HERE"s the reaction I've been waiting for! My face still hurts from smiling so much when this came out.

My mental gymnastics for why Luke brings up attachments is because Grogu is his first student and hes already quite older. So he feels unsure of his own ability to train him properly. Now, one key difference is he gives Grogu the choice. Which is something the Jedi order never really did

Congratulations! You just watched the most Star Wars thing ever made.

One of the greatest episodes of Star Wars EVER.

Last episode (ep. 5) that X-wing lieutenant that tried to pull Mando over for speeding too close to a commercial shuttle? The actor was Max Lloyd-Jones, who is the body actor for Luke here. He did an amazing job working with Mark Hamil to get a composite Luke just right.

Still one of my favorite Star Wars episodes ever it's up there top-tier

To this day, this is still my favourite episode of live action Star Wars television.

Heh, yeah that was everyone as Cad Bane shows up - "Who's that ?" * squinting * "Wait, is tha...it looks...who _is_ that ?"..."OMFG it's Cad Bane !!!" :). He looks great too, very well realised in live-action. (is this maybe a little bit fan-servicey _and_ basically an episode of 'The Mandalorian' rather than 'The Book of Boba Fett' ? 100%. But it's just such great TV I absolutely don't care :)

We got Luke, Ahsoka, and Cade Bane in one episode together. Nothing but awesome sauce.

Also, the time that Luke and him are training, two years has gone by

The last time we saw Cade Bane was in Rebels. It was just a drawing that Sabine made, so she obviously met him. Before that was TCW when he kidinapped the chancellor. They used the same voice actor for Cade Bane. Amazing job.

@aprotosis

Ай бұрын

He also appeared in The Bad Batch

@Phatooine

Ай бұрын

Cade Bane wasn't in Rebels. But we did see him in The Bad Batch.

@kevinzhang6623

Ай бұрын

...Which drawing/which episode?

@johnberger8817

Ай бұрын

@@Phatooine Re-read what I wrote.

@johnberger8817

Ай бұрын

@@kevinzhang6623 Fighter Flight

"Who else wears a hat like that?" Dave directed this episode, and you can DEFINITELY tell. It is important to remember Ahsoka has , ptsd after what she went through. So her encouraging the detachment for Luke does make sense

Luke: you can’t have attachments. You either have to chose your friends or the Jedi training. Also Luke: Han and Leia are in trouble. I gotta go!

@thatnerdtara

Ай бұрын

Exactly!!

Every time I watch your reactions I feel they're exactly the same as my ones, it's really a joy. Back to business, "this" Luke has been realized pasting on the real actor an AI-built Luke face. I believe the voice was obtained by AI reconstruction as well. In Mando S2 finale, on the other hand, it was simple CGI mounted on the real actor, and it wasn't so great (but we didn't care). This version of Luke, well... I'm here for a dedicated series, for how much it's faithful to the original. (The legend says some fan demonstrated how an AI Luke could be better than the CGI one, and Disney hired him at once😁)

You have to understand that for many of us we waited 40 years to see Luke teach & see his academy. This was a big deal. Thanks to Jon & Dave. Can we pleeeeez get a series of just this?

@davidbergfors6820

Ай бұрын

guess the "deepfake" budget would be too high, but I'm with you, a new Jedi academy would be amazing. Dare I say it? maybe that's what Rey will give us?

@johnberger8817

Ай бұрын

@@davidbergfors6820 ugh....God no. That story is supposed to be Luke's. Can't we just give Rey some other story? If I took over Disney I'd do a world between worlds retcon that gets rid of the Rey timeliness. Palps really is dead. Mando is still cool with Grogu, Grogu goes to Luke's academy & ends after season two. Thrawn reassembles the empire, he discovers some new Sith, one of Luke or Leah's kids, maybe Palps had a kid or some clone they were making. Maul's kid? Put some quests for Jedi & Sith artifacts. Have episodes from the new empires perspective. Please no more rey & quit ruining the characters we love.

