Happy Monday, spoilers for Episode 12 to follow...
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Well, it seems that The Child can understand some speech.
If his race lives to be 800, that means that 8 human years equals one Yoda Year? If so, at age 50 he is.. six? I don't know, he seems younger than that. It is possible that his species' development doesn't line up with humans exactly. He seems far less verbal than a human child, but his Force abilities are pretty far along. And we haven't seen anyone changing his diapers, so hopefully he's able to use the fresher by himself.
There is speculation that the Walrus Men were hiding out in the room that used to be the Mandalorian armorer's forge.
According to the English subtitles, the armored transport speeder they commandeer from the Imperial Base is a "Trexler Marauder." Interestingly, the concept art at the end of the episode depicts it as a regular Imperial Troop Transport.
People have speculated that the thing in the laboratory on Navarro was Snoke, or a proto-Snoke, but I would be perfectly happy if The Mandalorian never acknowledges the existence of the sequel trilogy. I also hope the First Order is never mentioned.
It appears that the Imperial remnant's scheme was to harvest Baby Yoda's midichlorians and give them to an experimental subject, but the experiment failed and the subject died. Good. Can we forget about midichlorians now?
Nice to see an Imperial Light Cruiser make an appearance in live action. They made frequent appearances on Star Wars Rebels. Wookieepedia also lists this as an "Arquitens-class Command Cruiser" which seems appropriate for Moff Gideon's flagship. A full-fledged Star Destroyer would have been too much, particularly if Moff Gideon is flying under the radar of the New Republic.
I couldn't really make out what those sinister black things on Moff Gideon's ship were. They kind of looked like murdered-out Cylons. I've seen speculation that they are "Dark Troopers" as seen in the Star Wars: Dark Forces video game.
Can we call the dirty, half-starved stormtroopers from Season 1 "Stray Troopers?"
Also, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!