The Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 7 'Chapter 23: The Spies' REACTION!!

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[@vulkanXVII]

love the thats what she said twice XD you two are alot of fun,been watching you for a pretty good while now and its always fun watching your videos,dont stop!

[@mikerotonda6264]

R.I. P. PAZ.......he lives with WADE now.....

[@MinscS2]

Paz Vizsla - How to go out like a boss and become a mandalorian legend in a single episode.

[@ElMundoDeHadesOK]

he had to! he's of Clan Vizsla, his ancestor created the darksaber

[@knowledgeanddefense1054]

Unlike Pre

[@SlavLazarov]

This is the way.

[@MakotoAtava]

This is the Way.

[@mr.t-rex3113]

Paz carried this season

[@ctcentralinfo]

Bo-Katan made the right choice. It would have made no sense for her to cut open the other door for one Mandalorian, to put everyone at risk. She saved as many people as she could so they could regroup and come up with a strategy to save him.

[@passionsquietrage]

Exactly! It's about strategy, plus they have to get back to the fleet to warn/help them. Then they can strategize, maybe even call in a certain ex bounty hunter in green armor.

[@lex_express]

also, i don’t think upsetting gideon, with din helpless literally right in front of him, would’ve been a smart idea. i understand the knee jerk reaction is to want bo to cut through the door, because that’s what we’ve been taught in star wars. sabers can cut through everything, *she should use it right now!* but when you think about it, it just wouldn’t have been the best idea, for din and for everyone else. it took her a few seconds to get the back door cut open, as well. it wasn’t immediate, gideon could’ve easily killed din in the amount of time it would’ve taken to get the front door open if he felt threatened or aggravated.

[@-kingofsaiyannappa-9057]

Bo katan and Grogu riding a mythasaur to go save Dinn on the next episode............Maybe????~~~~~~~😎😎😎😎

[@anonymes2884]

Right. If you're in a trap, don't run further into the trap. Plus, if she cut a hole in the front door her forces would be entering the fight one at a time, hunched over to get through a small hole. They'd be _extremely_ easy to pick off.

[@01HondaS2kXD]

@@anonymes2884 exactly. If she cuts that door, it’s the worst example of a fatal funnel I can imagine.

[@HelloThere.GeneralKenobi]

Can you imagine the revenge tour that Ragnar will be taking as he grows up?! I want to see that series!!

[@kastrie89]

OMG seriously! Moff Gideon will be at the top of his hit list.

[@dereklawson2029]

I wanna see a series with Ragnar and Grogu as partners

[@TammyGordin]

​@@dereklawson2029and Gungi

[@MrSheckstr]

So we have Din Captured, Bo, Gro, sasha Banks, some of the survivors plus a cast of extras roaming the catacombs, the armourer with a bunch of “weak” survivors returning to the fleet… plus the children of the children of the watch and three baby pterodactyls back at navarro…. iGrogu-12 is strong but slow and clumsy, unarmed and unarmored…. I cant decide what i think about the Armorer….. its hard for me to believe she is a traitor because 1 if she was Moff Gideon would have been aware of what was going on at Navarro and wouldn’t need his spy in the republic 2 he could have used her a long time ago to greater effect Since i cannot reconcile HER being the turncoat (i still suspect one of Bo Katan’s two subordinates ) I feel part of whats coming is Grogu becoming A Mandalorian with an armed and armored iG-12 suit. I also suspect that Boba Fett and the Marshal will get involved in some way.

[@ateam404]

Yup. Ragnarok is coming lol

[@roudkaross]

So sad for Paz Vizsla, he was pretty badass and cool looking. It feels like a real loss for the show

[@NikkiStevenReact]

he went out like a boss

[@arobin6695]

he was a Vizla, he's just there to die.

[@SandraMorris51]

All day I’ve looked forward to Nikki’s reaction to Gundam Grogu 😆

[@silvervibranium2832]

I would say it's TERMINATOR Grogu! XD

[@p-forest]

YES. YES. YES.

[@madelinegarber7860]

Omg same!

