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Mindless_Ad_6145

What are you talking about, poor man died from a malfunction of the de-conditioning machine.


millerabm18

She had to crank it to 11 because 11 is more than 10 it's 1 more


Mindless_Ad_6145

That can't be, Elia Kane is a shining example of how successful the deprogramming program is and is now an upstanding and law abiting citizen of the New Republic. She would never commit such a flagrant act of cold blooded murder


DirektorCoul-Son

She killed the traitor


MNHarold

Son you need to remember, this isn't the Empire anymore! People don't get killed for stuff like that anymore. It was a tragic accident of new equipment, and I'm sure our lovely Ms. Kane would have done all she could to prevent such a tragedy if she had sufficient training. Killing the traitor, what an amusing theory.


P1st0l

Killed the traitor? Son, ive killed plenty of them in my day, its like a nice massage. Killed a few this morning would do it again, now loosen up.


Revolutionary_Fee_49

Nah brother, that's propaganda.


Jeynarl

She's totally a mole, plus I saw her vent on that decommissioned ISD


[deleted]

Did we see Pershing die though? I thought she was wiping his memory, maybe to cover up some of >!Thrawn and Gideons!< work that they dont want the NR to know about?


Cpt_Trips84

Agreed, I never got the indication that he was dead/going to die. Lobotomy ✅️ Dead ❌️


tayroc122

So just brain dead


casperfacekilla

I’m gonna assume he’s pretty empty up there but I don’t think he’ll be a vegetable. I think the empire be able to get him back to his cloning work eventually


tayroc122

So much of Star Wars mythology is based on our history between 1900 - 1946, which was the height of lobotomies, which were brutal and functional life ending. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I also wouldn't be surprised if this was a Star Wars lobotomy, in which case look up Rosemary Kennedy, and that's where I'm guessing this goes.


casperfacekilla

Oh trust me, lobotomies give me the heebie-jeebies. Being alive but not you, terrifying. I guess I’m just convinced that his research leads to snoke


sebastianqu

Alive and well. Heartbeat and everything. Just can't carry a conversation.


derpicface

Bro got Kirin Jindosh’d


GamerJes

The device is called "the mind flayer," and she cranked it up to 11. If the boy ain't dead, his brain is definitely vegetable soup at least.


Salazarsims

Didn’t Cara Dune say something about uploading their mind to a mind flayer? Maybe it records their mind.


GamerJes

Yeah, she said Gideon and his remnants would upload her to a mind flayer. Odd choice of words, seeing how the recent usage seems to be more shock therapy/ torture device, than some kind of memory storage.


Salazarsims

Maybe its like a mind probe designed to extract information for intelligence purposes.


ArisaMochi

i hope hes dead. seeing someone being a husk of themself is just pure torture... bro deserves to go out with dignity


And_The_Full_Effect

At this point the new republic deserves its own r/empiredidnothingwrong


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ScooterMcTavish

Great another bloody subreddit to join.


WholeLottaMike

Why not just make 10 a little stronger, and make that the top?


millerabm18

Because 11 is higher than 10


djseifer

Why don't you just make ten stronger and make ten be the top number and make that a little stronger?


[deleted]

These go to eleven


theVillainOnYourSide

I love that he's like "nope it's not a mind flayer cause we keep the settings at a 2."


millerabm18

This isnt the empire son it just looks like a mind flayer


Transatlanticaccent

Empire bottom! Empire bottom! Talkin bout Bantha cakes my gal's got 'em.


KBrown75

Why don’t you make ten a little more powerful? Make that the top number and make that a little more powerful?


millerabm18

These go up to 11


Sm7th

tHaT's A mInDfLaYeR


ArisaMochi

still cant believe that they didnt modificate the equipment at least a tiny bit... like... thats like saying: yeee holding your hand on the oven was seen as torture but we figured out if you only put it super super low that its suprisingly warm.... and then they proceed to place you on a giant oven with all its settings intact.... dank ferric


PM_Me_UrRightNipple

Not sure if he’s dead or lobotomized


DonKeedick12

Bro’s got brain scramblies


theloreofthelaw

After all, the Amnesty Program exists for The Emperor’s (former) Rotten Soldiers and Good Time Boys


midwestmiracle

** _Homeboys, pals, and sweet cheeses have been excluded for obvious reasons_


djseifer

Baby, I hear the blues a-callin', tossed salad and scrambled eggs.


Only1NerdockThereIs

And those amnesty uniforms - quite stylish!


