6/1/2023 0 Comments Mandalorian season 2 finaleInstead, Mando spared him and Bo-Katan’s plans were thwarted, all in one fell swoop. Bo-Katan would have killed him, taken the Darksaber, and then taken the Mandalorian throne. That’s when Moff Gideon reveals his ploy. Mando is victorious, takes the Darksaber, and brings Moff Gideon back to the bridge, where Bo-Katan is aghast. “Assume I know everything,” he tells Mando. He puts up a fight knowing he’ll lose, and knowing that Mando will spare him and take the Darksaber. When he tricks him into taking Grogu and then backstabbing him, he likely doesn’t even want to succeed. He also has no intention of actually defeating Mando in battle. He has no intention of killing Grogu-he’s still useful to them, despite what he tells Mando. He knows how the whole Mandalorian code stuff works. He knows when he’s lost the battle, but he also knows how to lose a battle and still win the war. “Drop the blaster,” the Imperial bigwig says. In any case, Mando heads to the brig and opens the door, only to find Moff Gideon holding the Darksaber over Grogu’s fuzzy little head. They’ll be back and in greater numbers.er, well, not in greater numbers but once I typed “They’ll be back” I felt sort of obligated to drop an Obi-wan quotation. This seems like a victory at first, and a too-easy one at that, until we remember that Darktroopers are droids that can survive in a vacuum and that they have propulsion-feet and can blast their way back to the ship. The Darktroopers are whisked off into outer space. The rest of the Darktroopers are trying to break through the door’s windows (doors play a huge part in this episode, by the way, and really throughout this show, where Mando routinely uses them to foil enemies). In the end, it’s the Beskar spear that saves the day. It takes every one of Mando’s toys to bring one Darktrooper down. I’ve been lamenting the lameness of Stormtroopers lately, just because it seems like there’s really no tension at all when our heroes cut through them like grass. He manages to shut the door but one Darktrooper makes it through, and one is enough to show just how much tougher these guys are than Stormtroopers. He only has a few minutes before they boot up. But first, he needs to lock down the cargo bay where the Darktroopers are stored. While these “savages” (as Moff Gideon calls them) wreak havoc, Mando sneaks toward the brig. Dune, Fennec, Bo-Katan and Kaska Reeves head toward the bridge, where Bo-Katan hopes to take down Moff Gideon. The shuttle crashes into the launch bay and four badass women exit, guns blazing. Bo-Katan pilots the Lambda-class T-4a shuttle straight toward the launch tunnel, ignoring flight control’s commands to the contrary.Īs the shuttle dives into the launch tunnel, Fett peels away, taking out the Tie-Fighters before leaping into light speed. As they approach, Moff Gideon sends out the Tie-Fighters. Boba Fett will fly solo in Slave-1 and pretend to pursue Pershing’s ship, where the rest of the team will issue a distress call as they approach the Star Cruiser. They come up with a clever plan to get into the Imperial ship. So he’s only too happy to help guide Mando and his allies through the Star Cruiser’s blueprints, showing them where to find the Darktroopers as well as the brig, where Grogu is being held. We knew even in Season 1 that he didn’t want to harm Baby Yoda and shed no tears when Mando rescued the little guy the first time. Pershing may be a Clone engineer and an Imperial scientist who’s likely done all sorts of unspeakable things, but he’s not unsympathetic to Mando’s cause. Mando had no choice but to fight Moff Gideon. I’m not sure it would have mattered, though. This is an unfortunate lapse in communication, we discover, since Mando has no reason to think that taking down Moff Gideon would lead to any problems between him and the exiled Mandalorian princess. This leads to some complications that are never actually resolved, paving ground for Season 3, which I suspect will revolve around the quest to retake Mandalore.īo-Katan tells everyone that Moff Gideon is hers as they approach the Imperial cruiser, but she never says why. Not only that, she needs to have taken it for herself in battle. Later in the episode, Moff Gideon reveals that if Bo-Katan is to ever take the Mandalorian throne, she needs the Darksaber. Mando and Fett find Bo-Katan and Koska Reeves in a cantina and, after a terse exchange and a small scuffle, the Mandalorians agree to help rescue the Child in exchange for Moff Gideon’s star cruiser-though we know that what Bo-Katan truly wants is the Darksaber.
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