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I don’t know about you guys, but it feels like Christmas Eve over here in the Ital Household, as the season two premiere of The Mandalorian marks one of the biggest pop culture moments we’ve had this year.
Outside of Tenet, The Mandalorian is essentially the only big-budget blockbuster project we’ve gotten out of Hollywood this year, as most of this summer’s big releases were delayed to 2021 due to coronavirus (although Wonder Woman 1984 is still laughably holding on to the hope that it’ll be able to release on Christmas Day). Plus, 2020 being a neverending hellscape aside, The Mandalorian is just plain old good. Certainly as good as Star Wars has been since Rogue One. It even scored an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama Series. The point is that the return of The Mandalorian is something worth being excited about so I invite you to join me in my enthusiasm.
Season two promises to be bigger and better than season one, as it not only features tons of exciting casting additions (Rosario Dawson and Timothy Olyphant, to name a few), but now that the groundwork of the series has been laid, this upcoming batch of episodes will be able to further delve into the lore of both Mando and Baby Yoda, which is the core strength of the series.
As I wrote in our Season Two Preview article, why Moff Gideon so desperately wants The Child in his possession is one of the biggest questions that needs answering this season. One Reddit user may already be on the right track, though, as this fan theory suggests that Moff Gideon wants Baby Yoda so he can figure out a way to give himself the power of the Force.
As Reddit user Almo95 speculates, Moff Gideon wants to steal Baby Yoda to extract his midi-chlorians and inject them into himself so he can become a Force user. Introduced in The Phantom Menace, midi-chlorians are microorganisms present in all living things in the Star Wars universe. Force users tend to have significantly higher midi-chlorian counts than most people, and since Baby Yoda can use the Force as a toddler, his midi-chlorian count is probably quite high. While there’s no guarantee that increasing one’s midi-chlorian count would make that individual Force sensitive, Almo95 also suggests that Gideon might be saving them for someone else: Emperor Palpatine. [via ComicBook Resources]
Season two of The Mandalorian premieres on Disney+ tomorrow, October 30. We’ll be recapping all of the episodes on the Post-Credit Podcast, so make sure to subscribe if you want to keep up with all of the latest Mando and pop culture news.
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