“The Spies” (The Mandalorian, Chapter 23) presents a real good news/bad news situation for the Mandalorians.

• The good news: Mandalore is habitable! The tribes have united! There are only a few terrible megafauna left to terrorize the planet!
• The bad news: The Imperial remnants have formed a Shadow Council following up on allllllll of their predecessors’ special interests, and Moff Gideon is angling to be their boss.

This week, we’re talking through the good (the Child piloting IG-11’s corpse) as well as the bad and ugly (the rise of fascism throughout the galaxy once more). Our heroes have their work cut out for them.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Who Are We?

00:01:58 Plot Summary

00:11:27 Scaling Up Fascism (Again)

00:26:55 Jewish Diaspora and Native American Colonization

00:39:27 Project Necromancer (Back Again)

00:51:36 Bae Watch

01:01:47 Closing Thoughts