Well, I suppose this was all bound to happen at some point. Otherwise how are you gonna make that season finale something exciting, right? Spoilers ahead.
Summary
Din and Grogu arrive on Tython and set the Razor Crest down below the seeing stone ruins. They jetpack up to the summit and Din sets Grogu on the seeing stone. Nothing happens for a bit, but then the whole thing lights up and Din cannot physically remove him from the stone. As Grogu does his thing, Slave I shows up. Din goes to confront their guests and finds Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) and Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen). They insist that he set down his jetpack and holster his weapons so that they can all talk. It turns out that when Fennec got shot on Tatooine, Fett found her and got her fixed up with mechanical parts. She owes a sort of life debt to him, and they’ve tracked Din down because he wants that set of armor Djarin took from Cobb Vanth—Fett insists the armor is his.
As they’re preparing to fight this out, Gideon’s forces find them (due to the previously planted tracking beacon) and a transport full of troopers arrive to retrieve Grogu. Boba and Fennec begin fighting them off while Din tries to grab the kid, but he’s still doing his seeing stone thing, and can’t be reached. The trio dispatch the entire transport of troopers, but another one arrives immediately in its wake. Fett slips into the Razor Crest, retrieves and dons his armor, and continues to take on the next wave of troopers. He manages to scare them off, then blow up both transports, but Gideon blows the Razor Crest to scrap.
Grogu eventually stops using the seeing stone and Gideon sends a team of Dark Troopers to rocket down and nab the kid. They succeed and Fett gets into Slave I to pursue, but Din insists that he not harm the kid. Fett follows and sees Gideon’s cruiser, saying that the Empire is back. When he lands, he shows Din his and his father’s chain code, linking him to the armor. Din notes that Jango Fett was a foundling like him, and that the armor is rightfully Boba’s, claiming their business is concluded. But Fett’s not having it—he won’t leave until they help Din retrieve his child as a way of making good on this exchange. He and Fennec give Din a ride to Nevarro, where he asks Cara Dune (now a New Republic marshal) for info on Migs Mayfeld, who he needs to spring from prison if he’s going to get help taking on Gideon.
Commentary
Well, that’s one way of making sure your incoming season finale is properly action-packed.
Thing is, the idea of Grogu “activating” the seeing stone and that turning into some kind of weird energy beam that is impenetrable to Mando dad is plain goofy. Sometimes they pull things like this to make the conceit of a story work and you’ll notice it less because there’s just so much going on, but here it’s just glaringly obvious that it’s silly because… why would it do that? Why would it need to be clear that Grogu was “using” the seeing stone at all? It’s all about the Force, he could just meditate without anything appearing to happen. They put it in there so that there’s an obstacle to Djarin getting the kid back when he needs to, then it conveniently subsides at the exact moment required for Gideon’s droids to nab him. Which is pretty sloppy on the writing side of things.
This show also has a real bad habit of deciding that certain episodes are just “action” episodes, and giving us a lot of great eye candy with practically no story at all. My issue here is that there was a lot of background seemingly omitted for no good reason, or worse, perhaps because they keep trying to avoid saying concrete things for fear that they might need to overwrite them later. They had plenty of time to fill—why not tell us how Boba Fett escaped the sarlacc pit? It’s only one of the greatest legends in the Star Wars canon, and one that would have been amazing to at least hint about. What about showing us how Fett repaired Fennec with mechanical parts? I’d love to know who performed that surgery and how and where Fett got the connections and/or credits to pull that off. Point being that there was plenty of material to riff on here that they simply decided to leave off. They could have given us a lot more than what we got in this script.
How about my biggest question—you’re telling me that Boba Fett couldn’t just stroll into Mos Pelgo and strip that armor right off Cobb Vanth’s cooling body? Because there’s no way he’s scared of that guy. So, did he just not know where the armor was? (Seems unlikely given how small Tatooine is.) Did he leave the armor with Vanth because he could keep tabs on its location and didn’t care much at the time? It just seems like a whole lot of work to wait that long, then grab your new half-robot buddy and have to track down another Mandalorian across several worlds to get it back. They followed him all the way to the galactic core for this.
