# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/121 "2023-03-13T03:25:13Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > And when Grogu comes back she ( thinking it’s Din returning) says something like "now let’s get rid of him ", but then decides to go to a ruined planet and risk her life to rescue him? She didn’t want him dead, just to stop bothering her with his quasi-religious nonsense that she doesn’t believe in. But then she saw he was in trouble, and her better-side instincts kicked in. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/122 "2023-03-13T13:37:37Z")
i had to laugh when the droid said there was an unscheduled visitor. does that mean she has scheduled visitors? it is a somewhat comfortable throne… but seriously, no book? handheld game? videos? it is just ridiculous that she would just emo all day long. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/123 "2023-03-13T17:35:10Z")
Ok, watching it again that makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![jadielyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jadielyn/32/8808_2.png) [@jadielyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jadielyn)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/124 "2023-03-14T22:09:50Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > it is a somewhat comfortable throne… but seriously, no book? handheld game? videos? She’s surrounded herself with herself and needs to move on back two squares. 😄 some fansites are speculating this rescue is the next step towards BoMando (Mandotan?). Personally I don’t see them becoming romantic or feel that they need to but shippers gonna ship. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/125 "2023-03-14T22:18:15Z")
[quote=“jadielyn, post:124, topic:979857”] She’s surrounded herself with herself and needs to move on back two squares. 😄 [quote] Perhaps Grogu can send an instant karma to her. 😃 > [@](#): > > some fansites are speculating this rescue is the next step towards BoMando (Mandotan?). Personally I don’t see them becoming romantic or feel that they need to but shippers gonna ship. I don’t see it, either, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/126 "2023-03-15T03:25:09Z")
> [@jadielyn](#): > > Personally I don’t see them becoming romantic Probably not, but the thought did fleetingly occur to me. If that wasn’t their intention, then a friendship and mutual respect may be the result at a minimum, because there was some kind of social bonding going on. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/127 "2023-03-15T09:12:41Z")
New episode. The Dr. Pershing episode! I’ve always liked him. He’s very unusual as Imperial officers go. You expect me to believe they’d just leave the woman alone in the control room, though? So, now Bo-Katan is part of the Creed? ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/128 "2023-03-15T18:45:21Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > You expect me to believe they’d just leave the woman alone in the control room, though? Plus they’d immediately figure out what happened once they realized something went wrong. I think Bo Katan is part of the creed as a matter of convenience because she needs to hide. Bummer about Pershing. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/129 "2023-03-15T19:51:27Z")
This was an unusual episode. On the surface it didn’t seem to advance the plot much at all, but maybe it will become clearer later what it all was leading up to. There were a few nerdy Easter Eggs, though, mostly background stuff, such as Monument Plaza (the music playing during that scene was a John Williams theme from the sequel trilogy - see below) and revisiting the Opera House from _Revenge Of The Sith_. But the most exciting thing it confirmed into canon was the “Come To The Dark Side, We Have Cookies” meme. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ueqKtype7Kk/maxresdefault.jpg "John Williams - March of the Resistance (Audio Only)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueqKtype7Kk) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/130 "2023-03-15T20:09:39Z")
That felt like an episode of Andor, only not as good. ---
**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 15, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/131 "2023-03-15T20:59:32Z")
"We’ve taken this Imperial torture device, and repurposed it for good! Now it’s a therapeutic instrument that gives you lovely brain-relief! …Except, we left it so the dial can still be turned up to ‘agony’ settings, for reasons." ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/132 "2023-03-15T22:34:08Z")
One thing I thought was a nice touch was the prevalence of Mon Calamari in post imperial society, both in the higher class and military sectors. They were such an integral part of the rebellion that it stands to reason it would be that way. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/133 "2023-03-15T22:53:25Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > The Dr. Pershing episode! I’ve always liked him. He’s very unusual as Imperial officers go. Yeah. Science in the Wernher von Braun model: “I don’t care much about yhe ideology or the warfighting, as long as I get to do my research.” You witnessed the post-Imperial _Operation Paperclip_, complete with a rather harsh de-Nazification process. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/134 "2023-03-16T01:03:16Z")
I liked it. That mountain top on Coruscant had been mentioned decades ago and it was fun to see it on screen. One nitpick is I was a little bummed to see the New Republic has Dipshit representatives like the Old Republic did. I was hoping the Rebellion would have built something more idealistic. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/135 "2023-03-16T01:36:03Z")
Another Easter egg: The doctor told the Mon Calamari that, “It was A TRAP!” ---
**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 16, 2023, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/136 "2023-03-16T07:52:49Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > You witnessed the post-Imperial _Operation Paperclip_, complete with a rather harsh de-Nazification process. Yeah, I thought the process seemed harsh as well - removing people’s names and referring to them only by numbers isn’t something the good guys typically do. (I know that in real life prisoners and soldiers will have ID numbers, but they keep their names as well - it seemed to me like their actual identities were being taken away from them). ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/137 "2023-03-16T13:52:49Z")
> [@TwoCarrotSnowman](#): > > Yeah, I thought the process seemed harsh as well - removing people’s names and referring to them only by numbers isn’t something the good guys typically do. I think something that’s being addressed by recent Star Wars media like Andor. In the core worlds especially, the Republic, the Empire, and the New Republic are all pretty much the same thing. The Empire wasn’t some invading force, the Republic overwhelmingly voted to become the Empire. And the Empire wasn’t really seen as bad by the majority of people until Alderan was blown up. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/138 "2023-03-16T13:57:55Z")
George Lucas said himself back when he was making the prequels, Democracies don’t die from without. They rot from within and then change. Personally though the idealist in me is disappointed that everything the Rebellion fought and sacrificed for didn’t create something that at least started out ideal. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/139 "2023-03-16T14:55:29Z")
One thing that did improve is the empire was extremely racist towards non humans, now aliens at everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857/140 "2023-03-16T15:00:28Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Personally though the idealist in me is disappointed that everything the Rebellion fought and sacrificed for didn’t create something that at least started out ideal. I think the people in charge are idealist (Mon Mothma and Leia?), but when you’ve got a galaxy of trillions of people, a lot of that idealism gets lost in the bureaucracy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandalorian-season-3-open-spoilers/979857.md?page=8)