Mandalorian discussion[SPOILERS]
This will be a discussion thread for The Mandalorian. Just for thoughts and predictions on the show, and stuff. If you want to talk about how cute Baby Yoda is, go ahead, if you want to talk about ho...
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There was really nothing sexual about the frog. Seriously. Nothing. It’s a frog.
I suppose that you can say that Baby Yoda is used to perpetuate the theme of killing children, but really, what it was doing was eating. That is pretty much it. I wouldn’t place its intelligence on a scale where it can purposefully kill things for the sake of it. It is what it’s name suggests: a child. A baby, who, much like other babies, is dictated by hunger. So, in a way, this is really just a predator/prey relationship.
But your thoughts are well though out and logical.
Commander_Ney0: [...] "I wouldn’t place its intelligence on a scale where it can purposefully kill things for the sake of it. It is what it’s name suggests: a child. "
Hmm. There's no doubt the child is learning.
• We saw that B.Yoda understood the implications of what would happen to The Mandalorian if the Mud Horn managed to charge him. The child intervened to protect the Mando by using the force to lift the Mud Horn.
• B.Yoda has seen would-be peers disgusted when he ate a live frog - in doing so, he spat the frog out.
https://youtu.be/2mzr1WF6wGQ
( So B.Yoda is in the process of learning that ' 'death via live ingestion' ' can be prevented.)
• B.Yoda knows to hide when violence occurs - this indicates a desire for self preservation. S/He understood that the Mando was going to be critically injured if an Angry Mudhorn ran him over. This means S/he can take the knowledge pertaining to themselves and apply it to others. (EX; I may be injured, so others may be injured - injury can be prevented. <- Indication of some understanding. )
Simply because the child's (mental) age is a variable doesn't mean B.Yoda's incapable of practicing deception.
(Somewhat related/unrelated: Those strong with the Force can sense and understand things on a different level than those without Force sensitivity, no?) It would seem that B.Yoda has a slight awareness of Death - Or at the very least... Injury.
Commander_Ney0: [...] "So, in a way, this is really just a predator/prey relationship."
Fair point.
The Mando isn't depicted feeding the child often, so I assume they're probably starving most of the time. B.Yoda's making do with what they have to, if anything.
Self defense (of the adults partaking) and survival necessities (of the child) nullify the argument I was attempting to make regarding this aspect.
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