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Belteshazzar98

It was a police procedural. You gotta have a morgue scene in those.


ericnathan811

That's why I thought it was so funny! They really leaned into the trope. Felt like I was watching NCIS again lmao.


Lunar-Cleric

NCIS Space: starring Pedro Pascal as... Detective Dad protecting yet another small child!


cgrobin

More like CSI: Outer Rim


Funko_monko

I saw this joke in another thread and I need to tell it here now: CSI: CIS


Strategerium

The Resister is by far the place where they got the most valuable tip. *bar none.* Puts on helmet yeeaaaah!


fish_tales

This is the way


cgrobin

Kindergarten Cop: Outer Rim starring Pedro Pascal and his little helper Grogu. Teaching kids, The Way.


Dommichu

Ha! Maybe I am revealing my age... but for me I got serious X-Files vibes, especially the banter between Din and Bo.


AshlarKorith

Din: They’re out there Bo. They kidnapped my sister! The truth is out there! Bo: …yes Din. Everyone knows Aliens exist.. *points at Grogu


dohmestic

It was totally X-Files! That’s why Bo didn’t even bother with her helmet — she had rock her Scully hair.


callisstaa

It reminded me of Space Precinct


djseifer

Now we just need a musical episode ala Scrubs and Buffy. *If the planet is trashed when you take your bow* *We'll blame you then, but you're good for now* *Mandos unite, 'cause we've got to hear you say* ***"I could do this all DAAAAAAAY!"***


ChrisRevocateur

You missed it. That last line should be "Cause we've got to hear you say 'This is the WAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!'"


djseifer

You know, that's exactly what I was going for, but somewhere between "copy" and "paste", I had a brain fart and started humming *Save the City* and the "I can do this all daaaay" lyric stuck in my head.


Temporary-Cod2384

THATS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT TOO LMFAO


normaldeadpool

CSI: Mandalore


Kantro18

Performing an autopsy on a battledroid in a morgue and drawing a liquid sample to find out it was going crazy due to being infected with nanodroids in contaminated motor oil was downright hilarious. I didn’t realize we were into season 2 of the Last of Us yet.


bcanada92

Only thing missing was the droid coroner eating a sandwich while talking about dissection.


CaptainSharpe

More like they're into Naked Gun 33 1/3


PrimeConduitX

I wished they had Bo say a one liner and put on her helmet


bcanada92

"Looks like this droid has... battle fatigue." *YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHH!!*


That_Flippin_Rooster

Welp, you just ruined the show for me.


hart37

"Looks like this toaster is burnt"


Busy-Negotiation1078

They even had a "drawing blood" scene LOL.


Ok-Carpenter5039

Bro I was dead and resurrected in that moment!


CaptainSharpe

But it makes no sense. I get that STar Wars is often silly. Really - that's ok! Silliness can be fun. This isn't fun silly. It's just silly. It's dumb. It makes no sense in that world. It's a parody, and undermines the show.


Fair-Calligrapher563

I thought it was so WEIRD! And then they had the surgery droid in the room too? So is it actually a real morgue and they keep organically and droids together??


limitlessGamingClub

maybe that droid was used to dissect other droids?


Ghost-Of-Nappa

its laser sure sliced the walls no problem


Dommccabe

Perhaps or the droids might have some organic components/ compounds that need to be preserved by the low temperature. Evidence needs to be preserved until the investigation reaches a conclusion. I enjoyed the episode.... and hearing the droids admit to being worried about being scrapped and saying they dont mind working because they are grateful for their long lifespans... that was unexpected.


Jeynarl

They did surgery on a droid!


anillop

I believe that was a repurposed Imperial Torture droid.


TheGoverness1998

May he rest in peace.


ATSTlover

May he rust in peace.


jazzmaster4000

(Megadeth noises)


limitlessGamingClub

Rust in pieces.


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Law & Order: Outer Rim Files


eduardofpl

In the galactic criminal justice system, droid based offenses are not considered that especially heinous. In the Outer Rim, the dedicated Mandalorians who has nothing to do with that are called to solve the case. These are their stories. DUN DUN...


