Daisy Ridley accurately observes that Porgs are trashy garbage creatures next to the magnificent Baby Yoda
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Back when Porgs, the doe-eyed penguin things featured in The Last Jedi, were revealed, it was easy to assume that Star Wars aliens had reached a cuteness apex that would go unrivaled long into the future. Now, only two years later, The Mandalorian has given us Baby Yoda, a creature whose design is so devastatingly, heartbreakingly adorable that it’s forced humanity to call into question what we ever saw not only in Porgs, but in kittens, puppies, or any other small, previously precious living being so imperfectly shat out by the natural world.
That Baby Yoda is superior to the Porg is inarguable, but, eager to start an argument that no reasonable person would ever entertain, Jimmy Fallon nonetheless asked Daisy Ridley, who plays Rey in the latest Star Wars trilogy, which of the two aliens she prefers.
“What’s cuter?” he asks, holding up pictures showing the resplendent Yoda, a small green king reclining in his floating egg-shaped throne, next to a musty old Porg looking toward the viewer with wet eyes that reveal the sadness it feels knowing how completely its position in pop culture has been usurped.
“Baby Yoda,” Ridley instantly responds. “Look, I’m not a big fan of the Porgs.”
She explains the frustrations of the humans who worked so hard to create The Last Jedi being asked endless interview questions about the Porgs—a situation that has created in her a resentment that could only be rivaled by the Porgs now knowing that they are disposable shit-birds next to the beautiful Baby Yoda.
“Baby Yoda,” she repeats again, making her stance clear.
This is the correct response of course. But, as we stand before the bonfire tonight, warming our hands on piles above piles of burning Porg merchandise now made retroactively hideous by the images of Baby Yoda floating in our mind’s eye, remember how fickle the universe can be. One day, you’re a human actor being upstaged by a Porg, the next you’re a focus-grouped penguin fully replaced by a miniature Yoda.
[via Mashable]
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Now I’m just imagining how much better ‘The Mandalorian’ would have been if, just as Mando’s about to hand over Baby Yoda, he hears in his head the little guy say, “But I thought you looooooved meeeeeee.”And then Mando saying, “Why does he have a lamb’s voice?”
This, sadly, is me. Although I still love BB-8 and the Porgs.
It will be nice when my kids get a little bigger, and I can just shut the fuck up and enjoy watching Star Wars with them.They’ll love the new droids and the old droids and the new creatures and the old creatures and probably all the stuff in the prequels that I’m lukewarm on, and their uncomplicated enjoyment will be worth so much more than the constant internet shitshow.
I’m with you man.
+1, shut it down. We have the winner.
What’s the cone head in the middle of that stack?
It’s a new droid from Rise Of Skywalker, D-O. It probably would have been everyone’s new favorite thing, except for Baby Yoda.
That’s the new droid D-O from Rise of Skywalker.
Some new droid they’re positioning to be this Christmas’ hot toy.
The porgs are puffins, not penguins. They were literally created because it was easier to CGI the puffins all over Skellig Michael than erase them.
I saw you on Jimmy Kimmel the other night.
heh. I AM calling The Child Baby Yoda, and I’m also a lady, but yes also pedants of the world unite. 🙂
I love SW like the next person but somebody slap that nerd. I know its a bit for the show, but y’all know there are people like that. He’s the comic book guy’s skinny brother. Ugh!
I wish that were the industry standard, as films are oddly devoid of life outside of dedicated “look at this magnificent nature” shots (and the horses of the western genre, such that modern animal casting regulations and red tape were a big part of what killed it).
by “erase” you mean “eat”?
no I mean digitally erase – they are protected and not allowed to be removed from the island
yes….i know…it’s just a ….you knowa JOKE
Lets not kids ourselves. Given the opportunity we would eat either of them without a second thought. You could have them together, it would be like frog legs and roasted duck!!
And then we can all dine on the delicious newborn baby roasting on a spit from The Road!
Babies taste the best, Captain America taught me that
You don’t kid yourself, if a porg has a half a chance it, he’d eat you and everyone you care about.
I’m going to Porg University!
you’ll still lose to baylor
it’s true porgs are evil chewie knew what to do with a porg
I’d never eat Baby Yoda!Make him work in an unventilated factory making iPhones, yes, but eat him? Never.
Stop being rude to porgs, they are fucking cute and I said what I said. Plus they are animals and baby Yoda is more likely anthropomorphic, so it’s like comparing human babies and kittens.
“…it’s like comparing human babies and kittens.” have you seem how ugly babies humans can be? i rest my case
Kittens can be ugly too, have you seen these furless kittens?
yeah, they look like people with big earssee that, i brought it back around
My wife and I have been watching Billy on the Street on Neftlix after the kids go to bed, and now when I see a clip of Jimmy Fucking Fallon, all I can think is, “Underneath all the screaming, Billy Eichner is a much more talented interviewer than this d-bag.”
Weren’t the porgs invented as a way to deal with the filming location’s wildlife constantly getting in shots?That’s actually the main thing that make them charming, as the lack of animals is one of the big ways movies diverge from reality (they were everywhere historically, but it doesn’t make sense to train a turnspit dog just for a movie or living history villiage).
Yes, as I noted above they were puffins that couldn’t be removed.
and by “removed” you mean, “eaten”?
“Back when Porgs, the doe-eyed penguin things featured in The Last Jedi, were revealed, it was easy to assume that Star Wars aliens had reached a cuteness apex that would go unrivaled long into the future.”But Chewbacca’s been there from the start…
Baby Yoda has pretty much the exact some form as Gizmo from Gremlins, who is the cutest ever.
Exactly!My first thought on seein Baby Yoda was “Snot-Gizmo”.
I appreciate Daisy Ridley’s contribution, but we already had Werner Herzog say Baby Yoda is “heartbreakingly beautiful”, and really, once Herzog has given his opinion, the conversation is done.
If there’s one thing Disney-era Star Wars has been knocking out of the park, it’s cuteness.I’m kinda floored by how unanimously loved Baby Yoda is, given how itchin-for-a-fight so much of SW fandom is these days.
Can we talk about the clip of the movie they showed at the end of the segment? Don’t get me wrong, it was really cool, but if you have jetpacks, do you need your sand-bike to pop its ass in the air to launch?
I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but I think the Porgs are actually hideous. They seem like they’d be genetically engineered to be adorable: they’ve got the fluffiness of a puppy, the big eyes of a baby bird, the jowls of a pug and the mouth and tiny teeth of a kitten. And yet to me it’s like when you overfill at a sundae bar with all the toppings and it tastes like garbage. The Porg looks like an abomination and every moment they were on screen of TLJ I was hoping Chewbacca would massacre them.
Puppet trumps CGI.