The Natural History of the Mandalorian and Grogu

Added: 2026-06-03

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[00:00:40]And today's matter of interest is the Mandalorian and Grou movie. The latest big screen installment in the Star Wars franchise, which if you've been noticing things, has been crashing and going downhill for quite some time now. The decay obviously set in first with the Disney takeover and accelerated with the horrible movies and the mediocre TV shows that followed. But I'm really not going to go there because first of all, there are a lot of channels that literally make a living out of complaining about Star Wars. And most of these channels are really [ __ ] to be honest. So today you will find a rather favorable review of this interesting, quirky, and just straight out weird movie. And if you know me, if something is weird, I find things to admire in there. But yeah, I mean, there was a lot of negativity surrounding this movie from the get-go. The trailer was roasted. People thought it was turning into slop. Even I referred to this film at one point as [ __ ] Delorean and Sloppu which I think was in bad form but anyways but it just goes to show that you know Twitter rewards the worst in people and it's slowly turning into a really cynical unhappy pouty doommongering echo chamber of well unhappy people. So the whole place was crawling with tweets dunking on the movie from the left and the right. They called it the film that would end the franchise. I distinctly remember somebody said a new Star Wars movie is coming out and I feel nothing. This is horrible and you know things along those lines. So I went to this film with really low expectations and I was actually really surprised in a in a pleasant way. It's certainly not the best Star Wars film, I'll have to confess, but I think it's way better than the sequels, especially those directed by JJ Abrams, who I don't think ever knew what he was doing. And even if you are not a Star Wars fan, I think you will really like this film, especially if you like creature movies. I mean, a good equivalent here would be the Predator Badlands film. If you like that film, you will probably love The Mandalorian and Grou. Anyways, with that out of the way, we're now going to take a deep dive into The Mandalorian and Grou, plot beat by plot beat. We're going to go over the main events. And as per usual in this channel, we're going to discuss the interesting and weird things in natural history, life or regular history or film history that they rhyme on. And we're also going to discuss the creatures in length because, well, I'm a creature fan and a lot of the fans of this channel are creature fans. So yeah, before going ahead though, let me just kindly remind everybody that this channel exists only with your support. And if you enjoy what you're hearing or what you're watching, please consider supporting me on patreon.com. If you go there, you're going to see a world of content, artwork, paintings, creature designs, fan art that nobody else gets to see.

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[00:04:58]The movie begins da da da d Mandalorian and grou. Of course, this movie comes in the tail end of three seasons of the Mandalorian. And I only watched one of those. So, from what I've been able to piece together, Mandalorian is now a good guy. He's like a father figure to Grou, which is Baby Yoda. And they're out there hunting Imperial remnants.

[00:05:23]This takes place after the return of the Jedi and the evil empire has been dissolved. But there are all sorts of bad guys lurking in the outer rim of the Galactic Empire. And we see just a regular day, just a normal day for Mando. He's assaulting a base belonging to evil Imperial remnants again. and he just goes on full throttle, you know, killing lots of stormtroopers, blowing up Imperial walkers, killing the bad guy, and yada yada yada. Now, right from the get-go, I noticed that, you know, killing is kind of endemic in this universe. I mean, granted, you know, they say that on the tin. It is Star Wars, not Star Existentialism. But the more movies I watch, the more I notice how everybody, good or bad, in this universe has their hands bloodied. You know, in this intro scene, you know, Mandalorian charges into rooms full of bad guys and like there are these like realistic combat scenes where he kills five people, shoots them in the face, shoots them in the leg, burns them with a flamethrower. Look, I'm not against violence, but when you watch movie after movie with our heroes casually killing bad guys like this over and over and again, you kind of realize that, you know, it must be a really shitty place.

[00:06:49]It must be a really shitty thing to be even a good guy in the Star Wars universe. Everybody has a weapon. In fact, nobody goes longer than half an hour without killing some people, whether they are in a spaceship or whether they're attacking them. So, it's a really dark, weird, and neverending cycle of violence. And you wouldn't normally think too realistically about it, but you know, the media series demands you to immerse yourself in this universe. And when you do that, the neverending violence just begins to feel weird after a point. The characters in this universe must be racking up a lot of PTSD. That's all I can tell you. So, it's a regular day at work for Mando and Grou. And they kill the really bad guy.

[00:07:42]And off they fly into space Fresno or space Santa Monica. A detail not lost on me because apparently they filmed this movie entirely in the United States. So make of that what you will. They're cutting costs. But anyways, Mando flies to Space Malibu and there he's greeted by his boss, Seigor Naver, and she says, "Well, you didn't have to kill them again, but okay, I guess it's just like work for this guy." And that's like darkly darkly tragic. Oh, I almost forgot. Mando has a sidekick now, which explains everything to us like a video game NPC, so the audience isn't too dumbfounded and bamboozled. I don't know if this character was there in the seasons two or three, but he's quite a distinct creature. And that's also no accident because this character whose name is Zeb Orurelios was recycled from a very very old design that the master artist Ralph McQuary first created all the way back in 1970 whatever for Chewbacca. So, Zebelios looks like a sort of digit trade foundine wolfman type of creature. It's a really good design. But yeah, this shows a very common phenomenon after Disney took over Lucasfilm. So, when they bought Lucas Film for I think it was $3.5 billion, which was an incredible sum. I mean, probably the largest sum ever paid for intellectual property. So anyways, when Disney bought the farm, pardon my pun, they also bought all the associated concept art and sketches and drawings, you know, they were all Disney property now, and they recycled them like there was no tomorrow. Granted, Lucas also did some of that, but I think it still smacks a little bit of timidity and the lack of imagination. Speaking of recycled intellectual sci-fi property, well, we also see Sigourney Weaver.

[00:10:01]She's also back because she's now been typ cast as a sci-fi mama type of character, not just in this film, but of course earlier on in the Avatar franchise as well. We see Sigourney Weaver and the audience immediately of course associates her with sci-fi and any movie with Sigourney Weaver in it now kind of has an air of sci-fi royalty. I noticed that they use a lot of makeup and probably some digital deaging on Sigourney Weaver 2. She also looks a bit rigid in a in a strange way.

