# The Mandalorian Season 3 \[Open Spoilers\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [February 15, 2023, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857 "2023-02-15T23:48:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Oswald\_Bastable](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oswald_bastable/32/214_2.png) [@Oswald\_Bastable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oswald_Bastable)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/261 "2023-03-30T21:16:52Z")
NM reread post ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/262 "2023-03-30T21:52:11Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > We did laugh at the statue. Or rather the half a statue. Yeah, I was wondering if they were going to do something with that. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/263 "2023-03-30T23:21:47Z")
I sent that to my kid, who is LOSING IT. Chopper is her favorite. Over R2, over BB8. She loves that little asshole _because_ he’s chaotic good. I think when he murdered the other droid by kicking him out of the ship was when she knew she was in love. ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/264 "2023-03-31T07:16:58Z")
My wife and I have just played our way through the recent Monkey Island game. It was nice seeing LeChuck in a live action show 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/265 "2023-03-31T07:20:16Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > We did laugh at the statue. Or rather the half a statue. I must have missed that. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/266 "2023-03-31T08:01:54Z")
It’s near the beginning. Remember the former statue of IG-11? It’s a bit more…abstract…now. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/267 "2023-03-31T12:25:49Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Mando was definitely dragged down there > [@Horatius](#): > > She had to know how deep that place was, right? I only just got caught up tonite, but since there was a lot of discussion a few weeks ago about if Din fell or got dragged down, he fell. Din says he fell and he didn’t realize it was so deep. Then Starbuck says “It wasn’t. The bombings from the Purge must have triggered seismic activities.” So, apparently, it used to be a shallow pool or whatever, but now it’s got a deep end and its own mythosaurus. If someone else explained this and I missed it, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/268 "2023-03-31T12:31:38Z")
> [@zbuzz](#): > > Then Starbuck says “It wasn’t. The bombings from the Purge must have triggered seismic activities.” Yes, I caught that too. Clearly my speculation was way off. I still think it would have made for a better story, though! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/269 "2023-03-31T12:31:57Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Also - exactly how long was that kid living in the space dragon’s gullet? I was thinking the same thing. “Well, we finally finished our long hike to the nest, but before we actually try to save the kid, let’s get a good night’s rest.” ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/270 "2023-03-31T12:36:52Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Yes, I caught that too. I just realized - since I just finished bingeing the first 5 episodes - that they explained it in the following episode. Bingeing it all in a row made me think it all happened in the one episode, so it was pointless of me to point it out since it hadn’t been explained yet when everyone was discussing it. The dangers of bingeing. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/271 "2023-03-31T12:38:57Z")
This week’s episode was… not bad, not great. The whole thing seemed joltingly illogical. Apollo Creed escapes with the civilians and it’s like eighty people from an entire city? The X-wing pilot from Kim’s Convenience flies all the way to Coruscant and back out to the outer rim and all that accomplishes is telling the Mandalorian what’s happening? We did end up at least pushing forward what’s happening with the Mandalorians as a people, in a way that makes sense and gives Bo Katan a clear purpose. Still, this just ain’t the same show. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/272 "2023-03-31T12:45:32Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Also, why didn’t the other kid just shoot him three times right away, since that’s apparently allowed? I don’t get why he didn’t just sweep the leg. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/273 "2023-03-31T12:56:01Z")
