What a strange time we are living in, in 2020.
Disney Plus’ online show The Mandalorian has sparked controversy with a creature that people called “Baby Yoda” (or “the child”).
Here’s the new story of what sparked the controversy:
Last week’s episode of The Mandalorian caused quite a stir among people who are sensitive about bizarre, tonally deaf jokes about casual genocide. “The Passenger” featured a running gag wherein The Child, better known as Baby Yoda to everyone who isn’t a Disney marketing representative, happily devours several of the Frog Lady’s eggs, which she makes very clear are the last hope for her species. The whole point of the episode is to carry her and her eggs safely to her husband so they can rebuild, and it’s intercut with Baby Yoda just absolutely housing egg after egg, completely oblivious to Mando’s scolding. The episode treats Baby Yoda’s ravenous genocidal hunger like a bit of wacky mischievousness
(Source: collider.com/the-mandalorian-season-2-baby-yoda-egg-eating-lucasfilm-statement)
I saw some other articles where people are outraged or state all kinds of things about this incident. Some quick thoughts:
- Strange there’s a lot of violent films and shows out there. But there’s not equal outrage for those.
- What probably makes this outrageous is the suggestion of endangering the existence of a species. It goes to show we don’t watch entertainment in a vacuum.
- Also I think some of the response has to do with people being uncomfortable that something that’s alive and so cute can do something so mischievous. It makes me wonder how many of these fans who are outrage have any kids of their own. Because human babies are cute, cuddly and sinful. Something makes me wonder if my generation with all the gender identity politics might undermine the biological make up of natural families and therefore this lack of handling newborns among some lead them to be surprised that any creatures can be cute and horrific in doing thing that the child doesn’t know what he or she is doing, or doing intentionally due to sin, etc.
- Sadly there’s more outrage over this story than actual evil going on in our world. Remember: the show Mandalorian is fiction. We have in real life horrific genocide going on: There’s concentration camps going on in Asia at this moment. And our country’s rich and elite voted for a presidential candidate which the perpetrators of modern genocide approves of; also this presidential candidate have a history of being silent about the suffering of people in that part of the world and failure to speak out about the oppression of ethnicities in that country.
- But don’t look far overseas for evil, here in the United States we have the deaths of the preborn. People are getting mad at the destruction of fictional unfertilize eggs but here in the US fertilized babies in the womb are being really killed. But some of these fans probably think abortion is a great measure of human achievement. Bizarre.
- Such is the state of our society today. Social justice outrage at fiction while real life evil is going on. There’s a mindset of let’s focus on the trivial rather than the blatant full scale evil. There’s a focus on the bad intention of others when its not clear; but truly intentional evil that is blatantly obvious somehow doesn’t spark the same passion of outrage.
God help us.
Wow! 😲🙌 It is good to know you are into the Mandalorian too, Jim! Anyway, skipping the socio-political discussion, the child has a change of heart in the next chapter of the series (i.e. The Heiress). The munchkin was fond of the hatched tadpole and cuddling it in front of the proud frog parents.
Nathan just said the same thing! Nathan says, “What makes this being so sentient that it can’t be eaten like any other being? Thousands of frog eggs are being destroyed in the Amazon but there’s no mention or outrage on that!” Nathan says he supposes that’s ok because it’s man’s progress rather than man caring for creation.
You are right, Nathan, we eat eggs from chicken, quail, and sturgeon (even other fish) and it is normal, nobody was angry, it is food, and an egg a day is good for immunity too. Talking about sentient, a leader with initials O.P. once said that “freedom is the right of all sentient beings.” 😆Like this comment, the show for me is entertainment only and like Din Djarin a.k.a. Mando, I jettison from non entertainment stuff because it is just a show. 👍
Wow you seem to know a lot about the Mandalorian, have you been watching it? I’ve watched season 1 and it was sooo good. Are you a fan???
Been watching it since but not a fan. I hope the chicken, quail, and fish eggs made you relived the child.
“ Sadly there’s more outrage over this story than actual evil going on in our world. Remember: the show Mandalorian is fiction. We have in real life horrific genocide going on: There’s concentration camps going on in Asia at this moment. And our country’s rich and elite voted for a presidential candidate which the perpetrators of modern genocide approves of; also this presidential candidate have a history of being silent about the suffering of people in that part of the world and failure to speak out about the oppression of ethnicities in that country.”
Amen, brother! Amen!!!
Exactly!
I have seen this tv show advertised, but haven’t watched any yet if indeed I ever do. I find your discussion of this interesting and thought provoking. It is certainly sad when the world loses grip of reality, who remembers “who shot J.R.?” – the world went nuts for that one. I agree it is disconcerting how folks get upset by fiction, when the reality of genocide and persecution is happening every day. Well presented discussion brother. I pray you have a blessed weekend.
“Who shot J.R.?” That’s from the T.V. show Dallas, isn’t it? I admit, I never watched it but my Nana loved that series.