I was glad for confirmation on some things, though: The question of the Fett family legacy, whether or not they could truly call themselves Mandalorian, has been in dispute for some time. With the canon overhaul, the only indication we had was the word of Mandalore’s Prime Minister Almec during the Clone Wars, who insisted that Jango Fett was a radical element unfit to wear his armor. There was no word on their history or where they hailed from, and it was always a possibility that Jango had killed someone and stole the armor from them. It would seem that the Legends canon on this has been restored: Jango Fett was an adopted foundling, which makes him Mandalorian. That armor belongs to the Fetts.
I’m also glad for the fact that they didn’t wind up killing Fennec Shand because that was by far the least satisfying ending of season one. And I sort of love the fact that this alliance with Boba Fett now contributes to a long line of partnerships Fett has (both canonically and within the Expanded Universe) with terrifyingly skilled women.
This episode was a real treat for anyone who’s a fan of the Boba Fett character and has waited literal decades to see him properly in action. A lot was riding on this because within the films, the character admittedly doesn’t do much, and what he does is less than impressive by the end. One major mishap sends him screaming into the side of a sail barge (it’s the goofiest canned scream too, why make it that comical), there to tumble into the sarlacc and be eaten. A pretty ignominious death for a character who inspired so much fascination right from the beginning—for a character who is responsible for the entire fandom’s adoration of Mandalorian armor in the first place.
So this episode is ultimately about giving Fett his due, starting with an unarmored action sequence that sees him brain stormtroopers with a Tusken Raider Gaderffi (or gaffi stick) like they’re made of meringue. He’s so skilled with the thing that the armor crumples like paper mâché, which is pretty brutal, but definitely intended to send a message. (And is also on par with director Robert Rodriguez’s style, which… this episode is so suited to his myriad strengths, it’s glorious.) By the time he gets that armor back on, we’re already primed for it—and it helps that he fills the set out properly, a clear juxtaposition with Vanth’s slight showing. Temuera Morrison is finally given the chance to make good on the promise given in Episode II, the chance to step into the shoes of one of this universe’s most enigmatic entities and make it his own. He’s so right in the role, too.
But more than that, it’s good to see Boba Fett uphold a code quite similar to what I remember reading in those old Legends books. His use in the Clone Wars television series was rough; he was a teenager reeling from the loss of his father, and spent most of his tenure being gullible, petty, and pretty annoying. The character we saw here? That’s the guy I remember from my childhood. It’s good to have him back.
Super curious about where Djarin’s gonna get a new home now because… I mean, that ship was literally all he had, and he was keeping the poor thing together with duct tape. Bye bye, trusty Razor Crest. We’ll miss you.
Okay, so the point is that the emblem Captain Teva left behind for Cara Dune is like the New Republic equivalent of a sheriff’s badge? Really? (Did the New Republic just hand him a burlap sack of those, and he flings them at half-amenable passersby whenever he has a feeling about them?) I mean, never mind the fact that the conceit of that is just a li’l silly, how did she run that by Karga and get his a-okay? Because that doesn’t seem like a thing he’d be all that excited about. On the other hand, I appreciate that Cara was trying to hold the line on her new duties, but the instant Din said “so they kidnapped my baby” it was like Auntie Mode: ACTIVATED. Guess that New Republic oath only applies when your nephew’s life isn’t on the line.
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- Okay, so they said nothing last week, but the show’s hair stylist revealed this on Instagram—Morgan Elsbeth is a Nightsister. That’s what Ahsoka meant when she mentioned that her planet had been destroyed during the Clone Wars, she was talking about Dathomir—the birthplace of Asajj Ventress and Darth Maul, and home of an entire culture of Force-sensitive witches. That’s why Elsbeth could hold her own against Ahsoka. I’m screaming over the fact that they didn’t reveal this in the episode COME ON.