@davidbergfors6820

Ай бұрын

@@johnberger8817 I can agree with you that it was supposed to be Lukes. But as stated, deepfake might prove too expensive or not plausible. I see a lot of Legends inspiration in your words, so I gather you have emotional connections to those stories. I don't, so our approach to this "issue" may differ a lot. We cannot clamor to what was, and need to embrace the best of what is.

@johnberger8817

Ай бұрын

@@davidbergfors6820 Doesn't have to be legends. Just continue Luke as intended after ROTJ. He's a new hope, right? The hope of the galaxy. Don't do thrawn, that's fine. Just give us good stories. FYI deepfake is cheap and easy. That bs they did in the finale is outdated. A KZreadr went online the next day & showed how to do it right. Disney hired him for bobf. He quit after the series. You see the difference. It's not hard or expensive anymore. There's a KZread guy that does reactions as quigon, ob1, & Ani sitting around in an apartment doing reactions. It's brilliant, super funny, & really well done. Check it out. His Channnel is Charlie Hopkins. He's a stand up comic that does voice impersonations with deep fake. He does everything including the edits. Just hire him.

This episode & episode 5 of Ashoka are easily the best star wars we've had in live action since George Lucas ❤

so many "gasp" moments, but when Cad Bane appeared I jumped up and screamed!

Yup, spice is an extremely valuable drug

One of my favorite pieces of all of Star Wars!

13:10 "Where did he come from?!" Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?

Think of spice as cocaine...lol

I believe the explosion scene at the club is a nod to The Untouchables movie.

Don't feel bad. I cried more than you just now, & I do every time I watch it. A self actualized Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker. The greatest Jedi ever. Unreal...

I had the same reaction to seeing Cade Bane too

They discourage making contact with Grogu because even one visit from someone with whom he's so attached is enough to destroy his Jedi future.

tara, i thought luke was being mean when he said not to eat the frog and then he lifted all the frogs to say look at all these tasty frogs

I was sooo waiting for you to react to this episode. 😄

Ahsoka didn't keep them apart. She just senses why Mando wants to see him. his own self gratification, not for the child's well-being and mando figure that out on his own and didn't go..

Its telling that when people realize its Cad Bane, everybody goes "Cob is dead. that sucks". Like its a fact, Cob is good, but he isnt cad mofoing bane

@bemasaberwyn55

Ай бұрын

Bane is fear

@bemasaberwyn55

Ай бұрын

Bane is fear

@donaldwatson7698

Ай бұрын

Well of course. Bane has taken down multiple Jedi, and more clone warriors than he can remember. Cob is great at what he does, but so far, he's been a very human marshal, along the lines of Gary Cooper in "High Noon".

@Mnkeys

Ай бұрын

@@donaldwatson7698 oh 100% but it's just good writing that EVERYBODY knows Cob is dead. Like .. there is no debate. There's no other option

Spice is where Star Wars and Dune cross over. Both hallucinogenic drugs, in an Imperial Galaxy in a state of near endless war.

Cad Bane was last seen in Bad Batch. and indeeed, Bane was part of a kidnapping job with force sensitive children. We all thought that the new Jedi order had a different view on attachment, guess we were wrong.

@donaldwatson7698

Ай бұрын

She's not seen the Bad Batch yet, so from her reference point, Bane was last seen in The Clone Wars.

@davidbergfors6820

Ай бұрын

@@donaldwatson7698 I was wondering, I know she mostly has been watching chronologically and the earlier things are on tiktok rather than youtube, so was unsure if Bad batch was included there.

Tara, there were two actors who played Luke in The Mandalorian chapter 16, one was a body double for the "fight scenes", the other was indeed Mark Hamill himself. Yes, they did use technology to "de-age" him, and based his face on "Return of the Jedi" Luke. When Mark was on set, only the most essential crew were on hand, in order to keep the secret. All of the concept art was of Ki-Adi Mundi for the "Jedi" who sought out Grogu. Also, yes, "Spice" is the base/main ingredient for both medications and intoxicants.

