While The Child very much took a back seat in Season 2's debut, they're placed front and centre in Chapter 10. Peyton Reed milks every second he can out of Baby Yoda, resulting in some of the frog-like toddler's finest (albeit potentially disturbing?) moments yet.
First off, seeing The Child fly 30ft in the air after the speeder bike crashes? Terrifying. Absolutely terrifying. In fact, The Child is placed in more peril in this one episode than he was for most of Season 1, whether that was getting held at knifepoint in the beginning or being terrorised by some of those spiders. Fear. Actual fear.
On the upside, The Child also gets up to some high-key rascal behaviour in Chapter 10. Still determined to just... literally eat everything - and with the frog-woman's children being stored in a giant pickle jar - The Child takes any opportunity he can to eat her eggs. On the one hand, the bait-and-switch where you think they're connecting with the eggs themselves through the Force, only to then eat them, is pretty funny. On the other... NO BABY NO!
For those after more of The Mandalorian's breakout star, Chapter 10 will more than suffice. Just... don't dwell on his funny moments long enough to contemplate how they may be helping a species go extinct.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
