Despite taking place in the period between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, The Mandalorian has so far avoided major nods to Disney’s sequel trilogy. This makes sense given that the show’s setting is the aftermath of the fall of the Empire, showing the New Republic establishing itself and the last Imperial remnants fragmenting. But that may have changed with the most recent episode, ‘The Siege’.
This week’s adventure followed Din Djarin and friends assaulting an isolated Imperial base on Nevarro. All information indicated that it was a semi-deserted military outpost, though on arrival they discovered it was actually some kind of laboratory complete with weird deformed creatures floating in bacta tanks.
Then we saw a holographic message from Dr Pershing that revealed these experiments are why they’re pursuing Baby Yoda, whose blood has the high ‘M-count’ (Midichlorian-count) they need to proceed. We’ve seen cloned bodies like these before in The Rise of Skywalker, where it was shown that Supreme Leader Snoke was a cloned puppet. Fans immediately began theorizing that this base on Nevarro is a cloning facility and that resurrecting the Emperor/creating Snoke is Moff Gideon’s true aim.
The cherry on top is that as the characters were staring at the strange bodies we heard a snatch of Snoke’s theme mixed into the score. Given that the place exploded soon afterwards, Nevarro clearly isn’t the actual place where Snoke and the new Emperor were ‘born’, but we can presume it’s merely one of several research locations used to create the clones.
This pushes the plot forward in a big way as we now have a very good idea why the remaining Imperial commanders so desperately want to get their hands on ‘the Child’. We know that these experiments did ultimately succeed (kinda), so I hope this doesn’t mean they succeed and Baby Yoda stays safe. The next episode of The Mandalorian, ‘The Jedi’, looks like it’s going to be key to finding out some more answers. See you on Friday.
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