a fight last time it was a sacrifice pretty much it was i'll surrender this to you and he turned his back and backstabbed her gideon has a new staff type weapon kind of like a praetorian guard lightsaber mix. It's got that purple electricity through it. And the dark saber in this fight is destroyed. Grabs it by the hilt. Break it. Break Jeff's backup dark saber alive on the pod.

I just want to see his reaction. I'm squeezing it as hard as I can. No, that's a lie. Break it. Break it. I want to see Jeff's reaction. Don't do it. Don't do it.

He's going to get mad at me um but this reminded me a little bit of the skywalker saber getting destroyed in the last jedi where it was a truly like unsuspected moment in terms of uh twists and turns and shocking moments of the finale this might be number one in that i don't think anyone predicted the dark saber is going to get destroyed here and so effortlessly. But yeah, it does. And then the ship comes down that Axe Woves was crashing, flies out of the window. It crashes. The whole entire base is destroyed.

Fire everywhere, except for a little bubble that Grogu forms around the Mandalorian and Bo-Katan, his mom and dad his his adopted mom and dad at this point very much a scene out of rebels kane and jaris a jedi from that show does this at one point shielding them from the fire so it's very cool it's been pre-established in star wars that a force user could do this and i thought the way they shot it was great the music crescendoing at this moment was great cool Cool Star Wars moment. Cool, big season moment for Grogu that we usually get. Yeah, our little baby is all grown up. I was very proud of him.

He made that force. He's okay. So I thought like multiple times we were going to get badass Grogu baby Yoda moments. We thought we were going to get some badass baby Yoda moments because we kind of did have this time where he would use that force. Maybe Luke has really made an impression on him of how to use the force like a Jedi would, like a pussy would, let's be honest.

And it just, like I was so bummed that we weren't going to get, like, I thought he was going to pick the Dark Saber at one point and just get it fucking back on. I was like, Oh shit. That's how baby. Yo,

then gets the dark saber. Then we have a whole other thing with this fucking guy right here. Now I have to fight baby Yoda, which like you, you fight baby Yoda. You will never lead anybody. Cause no one will ever vote for you or follow you from that point on. I thought again, when he was locked in with those guards,

I thought he was going to fuck them up, but we got our nice little force moment. And you tell by the end he was a little tuckered out he's always so cute when he's tuckered out uh i had no idea the dark saber could just break that feels like a very now this has probably been around for years right this is an ancient oh yeah so they just don't make them like but no they don't make them like they used to yeah that's like like fucking like 1950 chevys are still probably running fine it's all these new cars that are have computers running them that break down all the time thanks elon yeah thanks by the way quick rant right here because

i can't write it on twitter or else i'll get shadow banned but i just have to say it i never cared about elon musk like i never like i know trent hayden whatever i was like whatever he's just a guy, whatever. This guy is so fucking annoying. Like he just tells bad, like dad jokes. I love dad jokes. I'm a dad.

I'd say him all the time. He tells like lame stoner, like four 2069 jokes, but he doesn't, he's not even doing it. Ironically. I think he's trying to do it. No,

I think he thinks it's funny. Like it's like, hello, fellow kids, you know, it comes in and I think he's taking away all like it's like hello fellow kids you know he comes in and i think he's taking away all the check marks on 420 tomorrow like as like a 420 oh that's that's sick bro that's fucking hilarious yeah sick dude and he actually made me like i remember when

i got my blue check mark all right this is good i have a blue check mark this will get me some more stuff at this point i'm like who the fuck wants a blue check no now i'm like the last thing in the world i want is a blue check mark. I want to be punk rock. I want no blue check mark. The only thing I would ever want to get it for is you can upload like 10 minute videos. And for the stuff like that, that would probably be useful. But I think there's a mode where you could turn the check mark off.