[00:10:39]I don't know what's going on there. I just hope she's in good health because she's really one of my favorite actresses, too. Better her than somebody like Scarlett Johnson. Remember that era where that brief era in the late 20110s when every sci-fi movie had to have Scarlett Johnson cuz she was the sci-fi girl. She was there in her with her voice playing an AI. She was there in the Avengers series which was well don't even get me started on that. She was also famously whitewashing an Asian actress in the movie adaptation of the ghost in the shell which I think looking back should never have been made. That movie is great as it is as an anime. Oh yes, she was also in this really bad Luke Besson film where she played this like wildeyed cute woman who is now being augmented in the brain. So I kid you not, because she has higher IQ, she can use sonar and solve the mysteries of the universe and teleport and [ __ ] It was like a god awful film. Probably Luke Besson's worst. But anyways, I drifted too far again. Sigourney Weaver tells Mando, "Hey, Mando, we got a new job for you."

[00:11:58]Now, that's also like a a bizarre note for me. I mean, this Mandalorian character was like a renegade, a morally ambiguous character who found love by rescuing this child, and now he's like reporting to a boss and like taking on freelance jobs and assignments. And like, what's his end goal here? He's working for the rebellion now and never for the mob. He stresses this. So, is he like like what is he doing with all the money he earns cuz he's bringing in quite a lot of bounty from all the Imperials he captures and kills? And it's just a little bit weird to see this dark character saying, "Okay, boss, what's next, boss? What do we do now, boss?" And like ah it's this kind of suburban college educated white collar worker washing of every character situation and trope that we keep seeing in the present day. And this is just another example. The relationship between Sigourney and Mando could have been a little bit more complicated and it could have been way more than just a simple boss/ subcontractor relationship. Anyways, Sigourney Weaver tells Mando, "Hey, by the way, nice job. Thanks for eliminating another target in our card deck." Oh, by the way, the rebels have this card deck of imperial fugitives, which is like a straight up reference to the global war on terror era deck of Iraqi government higherups that the United States military used after they deposed Saddam Hussein. So they had a card deck with Saddam Hussein, his sons, his generals, etc., etc. And it's just really weird seeing this little detail with the rebels who are supposed to be the good guys. And you know, George Lucas himself said all the way back in the 1970s that the rebels are more akin to people who resist the global American empire. But now the rebels act a bit like the global American empire. There's also a tonedeaf scene where you see the spaceships approaching the base with the sun behind them. And that's actually an homage to the 1978 anti-war Vietnam film Apocalypse Now. And in that movie, you see helicopters silhouetted against the sunset in a similar way. They come from the sea and they strike inland. But if you watch that film, that's a horrible scene. They like shoot up civilians.

[00:14:45]They crash into a war which they don't know where it starts or ends. And it's just pure chaos and madness and mayhem.

[00:14:54]and to have that scene readapted for the rebels. And I think the director thought it was cool to do this, but that scene, that lightning, that whole exposition was a setup for basically showcasing the American Empire as the ultimate bad guys in Vietnam. And combine that with the wanted cards thing and you kind of start wondering, you know, is this really tonedeaf? I mean it could be or are they kind of like subverting the rebellions the very reason of being now they are like the hegeimon and now they get to be the arbiters of violence and now maybe they are doing things in a more checkered light let us say that much or maybe I shouldn't read too much into this it's just a fun Star Wars film Star Wars Star Wars there's going to be wars in space and [ __ ] It's going to be cool. Anyways, Sigourney Vaver says, "We want you to do something for the huts, which are these alien giant slugs who run a crime syndicate." And Mando says, "I ain't working with the huts." But Sigourney Weaver says, "Come on, Mando.

[00:16:11]They they're going to help us find an Imperial, and you're actually helping find an Imperial." So, she's trying to get him to embark on this dangerous and morally ambiguous mission on technicalities. And just to sweeten the deal, she says, "Oh, I got your old ship. By the way, remember the Razor Crest? Remember your space wagon? This was the ship that the Mandalorian was using in the first season of the TV series. By the way, for some weird reason, this ship returns. But to the best of my knowledge, actually at the end of season 3, the Mandalorian had shifted to a different ship. And this shift to a smaller, more elegant kind of vessel also coincided with some important points in Mando's character development. But anyways, since the audience expects to be pandered, you know, oh, you can't have Mando without his ship again, there's this like magic plot twist and your old ship is back again. And she says, if you do this mission for us, this will be your down payment. So, just take it out for a spin, you know, just just give it a whirl. And just on point, the Mandalorian's new found assistant NPC character, the Wolfman guy, Zeb, says, "Come on, man. It ain't that bad. Let's Let's just give it a little spin. And just like that, they kind of like lift off and fly off into another goddamn planet. And literally, diagetically, there's like no respite for this guy. They kill the Imperial. They land on Sigourney Weaver's Malibu rebel planet. They get their mission. They kind of give like 5 minutes of push back to this morally ambiguous hot connection. But no, then it's all forgotten. He actually gives the ship a spin. Well, to their credit, this scene is beautifully filmed. You know, they fly out of the atmosphere and like you kind of get the feeling of flying a spaceship, which was which was wellmade, but there's no rest. There's no respite for this guy. It's off to the mission. Bish bash bush straight up, which was I think a little weird. Maybe there were some other scenes there and they were cut or I don't know. But you kind of get the sense that this movie was changed halfway through once or maybe more as you watch it. And yeah, another comment I must make here is about the ease of space travel. It's a very American notion this one. Everybody can jump in a car and push some buttons and just like that go to a whole different planet. And that kind of like the way mobility is baked into the core of these new Star Wars movies. It's a very suburban American thing. It's as if you're driving 40 minutes from one town to another to I don't know buy some wine or see a friend or crack a friend and you know something like that. And that kind of mobility in the present day on this planet only exists in the United States of America. And it's interesting to see how that is reflected in the Mandalorian too. So off they fly Mando, Zeb, and Baby Yoda to the home world of the huts. And then we get a glimpse of Nal Hata, the hot home world, which is where a lot of the attraction for this movie lies for me. I just like it when a Star Wars movie shows me new worlds and new creatures and at least for a minute or two I can immerse myself in the world building and all the little details in the background. So Nalhata is a kind of Nurgalcoded swamp fungus bog city forest jungle kind of world and you see all sorts of old robots from the Clone Wars walking around in the background. You're also treated to this one nice shot of huts just slithering and wallowing around in mud. You kind of finally get it. You know, this is how these creatures evolved and lived. And you know, seeing those little details click is just really fun for me. Anyways, there Mando goes to a couple of hot mobsters and they give him a mission. They want him to locate this missing relative called Rota the Hut. Apparently, he's gone awall and they are just worried for him and they want Mando to find him. Now, a little note on the hot language and the audio recordings of that language. Here in the trailers, which most of us now watched on our telephones or on a computer, the huts really sound teeny voiced and, you know, not so hotlike.

