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The Mandalorian season 2 continued on Disney Plus Friday, as episode 6 of the stay motion Star Wars present hit the streaming service. On the heels of final week’s revelation of Baby Yoda’s actual title and origins, former Jedi Ahsoka Tano despatched Mando (Pedro Pascal) to the planet Tython. There, little Grogu can attain out by means of the Force, doubtlessly connecting with a grasp who can practice him.
Episode 6 is reasonably chillingly titled The Tragedy — all of us went “uh-oh,” proper? — and directed by Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn and Alita: Battle Angel) and written by sequence creator Jon Favreau.
Let’s climb the mountain of SPOILERS.
Boba Fett reborn
After the Razor Crest lands on Tython and Grogu begins reaching out with the Force, a second ship arrives — Slave I. You would possibly acknowledge this because the superior ship of Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison). We already knew that he was alive and that he was conscious Mando had acquired his armor on Tatooine, but it surely wasn’t clear when he’d present up once more. Turns out he determined to take action on the most dramatic second attainable.
Boba simply needs that armor again, and recruited murderer Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) to assist him. Last time we noticed her, she’d been shot within the intestine and left to die within the sands of Tatooine, however we be taught that Boba was the mysterious determine who walked as much as her after that incident. He mounted her tummy with some cybernetic elements — Star Wars tech can work miracles — and now they’re tremendous mercenary buddies.
Boba and Fennec’s negotiations for the armor are interrupted by the arrival of Imperial troop carriers, forcing them to kick all types of ass. Boba initially wrecks the Stormtroopers in a Tusken Raider outfit (seems the gaffi stick is fairly efficient), however decides to preempt any additional negotiations and grabs his armor off the Razor Crest.
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Good factor too, since an Imperial cruiser destroys Mando’s ship with an orbital strike shortly afterward. Bye-bye Razor Crest, you had been mainly this present’s Millennium Falcon and we’ll miss you.
Reunited along with his armor, Boba finds his killing energy is turned as much as 11 and turns into the Boba Fett we have all the time dreamed of (hopefully he is overcome his one weak point — blind guys swinging sticks). He simply wipes out the Stormtroopers and makes use of one rocket to shoot down each of the escaping troop carriers.
Boba seems so rattling cool all through this episode — his black Tusken-style robes make him appear to be a warrior monk, then he places his iconic armor on over that. It hangs slightly awkwardly at instances, however Hasbro higher get that motion determine quickly!
Jango’s previous
“I’m a simple man making his way through the galaxy, like my father before me,” Boba says of his motivations, mirroring his dad Jango Fett’s line within the Attack of the Clones (and Luke Skywalker’s line to Emperor Palpatine in Return of the Jedi).
He’s extra like his father than most sons, since he is a clone of Jango. Decades earlier than the occasions of The Mandalorian (shortly after The Phantom Menace), the late bounty hunter was recruited by Count Dooku to function the genetic template for the clone military utilized by the Galactic Republic, as a part of Darth Sidious’ wildly difficult plot to wipe out the Jedi.
Part of Jango’s cost was an unaltered clone that he might elevate as his son, however the elder Fett was killed by Jedi Master Mace Windu through the Battle of Geonosis. After that, Boba tried to get revenge on Windu and gained infamy as a bounty hunter within the years that adopted throughout season 2 of The Clone Wars.
During that present, sleazy Mandalorian Prime Minister Almec dismissed Jango and Boba as pretenders, not true Mandalorians. This episode confirms that sleazy traitors who ally themselves with Darth Maul aren’t the most effective sources of data, since Boba reveals that Jango was a foundling who acquired his armor from the Mandalorians — similar to Mando — and fought within the Mandalorian civil wars.
This is just like the occasions of the comedian sequence Jango Fett: Open Seasons, however that is not canon. Still, it is a wonderful learn and gives a attainable model of the occasions Boba is referring to — I think Lucasfilm is subtly choosing and selecting components of the previous Legends continuity to carry into canon.
Boba repainted Jango’s blue-and-silver armor to a camouflage-friendly inexperienced, however that is most likely not the unique helmet. The youthful Fett blew up that helmet after utilizing it to lure Mace Windu right into a entice through the Clone Wars (until the one which blew up was a pretend).
Calling all Jedi
On the seeing stone, Grogu enters a trance as he stretches out with the Force and a (Force) drive subject stops Mando from whisking him away when the motion begins. It’s unclear if he managed to contact any Jedi or different Force customers.
Currently, we all know Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa are on the market. Ezra Bridger from Rebels is probably going alive, and we do not know what occurred to Cere Junda or Cal Kestis after the occasions of Jedi: Fallen Order (which befell previous to A New Hope).
Unfortunately, Imperial Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) sends his Dark Troopers to grab the weak Grogu earlier than Mando and his new buddies can attain the little man. We beforehand solely acquired a glimpse of the Dark Troopers — which had been first seen within the non-canon 1995 online game Dark Forces — however that is our first correct take a look at them in stay motion. They’re scary wanting, and I can not wait to see the nice guys combat them.
Gathering allies
Unfortunately, the Razor Crest was fully destroyed by the Imperial cruiser’s blast. Mando solely recovers the beskar workers he’ll most likely use to tackle Gideon and the stick shift Grogu loves a lot, and appears fairly despondent over the lack of the little man,
However, Boba decides to interpret the deal he made for his armor charitably, reasoning that he and Fennec want to stay with Mando till Grogu is safely returned. This is the best attainable end result; it looks as if his time within the sarlacc made him a nicer man than he was in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi (although you may argue he was honoring his offers with Darth Vader and Jabba the Hutt in these situations).
The trio return to Nevarro in Slave I, and we learn that the medal Cara Dune (Gina Carano) got from the New Republic pilot was actually a badge, making her that fledgling government’s marshal on the planet.
Mando asks for her assistance in springing Mayfield (Bill Burr) out of prison — he’s serving a 50-year sentence after he betrayed Mando and ended up trapped on a New Republic prison ship. The ex-Imperial sharpshooter will be able to help locate Gideon’s cruiser.
This is a pretty awesome team Mando is assembling. Maybe give Ahsoka Tano and Bo-Katan Kryze a shout too?
Darth Vader, Mark 2
On board the cruiser, Gideon stands on the bridge and stares out into hyperspace — the kind of pose Vader used to strike in his glory days. Between that and his black armor, he seems like Gideon patterning himself to be the next Vader (presumably he doesn’t aspire to be a crispy boy like Vader).
Grogu is flinging the Stormtroopers around his cell, until Gideon comes in and taunts him with the Darksaber (it looks like Grogu tries to grab it using the Force). The Imperial jerkface has the small lad stunned, and the troops put teeny tiny shackles on wee Grogu — apparently they’re returning to Dr. Pershing so he can harvest more Force-strong cells.
Easter eggs and observations
- “I give my allegiance to no one.” Boba’s line reminds us that he’s a mercenary, so we shouldn’t trust him fully. That’s kinda the case for everyone in this show, though — Mando will no doubt keep watching his back.
- Fennec has Grogu in her sights when Boba is negotiating with Mando, but it’s likely her shot would’ve bounced off the force field.
- Boba flew extremely close to the Imperial cruiser while he was tracking the Dark Troopers — why didn’t it blast Slave I out of the sky? It was likely cloaked from scanners, and he avoided any viewports.
- “They’re back. The Empire, they’re back.” Boba’s surprise at seeing the cruiser highlights what a low profile the Imperial Remnant has been keeping.
Check out my recaps for all The Mandalorian’s Easter eggs and important Star Wars continuity references:
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