MANDALORIAN 3x03 BREAKDOWN! Every Star Wars Easter Egg You Missed!
Go to our sponsor betterhelp.com/newrockstars for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help. The Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 3 "The Convert" Full Episode scene-by-scene analysis and breakdown by Erik Voss!
The Mandalorian returns to Coruscant to show us the folly of the New Republic and its flawed Amnesty Program, planting the seeds for the rise of the First Order and the cloning procedure that led to the return of Palpatine in the sequel trilogy. Meanwhile Din Djarin and Bo-Katan join the other Mandalorians as renewed members of the Children of the Watch! Erik Voss breaks down all the Star Wars Easter Eggs and references to Rebels, Clone Wars, and more! Was Bo-Katan's castle on Kalevala bombed by GRAND ADMIRAL THRAWN?
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The trap comment to the Mon Colomari was just beautiful. Just absolutely beautiful.
Do you know who voiced the Mon Colomari? It almost sounded like Jim Gaffigan to me!
He started as a mythosaur, but now is a factosaur
They don’t think it be like it is But it do
Or just an Osaur😂
Nice
Hypothosaur
😂
I actually had the impression that Grogu sensed the danger at that time when booth Din Djarin and Bo Katan said "this is the way" as the Tie Interceptors where comming.
He did
😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😢😅😊😊😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊😊
Definitely said I got a bad felling about this hahah
@@rsscullenable yeah can’t wait for him to be able to speak all the way
He definitely said this is the way. You can really hear the "waaay"
I think that because only Bo-Katan saw the mythosaur that she is destined to become the Mand'alor. When she led Din-Djarin to the waters she didn't believe in any of the legends but she has had an epiphany and I think she is truly coming to believe.
I think we can take that a step further and say the only reason it didn't kill din is because of Bo's presence. Din thinks he fell but he was definitely dragged down so fast he lost consciousness. He was attacked by the mythosaur and the only reason it spared him is because it sensed a true mandalorian. Bo Katan is destined to be the rightful leader.
Bo-Katan has led 2 times prior and has failed 2 times, another should sit on the throne of Mandalore.
The "I prefer the red ones" line, and the fact she was eating a glowing red treat may have been meant to make us think of red lightsabers, something only the bad guys use. Also the whole part about the planet being covered except for that one point was also symbolism for her duplicity. The real her is always hidden, underneath a constructed facade. Though that also suggests her mask wasn't perfect, and maybe he got a glimpse of her real self.
That is some pretty good insight, nice catch!
Only the tip of the mountain being left of the natural planet has been canon since the high republic started. Not saying you're wrong, but it does feel a little bit like a reach to me
Red pill blue pill
@@samaldag478 Pre-existing things could always be used as specific metaphors and allusions in a different context.
I bet by the end of this season, Grogu will have said “The way, this is” Calling it right now, if I’m right I get Grogu.
Only Yoda, not his species speaks that way. It's in honour of his former master. Seeing as Din is Grogu's "master", I can't see it happening.
Didn't Yaddle speak properly? It's just a Yoda thing.
Even better, you get copyright
@@thisisquist Lmao 🤣
The way this is
I guarantee it, Thrawn is behind all of this Imperial Spycraft activity.
agreed We get Thrawn Episode 8
And also could be behind all the TIE Interceptors, but Gideon will most likely be behind them
@Sharkstar Games I don't think Gideon will be behind this, because then they would be making Season 3's enemy like S2 and S1's enemy was
I hope so hard its benedict Cumberbatch
@@EricDKaufmanwhy do you say episode 8?
I'm surprised you didn't mention that when the doctor asked Kane to help him get the science kit the theme of Darth Plagueis begin to play
🤯
Exactly what I noticed!
when was it? in the ship?
@@Smokey348 it’s in the shot where he looks himself over in the bathroom mirror before he leaves
yeaaa
That Mando drop in the ship just like some old school Batman
Whenever I saw Dr. Pershing, I thought of the line from Robin in Lego Batman: "Should I get plastic surgery to make my eyes larger and more vulnerable?" With his glasses he looks like an orphaned baby bird, lol
I got a strong sense of Operation Paperclip from the premise of this episode
I literally said "paperclips" outloud while watching it.
Me too
In the case of paperclip it was the Evil guys (Allies) capturing scientists from the Good Guys (Axis)
@Mano Z please tell me you just mixed it up, instead of just being a 16yo Nazi sympathizer.
@@manoz6194 I'm sorry?
Do you know if the Mythosaur is normally aggressive? Is it significant that the Mythosaur did not attempt to attack Din & Bo?