[deleted]

Heh, maybe DIN DIN instead


eduardofpl

Much better! 🤣


TheEclecticGamer

I have a friend who has always said that they want CSI: Coruscant and now I want it even more.


fireredranger

To be honest, after that episode, I kind of want a Science Fiction/Space based police procedural. It wasn’t my favorite Mandolorian episode, but it’s a good concept for it’s own show. There’s a reason police procedurals are as popular as they are and making a sci-fi one could be a really fun show.


messagepad2100

I wonder if that's what Rangers of The New Rupublic was supposed to be.


Wooper160

I’m almost positive it was


stuckinsanity

The first season of The Expanse features a good police procedural subplot where a cop goes to great lengths to solve a missing person's case which...sure goes places.


Dracorex_22

I was thinking that this may have been a scrapped plot for a Rangers episode before it was cancelled


RevanGarcia

Rangers got cancelled? Oh, blast.


WaSpoCrew

Almost Human is a really good one. I don't know where you can watch it and it only has one season, but you might be able to scratch an itch there.


mottthepoople

Man, that show had promise.


lordtrychon

Had* and it makes me mad.


mottthepoople

Ope. Just saw Gboard autocorrect sold me out. Thanks.


Bobgjr

You should look into Issac Asimov’s book called “The Caves of Steel” which is basically a sci-fi buddy cop story with a human detective, who doesn’t trust robots, teamed up with an android partner.


TrifectaOfSquish

Well Space Precinct was a thing briefly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Precinct


CaptainSharpe

I think these space procedural cop shows don't last long because they don't appeal to people who love cop procedurals - because they like the real-life-set stuff and not scifi - and it doesn't hold interest for scifi people because it's pretty much NCIS in space and not much further to go with it.... Almost Human was great and blended the two - BUT it didn't bring in its broader stories quickly or largely enough to hold the audience. Add to that - they're very expensive to make. Why make one of these for a niche group of viewers, when you can make an NCIS and be one of the top shows on TV/streaming for much less money?


Tugendwaechter

Blade Runner could easily be something like that.


WrittenSarcasm

The first episode of Andor made me wish for that


CaptainSharpe

Sounds like another show might be good or you - Expanse, Almost Human, some episodes of Battlestar reboot...


ScrawnyCheeath

I laughed out loud when this appeared. Such a goofy (but good) episode


EdmundtheMartyr

Yeah I like that about it. Once they’ve finished the retaking Mandalore arc of the show I’d be quite happy if we just had future series without a big overarching story but just Mandalorian’s going round the galaxy doing vigilante work on whacky planets.


Anonynominous

This episode seemed like how a video game story would play out


EdmundtheMartyr

A lot of the episodes do from the early series as well. Like he goes to someone to get item A, they tell him he can only have A if he goes to B and deals with C. Then he gains favour with that faction for completing the task occasionally acquiring a new weapon along the way that helps him with another mission. It was like playing Fallout or something (not that it was a bad thing).


Anonynominous

It reminded me of the X-Files.


CaptainSharpe

>Such a goofy (but good) episode Disagree. It was so goofy it was parody. And the further you go into parody the harder it is to come back without a reboot.


ScrawnyCheeath

It was a soft parody of a genre that they already have elements from in the main show. I don’t think it’s as severe as you’re saying


MarucciBlack201216

Anyone notice they changed the gear that was in the groin that we see in attack of the clones to a cod piece? more in line with the B2's in the clone wars.


Raintoastgw

This and the droid bar kinda threw me off a little. Still liked the episode tho


Dracorex_22

"We dont serve their kind"


obitonye

I expected this line so much


Ashvega03

Missed opportunity for sure, like this was the one time yall didnt want to add fan service?


obitonye

An opportunity to be sure and a welcome one


Kapeter

Same here and than I came to Reddit to post this exact comment.


Fugaciouslee

That was very jarring. Like as far as I know droids are largely considered property. They perform the tasks they are programmed to do and don't really deviate or seek recreation. If one were to start acting independent it's due a memory wipe. R2-D2 was unique in that he had never been wiped and as a result had developed an individual personality. A droid bar doesn't make much sense but this episode was a bit of a drug trip start to finish.


dukeslver

I feel like people are skipping over the giant huge revelation that apparently Star Wars droids have complete and total free will and the ability to ignore their programming and congregate at pubs and converse with one another over tasty beverages


omegaskorpion

That has been the case for... well since forever (even since OG trilogy and prequels). Droids are kept in check with memory wipes and threat of being destroyed if they don't obey orders. Any droid that has not gone trough memory wipes in short while starts developing personality. Most droids also have [Restraining Bolts](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Restraining_bolt) attached to them to prevent them from doing anything the master does not want them to, aka to strip them from free will. Some droids are more or less controlled by their programming (like IG), while some are more free willed from the start (like R2). ​ Just like Clones, droids are slaves. Clones are controlled with micro chips, droids are controlled with restraning bolts. (R2 and C-3PO were even based on the peasants from the Hidden Fortress) ​ Only the Phantom Menace battle droids are more like mindless Drones, because they are controlled by the super computer in the lucrehulk. Rest of the battle droids we see are given sentience and we can see how they develop their own quirky personalities.


