Judging by twitter, THE BOOB ARMOR DEBATERS HAVE LOGGED IN
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I was too busy trying to figure out how old Bo-Katan would be by this time to get bogged down in armor questions.
I really like how many aliens there are in this show. When you watch Episode 4, at least the first half, there are a shit-ton of weird and wacky aliens hanging out making slurping sounds and shit. Think that gets lost in the major conflicts sometimes. Really appreciate that.
Flip side of the same coin: I hate that some kinds of aliens in Star Wars are Always Evil, or seemingly so. The squid dudes are always getting turned into evil nefarious guys and I wish there were some nice squid dudes hanging around. One thing I liked in Star Wars: Squadrons was having a Trandoshian rebel pilot to hang with (think Bossk). He was still a bit of a rogue, as I guess all Trandoshians must forever be, but at least he was on the right side.
Final thoughts - 1. how freaking naive is Mando? He’s getting his ass bailed out constantly. 2. I’m glad the helmet inconsistency got explained in a pretty obvious way. Good lore dump.
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She should maybe have a gray hair or two. If she’s 25 in Clone Wars, then like 55-60, right? And I think reading her as 25 in Clone Wars is honestly a bit generous.
Yeah, that was the thing I was wondering: Are the Mandalorians the Star Wars equivalent of the Númenóreans? They age like Marianne Williamson.
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IIRC (maybe this isn’t canon now or whatever) human looking folks in Star Wars in general have an average lifespan of 100 - 120 which is less than a Númenórean but definitely within the range of her looking like Katee Sackhoff who is 40 irl. 
I fuckin’ love this because it reminds me of old Santo movies where they stand around for an hour talking about whether or not the person named Dr. Death is the person who created the evil robot wrestler named Dr. Mortus. lmao
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Since the Mandalorian is 100% all in on Star Wars being a space western, the Naive (but incredibly capable in a conflict) protagonist (rather than hero) is really on point.
I think I was traumatized by Baby Yoda eating the eggs though.
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Frankly, I couldn’t care less about a lore explanation and think Katee Sackhoff playing her character is cooler than Bo-Katan looking the right age? Have her appear in a novel looking appropriately old and say actually that’s her canon appearance circa ABY whatever.
But what do I know. I also said they should have gotten off their high horses and recast Leia for RoS. Oh no, Kate Mulgrew can’t Leia like Carrie could. Still better than further butchering an already crap script.
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Oh having Bo-Katan look relatively young for what her age would be is a relatively minor sin in the grand scheme of things. I was just struck by how much she looked like she did in the cartoons.
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I shouldn’t have hyped myself up for an Ahsoka appearance… On the bright side, she’ll probably be in the episode that airs on my birthday 
Overall I found this episode pretty average, and not just because I’ve significantly cooled on Carano. It seemed mostly a vehicle to set up future stuff. Mythrol’s antics were kinda fun, but the only time I really felt anything was when he had to turn off the cooling (I’m very afraid of heights). Another small thing I enjoyed was the alien mechanic that turned out to be an informant for Gideon being the same new species as your squad leader in the Squadrons game.
I also have a theory about the research they’ve been doing and I think I don’t like it… Are they the ones trying to clone Palpatine? It could explain why they need a donor with a high “M-count”, and it fits the timeline.
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I think it’s either this, or they’re experimenting in attempts to safely imbue force sensitivity into subjects. Maybe Gideon is really set on becoming the new emperor, and thinks becoming a wizard will make the other moffs fall in line.
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I would simply have to laugh if all the live action spin offs were just attempting to fill in plot holes from the Skywalker saga. We’ve already had Rogue One (which in fairness was great and who better to fill in a plot hole than Mads Mikkelsen)?
well they can’t all be hits
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Baby Yoda is slowly turning into Gizmo from Gremlins more and more every episode. This wire shit is so goddamned cute.
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I know we’re supposed to think that of course some things IRL can and would come about in Star Wars but really? Completely normal French macaroons? You couldn’t make them bumpy or the filling a different color, something to zazz them up?
And how bougie is that girl that she’s eating French macaroons in class on a developing planet?
Also, I refuse to believe when Greef Karga says he’ll send the Republic a “gram” that he means some sci-fi message. He means he’s gonna send a private video on Instagram to the Republic.
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The Star Wars philosophy to food - take something normal, make it blue
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But French Macaroons already come in blue.
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The Zhan trilogy has chocolate and no one complains. And he did bring it up at one point how like, if you’re going to make a world that you want people to be so happy with that they practically want to live in it, you have to draw the line somewhere with how alien you make the little things.
With how unhappy people were with baby Yoda eating the eggs, I am glad they didn’t show him eating all of the schoolkids on screen but we get the implication since they’re never seen again after one of them gets annoyed at baby Yoda.
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No, it had Luke Skywalker being introduced to hot chocolate, this exotic drink that only cosmopolitan men like Lando Calrissian know about.
I’m really conflicted on the clone business.
On one hand it, as @NotThePars mentioned, is really annoying and stupid that we have to rely on spin-off series to make sense of the new trilogy, I mean just write something good and that makes sense in the first place right ? But on the other hand, I kinda like that it makes more sense ? I mean yeah, I was quite happy that it’s now a bit more logical, so…
