History Recap / TheMandalorianS3E3Chapter19TheConvert

** Rumors that Moff Gideon managed to escape custody or that he was hooked up to a Mind Flayer are mentioned by a couple of the former Imperials at the Amnesty Center, but whether there's any truth to them is never made clear. A later episode confirms that Gideon escaped...with possible Mandalorian help.

** Rumors that Moff Gideon managed to escape custody or that he was hooked up to a Mind Flayer are mentioned by a couple of the former Imperials at the Amnesty Center, but whether there's any truth to them is never made clear.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Bo-Katan's encounter with the Mythosaur, a creature she once dismissed as mere religious superstition, has shaken her to the point that she subconsciously ''never'' takes off her helmet in the entire episode since [[SymbolicBaptism emerging from the Living Waters of Mandalore]], and she herself doesn't realize it until the Armorer directly [[ArmorPiercingQuestion asks her if she removed her helmet since]].

* ADayInTheLimelight: Din, Bo-Katan, and Grogu only appear in the opening and very end. The rest of the episode focuses on Dr. Pershing's attempt to recover his cloning research. It also gives Elia Kane far more focus than ever before.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Din, Bo-Katan, and Grogu only appear in the opening and very end. The rest of the episode focuses on Dr. Pershing's attempt to recover his cloning research.

** The Children of the Watch on the other hand seem far less inviting. They are dogmatic in their beliefs, and are secluded in harsh living conditions in the outer territories. But beneath the surface the Watch is fairly reasonable. When Din proves he has been redeemed he is welcomed back with open arms. When Bo Katan reveal she too went through the same process, she is also invited into the clan under the condition she never remove her helmet. The important difference is that the Children of the Watch emphasis the freedom of ''choice,'' as it is made very clear Bo can come and go as she wishes, which is a far cry from the conditions the former Imperials face in the New Republic.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Bo-Katan's encounter with the Mythosaur, a creature she once dismissed as mere religious superstition, has shaken her to the core to the point that she subconsciously ''never'' takes off her helmet in the entire episode since [[SymbolicBaptism emerging from the Living Waters of Mandalore]], and she herself doesn't realize it until the Armorer directly [[ArmorPiercingQuestion asks her if she removed her helmet since]].

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: The Armorer asks Bo-Katan if she had ever removed her helmet since emerging from the Living Waters of Mandalore. It is there that Bo realizes that she ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness never]]'' did, even before Din advises her to keep her helmet on when meeting the Children of the Watch. After being unwittingly accepted into the clan, she looks at the skull of the Mythosaur and wonders if her encounter with the beast was a sign for her.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: The Armorer asks Bo-Katan if she had ever removed her helmet since emerging from the Living Waters of Mandalore. It is there that Bo-Katan realizes that she ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness never]]'' did, even before Din advises her to keep her helmet on when meeting the Children of the Watch. The last scene of the episode is a helmeted Bo-Katan looking at the skull of the Mythosaur and wondering if her encounter with the beast was a sign.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Bo-Katan ''never'' takes off her helmet in the entire episode since [[SymbolicBaptism emerging from the Living Waters of Mandalore]] and it's completely of her own volition rather than being pressured by Din. It's implied that her encounter with the Mythosaur has made her more open to the Watch's religion than she would like to admit. That said, it's a DownplayedTrope since she's not on screen for most of the episode. There's only like three scenes between her submersion and meeting the Watch. Wearing her helmet during her conversation with Din in the caves is remarkable; wearing it during a battle with TIE fighters is less so, since it's protective equipment. Then she wears it to meet the Watch--per Din's instructions. Without the episode focusing on Pershing, Bo-Katan would've had more screen time and more opportunity to be tempted to remove it.

** Coruscant's passenger trains don't have any walls or ''floors'' between carriages, forcing people to perform a nerve-wracking jump if they need to cross for any reason. It seems passengers aren't ''supposed'' to move between carriages, as a ticket inspector droid doing so is seen calling a bridge to extend over the gap, but then this only compounds the problem because the doors between the carriages aren't locked.

** Despite the fact that even the technicians operating it acknowledge that the only difference between a Mind Flayer and a 602 Mitigator is the power setting, the fact that it ''still has'' a brain-melting power setting with no failsafe to prevent it from being dialed up to the max is an issue. And since they also don't leave anyone standing by to intervene if something goes wrong with the procedure, Kane gets the chance to dial it up just like that.

** Coruscant's passenger trains don't have any walls or ''floor'' between carriages, forcing people to perform a nerve-wracking jump if they need to cross for any reason. Possibly passengers aren't ''supposed'' to move between carriages, as a ticket inspector droid doing so is seen calling a bridge to extend over the gap instead of needing to jump, but then why would the doors be human-operable but not the bridge?

* StealthPun: Dr. Pershing's given name is revealed to be "Penn", and he's working a tedious desk job - in other words, he's a pen-pusher.

* UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot: Coruscant's train ticket inspector droids are for some reason skeletal, steel-gray, faceless aside from glowing orange eyes, and have low, grating voices.

* NoOSHACompliance: Despite the fact that even the technicians operating it acknowledge that the only difference between a Mind Flayer and a 602 Mitigator is the power setting, the fact that it ''still has'' a brain-melting power setting with no failsafe to prevent it from being dialed up to the max is an issue. And since they also don't leave anyone standing by to intervene if something goes wrong with the procedure, Kane gets the chance to dial it up just like that.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: It wouldn't be ''Star Wars'' without continued comparisons between the Empire and the Third Reich; the Amnesty Program is an obvious reference to Operation: Paperclip.

* PetTheDog: Though welcoming Din back into the Children of the Watch counts for its own entry, the Armorer also extends the same privilege to Bo-Katan, since she too bathed in the Living Waters and hasn't removed her helmet since she did so. She even allows Bo to leave whenever she wishes, something she presumably doesn't normally grant to members of the covert (not that they can't leave by becoming apostates, Bo-Katan is just given consideration as a recent convert).

* NoOSHACompliance: Despite the fact that even the technicians operating it acknowledge that the only difference between a Mind Flayer and a 602 Mitigator is the power setting, the fact that it ''still has'' a brain-melting power setting with no failsafe to prevent it from being dialed up to the max is an issue.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Bo-Katan ''never'' takes off her helmet in the entire episode since [[SymbolicBaptism emerging from the Living Waters of Mandalore]] and it's completely of her own volition rather than being pressured by Din. It's implied that her encounter with the Mythosaur has made her more open to the Watch's religion than she would like to admit.

** The New Republic government on the surface appears very inviting. It's bright, colorful, and people have plenty to see and do to occupy their time. Even the former Imperials seem to enjoy it. But beneath the surface there are smug elites who don't really see any difference between current life and the time under Imperial rule, casual dismissal of outer rim territories, and a desire to bury their head in the sand in regards to forgetting the past. This leads to a dark turn when its' revealed they are brainwashing former Imperials into compliance and stripping them of their freedom of choice.
** The Children of the Watch on the other hand seem far less inviting. They are dogmatic in their beliefs, and are secluded in harsh living conditions in the outer territories. But beneath the surface the Watch is fairly reasonable. When Din proves he has been redeemed he is welcomed back with open arms. When Bo Katan reveal she too went through the same process, she is also invited into the clan under the condition she never remove her helmet. The important difference is that the Children of the Watch emphasis the freedom of ''choice,'' as it is made very clear Bo came come and go as she wishes, which is a far cry from the conditions the former Imperials face in the New Republic.

* MythologyGag: When Pershing tells the Mon Cala technician that Kane [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi led him into a trap]], the technician has an odd look on his face.