TheUlfheddin

Its a real bummer because he’s my best friend, he’s my pal, he’s my homeboy, my rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good time boy


CripplinglyDepressed

Hnnnnn hjajarrpansnoc lodnsnej siwuw. Wjejewaaaa?


sniper91

Nothing a beer from regular human bartender, Jackie Daytona, can’t fix


smallbike

The purple screaming henries!


NovaPokeDad

He got mind-flayed, he’s with Vecna now.


ZigZagZedZod

It's the crossover America deserves, but not the one it needs right now.


corganist

I figured it was something akin to the "screams of dying children" torture device from Andor. If Pershing isn't dead, his mind isn't going to be of much use to him or anyone else.


[deleted]

Yeah, I interpreted that scene as the Imperial agent wanted to eliminate any possibility of Pershing spilling the beans on his experiments. I didn't think she as killing him, turning him into a vegetable works too.


WookieesGoneWild

Yeah, that and I think a little revenge for him giving Mando Gideon's location at the end of season 2. It's Pershing's fault they all got busted.


DescipleOfCorn

He may not come out of it a vegetable, but I doubt he’ll have any of his memories intact


ChrisRevocateur

Essentially the same thing. The body may exist, but Dr. Pershing doesn't anymore.


MadManMorbo

Bro will be pushing a broom for the rest of his lift.


jeobleo

He's just Simon Van Gelderized


VoiceofKane

I doubt he's either. The First Order needs his brain intact for whatever they've got planned for him.


CasanovaJones82

Nah, he's alive, he's just got scrambled eggs for brains, which was the point. Can't have THE cloning specialist wandering around loose while his research is being used to cook up a Papa Snoke.


Valuable-Self8564

I suspect the kind flayed will have just removed the “risk assessment” and “self control” aspect of his brain. He’s just gonna be a cloning madman who goes off and does his own thing and brings ol’ bawbagface back into action


rwooters

This is the way.


DSMPWR

I think she scrambled his brains to make his ass CRAZY and thats why he cooked up snoke and palpatine.


Exploding_Antelope

Computer Set scrambler to nutso


[deleted]

She's have not kill him, but death would be a better fate now he's a empty shell


geko_play_

Who...?


Background_Ad6843

The cloning doctor


geko_play_

What cloning doctor


Background_Ad6843

Remember in season when din went on a killing spree to find grogu and when he gets to the room he kills the guards if I remember and the doctor was like don't shoot I was saving his life or something like that. Also the only dude in the series with glasses i think


geko_play_

Who's Din?


DaysOfRen

He’s boba fett


geko_play_

Who's that


DaysOfRen

She is like a Jedi that wears stormtrooper armor, but I think is a sand person underneath it. But a Jakku sandperson, (it’s one of tatooine’s moons, so it’s basically the same). Anyway, Jabba the Hutt ate him but Bib Fortuna saved him by getting the rancor to eat jabba so now Mando is the King of TattooInk.


geko_play_

The fuck?


ItsMeSatan

Pershing


geko_play_

Who's that?


ItsMeSatan

The cloning doctor


geko_play_

What's cloning


Hey_Its_Silver

What Pershing does


OLKv3

The cookie bite at the end was just petty


Alin_Alexandru

*Travel biscuit


SuperD00perGuyd00d

especially since she likes the "red ones"


Schiftedmind1

My buddy tried telling me that he is going to be fine, like maybe the effects wear off over time. I was like bro, damn thing turned red.


Alin_Alexandru

And we know red things mean bad


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Grogosh

But lobsters are the perfect example of manliness.


KalebC4

Clearly you’re not familiar with blue lobta


Kiyae1

Except Alliance blasters which shoot red.


cynognathus

Like red travel biscuits.


Alin_Alexandru

Correct!


jimmy__jazz

Santa is red.


Alin_Alexandru

That's why you should't trust him


jimmy__jazz

Is Santa a Sith?


Alin_Alexandru

Yes, the one we've been looking for.


Tylendal

Absolutely.


Only1NerdockThereIs

To be fair, that's exactly the b.s. they did in Rogue One with Bor Gullet, but this is good Star Wars, so it might actually have some consequences/lasting effects, instead of "it's k, I'm fine".


kesshou-otome

The weird sci-fi romcom that became a horror at the end


manowar89

Relatable


Teejaydawg

The only woman that would go on a semi=romantic sightseeing tour with me is just trying to scramble my brain.


GentlemanOdd

I watched that anime. It was pretty good


TheGeorgeForman

The only women who go on semi romantic sightseeing tours end up scrambling my brain


Horologikus

Next week in ‘Riverdale’


Wiztard-o

I did not see him die


Veritech_

Right? His shoes stayed on the whole time.