Yes, it is unsettling that we get so bent out of shape by fictional atrocities but then shrug off real-world tragedy.
Correct A.R. Grimes, that was Dallas in the 1980s. The whole western world got in a real tizzy over that storyline, haha.
Thanks for this post! Very interesting how society is selectively outraged over some things, like this Baby Yoda and dogs being left in cars in hot weather conditions, but are indifferent to the actual persecutions of people in some countries and the ongoing abortion genocide, as you point out.
BTW, I don’t understand how people can watch that Star Wars stuff. 😉 I need to continue my Kazan re-reviews!
I feel sorry that you have lumped animal cruelty in with the actions of an imaginary character, Tom. Many dogs (sometimes even babies) die each year from being left inside a locked car in conditions akin to an unbearably hot glass greenhouse. I hope that you can see that the ill-treatment of animals is also something to be distressed about.
Lesley, you misunderstand me. I’m NOT dismissing the suffering and death of animals (I didn’t mention children) left in overheated cars. We have a pet dog and we care for her responsibly. My intention was to point out the irony of a society that becomes enraged over a mistreated animal and yet supports the ongoing genocide of 2000 unborn children per day in the U.S. alone
Beam me up, Scotty.
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Oh I forgot you weren’t a Star Wars fan lol. But I think you were a Star Trek fan? Good point here by the way. Hope you get a “sabbath” from leaves operation today
Thanks!
The CIA should force prisoners to watch Star Wars to extract information. LOL! Just kidding. I was a big fan of the old school Star Trek series with William Shatner but I saw the episodes so many times that I don’t want to see another. one. Yup, I’m pretty much done with the leaves at this point unless I have to clean up from neighbors’ leaves blowing around the neighborhood. Just doing the routine Saturday chores today. Hope your day’s off to a good start.
Interesting. I’ve never heard of the show. This is right on track: “Social justice outrage at fiction while real life evil is going on.”
The genocide of unborn children is horrific but many in America can’t be concerned about it. Go figure.
Blessings!
What is right is wrong and what is wrong is right. We have been told of these things.
Glad I’m not watching the show
Good points that I can agree with.
I haven’t watch any of the Mandalorian so I can’t speak to specifics here.
However, I think that with fictional characters in general that we tend to identify personally with them. So, we are prone to react in a more visceral fashion (horror and outrage) when they behave in ways that we don’t feel are right or appropriate.
By contrast, we have more trouble connecting to and sympathizing with real people that are not in front of us. Their suffering is not immediate and in our face, so neither is our outrage regarding their treatment.
I could be wrong, but that’s just my take on human psychology.
Good point. Thanks for reading this post by the way!
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Nathan saw this yesterday and was like why is their outrage over this?! It goes to show that people really can and will get upset/outraged over anything. As you mentioned about the plight of the suffering of people groups in Asia, people in the States are blind to most world events (even that other countries as suffering with COVID not just the States). People are blind to Turkey’s increased presence. Armenia and Azerbaijan had issues and Ethiopia is on the brink as well. Yet, concern is for baby yoda eating some eggs. Strange times indeed.
Thanks for your comment, seem like Nathan is thinking the same direction as I do! I have been praying about Armenia and Azerbaijan. I don’t know much about Ethophia, feel free to fill me in! Also I realize I don’t think I got back to you: Our youth group is going over a booklet of a sermon by Charles Spurgeon on little sins. Every other week we are going to go over three booklets of classic Reformed preachers just so they are use to sound literature from “the old guys” as they would call it lol. The weeks we are not going over the booklets I have been having our English ministry members join us to share their testimony of how they came to Christ; we are doing that for two reason: so the kids would get to know the adults better, since we are a small church I hope that would help them stay at church even when they get older and also secondly I want these kids to be saved and know Jesus, and the more I have others help me that including people’s testimony, the better! We need each other! Enjoy your weekend, this might sound weird but after this Yoda post I want to eat eggs…chicken eggs, quail eggs, fish eggs, etc. I know, I know its weird, but I was hungry at 3 AM lol.
You and Nathan are totally on the same page (even with wanting to eat eggs!!) I think you guys are on the same page with a lot of things!! What’s the average age for your youth do you think? I don’t know if you’re interested; however, if you’re looking for people to share their testimony to youth I have no problem doing so. I have walked some dark and ugly roads but God has redeemed my past and led me to where I am today!
Also, I love that you are sharing the classics with them! Do you happen to have The Valley of Vision? It’s a book of Puritan Prayers (I know not everyone is a fan of the Puritans) and they are beautiful! Anyway, email me your address and it will be my gift to you!!!
I was not aware to this. I don’t watch TV. Thank you for the insight.
“Social justice outrage at fiction while real life evil is going on.” Sad but true. 😦
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Jim, thanks for sharing this discussion. I agree that the “real” world deserves our attention and prayers.
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We are sure living in a strange time. Totally agree!
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The wits of the world 🤣