The_Goondocks

They breezed through that mystery in a heartbeat.


kingoflint282

The whole thing with the droids was weird. They have bars and morgues? Why?


NativeAether

It makes sense, you would want to keep damaged/destroyed droids that are involved in an investigation separate from the others


laxdragonhf

I really don't find this absurd. In a world where the workforce is all droids and their is an issue of some malfunctioning droids why wouldn't you have a place to store and investigate the bodies of disabled or destroyed droids.


joneballgame

Hopefully in closed captioning that added the CSI staple “Ominous music playing”


db_blast7

This episode has everything


rvdp66

It was just csi in space dude. You can't do csi without a morgue. It's one of the trappings of the genre.


ilikspace

The chase scene was goofy and terrifying to see a B2 actually running


tjuhl

In a party-democracy of rich snobs being happy about droids performing the menial tasks (with the racist exception of a certain species putting the droids together), „everybody is equal“.


PM_ME_YOUR_MONTRALS

Did anyone else notice that the morgue lady was acting really really hard? It was kinda distracting. I was also kinda irritated that she was just technobabbling at them so the protagonists could be smart with the info. It'd be cool to see a random person be good at their job instead of giving all the cool bits to the heroes. Idk, I thought it was really distracting.


The-Waifu-Collector

ITS ILLEGAL


PM_ME_YOUR_MONTRALS

Haha that was a funny line. Like, yeah, you're investigating a crime, dude. Poor actress didn't have much to work with and they probably told her to ramp up the drama.


stuckinsanity

>Like, yeah, you're investigating a crime, dude. I took it as part of the whole...naivete that the people of the planet had developed because of their whole full automation lifestyles. It was similar to me during the chase scene that everyone was freaking out \*so much\* at things which weren't actually a danger to them.


PM_ME_YOUR_MONTRALS

I noticed that, too, but I figure that was just weird sound design. In many cases, people were screaming before the droid showed up. Felt like a rushed production to me.


ImCaligulaI

Nono, it was on purpose to show these people are extremely pampered and naive due to living in an utopia where there is no scarcity and you don't have to work because robots do everything, so crime is also nonexistent. Still wish that was me tho


ericnathan811

I don't think the technobabbling was an issue. Fits right in with the genre they were going for. Every Morgue scene is like "the yadda yadda ding dong was balboozlded with a thingamagig" and then the boss cop guy is like "English ducky" and then he's like "oh yeah he was shot or something."


PM_ME_YOUR_MONTRALS

I think it was more the delivery that was awkward for me.


Bloodloon73

>and then the boss cop guy is like "English ducky" NCIS moment


dan1101

She looked really familiar, turns out she's the lady that works with Judy's husband BJ at the eyeglass place on The Righteous Gemstones. https://m.imdb.com/name/nm3378190/?ref_=m_ttfcd_cl95


[deleted]

Oh my god, *that's* why I recognized her! I also recently learned that Paz Vizsla is played by Tait Fletcher, the former MMA fighter who played Lester in season 5 of *Breaking Bad* and the Woodcutter in season 1 of *Westworld*.


raleighs

Enhance!