[00:20:54]But when you go to the theater, the sound actually has a really strong bus boost, which really makes it sound alien and strange and well nice. Both with these mafia twins and later on with Rota the Hut. The voices are actually quite all right if you watch this film in a theater. Anyways, then the Huts tell him, "Well, you must go to Space Chicago, a gangster town where we last lost trace of our relative." And Mando gets into his American coded space van and flies again. In space Chicago, he meets a kind of four armed monkey creature voiced by Martin Scorsese. I think this belongs to the same species as the four armed good guy in the Han Solo movie. Anyways, that's a neat line of continuity. I like it when these films recycle aliens from older movies instead of creating Xihilo species over and over again. You know, it's a pretty big and diverse galaxy. I get it. But, you know, not every notable person needs to be from a different species. And also, to the movie makers credit, the character was really well animated. This character, whose name I've forgotten, works in something like a space donire shop in this space Chicago city. And as he's talking, you see his arms move about differently. When he's scared, two arms go to his head and the other two arms just make a negative gesture. When this creature is busy, two arms chop up some donor meat while the other two arms, I don't know, fix up a cup of coffee or something. It's a really great achievement of animation. Despite this, however, this character whose name I've forgotten doesn't really serve a meaningful point in the story. You know, this could be any other plot device or any other alien or any other character, but I think they just had him to give some voice talent to Martin Scorsesei and also to well have the animators flex their craft a little. By the way, I think that's a hallmark of the Mandalorian series. You have celebrities who are famous for other achievements doing little cameos as minor or mediumrade characters. A similar case was the first episode of the Mandalorian TV show where Vner Harzok, an incredible eccentric director, if you don't know who he is, made an appearance as an Imperial villain. Anyways, a lot of [ __ ] happens after this. Apparently, this missing hut, Rota the Hut, has now gone fed Ratwa as in the Dune series, and he now fancies himself a gladiator because he is his own man and his father never showed him no love. So, he's happy when the audience cheers him. You know, he's just dying for some approval, dying for validation, and dying for positive reinforcement. By the way, I'm saying this with all the kindness of my heart.

[00:23:58]I hope in the rest of the extended universe, this Rot character never runs into this nasty kind of girlfriend. You know, the kind of people who praise you and secretly manipulate you. Well, you got to you got to be watchful for those characters, whether you're a guy or a girl, you know, that's all I'll say about this matter. And Rot the Hut just looks like, you know, prime gold digger exploitation material. Anyways, that aside, Rot the Hut is also a captive of a gangster named creatively named Coin.

[00:24:34]God, I hate this name. Who's really bad and bold and evil, but also a forgettable character. So, Coin is keeping Rot captive and making him fight until he can pay off his debt, what the [ __ ] ever that was. and he's going to fix the fight by having Roa fight an incredibly difficult selection of monsters. So, he lets Mandalorian know about this and a lot of [ __ ] happens.

[00:25:00]I'm I'm not even going to like walk through the plot there. The Mandalorian visits Rot the Hut one more time trying to talk him out of it, but Rot the Hut says like, "I ain't coming back with your [ __ ] [ __ ] As a matter of fact, I'm my own man now, bitch." And Mandalorian says, "Come on, we got to go." And Rotas says, "Please arrest him.

[00:25:22]Arrest this man." And suddenly gas floods the chamber. And this must be a really strong, potent form of [ __ ] space gas because the Mandalorian has this battle armor on with a mask and everything. I guess it was a kind of gas that his war suit couldn't filter.

[00:25:40]Anyways, I just found that to be a weak detail, but you know, I guess we needed that to happen because the next we see them, Rot and the Mandalorian are forced to fight backto back against a whole slew of Arena creatures, which is where the fun begins if you are a speculative evolution enthusiast like myself. Now, a little bit of a preamble here. As you may know, these creatures first appear in the very first Star Wars movie. On Han Solo's ship, Chewbacca and TriPio and Luke were playing a weird sort of holographic chess game with many strange creatures in it. And I I distinctly remembered as a kid, I was watching the original Star Wars on VHS and I would freeze frame the tape in that exact scene trying to get a better glimpse of the creatures. They were all very welld designed and it was a very short scene.

[00:26:39]But it really stayed with me for a long time and I guess it stayed with a lot of people too. Or maybe the Disney Star Wars filmmakers were really creatively impoverished because they did the member berries thing and they said, "Remember the Dejeric game?" Well, turns out it was all [ __ ] real and they made all the creatures come alive in glorious 3D animation and it's just wonderful to watch. I mean, I'll confess at first when I saw this scene in the trailer, I said, "Oh my god, it's going to be like a [ __ ] fest. It's going to be really awful. It's going to be fun service and slop." But when I watched this scene, I really liked it. I think this is when the film really came onto its own. you know, it became its own man and it was no longer just a predictable Star Wars movie. It was a weird bizarro Looney Tunes creature fest of a film and it really made me like The Mandalorian and Grou. Let me know if you felt that way so we get some traction in the algorithm. Now, what I'm going to do is describe every creature in the Djaric arena. So, here we go.

[00:27:59]Number one.

[00:28:02]Well, this creature's name is literally spelled G H K. And it's a green monster that looks like a muppet's caricature of an insect with a green body, some sort of snout, antenna or eyes, and four legs ending in like squishy broad toes. This was probably the most forgettable or generic creature in the arena. And during the movie, I often got it confused with two of the other creatures, the Moltor and the Mono. Anyways, that's all that could be said about the It's like a weird 1970s LSD up insect sort of creature. And that's that.

[00:28:50]Number two, the clore slug. The way you spell this creature's name is K, upper apostrophe L O R. All of these creatures have weird or strange or alien names that kind of add to their ziness. But the claw slug is like every eyeless slug leech vampire sucker worm type of monster compressed into one. It bears a strong resemblance to the giant leeches you would see in the canon scene of the King Kong movie directed by Peter Jackson in 2005. By the way, that scene was also like a monster bash fans dream sequence. All these weird insects and creatures and dinosaurs and crustations coming in. It's just a spectacle. And the claw slug kind of resembles the giant leeches you see there. It has got like a dragonlike low slung body with eight or maybe 10 short legs. It's got a long snout that opens onto itself like a circumcision in reverse. And out of that comes a smaller jaw and out of that comes like a [ __ ] stabby poison venom spike. I think this is a really good design for a creature. I overall like low slung animals with lots of legs. Rot the hut gives it a tough beating, but fortunately it doesn't die. At a point during the fight, I will describe you how it happens. All the creatures break loose in the arena. And when it escapes, this creature crawls up into something like a space al train and gets into the car and starts eating people. So, I guess it's a happy ending for the killor slug.