And I think I would do that. Yep. You don't want to edit tweets because once they edit, it just keeps going to the of your feed and then i've like unfollowed people because i'm like you edit too much dude he i have shifter send him to fucking jail for how much he does it exactly straight to jail uh that was our elon musk uh portion of the podcast they could kill his ass next season for all i care as well um i have to also shout out Again, I've made my apologies The fucking armorer Just using straight up Prehistoric caveman weapons

On these guys, while everyone else is using blasters We have obviously the dark saber Was awesome when Bo-Katan used it Obviously during the flight We have all these sweet weapons for the future And this bitch is using just a hammer She's going to use a sledgehammer Loved it, loved seeing that she was so badass in this episode i felt so bad that we

really slandered her all of last week i said i didn't want to sparky her and you were like no no no we're sparky we're sparking here we did that's what we did so they have a mando cell uh a celebratory ceremony at the living waters finally after an entire season ragnar visla gets his little baptism he gets to do his song his creed and then mando comes down with grogu and he's like i would like grogu to do this as well at this point he's not a foundling he is my apprentice and i think that he's ready and the armor is like he can't do it he's too young he needs his parents permission to go online and she's like okay he doesn't have his parents so what do we want to do about that like i'm willing to adopt him and she's like this is the way and i was like oh is that oh oh hold on

my desk is is raising did you see that that was wild what was that it's a fucking desk i got my girlfriend it goes up and down i hit the wrong button but maybe he was using the force on you from it looked like i was using the force yeah it's just lifting um but anyway he says i'll adopt him this will be my son from now on she goes this is the way all right no adoption papers necessary i guess that's just your kid which what changed then from five minutes ago like it was his fucking son but that's how it is and she goes his name will now be din grogu he takes your name so now we got a new nickname for we got grogu we got baby goo we got baby yo we got baby yoda now we got din jr i kind of like din jr oh din jr we call him dj for short i like this can work with my guy daniel jones they call him dj i was also

more power than people realize can we get away with merch dj merch now like dan jr merch i don't know i'm always trying to figure out a way around the mouse you know this is the thing you send the right merch and you just have that face on there dave ain't gonna say no to it and once the boss man signs off ain't nobody in the merch department going to be able to overturn that. And also a big foreshadowing moment here in the finale. We didn't get to see anyone ride the Mythosaur, but just as Grogu is sworn in as a Mandalorian,

we go down into the living waters and you just see another eye opening moment, but not a jump scare moment, almost like a feel good eye opening moment. So I was trying to figure out, was this just to say like, oh, if this guy's still alive, cause you would probably think he's dead

if we don't open his eye. Or was that like a, I sense this is the next future leader of Mandalore right here. That's what I was going to take out of it. Again, thinking way too much and making a script that probably doesn't exist. I'm making my own story.

That was the adventure I chose for that scene is that we're looking at baby yo he's kind of sending little forest vibes in the air and mythasaur is like all right mental note on that kid and that's okay i'm gonna make my prediction right now april 19th 2023 some point baby yoda and excuse me din jr dj will control or summon mythasaur tame yeah some something's gonna happen there's a connection now we've linked this i agree they've matched on tinder they've matched on force down the road this is going to pay off in a big way that's my prediction i actually really agree with that i i do think he probably got the vibe of like whoa crazy force sensitivity in the waters at this point something like that.

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mandalore they do the x chant again which i liked when they're all together awesome awesome scene and i think the forge will one day remake the dark saber hilt i think that will be a big thing for either the armor or bow to do i think probably we won't see it till maybe the dave filoni mandalore movie but if that thing gets ignited one more time and we know like oh shit we know what that's capable of it'd be pretty sweet moment it would even be cool if maybe when they rebuild it it has a bit of a kylo ren aspect to it where it's a little more crackly it's a little less sleek and and uh quiet a little seasoning it's been yeah the mug a little bit for lack i would like to see something like that because that's actually um in terms of sequel trilogy things

that they like put into the trilogy that i love i love kylo ren's lightsaber i think that was a home run i know some people thought it was stupid with the broadsword things on the side i still to this day think that was a fucking awesome knocked it out of the park move i like the sound it made i like i like the way it looked there was nothing i didn't like about kyler the exposed wires on the hilt and everything it looked like it was like a diy bomb it was great mando visits the new republic base camp once again he visits our boy carson tiva dave filoni was spotted in the background of this scene i don't know if you saw him wearing his hat by the bar oh yeah he it's pretty easy to the guy who always wears the cowboy hat he stuck out stood out like a sore thumb and i was what a move by filoni filoni don't

give a fuck right now he's just letting it fly yeah he was back there uh i i want to say the other two directors were probably back there as well but i didn't i didn't spot them right away and he goes up to tiva and he's like listen man i could use a job i would love to work for you as an independent contractor i'm not signing up for the new republic here that's not mando's thing that he wants to do here but he's like i could do a couple security jobs in the outer rim i'm a bounty hunter by trade i've got my new son uh i i think we could work something out and he's like all right goes down to grief karga he delivers him ig11 once again as the new grand marshal thank you to kara dune for going back to alderaan or her home planet well you know whatever she can no longer be the new marshal so we've got ig11 back and then he settles in at his