[@EricDKaufman]

Battletech Grogu!!!!

[@p-forest]

@@EricDKaufman Manga-lorian?

[@conordoeseverything]

Couldn't wait to see Nikki's reaction to mech Grogu lol

[@mattjosh69]

So wanted to see a “This is the Way” button for Grogu.😂😂😂 that would of been so funny. Been looking forward to Steve’s view on this week all day.

[@madelinegarber7860]

I was waiting for that button too lol.

[@MrSheckstr]

Thats what is said when you hit the Yes and No Buttons at the same time

[@philippeblais8594]

IG12 is gonna need some more buttons and programming for that. But it would be very cool and funny if they did do that.

[@Dimo24081990]

xDDDD

[@shamancarmichael5305]

Never suspected I'd be crying over the death of a character like Paz! Thought he'd stick around to be a pain in Bo and Din's backsides for a lot longer. What a sacrifice play, so epic! I'm going to be bummed if the Armorer betrays them, tho. 😞

[@preciousotoakhia9789]

Blood must be spilled for paz 😢

[@RayneDr0ps]

I had been on the fence with liking Paz for while but I was starting to warm up to him this very episode, only for him to get killed off. RIP.

[@arobin6695]

is he even a character though? he's just some guy without a face or personality

[@staticmonkey8436]

11:24 Grogu is like that kid that got some loud toy for Christmas and is now just following his dad around all day with it pressing every button he can find. You can feel Din sighing so hard as they are walking and I love EVERYTHING about it! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@LordGavial1138]

And greef the uncle that offers the toy and is happy to not being the father 🤣🤣

[@ArturoRivera2004]

​@@LordGavial1138 yup the uncle who only brings chaos

[@LordGavial1138]

@@ArturoRivera2004 the uncles that give the child the gift the parents never wanted to buy the child ! 🤣🤣

[@papahamdrew9962]

And Greef is the uncle that gave it to him to annoy his parents 😂

[@cerberus01]

The reason Din didn't give Bo the dark saber earlier is because it wasn't necessary. Din realized at that moment that the privateers were not going to follow her unless she had the saber.

[@braddollahite]

i agree and i think the way how he gave it back to here was right and NOT LAZY. Again everything has a purpose, it may not happen the way we want but it leads to what will become.

[@oz30ification]

Exactly!! Just because it didn't go someone's way doesn't mean it's lazy, the impact of him telling of and giving the Saber at that point was great!! Alot better than Bo walking in with Din and being like oh yeah I am the one that has the Saber, that would seem more lazy

[@jedijessic]

One thing I thought of was that Din needed to do so in front of those like Axe and Koska. If Din had done it sooner, would Axe have accepted Din's reason that Bo-Katan is the rightful owner?

[@arobin6695]

he might as well have just given it to her at the end of season 2.

[@jedijessic]

@@arobin6695 He tried but she wouldn't take it.

[@ItsmehNolan]

I love how Nikki is so paranoid of the armorer 😭

[@LeutnantJoker]

Justified IMO. I thought there was something off with her since the first episode of season 1.

[@ItsmehNolan]

@@LeutnantJoker I think she's fine but I wouldn't be surprised if she had more that meets the eye

[@AmeerahMuhammad]

She’s right. Everything she’s done this season has been sus. It’s pretty obvious IMO

[@preciousotoakhia9789]

Definitely traitor

[@ItsmehNolan]

@@AmeerahMuhammad true true

[@reapersoul8506]

Uhhhh... Idk If she used the saber to cut open the other door, Gideon would just order the troopers to kill Din. Like strategically I don't think that would be a good idea.

