SPOILERS: Mandalorian Season 3 (beginning Mar 1, 2023)

[erasure fan1]

…the whole thing feels a bit played out.

If you're talking about Mof Gideon and the fact he's probably not dead. Yea, I agree that's a bit ho hum for sure. It's similar to the twist villain, it's pretty well overused at this point. While some compare the show structure to a video game, the Oh man, their actually not dead! Is extremely video game.

 

[MisterPenguin]

If you're talking about Mof Gideon and the fact he's probably not dead. Yea, I agree that's a bit ho hum for sure. It's similar to the twist villain, it's pretty well overused at this point. While some compare the show structure to a video game, the Oh man, their actually not dead! Is extremely video game.

Thrawn is the final boss.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Thrawn is the final boss.

Maybe…but they’re getting “tangled”

I do find it interesting that they seem to be pushing Star Wars: Rebels characters…

Filoni…
If I recall…Disney cancelled with some degree of hubris.
They really know the IP

 

[flynnibus]

loved season 3 - that is all

 

[LSLS]

I'm torn on this season. In general, I really liked it (the one episode removed). I'm not sure my thoughts on the finale. I liked it, but I'm not sure I loved the ending. Probably that I had expectations a bit to high expecting something like Sabine returning to help, but nothing really surprised me. Grogu using the force to save everyone has been done, the bad guy maybe being gone, maybe not, I just don't think I personally ever got the "WOW" factor. So, I'm torn between liking and loving this season personally. It was still very good, I just wanted more.

 

[Phroobar]

Maybe…but they’re getting “tangled”

I do find it interesting that they seem to be pushing Star Wars: Rebels characters…

Filoni…
If I recall…Disney cancelled with some degree of hubris.
They really know the IP

Sure. Who is left? Disney killed off the OT characters. The fans killed off the sequel trilogy characters. All we got is a group of lovable cartoon heroes that Disney tried to cancel.

Send in Mara Jade!

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Sure. Who is left? Disney killed off the OT characters. The fans killed off the sequel trilogy characters. All we got is a group of lovable cartoon heroes that Disney tried to cancel.

Send in Mara Jade!

…well…I guess you do have a point there

 

[erasure fan1]

Thrawn is the final boss.

No, Gideon was the end boss this season. And odds are he'll be back for season 4. Thrawn might be the final boss, but that won't be until the movie most likely. But that doesn't mean all that much for this show. Gideon has been the villain for this series. I'd actually be surprised if Thrawn shows up in the next mando season. It seems they are setting it up for the Ashoka series more than anything. I would think if he was going to play a big part in Mando, we would have got a Thanos like " fine, I'll do it myself" type scene at the end of the season. But nothing I've seen says he'll be an integral part of mando. I guess we'll see.

 

[Screamface]

If you're talking about Mof Gideon and the fact he's probably not dead. Yea, I agree that's a bit ho hum for sure. It's similar to the twist villain, it's pretty well overused at this point.

It doesn't matter. They've established he's cloning himself.

My take, I am going to assume whatever the plan was for the show has been altered when the decision was made to bastardise adapt The Thrawn trilogy in the TV shows.

This is probably just disposing of that. Moff wanted Grogu to clone himself with force powers and research. That's what the story was but now it's explained and wrapped up and they can move on to Thrawn.

For this reason, I think he's dead. The clones being destroyed is to establish he's fully gone. Yet if the writers want, he can have clones on another site. Hence why it doesn't matter. They could even bring him back to challenge Palpatine's granddaughter in that film.

As for this season, I think its problems probably stem from just bridging the gap to the new plan. I wonder if the changes came during production and they had to pivot without enough time to stop the quality from dipping.

They want Bo Katan in charge of a resettled Mandalore. Yet there was no room in Asohka for that. They want Thrawn but the Moff Gideon plans are at odds with that. Moving Mando out of that storyline so he can focus more on his adventures on the smaller scale. Grogu coming back to Din so Luke is free to be in Ashoka without Grogu.

 

[sedati]

I'm hearing theories that the Gideon in season three was a clone. I think that was the original Gideon and he died. What I'd love to see is for the one clone we saw waking up to survive. Treat him like a force-sensitive blank slate. He could be taken in by the Mandalorians if they realize he's not the Gideon they knew. Teach him the old ways and take the creed. It could be a fun flip on the character and even more fun for Giancarlo to play with and a way to keep him on the show.

 

[Screamface]

Wouldn't it have been more interesting that the Gideon that was captured was a clone, or it didn't matter as there were clones of him?

The whole handling of people going, "I heard he escaped... I don't know." Then he's just back and dies. It's clumsy.

 

[MarvelCharacterNerd]

Finally watched this episode and am kicking myself.

It was so clearly set up in retrospect and it took me until this episode to realize that the final scene of the show will have Grogu's first words and they will be "This is the way."

All this time I thought we were just working up to "Dada".

But this episode all but shouted it. There has to be a big moment where Grogu kicks butt, saves daddy (or even more likely after daddy sacrifices himself for the kid) and says "This is the way."

The Mandalorian is Grogu.

How did I not see this coming from the first episode?