The Mandalorian Mandalore (the Title)

It’s not my “issues” this time - it’s my hope for a bit more “drama-distance” the Children of the Watch and the Mandalorians as a whole might go through, as indicated by how the “redemption” here is ceremonial and completely unrelated to real altruism/heroism, and how Din’s “sin” was taking his helmet off for Grogu’s sake.

*If* what we’re going to do with the Mandalorians is eventually show the Children of the Watch are “right” and have the majority of Mandalorian culture come around to their way of thinking - where, for shorthand, they lose any “cult” designation in the negative sense - than Bo should absolutely be the character that becomes Mandalore. The Mythosaur then becomes her “Meeting Jesus on the road to Damascus” moment, and the Creed’s dogma the sacred rites that have been neglected and “The Way,” as presented by the COTW right now, “The Way.”

After all, then the overall lesson of Bo’s life and the Mandalorians becomes that her initial believe that Mandalorians must be warriors was correct, she was just wrong about the type of warriors they should be - and the Children of the Watch are right to regard taking a helmet off as the worst sin a Mandalorian can commit, while many of the things they do violence for are acceptable or even laudable.

…But if the idea is that “The Way” needs to become something different than what all the power players have seen it as before, than Din makes the most sense for that because he hasn’t been a power player yet, but also wasn’t around for the time when traditionalists decided to betray their world to overthrow pacifists.

I also again think that - in a dramatic sense - everyone would benefit from discovering that the The Way needs to be reformed, and in that scenario, Din benefits the most from being the reformer, while Bo and others benefit more form being the reformed.

 

The Empire might disagree.