- As mentioned above, Robert Rodriguez directed this episode, though you’d probably know him best for this work on any number of low-or-high budget action extravaganzas, including El Mariachi, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Sin City, Machete, and Alita: Battle Angel. Also Spy Kids and The Faculty. You know, depending on what kind of film nerd you are. Pedro Pascal is going to be in his upcoming film We Can Be Heroes, sequel to his 2005 movie The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl. The way Rodriguez frames action for impact, carnage, and maximum swagger is always a pleasure to behold, but particularly when he uses it to celebrate one of my personal favorite Star Wars characters.
- This is yet another example of the use of “dank farrik” as some sort of catch-all curse for the universe, so that’s a thing. Uncertain which language it heralds from, though.
- The planet Tython was known in the Legends canon as the homeworld of the Je’daii Order, which eventually become the Jedi. It’s a deep core planet that originally appeared in a book about Darth Bane, the first Sith Lord. Tython had already been reestablished in the new canon via the Doctor Aphra comics, however, so seeing it here isn’t too much of a surprise.
- Boba Fett’s comment that he’s “a simple man making his way through the galaxy” is literally him just quoting his dad—Jango says nearly those exact words to Obi-Wan Kenobi on Kamino in Attack of the Clones. Cute, Boba.
- So the Dark Troopers are now just… Iron Legion robots? Uh. Sure. *shrugs* *shrugs again* *shrugs a lot* Okay, full aside here though, because Gideon also has and employs Death Troopers, and there’s a theory that has gone around for a while in the Star Wars universe—which is that they’re basically zombies. So my question is, are the Dark Troopers full droids, or are they a hybrid? Maybe the next step in the Death Trooper line, being part people, part mechanized? Whether that has anything to do with Gideon’s experiments around Grogu’s powers seems entirely possible. So that’s not good.
- Din is going to spring Migs Mayfeld (Bill Burr) from New Republic jail to help him get Grogu back, the very same guy he left on the prison ship at the end of Chapter Six “The Prisoner”. Great. How exciting to see this jerk again.
- If you have a hard time believing that Din and a small ragtag group can take down Gideon’s forces, I posit to you that there’s a Legends story where Boba Fett takes down an entire Imperial garrison single-handedly to capture one guy. It’s called “No Disintegrations, Please” and it’s great. So, you know, this is totally doable with a bit of planning.
Okay, so we’ve got two episodes left for the season! Buckle up, everyone, things can only get more tense from here.
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The “if the character has the thing, the story doesn’t work” moment of Boba Fett telling Din to take the jetpack off is way too noticeable. I mean I get it as device to move the story forward. It’s just that they could have written it out in a more interesting way in the episode, or in previous episode. Its absence feels cheap.
It makes sense they don’t give too much info on Boba’s post sarlacc adventures, got to save that for his own show.
I know it’s a “thing” but the ease in which Fennec and Boba Fett took out the stormtroopers was bordering on parody for me. And yes, I also thought the “force bubble” around Grogu was just bad writing. What the heck was that anyways? The Force made manifest?
With Boba’s first full appearance following the cameo, now I can finally use Breckin Meyer’s iconic Boba bit from the Robot Chicken Star Wars specials:
“Back from the dead, a******s!”
Anyway, yeah, it’s interesting to see Morrison truly play Boba for the first time. Yeah, he dubbed over Jeremy Wintergreen’s performance in ESB for PT/OT continuity purposes, but there wasn’t really much anything to explore.
So you can definitely see shades of his performance as Jango here, but something rougher and in many ways much more dangerous.
So that’s how Boba Fett earned his reputation as a ferocious bad*** – good grief, he must be ticked that Han Solo took him down by accident (no wonder he wants that armour back, he’s probably hoping for a Round 2!).
The only backstory I want established concerning Boba is that he was very drunk when he was knocked into the sarlacc that fateful day. But do we really need an explanation for how he got out? Guy had a jetpack. That’s enough for me.
<I>why not tell us how Boba Fett escaped the sarlacc pit? It’s only one of the greatest legends in the Star Wars canon, and one that would have been amazing to at least hint about</I>
I can’t see a pressing in-story reason for Fett to explain that, though. Din doesn’t know that happened to him, does he? It would be a bit random. I agree it would have been nice to learn a bit more about Fennic, though.