new property on navarro kind of like a cowboy on his front porch right grogu's in the front with a frog and we do a little it's almost like a looney tunes go down to the little grogu and then it's gone and i liked it it was like a lot of people said it felt like a series finale almost that it felt like a happy ending for our guys and i didn't expect that i expected another kind of empire strikes back type ending i expected a bad thing to happen right before thrawn and ahsoka comes back and everything like that but this was a happy one and i wasn't mad at it no so if we did think like we thought there was a chance din was gonna die this episode yeah

and we were way off base uh and then we also were thinking like i thought at the very least this is the you said the halfway point of the series right in terms of we think the tour the movie comes out and all that kind of stuff so because of that you would say empire or a lot of the uh trilogies this is the one that kind of leaves you on a bummer note it's like a little bit infinity war ish where it's like the bad guys kind of win at the end and instead we get which feels like the end of man he's living in the suburbs they basically that was me watching aj playing in the front yard at the end there yep and again that's why i felt like if i wish this episode had been longer wrapped up a few more things or just gave us time to breathe because if this is the last time we get

these guys doing this version of uh their adventures it's like three years and then i guess a couple boba fett episodes it's like that's a lot so that was that was another like uh critique i had of it all uh and i feel like the mandalorian just might be like now we're going to talk about the mandalorian as in all the Mandalorians, except for Mr. Mando himself there. So it was a heck of a ride if, if so. And again,

I think the way they set it up where I love the idea of him just kind of beating the fuck out of Imperials, killing them for like money or whatever on the side, and then coming back, you know, raising sweet baby, yo, as much as he can.

And then we go from there. So I just, I don't know. I think I heard Favreau said he had season four written already. Oh, really? If that's the case, my dream scenario for season four is you extend episode lengths. I would like every episode to be 45 minutes to an hour long. And you spend half of the episode with din and din doing their bounty

hunting duties all around the galaxy these one-off fun adventures that bring us back to the same vibes as season one and two especially season one like the early season one adventures and then half of the episode can be with bokatan trying to rebuild mandalore you could give us some of the politics and game of thr-ness of how that works and I'm sure she's not the only one that wants the throne on Mandalore I'm sure there's some cocky Mandalorians that think they're more fit to lead especially with Bo-Katan's other you know moments where she hasn't been so great as a leader so I think if you just lengthened every episode don't give us any more half an hour episodes. This is a show worthy of an hour long episode every week. I think that could be a huge change that would really, really just make this show more well-rounded and more of a must watch week to week. season it was enjoyable it was my third favorite out of out of the three i would go season two

first then season one then season three it felt the most disconnected from uh episode to episode but overall i still enjoyed it more than most shows that i watch uh you know this is a lot of star wars at its best in this show and there were a lot of great episodes to the episode with the pirates, the episode with Gory and Shard. I think his name was a lot of great moments from this season. So I don't think it's fair to look back at season three and say it was a letdown. I'm sorry if it did let you down. I'm not going to deny anyone's feelings or whatever but the finale overall and the season overall i would say left a little bit to be desired but it's still you know five years ago we would have

come to our pants for any time any kind of star wars like this you know this is so much better than what we thought we were getting with the first episode of mandalorian basically right and then when the mandalorian hit where would you place this this isn't this is really tough to do because it's such a different sample size this season versus the little two episode was it two episodes in book of book yeah like i almost feel like those were better than this season just because they i remember being just blown away when we watched them and maybe because yeah we got a mando episode out of nowhere and we're like what the fuck was that that was incredible but i think it was that and it was the fact that in one episode even though we only saw him for a second it was like we saw boba fett

and then all of a sudden we see the mandalorian and then all of a sudden we see grogu and we're like oh we didn't even expect him to be back this soon because we just said goodbye to him and then we see luke skywalker and then we see Ahsoka have a conversation with Luke Skywalker about Anakin. It was just like, what the fuck? It was sensory overload. We didn't have anything in season three that felt that big and that monumental to these characters that we've followed for so many years and stuff like that. Yep. So it is like those episodes almost felt more important to the overall mandalorian story

than mando season three yep no i'm with you on that it was this is the other thing about mandalorian and even just maybe moving forward is there is a chance where it's going to go to the bocatan stuff it's going to go to pershing or i don't even know what pershing's deal is now it feels like that's just now is that going to get tied up or or I don't even know what Pershing's deal is now. It feels like that's just, is that going to get tied up or is it just going to be a loose end? I, there's probably enough stuff with Thrawn and all the other things with project necromancer and all that shit.

