Those Stupid Jedi Are Gonna Pay for Ruining My Family Vacation Again

Ready for some delightful naughtiness from Infant Yoda.

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Later on the twists and intense action of The Mandalorian's third episode, the live-action Star Wars show settled into a new status quo every bit episode 4 hitting Disney Plus on Friday. Babe Yoda (the subject of some rushed merch in the lead-upward to the holiday shopping season) and his Mando bud are at present on the run from the Royal Remnant and a whole bunch of bounty hunters.

Chapter four, titled Sanctuary, was directed past Bryce-Dallas Howard. Her dad Ron Howard directed last yr's Solo, so the Force is clearly strong in this family. Beware, spoilers for the quaternary episode alee.

Nosotros're just unproblematic villagers here

The episode opens by introducing us to a tranquil fishing village on the backwater planet Sorgan, where things seem to be just peachy until a bunch of Klatoonian raiders burst onto the scene. They wreck the identify, stealing the harvest and leaving things in a slightly CGI-looking mess.

While the villagers flee, Omera (Julia Jones) and her daughter Winta (Isla Farris) hibernate under a fishing basket. When Omera surveys the ruined village, she has the kind of determined expression that suggests she'southward secretly a badass.

Omera can definitely end some raiders, but the residuum of the villagers aren't every bit capable.

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The adorable duo

Nosotros rejoin Baby Yoda and his Mando assistant (let's exist honest, that's the dynamic nosotros've got at present) in the Razor Crest, where the lil' green dude hits a push in the cockpit equally Mando flies through infinite.

"End touchin' things," Mando (Pedro Pascal) says, adopting that firm dad tone.

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Baby Yoda continues to look at Mando as he reaches over and hits another push in a moment of beautiful, adorable, perfect disobedience. My heart swelled a picayune bit at this point, but I chop-chop pushed those feelings down because Game of Thrones (and a lifetime of exposure to toxic masculinity) taught me not to become too attached to anyone.

Calmly moving Baby Yoda to his lap, Mando spots Sorgan on his charts and decides they're gonna hibernate from the Imperial Remnant's bounty hunters in that location.

"You ready to lay low and stretch your legs for a couple of months, yous little womp rat?" he says. "No one's gonna observe us here."

Sorgan offers some safety for our immature friend.

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Which means they are definitely gonna be establish. Silly Mando, don't you know yous're in a TV testify?

Landing in a clearing on the forested earth, Mando firmly tells Infant Yoda to stay in the ship while he checks the expanse out and finds them lodging. When Mando lowers the cargo bay ramp, he turns to find the picayune dude right beside him.

"Oh what the hell ... c'mon," he says, and you know his heart is swelling too.

We finally meet Cara Dune in this episode.

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Let's go punchy

They arrive at a settlement and enter a shabby tavern, where Infant Yoda looks around in wonder until a Loth-true cat gives him a wee fright. We too take hold of sight of ex-Rebel Alliance shock trooper Cara Dune (Gina Carano), who eyes Mando suspiciously.

He follows her out, request the barmaid to lookout man Baby Yoda, and uses his helmet's infrared vision to runway her footprints in the dirt. When they suddenly stop, information technology'due south pretty obvious that Mando's almost to get kicked in the head.

That happens, and the pair get into a nasty brawl (Carano's MMA skillz are put to good utilise). Yous know she's ludicrously tough because she punches Mando in his helmeted head and knocks him to the ground, then stops him from using his flamethrower to fry her.

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They both end upward on the ground, pointing blasters at each other's heads ... only to have their murder plans interrupted by a slurping observer. Baby Yoda apparently slipped outside to watch, his presence immediately calming the situation.

I'm documenting his every movement because I know that's what you're hither for. Thank you for reading.

You rebel scum

Cara reveals that most of her service to the Alliance came later the Battle of Endor (so mail-Render of the Jedi), hunting down Imperial warlords. When things turned political, she opted for an "early retirement" on Sorgan. She as well attacked Mando because she figured he was a compensation hunter coming afterwards her -- some Imperials must still be belongings a grudge.

With that exposition done, she declares that Mando and Baby Yoda accept to move on -- presumably she doesn't want anyone else hiding out wherever she's lying low.

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Back at the Razor Crest, a pair of farmers from Omera'southward hamlet offer to pay Mando to protect their home. He's all "nah" until they whine virtually how remote their hamlet is and he realizes it'd be the ideal place for Baby Yoda.

He also recruits Cara (who seems to live in the wood -- how did he find her?!) and they travel to the hamlet, where Winta and the other kids immediately autumn in love with the small dark-green fella.

Upon meeting Baby Yoda, Winta and the other kids react exactly similar 99.9% of people on the internet.

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Yous've worn that thing for how long?!

Mando presently lets his guard downwards, letting Winta feed and play with the immature'un while he and Omera chat. She noticed that Mando hasn't taken off his helmet at all, even when others are eating around him.

We learn that he hasn't removed his helmet in front of anyone since he was a kid, then confirms what we saw in previous episodes' flashbacks: the Mandalorians took him in afterwards his parents were killed, and he's worn the helmet since.

"This is the mode," he says, reminding fans of the catchphrase we'll be yelling at Star Wars Celebration and other conventions for the balance of our lives.

Omera leaves him to eat and he removes his helmet, but his head remains out of the shot. Gonna go out on a limb and suggest he looks something like this though.

Pedro Pascal plays The Mandalorian, only we may never see his face in the show.