@7 Simply have Mando ask Boba, “if you are a real Mandolarian how come you lost your armour?” Bob’s answer explains how he got out and how he was separated from his armour which he was assumed was lost forever until he saw Mando with it.
Works both for the audience and the characters in the show
What an episode! Fight scenes, action, tragic losses, backstory, fan service; you barely have time to notice the thinness of the plot. For the first time since the battle with Obi Wan on the cloning planet, a Fett gets to be badass. And Fennic Shand was not a great actress wasted on a brief cameo. I was horrified at the destruction of the Razor Crest, just before thousands get the Lego version for Christmas. Hopefully, the ship can be replaced by a duplicate as easily as the Defiant on Deepspace Nine.
What was that Force field around Baby Ragu? Well, he was in a phone booth, obviously. You need some privacy when you’re making a call.
Yeah, the whole ‘Force field’ (heh) thing was a little sloppy (plus because I kept thinking Mando should eventually realize he’s perfectly safe in there instead of repeating the same failed maneuver multiple times) and probably more visual than the audience needed (and perhaps to let us know that the beacon was ‘activated’), but ah well.
I am SO pumped that Fennec is back, though, and I love the Boba/Fennec/Din team up. That said I do agree with you that this is probably not an episode I would re-watch as the ‘action’ oriented ones aren’t always my jam, and this was a little light on lore. Still, maybe Boba should stay a little mysterious. My husband was really excited that the knee rockets got used. I giggled at the ‘simple man’ line as well as the sound of the Slave 1’s blaster fire – pretty sure they used the same sound as was used in AOTC (now if only we could get those sonic charges…).
I loved Boba’s theme – I was kinda hoping it would pull in the ESB Boba motif, but the sound of the instrumentation was a little similar (and way more intense). Although really, Boba comes off as pretty reasonable in this episode! But I also was wondering why he didn’t get the armor from Vanth. Did he only just now track it? Or was he okay with Vanth using it to defend the town?
No thoughts on the last scene – pretty sure Gideon just skyrocketed up to one of the most hated characters in the show. And the Kylo/First Order ish music during Grogu’s dark side exploits, yikes!
Oh, and Din calling Ahsoka ‘the nice lady’ also cracked me up too.
Hm. Actually, re-listening, the initial blaster shots might have been Fennec and it’s not the exact same sound. But Boba does twirl his blaster like Jango :)
But what I was thinking about – I wonder if that ball will come into play as the thing that eventually brings Grogu back to the light/re-affirms his connection with Din.
My watch of the episode was sort of the reverse of the prevailing opinion. We got some much needed movement plotwise, while the action scene was a bit difficult to really enjoy.
Pretty much everyone was some level of incompetent when it came to the fighting: Din sees Fett and then leaves the high ground where he has a perfect visual in order to go get ambushed. Fennec and Fett later do the exact same thing (Fennec is a sniper, if she can see the stormtroopers from that hill, why not just shoot from there?) The stormtroopers die like lemmings as usual, but it felt especially glaring when they run up to our protagonists with their guns in some sort of low ready parade type position instead of actually pointed at the people slaughtering them, and then decide to get into melee range instead of using the ranged weapon they are carrying. Fennec decides to run along a ridgeline giving the troopers a clean shot instead of just hopping down the other side, and then the troopers set up their heavy weaponry in a terribly exposed spot. So on and so forth. I liked the episode as a whole, but the fights could use some work. At least semi-intelligent bad guys and protagonists with some sort of self preservation sense would ratchet up the tension a good deal I’d think.
