Post by papamihel on Nov 14, 2020 16:42:15 GMT
Baby Yoda, who one year ago today cozied into the hearts of Star Wars fans with his bottomless eyes, fuzzy head, and adorable cooing, has invoked genuine social media wrath for last week's episode of The Mandalorian, in which the mystical infant remorselessly snacked on the eggs of an endangered galactic species.
This is how the tempest started: In last week's chapter of the Disney+ show, titled “The Passenger,” Pedro Pascal's bounty hunter agrees to ferry an amphibious alien woman known only as “Frog Lady” to a swampy distant world so she can fertilize her canister of eggs, which floated in the brine like peeled apricots.
Then the unspeakable occurs! Throughout the episode, Baby Yoda is caught reaching his little green claw into her unsupervised container in order to gorge himself on the inappropriate morsels.
“I just wanna know who thought this was a good idea. Like... 'we have this woman whose species is facing extinction and she's very protective of these her eggs.' ‘We should have Baby Yoda eat them.’ ‘Hey yay dude, bro high five’ Like what?
" one Twitter user posted on Nov. 9. (Vanity Fair is excluding links to protect people from potential harassment.)
“Gosh, Baby Yoda is losing the charm,” another posted on Nov. 6. “I hated him because he ate the eggs of a lady frog and her species. IT'S AN EXTINCTION!!!!”
Another wrote: “Baby Yoda not knowing any better...genocide for sake of ‘cute humor’ is never very funny. I mean, I laughed but I felt really guilty about it.”
Another Star Wars-centric Twitter user quoted the Frog Lady herself: “'We fought too hard and suffered too much to resign ourselves to the extinction of our family line,' Frog Lady said after engineering a translator and standing up to a legendary Mandalorian. ‘But please use these eggs as the butt of your misogynistic joke.’”
“As a Star Wars fan with a history of multiple miscarriages who is saving up for IVF, them playing this as a bit feels extremely gross and mean-spirited,” one user wrote.
This is how the tempest started: In last week's chapter of the Disney+ show, titled “The Passenger,” Pedro Pascal's bounty hunter agrees to ferry an amphibious alien woman known only as “Frog Lady” to a swampy distant world so she can fertilize her canister of eggs, which floated in the brine like peeled apricots.
Then the unspeakable occurs! Throughout the episode, Baby Yoda is caught reaching his little green claw into her unsupervised container in order to gorge himself on the inappropriate morsels.
“I just wanna know who thought this was a good idea. Like... 'we have this woman whose species is facing extinction and she's very protective of these her eggs.' ‘We should have Baby Yoda eat them.’ ‘Hey yay dude, bro high five’ Like what?
" one Twitter user posted on Nov. 9. (Vanity Fair is excluding links to protect people from potential harassment.)“Gosh, Baby Yoda is losing the charm,” another posted on Nov. 6. “I hated him because he ate the eggs of a lady frog and her species. IT'S AN EXTINCTION!!!!”
Another wrote: “Baby Yoda not knowing any better...genocide for sake of ‘cute humor’ is never very funny. I mean, I laughed but I felt really guilty about it.”
Another Star Wars-centric Twitter user quoted the Frog Lady herself: “'We fought too hard and suffered too much to resign ourselves to the extinction of our family line,' Frog Lady said after engineering a translator and standing up to a legendary Mandalorian. ‘But please use these eggs as the butt of your misogynistic joke.’”
“As a Star Wars fan with a history of multiple miscarriages who is saving up for IVF, them playing this as a bit feels extremely gross and mean-spirited,” one user wrote.
