Our Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 7 Breakdown is here! Use code SCREENCRUSH50 to get 50% OFF your first Factor box at https://bit.ly/3l4GHZI! The Mandalorian Episode 7 brings together the plot threads from the season, as Moff Gideon is revealed to be the big bad behind it all. We meet the Imperial Shadow Council, The Praetorian guards from The Last Jedi, and several clues about how Palpatine did, indeed, return. Thanks for supporting our channel! Check out our MERCH Store Here → http://shopzeroedition.com/collections/screen-crush-merch Go here → http://screencrush.com/ TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@screencrushnews Like us → https://www.facebook.com/ScreenCrush Follow us → https://twitter.com/screencrushnews Get our newsletter → http://screencrush.com/newsletter/ Written and Hosted by Ryan Arey (http://twitter.com/ryanarey) Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright, Randolf Nombrado, Colton Ogburn, and Brianna McLarty #Mandalorian #Episode7 #EasterEggs This is the episode we’ve all been waiting for. If you’re a hardcore star wars fan who’s watched clone wars and read the novels, then you were constantly pointing at the screen. And if you;re acasual fan who just likes space cowboys and baby yoda, then this episode was easy to understand, and it clarified some of the season’s more confusing aspects–like the differences in mandalorian religions. Every dangling plot thread comes together for this two part finale–the perspiring coruscant episode, the bureaucracy of the new republic, the mythosaur, the mandalorians cultural divides–and the looming threat of the real big bad of the series, grand admiral thrawn. But don;t worry, I’m here to explain who all of these people are and how this show is brilliantly setting up the rise of the first order. So let’s get into these easter eggs. We start with Elia Kane, on Coruscant. You’ll remember that in the Pershing episode she gained the cloner’s trust, only to turn him into the new republic. Then she made him think the new republic officers were torturing him, so he would turn against them. She also popped up in Tim meadows’ office, reminding him that they can;t help in navarro [clip]. And now we see why she still works for Moff Godeon, as his agent in the new Republic. This part of coruscant is called the lower levels. So the top of the skyscrapers is where the elites are–where senators have their fancy parties, where the jedi meet. This is the seedy underbelly of the city we first saw in the attack of the clones. Now, once upon a time, Lucasfilm was going to create a live action show called Star Wars Underworld that was going to take place on these lower levels between Revenge of the Sith and A New hope. And according to producer Rick McCallum, they had written around 100 scripts for that show, but it was too expensive to produce. However, there is a visual; effects test reel that they’ve released online. It’s cool to look at, sort of a proto mandalorian show. Shoutout to heavy spoilers for pointing out this is also like the canceled boba fett game 1313. There’s lots of aurebesh in this opener. These letters here spell out AHKQ, FDG, AOFRN, and Cybernetics - which could be a reference to different cybernetics that people get installed. ___. S Kane meets with Gideon through an imperial probe droid, like we first saw in the empire strikes back. You know the droid is evil because it has a red light, like Lola when Reva reprogrammed her in Obi-wan kenobi. I’m surprised probe droids can just float around Coruscant, because they were only used by the empire. There was even the top of one above the blue squadron bar here. Doug: Just goes to show how little control the new republic has of the planet. Factor ad Back to the easter eggs. Kane’s clearance code is a TK number, like the one given to stormtroopers [anh clip]. Doug: what’s TK stand for? Troopers Korps, I think. Lik korps with a K. Doug: Ah, space nazis, yes. So Kane reports in, revealing that the pirates on Navarro were taking the planet over or Gideon. I think this is because Gideon wanted to return to their base on the planet, so he could reclaim the cloning lab we saw there. After all, if Pershing turns against the new republic, then maybe he’ll come back to Gideon. Doug: yeah, what’s up with gideon and cloning, anyways? Wellthat’s a good question. We had assumed that Gideon was the one who was trying to clone the plotline, so he could return in Rise of skywalker. He says [bring order to the galaxy]. And he also apparently needed the midichlorians for gray's blood, because pershing talks about ending a higher “m-count.” but then, on navarro, we see figures in these chambers who look a lot like snoke. Now, since Palpatine had a whole jar of Snakes, we assumed that Gideon was still working to clone Palpatine. But this episode completely opened that theory. ]clip]