When the X-wing pilot guy was examining the Lambda shuttle blast hole with the probe, who else was expecting Ben Gardner’s head to pop out? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/274 "2023-03-31T12:56:05Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > The X-wing pilot from Kim’s Convenience flies all the way to Coruscant and back out to the outer rim and all that accomplishes is telling the Mandalorian what’s happening? Yeah, they’re falling into the “Game of Thrones final seasons” trap here. They’re brushing over travel times in service of telling the story. We need to see how the New Republic is making the same mistakes both the Empire and the Old Republic made _vis a vis_ a heavily centralized government in a galaxy-spanning civilization\*, but at the same time, we can’t really make the civilians live under Pirate Rule for months on end, or there would be very little left to rescue by the time the Mandalorians find out the villagers are in peril. \*While I was watching this whole sequence, I was thinking about the Original Star Wars scene where Tarkin announces that the Emperor has dissolved the senate: “The regional governors now have direct control over their territories.” It struck me that, Evil Sith Tyranny aside, that was actually a better governmental structure than what we saw here: Having to fly half-way across the galaxy to ask permission to deal with a pirate attack that was having purely local effects. It would be as if the FBI was the only police force in the United States, and needed orders from Washington to arrest anyone. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/275 "2023-03-31T12:59:25Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > but at the same time, we can’t really make the civilians live under Pirate Rule for months on end, or there would be very little left to rescue by the time the Mandalorians find out the villagers are in peril. It would have been so easy to fix that by simply not having the pirates bombard the city. Just have them sweep in, clearly outgun the city, and then demand tribute and come down and occupy the admin building. That situation could exist for **weeks**. In fact, you could explicitly have the pirate king guy say he’s doing this in part to get the Mandalorian to show himself. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/276 "2023-03-31T14:21:50Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Apollo Creed I always think of him as [Carl Weathers](https://arresteddevelopment.fandom.com/wiki/Carl_Weathers). ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/277 "2023-03-31T15:38:11Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I always think of him as [Carl Weathers](https://arresteddevelopment.fandom.com/wiki/Carl_Weathers). My wife and I can not trim some meat, begin to throw away the excess, without saying, “Whoa. Put that in a pot…and you got a stew going on!” ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/278 "2023-04-01T05:07:38Z")
What happened to Red (R5-D-4) after Kim blew his cover? Did he get a ride home in the X-Wing or was he abandoned to the wrath of the Mandalorians he betrayed? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/279 "2023-04-01T05:47:04Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > The X-wing pilot from Kim’s Convenience flies all the way to Coruscant and back out to the outer rim and all that accomplishes is telling the Mandalorian what’s happening? I blame JJ Abrams’ lack of understanding of how big space is for turning lightspeed jumping from something that takes hours or days to being something you can do in a few seconds. > [@RickJay](#): > > Apollo Creed escapes with the civilians and it’s like eighty people from an entire city? This season seems to be falling into the same trap Book of Boba Fett did with having everything be on too small a scale, where Boba was supposedly daimyo of an entire planet with a militia consisting of like ten guys, half of whom are teenagers on Vespas. The entire planet of Nevarro apparently consists of one city with a few hundred inhabitants, with no militia or surface-to-air defense, and their plan in case of attack is to flee into the desert with no cover. The King of the Pirates has an armada consisting of a single frigate and a few dozen guys. He takes over the planet because his ruffians are apparently extremely picky about where they like to hang out and get drunk, and he is outgunned and defeated by two starfighters, one of which might as well be an antique muscle car. Meanwhile, the Republic’s outpost in the sector apparently consists of a dozen or so guys with a few old X-wings. And meanwhile meanwhile, you have Moff Gideon, a war criminal who bombed an entire planet into glass and presumably killed several billion people in the process, being brought to trial on a small transport with a crew of two, no armament or armor or onboard security, no ability to send a distress signal, and no fighter escort, and nobody has apparently even bothered confirming that he’s missing until the local beat cop stumbles upon the wreck by accident. This is a space western, but you can’t just copy-paste “bandits have taken over the trading post” and “the stagecoach was attacked by Apaches” one-for-one and expect it to still make sense. > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > What happened to Red (R5-D-4) after Kim blew his cover? Pretty sure he was back flying with Din during the battle. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/280 "2023-04-01T05:49:45Z")
> [@zbuzz](#): > > When the X-wing pilot guy was examining the Lambda shuttle blast hole with the probe, who else was expecting Ben Gardner’s head to pop out? You mean from “Jaws”? 🤣 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857.md?page=15)