But I do think there is a thing where Mando will just go back to kind of being, what did they call it? The spaghetti Western where it's like, we just have a one-off and it's like, here's Mando's video game quest. Got to do this to get that, to get out and boom, b bong boom and maybe they'll do that once every three weeks or so and little sweet baby yo

by him side at this point like that's where the show started this show does change and evolve as it goes along so i guess like maybe painting it into a corner is something i shouldn't do and just like embrace it but i don't i again whenever i just think about this season i just go back i think of the lizzo episode i'm sorry and jack black just think about this season i just go back i think of the episode i'm sorry and jack black just being jack black he was not a character i don't care his character did not have a name i don't care if he introduced himself as that name that was jack motherfucking black and he was just be doing jack blacks the whole time which is fine i love jack black but it was like it was a legitimately preposterous thing and again this season has had

so many different vibes like i said and or that thing and again this season has had so many different vibes like i said and or that the pirate stuff this episode everything was so different in itself and i guess maybe that's what mando is going to be was clone was clone wars or rebels like that would you have all different clone wars had a lot of different vibes especially rebels is more um rebels more has the same vibe week to week but even has variety in it clone wars you would get one episode that is kind of like a darker story only featuring clone troopers and anakin and obi-wan wouldn't even appear in an episode here and there so you get stuff like that and you get very different sides of the galaxy you kind of get to see every corner so

i could see feloni kind of falling back into that style not in a bad way but that is a style he obviously enjoys when it comes to storytelling yeah okay and and what would you give this season as a grade a ball scale oh yeah we'll go ball skill even better i'll give c though so i'll go all three seasons to kind of contextualize it okay i would say season two was like a nine or was like a four out of five on the ball scale okay season one i would say was like a 3.8 balls it was close like season one by the end i was like wow this is the future of star wars basically this one i would probably go like 3.4 balls okay you think that's fair? I think that's fair. I think I was thinking, I might have

been a little less actually. I might have been like 3.2. But then if you do that in terms of grades out of 100, that's like a 64, which feels like it's a failing grade, right? I don't know if I'd give it a failing grade. I wouldn't. No, no, no. I wouldn't. But also grading on a curve that's Mando. I don't know. Compare this season

to Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Exactly. And that's where you start grading on a curve that's mando i don't know compare this season to book of boba fett and obi-wan kenobi exactly and that's where you start grading it's that this was this was much better and those are two shows that we recapped on this channel and obviously you heard me week to week i was pretty optimistic and enjoyed both i have gone back to some obi-wan stuff i went back to the final episode obi-wan more than once but this was start to finish much better than both of those two shows in my eyes yeah there was like the scene when uh mando and bo are fighting like the imperials like there's some really cool shit that happened in this all uh then for the finale even the finale is probably like a i can't even grade it because again there's like the action is almost its own you almost need like a report card it's like giving different grades like well you're great in english was awesome you're great

in math is failing like that's kind of how you have to grade this finale it's like three different episodes in one it's it's kind of crazy so i guess like three i'm gonna give it three point two three point two balls final answer for the season you guys could leave that in the comments too give us your your i think i already said that, but if you want to give ball skill just for the episode or the season up to you. And another thing I'd like to hear from the listeners and viewers on in the comments on Twitter, Moff Gideon,

we got to talk about this. Is he alive? Is he dead? Clem said he hopes that he's dead because at this point it's just, he comes back over and over again. I'm not so convinced. I need to see a body. I need to see his head chopped off like Jango Fett,

especially when we're dealing with clones now. He's obsessed with cloning. He's got himself in tanks with the somehow Palpatine returns of the world. I think he's probably going to be alive. I think he's going to come back next season. It's going to be a big shocker. And he'll be like even more like Darth Vader, more like a half droid half

robot half burnt up man even more vengeful towards mando for you know making him half machine i swear to god if we get this dickhead back in my life i'm gonna lose he's the uh the will ferrell character from austin powers i'm very badly burned right now like he just keeps dying and he just doesn't go away and i just want him to get the fuck mustafa that's his name mustafa gideon hashtag mustafa gideon there's a hashtag for the episode it's like this guy is so badass and it's like and then he just tells you the entire plot just like mustafa's he's like you just have to ask me three times holy shit i just i just cracked the code about how they wrote moff gideon i hate i hope that dude is dead i hope he is i hope they drink his because he's a um what do we say he was appropriating motherfucker that just took their culture try to wipe it off the map and then steal