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He's also standing right by a window and kids are playing pretty nearby -- surely one of them might catch a glimpse of his face?

Recon time

Cara and Mando track the raiders' footprints until they spot a much larger marker left by an AT-ST (All Terrain Scout Transport) -- these criminals take got themselves a sweetness Imperial chicken walker.

They tell the villagers information technology's too much for them to take on, but Omera and company don't desire to leave. And so they'll have to be trained through the Power of Montage.

Cara suggests the villagers volition have to get out, but they decide to fight.

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It turns out that Omera is the only ane who already knows how to fire a blaster (run into? Badass), and Mando is clearly thinking "I heart her" when he sees how practiced a shot she is. Fantabulous helmet acting from Pascal.

Mando lays out the plan: He and Cara will draw the raiders to the village, where they'll accept dug a deep ditch to act as a trap for the AT-ST. As this is happening, the villagers will use their new leet skills to battle the residual of the goons.

The raiders' AT-ST looks super cool.

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Teamwork makes the dream piece of work

The Cara-Mando power duo sneak into the raider camp, where the bad guys are drinking some kind of glowing blueish liquid (maybe made from the krill they stole from the village earlier?). Our heroes use their violence abilities to take out a bunch of the raiders and blow upwardly a tent.

The raiders respond by activating the AT-ST, which looks pretty demonic as the scarlet calorie-free activates in the cockpit and it rises up to its full height. It follows them back to the hamlet ... but doesn't step into their trap. Darn.

Instead, it fires on the huts from a distance as the other raiders swarm the place on foot. Cara borrows Mando'due south awesome rifle and rushes into the ditch, in an attempt to draw the AT-ST forward.

The AT-ST airplane pilot isn't stupid enough to fall into Cara and Mando'southward trap. Until he is.

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"Come to momma," she says, firing at its cockpit.

It eventually steps into the ditch and collapses, allowing Mando to blow information technology up with a detonator. Equally you lot'd await, the raiders immediately wuss out when their big gun is gone.

It seems like none of the villagers were killed in all this, which makes the evidence feel toothless. However, the raiders may not have been trying to do permanent damage -- the village was their meal ticket subsequently all.

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Baby Yoda'southward happy place

It's been much besides long since we've seen Infant Yoda, who was presumably tucked away safely with the kids during the fight. At present that the village is at peace, we find him hunting and preparing to swallow a live frog, but the playfully disgusted reaction of his boyfriend children convinces him to let it go.

Omera notes that the fiddling dude is happy in the village, and gives Mando those "I like you and should stay" eyes again as she steps abroad. Cara asks our hero if his beau Mandalorians will chase him downward and impale him if he takes off his helmet.

"No. You simply can't ever put it back on again," he replies.

She suggests that he could settle down in the village with Omera and watch Baby Yoda abound up, which seems like a sweet idea. But his helmet tilt tells us he's way besides much of a grizzled human being of action for that.

Instead, Mando announces his plan to hit the former dusty trail and go out Baby Yoda in the village, where he'll be prophylactic. I'k not crying, you're crying.

"It's gonna pause his footling heart," says Cara.

Danger is coming

In the forest, a bounty hunter approaches with a tracker and trains his blaster burglarize's scope at the back of an unaware Mando's caput. He'southward distracted by Omera, who's pushing the idea that our hero stay in the village and enhance Babe Yoda.

He'due south conspicuously emotional well-nigh that prospect and Omera tries to remove his helmet (clearly she wants to run across if his eyes are equally dreamy every bit Pedro Pascal'southward), just he stops her -- unknowingly saving himself from a blaster commodities to the back of the head.

"I don't belong here, merely he does," says Mando, and a disappointed Omera promises to look afterward our lil' pal.

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Horrifyingly, the compensation hunter's sights move to Babe Yoda's cherubic confront and our lizard brains scream "Nooooo" as his finger tightens on the trigger.

And the bounty hunter drops dead, his torso smoking as Cara Dune stands over him. It's a fleck as well similar to the crush with IG-11 in the showtime episode, merely we're much more fastened to Baby Yoda now.

Mando destroys the tracker, and they know their young friend won't be safe from bounty hunters after all. Cara and Mando part with a badass handshake straight out of Predator, and he brings Baby Yoda back to the ship.

Closing thoughts and Easter eggs

• Mando is much chattier in this episode, near jarringly so. I guess accepting his love for Baby Yoda and fancying Omera will do that.
• Cara has a really absurd Rebel Brotherhood symbol tattoo on her left cheek. Information technology'due south a piddling hard to run across in the bear witness, but is clearer on Hasbro's fantabulous action effigy.
• The rule about Mandalorians non removing their helmets is new -- in The Clone Wars and Rebels, they took them off pretty liberally. The change is presumably a result of whatever happened to them after the events of Rebels -- we've heard the Great Purge mentioned but know nix about information technology.
• The scene where Mando privately removes his helmet subtly echoes the moment when Vader does and so in The Empire Strikes Dorsum.
• The Loth-cat that hisses at Infant Yoda is the first we've seen in live-activeness -- they were a regular sight in Rebels.
• This episode makes the Ewoks taking out AT-STs in Return of the Jedi seem even more unlikely. The Ewoks had massive numbers and the abode field advantage though.
• Sorgan has two moons -- they're visible just earlier the training montage in the village.

Cheque back next Friday for a epitomize of episode 5.

Originally published Nov. 29.

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Source: https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/the-mandalorian-episode-4-sanctuary-recap-baby-yoda-finds-happiness/

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