Probably was very confused about being woken up by light and didn’t even notice
I figure it was the Mythosaur that was tamed by mandalore the great, hence why it didn't attack them
@@toku_moriya Thank you.
@@toku_moriya Thank you.
@@z0pplind0pplin78 Thank you.
The “A” on the amnesty officers’ chest is also reminiscent of the scarlet A on the chest of the main character from The Scarlet Letter, both being a symbol for their past sins
Ohh that's a good one! Nice catch!
I laughed so hard when Voss said yellow nazi cookies...not sure why but it was funny
Read this as he said it lmao
I don’t think Bo-Katan has thought of any power plays after her castle was destroyed. If you take it from her perspective, her whole lineage and relics of her clan is all but destroyed. First Sundari on Mandalore, now her Keep on Kalevala. I think she is spooked and horrified of the Mandalorian ways after seeing the Mythosaur, who is almost like a Cthulhu being that the Mandalorians can only comprehend as myth or legend
I believe Gideon was behind the interceptors, but Thrawn is behind the grand scheme in the big picture. I have a feeling the last episode of this season may be the big reveal for admiral Thrawn that sets us up for more of a galactic scale conflict in the next season. That would no doubt be worth waiting for.
Perhaps the Mandalorian and Ashoka + Ezra must work together to fight Thrawn
Probably they're going to reveal thrawn like Thanos and where he says when you want something done right I guess I'll have to do it myself and it just shows a dark room with his red eyes ending the season
OMG that would be so cool. Thrawn appears in Ahsoka and then maybe that arc continues in Mando S3?
@@ryanhooper4587 and then at the end of season 4 Thrawn with all 6 infinity stones will tell Bo Katan "You should have gone for the head" as the darksaber is impaling him, and then snaps his fingers eliminating half of life in the galaxy.
When Dr.Penn is getting ready to leave with Elia, the music in the background reminds me of the music playing when Palpatine is explaining to Anakin about Darth Plagueis. A very low dark humming sound.
To see Pershing become something sinister should be interesting. He’s such an innocent boy.
He's gone. He's nothing but a vegetable now.
His part is over
I thought he was well on his way to become his own version of heisenberg. A scientist breaking the law to further his skills
He was trying to do good but worked for an evil empire.
Yeah, idk... I think he's a braindead lump now. Seems like there is nothing left to brainwash
The balance between the Mandalorian lore and the more Andoresque vibe with Pershing is like a perfect formula of how Star Wars should go on.
I'm 99% sure that they are setting up an adaptation of the Legends Thrawn Trilogy (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command) with the cloning (a big part of that storyline), randomly a lot of stormtroopers (going along with the cloning) and the return of the Purrgil (which took away Thrawn and Ezra at the end of Rebels. I really think Thrawn is coming back this season, and I can't wait.
Hoooolllyyyy..... I just got excited imagining a version of Joruus C'Baoth showing up :D
I really hope so!
@@senorcebolla835 Just because we’re getting Thrawn doesn’t mean we’ll see an adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy though. It’s not like we’re gonna get CGI versions of Han and Leia with Luke (not likely anyway)
@Alex P Yeah, that's probably why they are using Mando and Ahsoka as main characters.
The original Star Wars space battles were heavily influenced from footage of WW2 dogfights, this episode really did an awesome job of bringing that feeling back again.
Good spot.
Must say, seeing the mountain peak was the most depressing thing in this whole series for me.
What’s more, the former last remaining piece of land was a native reservation before the Empire put their milltary bases on top of it.
You can actually see a bit of the Dr’s ear is missing when he touches it, it’s a piece out of the top… I assume due to being shot or he’s had a fight with Iron Mike.
Zhellday is also based off of the Zhell which were also native inhabitants of Coruscant along with the Taung. While the Taung fled and eventually became Mandalorian, the Zhell stayed and evolved into the first of Humankind
That's interesting stuff. I'm going to Wookieepedia to read more. 🙂
😊
@@RyanHaney55To the Archives!
I’m actually really surprised that Benduday is their Friday and not their Wednesday, because Bendu was introduced in rebels as “the one in the middle”
I know you guys have done it in the past, but can we get another Star Wars timeline video. Maybe towards the end of this season of Mando, just to refresh everyone and get us ready for Ashoka. Pretty please. 🙏🏿 Great video as always. ❤
15:34 laughed so hard at that 😂
Better insights on your easter Eggs than most. Anybody else expecting little Grogu to step up and tame that thing? He has a fascination and wonder for very large critters.
