Season 2, Episode 5: ‘The JD’
Baby Yoda is the name!
In the last chapter of “The Mandal,” in The Jedi, Dean Dzrin finally takes him to the desolate forest planet of Corvus, where he intends to leave the child with Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson), who is JD capable. Train the little one. At first, however, Ahsoka speaks tubes in force to communicate telepathically with his potential student. She learns how he was taken from the Jedi Temple on the Crescent, and how he spent many dark, lonely years in fear. And he learns his name, which is 5 Grogu.
I admit to having some mixed feelings about this revelation. There is nothing wrong with Grugo, who is no more or less stupid than any other “Star Wars” name. (Honestly, any name seemed relatively plain after 12 episodes of Mystery.) But from now on it will be difficult to do justice to calling a child “Baby Yoda”. It’s something of a shock.
On the other hand, whenever Mando says, “Grogu”, the child looks at him and makes a little noise, as if “yes?” This is a fun thing to watch and listen to. And so, “The M Mandal gives ndolorian”, as it removes.
Because this week’s episode was the fifth of an eight-episode season – and Disney has already ordered Season 3, so – there was very little chance that Dean was actually going to say goodbye to Grugo this week. Instead, long after discussing Ahsoka’s early mentality, she told Mandal Ndolorian that it was too horrible to train her child. For one thing, she fears her immense power, which she has learned to hide since she left the temple. She worries that outrageous anger at how she is being treated will signal her to the dark side, if she ever unleashes the full potential of the force. Ahsoka, who was a parachute learner under the JD Knight Anakin Skyweker tax, is well aware of how the powerful can be corrupted.
Another reason Ahsoka doesn’t want to be Grogu’s mentor is that he’s too busy right now. It is trying to free the long-suffering citizens of the city of Kalodan from the tyrannical rule of Magistrate Morgan Elizabeth (Diana Lee Innocento). The two had been locking the horn for a while, using maximum pressure to demand each other’s surrender – Ahsoka regularly capturing Elizabeth’s creepy masked thugs and Elizabeth and harassing any Claudian who helped Ahosoka.
Still, this episode will add significant new pieces to the show’s big story, playing almost like a backdoor pilot for the new live-action “Star Wars” series starring Ahosoka. (The character is well-represented in the animated “Star Wars” show, appearing in both “The Clone Wars” and “Rebels.”) , To understand him a little more before Glugini returns exactly to his day job. Mandalnolarion plays a minor role in the climactic action sequence of this chapter. He assists in the rescue of Caldon and then gets stuck in the old-fashioned gunfighters’ stand with Morgan Elizabeth’s right-hand man Lang (Michael Behen).
The main confrontation this week is between the magistrate and the JD, who have a battle royals in a Zen garden equivalent corvus set, like something from an old martial arts movie. (Innocento Pte is a stunt woman and stunt coordinator who knows the style well.) Ahsoka works with two lightshabers while Morgan has a lightbear-proof metal beskar – aka “M Mandal ndolorian steel.” There are spears made from. It’s a fantastic fight that ends with yet another important name for the villain: his master, Grand Admiral Throwne, a character who appears in many fan-favorite “Star Wars” novels.
Still, even though Mendelssohn is almost a fraction of the running-minute running time, this is a compelling and meaningful episode that draws his emotional pull from the hero’s personal code – and from his relationship with Grugu. There’s been a lot of talk this week about contracts and promises, and Dean Darren seems bound to fulfill how he agreed, without taking any compensation until he succeeds. But when it comes to the baby he remains unclear about who he will serve, which is better than ultimately traveling around the galaxy in a razor crest, rather than parking with something funny JED, which he has no fun with.
There is a touching moment at the beginning of the episode when Ahsoka tries to test Grugu’s powers by telling him to move a small rock with his mind. When he refuses, he tells Mando to try – “he’ll see if he hears you.” He jokes, “That will be the first.” But then he has a brilliant idea, and he pulls the ship’s gearshift-knob out of his pouch. Grugu, who picks up that small ball, immediately telekinesizes it.
So this Mendelian Ryan, in keeping with the letter, is obsessed with honoring every agreement. And this is this kid who doesn’t speak. For months now, this strange couple has taken care of each other and understood each other, without the need for any common language – or any name.
Here’s how:
Unlike last week’s episode, which borrowed a lot directly from “Star Wars” movies, this week it seems to be more visually inspired by “Star Wars” cartoons and video games (as well as old western and samurai pictures). Writer-director Dave Filoni incorporates a familiar bit from the films, however, while surveying his surroundings on the Corvus by a pair of Mandalarian electronic binoculars, he is surprised at some giant tree-eating animals … Ahoska Tano attacks him Before does. The scene echoes the first movie, while Luke Skywer is watching a couple of bantas on the horizon and the Tuscan rider catches him by surprise.