[00:30:51]Number three, the Kintan Strider. So, this is very close to being my favorite creature in the Dejaric arena. The Kintan Strider has something mythical and and fabulous about it. In the medieval era, distant continents were populated by lots of imaginary creatures, including things like skuopods, who were like a race of humans with one giant foot. Canosphi, humans with doglike heads and faces, and also the anthropoagi, the famous men whose heads grow beneath their shoulders. There's a quote from Shakespeare in his Otello where he says, "And of the cannibals that each other eat the anthropai and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders." Fabulous, fabulous stuff. And this is like the gorilla version of a headless anthropogi. It's a kind of giant hulking beast with a face on its chest and the proportions roughly of an anthropoid.

[00:32:03]Also spectacular but subtle detail. The Kintan strider fights with a big stick.

[00:32:09]So you get the sense that it's not just an animal, but it's something that's smart enough to make and wield tools.

[00:32:15]And the combination of this fabulous medieval bestie look with this tool it used always marked this creature to me as a mythical creature. You know, it was meant to be in my head canon. It was meant to be a Star Wars universe in universe mythical creature that you could only see on a chess board or a fabulous game much like a centaur or a minotaur today. Even though this creature is really nice to watch on the big screen, I think literally making it a real creature that our heroes could fight kind of raped its secrets a little. But hey, that's just me.

[00:33:01]Number four, the n.

[00:33:05]That's ng upper apostroof. Okay. And the nog is a okay. It is absolutely my favorite creature in the Djaric arena. I mean, where should I begin to love this thing? It's got one single eye. You cannot tell if it's like a mammal or a reptiloid or even a plant because it's got one mouth, but also its hands are crocodilian mouth snapper Venus fly trap things too. It's just beautiful and admirable. The NOK also has some pretty interesting deep lore. I am convinced, though I can't prove conclusively, that this creature was actually inspired by the Martian, the Barumian Plantman from Edgar Riceboro's Mars novels, especially the gods of Mars.

[00:34:01]Now, if you enjoy science fiction, speculative evolution, or creature design in general, you just have to go and look for those books and read them, that's my recommendation to you. And the Barumian plantmen, like the nok creature, have a single eye, although their eye is milky and there's no pupil.

[00:34:21]Also, their hands have Venus fly trap style mouths built into them. So, that's like a lot of parallels. And I I'm certain whoever designed this creature all the way back in the 1970s was inspired by Edgar Riceboro's work. In fact, to continue the Barumian connection, remember the Kintan strider?

[00:34:44]Well, the Barum universe has a creature that's remarkably similar to it. They're called white apes, and they are completely naked gorillike creatures, very, very similar to the Kintan strider. I think we're on to something here. If anybody knows more about the Barum/Dareic connections, please comment so we can discuss this matter further. Anyways, this is my absolute favorite creature.

[00:35:12]And you know, I'm not much of a toy collector, but if somebody makes a toy of this creature for merchandising and [ __ ] he or she is getting all my shekels. I would really like the little sculpture of a nagok or a kintan strider or any of the other arena creatures on my bookshelf. Really lovely designs.

[00:35:38]>> Number five, the mantalian sa rip. Well, this is easily my least favorite dejaric creature. It looks like a long neckaked, boringly designed dinosaur/Frankenstein/ORC or troll type warrior. It belongs more in the world of Dungeons and Dragons or maybe some sort of bad Tolken approximation rather than Star Wars. The only remarkable thing about this creature, the Mantelian Saver, is that it wears clothes and it seems to be like a genuine intelligent creature cast into this arena with the rest of the other beasts. And that's that. I really, really don't like this design.

[00:36:25]Number six, the Hujix. That's H O U J I.

[00:36:32]This is a little battery of a creature.

[00:36:34]It's a tiny smarting doglike creature that has like bifurcating legs attached to a very short body. It's got a mouth like a crocodile and a strange tail like the club tail of a small ankyosaur. It's a really cute and adorable design. And this creature plays a pivotal role in the plot. So, this creature fights with electricity. You know, it's like a battery creature. It shocks anybody like goes zz zap zap whatever. And during the fight the whole arena becomes enclosed Jurassic Park style with some laser electric space technology fencing. As the fight progresses, somebody knocks the hujix into the light wires and the whole system shortcircuits and suddenly there's a dead silence and all the creatures look around. they stop fighting and this was actually a really like relief because you saw all these creatures fighting and trying to hurt each other and you know maybe I'm just an old Kermagen but it really feels awful to see even fictional beings as silly as these fighting and suffering you know I just don't want to see that and I feel anger towards the people who made this disgusting barbaric spectacle possible well in sacrificing its life, the Hujix makes the best, most delectable sense of revenge possible.

[00:38:07]Because when the system goes down, all the Arena creatures stop fighting each other. You realize this is not what they wanted to do. You see that they were thrust into this violent spectacle and they escape and they start killing everybody and anybody. They kill villains. They kill spectators. In fact, they go out of the arena and start killing civilians and you don't feel one bit of sadness for them. In fact, you feel a vindictive sense of joy. You can't kill them enough. Go for it. Kill the whole [ __ ] space New York world.

[00:38:44]Maybe except for Martin Score says he's forearmmed monkey character because you you learn that he's got 12 children so he can survive. Anybody else aiding and abetting this gory spectacle needs to die and die violently at the hands and mouths of beasts, I must add. Kill them all. No quarter, no mercy, no respite.

[00:39:12]Number seven, the Monok. This is one of the most bizarre creatures in the arena.

[00:39:19]It looks like a sort of modern art sculpture. And I couldn't really tell where its face was, where its eyes were.

[00:39:27]It looks like it has an Henry Moore sculpture type of hole in its face.

[00:39:33]Interesting to notice. And the Monok's whole body is covered with maggotike wrinkles and ridges and styations giving it an almost biomechanical body texture. In fact, this feels like a Star Wars universe version of an HR gigger biomechanoid.

[00:39:55]Another interesting in universe detail to note is that the Monok was an officially sentient species. It wasn't a mere brood or an even mere half brute like the Kintan strider. But you know this creature was an intelligent thinking being with hopes and dreams of its own. And maybe to underline that point in the film, it fights with a spear and you know it's just inhumane to have a thinking creature and thrust it into an arena so univilized.

[00:40:36]Finally, this is the final creature we have to tackle in the goddamn Djaric arena and it's a beautiful design. In fact, I think it's up there with the Kintan strider and the nook plant thing as the best design. It's got this insecttoid gas mask/wevill like thing with haunting black holes for eyes and its body is also like an insect. Its exoskeleletal arms grow almost like those of Sabalba and it's a vicious fighter. I just like this thing so much. A beautiful and elegant killer trapped in a violent spectacle. There's something about this creature's design that makes me want to draw it over and over again. So maybe I'll do some sketches for the Dejaric Arena FA. And if you follow me on patreon.com, you might see those sketches. Who knows?

