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There’s a lot of popular green fellas in our world: Oscar the Grouch, The Grinch, Kermit, Shrek, Shrek 2, and those Mutant Ninja Turtles that are probably not teenagers anymore. Recently, The Mandalorian has given us a green skinned hero in miniature form: Grogu, or as some people, meaning almost all of the continental United States, has called him, Baby Yo-
I can’t even bring myself to finish it, because I can only call him by his real and only name: Grogu. I suggest everyone else does as well.
I am by no means a Star Wars obsessive. I couldn’t tell you the difference between Tatooine and Naboo (am I spelling those right by the way?) I couldn’t recall to you all the details of the Skywalker saga besides that Luke finds out who his father is and that Anakin literally murders a bunch of children. Oh, and that Samuel L. Jackson is in the prequels, but he’s also in every movie ever created. Anyways, I say all that to tell you this: I know nothing about real Star Wars lore, the worlds found within it, and the characters that inhabit them. But I do know one thing: Grogu is not synonymous to baby Yo-.
Sorry, I still can’t do it. Nevertheless, my reasoning is very simple. Once you refer to Grogu as baby- I have to do it as much as it pains me- Yoda, you are inferring two very untrue things.
One is that Grogu is a baby. Yes, he is rather short in stature, probably no bigger than a can of pringles, or a stack of galaxy blue macaroons. And yes, he does coo and cry like a baby would. But no, Grogu is not a baby. He is fifty years old. Fifty! I guess to some people, fifty is the new two years old. In that case, I will be celebrating my 7/8s birthday this year.
The second thing you are inferring when you say baby, ugh, Yoda, is that Grogu is young Yoda. As we all should know by now, that is entirely not true. Grogu does belong to the same species as Yoda, sharing similar physical characteristics like diminutive stature, fuzzy hair, pointy ears, and green skin. Strikingly, they also share a familiar way to communicate without anyone knowing any idea what they’re talking about. Back to my point- they are similar but not the same. By the point Grogu was born, Yoda was still alive, furthering the idea that they are not the same.
Grogu has lived in the global, and I guess you could say intergalactic, conscience for the past two years. Everyone adores him. Everyone loves him. In accordance with the copious amounts of love and adoration, an equal amount of respect should be handed to him as well. The first way to do so is by calling him by his one true name: Grogu.
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