Considering it’s attached to the most popular film universe of all time, we still don’t know too much about the world of Disney+’s new Star Wars show, The Mandalorian. We’re aware it’s about a bounty hunter in the same vein as Boba Fett, who gets caught up in some intergalactic nastiness, but details are still pretty sparse: until the streaming service debuts in Australia next week, we won’t really know what’s up.
Sorry folks, you’ll just have to wait to see how it all pans out. Sad but true.
Wait, hold up, we’re just receiving reports that
BABY YODA BABY YODA BABY YODA
baby yoda 🥺💚 pic.twitter.com/St1Qzq9dGV
— ellie-wan kenobi 🌺🇦🇲 (@fakehappymeal) November 12, 2019
That’s right motherfuckers, your favourite space gremlin is back, and he’s tiny this time! Not even in an elderly and stooped kind of way, as he appeared in the first six Star Wars flicks, but properly petite. Baby Yoda. Baby. Yoda.
Reports from our unwashed American cousins, who were granted access to Disney+ days before us, reveal the titular Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) approaches some kind of metal incubator, where the little green bastard is swaddled up like he’s not some kind of immensely powerful space demigod.
Some dialogue reveals old mate is literally old mate – 50-years-old mate, to be precise – and that his species doesn’t age like others. Then the Mandalorian and our lemur-eyed friend have a cute little moment.
Baby yoda my heart ❤️❤️❤️ I would die for him he’s so fucking cute pic.twitter.com/ntvo6Q4h3D
— Dumblewhore (@CuloColton) November 13, 2019
That reveal, at the end of the first episode, churned Star Wars Twitter into overdrive.
Dear Eight Pound, Six Ounce, Newborn (maybe 50 years old) Baby Yoda, don’t even know a word yet, just a little infant, so cuddly, but still omnipotent. We’d just like to thank you for all the joy you brought with your appearance in #TheMandalorian. pic.twitter.com/wthGf6p3f2
— Matt (@mattn1827) November 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/pierobuccellato/status/1194726479692623872
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS BABY YODA
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS BABY YODA
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS BABY YODA
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS BABY YODA
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS BABY YODA
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS BABY YODA#TheMandalorian #StarWars pic.twitter.com/4HZgYF2e50
— ₊˚.✩𝔤𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝔰𝐤𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐫 ✩‧₊˚. (@80sANEMOIA) November 13, 2019
The #Mandalorian when he lays eyes on baby Yoda pic.twitter.com/gRtB4W5HY9
— Trevor Bell (@TehDaddyMac) November 13, 2019
Now, there’s one thing we have to address here. Technically speaking, this might not be Yoda. The Mandalorian supposedly takes place a few years after the canonical events of Return Of The Jedi, in which Yoda actually died and farted off to the Force realm. Unless the guy enacted some kind of insane regeneration ploy audiences were unaware of, this bundle of fan service is unlikely to actually be, you know, Yoda.
Okay…y’all gonna make me be that guy…
That CAN’T be Baby Yoda in #TheMandalorian! This show takes place five years after Return of the Jedi, the same film where we watch YODA F*CKING DIE!
Then again his species is actually called Yoda’s Species…so what the Hell do I know? pic.twitter.com/03vKVhzJie
— Valiant Attempt BLM (@ValiantAttemptG) November 13, 2019
Then again, that is obviously baby Yoda. We’ll hopefully learn more when the series arrives in Australia on November 19.
