#BabyYoda on The Mandalorian trends on Twitter
If you have been watching The Mandalorian, you know why the internet is abuzz about a new character on the Disney+ show.
However, there are a whole bunch of folks on this planet who haven’t yet had a chance to watch The Mandalorian’s adventures in a galaxy far, far away….
So, I warn you, I will be discussing spoilers below.
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#BabyYoda Trends As ‘The Mandalorian’ Viewers Fall in Love with Disney Plus Series Character
Disney+ and the first-ever Star Wars live-action series The Mandalorian are already winning over viewers—but not for the reasons you might expect.
Social media reaction to Mandalorian is by far being dominated by effusive praise for the show’s so-called “Baby Yoda.”
The baby character has prompted #BabyYoda to trend across the U.S. as fans share screen grabs from the two Mandalorian episodes released thus far. It looks like a new meme may be born.
Take a look at some of the adorable memes:
Us: Porgs are the cutest thing in Star Wars EVER. #BabyYoda: My beer you hold. pic.twitter.com/w4aiwG9iOI
— Captain America's shieldmaiden (@jeditigger) November 16, 2019
all human babies are cancelled until further notice #BabyYoda pic.twitter.com/8QswMn9Aa8
— r.e.l. (@thelilhuman) November 16, 2019
Weighing In On “The Child”
I’ve read this elsewhere, but one thing that the baby brings to the show is a feeling similar to True Grit, The Unforgiven, Kung Fu, or even Jules Winnfield from Pulp Fiction: “You know, walk the earth, meet people… get into adventures.”
But Jules also mentioned being a “finder of lost children.” And that, my friends, seems to be exactly what The Mandalorian is for “The Child.”
It seems clear to this viewer that The Mandalorian will have just a little bit of a moral conundrum when he returns to the Imperial big-wig with the kid.
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In Star Wars lore, Yoda is the elderly Jedi master first seen in 1980’s Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back as a mentor to Luke Skywalker, who trains him in the ways of the Jedi for his war against the Galactic Empire. However, we never learn what species Yoda belongs to. We can deduce that the diminutive green race lives very long lives… The events of The Mandalorian begin five years after Return of the Jedi, so the character is not the same as Yoda. Could they be related? Or could The Mandalorian’s Yoda be original Yoda reincarnated?
“Baby Yoda,” as the new character has been dubbed by the internet, appears to be of the same species as wise Yoda. In the first episode of The Mandalorian, we learn that Baby Yoda is already 50, despite his cherubic appearance. This again supports the theory that whatever race Yoda and Baby Yoda belong to, they live extremely long lives.
The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau has teased that Baby Yoda will play a big part in the show, saying: “I wanted to surprise people, and I wanted to—well, there are bigger arcs that go through the whole season and the whole throw of the show. So as fun as it is to reveal new characters and surprise them, it also fits into a larger narrative about what’s going on in the galaxy after the revolution, and this is an important character.”
Well, duh. An important character The Child is….
But I want to mention a few things:
- There is a canon way that this could be THE actual Yoda. Time travel was introduced in Star Wars Rebels. In fact, both Ezra Bridger and Ahsoka Tano (Emporer Palpatine/Darth Sidious ?) have traveled through time.
- Cloning is a thing in Star Wars. Keep in mind Yoda’s cloak was lost to him in the Imperial Senate Chamber during Revenge of the Sith; lots of DNA (and Midi-chlorians), no?
- “The Child” could be a female.