Okay, so, I found this on Reddit and did squee a bit :) Speaking of the old Legends/Tales stuff :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMandalorianTV/comments/k6lffb/spoiler_so_my_friend_and_i_translated_the
I thought this was a very boring episode. Too much poorly choreographed fighting, too many shortcuts in the writing … but the worst thing about it is the use of boring southern California (or similar) rocky hills for the first time in Star Wars. It gave the episode a very low-budget TV look, which so far the show has mostly avoided. In the old EU there were some truly grand structures on Tython; here we had a few small rocks. When Jedi ruins are shot mostly on location as at Skellig Michael for Ahch-To, I support leaving the scenery mostly untouched. Skellig Michael is too beautiful to change, even for a galaxy far far away! But rocky foothills in the southern California desert behind Los Angeles? No thanks. Leave that for Star Trek. Boba Fett and Fennec Shand were welcome guest stars, but I worry that if Mando has to tag along in Fett’s ship the rest of the season, he’ll get sidelined in his own show because Fett is calling the shots. RIP Razor Crest.
I agree with the criticisms of this episode, but I’m also not sure how much I care. It was fun to me, in spite of those things.
About the Dark Troopers. Maybe it was just me, but when they were first revealed at the end of the episode before last, I felt like they were meant to be connected to the info we learned earlier from the hologram of the scientist; that they wanted Grogu’s blood for his M-Count (midichlorians). So, if they are connected, its possible they are cyborgs like General Grievous. Just enough organics left they can possibly, at least in Moff Gideon’s thinking, be given force abilities.
This doesn’t jive well with the lore surrounding Vader though. I think its cannon (I may be wrong) that Vader missing parts of his body actually limited his power with the Force.
Didn’t they explain in the first episode of this season that the Krayt Dragon ate the Sarlacc? I assumed it was the same Sarlaac that burped Boba Fett. It was explained in Return of the Jedi that the Sarlaac victims would be SLOWLY digested over a thousand years. Plenty of time for Boba Fett to get away.
Also in the same episode, wasn’t Mos Pelgo not found on the map? Din went there on faith, not knowing what to expect. So perhaps Boba Fett didn’t get his armor from Cobb Vanth because he didn’t know where to look, until the incredible team-up between the people of Mos Pelgo and the Sand People took place.
I’ll agree that the seams were showing a little too much, and it really bothered me that he couldn’t simply pick up his jetpack as it was laying right there.
But otherwise I really liked this episode. Mostly just for the Boba fan service. But also glad they finally brought Ming-Na Wen back.
And kneepad rocket darts!
Though I will say, now that Beskar is firmly established as being energy-impervious instead of just energy-resistant, how did the Empire ever take out the Navarro Enclave? Also how does Boba Fett’s helmet have the huge dent/blaster crater in it?
“[W]hy not tell us how Boba Fett escaped the sarlacc pit?” Because now it can be the focus of a later episode.
My first thought at the end was that the episode couldn’t just end there. Seeing the credits start surprised me.
So, Mof Gideon wants to turn Grogu to the dark side, not just drain his blood. And the doctor probably wants to experiment on him.
Since we got the full force “tunnel to the universe” I suppose we should see a new Jedi character show up at just the right time in the season ender? ET did phone home after all.
@13 Fennec was awfully sporting and didn’t bother actually shooting at the heavy weapons tech setting up in plain sight. They return the favor by just shooting near her and not at her though.
run along a ridgeline giving the troopers a clean shot
Even *I* noticed that one! Meanwhile at the top of the hill . . . watching DIn try to dive inoto that field and being expelled, and then standing up and calling “Hey, Kid” I wasn’t really surprised that Grogu did not “hear” him. I kept expecting DIn to finally realize he should use the kid’s name, for pity’s sake! Bbut the plot was going elsewhere, so, whatever.
Did Mando forget his jetpack? He wasn’t wearing it at the end of the episode….
That scene when Mando chats with Cara Dune, where was his jetpack?!?!!? Did he forget to pick it back up before they left the planet?!?!?!?!?
So, yeah, uh, that joke I made back in @@.-@?
About using the Robot Chicken rendition of Boba Fett as my punchline and how I couldn’t take Fett seriously anymore because of Breckin Meyer?
