CondensedFogAggie said:
TCTTS said:
I haven't liked her since day one. She's always been sketchy af. The Armorer is a cult leader who loves her little cult and the power she has over it. But now, her influence/station has been compromised due to the arrival of Bo-Katan. So she'll do anything she can to get rid of her - and the idea of a re-united Mandalore - even if that means aligning with the remnants of the Empire and sacrificing a few of her own people. That said, it's clear that she and Gideon are from the same, Maul-worshipping group of Mandalorian separatists. I haven't seen enough of The Clone Wars to know all the details, or what they were called, but I did watch a YouTube video on it a few weeks ago (at a Holiday Inn), and it's beyond apparent now. That, and Mando was her blind, loyal pawn, but now that he's pledged his allegiance to Bo, it's time for him to go. $100 says this is all revealed next episode, to Mando, and Grogu saves him at the last minute.
A cult leader spy of a ragtag band of bounty hunters chased underground constantly by the local police department where she wallows in sure poverty while banging out pieces of armor? Don't see much motivation there tbh.
I never once remember the armorer being possessive or showing gollum-like my precious qualities. Only banging out quality armor for Mando, the green kid, and Bo-katan.
So her recommending Bo as leader, getting people to unite, and Bo attacking Mandalore was some big huge 44d chess?
Okiee, I mean if they go that direction, it's not like I'm gonna stop watching, but will still think it's kinda dumb.
Bad people get "chased underground" all the time, forced to live in the shadows. So I don't necessarily see that as virtuous or empathetic. That said, I don't necessarily see her as outright sinister either. The fact of the matter is that she's a cult leader, plain and simple. She lives by insanely strict rules, and forces her followers to live under those same insanely strict rules. If they don't? They're excommunicated. She won't even let them take off their helmets, for cying out loud. I don't care how much is justified by tradition, that is blind, hardcore extremism, no two ways about it, and anyone who willingly perpetuates or participates in that brand of extremism isn't quite right in the head. However, just like any cult leader, she believes that what she is doing is just and right and good.
All that said…
she has horns on her helmet. Gideon…
has horns on *his* helmet. After last night, I would find it very hard to believe that's just a coincidence, and that they're not both remnants of the Death Watch, loyal to Darth Maul's legacy, hiding in plain sight, so to speak. So, yes, given those circumstances, the Armorer recommending Bo as a leader makes perfect sense. The Death Watch overthrew the Mandalorian government back in the day, and now a member of that very government/family is rising once more (or at least newly motivated). So what better way to kill off Bo - along with all of those like her (the non-extremist Mandalorians) - by allowing Bo to rally a number of them into a trap (a trap that, again, the Armorer conveniently managed to avoid), where they can be dealt with in one fell swoop. That doesn't at all feel like 4D chess, that's just a smart plan.