it for themselves man he is one diabolical motherfucker I love Giancarlo Esposito but I don't want to see him again in the Star Wars galaxy what if he just comes back in a Darth Vader costume just straight up wearing it and people are like why are you dressed like Darth Vader he's like I'm not dressed like Darth Vader we have the same injuries so we just have to wear the same apparatus he's like I swear I'm not copying him he does

the breath sound on his own though like he doesn't need the ventilators are they like wait are you making that with your mouth? He's like, no, I actually have like a respirator here. I can't breathe on my own. And it's like, all right, well then talk as the thing breathes for you.

It doesn't work like that. It's a newer version. It's not like Darth Vader's. That's who Moff Gideon is. He's fucking Mustafa Gideon. Hashtag Moffle Gideon. He's awful. Awful. I feel like Frank the Tank. I'mffle Gideon. He's awful. Awful.

I feel like Frank the Tank. I'm coming with all these goddamn bad puns right now. Awful. I did talk to Frank about the episode this morning. I saw him in the office. He was a little let down as well. He was underwhelmed. Frank was begging, begging Grogu to say his first words at the end of the episode.

He wanted them to zoom in on Grogu and for Grogu to say the way. Oh, all right. Would have been a moment. Got to givegu to say the way oh all right in a moment gotta give it to the tank that would have been a moment frank's a writer baby he's been grinding for years in sports encyclopedia i'm gonna call bullshit though bob frank is never negative about anything tell me he really loved this episode i've never heard frank say a complaining word being bitching about anything my entire life he's not a great i gotta be honest i set him off right before that too i don't know the rangers are playing the devils right now so earlier in the week i was just fucking with him and i was like frank what do you think about the rangers devil series and he goes i think the

devils have a good shot i think they're gonna win in six or seven games and i said no they're getting swept and i just put my headphones on and went back to work and then today i saw him and i was like frank what i tell you they're getting swept they're on they're one on the way and i thought he would kind of laugh at this I don't know why I thought that he did not laugh at that paying attention Robbie it completely set him off and he went straight to Scott Van Pelt of course and he was like Scott Van Pelt says if you're a Mets fan and a Devils fan you should kill yourself and I was like I don't think Scott Van Pelt said that his head is spinning. He's doing the gritty, but I don't think he said that. Hockey Bob is a low key savage.

You know, it's kind of like, listen, I brought up star Wars immediately and I got Frank out of that mindset. You basically were like a baby. Yo, when he sprayed him with a little fire extinguisher, you basically extinguish Frank's fire and got him back into a good place.

Yo baby. Yo did kind of like say something when he was looking at the IG-11 head. He's like, pop, pop. And he's like, no, that's not him. So I was like, is that his first word in his own little language? So that might have been his first word, and they just completely undersold us on it. Yeah. That is the other thing.

Was that like the part they were looking for? Or was that just because the head was destroyed by the Praetorian guards? Like, we ig11 at the end and i was happy to see him and everything the babus and the aliens were going nuts but how'd we get him thank you for bringing that up when when uh mando was like well actually i want that right there it's like wait did you know going into the bar that they had one of those because you or did you see it and were like oh no I'll pivot and I'll just throw that in there because he made it seem like he flew millions of planets away for that head and was like I'll work I'll kill

people for you just for this little old broken robot that was that was sus I didn't know what the fuck was going on also I have to ask Bob I have to ask the Bob versus Bo meter I knew you were going to bring this up and yeah it it's gone i destroyed the the meter like the dark saber and we could throw it into the

forge bo katana is is redeemed you know we this was a big theme of the mandalorian there's a redemption she went to the living waters she saved our guys ass more than once this season i want to say like three four maybe five times you save them over and over and over again i could forgive a hypocritical comment here and there so i guess the other hashtag will be hashtag bob was wrong is that i was wrong bob was wrong bob was right we had the tank we're just bringing up the tank so i think we almost have to have to bring that up so yeah no bob was wrong that that is a fact i got two i got two non-mandalorian things do you have anything else from mando you want or uh no these are two star wars or anything so i'm like let me bring them up on the pod before obviously wrap up i don't know the next star wars thing we'll be recapping one i thought of an awesome idea that i'm gonna do which i mean it's really