@donaldwatson7698

Ай бұрын

Ki-Adi Mundi being Dave Filoni's favorite Jedi, so any who would see the art would naturally assume Dave was bringing his favorite to the screen.

The reason he looks different in this one is that a KZreadr put out a video the day after the season 2 that he could have made Luke look so much more realistic. Disney hired him on a week later & used him to do the CGI. Smart move. He quit after this series ended, no shock either. Amazing what regular people can do. Both times what you saw was CGI deepfake, only this time it was way better. The Force is strong with this one.

Man, so they have to make me sad with Grogu like that? 😭 6:49 a direct callback to ESB. A Yoda-like creature strapped to Luke's back, like Yoda was, but then he was but a learner now he is the master. Ran through a tall plant landscape too, like Dagobah. Seeing Luke change was kind of weird. Why is he all of a sudden so against attachments? People can love other people but still be a Jedi. Grogu deserves both the armor and the lightsaber. :( Can Bane is somewhere other than TCW but I will say no more.

Hello Tara!😊 I've been waiting for this episode to see your reactions! Being a big Star Wars fan girl I knew you would get a lot out of it. Luke's body double is Max Lloyd-Jones who also played Carson's X-wing fighter buddy Lieutenant Reed. SUPER reactions to this penultimate episode of Bobba Fett, Tara!!!!!🎬👏👏👏👏👏

While Mark Hamill was there to shoot reference, they used a body double actor and used deepfake with some touch ups to replace his face with Mark Hamill's young face, and used AI audio tech to create Luke's voice lines, similar to how they did Vader's voice in the Obi-Wan Kenobi show.

Actually, Luke came out of Padme.

@bemasaberwyn55

Ай бұрын

😂😂 Anakin helped....

Great reaction! 😊 This was one of of the episodes that I've been looking forward to you getting to. 2:57 Like with the sequel 2 finale episode of "The Mandalorian", Mark Hamill was once again on set for this episode. And there was also a body double(a different one from one that was in Mando season 2) that was on set. The body double they used for this episode looked very similar to the way Mark Hamill looked in "Return of the Jedi". The behind the scenes documentary of this show showed a clip of Rosario Dawson geeking out(as I would 😂) over being on the set with Mark Hamill. Not only do we have the return of Cobb Vanth, Luke Skywalker, R2-D2, and Ahsoka, but we also got the live action debut of Cad Bane. Looking forward to your reaction to the next episode. 😊 Then onto Mando season 3. And don't forget that there's a post-credit scene after the next episode.

The attachment thing Luke is doing is the same problem that the Jedi order had. Luke never would have done this. He loved his father & his sister. He rebelled against Yoda & OB1 in this way. He believed that his attachments made him stronger. This was only done b/c of the sequels, which you'll suffer through shortly, at least the last 2 movies.

@stevenmcmullan409

Ай бұрын

Luke cave Grogu a choice. The Jedi Order never gave their younglings this kind of choice.

@johnberger8817

Ай бұрын

@@stevenmcmullan409 first Luke was in a "cave" with Yoda, not Grogu. lol. The Jedi didn't kidnap children. Their parents were given a choice. Think Anakin. His mom agreed, & Anakin chose to go without his mom. Luke got his strength from his love for his father & sister, not by being disconnected from them. He never would have forced someone to make that choice. In the EU Luke had these connections & even got married.

The choice that Luke gives to Grogu is a bad one and it was ment to be like that. There is a purpose that the ways of the Jedi are made to look dogmatic. Very few force-sensitive individuals became Sith right away...the most usual way to become a Sith is to be a Jedi that could not stand the trainning and the rules of the order. So they became dark side users, and if they were misfortuned or fortunate (it is a certain point of view) to be noticed by a Sith, they usually managed to become an apprentice at the very least.

