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

Earth has had a lot of dinosaurs and still has large lizards, enormous mammals like blue whales, creatures that can live 500 years, and killer cats larger than people but if somehow a dragon was discovered alive somehow in a cave you can bet it would be shocking. We don’t yet know what special abilities the Mythosaur has or the last time one was seen by any Mandalorians (prior to Bo Katan) so if nobody has seen one in a very long time it’s reasonable to believe they never will again and for some to even question whether the tales about them were true at all. We don’t know what tales these people were told about mythosaurs or what abilities they were thought to possess.

 

It looks like from the concept art that the original idea was to use the Imperial Supercommando design from Rebels for the beskar stormtroopers.

 

Luke holding to the Non-Attachment Jedi requirement when he tells Grogu he must choose between Mando dad or the Jedi Path. When Luke saved Vader via attachment as his Son, and he’d be training no one if Anakin had not formed attachment with him and saved his life from Palpatine.

 

Look at it this way. What if the lion, a very common symbol of power and royalty, had gone extinct in the distant past. There would still be elephants and hippos and even tigers. All sorts of impressive beasts. But the lion has become myth. And then suddenly the leader of a culture for whom the lion is a potent symbol discovers a living one.

Earlier in the season I had wondered if the CotW had settled where they did precisely because it was a kaiju infested lake, as a sort of proxy for the Living Waters and their mythosaur where they could perform baptisms for their growing numbers. Now I wonder if kaiju in general are just a fact of life for Mandalorians.

 

Not quite the same thing.

This would be more like dragons existing, and flying around Earth, and then at the same time we considered one dragon to be totally unreal and part of some myth about an ancient savior once riding.

If Mandalore has these insanely large beasts roaming around freely, no one should really be surprised that one of these really huge beasts isn't just a myth after all. Dinosaurs are all extinct and if one of them suddenly showed up in NYC, it would be a truly surprising event. But if Dinos existed today, and roamed freely in central park, a T-rex showing up one day isn't going to surprise anyone. You'd be like "Yeah, of course".

Remember, everyone thinks this beast is a myth. It's almost absurd to even think it's real. That's where Bo was at the beginning of the season. It's totally unfathomable. But ... for all intents and purposes the exact same type of beast is roaming around Mandalore like no big deal. They're not surprised by its existence at all.

When it first rose up, I thought it was the Mythosaur. I was like 'here we go". It was the perfect part of the story where it should have happened given everything about the season thus far. The Mythosaur was awake. It was underground. It was near one of the Mandalorian city tunnels. And we had a set up where it needed to be tamed by the hero. And what rose up instead, was basically the exact same thing. "Nope sorry. Doesn't have the horns in the right spot. Looks like the Mythosaur is still just a silly myth for kids. Clearly there's just no way a Mythosaur could possibly exists on this planet of giant beasts which constantly attack us everyday".

This is all a minor point of inconsistency. At the beginning of the season I assumed that giant mythic beasts were rare and unseen, leading their society to think this stuff is just a myth. But clearly they have large beasts/dinosaurs/unicorns all over, so no big deal after all.

We will probably never see the Mythosaur ever again in this show. lol

 

Absolutely. I'm always amazed at all the people asking why the covert would live on a dangerous kaiju planet. As though the covert thinks the way middle-class Americans do. What a hoot!

 

That was season 4. Season 4 was peak clone wars.

the first half of season 3 consisted of bizarre political episodes and oddities.

 

I thought one of the more important episodes of Season 3 was when Padme visited her friend, who was a separatist; which was among those first half episodes following the Kamino ones.

 

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I think a lot of the most interesting parts of the relationship between Bo and Djarin are through Grogu. He brings Bo to Djarin in the first place. He makes her connect in her mind Djarin to her father. She takes on a pseudo-maternal relationship to him, which strengthens her connection to Djarin. The protectiveness Djarin has of Grogu (and in fact Grogu of Djarin, as well) expands to their relationship to Bo. Furthermore, such little emphasis is given to Grogu over the course of the season, that he would be hard pressed to be seen as distracting from anything.

