Wtf is up with these magically tracker fobs? Did Yoda get chipped by Herzog, or do they just work like Jack Sparrow's compass and point you straight to your heart's desire?
+2
Options
Inquisitor772 x Penny Arcade Fight Club ChampionA fixed point in space and timeRegistered Userregular
My assumption is that the tracker is put somewhere that makes it nearly impossible to disable or remove outside of a high-class medical facility. The Mando already knows this and therefore is focused on a more realistic plan such as hiding out until the heat dies down and/or the bounty is rescinded. He and the assassin droid were the only ones who found the child even though everyone else had a tracker fob, too, so it isn't like the technology is infallible.
Other than that the whole tracker thing is definitely one of those things where less is more, in terms of explanation. Otherwise you very quickly get into midichlorian territory.
+8
Options
-Loki-Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining.Registered Userregular
Yeah I’m good with never actually explaining tracker fobs. I don’t need that level of information to enjoy my space western.
Wtf is up with these magically tracker fobs? Did Yoda get chipped by Herzog, or do they just work like Jack Sparrow's compass and point you straight to your heart's desire?
The fob led Mando to the kid before Herzog got his hands on Boda, so if it’s tracking anything it wasn’t planted by Herzog *
He and the assassin droid were the only ones who found the child even though everyone else had a tracker fob, too, so it isn't like the technology is infallible.
From what Nick Nolte was saying about helping other bounty hunters out (who all got killed), it doesn’t sound like finding the bounty was the hard part.
I’m a bit torn about the tracker tbh — I really enjoyed the moment last episode where the trackers all lit up once Mando had escaped with Baby Yoda, but it seems strange to me that Boda would have anything implanted anywhere for any reason, since anyone who wanted the kid to be trackable would probably have pretty nefarious reasons and would have just killed / cloned / experimented on the kid to begin with.
(Unless it’s some kind of situation where Herzog / someone else is just trying to recover the kid after it previously escaped...)
I have to assume it's a DNA tracker. Nothing else makes sense. I assume you still need to find the right planet though.
+10
Options
valhalla13013 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered Userregular
I assume the whole reason the baby was at the original bounty hunter camp was because they either stole it from its people for Herzog, then reneged trying to get more money, or stole it from the Imperials after the Imps got it.
I assume it eas alrrady tagged. And yeah, bounty hunters find things, but when you're trying to track stuff across star systems, a little help is in order.
And keep in mind most of his bounties were bail jumpers. They were probably tagged in the process of setting bail.
0
Options
lwt1973King of ThievesSyndicationRegistered Userregular
I have to assume it's a DNA tracker. Nothing else makes sense. I assume you still need to find the right planet though.
Probably something like that. I get the idea of the trackers. If you think about it, if someone wanted to run it would be nearly impossible to find them.
In the SW universe they have ships that are small enough for one person that can jump to hyperspace. Without some sort of tracker, no bounty hunter would be skilled enough to track down a target.
Yeah, its gotta work on some kind of bio-signature and only at close (on the same planet) range.
They didn't get found until some time had passed after the village was saved. So, enough time for word to get off planet about some warrior in shiny armor that helped rout a band of raiders.
I have to assume it's a DNA tracker. Nothing else makes sense. I assume you still need to find the right planet though.
Probably something like that. I get the idea of the trackers. If you think about it, if someone wanted to run it would be nearly impossible to find them.
In the SW universe they have ships that are small enough for one person that can jump to hyperspace. Without some sort of tracker, no bounty hunter would be skilled enough to track down a target.
I believe the tracker itself only works on the planet. You still have to get that part right on your own or be given coordinates. I think that’s what herzog gave him at the beginning, right? Here’s the planet and here’s the fob, the rest is up to you.
It’s not hard to see how one of the bounty hunters would find him, they would do the same math he did and just start working through planets. They had been there for “weeks” at that point.
I do wonder what the resolution of the show is going to be at this point. Because given their ability to track, it seems like the only real move at this point is to make a beeline for the core worlds and hand him over to Luke and the republic.
Handsome CostanzaAsk me about 8bitdoRIP Iwata-sanRegistered Userregular
edited December 2019
What is the deal with the "anyone can be a Mandalorian" thing? I know that they care more about their traditions and history than they do their blood, which is why stuff like foundlings exist, but can anyone be a Mandalorian? Like, if an Abnedo or a Rodian was adopted as a war orphan could they become Mando? Or is it human-like only?
If they allow aliens to become Mandalorian as a response to being nearly wiped out then that would explain why they won't allow them to remove their helmets in public. If no one see's a Mando's face ever then they won't know how bad it is and exactly how close the actual race came to being exterminated entirely.
