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Spoilers The Mandalorian Season 3

Starkers said:
Anyway fantastic dog fights and then we, as others have said, slip into something that feels more like Andor.
Andor was better. The space popsicle scene really made me cringe.

This was maybe the first time in recent memory where I really thought the concept art at the end looked better than the actual results.

Also, isn't the term "mind flayer", uh, trademarked by a certain organization? :shrug:
 
Another possibility that occurred to me is that the Imperial loyalists have taken over the mind flayer treatment center that we saw, and have everyone there under their control, possibly TOS "Dagger of the Mind" style. I got a really creepy feeling when the Mon Calamari doctor said he had used the device himself.

Of course, I could easily be wrong about this, as well.
 
It's nice to see a location from the prequels so prominently featured. And this week Bad Batch also had a prequel connection.

But I guess the prequels aren't the trilogy to hate anymore...
 
Though both Bad Batch and The Mandalorian are implying plot points heading towards the Sequel Trilogy with the Imperial Cloning operations.
 
I'm curious what the end will mean for Pershing, it definitely didn't look good. I'm not sure if she killed him or was just making him loyal to the Empire again.

The phrase "wipe my mind" was used. I think the implication is that she has effectively erased his memory/personality. Which seems to have been her ultimate aim, at least given what we've seen so far. First she discredited him (he's just an Imperial recidivist as far as the NR goes now), then keep any information he has on lockdown by deleting it.

I'm mostly curious who she's working for. Is she still working for Gideon, or is there a new player in the game? Combined with the line at the end of the Mando/Bo fighter chase, about how that's a lot of fighters for a normal Imperial warlord, it kind of suggests a larger Imperial faction we've not seen before. But, on the other hand, bombing Kalevala is a very Gideon move. Could go either way.
My husband think Kane killed Pershing because he knew she had worked for Gideon.

Also, isn't the term "mind flayer", uh, trademarked by a certain organization? :shrug:
i questioned that too, but obviously not.
 
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I enjoyed the actual Mandalorian parts of the episode; the rest was okay. Was kind of disappointed as I was thinking: "Nice 50 minutes of Din and Co...." - yeah, nope.

I get they want to set up the former Imperial scientist as a sympathetic character, but for me...meh.

It was too obvious the former comm. officer from Moff Gideon's SD was a plant. The other thing I despise is the whole: "okay, the 'mind machine' it set - NO NEED to have an actual New Republic medical doctor/tech monitor the equipment; and yes, this former old Imperial Comm. officer is SOOOO trustworthy; we can leave her with the scientist she outed as a traitor...<--- Spare me but I'm so tired of the New Republic being constantly portrayed as so inept. It's getting really old for me.

I guess the one thing I can take away from this is that the rematch between Gideon and Din should be good.

I just hope not every remaining episode this season is going to feature the former Imperial scientist for the majority of time in the remaining episodes going forward; but yeah, we're probably heading toward The Andorlorian. ;) <--- And I know many are probably cheering, but so far, yeah, not me so far.

But who knows maybe they'll start to make it more interesting and less predicable going forward, but time will tell.
 
I think they just want to remove Pershing's New Republic conditioning. Or that and the parts of his personality that tends toward good. That way the Empire/Sith can start using him as a tool for their sick experiments again.
 
I just think Bor Gullets could have seen more widespread usage. The Empire should have been all over that.
They already had "mind probes" at the same time, per A New Hope. Bor Gullet was completely unnecessary waste of time and a puppet in that film.
 
Mind probe could be a Force thing, going by ROTJ/TFA/TLJ.
Vader tells Tarkin that she resists the mind probe, after we him with a droid with a needle. If it was a Force related thing Tarkin would have been more dismissive while the droid indicates an actual machine to do so, and nothing Force related.
 
I don't think a Force mind probe and a droid with a needle are mutually exclusive. And since we (retroactively) know the Force mind probe is a thing, why wouldn't Vader use it?
 
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