[00:41:35]Well, that was that for the Dejaric Arena Creatures. This is the kind of deep dive we do here. But the movie is not over yet. As I told you before, the arena goes Jurassic Park. All the creatures escape and almost none of them really die. Mando shoots one of them. I think it was the Mono creature. There's a halfhearted car chase with Rot the Hut trying to escape and Mandalorian goes and chases him and whatever whatever.

[00:42:06]Long story short, Mando apprehends Rot and tries to take him back to the evil relatives. Just as when things are about to hit an impass, a plot miracle happens. Remember the shady Imperial Mando was contracted to hunt down that he had to go ask the huts for that he had to do this quest for. Well, turns out it was nobody other than Mr. [ __ ] coin himself. How do we know this? Well, Rot the Hut just conveniently happens to tell Mando and then gives him puppy eyes. You know, he says something like, "You're a bounty hunter." You know, when people are lying, I want to be my own man. Just take me at my word and give it a look. Why don't you? I want to be my own man. I I I I want to be my own man.

[00:43:01]It really is funny though. I mean, this became a meme at the time of recording.

[00:43:06]Rot the hut repeats that he wants to be his own man so often that at the time of recording on the 1st of June 2026, every social media post about this creature jokingly refer to the fact that he wants to be his own man. Anyways, they go check it out just for his sake and it turns out [ __ ] coin was an Imperial.

[00:43:30]So, there's another half-hearted sand beach chase with speeders and spaceships and everything. This sequence also has this cringe scene where Mando talks to Baby Yoda, who's chilling in the car, saying, "Push the button and do something." And Yoda pushes some buttons and launches some missiles, but nothing happens. I think this scene was longer and it originally had Baby Yoda pushing buttons by mistake and launching missiles and defeating the Stormtroopers chasing Mando that way. But at one point, the director must have said, "Oh, that's too [ __ ] much. It's like the Hobbit movie again." And cut the scene into something more believable. Slightly more believable. Anyways, that is that.

[00:44:17]They capture [ __ ] coin and take him back to Sigourney Naver's Malibu or La Hoya seaside rebel base and there he's taken away for processing for questioning and a neat or weird little detail there was the two Nuranburg trial military police style rebel troopers who arrived to take the bad guy away. And if you notice, their uniforms are very similar to Second World War era US Army military police uniforms. So that's that he's never seen again. And the mission ends, or does it? Throughout the film, there's this sense of dark wonder at what these characters exactly do when they're not fighting people, killing people, having adventures, or carrying out missions. And normally you could shut down the intelligent part of your brain, you know, lower your brain IQ, become an imbecile and kind of ignore that. But now the film has plot details of Mando essentially having a child or Huts having family issues. So you're incentivized and invited to think about that. But when you think about stuff, you realize that all characters, even or maybe even especially the good guys in the Star Wars universe, lead extremely PTSD ridden and bleak lives. What do these characters even look like when they're not in a war situation? And on a greater scale, you also ask, what do the rebels do now after blowing up the second Death Star, defeating the Empire?

[00:46:03]What next? What next? Where to? New Republic man. I mean, Sigourney Weaver's rebel base. I understand they're patrolling and outlying sector, etc. But it looks like a Second World War bomber base. There's like people, you know, sitting at tables, all dressed in pilot suits, ready to take off at a moment's notice. There's planes and like spaceships and bombers. Essentially, all they have are weapons of war. Spaceships designed to bomb, blow up stuff, kill enemies. But what do they do now that the Empire is gone? What do these people do? You know, I would like to watch a hypothetical Star Wars movie where the rebels after defeating the Empire maybe go on like humanitarian or logistics missions. Imagine the Empire has fallen and a food grainery that the Empire operated has been blown up. Now they have to go and deliver food aid. Stuff like this happened at the end of the Second World War. And you know there's a lot of human stories and drama one can tell about not just fighting wars but also making sure that the people you fought for stay alive, govern themselves. You know, I think that's like a plot for a great drama. Maybe slightly along the lines of Andor. But anyways, stay tuned cuz you're going to see more of the New Republic in a bit.

[00:47:32]But yeah, Mando kind of takes some time off, goes home. Once again, this guy has earned enough credits to last him and his baby Grou Yoda for lifetimes, and he flies back to his home planet. And that's a ridiculous scene. It's almost almost like a parody. He flies to his home world, and there we see Mando's home. It looks exactly like a suburban house you might see on the outskirts of Austin. He even has his spaceships aka cars parked outside his home like a big van and a Ford Mustang sitting on somebody's driveway. It's very very suburban American coded. And he kind of hangs around with baby Grou for a while.

[00:48:18]Oh, he also becomes buddies with Rot the Hut, aka his own man. and he arranges a weapons smuggler with a very beautifully designed, I must admit, ship that's kind of like a flying game jet turtle/ fifth element mondo shawan/zoid type vehicle to take him away to a secret location where he will be free to be his own man away from the evil influence of his relatives. And then he does some more suburban dad stuff. He does the space equivalent of calling in a Mexican landscaper or a home repair company and gets them to take care of some errands in the house. You know, fix the pipes and [ __ ] He literally calls in the bubble freak creatures, which were probably one of the few good things to come out of the godamn abysmal Star Wars sequel films directed by JJ Abrams.

[00:49:21]I forgot what race these were even called, but to me, these things will always be bubble freaks. They're essentially small, slightly grumpy, eccentric, white-haired gremlins the size of milk kittens. And Mando gets them to work on his new ship and he says, "Strip it all away, boys. I want her to be light and fast and stuff like that so it can look even more like the original Razor Crest which he lost."

[00:49:49]Everything seems Marvy and Humrum until the unexpected happens. And this part is like so passible. I'm not even going to go too deep into the summary anymore.

