re: The Mandalorian Season 3 - Official Thread

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i don’t understand why i’m just the last episode he pledges his loyalty to bo, then bails out to his own place after mandalor is reclaimed.

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He did only give his loyalty to here until her task was done. When they took Mandalor, his oath was fulfilled.

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Mando pledged his loyalty to Bo-Katan, in her quest. Her quest was to restore Mandalore, as their leader. If he acknowledges that she is the rightful leader of Mandalore, he is being true to his oath of fealty.

He left Mandalore, as part of his duty... it's necessary for Grogu's training to be off-world. The Armorer states that directly. So, he's not bailing in any way, he's performing his Mandalorian duty. If he's going to be loyal and live "the Way", it's a necessary step.

This does seem to set several shows up; The Mandalorian returns to a series of one-off adventures ala seasons 1 and 2. He will loosely work with the New Republic as needed, which can push some bigger tales along, or he can also take the occasional side-job and explore some other elements of the Star Wars galaxy. He's also tied to Bo and Mandalore, to come as needed in crisis.

Bo-Katan and Mandalore's revival sets up to be a different series going forward, or at least spawn books. Doesn't seem to be more than a couple dozen folks so far, but we can assume more will migrate back and restore that planet.

Has it been talked about how Bo hasn't aged at all canonically from Clone Wars, Rebels and Mandalorian?

Like her sister literally was frick buddies with Obi-Wan who died as an old guy 5 or so years before these events.

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Moff Gideon turned into a mustache twirling serial villain.

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Yep

Oh, and I just realized:

HOW TO SAVE STAR WARS
It's all been a Shadow Council trick.

The Bad Batch shows that some factions within the Empire have been working on cloning tech (taken from Kamino) since shortly after Order 66.
It has shown that a random person can be created (Omega), and Attack of the Clones has established that a true clone can be made (Boba, from Jango).
Gideon has more successful clones of himself in the tanks on Mandalore, than what we see in the sequels with Palpatine and Snoke. Gideon has stated that he's been able to fuse Grogu's dna into his own, allowing Force usage (and potentially longer life?).

The sequels are 99% from Rey's point of view, and she came off a desert as an orphan.
It's stated the First Order does not destroy Coruscant, that was a different planet as seat of the "New Republic".
Before that happens, she is given Luke's old lightsaber... the one he lost on Bespin in ESB. The Empire has taken control of Bespin by the end of ESB, and it's too minor for Rebel forces to worry about after the death of Palpatine. Luke, as stated, lost his lightsaber; and his right hand. Maybe enough DNA survived long enough to clone "Luke 2.0", who the Empire hoped to successfully sway to the Dark Side. But they couldn't turn him, despite using the mind-wiping tech (shown in this season of Mandalorian) to groom him; all they could accomplish is to make him more cynical. At some point he breaks away and wanders off.
Now, they also tortured Han and Leia on Bespin, quite possible had some DNA samples (drew blood with those torture droids with the needles???).
Note= these are 'legendary heroes', even to Rey isolated far from the center of the Galaxy. What better disinformation and propaganda is there, than to have heroes spout your messages? Turn noble Han into a deadbeat bum, regal Princess Leia into some militant extremist living in camps. Undercut the Republic, in sectors still not fully under the control of the REAL Republic.

And if those on Coruscant are tied up with, say, the Yuuzhan Vong in a serious, existential struggle, they don't currently have the time to go dealing with Snoke and the First Order, fake Lukes and Hans etc (false prophets), out in the wilderness.

Yoda spirit converses with fake Luke, because he's not Sith but also not quite right in the head, and thus could become a useful ally IF he can set him straight. But alas, he ultimately can't quite fix him. Best he can do is 'play Jedi mind tricks' to get him to burn down his temple (thinking Yoda did it), and take himself off the board to eliminate the (relatively minor) First Order threat in the frontier.

Sounds goofy, but it does kinda explain why Luke acts the way he does, and why Kylo Ren thinks Vader (not Anakin) is his grandfather- the Imperial cloning efforts and propaganda would promote Vader, and dismiss that he was also Anakin (other than Luke's biological father). They conveniently ignore all instances of Anakin turning back to the good side in the end.

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So, what happened to the tie fighters that blew up the decoy mother ship? They just left?

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what happened to the ones after they blew up the death star, twice?
why do you care where some random tie fighters went?

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So, let's say Obi-Wan is about 40 or so during clone wars,Bo-Katan mid 20s.

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She could have been 16 during clone wars. It's Star Wars. Queen Amidala was 14.
Bo was from a noble and powerful family. She basically grew up like she was in the movie 300, raised to be a warrior. It's not far fetched to think she could have been in her late teens during the Clone Wars. and again, it's Star Wars. They may age differently on different planets.

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very corny in some instances

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Mando's lines are so cheesy at this point

This season seemed pretty dumbed down in general, i dont know. Maybe its too popular with adults and they need to bring in more kids?

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what happened to the ones after they blew up the death star, twice?

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I figured most got consumed by the unexpected explosion of their respective Death Star to where they would be severely outnumbered and hauled arse. Except I know Vader's didn't in the first one because they showed it leaving.

Look, I aint taking pot shots at the show. I like Star Wars. Grew up on it. Here, the Boba Fetts avoided the TIE fighters because they specifically said they couldn't win in the air and needed to engage them on the ground. That is a different situation than before. Sorry I asked. Sheesh.

ETA: Those TIE fighters had just disabled their target to where it was crashing. None of them thought to follow it down or return to base? That is not the same situation as the movies, to me.

We still don't know how Maz Kanata got Luke's blue bladed saber. If the sequel trilogy didn't have more than enough to piss me off, no payoff for that tease in TFA was one of the worst.

To be sure, the double-vowel clone naming convention was likely the cringiest part of the Zahn trilogy novels, but if that's the worst of it, we were still light years ahead of the BEST aspects of the sequel trilogy.

If they make Mara Jade canon, it's game on.