I absolute loved seeing Fett hunting down the Imperial shuttle holding the doctor. Millenium Falcon had hard time escaping it, so the shuttle crew had no choice on avoiding the Slave I. They were effed, and to be honest, going to light speed was their only option, before they got blasted with the ion cannons.
Another thing is that after the boarding, the Imperial pilot confirmed that the Doctor is actually a specialised cloner, just like we've always assumed. Thing is, however, cloning is cloning, and it is not genetical engineering. It is not creating a totally new thing from some bits and pieces that the Imperial are gathering from different sources. Frankly, I'd assume the step from yodaling to Emperor is freaking difficult to achieve, even if the Child is a wonder.
"You're a disgrace to your armour," Bo-Katan.
Man, I laughed out loud so hard. The princess is no different to Mando and for her knowing the story, even calling Fett's daddy as "The Donor" is rubbing against the code. She's not in power, and yet she acts like she is and everything should bend to her will.
Mr Fett however is doing his business and he has really grown over the years. Princess Bo-Katan however has grown bitter, and there's some things that I could put down for her being a matriarch, even though I have never really witness anyone of them being that way.
What she did wrong was to claim straight away that the Black Sabre belongs to her, even though it belongs to one that wields it. That is the Way and the Tradition, and Mando definitely should know that. But he doesn't and Bo-Katan uses him as a puppet.
That is an actual model and it's shot in the traditional way instead of using CGI. Frankly it is something that Disney has in their hands, but I never thought that the IML model shop was so heavily involved in this production.
What I don't get is the Fett's play, because he should have continued attack runs instead of jumping to the hyperspace. More chaos is better. The cruiser should be able to take some bounding. Another thing is the calls.
We know that Grand Admiral Thrawn is behind all of things, and he could possibly sent in aid, while they were having a fight. So in all sense Fett should have stuck around, doing donuts and supplying a combat patrol on the operation instead of jumping away.
I was glad that the doctor explained that they are now fully robots and the last phase got rid of the human pilots. Thing is they are a formidable force. Also my theory about them wearing Beskar was right, because all Mando's blasts did nothing.
The only thing that worked against them was the beskar spear and possibly a light sabre ... and a high-rate-of-fire blaster. Why the last one?
If you look into the minigun or in any machinegun that has a high cyclic rate, the idea is that with a high rate of fire you will get that hit, and in the close quarter battles, getting a hit between the armour plates is a way to defeat the dark trooper. Getting many of them and you don't have to space the whole lot like Mando did.
I am so glad that Moff explained the whole thing about the Dark Sabre to Mando, giving out the whole plot for power. He even added that Bo-Katan had somehow got that sabre, before Moff took it from her.
It's too bad that Mando only wanted the kid and not the power, which in my eyes makes him the ideal leader for the Mandalorian faction, because the power will not corrupt him.
Their fight was superb and it also proved that Moff has not been in Thrawn's combat school because he went in with anger and force, instead of using the skills and cunning. Then again I don't think he has faced many melee opponents. But Mando instead showed practice and superb skills, plus he had the reach advance through the spear.
I got chills for seeing Luke's X-Wing, him fighting the dark troopers and besting them. What I don't get is that how he was able to cut through the Beskar plates when nothing else has worked on them. Is the really true that the light sabres can cut through anything?
I thought that the Beskar was developed, because the Mandalorians needed something to protect themselves against the power. I get that Force could crunch them, but for sabre to cut through the plates so easily, not so much.
What surprised me even more was the sensitivity. We know Luke is THE CHOSEN ONE. The one to fulfil the prophesy and ultimately he's Anakin's son. In all essence he's as close to the actual Force Beings as possible. And the same thing applies to Groku. So, for him to acknowledge that was a big deal.
I suspect that Groku's absence is to save him from the fight that Mando is going to bring to the Mandalore. It is good that we are not going to have to worry over him as Luke will protect him with all his might and power. In this way we can also be assured that he doesn't venture into the dark side or linger in the greyness at between the light and shadows.
If you watch the last scene, you will find answers to the Hutt problem. I hail the Overlord. Hail to Boba the Hutt!