Mandalorian finale spoilerama (pt 1)

I don't usually do this, but I took notes during the Mandalorian finale, and when I rewrote it later, I thought it came out kind of amusing, so I thought I'd let y'all read it - sort of a recap plus my reactions. Obvs super-spoilery if you haven't seen Chapter 16, The Rescue.

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(NOTE: I didn't want to be writing "The Mandalorian" over and over, so I'm just calling him Din. That's his name, after all, even if nobody ever uses it.)

Previously: Bo-Katan! Ahsoka! (I took this to mean we would see Bo-Katan, because otherwise why show her? But I figured not necessarily so with Ahsoka - because her advice is part of the backstory - and I was right.) When I first rewrote this, I completely left out the bit with the shuttle at the beginning, because all I wrote in the moment was, "OK Pershing." I'm unclear about whether they knew Pershing was in the shuttle or if that was just a happy accident. But after some drama with the pilots (why does one little shuttle need two pilots, anyway?) Pershing provides them with some good intel about the dark troopers and the ship layout. My take on Pershing since last year has been that he's one of those scientists who just goes along and doesn't get involved in the political stuff as long as he can do his work - and I give him points for acting like he actually cared about Baby Yoda's welfare back in Chapter 3.

Next we're at some unknown planet - I don't know, did Bo-Katan tell Din where she hangs out? I guess that's possible - she was trying to recruit him, after all. (Also, I enjoy watching Slave 1 fly around - the way it moves is interesting.) Anyway, Bo-Katan and her sidekick are there. (Pause while I go look up her name, which I never can remember - half the time I call her Sasha or "the WWE chick." But the character's name is Koska Reeves.) Does Din bring Boba with him because he has the armor, or just to give Boba something more to do in this episode? So we get a lot of bickering, and sort of a sidekick showdown. Bo-Katan, of course, is happy to come with when she hears Gideon is involved, because she wants the Darksaber.

(I keep wanting to say Deathsaber  and Deathtroopers. It took me a while to notice that I was going back and forth. I also wasn't sure about capitalization and whether "dark troopers" was one word or two. I finally decided to take Wookieepedia's word for it. They say two words for dark troopers even though "stormtrooper" is one, and no capitalization on those. "Darksaber" is capitalized, though. That actually makes sense to me since "lightsaber" is generic but this is a very specific one.)

Back on the ship, B-K spits out this rapid-fire battleplan which made me laugh the first time through, just because she was talking so fast. Boba stays on his ship; everybody else is in the shuttle. Din wants to go for the kid alone, so that leaves the four women to go for the bridge and be the bait. Bo-Katan (piloting the shuttle) pretends to be panicked and barges right into the landing bay so that more TIE fighters can't launch. It's a tight fit for the shuttle, but they make it. They know from Dr P that the dark troopers are powered down and take a few minutes to activate, so Din is trying to use P's code-cylinder to trap them in their bay. He almost makes it. He shuts all of them in the room except one. That one pounds on Din for a while and Din just takes it, or rather the beskar does. Finally the big red-eyed droid makes the mistake of throwing Din across the room, and Din pulls out the bag of tricks. Fire doesn't work, but the Whistling Birds make a dent, and the spear finishes him off. The rest of them are trying to pound their way through the door, but Din gets there in time to blow them all out the airlock.

TO BE CONTINUED!