Last time on The Mandalorian,
the job just got a little more complicated. After finding the target, which turned
out to be a baby of the same species as the late great Master Yoda, The Mandalorian
swiftly executed his short lived partner IG11 and took custody of it. He had to
fend off a few lesser hunters trying to steal the bounty from him, only to find
out that his ship had been chop shopped by a bunch of local Jawas. With the
help of the Ugnaught Kuiil, he brokered a deal with the Jawas, he gets them a
special egg, he gets his parts back. The only part they neglected to mention
that it was the egg of a giant mud rhino. The Mandalorian was pretty beaten up by
the beast and is only saved by the child revealing it has force powers. They’re
able to get the parts back and with Kuiil’s help get the ship space worthy
again. They fly off into the blackness of space.
Chapter 3, The Sin
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| Like most parents on a road trip, the Mandalorian learns that sometimes it's just easier to give the kid what he wants. |
So, the Mandalorian and the Kid
make it back to orbit around his home planet. After reenacting every “parent
says don’t touch that, the kid touches it anyway” scene involving a little silver
ball at the end of one of his control switches, they land. He immediately takes
the Kid to the Imperials… huh, not conflicted even a little, eh, Mandalorian?
The Client and Dr. Preshing are both extremely excited to get the little guy. And
I of course am not totally sensing nefarious intent from these two. None at
all. He’s given the Beskar Steel, and told to be on his way. The Mandalorian
does ask what they’re going to do with the Kid, but just gets reminded of the
Guild’s stance on such questions. Don’t ask them. Okay, so maybe he’s a little
conflicted about leaving the Kid with him.
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| When you bring mom home a prize, and your big brothers show up to ensure you don't get a swelled head. Pretty much anyway. |
He takes the Beskar steel back to
the Armorer. She’s quite excited to get the rather sizeable amount of Beskar
back, but his brother Mandalorians are less than pleased to hear one of their
own has been dealing with Imperials. We get more vague references to a Purge that
happened some years back, which greatly reduced the Mandalorian numbers. This is
what drove the warriors into hiding and why they try to only send up their kind
one at a time to hide their true numbers. Must really suck when one is off
planet for weeks at a time and no one else can go out. Just sayin’. Our
Mandalorian and the other’s almost kill each other, before the Armorer makes
them back down. Given what she says, I guess the Mandalorians adopted a new
tradition of never removing their helmets. I say new because I can name several
Mandalorians Jango Fett, Boba Fett, Sabine Wren, Duchess Satine Kryze, and Pre
Vizsla, all of whom are still canonical that showed their faces quite often.
Anyway, the Mandalorian asks that his portion of the Beskar be used to make him
a new set of armor, as his was badly damaged by the Mudhorn beast last episode.
The Armorer is very impressed by this and offers to make the beast his personal
signet, but he refuses as “an enemy” helped him kill the beast. How could
anything as cute as the Kid be someone’s enemy? It’s impossible. Instead of a
signet, she uses the left-over metal to make him Whistling Birds, a special
ammo used against multiple enemies. Huh, I wonder if that will factor back in.
Just like when she forged his shoulder pad, the forging process caused the
Mandalorian to flash back to some kind of massacre that killed his family. It
ends just as a droid appears to kill the young Mandalorian.
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| Gotta use context clues to figure out if this is him conflicted. happy, sad, annoyed, tired, or hungry. |
The Mandalorian goes out in his new
duds to meet Karga, who is in a fairly happy mood himself. He got a piece of
Beskar as part of his reward for contracting the Mandalorian. He offers to take
ol “Mando” as he refers to him out to celebrate, but The Mandalorian just wants
more work. He gets fobs for more contracts, gets on his ship, and almost
takes off, before noticing the little silver ball is off of one of his control switches.
That apparently was the straw that broke the camels back and causes the
Mandalorian to shut down the engines and run off to save his little green
friend. Apparently, he was way more conflicted than he let on.
The Mandalorian uses his rifle and
some surveillance gear to listen into the Imperials plans. Preshing seems to be
trying to protect the little guy, but the Client wants him to just him to
extract the needed DNA and run. The Mandalorian begins his attack by ripping
off their front camera and drawing a few guards out. He then walks around to
the back door, blows an enormous hole in it and starts assaulting the base. He easily
dispatches several Stormtroopers as he descends into the bowls of the beast. He
takes the Kid, but spares Preshing, as the doctor seemed to have done his best to
try and protect the Kid. The Mandalorian kills several more Stormtroopers as he
escapes, even using the Whistling Birds from earlier to dispatch a large group.
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| How many years of Mandalorianing do you think you have to put in to get the jetpack? Because I want to do exactly that amount of Mandalorianing. |
Once outside, I guess that the Client
called a hit out on The Mandalorian. Every bounty hunter on the planet, including
Karga. They force the Mandalorian into a corner, so to speak, and things start
to look very grim for out faceless hero. Right until all of the other
Mandalorians that were in hiding fly in on Jetpacks and start wasting
EVERYBODY. The big guy that the Mandalorian was fighting with earlier tells him
to run. The Mandalorian points out that by coming to save him, they’ve revealed
that there are a LOT more Mandalorians in the area besides him. Big Guy kind of
shrugs and tells him to get moving. Karga follows the Mandalorian and tries to get
him before he can take off. The Mandalorian shoots him and drops him from the
ship. He flies off, and then it’s revealed Karga is still alive, as the
Mandalorian either intentionally or accidentally shot him in the piece of
Beskar steel Karga was keeping in his shirt. The Mandalorian sees Big Guy fly
by his ship for a sec to give him a sendoff, laments that he needs to get one
of those jetpacks, and then gives the Kid the silver ball to play with.
This episode did a good job show
casing what a bad ass the Mandalorian is. He mows down Stormtroopers, beats the
heck out of his fellow bounty hunters and is a general bad ass throughout. Well,
excluding the parts like almost selling out the Kid forever. The best moment that
showcase his confliction was right at the end when he almost took off, but the
thing that stopped him was that missing ball bit. Despite the mask, I could all
but feel Pedro Pascal’s writhing emotions as he judged what to do. Side
note, that was a very Mandalorian thing to do, take the prize offered to him
but then immediately turn around and steal back what he’d just handed over. Mandalor
would be proud. And while that final bit where the other Mandalorians showed up
to save him was a little hokey, it did show off how dangerous they can be as a
group. Mandalorians are like any warrior culture but in space. They’re the
Spartans, the Immortals, the Spetsnaz, the Marines, warriors trained to kill
and to kill super well. A group of them could overwhelm a force twice or three
times the size of theirs. It was really cool to get a hint of that fighting
power when we saw what could only have been about a half dozen of them shooting
down dozens of Guild bounty hunters. I wonder if Karga surviving will have any significant
to the plot? He’s Carl Weathers, so I guess the answer is maybe? Who knows? And
that’s all I have to say about that.
I’ll for sure have episode four out
by the end of the month. We’ll see if I can squeeze one more post in after
that. Have a good night!
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