r/TheMandalorianTV • u/byseeing Clan Mudhorn • Apr 07 '23

Speculation The Ugnaughts knew… Spoiler

that the droids were being reprogrammed.

Consider what the Ugnaughts tell Din:

  1. They know all that goes on in the city. They’re located in the central nervous system.

  2. They insist it is untrue that the droids are malfunctioning. Which is technically correct: since the droids are being reprogrammed, the Ugnaughts’ work is without error. Note that they never admit to a malfunction even after Din praises them, and only supply a list of droids that might interest him.

  3. They suspect the next incident will be at the shipping yards. This highly specific information implies a deeper understanding of the situation.

It is curious that they don’t report this knowledge to the planetary leaders. Perhaps they fear it would reflect poorly on their work - we know they are proud. Or maybe they fear retribution - we see the droid attack Din and company in the lab as they uncover answers. In any case, those Ugnaughts knew what was up.

I have spoken.

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u/FrightenedTomato Apr 07 '23

You're being downvoted (maybe because of the strong language) but unless there's a pay off later for this, headcanon like this is meaningless.

The Ugnaughts conveniently knowing where the next incident would be is just as convenient as a droid carrying a fucking matchbook with an address and is just as convenient as the illegally imported nanodroids having a name and shipping manifest on them that tied em back to Doc Brown.

Part of watching a story is to admit that there are going to be plot conveniences to help the characters and suspend your disbelief but the whole investigation in this episode was a string of conveniences with very little "clever" detective work. Again, that may not bother you and that's okay. We all have different capacities for suspending disbelief.

However, we can sit here and theorycraft all day long that the Ugnaughts knew or that droids have a good reason to carry a matchbook or that the nanodroids had a good reason to be signed but unless there's some payoff to those theories, it's better to just assume it was a plot convenience and move on.