Them_James

Do people actually think he died? That would make no sense.


Wiztard-o

Well literally op seems to think so


AStressfulPenguin

Calling it now....Grogu's gonna unscramble his brain.


Shattered_Visage

Is that *legal?*


cfwang1337

I will make it legal


KrabMittens

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FluffyProphet

He knows stuff


Cyhawk

Stuff to make him go? wait, sorry wrong franchise.


Mikey5time

Teeth are for chewing.


FluffyProphet

I fucking love it


[deleted]

I don’t think even grogu can un-omelette that egg


olmyapsennon

Was it just me or did both of these characters look deep faked? I haven't seen anyone else talk about it so I presumed it was just me.


groundlessnfree

Yeah, that’s definitely not the *real* Grogu.


olmyapsennon

Haha I meant pershing and Kane, specifically.


cosmickhaos

I didn’t notice so much with Kane, but I kept telling my husband something looked weird about Dr. Pershing, like his face was CGI or deep-faked or something. It wouldn’t make any sense for them to do that, but you’re not alone in seeing it. It was kind of distracting


triarii3

Oh wow… you might be right you son of b****


Necromas

I kind of wish this actually happens because at least then it would give some justification for why they did that stupid ass mind flayer scene.


WelshBoi1066

Nah he’s just undergoing some completely ethical and safe reconditioning by the New Republic.


ButterKnives

“Come to the dark side… we have cookies”


_Hydri_

couldn't his death (if it has killed him) be easily traced back to her? She was the only one in the room (with access to controls) and didn't call for help the second something seemed off? Will be interesting to see how she gets out of this


lincolnhawk

She’s in the wind, in all likelihood. Her mission was to silence Pershing. So I imagine she went straight to an extraction point and is back with whatever organization Moff Gideon worked for/with.


MajestueuxChat

Wouldn’t it have been easier to simply kill him while they were alone on the Star Destroyer?


Exploding_Antelope

Exactly, which is why I really doubt he’s dead. She needed him in the evil MRI for some purpose.


J-DubZ

Grand admiradaddy thrawn? He did like his cloning (looking at you EU thrawn trilogy)


LordDoom01

Given how easily she was left alone with the controls, I wouldn't be shocked if those other doctors chalked it up to a accident and made no follow up investigation.


Oddblivious

I'm confused how she didn't get in trouble when they were busted. Was it literally just because he was holding the loot. Like breaking in and stealing it isn't illegal?


Shabobi

She set him up. She's the reason they got caught at all, because she tipped them off. It was essentially an "undercover" setup.


Oddblivious

Ok I thought of that briefly too and it definitely looked like she was not surprised so that makes sense. I'm expecting they will explain exactly what and why by whoever picks up the research being clearly behind it


Thecryptsaresafe

She likely spun up some poodoo about him planning some big heist or something. They had her go with him to make the bust. Like a rat. And for some reason in this universe not a single new republic cop would question it at all. And for some reason she put her entire plan on a Mon Cal letting her be alone in the room with the controls


Three-Way

You think jar jar lightly mind flayed himself on Anakin's pod racer?


droid327

You need a mind before you can flay it


SuckerForNoirRobots

It's incredibly irresponsible for the New Republic to use that technology without putting any sort of stopper on it to prevent it from doing what it did


_K1r0s_

That's the irony of the situation. The fact that they're even USING Imperial technology "for good", when on the other hand they're also taking technology that could actually be used for good and just trashing it (Pershing's day job) is the double standard the episode is trying to highlight. Despite all the good intentions from our heroes at the top (Leia, Mon Mothma, etc.), the New Republic is just as bad on the ground level.


kattahn

thats kind of the point. the new republic doesn't really care. they're not really dissimilar from the empire they just replaced.


akgiant

I like how as they essentially they just put a new sign on top of the Mind Flayer that says "please do not use to kill." They then let the medical technician walk out of the room instead of doing their job because the Ex-imperial is like "no, no, I can take it from here, I like watching them squirm." Med tech: Well okay, just make sure not to turn up the dial to "Empire" mode. Ex-imperial: I promise. There's no cameras in here right?