[00:50:01]Suffice it to say that an evil other bounty hunter arrives. He captures one of the Babu freaks and baby Yoda and then takes them to the evil huts palace because by not returning Rot, Mando has broken his contract with them and now they are going to hound him until the end of time. Long story short, we go off to Nal Hata again and the Huts remove the Mandalorian's mask and drop him in a pit to fight the various amphibians and reptiles they keep there. Now, there's another minor note to point here. This is one of the few scenes where we properly see Pedro Pascal's face in the movie. And if you go watch the credits after the film ends, you will notice that the credits go with Pedro Pascal as the Mandalorian. And immediately after him, you got two other people. Brandon Wayne is listed as the Mandalorian suit performer and Latif Crowder is the Mandalorian stunt performer. And then after them, you have Sigourney Wever and all the other major characters and voice actors and actresses. Now, this is really extraordinary because it kind of hints that these two people have been doing the heavy lifting when it comes to portraying the Mandalorian. It looks like Pedro Pascal, our touchy feely Hollywood friend, only appeared a few times in the movie. He only put in a few actual appearances. And most of the screen time where you see the Mandalorian, he's actually being played by these two other performers. So, there's an interesting and kind of slimy factoid about this movie. Anyways, in the pit, some of my favorite creatures in all of the Star Wars franchise make an appearance. These are the Ammani, also known as Amanim, also known as Amanaman, which by the way in Turkish means oh my. Oh my. If somebody says amanaman, he or she might be really scared or shocked. It means oh my, oh dear or something like that. Anyways, to understand the amanim, one needs to go way way back into 1986 to the original Star Wars film Return of the Jedi. Back to Jabba's Palace, crawling with all sorts of weird muppets, aliens, and other special effects characters. Now, one of these characters which was almost invisible in the initial film, by the way, I also had a VHS tape of The Return of the Jedi, and I watched that film. I remember there were like a couple of summers when I was a kid. When I watched that film twice a day or something, it was so incredible. I have almost every line memorized. I have almost every scene burned into my head. And during the Jaba's palace bits, I used to pose, play, and pose and play and pose and play until I could comprehend what every weird creature in the background was.

[00:53:15]And that's how I got my first glimpse of the Amanim creatures. Now, these guys, they're such lovely designs because they're so counterintuitive. They're a little wonky, but they also feel like something that might really have evolved. Remember, a lot of animals in nature are wonky or bizarre or just funny or just stupid in shape and appearance. So, the amanim look like these three m tall banana peels with very long arms and perpetually frowning faces that resemble the bottom of a skate or a ray. And in the Mandalorian hot arena fight scene, they put this design to amazing use because you kind of see the wonky flattened almost surfboard like body form of these animals really coming into play. It turns out this helps them swim and in their long arms they clutch these vicious looking spears and they're really welld designigned. They really move and act well. They really look like things which may have really evolved and it's all the better with them being an upcycled original trilogy design. I just really like this. I I'm really a huge fan of the Aman Aman. Then it seems like Mando has won. So the Huts toss him back his helmet because plot reasons. And then the big boss emerges. This is the thing they call the dragon snake. It is an enormous animal. longer than I don't know two diplodocus type dinosaurs or three blue whales. I don't know. It's really enormous. It's got a really welldesigned sleek face almost resembling a cross between a spinosaur and one of those deep sea fish. In the action sequence, I really like the way it moved. Its teeth had individual sockets that were mobile like digits in a hand actually. And I just really like the subtle movements that this creature did. Anyways, long story short, Mandalorian defeats that too and escapes or I think no, Baby Yoda arrives and breaks him out. In the process, Mandalorian is wounded and envenenomated. Turns out this thing is venomous and its venom can kill you.

[00:55:35]Now, this is really bizarre because if you know anything about venomous animals, they're venomous mostly to hunt creatures that are too active or need to be dispatched quickly. And I don't know what this enormous 100 m long dragon snake was hunting in its natural habitat, but it must be formidable query indeed. Another reason, a far less likely one, for the venom could be for defense. But in that case, it's even more absurd. I mean, what is this thing trying to avoid with the venom? You know, kilometer tall storks that hunt hundreds of meters long snakes. Who knows? Who knows? But the Star Wars universe is a weird place indeed.

[00:56:28]By the way, in real life, there is an animal that's colloqually called a dragon snake. This is the very unusual snake known as xenodermis javanicus.

[00:56:39]It's also known as the roughbacked litter snake or the Javan mudnake.

[00:56:45]Anyways, it lives in the Malai Peninsula and it's got this very characteristic ridges and scales down its back and it's like a really really cool animal. I mean, if you search for images of this creature, you will see that it's like a really rad looking reptile.

[00:57:02]Unfortunately, it's very difficult to raise in captivity and due to its cool appearance, these these snakes are actively being persecuted by the pet trade and it's not it's not a good picture. So, yeah, don't keep a dragon snake as a pet. admire one from a distance or just go to sleep happy knowing that you share the planet with these things. That's better than any Star Wars creature I can tell you.

[00:57:29]Anyways, Mando gets poisoned by the dragon snake and Baby Yoda drags him to a swamp. Don't ask me how this happens.

[00:57:38]You just have to watch the movie. Nurses the Mandalorian back to health in probably my favorite bit of the movie.

[00:57:46]Now, I like this part for three reasons.

[00:57:49]Number one is the fact that Baby Yoda instinctively begins building a mud nest, very similar to the mud hut that Yoda had back on Dagoba in the Empire Strikes Back. And this was explained actually apparently by George Lucas himself saying that this is an instinctive behavior of the species. So much like a mud dober wasp or a beaver building a dam, the Yoda species instinctively builds these mud huts that look like igloos with you know circular doors and windows and that's both funny and thoughtprovoking. We also known canonically that this Yoda species, sorry I've forgotten the name, this Yoda species is unusually potent in the force. We saw that with Yoda himself and we saw that with Grou, who I will insist on calling Baby Yoda. Now, we usually associate wisdom or force sensitivity in the Star Wars universe with heightened intelligence. But what if these things were not correlated? What if an animal or an intelligent species could both be extraordinarily adept in the force, but it would also give into baser instincts every now and then? you know, build a nest, live in nature, maybe in other species hunt or nest in a special way.

[00:59:13]Maybe actually one begets the other. In order to have like an extraordinary aptitude with the force, a species may, to put it delicately, need to be a little dumb, may need to be a little baby minded, or maybe they need to be a little imbecile.

[00:59:30]That's a cute and thoughtprovoking angle to consider. And you know, I just had visions of like Master Yoda back in Corusant ordering barrels of mud and building a little mud hut in his modern apartment. To meditate on this, I will.

[00:59:46]And that's just that's just interesting and kind of hilarious. Anyways, the second reason I love this sequence is the Bayou amphibian character. Now, as Mando is laying comos, Baby Yoda goes around the swamp in an adorable way, gathers him some food and snacks, and eventually he reaches this Louisiana bayoucoded place with a house. He goes up there and there's like a wise southernccoated reptile man resting with some fish hanging in the background. He steals the fish and nurses Mando. Then he goes back there again and the reptile man says, "You must be new in these parts. Your friends poisoned or I don't remember." And he makes some space swamp medicine for Baby Yoda to give to Mando.

