After delivering on one of the scariest Star Wars creatures ever last week with the krayt dragon, Chapter 10 decided to somehow take that up a whole other notch altogether by announcing the live action debut of Ralph McQuarrie's terrifying knobby white spider.
They're a similar looking bread to the ones seen in Star Wars Rebels, but unlikely to be the same. Either way, huge props must be given to the reveal of the creatures in the second episode. The tension is set up perfectly, with The Child approaching the surrounding eggs like John Hurt in Alien, only for all the eggs to erupt and Mando, The Child and the frog-woman make a quick break for the nearest exit.
The spiders swarming onto the ship has to be one of the all-time scariest Star Wars visuals, and it's once again a testament to the series' cinematic feel that the creatures all look as spectacular as they do.
Star Wars is home to so many genres, and if nothing else, it's great to see that embodied in The Mandalorian.
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.