The N1 dive dogfight is a 1:1 reference to season 2 on Nevarro where mando does the same with the razorcrest. And yet i didnt see anyone noticing that easter egg...
someone should get fired for that blunder ;)
Is it a reference if it´s his common Top Gun: The Mandalorian maneuver?
I feel like Din and Bo might become something like co-rulers in the way they played mommy and daddy to Grogu in the last episode. Neither would have survived/ been redeemed without the other in this episode (using superb teamwork) and together they go back to be accepted by the growing covert. Plus they possess the two symbols of mando leadership, mythosaur and darksaber.
Could be, though they don’t seem to get along well lol
@@stargirl7646I don’t think Mandolorians are kiss kiss hug hug. For all we know, they could be madly in love rn
Oh my lord, let Grogu's first words be "this is the way" ❤❤
Wish we saw more of the mythasor
Episode 8
or at least less of dr. persching lol
@@j4m3sii true lmao
That's why we didn't. Jaws was awesome because we barely saw the shark.
@@seanj3667 good point
It ocurred to me that the letter A in aurebesh might not only be a nod to the stars of David in nazi Germany, but also a reference to the letter A in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the novel, the A is worn by Hester Prynne as a symbol for her adultery, much in the same way this imperial officials are forced to used it to show their inclusion in the amnesty program (and indirecly, their sinful past in the galactic empire).
The robot questions kinda reminded me of the questions from Oblivion. Are you still an effective team?
Bit of a prediction, Grogu is gonna eventually be the one to tame and ride the mythosaur causing him to be the next "leader" of Mandalore and will use his 2 years of training with Luke to eventually become the next Tar Vizla jedi Mando wielding the dark saber
I think Din will master the dark saber and Bo will master the mythosaur (or visa-versa) making their clan (I.e family) the leaders of Mandalore.
@@invalidusername883 Very fair prediction
I don't think grogu being leader makes sense because of how "young" he is. He's still a little kid
@@WonkelDee he is technically 50+ years old
@@brendanmorrison3132 mind and body of a child though
2:38 That was a blaster hit from the TIE Interceptors, but still cutting it close
I'm convinced that this entire episode was just a set up for that 'It's a trap' joke.
Anyone else notice how excited Pershing was to talk about the results of his second bacth? Any chances he’s talking about omega?👀
No, we don’t know pershings age, but he looks too young to have been on Kamino around 19 bby maybe even 23 bby, the mandolorian is set in 9 aby that’s 28 years or 32 years later.. I Think his first batch is what we saw in season 2 on navarro.. his second batch could be Snoke and other Snoke clones..
I believe Nala Se created Omega 🤔
No
He had nothing to do with omega
It cracks me up that the mindflare is an X-ray C-Arm used in surgeries to view structures in the body.
My wife is an X-Ray Technologist and got a huge kick out of this as well.
This epsiode had great pace, writing was great and they did a good job getting up close of the world in detail. This whole season actually seems like they took a page out of Andor's book. By far my favourite season of Mando.
What a great video, but I think it reads too harshly into Bo Katan - this season is her redemption arc, she's probably not too keen on losing this clan after spending so much time in solitude because of her power grabbing shenanigans. When she grabs the darksaber and wields it so naturally an episode back in a clear contrast to Din Djarin an episode back or any other Mandalorian who has wielded it so far, and yet returns it back to Din Djarin, it signals that she is its natural wielder but that she has also lost all her will to wield it now that she is without a clan, considering that she could have claimed it there and then given that she defeated those who defeated Din Djarin.
Who else noticed the resistance theme in the carnival scene with the mountain on courscant
I thought thats what it was! I immediately started humming along
1:29 Freaking adorable!🥹 The middle part immediately reminded me of Wernher von Braun. I thought it was cool to see the mountain top on Coruscant, again.
Dude, poor dr Pershing , dude got Psyop’ed AND got mind wiped! That shit was terrifying
didn't we see Coruscant in Andor?
Was it my imagination or did Baby Yoda babble when Bo didn't tell Din about the mythosaur? LIke, he knew that there's something there and he was shaming her for lying.
That is some Top Gun shit from Din and Boketon.
Phew, your breakdowns are so useful, all the little things I missed you catch. Great job!
Shoutout to Bo-Katan for pulling a maneuver that would make Maverick proud during that dogfight
Did you notice grogu say this is the way
Have you even watch the video? He clearly says it.
Kinda felt like the mANDORlorian, and I'm here for it!
Love the prop use of a C-Arm X-Ray machine as the mindflayer. Recognized it instantly!
