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Mandalorian finale spoilerama (pt 2)
Part 1 is here.
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
(and I mean it for real, this time!)
So (continuing where we left off) Din has taken out the dark troopers, at least for the moment. The four women, meanwhile, are kicking stormtrooper ass, not too surprisingly given what we already know about their abilities. Din gets to the brig and Moff Gideon is there, with the Darksaber held over Grogu. Gideon pretends he's going to yield and Din pretends to buy that, but then, of course, they fight. (I didn't mention it earlier, but it was conveniently mentioned earlier - I started to say by Bo-Katan but I've re-watched since I wrote that and I think it was Koska - that the Darksaber can cut through almost anything, EXCEPT beskar. Was that canon before this episode? I don't pretend to be an expert on this stuff.) So Din has a big advantage there, and he wins pretty easily, really - Darksaber or no Darksaber. Cara has already said that she wants Gideon alive, to take back to the Republic - I assume that's why Din doesn't kill him. And Gideon conveniently forgets to mention all the political stuff about the Darksaber and Mandalore. He saves that part to gloat about in front of Bo-Katan, I guess.
So on the bridge, while they're having an argument about politics - Bo-Katan has to win the Darksaber in combat, blah blah - alarms start going off. Remember those droids that went out the airlock? Well, I guess they're self-propelled, because they're coming back. It looked to me like there were a couple of dozen of them, so the five warriors on the bridge are kind of screwed. (Remember that Din in his armor could barely beat one of them.) The dark troopers divide into two groups, once of which immediately starts trying to pound their way into the bridge - I said it reminded me of Rock'em Sock'em Robots.
But then... an X-wing appears. Just the one. Cara makes a sarcastic comment - "We're saved." Personally, I was thinking, "Oh, it can't be." (I was going, Luke? Ezra? Mace? Carson?) But the ship lands, and there's definitely a Jedi inside it, invisible under a dark cloak. Green lightsaber. He - or she - tears through the first batch of dark troopers. Grogu, who has been looking kind of despondent up to this point, perks up the minute the ship lands. Clearly he knows who it is - he's got his hand on the screen, like he's communing with them through the monitor. We've got to assume this is whoever he contacted on Tython. The Jedi comes up the elevator and polishes off the second set of dark troopers at the entrance to the bridge. (Just uses the Force to crush the last one, it's pretty spectacular. In fact the whole thing is very reminiscent of the Darth Vader scene at the end of Rogue One.)
Nobody wants to let the Jedi in, except Din, who's taking his cues from Grogu, I imagine. Din opens the door anyway. The Jedi comes in, sheaths the lightsaber, puts his hood back, and at this point I not-quite-yelled OH MY GOD (but it was pretty loud, and it was like 3 in the morning at the time), because as you probably know by now if you're reading this, it's Luke, CGI'd back 40 years or so. Now in retrospect, of course it was Luke - the X-wing, the green saber, the shots of a glove - but in the moment I wasn't sure. In some of the shots it looked like it could be a woman. And I didn't really think they'd go there with the CGI de-aging, but they did, and I have to admit it looked pretty good, in most of the shots.
Nobody even asks the guy what his name is. (In fact, I don't think anybody but Din and Luke say a word during this conversation.) Din says are you a Jedi, and Luke says Grogo wants Din's permission to go, and several million people around the world start bawling, although I actually did not, which was kind of a surprise to me - I'm a notorious crier. I did shriek, I'm pretty sure, when R2-D2 came around the corner. Din takes off his helmet AGAIN - twice in one season! - and the baby pats his face, and ok, well, maybe a tear or two leaked out, here, but if it did I wasn't even aware of it at the time. Grogu seems reassured by R2-D2's presence. Could he have known him at the Jedi temple?
And there's a lot of eye-contact going on while they're on the way out, and the minute the elevator door shuts, it cuts to black. It's over. Almost.
There's a new end-credits theme. As I noted on Twitter the other day, I love the regular end-credits theme and I always listen to the whole thing. So I wasn't in any danger of missing THE SURPRISE CODA, something they've never done before. (I may have shrieked again when that started, though. I'm not sure.)
Two suns, big round building, most Star Wars fans know what that means - it's Jabba's (former) palace, apparently now run by Bib Fortuna. It's not the party palace it used to be, but there's still a little crowd there, and the guards and the inevitable Twi'lek slave girl. Suddenly Fennec comes in shooting, takes down the guards and anybody else who looks like they might object, frees the slave girl - and Boba Fett comes down the stairs behind her. Bib tries to be smooth, he's all, "Hey dude, long time no see," but Boba just shoots him. And then he tips the body out of the big throne-like chair and sits there himself. With Fennec behind him, swilling spatchka.
Cut to black, and a card:
THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT
Coming December 2021
Incidentally, Rob was already in bed during all this - our apartment has pretty good soundproofing, so apparently I didn't wake him up in my excitement. I left him a note that said, "If you don't want to be spoiled for the Mandalorian, watch it immediately, because I'm not going to be able to restrain myself." (And he did.)
