Baby Yoda vs Baby Groot. Most adorable!

I think the best way to look at it is like so:

Khan is in Star Trek II--not a spoiler.

Spock dies in Star Trek II--spoiler.

 

I finished out this most recent pay period with 118 hours worked. I get up, work 11-12 hours a day, seven days a week, as I’ve done for the last month, go home, go to bed and repeat. Stop assuming I’m working your cushy schedule or have the kind of free time you do. Right now, I have none.

 

It is a spoiler, and politeness assumes that not everyone watches things at the exact same time.

 

If the show was called “The Mandalorian and Baby Yoda” and Baby Yoda was featured heavily in the trailers, like TWOK, then your analogy would be more accurate. But that’s not the case and I’m guessing Baby Yoda was a surprise reveal along the lines Cumberbatch Khan was supposed to be.

 

I agree about the second part, but not about the first. Baby Yoda existing is not a spoiler.

And as for Cumberbatch Khan, everyone knew he was Khan. That also was not a spoiler. That was dumb marketing. However, regarding Baby Yoda, the second that first episode was released, he was all over the internet. There was no avoiding it unless you completely stayed OFF the internet.

 

And people might do that to a certain degree, but it's still a spoiler since he wasn't advertised as part of the show. Even merchandising was kept tightened down until afterwards.

And, no, I didn't know Cumberbatch was Khan either. So, still a spoiler, to my mind. And, regardless, this thread isn't in the Star Wars subforum, which one could reasonably avoid if avoiding spoilers. Here, it was right out in the open. It's just politeness is all.

 

What would you consider "afterwards?" The day after it was released? I wasn't able to watch Day One, but I remember hearing about baby Yoda right away. I hate spoilers, but that's not one that was avoidable, and it really wasn't major. I went into Mandalorian knowing Baby Yoda exists, but with no concept of context.

I pieced it together maybe a few minutes before he was revealed. So yeah, I lost one big gotcha moment, but it wasn't THAT important.

I agree with you 100 percent about spoilers and etiquette. I just don't feel THIS is worth the anger. I don't feel THIS is a spoiler. That said, you DO have a point about the placement of this thread.

Oh, and STID's decisions with Khan may be some of the dumbest marketing in Star Trek history, if not THE dumbest.

 

To you. That's the point is not everyone will regard it the same and acting like people unreasonable over their perception of spoiler is off putting, to say the least.

 

True, but there's also a reasonable standard of importance.

 

And there is respect for other points of view.

 

I think Baby Yoda is technically a spoiler but like most of world I to was pulled into Baby Yoda mania and forgot about the reveal. The thought I was spoiling something didn't even cross my mind. Jason

 

Thanks Jason. As far as I’m concerned that’s the end of this particular conversation for me. Now back to your regularly scheduled thread already in progress.....

 

double post

 

I don't think it's cute, it's creepy. When I saw it I thought give me a stick and I'll kill it. Groot is a stick.

 

That looks like baby Mel Brooks. Definitely not adorable. May the schwartz be with you.



Too bad Star Trek doesn't have its own adorable Baby whatever.

I think Trek blew it with Keenser , Scotty's sidekick.

I realize that Keenser is not a baby. But ever since the first time that I saw Keenser in Star Trek '09, I couldn't help but wonder why the nuTrek creators produced such an odd looking character, when they could have created something that is cute and cuddly, even if it's not a baby.

Granted, adorable is in the eye of the beholder. But Keenser, if done right, could have been Trek's version of a Baby Groot or Baby Yoda.

 

Trek actually did it first with the tribbles. Maybe the first cute/adorable aliens, ever. Jason

 

Didn't we have already have this craze with big earred/black doll eyed creatures before?



That's what get's me. Imagine if social media was around when "Gremlins" premiered.

Society is going around in circles idolizing another doll eyed big earred creature.

Just wait for the Gremlins reboot. People will think Gizmo is a brand new thing and never realize it was in an 80's movie

 

I'm definitely Team Baby Yoda, and I have never even SEEN anything Star Wars (except for "the cutest Baby Yoda scenes" videos on Youtube now, haha. And I don't even really like babies. By all logical means I should not be moved by that little green doll. But... but... he's SO CUTE!

 

Wow, you've never seen anything Star Wars?