[01:00:38]And Mando is cured. This character's name is Gati. That's G A T O R I. And at the time of recording, nothing else was known about him. But I guess as a few more weeks pass, there will be a whole lot of lore and information about him and his species. He looks like a longbodied swamp reptile with a shortish face, short limbs, and a long tail.

[01:01:04]Actually, there's an animal in fossil history that kind of sort of resembles this gate character, but is actually far weirder. You may have guessed if you've been a longtime follower of this channel, this creature is Vanclavia.

[01:01:20]That's V A N C L E A V E A. Vanclavia or however you spell it. Now, this thing looks like a genuine Star Wars alien or a character. It's a relative of the Arosaurs, that is to say the group which includes dinosaurs and crocodiles. And it's got a short face but strange teeth with like two different forms. It's got short limbs and a strange tadpole like tail. But the fins on the tail uniquely among backbone animals are made out of bone plates. So they're like a line of tiny stegosaur plates on the tail that allow this animal to swim. It's a bizarre creature and it's not a one-off.

[01:02:11]I mean, there's many fossils of these creatures and looks like they just got that way and they're cool and unique.

[01:02:18]Vanclavia lived in the late triacic, arguably the most Star Warslike era of all natural history, full of many other bizarre creatures, by the way, and its fossils are known from North America. Go look this critter up. And I have a nagging suspicion that the designers of this gate character were also inspired by Vancia. You'd be very surprised to know how actual designers for movies and TV series or computer games operate these days. One would think there's like a research phase or a long discussion phase where they kind of like mix and match different ideas. But more often than not, these people are working under tremendous time constraints. So they pop open Pinterest or maybe even AI, dig up some references, trace them, make up character concepts occasionally without giving too much thought into how they live and work and how they may have evolved, and then show them to a godfucking damned ADHD adult millennial chongus ass of a director who says something like, "I like that. Yeah, let's make that one, but let's make it red cuz it's my favorite color.

[01:03:39]Everybody likes me. Anyways, and then that's that. And you have to realize what an outlier the Star Wars prequels were directed by George Lucas. He assembled an allstar cast of character designers who were like the best of their game. And for almost 2 years before production even began, these designers were given free reign just to create creatures. And they built up the world and the characters organically.

[01:04:08]And because of this, the designs of the prequels are memorable, timeless, and sort of grounded in a magical way that many other movies just are not. Ah, to have been a designer, a creature designer in that crew. Alas, I was born too late. Anyways, back to the movie.

[01:04:29]So, Baby Yoda goes to space swamp wavia guy and gets the space medicine and rescues Mando. And then following this is probably the only scene in the movie which made me feel anything as a human being. There was a really nice shot. I have to hand it to them. To the right of the frame was the low small mud hut that the Mandalorian was nesting in built instinctively by Baby Yoda. And just outside of it, Baby Yoda comes out and sees Mandalorian on the horizon. He has been healed. He's looking better. He turns around to Baby Yoda and says something along the lines of the old must take care of the young so that later on the young must take care of the old. And you know, it kind of hit home in this age when I'm still lucky to have my parents alive and they're getting older. You kind of notice that and this line hits you. In a way, it may not even have registered to me a few years ago, but yeah, I was like trying not to cry during that little bit. But fortunately, they hop right back to fighting and gratituous cartoon violence and strange new characters as Mando and Baby Yoda team up, go back to the evil huts palace and fight it out. You know, during this fight, they encountered two gigantic droids which were in a nice touch animated with stop motion technology.

[01:06:03]That's the old way aliens or robots or non-human characters were made to move in movies before computer graphics were invented. And it's really nice to see that great art being brought back to life again. Stop motion animated characters have this certain magic about them. They register as real things in a way that computer graphics, even at their most advanced, simply cannot, but the movement is also like dreamy and fictional, and it's just a really, really nice synergy. I love that bit with the robots. Anyways, then there's the final battle. Mando faces off the forgettable new bounty hunter Nemesis.

[01:06:46]Rot the Hut is released and he battles the evil uncle and aunt in a really amazing and sometimes hilarious like body slamming sea lion style hotties wrestling match. And then even Baby Yoda fights this evil dog character in the middle of the fray. Finally, you know, the bad guys are defeated. Of course, what were you expecting? with a baby on the protagonist side. And the directors remember this was a Star Wars movie. So, let's put some Star War in it. And suddenly, the Rebel Alliance arrives.

[01:07:23]There's this token space battle against these hot spaceships, which are really ugly and badly designed. They're not ugly in the sense that they reflect the huts anatomy or culture, but they're just ugly and like shoddly designed period. An interesting detail was all the henchmen that the huts had. They consisted mostly of the amanim which we discussed earlier and also recycled or upcycled battle droids or other droids scavenged together from different parts.

[01:07:56]And I was just dying to hear a little Roger Roger there, but that didn't happen. A funny and hilarious note was this one robot pilot character. So, there was this like seasoned battle droid who's probably so old now that it's got a personality and everything, piloting one of these ugly hot spacecraft. And it was wearing a fur coat on its back like a grizzled warrior from the medieval era. And that was just hilarious. I mean, why does a robot need a fur? Does it need to keep warm? I don't think so. The only answer could be that this robot has been so seasoned by decades of war that it's developed an original personality of its own. And that was just a neat little detail that I probably read too much into. Anyways, then Sigourney Weaver arrives with all the other rebels and they conduct an IDF style bombing run on the capital of Nalhata. Now, okay, we know that the evil huts running this organization were scoundrels, but they were already dead.

[01:09:00]By the time Sigourney Weaver and all the other rebels arrived, the giant swamp dragon snake had already eaten them. So, the Mandalorian could have said, "Call off the attack. It's done." Or something. But no, they go in and they just bomb the whole place. And remember, in the very, very first scenes of the movie, I told you there were other huts crawling about in the muck. Well, I guess those died, too. Who knows? It's just collateral. And I bet I bet after they cleared the rubble, they just happened to find the passport belonging to the Galactic Empire neatly preserved in all that carnage and destruction, which shows you that they were bad guys.

[01:09:39]Who knows? But yeah, that was just like an overkill by the Rebel Alliance as far as I was concerned. Oh, and the bubble freaks also make an appearance. Remember these were like tiny coke bottle- sized characters and they have a spaceship the size of a child's coffin. So they fly around with that joining the rebels and all the rebels blast the hot fighters and they like IDF nuke the hot capital building or whatever and the bubble freaks funnily enough go and blast a single creature which threatened them earlier on in the movie in the swamps.