But he is a crime boss that doesn't launder money, because that would be wrong.

The impression I got was that "the client" was a freelance warlord being used by Gideon as an intermediary, with Pershing as de facto liason. I don't think he was officially part of Gideon's chain of command. "The client" was working at somewhat cross purposes to Gideon. He tells Djarin the bounty is dead or alive, but Pershing objects. He tells IG-11 the bounty is dead only - presumably Pershing was not in the room when he handed out that fob. I was thinking back on this the other day, as I think the Shadow Council scene perhaps sheds new light on "the client"'s motivations. Perhaps he intended to foul Gideon's plans to prevent him from trying to ascend to Emperor. It would certainly explain why Gideon wants to eliminate him.

 

I'm gonna rewatch see if this is true I doubt it for me I bet after a binge of all.three Mandalorian season the quality is the same for all three seasons. I agree that people got spoiled by Andor and IMHO that's not fair all Star Wars feels different yet the same Tonaly!

A theory I have is the reason for the ending with Mando being contracted out by the New Republic was to bring the Show back to its roots Mando and Grogu!

A question for people who didn't like Mandalorian season 3 and The Book Of Boba Fett did you rewatch both and what was your feeling after re watching?

 

After a second rewatch, I appreciate the aerial battle between the Mandalorians and Imperial Commandos even more. Reminiscent of Game of Thrones battles, charging each other with reckless abandon.
Bo-Katan and the Armorer dominated the airways.

 

This is what frustrates me about most of the SW content we've gotten since at least BOBF. Lucasfilm is creating a situation where all the people who think Star Wars is goofy, nerdy schlock with no meaning other than "pew pew lasers" are actually 100% correct to assume that.

I've loved SW my whole life but I'd sooner die than recommend this crap to my non-SW friends. This **** is downright embarrassing at times because I'm not expecting a hyper-gritty, sex-filled, gorefest like most "mature/adult" shows out there, but often times new Star Wars barely clears the bar for a toddler-level children's cartoon.

Just like the ST reduced the main saga down to "X-Wing, Desert Planet, Death Star, Bad Guy Redemption", Mandalorians are just "Cool Helmet Man Shoot Lots of Stuff with Other Helmet People".

I'm being buried by the dread that they will NEVER answer hard questions, NEVER deal with lasting consequences, NEVER even attempt complex character dynamics, or if they do any of that, they'll just immediately swerve to something totally different that nobody thought of or asked for. Just "cute baby weird alien laser sword shooty pew pew" is all they can do unless it's Andor, and I'm sure they'll find a way to ruin that by tying it into their big grand Star Wars MCU plan.

 

it was a fun finale. however, to eliminate Gideon like that was absurd. such a disappointing and almost pointless season.

 

Seriously was the point of the Grogu Order 66 flashback just to give the Jar Jar actor a hero moment because that flashback didn't give us any substantive information. It showed us that Grogu was rescued but we obviously already knew that. What was the narrative point of that?

 

May be we find out in future seasons or Ashoka?

The minute I saw the Mandos fly out of that crevice I could see the beautiful cinematography!

 

The mythosaurs are a significant part of ancient Mandalorian history and believed to be extinct. They have good reason to be mythological regardless of other lifeforms roaming that planet.

Imagine if giant dinosaurs had lived today and whales had been extinct for 65 million years. Don't you think whales would've had a mythical air about them and filled people with awe when they saw their fossils?

Besides, it's not like the Mandalorians aren't aware that there are loads of giant animals all over the galaxy. Mythosaurs are special because of their historical connection to them. That's all there is to it.
Unless they have exceptional abilities that other giants don't have, in which case there is more to it.

 

I'm assuming that they are over the course of the show going to give us a little more information each time until they build up to how he got from the temple to where he was in the first episode. If the next flashback needs to start on Naboo or wherever they are going, this flashback was to give context to how he got there.

 

People are angry at mythosaurs now too?

 

They are bad for Star Wars because the show hates us.