Interesting detail that when the train first arrives they added a sound effect that sounded a bit like a Krayt Dragon.
I wonder if this meant that the Pikes made the sound to scare them off (even though the Tuskens knew it was a train–or rather “long speeder”), or if it was meant to trick the viewers that another dragon was going to appear.
Also, did anyone else get a bit of a Buffalo Bill and the railroads of the old west killing buffaloes vibe from this scene? In really liking how this series is carrying on the Western vibes that Lucas planted in ANH with this series.
As for Fett’s vision. I quite like StarWarsExlained’s analysis that the tree represents Fett’s family tree and how is rebirth from the Sarlacc (as Rodney’s also pointed out) deals with him trying to find his own identity as he seems to be strangled and held back by his own “roots” as it were. He is after all just a clone of his “father” and was pretty much raised to be a bounty hunter. We’re seeing Fett becoming his own man, which ties in nicely with similar themes in The Mandalorian where Din is learning that there are more than just “the way”.
But adding to this, I do wonder if the tree might have a double meaning. Most seem to assume that the sea is the sea of Kamino, but the Tusken tribe leader mentions when Tatooine once had a sea, so I’m wondering if this ties in to the origin of the land. Besides, Fett does end up with a gaffi-stick branch at the end, so this is presumably something all Tusken’s go through, so the tree has to have some kind of tie to Tatooine’s past as well.
The red glowing eyes are a whole other mater though. The end credits concept art shows a bunch of Jawas, and we have seen a red-eyed variation, though none so far on Tatooine. I know that the Jawas were, like the Tusken, native to Tatooine in Legends, but I don’t know if they’ve established this in canon yet. Ep. 2 of The Mandalorian seems to hint that they might not be, but it could also be that they’ve just adjusted t technology better than the Tuskens have. I think it’s still canon that the Jawas did not build the sandcrawlers.