Djarin has to reconnect with old allies to get back there, including Carl Weathers' Greef Karga, now a wealthy, somewhat obsequious official Amy Sedaris' weathered, deal-making mechanic Peli Motto and Katee Sackhoff's descendant of Mandalore's royal family, Bo-Katan Kryze. (As an aside, there's a serious problem with a spinoff series like Boba Fett, if its best episodes essentially feature another program hijacking the storyline.)Īnd in the first two episodes of The Mandalorian's new season, we see our pair reunited, with Djarin determined to visit the homeworld of Mandalore and bathe himself in "living waters" which will wash away his disgrace.Īs we are shown in brief flashbacks in this new season, Mandalore was carpet bombed by the Empire, turning the world into a toxic heap of rubble. Over several episodes in the Boba Fett series, we see Grogu decide to return to the Mandalorian who had become a father figure to him. A de-aged Mark Hamill as Luke SkywalkerĪs the second season finale concluded, The Child (whose name is Grogu) landed with a Jedi who can complete his training in The Force and Djarin fulfilled his quest to find a suitable home for his special young charge. This being, known as The Child, fans called Baby Yoda for his resemblance to the green-skinned Jedi master of the films. The last season of The Mandalorian culminated in a moment Star Wars fans have dreamed about since this series was announced – a de-aged Mark Hamill appeared as his classic Star Wars character Luke Skywalker a deadly Jedi Knight who tore through a villain's lair filled with robotic bad guys to rescue a young being the Mandalorian had been protecting. That's because important developments for this series happened on another Disney+ Star Wars story, The Book of Boba Fett. More on that later.īut if your consumption of various Disney+ Star Wars series stopped with the last season of The Mandalorian, you might be a tad confused now. It turns out, Djarin was raised as part of a sect of Mandalorians whose customs and beliefs are far more strict than some others. Check out episode seven of the second season to see why Djarin had to break such a sacred Mandalorian rule in the first place. (This didn't happen just to show off Pascal's pretty face, though he did it more than once last season. That's what happens when most of the energy in an episode is devoted to getting characters in place to tell the season's real story, while also giving the audience all the background info they need to understand what's going on.Īnd in this season of The Mandalorian, there is a lot of backstory which needs filling in.Īs the first two episodes of the new season begin, Djarin is on a new quest: to atone for breaking the code of the Mandalorians by taking off his helmet and revealing his face to others. It doesn't help that the first two new episodes from this season of The Mandalorian suffer seriously from a malady I call Table Setting Disease. I mean the series itself, which provided an electrifying debut for Disney+ back in 2019 – along with an inspiring blueprint for how to re-invent the then-floundering Star Wars TV/movie universe.Īs its third season starts, this show faces the real prospect of being eclipsed by a newer, fresher series, amid spreading fan fatigue. I'm not talking about Din Djarin, the helmet-wearing, magnetically terse super heroic bounty hunter played by Pedro Pascal, who gives the series its perfectly direct name. The Mandalorian now faces what may be the biggest challenge in its relatively short existence.
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