The Mandalorian The Mandalorian 3.08 - Chapter 24 (SEASON FINALE!!!!) - Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

Did we get the first canon appearance of the Spaarti cloning cylinder?

 

2 moments in particular felt like they were going to go in one direction and then didn’t.

The first was when Axe was telling everybody to leave the ship and that one guy looked back at him. It felt like Axe was about to do something shady but he was instead heroic.

The second was when the Armorer said Grogu can’t talk. It felt like for a split second he might say a word or two but he didn’t.

 

Well I don't think it's that Din's unfit in the sense of worthiness. The show portrays him as an overall solid dude. That's not without question. The darksaber though is not part of what defines him.

I don't know, I feel like Din is bigger than the darksaber but in his own way.

I guess I'm just not invested in the whole darksaber discourse. I'm more concerned that since the Book of Boba Fett finale, Baby Yoda has been mostly a gimmick to illicit aww's from the general audience. His usage lately has felt incredibly pandering.

 

At least that stint where he was running around in the IG "suit" was short-lived. It makes you wonder if that was something that was proposed for a longer term but the writers just felt like it looked too awkward; like they were trying to give Din someone who was just his size as a full-time partner but it didn't feel right. But Lord knows we'll be seeing Grogu in IG Funko Pops before you know it.

 

I know, I have an account, I want to change that page, but I fear an ugly edit war.

 

Very satisfying chapter. I enjoyed season 3 a lot. I think there’s still a lot of stories left for Din and Grogu. For Mandalore!

 

I'm going 8 on this one.

It's absolutely a spectacle and an effective one at that but certainly rang a little hollow.

Gideon essentially showed up just to die and felt like we needed him to show up earlier in the season to build to his downfall. The stuff with Grogu felt undercooked. The show never well established if Grogu really wanted to be a Mandalorian. He certainly wanted to be with Din but that's about it.

On the plus side though, I'll never get sick of a Mando squad on their jetpacks having a dogfight sequence. I also legit thought Bo was gonna get killed since the season built her so strong that I thought her fate was to be tragically killed.

It overall worked but not as well as last season's finale, and even I have gripes about S2's finale.

 

You people owe Axe and the Armorer a big apology.

 

“For Mandalore” rings so laughably hollow IMO.

I still don’t know why I’m supposed to care about Mandalore or Bo Katan. For this show, “For Mandalore” needed to mean something to Din to mean something to me.

For instance, Din expressing that he needs Grogu to have a real home. Or Din accepting his responsibility to fight for something greater than himself and Grogu (and potentially becoming a leader in the footsteps of a fallen Bo Katan), instead of hiding away with Grogu. I’m sure everyone here can think of a few more basic stories with more meat on the bones than what we got

 

S2E8 is massively elevated by Luke Skywalker’s appearance and the cliffhanger. Don’t get me wrong. The final 15 minutes were mind blowingly awesome and I’ve watched them almost as many times as I watched the Vader Rogue one hallway scene and that’s saying something.

However, I do think S3E8 deserves credit for being as fun as it is despite not having something as significant as a de-aged Luke Skywalker and a teary separation of Mando and Grogu for the first time and a melancholy feeling that Grogu might benefit from his time with Luke. I enjoyed the action and felt happy for the Mandalorian people in the end.

I also like the dynamic of Carson Teva taking on sort of an early Commissioner Gordon role and Din Djarin being his Batman and Grogu as Robin. That’s already enjoyable for me. The cabin end scene also felt right somehow.

 

The real darksaber was the friends we met along the way

 

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It’s an interesting perspective. For all the criticisms that the show had lost what made it work the season, the actual setup with Carson Teeva allows Grogu to learn how to be a bounty hunter with his dad chasing down members of the Shadow council without the pressures of the dark saber or the cohort or rebuilding culture. He’s done that now and so the story is free to return to what it did best for S4. But this time the bounty hunting has force powers added.

 

I’m looking forward for season 4. Season 3 was off and had its ups and downs, but so did Clone Wars season 3.

 

Again, he was literally about to kill himself in the season 2 finale, all they had to do was let him do it... which is why I really thought, before the season came out that he wasn't coming back, mainly because we were at the point the villain is so defeated the heroes have to save him from suicide, the best course of action in his mind was to just end his life because there was no chance he could win at that point. It made sense to me because he wasn't a deep villain, just some old ass who's stuck loyal to the empire and hates Mandalorians.

They bring him back, just to do the same thing except he's more of a physical threat before he just dies. Except he wants to make clones of himself because get this... he's evil.

 

Yo. Thanks.

A couple thoughts about jet packs and fuel.

First, I've seen complaints about Axe flying into orbit. Did he, though? It looked to me like the fleet was in atmosphere, staying just above the layer of thunderstorms and ionization.

Second, the local survivors talked about how they had established supply caches. It would make sense to have such a cache within easy distance of their garden, so it's possible everyone there topped off their jet fuel tanks before they flew back to the base.

 

Not to sway too far off topic, but what were the "downs" from season 3 of TCW?

 

"No, I'll take care of him myself." Famous last words!!!

 

Like much of the season I thought it was fine probably a 3 1/2 out 5

 

I enjoyed the episode, but I'm not sure how to feel about it on the whole. Feel like things from earlier in the season I expected resolution on were left unresolved or were underwhelming in their resolution.

But hot damn give me that last scene in my veins