Or shit, maybe they were wiped out. Maybe there's only like a handful left and the rest are all foundlings trying to carry on the legacy. If no one can take off their helmets in public then it would be pretty much impossible to figure out. Unless you killed a ridiculous amount of them at once and went through identifying them.
I do wonder what the resolution of the show is going to be at this point. Because given their ability to track, it seems like the only real move at this point is to make a beeline for the core worlds and hand him over to Luke and the republic.
Nah, I don't think the Jedi are going to be involved here. Disney isn't going to kill off a baby Yoda and Luke wouldn't have abandoned an untrained baby Yoda if one was handed to him.
Not to mention that the problem here is the one guy handing out tracking fobs like candy, and there's a rather more direct and certain way to deal with that problem than running off to the core.
+1
Options
Handsome CostanzaAsk me about 8bitdoRIP Iwata-sanRegistered Userregular
Mandos are a culture, not a race. So yeah, anyone can be one.
They are both a culture and a race.
Edit: there's both the people sort of native to the planet Mandalore (I believe they were called the tong (sp) who came to Mandalore after a natural disaster on Coruscant) and the various cultures and tribes who came together after to form what we know as Mandalorians today. It's a sort of vague analogue to Judaism.
AFAIK it’s not really clear anymore whether mandos were/are an alien race, a human subgroup, or just a cultural/religious. At one point evidently there were enough of them to have a homeworld, but even that seems to be unclear
it was the smallest on the list but
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
0
Options
reVerseAttack and Dethrone GodRegistered Userregular
AFAIK it’s not really clear anymore whether mandos were/are an alien race, a human subgroup, or just a cultural/religious. At one point evidently there were enough of them to have a homeworld, but even that seems to be unclear
It's not really that unclear, Mandalore is prominently featured in The Clone Wars.
+7
Options
Ninja Snarl PMy helmet is my burden.Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered Userregular
Since Rebels is canon, there definitely is/was a Mandalore homeworld and the Mandalorians were strong enough to keep the Empire from invading it, at least for a while. In the books, anybody can be a Mando if they want to join up; whether that's going to hold up is yet to be seen, because so far it seems like basically everybody is human (or of a race close enough to human to be indistinguishable). We do know that they will take on orphans regardless of Mando heritage or not, and that being a Mando is voluntary rather than a requirement (there's literally nothing stopping the Mando from leaving, other than he doesn't want to).
As Mandalorian feels very much like a religion, it also can stand to reason there are various sects and movements in it. Perhaps at one point there were a race as well?
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Ninja Snarl PMy helmet is my burden.Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered Userregular
The Mando straight-up says weapons are part of his religion, so I think we can take it as canon at this point that it is a religion, among other things. He might have been joking, though.
The Mando straight-up says weapons are part of his religion, so I think we can take it as canon at this point that it is a religion, among other things. He might have been joking, though.
His tone when saying that gave me a strong impression that he was joking. I could be wrong though.
I kind of took it as both. Like yeah, the armor and being armed are a part of his religion, but also he's halfheartedly using it as an excuse because he doesn't want to let go of his rifle around these Jawas.
I feel like wanting hard explanations for how stuff works is how we got midichlorians.
Right, but, like...some stuff of the stuff in this show doesn't jive with what we saw in Clone Wars and Rebels. Those Mandos didn't make a big deal about keeping helmets on.
And yet, I trust the people making this show to have thought about that already, and that there is an explanation that I just don't know yet.
Those Mandos also still had a homeworld, and lived above ground in large numbers. The time difference between the shows and the implied events give enough room for a drastic change of lifestyle.
+8
Options
Inquisitor772 x Penny Arcade Fight Club ChampionA fixed point in space and timeRegistered Userregular
I feel like wanting hard explanations for how stuff works is how we got midichlorians.
Right, but, like...some stuff of the stuff in this show doesn't jive with what we saw in Clone Wars and Rebels. Those Mandos didn't make a big deal about keeping helmets on.
And yet, I trust the people making this show to have thought about that already, and that there is an explanation that I just don't know yet.
Dave Filoni is a writer and Executive Producer for The Mandalorian and has directed two of its episodes (one of which was the series opener).
His other credits include:
Director - Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)
Supervising Director - Star Wars: The Clone Wars (series)
Creator, Writer, Executive Producer, Director - Star Wars Rebels
I'm pretty sure he knows what happened in the animated stuff.
