And just like that, The Mandalorian season 3 is over. Coming off of last week’s seemingly game-changing episode, the long-awaited Season 3 finale of the show titled Return, premiering this Wednesday on Disney+. To say that the episode ended everything The Mandalorian remaining unresolved in Season 3 would also be an understatement.
Not only does the finale give fans a long-awaited climax to the conflict between Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito), Dino Djarin (Pedro Pascal), and Bo-Katan (Katee Sackhoff), but it also sets the latter two characters on very different paths. For Bo-Katan, it seems her role in rebuilding Mandalore is just beginning. For Dino Djarin, a new road has been laid out in front of him, which is not so different from the one he used to walk.
Here’s how Return sets the stage for a new era The Mandalorian and explains some of the strangest aspects of his final season.
Note: This article contains major spoilers for the season 3 finale The Mandalorian.
Goodbye, Moff Gideon
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In the end The MandalorianIn the Season 3 finale, Bo-Katan, Grogu, and Din Djarin successfully retake Mandalore with the help of their fellow warriors. As they do so, the trio finally seem to succeed in defeating Moff Gideon, who is exhausted in the explosion caused by the devastating crash of the Imperial cruiser. By seemingly destroying all of Gideon’s clones, Din also potentially eliminates the possibility of his greatest enemy ever returning.
In the minutes that follow, viewers watch as Bo-Katan and Gungirl (Emily Swallow) restart the Great Forge of Mandalore and finally begin to implement their plan to rebuild the planet. Din Djarin, meanwhile, has not only officially adopted Grogu as his son, but also presents himself as a part-time bounty hunter/freelance contractor for the New Republic to Captain Carson Teva (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee), who seems more than interested in accepting Pascal’s offer from the Mandalorian.
The MandalorianThe third season finale later ends with Dino Djarin lounging around his new Nevarro cabin with Grogu as he awaits his next bounty hunting assignment.
Rollback or reset?
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The Mandalorianthe last finale of the season could be called Return, but it feels a lot more like a reset for a Disney+ series. After taking Dino Djarin and Grogu further and further away from their old bounty hunting days over the course of the first two seasons, the live-action Star Wars show sent them on a journey into much more familiar territory. This was accomplished by absolving Din of any real responsibility he once had to his fellow Mandalorians, who were now united under Bo-Katan’s rule.
Having that on mind, The Mandalorian Season 3’s split focus on Dean and Bo-Katan suddenly makes a lot more sense. For a while, the show seemed to be fronting Sackhoff’s Bo-Katan to take over as the main character from Pascal’s Dino, who appeared at various times The Mandalorian season 3 seems to be already halfway out. Now, it doesn’t look like that will ever be the case. Instead, it seems like The Mandalorian he built Bo-Katan this year simply so that someone else could take on the responsibilities that once seemed to fall on Din Djarin’s shoulders.
The Mandalorian Season 3, in other words, found a way to once again have its cake and eat it too. The series essentially fulfilled its larger franchise responsibilities by leaving its Mandalorian reconstruction story in the capable hands of Bo-Katan, all while setting the stage for its next season to be a much simpler, limited series of bounty-of-the-week adventures with Dino. Djarin and Grogu in the main roles.
Let the bounty hunting (again) begin
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In the end, The Mandalorian season 3 proved to be quite a mixed bag. On the one hand, the season advanced the series’ New Republic-era story in several interesting ways. On the other hand, it was done in a truly uneven, often narratively unfocused manner. Knowing that, for all intents and purposes, it was essentially supposed to serve as a reset for The Mandalorian makes it a little easier to understand the season’s many strange creative decisions.
Whether or not that knowledge also does The Mandalorian whether season 3 seems more or less satisfying is a whole other conversation, and opinions will likely differ from one Star Wars fan to another.
All eight episodes The Mandalorian season 3 is available to stream on Disney+.
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