I dunno — if you show him being that good at everything, even the most advanced stuff — at that young an age, it kind of makes all other force users look like idiots/wusses in comparison. They’ve got to scale him up slowly and/or with training.

The trope goes back to 1954 at least.

That’s a Western trope, which I think predates most of its sci-fi use. You could practically hear the daughter running after Mando yelling, “Shane! Come back Shane!”

Not just sci-fi and fantasy, but a huge swathe of 80s/90s tv shows. Everything from the A-Team to Quantum Leap...

Yeah, I was absolutely waiting for that.

The “heroes help a village learn to protect themselves from bandits” is an old trope for sci-fi and fantasy TV shows. Complete with the training montage. But it worked well here.

Now this person knows their Star Wars, let her/him write the next article, gizmodo...

Krillboi!

I took the term ‘Foundlings’ to indicate precisely that, not a member of the ‘founder’ species/homeworld of Mandalorian society, but literally someone the Mandalorians found and brought up into their culture.

I dunno, I thought it had a real Magnificent Seven vibe to it, but I could see where you’re coming from. 

“although he was raised Mandalorian, he may not actually be a Mandalorian” worth noting that while mandalore may be a place and have a people, but it may not be a race. in the old canon mandaloreans were anyone who took up and earned their place in mandalorian society. they actually started as a mercenary group which…

That’s the way I understand it too. It seems he’s not a true Mandalorian, but someone the Mandalorians took in when his parents were killed.

At the end of the episode — a missed opportunity for Baby Yoda to Force hold a laser bolt in the air like Kylo Ren.

I thought he spat it out due to the kids' reactions to his eating it.

Yeah, I felt like Cara and BY’s Mandalorian knew each other already too. They probably crossed paths during the war.

When the dog aliens first attacked I thought, ORCS? Then I thought these are villains you’d see on one of the made for TV Ewok movies.

But it felt a little forced for them to open up about their pasts so quickly, Cara especially, as we’re sure there’s a lot more going on there.

This episode was just...wow.

YES. Just when you thought this show couldn’t be any better. And it cemented my head-canon thought that Baby Yoda’s Mandalorian is a future incarnation of Jason Mendoza.

Was that Pillboi as a villager?!