[01:10:15]So that was kind of hilarious. It's payback time for everybody, big or small. And that's that. The movie ends.

[01:10:22]Rot the Hut decides to join the rebellion. I don't know what Mando and Baby Yoda do from now on. Do they go on to further adventures or do they go back to their suburban house and just exist?

[01:10:36]But once again, can any of these characters have any normal lives after being through so much performative violence, space metals, close quarters combat against Imperials, sticking spares through the stinking guts of Amanim, killing monsters, evading monsters, all that violence, it must I mean like in real life, no person lives a life like this and ends up normally.

[01:11:03]You know, they usually don't die in their beds. That's all I'll tell you. I mean, if you think about fathers who have been in active military conflict or husbands or other family members, you know, they're tough to deal with. They go on and inculcate further traumas in the following generations. In real life, a person like the Mandalorian, he would probably beat on Baby Yoda's ass when he's a little older. But yeah, this is the Star Wars universe and people's mental health has some sort of a magic reset button, I guess. Who knows? That was that on the overall. It was a good film actually. Don't mind me being so cynical about things. This was a good film. This was like a funny, enjoyable, creative, and watchable life extension to the Star Wars universe. At the time of recording, however, the Mandalorian and Grou was being slaughtered alive like an Amanaman warrior with a spare running through its guts. It was being slaughtered alive by the backrooms movie and this terrible BPD girl demon film called Obsession, who they couldn't get me to watch with a gun pointed to my head. Mind you, these two movies were vastly outperforming The Mandalorian.

[01:12:22]And there is talk in the air at the time of recording the 1st of June 2026 of the Star Wars universe finally dying. And maybe even with good movies and good TV shows, this was inevitable. I'm always reminded of cowboy films. In the times of the greatest generation or some very old boomers, cowboy movies were all the rage. They weren't necessarily bad movies. They had some great actors, some really expensive titles, some shitty ones, some forgettable ones, some grand ones. It was a mixed bag. But the thing is, there's a kind of media senility that just inevitably comes about to franchises when their times are done.

[01:13:07]Now, when I was growing up, the cowboy movies didn't even register to me as films. Why? I mean, if I set them and watch them critically, a lot of them were probably nice, neat, enjoyable even, but they just didn't register to me. And that's the phenomenon I keep seeing with my younger fans and friends.

[01:13:25]They say, "Ah, you know, Mr. Cosman, I've never watched Star Wars, to be honest, and I'm not really curious about it." So, that's really intriguing to notice. Maybe the Star Wars franchise is too closely associated with these cringe millennials who are now getting old and having kids and driving cars around and taking care of their baby Yoda babies and they're just quietly going away into media sility zone and the future of sci-fi or the future of big franchises lies in something else. Who knows?

[01:14:00]Entirely possible. More notes about the movie. I like the use of stop motion and legacy technologies, but I will let you know there were a few bits where I suspected that they either used AI to gloss over the animation, especially during the null hata sequences. They may have used AI to gloss over the animation or they may have used AI generated animatics or design templates. I don't know. Something felt smooth and gunky and off. And I wouldn't be surprised if this comes out later. But yeah, I also like that this movie was brave enough to feature nonhuman characters in prominent roles. And that was that. The Mandalorian and Grou. It's like a 3.5 or fourstar movie. Not a solid four-star movie. But once again, there's no denying the fact that the Star Wars universe is on its way out. Now, in these movie reviews, I always go on hypotheticals saying how I would do this movie, but I've already been speaking nonstop for an hour and a half, and I'll just give you my quick overview on how I would save the Star Wars franchise. So, today I'm pretending to be a media executive and not a film director or a film writer. If the gods of Hollywood came to me and said, "CM Kosman, author of the viral hit All Tomorrow's and Creature Afficionado, how would you rescue our ailing dying universe?" I would do the following. I would declare the main Disney movies non. So, the Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and God, The Rise of the Skywalker, an absolute dog [ __ ] pile of an atrocity in my opinion. They're no longer. We disone these movies. They exist in their own universe. We respect everybody who helped make them, yada yada yada. That's number one. Andor, the Han Solo movie, the many spin-off TV series, and Rogue One, they can stay. Then I would go to Mr. George Lucas and said, "Sir, here's the keys to your kingdom again. Go wild.

[01:16:17]But as a media executive, I will kind of guide you into the older past of the Star Wars universe. Go even beyond the Republic. Go to the Old Republic era. go to the dawn of the Jedi era. You're the boss. Give us give the fans something creative and something they have never seen before. And that was the big mistake with I think all the awful Star Wars movies. They wanted to soft relaunch the feeling and the vibes of the original Star Wars franchise. This is an absolute generational idiocy with the millennials, I must add. They're so caught up on nostalgia because the boomers denied them everything. So they look back to the past saying, "Ah, it's so good. It was so nice. Remember, remember this. Remember that." They're so dumb. Nostalgia to them becomes a currency of authenticity. And I don't think anybody any age should aspire to be like that. Until proven otherwise, you should declare all millennials incompetent, stupid, dumb, and mired in nostalgia. Especially my younger listeners, don't take [ __ ] from them.

[01:17:29]They're absolutely the worst. The boomers may have had no hearts, but these [ __ ] the millennials, and the Gen X crowd, they have no freaking brains. Never trust them. Anyways, let's go back to my fictional collaboration with George Lucas on how to resurrect the Star Wars franchise. I mean, Lucas is a very profound man. He told the following when they asked him about the movies, and you know, he was obviously under like 10 different sorts of cursed NDAs, but he put it very subtly. They asked him if he was willing to visit the set and maybe direct the things for a day or two. And he said the following.

[01:18:09]He said, "If I get in there, I'm just going to cause more trouble because they are not going to do what I want them to do, and I don't have the control to do that anymore, and all it would do is to muck things up." He also said they wanted to do a retro movie. I don't like that. Every movie I work hard to make different. I made them completely different. Different planets, different spaceships. I wanted to make them new.

[01:18:35]So that was like Lucas's thinly wailed critic of the sequels and the Disney mindset. And I think it's a set of values that any artist working in any medium can aspire towards. Whatever you make, don't take your audience for fools. Whatever you make, make something beautiful, make something never seen before, and make something honest that resonates with people's feelings. And that's that everybody. That was the CM Kosman big deep dive review of the Mandalorian and Grou. If you've listened this far, please comment in the comment section so I know who's been a real G and who's not been a quitter. If you listen this far at the tone, I want you to say, "Thank God I'm not a millennial.

[01:19:27]Thank God I'm not a millennial. Thank God I am not a millennial. Say it.

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