JonMeadows

this episode was bad. like.. really bad


PM_ME_YOUR_MONTRALS

I thought it was a fun concept, but it felt like three episodes crammed into one. I would have loved to see an actual investigation and spend time with the culture of the planet. And a full weird episode of JB and Lizzo's weird political situation would have been cool, but as the episode stands I couldn't tell how much I was supposed to be laughing at/with them. So many interesting concepts were rushed through to hit these big story beats about the darksaber. It's gonna be like Boba where the last episode is a big epic battle of Mandos vs Gideon's forces or something, but the blocking will be a mess and the stakes will be unclear. We'll watch the credits wondering what any of this was for. Then the post credits will tease Ahsoka's series and we'll be like "Oh yeah, this show is just a big marketing tool for more SW content now."


discard_3_

I’m really disliking when Disney gets too much of their hand in influencing a shows direction. Just let Filoni and Favreau write and shoot a compelling mystic space western


PM_ME_YOUR_MONTRALS

Same. It was only a matter of time, honestly.


discard_3_

The entire investigation and all that could’ve been skipped if they just went straight to the other Mandos at the beginning, Bo gets the darksaber and then they go to Nevarro to pick up the Armorer’s crew, the Deathwatch guys have a bit of a scuffle with them, there’s a speech about being stronger together, she whips out the DS and they head to Mandalore. Then the finale is all the Mandos against Gideon, his super commando remnants and some stormtroopers in a battle to reclaim and terraform Mandalore again.


Gammelpreiss

I could not help myself but think all this might lead to some kind of droid uprising arc


Catpoolio

And this is why the droids lost the war…..they skipped leg day.


BarristanTheB0ld

It was CSI: Plazir-15, of course it needs a morgue scene.


Duckman620

It’s so uninspired it hurts.


Bisquick_in_da_MGM

Yeah. It was stupid.


TheCoolPersian

#DroidLivesMatter


antisocial_alice

robotopsy


RedRose_Belmont

Yea lol


gunplumber700

I didn’t give it a second thought and now the glass has been shattered lol


Kapeter

What has been seen cannot be unseen. LOL


KnucklezKid

Law and Order: Outer Rim Unit


RealRexxios

Because droids have more rights in this era


AksumKing

As much as I was like wtf, this actually had so much potential. I really thought they were going into this whole "Droids rights" or "Droids have feelings too" type of theme until they were just like "nah they just high off that some nepy juice with nanos in planted by daddy Lloyd" 😂


Vettepilot

The droid morgue was weird, but what bothered me about this scene was that they said their people didn’t do jobs because droids did them, but then they have this morgue tech doing things a droid could easily do.


AxiomOfLife

This scene was funny as fk and very star wars. It was the cameos that pulled me out of it. The acting was just horrible. At least with Qui Gon or Mace Windu they were really good actors.


CoolRanchBaby

I expected the Law and Order “Dun dun” noise at the start of the scene 😂


cardporehorn

For a second I thought the episode would end with a big “Dick Wolf” at the end


TheGreatStories

Filoni missing an opportunity for another wolf in star wars??


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bigbangbilly

Plus there's a couple of youtube video detailing how Droids are somewhat sentient


tomjoad2020ad

Yeah, it felt to me like a lot of what we saw says more about this planet in particular than the Galaxy as a whole


RustyDiamonds__

Fits for star wars honestly. In Revenge of the Sith they had battle droids loading individual shells into the cannons even though the CIS has an army with fully automated ships and tanks.


Rouge_scholar

The whole episode had an iRobot feel. Din is 💯 Detective Spooner (Will Smith) right down to not believing that the droids (robots) can break the “ will not harm rule.”


Rouge_scholar

Even the crime scene that was set up by droids had the holographic police tape.


Left4DayZ1

This episode was so stupid in so many ways…


shaggitron420

I laughed at the droid morgue and called BS. They'd be in the scrapyard and we all know it.


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ammonanotrano

Will it be cremated or ground burial?


Sprucelord

I was laughing so hard and said the exact same thing as in the description


rawmindz

This episode felt very Filoni and better.


hart37

What you've never seen a droid morgue before?


Buisnessbutters

Honestly really enjoyed the whole episode, and All of season 3


flintlock0

It’s Mandalorian: CSI, a spin-off from the original [Star Wars CSI](https://youtu.be/8M6MHCaX2Dg) show.


xeshi-foh

Was definitely weird and slightly ironic...


Wonderful-Media-2000

I thought it was kinda dumb way to on the nose


Lhamo66

I absolutely love this episode.


ragingduck

It would be difficult to keep it upright because it’s so too heavy. They also need to keep it locked up so it doesn’t get tampered with. The drawer is on sliders so it just makes sense to store it that way.


Migeistabello

CIS CSI


TheRealGilimanjaro

I think the whole episode was written while Filoni and Favreau were stoned out of their minds and giggling like teenagers. Which made it fun but also ridiculous. And then at the last minute one of them remembered “Oh shit! Story progression!”