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If you have a fear of spiders, you might want to skip this episode!

Beware, there will be spoilers in this review.

Well, seeing X-Wing again is great, and the spider chase was a obvious homage to the Alien movie, but since it was done very well, and with stunning visuals, it works. I almost expected a facehugger to jump out of those eggs. Another great thing in this episode is that it has shown us that Mando is not indestructible. because without that unexpected help, he wouldn't make it. Also, baby Yoda is not evil, he (she?) is just a child, and does what any child would do, eat whatever's at hand. Was that necessary, I'm not sure, but it happened, so... My biggest problem with this episode is that it doesn't move the plot forward at all. Not really a filler episode, but more of a standalone adventure. Rating: 8 out of 10.

This episode was clearly a filler which doesn't make much sense to me considering there are only 8 episodes a season and it wasn't even a particularly good filler. The first time The Child ate one of the eggs it was cute if not a little worrying but by the end of the episode he's basically devouring the lizard alien's children in front of her. I know he's an innocent child and it's meant to be funny but come on how many times do they need to overplay the same joke before you actually feel sorry for the poor lizard alien.

The production value of this episode was incredible, it started off very strong. That's what makes this episode so disappointing. This episode lacks story and suffers from a bit of lazy writing. It also made me frustrated with the child, what was intitially quite a cute gag became dark and actually quite cruel. And of course, instead of solving his own problems someone else swoops in to save the day at the last second. After the first episode this episode feels like a waste. The whole story of this episode could be condensed into 5 minutes but they've stretched it out for the sake of television. What a shame. It reminds me of Game of Thrones season 8 and the doom I felt when they used 2 episodes of their 6 episodes on filler. Make the episodes count!

Ruined baby Yoda for many of us, cute little thing eating the eggs was completely pointless & unnecessary.

Writers clearly have no idea about importance of life, maybe their kids should be eaten as well?

Alot of decent points have already been made by other reviews so just to add on my own shorter opinion.

I'm not annoyed at the fact this weeks story was a little on the shallow side, i'm annoyed on how much cringy comedy they were willing to put in it. I'm sorry but The Child or "Baby Yoda" is starting to become a sell point, his actions were displayed as "cuteness" when in fact he was being unknowingly evil. It was presented to us like we shouldn't care for other characters. Poor frog lady, eating her kids constantly but....it's Baby Yoda, he's too cute to hate right? Yes, i know he's just a child, him eating one egg was cute and innocent, but then it became a replay of a joke that started to make the child become a burden. Or even if i was to accept his little ignorance it started to get a little cheap towards the end for me to keep interested. This isn't Jon Favreau, some other director has used the mass praise for the child and used him to try and sell the episode in an "aww". Also some of the wider shots of the child looked fake, him running into the ship looked more comical than realistic.

The Mandalorian's personality is changing slightly, he went from Bounty Hunter to Comical Dad in the matter of one scene. I'm not asking him to be soulless but the talk with the X-Wing pilots near the beginning turned a little cringy going by Mando's nature from the first season.

Everything else about the episode i actually liked and didn't mind.

This was by far the worst episode of season two and 100 percent a side quest, mando has to take the frog to a planet where her husband may know of some mandalorians that may know the location of a Jedi. Grogu eating the eggs was cute once but the other times I felt bad for the frog lady. It was still an enjoyable episode but not up to the standards of other mando episodes.

I see some complaints that this episode was just a filler episode, and while that assertion is correct, let me just remind everyone that the whole series so far has been nothing but filler. Season 1 really only had four episodes that advanced the plot while the rest were merely isolated mission episodes. Rescue a village, Find an assassin, break someone out of prison, and then Season 2 started off with what was basically another Rescue a village episode.

At least episode was more thrilling and subtle to the point where Mando really had his hands full and seemed overwhelmed. As per usual though, the real allure of this show is how good the Star Wars universe looks. I could watch these all day with the sound off and not give two acorns about the story, which is really lacking on the whole anyway.

Give me more episodes like this and I will forget about wanting to know the Child's backstory and why the remnants of the empire want him so bad.

9/10

The visuals were good but there was no substance. There were a lot of moments that offered themselves to be plot thickening but, ultimately, nothing happened that mattered. Why did the kid eat the eggs? I was waiting for the unforeseen wisdom the kid possessed to explain why the kid ate the eggs... did the force tell it to because it knew the eggs wouldn't survive so it was "incubating" a few only to regurgitate them later to "save the day"? Definitely disappointed with this episode.... it felt like a 15 minute side bar drawn out into an entire episode. I like the interaction with the rebel pilots, but even that felt forced. This episode seems to have no point concerning the series as a whole. Was it just trying to be action packed/cute? Please tell me the creators of the show aren't selling out for the sake of exploiting a "cute" baby Yoda.

This episode was just plain terrible compared to the series as a whole.

Wish it had been longer. I can't handle spiders though and that made it very hard to watch. Otherwise a decent episode and not bad for a filler spot.