nothing crazy but um so we watched the original trilogy with the kids kids are really into star wars especially aj and then with the star wars land loves mandalorian blah blah blah and i realized i'm about to watch the prequels with them i'm gonna do prequels really sort of right but they don't know that anakin becomes darth vader oh so they're gonna meet this cute little kid and they're gonna be like oh i love him and then he's gonna get older and he's gonna get older and then he's gonna murder a bunch of younglings in front of them and they're gonna be like and then they're gonna go no and they watch beautiful i'm gonna have to film that reaction because like it's you can't get reactions like that anymore because everyone knows that. But these kids, they have no clue.

Unless, like, Sienna somehow heard his name was Anakin. I don't know. So that's one. I can't wait for that. And then two, just a funny story. So I got that Millennium Falcon thing I sent you. Yeah. I have to find it.

I got this awesome Millennium Falcon toy. I was in Disney. They had Millennium Falcons. They kind of were like, some awesome millennium Falcon toy. I was in Disney. They had millennium Falcons. They kind of were like, whatever. Found one on Amazon. It was 25 bucks. This thing is fucking incredible.

It's seven inches big. It's a pretty good size. It has, uh, it's like the minute fucking, you could open the cockpit. It comes with four little mini action figures. It comes with Han,

Chewie, Leia, and Obi-Wan. And they're dressed in episode four clothing. And then you could open up the top of the Falcon. You could sit them at the little chess board thing.ajigger there is um like all the little parts of the falcon they even have the uh the floor lifts up in a part so you could smuggle things just like Han did it has sound it has the landing gear it has the satellite dish you put on it even has the little one of the gun turrets on the top. And you can put a guy in the gun turret.

It is the greatest toy for $25. It is so fucking detailed. It even makes noise. If you hit a button as it lights up, it's incredible. Well, of course I get this thing and I give it to them from the Easter bunny. Cause I'm like, you know what? Like let him, it came the day before Easter. I'm like, let him have his day.

I'll throw the, for the Easter bunny. They'll love it. AJ's favorite toy plays with it. Of course. What's the problem with getting, giving have his day. I'll throw it for the Easter bunny. They'll love it. AJ's favorite toy. Plays with it. Of course. What's the problem with giving your kids toys? They're going to lose or break stuff. They've lost, like, all the toys at certain parts.

We finally find it. Finally. All the toys are found. Can't find Han Solo, though. Can't find Han Solo. We give it to Sienna. She takes it. We're like, Sienna, here's Han Solo.

She's like, okay. A minute later, where's Han Solo? We do not know. And I was like, fuck. And everyone in the Falcon. I don't care if we lose chewy no offense to chewy love him same with obi-wan guy dies like you know an hour into the movie leia same thing she's fucking uh she's not imported to the falcon the falcon is not her thing that's han solo ship yeah i cannot find han solo bob i cannot find him in this house. And I go to my kids. I go, there's only one way to make sure your kids are actually going to look for something with you. I say, I will give a dollar to anyone who finds Han Solo, which is basically like giving them a million dollars in their money. Yeah.

So I look back at myself and I realized I put a bounty on Han Solo. I've become everything I feared I would. I am Darth Vader. I'm Jabba the Hutt. I'm the guy in the goddamn costume with you in Orlando. I'm basically like, oh, solo, ho, ho, ho. I fucking Jabba'd myself, dude. It was such an out-of-body experience where I'm like,

I just became everything I hated in Empire Strikes Back. You're about to find out which one of your kids is Boba. Yeah, that's a good point. No, he say no disintegrations yeah i've said to aj basically anytime he does anything no disintegrations that's crazy and one thing i wanted to ask you about that wasn't mandalorian related did you see the super mario movie saw the super mario brothers movie took it was a aj birthday party yeah it's always the way to go love what's the review tens all around okay good good i was very worried i saw the critics score was tanking on rotten tomatoes but then the audience score was very good so i was like okay

i generally am like you and i trust the audience but i i also trust like my friends more than anyone so getting your review saying it was good makes me very reassured. Yeah, it's not like I'm trying to think of like a kid's movie. It's not like a toy story where it's like everyone was like, this is the greatest thing ever, no matter the age. It's like this is a very fun kid's movie. It touches all. There's so many little Easter eggs for me, the kids that grew up in the 80s and 90s. Kids like you grew up, you know, 90s to 2000s.