One of my fav reactions from you. I knew you would love this episode when you got to it. 😀

Luke is AI. ✌️

All of the stories are not really connected but they are in a sense. Filoni and Favreau have been building this part of the Star Wars universe as they can fit things in. The Clone Wars and The Rebels and any other old properties are going to be sources of story as they can fit them in. They all just will not naturally flow together and make sense like one person was in control of the story the whole time. Filoni has said if it can fit in and make sense it will.

@YodatheHobbit

Ай бұрын

Nothing doesn't make sense. You need to be specific if your going to say a random generalization like that. They are connected because we are invested in the characters. Clone Wars and Rebels aren't sources of story, those stories were self contained. Characters have lives which they continue living and where they are in their lives depends on how they felt and what happened previously. We come back to character when they do meaningful things in the Star Wars universe, when heroes rise. Those characters have family and friends who we ALSO get attached to and want to see more of. This is how all fiction works.

@rnkelly36

Ай бұрын

@@YodatheHobbit That's how fan fiction works and it is ok if you think that way. However since the Star Wars universe is not a one source for writing and creativity anymore but a fictional universe more like comic books where different writers and different creative sources are used the stories do not have to flow smoothly from one property to the next but can borrow and pull as ideas for future stories. So if you have to make up a story in your head to make it make sense then more power to you but things may change as new stories get created or they go into the past and create past stories.

Also yes Spice is a crazy hard drug. Think of it like psychoactive meth

Are you not doing The Bad Batch? You really should.

"Men and women of fighting age" 😐😐

This is probably an unpopular opinion, and I swear I'm not usually so negative, but I really wish Grogu was CGI. Sure, the puppet is cute when he's just sitting there. It just looks so goofy and fake with what is obviously a puppet doing these flips and jumps and kills any immersion this show had (imo, not much). The decision to make Yoda CGI for the prequels allowed for such acrobatics to work. Could you imagine if they left Yoda as a puppet for his fight sequences in episodes 2 and 3? It would've been a laughingstock, and that's what they've got going on here. And imo even outside of fights, CGI Yoda allowed for so much more depth to the character. Don't get me wrong, puppet Yoda was very well executed.... for the 80s. There's simply no reason outside of nostalgia to still be using puppets for this species 40 years later, especially when we've already seen how well it works in CGI (and even that was 20 years ago!)

@thatnerdtara

Ай бұрын

He does look fake…but still looks adorable … so I can look past it 😂

This is why I prefer Luke’s New Jedi Order in the EU. It allows attachments.

@YodatheHobbit

Ай бұрын

Except the EU has bad storytelling where all investment is lost.

@Brandon-yy5cc

Ай бұрын

@@YodatheHobbit The EU is the true Star Wars timeline. At least the one I prefer.

The problem with attachments to people is that, if they are too strong, they can warp your connection to the force. This is what happened with Darth Vader.

@Brandon-yy5cc

Ай бұрын

Yeah but Anakin’s attachment to Luke is what brought him back to the light. And also his attachment to Ahsoka is what saved her life on numerous occasions in the Clone Wars. So yeah there’s a flaw in the “no attachment” system.

@thatnerdtara

Ай бұрын

But Anakin’s issues were also exacerbated by his childhood, his mother’s enslavement, her demise, and ESPECIALLY fighting in the Clone Wars - the fact that he cared so much about the people around him during that war but always knew that they could just die at any moment. I think what happened with Ahsoka and the Council pushed him over the edge - causing his anger and resentment to warp his connection. I truly believe Ahsoka could have saved Anakin if she’d figured out sooner what was going on, and that’s BECAUSE his attachment to her was so strong.

@dreamwalker2865

Ай бұрын

​@@thatnerdtaraPlus Palpatine got into his head and manipulate his head because he was blinded by his fear of losing Padame.

@kevinzhang6623

Ай бұрын

Kanan and Ezra would disprove that theory. They had very strong attachments but knew when to place other things ahead of them. Anakin was caring and had strong attachments but the actual reason why he turned was that he was extremely possessive, not just someone with strong attachments. And no one was seeing him in his struggles nor guided him through it.

@bemasaberwyn55

Ай бұрын

​@@thatnerdtaravery true