The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 2 Recap: Baby Yoda vs Frog Lady’s Eggs to Carnivorous Ice Spiders
Listen we need to talk about Baby Yoda eating those eggs. Because what started as a cute running gag in this episode turned weirdly dark when you think about it for more than five seconds. The internet has Thoughts and honestly so do I. But whatever lets just recap this bonkers episode of The Mandalorian because a lot happened beyond the egg thing even if thats what everyones talking about.
Chapter 10 of The Mandalorian picks up with Mando transporting Frog Lady across the galaxy. Her eggs – contained in a special jar she carries with her everywhere – are the last of her family line and she needs to get them to her husband so they can be fertilized before its too late. The eggs have a limited viability window. Its a simple escort mission with some pretty high emotional stakes. Of course nothing in this show stays simple for long.
Baby Yoda Has Zero Impulse Control And Its Becoming Concerning
Throughout the episode, the Child (thats his official name even though everyone calls him Baby Yoda) keeps sneaking eggs from Frog Ladys container and eating them. At first its played for laughs – oh look how hungry the little guy is, isnt that adorable how he just pops them in his mouth when nobodys looking. Hes so mischievous! So cute!
Then you remember these are literally her unborn children. The last of her entire genetic line. The whole reason for this dangerous journey across hostile space. And suddenly its pretty messed up that our beloved green baby is casually committing what amounts to alien infanticide while we’re supposed to find it charming. The internet had THOUGHTS about this ranging from “its just comedy” to “this is genuinely horrifying and I cant look at Baby Yoda the same way.”
Like other animated and animated-adjacent content trying to balance cuteness with darker elements, the show doesnt quite stick the landing on tone here in my opinion. Mando tells him to stop a few times but theres no real consequence and Baby Yoda keeps doing it. The eggs keep disappearing. By the end Frog Lady has noticeably fewer potential children than she started with. Some fans found it funny. Others were genuinely disturbed. Both reactions seem fair honestly.
The Ice Spider Sequence Was Genuinely Terrifying
The main action of the episode involves the Razor Crest crash landing on an icy planet called Maldo Kreis and getting swarmed by giant carnivorous spiders. Its a classic monster movie setup executed with the kind of production value Star Wars can bring – claustrophobic cave environments, scary creature design, lots of creepy crawling things coming out of places they shouldnt be.
The spiders emerge from egg sacs in an abandoned space station and the visual of them hatching and swarming is genuinely nightmare fuel. These arent cute bugs – theyre massive chitinous horrors with too many legs and too many eyes. The tension builds nicely as Mando realizes theyre surrounded and outgunned. The Razor Crest barely works after the crash. Escape seems impossible.
Mando does his usual competent warrior thing while protecting both his small green charge and the frog person carrying her egg jar through spider-infested tunnels. Lots of shooting, lots of running, lots of close calls. Eventually X-wings show up to save the day which was convenient but set up earlier in the episode so it worked narratively. The pilots recognized Mando from a previous encounter and decided to help rather than arrest him.
Overall a fun standalone adventure even if the egg-eating subplot sits weird with me and apparently a lot of other viewers. Disney put out a statement saying the eggs werent fertilized which… sure, okay, but thats not what the episode itself suggested? Whatever. This is the way or whatever.