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
(and I mean it for real, this time!)
So (continuing where we left off) Din has taken out the dark troopers, at least for the moment. The four women, meanwhile, are kicking stormtrooper ass, not too surprisingly given what we already know about their abilities. Din gets to the brig and Moff Gideon is there, with the Darksaber held over Grogu. Gideon pretends he's going to yield and Din pretends to buy that, but then, of course, they fight. (I didn't mention it earlier, but it was conveniently mentioned earlier - I started to say by Bo-Katan but I've re-watched since I wrote that and I think it was Koska - that the Darksaber can cut through almost anything, EXCEPT beskar. Was that canon before this episode? I don't pretend to be an expert on this stuff.) So Din has a big advantage there, and he wins pretty easily, really - Darksaber or no Darksaber. Cara has already said that she wants Gideon alive, to take back to the Republic - I assume that's why Din doesn't kill him. And Gideon conveniently forgets to mention all the political stuff about the Darksaber and Mandalore. He saves that part to gloat about in front of Bo-Katan, I guess.
So on the bridge, while they're having an argument about politics - Bo-Katan has to win the Darksaber in combat, blah blah - alarms start going off. Remember those droids that went out the airlock? Well, I guess they're self-propelled, because they're coming back. It looked to me like there were a couple of dozen of them, so the five warriors on the bridge are kind of screwed. (Remember that Din in his armor could barely beat one of them.) The dark troopers divide into two groups, once of which immediately starts trying to pound their way into the bridge - I said it reminded me of Rock'em Sock'em Robots.
But then... an X-wing appears. Just the one. Cara makes a sarcastic comment - "We're saved." Personally, I was thinking, "Oh, it can't be." (I was going, Luke? Ezra? Mace? Carson?) But the ship lands, and there's definitely a Jedi inside it, invisible under a dark cloak. Green lightsaber. He - or she - tears through the first batch of dark troopers. Grogu, who has been looking kind of despondent up to this point, perks up the minute the ship lands. Clearly he knows who it is - he's got his hand on the screen, like he's communing with them through the monitor. We've got to assume this is whoever he contacted on Tython. The Jedi comes up the elevator and polishes off the second set of dark troopers at the entrance to the bridge. (Just uses the Force to crush the last one, it's pretty spectacular. In fact the whole thing is very reminiscent of the Darth Vader scene at the end of Rogue One.)
Nobody wants to let the Jedi in, except Din, who's taking his cues from Grogu, I imagine. Din opens the door anyway. The Jedi comes in, sheaths the lightsaber, puts his hood back, and at this point I not-quite-yelled OH MY GOD (but it was pretty loud, and it was like 3 in the morning at the time), because as you probably know by now if you're reading this, it's Luke, CGI'd back 40 years or so. Now in retrospect, of course it was Luke - the X-wing, the green saber, the shots of a glove - but in the moment I wasn't sure. In some of the shots it looked like it could be a woman. And I didn't really think they'd go there with the CGI de-aging, but they did, and I have to admit it looked pretty good, in most of the shots.
Nobody even asks the guy what his name is. (In fact, I don't think anybody but Din and Luke say a word during this conversation.) Din says are you a Jedi, and Luke says Grogo wants Din's permission to go, and several million people around the world start bawling, although I actually did not, which was kind of a surprise to me - I'm a notorious crier. I did shriek, I'm pretty sure, when R2-D2 came around the corner. Din takes off his helmet AGAIN - twice in one season! - and the baby pats his face, and ok, well, maybe a tear or two leaked out, here, but if it did I wasn't even aware of it at the time. Grogu seems reassured by R2-D2's presence. Could he have known him at the Jedi temple?
And there's a lot of eye-contact going on while they're on the way out, and the minute the elevator door shuts, it cuts to black. It's over. Almost.
There's a new end-credits theme. As I noted on Twitter the other day, I love the regular end-credits theme and I always listen to the whole thing. So I wasn't in any danger of missing THE SURPRISE CODA, something they've never done before. (I may have shrieked again when that started, though. I'm not sure.)
Two suns, big round building, most Star Wars fans know what that means - it's Jabba's (former) palace, apparently now run by Bib Fortuna. It's not the party palace it used to be, but there's still a little crowd there, and the guards and the inevitable Twi'lek slave girl. Suddenly Fennec comes in shooting, takes down the guards and anybody else who looks like they might object, frees the slave girl - and Boba Fett comes down the stairs behind her. Bib tries to be smooth, he's all, "Hey dude, long time no see," but Boba just shoots him. And then he tips the body out of the big throne-like chair and sits there himself. With Fennec behind him, swilling spatchka.
Cut to black, and a card:
THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT
Coming December 2021
Incidentally, Rob was already in bed during all this - our apartment has pretty good soundproofing, so apparently I didn't wake him up in my excitement. I left him a note that said, "If you don't want to be spoiled for the Mandalorian, watch it immediately, because I'm not going to be able to restrain myself." (And he did.)
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