But a little over a decade prior to the events of The Mandalorian, one of those Mandalorian clans, Clan Wren, had enough and started an uprising against the Empire and their loyalist Mandalorians. As soon as Chancellor Palpatine became Emperor Palpatine and founded the Galactic Empire, he ordered the occupation of Mandalore, which he put under the rule of a Mandalorian servant of the Empire named Gar Saxon.īo-Katan didn't take all that lightly, but many Mandalorians were content to live under Saxon and the Empire. But there was no lasting peace to be found. But he was defeated, the Republic won the Clone Wars, and Bo-Katan became the new leader of the Mandalorians, aka Mandalore. While this episode and previous ones have discussed Bo-Katan's past as Mandaloriane and the destruction of Mandalore itself by the Empire enough that you get the point, now that we actually have seen the surface of Mandalore and the ruins of its capital city Sundari on The Mandalorian, it bears looking a little deeper at what kind of baggage Bo-Katan is carrying here.ĭuring the Clone Wars, Mandalore was ruled by Darth Maul. So without further ado, let's dive into it. Almost as awesome is the way the episode pulls an obscure droid out of Star Wars's distant past and makes it a proper player in the franchise for the very first time.Īll in all, Chapter 18 is a high-quality and meaty episode of The Mandalorian that gives both hardcore and casual Star Wars fans plenty to enjoy and chew on, but trust us when we say that it gets even better when you understand the full context. Star Wars fans will still find that their knowledge of the franchise is well rewarded by this episode, since it deals with very personal and intimate narratives for both the Mandalorian Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and the former Mandalore Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff) as they make a fateful journey to the planet Mandalore. Warning: This gallery contains major spoilers for Chapter 18 of The Mandalorian. The apparent change in approach benefits "Chapter 18"hugely-it's much easier to enjoy this particularly personal chapter of this series when we're not being distracted by endless references. This time around the series has been spending less time bombarding us with empty references to other Star Wars things and more time trying to be a real TV show. Season 3 of The Mandalorian has a substantially different vibe from the previous two seasons and The Book of Boba Fett.
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