# Mandalorian Season 2 Thread \[Open Spoilers\]
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted
**Created:** [October 12, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794 "2020-10-12T12:55:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/601 "2023-01-17T16:06:09Z")
Plus, if he stays with Luke, he likely dies at the hands of Ben Solo. This keeps him alive for future stories into the sequel era and beyond
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### Author:  [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/602 "2023-01-17T17:06:01Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> It’s fine, but when Grogu went off with Luke, it felt like an ending to that story. Painful, sad, but an ending. To cancel it was kind of lame.
That would have been a fine end if it was the end of the show, but Grogu is a HUGE part of the reason the show was so popular to begin with. Doing the show without Grogu would cost them a significant part of their audience, a lot of whom were never Star Wars fans to begin with.
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### Author:  [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/603 "2023-01-17T17:23:19Z")
Can someone summarize (or point to a video summary of) the Mandalorian plot developments that happened in Boba Fett? I gave up on it after one extremely uninteresting episode, and nothing I’ve heard has made me regret that decision.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/604 "2023-01-17T17:35:02Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#):
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> Can someone summarize (or point to a video summary of) the Mandalorian plot developments that happened in Boba Fett?
From the [Wikipedia summaries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Boba_Fett#Episodes) of the two TBoBF episodes which were fundamentally _The Mandalorian_ episodes:
Episode 5:
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> After [Din Djarin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Din_Djarin) tracks and kills a bounty, he delivers the bounty’s head for directions to a Mandalorian hideout. There, he finds [the Armorer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Armorer) and [Paz Vizsla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paz_Vizsla), survivors of their tribe of Mandalorian warriors, who inspect the [Darksaber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightsaber#Darksaber) that he won from [Moff Gideon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moff_Gideon).[[b]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Boba_Fett#cite_note-Mando216-28) The Armorer explains that whoever wins the Darksaber in combat can become the ruler of Mandalore, though their civilization was destroyed by the Empire. The Armorer turns Djarin’s beskar spear into a gift for his former charge, [Grogu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grogu). Vizsla, a descendant of the Darksaber’s creator, Tarre Vizsla, challenges Djarin to a duel for the saber. Djarin defeats Vizsla but reveals that he previously broke their tribe’s code by removing his helmet. Rejected by the tribe, Djarin takes a commercial transport to meet [Peli Motto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peli_Motto) on Tatooine, who has an old [N-1 starfighter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_starfighters#Naboo_N-1_starfighter) to replace his previous ship, the _Razor Crest_ .[[d]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Boba_Fett#cite_note-30) Working together they fix and modify the starship and Djarin takes it for a test flight. Upon his return, Fennec Shand arrives and asks Djarin to assist Boba Fett in the upcoming war. He agrees, but only after he visits a friend.
Episode 6:
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> Djarin flies to a forested world to visit Grogu, and is greeted by [R2-D2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R2-D2) and [Ahsoka Tano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahsoka_Tano). Tano convinces Djarin that his presence will hinder Grogu, so he returns to Tatooine after asking Tano to deliver the gift—a beskar [chain mail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_mail) tunic—to the youngling. [Jedi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi) Master [Luke Skywalker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Skywalker) has begun training Grogu, his first student, to use the Force. Skywalker helps the youngling remember his home, the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, where he saw many Jedi killed during [Order 66](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_66_(Star_Wars)). Fett and his allies discuss their manpower shortage, and Djarin travels to Freetown to enlist Vanth and his people. After Djarin leaves, hired gun [Cad Bane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cad_Bane) arrives on behalf of the Pykes to order the town to be neutral in the upcoming war. Following a standoff, Bane shoots both the marshal and his deputy. Two Pykes later bomb the Sanctuary in Mos Espa. Skywalker, bearing Djarin’s gift, gives a choice to Grogu: take the chain mail and stop his training, or take [Yoda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda)’s lightsaber and be trained as a Jedi.
Summary points:
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> - Din Djarin has been rejected by the remnant of the fundamentalist Mandalorian clan which raised him, due to having removed his helmet
> - He still has the Darksaber
> - He now has a modified N-1 Naboo starfighter (the class used by the Naboo armed forces in _The Phantom Menace_), to replace the destroyed _Razor Crest_
> - Grogu chose to reunite with Din, rather than continue his training with Luke
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### Author:  [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/605 "2023-01-17T17:37:04Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#):
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> I gave up on it after one extremely uninteresting episode, and nothing I’ve heard has made me regret that decision
I can understand why you gave up on Boba Fett, but if you’re interested in the Mandalorian, it’s probably worth it to watch just those episodes of Boba Fett that deal with the Mandalorian. They’re of a fundamentally different character than the rest of the Boba Fett series. People joke about these episodes being the Mandalorian Season 2.5, but that’s actually pretty accurate.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/606 "2023-01-17T17:43:54Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#):
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> Can someone summarize (or point to a video summary of) the Mandalorian plot developments that happened in Boba Fett? I gave up on it after one extremely uninteresting episode, and nothing I’ve heard has made me regret that decision.
Grogu ditches Luke, choosing Mando over becoming a Jedi. They blast away together on a ship into season 3.
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/607 "2023-01-17T17:49:20Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> Grogu ditches Luke, choosing Mando over becoming a Jedi.
In the Star Wars universe choosing space buccaneer over Jedi is always the right decision.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/608 "2023-01-17T17:55:02Z")
> [@Horatius](#):
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> People joke about these episodes being the Mandalorian Season 2.5, but that’s actually pretty accurate.
Heck, even Jon Favreau (executive producer of both shows) apparently made that joke.
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### Author:  [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/609 "2023-01-17T18:47:34Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#):
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> In the Star Wars universe choosing space buccaneer over Jedi is always the right decision.
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
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### Author:  [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/610 "2023-01-17T18:52:54Z")
I’m curious about that shot of a bunch of Jedi in the trailer. Maybe we’ll finally get the backstory on how Grogu escaped the purge and what he was doing in the first episode.
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### Author:  [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/611 "2023-01-17T19:03:24Z")
Yeah, that’s 100% a flashback scene.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/612 "2023-01-17T19:12:08Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#):
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> I’m curious about that shot of a bunch of Jedi in the trailer.
If memory serves, there was a similar scene in the episode of _The Book of Boba Fett_ that featured Grogu and Luke; Luke helped Grogu remember being in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant during Order 66, and the vision that Grogu experienced included adult Jedi helping to defend him (and other younglings, I think).
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/613 "2023-01-17T23:13:39Z")
Jedi order: “Join us, and you’ll have to forgo attachment to family, friends, and loved ones, but you’ll get to become a badass warrior.”
Kid: “Hm, that’s a tough one.”
Mandalorian: “Eh, join us, and you can stay with your loved ones and still become a badass warrior.”
Kid: “Keep your lightsabre; I’m keeping the beskar chainmail.”
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/614 "2023-01-17T23:20:46Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> If memory serves, there was a similar scene in the episode of _The Book of Boba Fett_ that featured Grogu and Luke; Luke helped Grogu remember being in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant during Order 66, and the vision that Grogu experienced included adult Jedi helping to defend him (and other younglings, I think).
Here’s the scene (link is queued up to it):
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A33wR-e2zc&t=87)
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandalorian-season-2-thread-open-spoilers/922794/615 "2023-01-18T01:43:46Z")
> [@DigitalC](#):
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> That would have been a fine end if it was the end of the show, but Grogu is a HUGE part of the reason the show was so popular to begin with. Doing the show without Grogu would cost them a significant part of their audience, a lot of whom were never Star Wars fans to begin with.
It would be like taking _BJ and the Bear_ and cutting the ape. The short one.
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