Disney Irish
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Exactly, the series echos Lone Wolf and Cub, its a father/son journey story always has been.I really had no problem with Grogu coming immediately back. His leaving Mando actually felt more like a character betrayal to the arc they were building. He was no longer a job, he was a found family. The show is really about fatherhood, which is ironic since the main films are littered with bad fathers.
I don't think he will age much physically, but there's no reason his language could not suddenly start proliferating. His receptive language skills are currently way beyond his expressive. Once the expression starts it will rapidly explode. Grogu is an evergreen character for Disney, he has plot armour. They can take Star Wars significantly out in the future now beyond the sequel trilogy and have him appear. Just like Yoda can be a stalwart for the High Republic.
That said, if this show ends with Grogu saying "daddy" for the first time over a dying Din I might not recover.
I think they certainly can have Grogu start talking at any point. It was already established that he understands language and has thoughts and feeling in his Jedi mind conversations with Ahsoka and Luke. Its been theorized that he can talk but the trauma of Order 66 is what is causing him to be mute. So there is nothing preventing him from starting to verbalize speech this season or the next other than plot.
Also as I pointed out earlier there is so little known about his species that they can make up anything they want.