I recognised the systainer the doctor packed and carried away immediately. Although the ones available from festool don't have cool lights and buttons. They also don't go "tshhhht" when it's opened.
Lol it’s a real thing?? That’s cool - I did think it didn’t look scary enough 😂
Awesome breakdown! You went pretty deep on some of those references. Thank you!!
This episode was a bit less Booom looking for this, but, but I still love the world building as usual. And also the mando stuff were really cool. And also, love to see more of coruscant and everything looks so Nice . And of course the dogfight scenes were very well executed. And once again, stunning surroundings
All of this leading up to Episode IX. Boy, talk about “It’s all about the journey, not the destination!”
It’s the Star Wars way 🤷🏽♂️ lol look at the original trilogy then fleshed out what happened before hand with the prequels.
MAY THE FORCE be with everyone here!
When Din does that jump down to his ship it made me think of master chief doing it in halo.
9:19 Red in Star Wars is always a symbol of the bad guys (like the red lightsabers and red blaster bolts, and red eyes of droids that are working for the enemy).
When he tried to touch the rock and the droid stoped him that was foreshadowing of her setting him up !!
Thanks for the breakdown Eric and NR team!
The fact that Bo-Katan does Maverick-maneuver!
4:21 I don’t know why I didn’t catch that! 10 years doesn’t feel like a long time but for amnesty it really is! (Plus that’s half the time the empire existed lol!) 😂
Definitely foreshadowing setting him up with that scene at the rock.
So were those cookies 10 years old or did Moff Gideon make his own cookies?
I just wondered that too lol. What’s the best by date on those things?
so excited to see Bo and Paz interact more cause there aint no way that those two get along and to see who is going to challenge djinn for the darksaber. the other stuff in the episode can politely go back to the sequel trilogy and be forgotten
Yeah I’m getting a little scared if all this sequel trilogy stuff mentioned is right 😬
While I think Thrawn is coming, I think Gideon was behind the interceptors. I thought Thrawn at first but as soon as it was mentioned he may of escaped it shifted my view.
yeah I think the first we see of thrown will be in Ahsoka
Gideon was arrested and in jail.
@@jonfreeman9682 he allegedly escaped while on the way to the war tribunal. Could be a cover story like they said but struggle to see how else they’ll bring him into the story. Unless he’s imprisoned on Coruscant and Elia Kanes goal is to free him. But I doubt we’ll get another episode devoted to it Very open ended, guess we’ll find out in weeks to come
This could’ve been the best episode ever if it was like the prologue and the epilogue
"yellow Nazi cookies" lmao I was literally thinking the same when I was watching 💀 💀 💀
1- you did not mention bo doing the crazy Ivan to take out the last tie, also the police craft was a LAAT/le patrol gunship. also, lastly the mind flayer was very like the machine used in the Star Trek episode "dagger of the mind". just a few thoughts.
Bo Katan’s cockpit (giggity) has an artificial horizon visible during the dogfight.
“The trains run on time”. So German loved it
Is NO ONE realizing the taxi Droid is Jim Carrey and they're doing the bit from Dumb & Dumber when he takes Mary to the airport?
I myself was more thinking of the taxi ride of Schwarzenegger on Mars in Total recall
The wellspring of life( the force planet) is actually the centre of the galaxy as of clone wars season 6 episode 12
This is the deep dive I needed! So hard to track the players while two stories are played out. Awesome ep and amazing followup by NR 👌🏽
Thank you for bringing up the taungs, thought I was the only one who noticed.
This episode I actually found had a lot of parallels to 1984, with Kane playing the role of Julia
Ohhhhhhh. Damn. That's good
The affects in the series r top notch! I agree with a commentor in your other vid that suggested Cane super Flayed Pershing cus she is working for someone that doesn't want the New Republic to have Pershing's cloning knowledge or capabilities. Most likely, Thrawn.
Brilliant video!
Maybe it was just me. But the scene with the robot therapist and the android guards had some strong THX1138 vibes going on
I like how the bought back the same opera house from episode 3 when Anakin and palatine talk about power and grevious location.
Din flew the Razor Crest in the death spiral in s2e4 when he took out the TIE fighters at the outpost on Nevarro..after which Grogu tosses his cookies...literally!😂 Apparently the death spiral is Din's signature move - and it looks awesome!
Phenomenal deep dive thank you
I’m shocked you missed what Dean Cundy is holding. A little dragon that makes the same noise and has the appearance of the Dilophosaurus from Jurassic Park.