Well, heh, somebody else had the same idea and took it to its logical conclusion:
Why didn’t Mando pick up his jet pack? Sloppy writing so he couldn’t get back to Grogu in time. Did he just leave it on the planet? We never saw him pick it up.
At least all of us Agents Of Shield fans are happy getting to watch more Ming-Na Wen. I predict more hand-to-hand fights if they want to take advantage of her skills as an actor.
I’m a little confused by the Slave I doing a fly-by of Gideon’s ship and not being responded to at all. And Boba Fett willing to expose himself to that chance, I would have thought he’d veer away as soon as he identified what it was. That thing took out the Razor Crest in one shot, it’s got the firepower to deal with nuisances.
@28 – that is fantastic. That made my day, lol.
@32,
Heh, you’re welcome.
Yeah, I stumbled across it completely by accident last night and I’m still laughing uproariously a day later. :D
The first season was genius, cute and clever and touching, and this one is just plain sloppy. The repetitive trope of lets kill a huge beast for no reason, and the child (I reject the horrible name) eating the frog woman’s children and Mando not doing anything about it is just awful. There were some good moments, but more often than not this season has has substituted carnage for story. If I had a child under 10 I would not want them watching this show.
A few things.
1) I didn’t care for this episode at all. I love this show, but the stylistic differences here were obvious, and I did not love what Rodriguez did, at all. It looked and felt like a really expensive episode of Power Rangers to me. Which is not a compliment, in case anyone is confused.
2) The reason they didn’t give away any of Fett’s backstory in this episode is because they are shooting a Fett limited series right now that will take place in the time between Return of the Jedi and this series. Presumably, that topic is exactly what the series will be about.
3) This show is a western. Pulling a badge out of your pocket and deputizing the hero is an extremely common trope of the genre. The New Republic pilots are like US Marshalls out on the edge of civilization. That was a thing they did, at least in the romanticized tales we tell of the old west. And of course she’ll throw it out the window when it’s personal. That’s what happens to every single lawman in every single western ever. Cowboy justice is the fundamental underpinning of the entire genre.
4) The Dark Troopers at General Grevous 3.0. Darth Vader being the 2.0. Those are organic-mechanical hybrids. They are “upgraded” shock troopers of some sort.
And no mention of Darth Grogu at the end? That was the only part of the episode I really enjoyed. It was probably shot and directed by someone else. I would assume that for practical and logistical reasons, they shot all the scenes with Gideon on that cruiser set at the same time.
Re: the Dark Troopers:
There was a squee from my couch when they showed up on screen and were named. Perhaps I’m aging myself, but in the mid 90’s, Dark Forces, the first Star Wars FPS, was released. I was super excited to see them come to life. Another wonderful peak Legends-era Easter egg. To address the question, I don’t remember and I did not look it up yet, but I believe that they are manufactured rather than some sort of cyborg or force-infused thing (not that they would be bound to a 25 year old video game). But if you want to know what the deal with the dark troopers is, this is just going to look up that game.
Oh, “No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you!” Why is everyone so upset about the glowing column of light around Grogu on the rock? Why should we assume we know everything there is to know about this kid and his relationship to the Force? We are not owed any explanation at this point. This is a thing we’ve never seen in Star Wars before, no matter what we’ve seen in the EU/Legends or whatever else. Who are we to say the writers are being sloppy and that they’re not saving an explanation for later? Do they even owe us an explanation? It was a Force thing. The Force moves in mysterious ways.
Star Wars fans. Sheesh. :)
Seasoned two started really well and just ended with a big flop as it feels like the last two episodes ran out of gas. A shame.
@37: I don’t think the problem people have is necessarily that a glowing, impenetrable Force column can exist, just that it was overwhelmingly convenient. When Mando wants to grab the kid, he can’t, and the second he leaves, it shuts off. So it’s just in line with things like putting down the jetpack where it’s blindingly obvious that they went out of their way to make Grogu easy to kidnap. As opposed to making the dark troopers some actually formidable force that are capable of kidnapping Grogu on their own merit, or something else where it’s more difficult to see what’s guiding the writer’s hand.
