About a year or so ago, Bob Iger said, the future of “Star Wars” lay in television, at least new film franchises were up and running. Yesterday, in a restructuring of media and entertainment division announcement (read: more layoffs), Disney announced its “primary focus” for entertainment is streaming. That has its own much bigger, implications, but man, that really puts the focus on Lucasfilm‘s critically acclaimed series “The Mandalorian,” which is the sole “Star Wars” series on-air currently.

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Season 2 of “The Mandalorian” is just over a month away and Disney launched the first trailer for the new episodes today to begin the marketing machine. So, if you go on social media, you’re going to be inundated with more Baby Yoda memes and nerd speculation. That’s just the way of “Star Wars.” And instead of going frame-by-frame and analyzing each and every Easter Egg in the trailer, how about we take a second and recognize the surprise character that showed up in the footage that was only rumored and never confirmed by Lucasfilm/Disney—the hooded figure played by WWE superstar Sasha Banks.

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