It touches everything. And then the kids. So I had aj and his friends behind me so i basically had a surround sound of them being like oh my god it's mario watch out for bowser and they were just losing their minds in love with it and i think kfc said it best like these fucking credits grading mario like a real fucking movie being like wow the plot is a little thin at parts it's like dude it's a fucking mario movie they established things for a mario universe i didn't make a billion uh i think it's going to if it didn't i think it's very much right under but it's fine yeah it was they're packing them in there they had like three showings per hour basically at the movie theater i'm at locally

i said buy nintendo stock like three months ago before this movie came out. And granted, I bought the stock and it's got up and down a penny basically. It does nothing. I don't know when the stock will boom. But I feel like making a billion dollars with your first movie has to be a good thing for a stock, right? Yeah, it has to be. We have to get large on the show to explain this.

But I liked it. I recommend anyone that grew up playing Mario, which is hopefully every single everyone come on yeah it's worth you know if you don't want to spend 20 for a movie and whatever just to get out of the house wait for to come out i i absolutely loved it it's it's nothing great for adults but kids love it adults love it it's the perfect family movie and i think we might have mentioned this when we talked about celebration news but i'm pretty sure tickets and showtimes just went live for return of the jedi going back into theaters next month for the 40th anniversary so if you're interested in that make sure to go

on fandango or wherever you get your tickets uh i don't want that to fly under the radar for anyone because i'm definitely going to try to go see it especially if they do it in like an imax theater in the city that would be like my fucking dream. That would be an amazing day for me, an amazing afternoon. Go see return of the Jedi on the big screen. Yeah. That, and some of the posters they have that are awesome for that.

So definitely check that out. I was hoping to go with you for that, but I'm going to be gone the day before it. So that's going to be, it just, it's different in the theater. I think we can all get Star Wars. Absolutely.

John Williams hits different in the theater as well. can all get star wars absolutely john williams hits different in the theater as well you hear those original themes those original scores i'm also re-watching star wars rebels right now because i haven't seen it since so many years ago when it was like on the air and they use so many of john williams original music in that show every single cue whenever they hit it the john williams just sticks out from the rest and you're like oh it makes you feel warm inside he was the uh final jeopardy answer the other night by the way was he really he got final jeopardy respect yeah wow final category was the oscars and it was like this this person is 53 nominations and i was like it's gotta be my man john shout out i i love that fucking guy man every time there was a there was a movie I was watching recently and I was like, oh, wait, this sounds like John Williams.

I forgot which one it was. And I was like, oh, yeah, like you definitely it just sounds awesome. It's like it's not even just the style. It just is the greatness of it. And I don't know, like he's low key one of my favorite people on the planet. Right. It's yeah. Tremendous, man.

I love that. He's got like 10 of the greatest themes of all time where anyone else would die to have his like, you know, number 11. Yeah, even. Yeah, it's crazy. But that was the Mandalorian finale recap. We went long on this podcast. Thank you for tuning in and staying till the end. If you made it till the end, everyone.

And we'll be back next week with, I guess, a mystery episode as of now, because we don't got shows or movies next week we'll figure something out for the nerds in the basement maybe we'll call up jose youngs or something we'll call up one of our pals guardians is on the horizon so obviously that is going to come up before we know it we'll have to have jose on to break down the villain in that at least and some of the new characters that we'll see so yeah and interviews as always i'm kind of cranking out interviews i did a bunch of hardcore bands this week i did speed i did king nine i did a the singer of god's hate who is brody king he's also an aew he's a wrestler so look out for all of that just interviewed the singer the goo goo dolls as well johnny resnick that's coming

out on monday thank you to everyone for supporting the mandalorian reviews thiss as well. Johnny Resnick. That's coming out on Monday. Thank you to everyone for supporting the Mandalorian reviews this season as well. It's been a very fun season. Recapping with you, Clint. Yeah, it's been a ton of fun. And like you said, the last time we did it was 2020, which is mind-boggling. So hopefully we're not 2026 doing it again. I know. Yeah, we're hopefully going to get a much faster turnaround.

We'll get Ahsoka this summer as well. Oh, shit. That's right. Hell yeah. Let's go. Yeah, Ahsoka this summer. Secret Invasion before that, you know,

the basement are going to keep just recapping shows, keeping the lights on and hopefully you'll be there with us. Oh baby. Yeah. All right. We'll see you next week.