The Mando straight-up says weapons are part of his religion, so I think we can take it as canon at this point that it is a religion, among other things. He might have been joking, though.
His tone when saying that gave me a strong impression that he was joking. I could be wrong though.
Those Mandos also still had a homeworld, and lived above ground in large numbers. The time difference between the shows and the implied events give enough room for a drastic change of lifestyle.
Right, exactly. Anyone else I'd be suspicious that they hadn't read the source material. With Favreau and Filoni I bet they know exactly what happened.
+4
Options
FencingsaxIt is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understandingGNU Terry PratchettRegistered Userregular
edited December 2019
Caught up last night. This is pretty great.
He was not really that far away when he took off his helmet
Posts
Other than that the whole tracker thing is definitely one of those things where less is more, in terms of explanation. Otherwise you very quickly get into midichlorian territory.
From what Nick Nolte was saying about helping other bounty hunters out (who all got killed), it doesn’t sound like finding the bounty was the hard part.
I’m a bit torn about the tracker tbh — I really enjoyed the moment last episode where the trackers all lit up once Mando had escaped with Baby Yoda, but it seems strange to me that Boda would have anything implanted anywhere for any reason, since anyone who wanted the kid to be trackable would probably have pretty nefarious reasons and would have just killed / cloned / experimented on the kid to begin with.
(Unless it’s some kind of situation where Herzog / someone else is just trying to recover the kid after it previously escaped...)
(* see above I guess)
Its a quick way to show the viewer shits gone bad and they cant stay
I assume it eas alrrady tagged. And yeah, bounty hunters find things, but when you're trying to track stuff across star systems, a little help is in order.
And keep in mind most of his bounties were bail jumpers. They were probably tagged in the process of setting bail.
Probably something like that. I get the idea of the trackers. If you think about it, if someone wanted to run it would be nearly impossible to find them.
In the SW universe they have ships that are small enough for one person that can jump to hyperspace. Without some sort of tracker, no bounty hunter would be skilled enough to track down a target.
They didn't get found until some time had passed after the village was saved. So, enough time for word to get off planet about some warrior in shiny armor that helped rout a band of raiders.
I believe the tracker itself only works on the planet. You still have to get that part right on your own or be given coordinates. I think that’s what herzog gave him at the beginning, right? Here’s the planet and here’s the fob, the rest is up to you.
It’s not hard to see how one of the bounty hunters would find him, they would do the same math he did and just start working through planets. They had been there for “weeks” at that point.
If they allow aliens to become Mandalorian as a response to being nearly wiped out then that would explain why they won't allow them to remove their helmets in public. If no one see's a Mando's face ever then they won't know how bad it is and exactly how close the actual race came to being exterminated entirely.
Or shit, maybe they were wiped out. Maybe there's only like a handful left and the rest are all foundlings trying to carry on the legacy. If no one can take off their helmets in public then it would be pretty much impossible to figure out. Unless you killed a ridiculous amount of them at once and went through identifying them.
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
Nah, I don't think the Jedi are going to be involved here. Disney isn't going to kill off a baby Yoda and Luke wouldn't have abandoned an untrained baby Yoda if one was handed to him.
Not to mention that the problem here is the one guy handing out tracking fobs like candy, and there's a rather more direct and certain way to deal with that problem than running off to the core.
They are both a culture and a race.
Edit: there's both the people sort of native to the planet Mandalore (I believe they were called the tong (sp) who came to Mandalore after a natural disaster on Coruscant) and the various cultures and tribes who came together after to form what we know as Mandalorians today. It's a sort of vague analogue to Judaism.
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
Penny Arcade Rockstar Social Club / This is why I despise cyclists
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Taung
Penny Arcade Rockstar Social Club / This is why I despise cyclists
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
It's not really that unclear, Mandalore is prominently featured in The Clone Wars.
pleasepaypreacher.net
Right, but, like...some stuff of the stuff in this show doesn't jive with what we saw in Clone Wars and Rebels. Those Mandos didn't make a big deal about keeping helmets on.
And yet, I trust the people making this show to have thought about that already, and that there is an explanation that I just don't know yet.
Dave Filoni is a writer and Executive Producer for The Mandalorian and has directed two of its episodes (one of which was the series opener).
His other credits include:
Director - Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)
Supervising Director - Star Wars: The Clone Wars (series)
Creator, Writer, Executive Producer, Director - Star Wars Rebels
I'm pretty sure he knows what happened in the animated stuff.
pleasepaypreacher.net
Right, exactly. Anyone else I'd be suspicious that they hadn't read the source material. With Favreau and Filoni I bet they know exactly what happened.