Loved this episode
this episode was the best so far in this season and it’s telling as its director is Lee Isaac Chung. well versed director
Is Mythosaur-infused water key to forging Beskar? Does Bo-Katan like Grogu because she’s force-sensitive? Is Djin force-sensitive and and the Dark Saber is fighting him? Is Bo Katan the convert on the title? Is the Armorer her other sister destined to fight over the Darksaber?
5:25 I know this part is cloning but it still sounded an awful lot like… just making a baby the normal way 😂 combining genetics from two hosts lol
As a casual Star Wars fan this is my fav ep wrap up page, so much more pertinent information in -20min as opposed to 30min of babble and filler. 🎬
2:24 mando did sort of the same move he did in Mando season 2 with the razor crest
You'd think they'd make the buttons on the "mind flayer" bigger for the mon calamari fin! lol
8:07 im sure that badge design is a start for migrating in the first order color scheme
Bo Katan's maneuver to eliminate the final interceptor reminded me of the maneuver from Top Gun Maverick
Oh my god, like I'm sorry but being on social medias, I thought I was crazy or stupid with how I interpreted the story, seeing how so many interpreted it differently. Like, to me, it's clear that Bo Katan's motive is way more muddled than "redemption". Even tho I do believe it might also not be just manipulation or ulterior-motive, maybe a mix of both, Bo Katan's usual ambition vs a new face to the Mandalorian people that she's just discovering. But I do feel like Bo Katan interprets her only seeing the Mythosaur as some kind of "destiny sign" that she's still meant to lead the Mandalorians, so that's what she'll do going forward (hence, the camera panning on the mythosaur at the end of the episode). So it would go kinda like in Clone Wars and all, how she thought that to persue her own destiny, she had to ally herself with shady people, to the point of this all ultimately leading to Satine dying. I do see some kind of struggle between her own hubris vs a new found possible redemption, which would parallel Pershing's journey on this episode. It could also explain that kind of ambiguity Grogu seems to feel towards Bo Katan? For sure the Darksaber problematic is gonna come back at some point. The way I see it, I feel like somehow to some degree, Bo Katan is gonna betray Din at some point, for "the greater good" (like Pershing) or what she perceives as "the greater good": probably herself leading Mandalore. I also saw A TON of people being super angry at this episode, like "they want to make us feel sorry for a n*zi!" "oh they're giving him a redemption arc to an eugenist n*zi!!!" and I was like ??? Because I did not see this episode as offering Pershing ANY redemption whatsoever. Actually I thought they showed him as a hypocrite: making a whole speech about how he was fOrCeD to work with the Empire, whining and groveling about how he's got a second chance! But then like two days later (LITERALLY) he's all "I could do sooo much moooore" and back at stomping basic ethics to go back to his precious researches, rather than making the best of the new chance he's been GRACIOUSLY given. The officers point it of purposely at the beginning of the episode, how they're LUCKY to have that chance, that the empire would have never granted that kind of possibility to their enemies, and Pershing went through the episode like "oh but what about that marvelous time I experimented on a child for tHe GrEaTeR gOoD?" Ugh. That man got what he deserved, I kinda hope his brain is fried for good lol. To me, the way the episode went, both Bo Katan and Pershing are supposed to parallel each other: the episode ends with somehow Bo Katan getting the opportunity for a fresh start, to have a second chance at being fully accepted as a Mandalorian, despite her dark/grey history. Will she take it? Or will she fail like Pershing, repeating the mistakes she's done in the past?
1:26 Bo is defiantly holding onto that info for something important I bet
14:52 this was my thought too. That Elia was an Imperial plant.
Also I didn't see you mention it, but there is another Palpatine reference. The night he decides to leave with her to the yard and he's standing there staring in the mirror, palpatine's teachings or some deep vocal tracks very similar to it is playing as he's making his decision.
I like the popsicle imagery. Both having meaning. Red being the Sith and purple being someone is in moral uncertainty, reconstruction, and recovery. Very fitting.
Anyone else think that the actor that plays "Elia Kane" should get cast by HBO as "Abbey" on The Last of Us?
My thoughts exactly!
But how did the Armorer get the Living Water for the child's helmet in the first episode!?
Pretty sure the living water is only for redeeming people, as Din never went to mandalore before yet was a mandolarian
The living water is only used for redemption.
Can someone please confirm this for me. At 50:26 of this episode of the mandalorian, there is a mandalorian on the top right who appears to be wearing a reused boba Fett helmet before he repaints it. I have seen no one talk about it so I don't know if my mind is playing a trick on me.