Enjoyed last weeks, thought this weeks was a giant fight coupled with some dodgy / convenient writing. Meh, sadly.
Why not just have the Ebil Death Robots beat up Mando and co in a fight then abscond rather than energy walls, “my jetpack is in my other pants” and all the other hoops the plot went through?
Have some patience. The story isn’t over yet. There are 2 more episodes left for decent reveals.
I don’t understand going after Mayfeld.
He JUST MET another Mandalorian with a hard on to go after Gideon, and he’s instead going after the wiseass who betrayed him??????
I also don’t get the complaint about the seeing stone, when the absolute worst plot contrivance in this episode is the waylaid jet pack.
One thing this episode does, IMO, is explicitly rebuke the people who complain about the filler episodes.
Because without the filler episodes, none of this happens. Without The Marshal, Din doesn’t get Fett’s armor. Without The Passenger, Din doesn’t get the New Republic pilot following him around, thus deputizing Cara Dune, thus getting him the info on Mayfeld he needs. Without having what felt like a pointless run in with Shand last season, she isn’t around to help him this time. Instead of being a series of meandering episodes, they instead create a bread crumb trail that ultimately contribute to the greater plot. Just incredible storytelling.
Morrison’s glee over returning to the franchise is great, there is a good New York Times interview with him if anyone wants to check it out.
And AM I SO HAPPY HE’S BACK. Because that was awesome. I also appreciate that not only did this redeem Boba as an absolute badass, but also added dimension to his character. For OT fans, it was easy to put Boba in this box, but here, he is a man who has made a promise as a Mandalorian, and though the requirements of that promise go so far beyond what he imagined when he made that promise, he is going to hold to it. So awesome.
And that whole closing scene. I flinched and cried out the entire time. What happens if the Dark Side gets a hold of him now????
The Force bubble was annoying, just because all that Din probably needed to do was call out his name!!!! Instead he yells “Kid” the whole time!
@43 Maybe the glyphs on the stone said, “Speak friend and enter.”
I know that the EU/Legends canon has Tython in the galactic core, but…
Wasn’t there a throwaway line towards the end, when they saw Gideon’s Start Destroyer, about how “the New Republic doesn’t have a strong presence here on the Outer Rim…” or some such?
@45 They said that the New Republic controlled the Outer Rim, so they couldn’t believe there was an Imperial remnant existing in that area, so that is a good point. The characters considered themselves in the Outer Rim.
So I guess I just looked at the force field around grogu differently. I actually thought of it as something that was put in intentionally to protect defenseless Jedi who were in a deep meditation and not completely aware of their surroundings. a repulser field activated when someone is using the force from the stone. Its all in how you want to see it. no sense in poo-pooing it just because you don’t completely understand. Who knows maybe it was the force and he is just that impressively strong.
@47 My only aggravation with the Bubble is that he doesn’t say Grogu’s name to get his attention, but it’s also understandable. I don’t think Mando thinks of himself by his name.
A post for the Kenobi news would be AWESOME, btw. Because I have things to say
I get that the writer loves Boba Fett, the character all the cool kids liked so they didn’t have to admit they actually enjoyed the rest of Star Wars, but you’re really not going to mention the Kid lashing out in anger with the Force? It seems kinda important.
Darth Bane was not the first Sith Lord, as he’s described in the trivia bullet point about Tython. He was the first Sith Lord to embrace the Rule of Two. “One Master, one Apprentice. One to embody power, the other to crave it.” The first Sith Lords predate Bane, Revan, Naga Sadow, Freedon Nadd, et al and were born of the first Jedi Civil War when fallen Jedi made their way to Korriban and came across the Sith species.
The fallen Jedi, or Dark Jedi, noticed the Sith practiced their own forms of dark magic fueled by an affinity for the Force. The Dark Jedi asserted their dominance and earned positions of power by demonstrating their honed attachment to the Force. A few generations of interbreeding and mixing of force-wielding traditions resulted in the Sith emerging as an ideology, not just a race, with rulers bearing the title “Dark Lord(s) of the Sith.”