Got the wife watching now. They've put themselves in an interesting position with Baby Yoda. You can't kill him off or people will riot, and I think the only way to separate them is to do it for the season finale so you go into next season with people understanding it's the Mandalorian, not the Baby Yoda Star Wars show. I'll keep watching regardless of what they do, but playing the Last Of Us card with grizzled combatant having to care for someone all of a sudden that goes against everything they stand for, always plays well to audiences. I know I eat that shit up.

What's getting me is Baby Yoda is the same age as Anakin

50 years old

Who knows what they do with Baby Yoda? This show was filmed a long time ago , so they had no idea his character would break out like this.

Yep, both would've been 9-10 years old in TPM

Yoda also said they may have misinterpreted the prophecy, so "Yoda Baby" could be another child spawned by the Force in a paradox that created 2 polar opposite chosen that follow different paths of destiny

This is categorically false on both counts.

The show wasn't filmed "a long time ago". Most of the series was filmed in 2018 with some filming spilling into 2019.

Season 2 began ramping up in September 2019 but was written earlier this year.

Lucasfilm intentionally kept "Baby Yoda" a secret by not creating any merchandising that would give away his existence and the premise of The Mandalorion.

That said, "Baby Yoda" merchandising is set to ship soon.

They knew exactly what they had with baby yoda. Keeping that character secret was specifically why they didn't send out screeners for the pilot. They knew they had a hit show so **** reviews and they knew they had a holiday toy bonanza as soon as the character hit screens.

https://www.shopdisney.com/search?q=...a&lang=default

So the stuff you can buy right now looks like the kind of quality you find on any random web site that will print random images on whatever style shirt you want.

But towards the bottom they have some “real” merchandise that you can preorder.

Definitely had a similar vibe to one of the Clone Wars filler episodes

The love connection was totally forced, but other than that I liked it.

Everyone's probably seen this making its rounds on Facebook, but it's still too adorable not to share here...lol.

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...e2&oe=5E3EF163

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Losing revenue this holiday season, Disney is.<br><br>Stats show Disney might be missing out on $2.7 million in sales due to lack of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BabyYoda?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BabyYoda</a> merchandise. <a href="https://t.co/1BCnCByJxu">https://t.co/1BCnCByJxu</a> <a href="https://t.co/3ODf5GDP89">pic.twitter.com/3ODf5GDP89</a></p>&mdash; Screen Rant (@screenrant) <a href="https://twitter.com/screenrant/status/1202954568881102849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I actually looked the other day on Amazon. Everything I'm finding is Etsy type stuff. You'd think they'd at least have a stuffed animal or Pop! figurine or something.

What's the difference between a Yoda & a baby Yoda Pop figurine? Just buy a regular one & tell everybody it's baby Yoda.

True. Thought about that after I posted. Still, right now, it's mainly just memes printed on t-shirts, and not even good memes.