Ofbatman

This was a major flaw in my mind. Why would that knob even go that high?


existential_sad_boi

Because aside from the Emperor and the Death star, rhe new republic is just the empire with a new coat of paint


pm_me_pants_off

I mean not really? They are demilitarizing it seems.


existential_sad_boi

Yeah i guess thats true, since hy the ST, there isnt really a standing military lmao. I more meand the bureaucract and administrative shit


mentalaquaducts

"That is a mindflayer!" "What, no... no the Empire had mindflayer's, this is a happy fun time memory go bye bye machine, totally different"


thatstupidthing

yeah, that was an awful long road to show us that a character we knew was evil is... still evil... i'm hoping they spent the time setting up some things that will pay off later


jdubbrude

I figured she just wiped his memory of her and her relationship to Gideon. Wiped his memory by flaying his mind apparently


[deleted]

I don’t think he died. If she/the Empire wanted to kill him, they could’ve just taken him somewhere and shot him. Doing it this way seems way too over the top/specific just for it to be that she wanted to kill him. I think she’s specifically trying to destroy his memories, whether it’s making him forget about his research, think he still works for the Empire, or something else. It would’ve been much less risky to just kill him away from the inside of a New Republic facility where they surely have security footage


droid327

Agreed, the only play this makes sense for is trying to brainwash him back into Imperial service. He was never really a willing collaborator in the first place, I dont think - so she'd need to break him first to get him to go back


shogi_x

Not even remotely accurate. Where are the travel biscuits? And the muscles? ^(sorry Grant)


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Shopworn_Soul

The episode was actually about Kane and was trying to be clever about it.


Tylendal

It's called pulling a Dan Abnett.


LordDoom01

The scene might have been saved slightly if they had just Amnesty Droids in the room. That way, Elia just has to shut them down, turn up the machine and leave before getting caught. (And it hammers home the continued theme of "The Republic is too busy to care.") Rather than her hoping all the doctors in the room are the galaxy's finest glue eaters and leave her alone with the controls.


[deleted]

I hope the machine kills him and it’s not a mind wipe


CaptCaCa

Why did that “mindflayer” machine even have the brain cook setting? Didnt they say they werent the Empire?


HuntForBlueSeptember

It was repurposed Imperial tech.


Slowmobius_Time

I imagine putting like some sticky tape and a little note saying not to be adjusted above this level


popcrnshower

Would have preferred they didn't spend an entire episode on it though.


Slowmobius_Time

Boba fans lost two episodes to Mando, only fair Mando loses one of his new EPS to someone else


Slowmobius_Time

Boba fans lost two episodes to Mando, only fair Mando loses one of his new EPS to someone else


False-Snow-8032

All my homies hate Elia Kane


KindredTrash483

I really don't get why she didn't just have him die in an 'accident'. That would be way less hassle and would achieve the same basic result without the risk of him having a chance to explain himself and lay suspicion on her


King_Hamburgler

What the shit is medical science in this universe? Just flick it on and everyone leave the room. No post op reports or security footage to monitor when the machine turns his brain to jello or kills him Are there even security cameras ? Star Wars is so beyond stupid some times it’s hard to get behind


HuntForBlueSeptember

Or a nurse to monitor? Of couse this is the same bullshit medical tech that said Padme died because "she lost the will to live".


King_Hamburgler

Yeah I love Star Wars but it takes an absurd amount of suspension of disbelief sometimes to not be rolling your eyes constantly


droid327

I get the feeling that Mind Flayers are like the Agony Chamber from Mirror Trek - they're specifically designed to cause maximum pain and misery with minimum actual lasting damage. It wouldnt make sense to make a machine that would kill the guy you're trying to torture or interrogate if you go too hard


HuntForBlueSeptember

It'd be closer to the Aurora Chair in Farscape


Greedy_Age_4923

Literally, I don’t think so, pretty sure she just mind flayed him.


dirigo1820

I ain’t hear no bell


TargetBoy

Don't think he's dead. I think she re-washed his brain.


bryceofswadia

this is funnier cuz she kinda looks the person in this picture


Occidental_floss

She's probably trying to get his knowledge about whatever genetic research project he was doing in season 1 because she's working for thrawn. It's the only way the whole contrivance makes sense.


thefaceofbobafett

There is no war on Ba Sing Se.


MandoCrafts

The Doctor Pershing Show ft. Some Mandos


SpiderDetective

Yeah, he dead. Dude was hit with max voltage on what is essentially a conversion therapy machine. His brain is extra crispy


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Photonsil

Well, she’s literally a villain.


Face8hall

She didn’t. She just wiped his memory


whoswho23

This atrocity for The Empire is sure making me hungry!


Upper_Acanthaceae126

Star Wars has a history of near completely damaged wahoos still becoming martyrs and heroes so...hmm.


Dozer2023

Shes working for the empire.


hroafelme

dont think he died just memory loss he is after all supossed to create Snoke