[@NikkiStevenReact]

I mean immediately when he wasn’t alone and restrained

[@Omegafire17]

@@NikkiStevenReact Wouldn't have mattered imho; if that rear door Bo cut through is any indication, it would've taken half-a-dozen seconds for even the Darksaber to cut through the other door, at least. Not to mention it'd be a small hole, with her and a very-slow-stream-of-Mandos against Gideon and a small army who have no issues dog-piling the Mandos. Doing so would've just gotten them caught at best (and it'd be suicide at worst, with the Darksaber likely taken again)... no matter how you slice it, the situation was not opportune for rescuing Din that moment Also, since Elia told Gideon about the Mandalorians plan, the Armorer would've needed to be involved in the whole adventure if she was a spy. If she was, wouldn't she have brought the wounded/weary Mandalorians with the others? And/or tried to convince Bo to call the Mandos on the fleet ships down to the surface, to make it easier for Gideon to complete the Purge? Her splitting could literally just be coincidence

[@RockFan89]

@@Omegafire17 I think she went to save the fleet from being bombed

[@mattpryor216]

@@NikkiStevenReact it's called the "fatal funnel", look it up. You don't want one point of entry going into a large open area because all troopers will just attack at that single point and it will be easier to take people out.

[@p-forest]

@@mattpryor216 Exactly, that's why a lot of fortifications, castle entrances, etc. are designed like this, they'd be doing the Imps a favor tryign to do that.

[@joelwatkins]

I have a feeling Bo and Grogu are gonna go back down to the mines to try to find and tame the mythosaur to use as a mount, when they regroup to try and rescue Din

[@SouthSanJoseFighter]

Hell ya!!! This is the Mf way!

[@danielruiz8259]

We have seen that Grogu has an affinity with animals, so this theory checks

[@jonc7739]

And suddenly The Mandalorian becomes Dune.

[@rosshein356]

This checks out too, since Star Wars has been borrowing from dune since the original trilogy.

[@arobin6695]

how many times does Bo have to rescue Din? Would he ever be allowed to rescue her for a change? of course not.

[@madelinegarber7860]

Not me snickering at Mikki’s dirty jokes with my parents in the room. I didn’t mind Bo getting the dark saber. She’s properly earned it by this point. I love the conversation about her ruling between her and Din. And Grogu in his terrible twos one minute, acting as peace maker the next. Also Gideon’s awesome armor! I wonder if the armorer is secretly a spy. And RIP Pasz. Went out like a freaking bad ass.

[@fubar1217]

"Where do you park something that big" "That's also what she said" LOL

[@mhc121]

Wasn't the biggest Paz fan but have to admit, his "This is the way" when he sacrificed himself... I almost shed a tear 🥲

[@missimin]

I didn't care for him but I certainly respected him for his bravery and sacrifice.

[@SirPugsalott]

Gideon has to have a Connection to Death Watch/Darth Maul, His helmet looks exactly like the Death Watch Mandalorians from Clone Wars after Maul took over just like how the armourer does. Also that line about the best thing he’s done about Mandalorian Armour is put himself in it makes me think he’s cloned himself and those new ‘Dark Troopers’ are actually all him.

[@Jakkob37]

So happy I wasn't the only one who got those vibes😂

[@ortizmo]

Zabrak horns.

[@catherinesanchez1185]

Oh crap, I thought his wording was a little weird , but if he cloned himself this would make more sense .

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

many people pointed out she could be a Zabrak the moment she showed up. ....but why would Gideon have that helmet? in honor of what? Maul? Gideon only cares for himself!

[@mun-grohiik420]

@@bcn1gh7h4wk Im pretty sure he only wanted to make it more badass with it

[@Roguefem76]

Stephen apparently doesn't appreciate dramatic timing. Anyway, somebody on the writing staff is a connoisseur of medieval romance/epic, because that "I serve you" scene was pure medieval poetry, with Bo Katan as the Queen and Din as her knight - not just _a_ knight but HER knight, who swore himself to her service. 100% some chanson de geste stuff.

[@VadersRage]

Damn. That's pretty much spot on.

[@monikahanus9183]

That's what I thought too. It warmed my heart to see. Rick F said there was romance in these two episodes during Stars Wars Celebration when he was being interviewed at some point.

[@arobin6695]

ugh, Din is reduced to her sidekick, awesome.

[@sparrow6880]

What next? He’ll bend the knee just like Jon snow & say my queen for entire life?Din got downgraded & sidelined for entire season.

[@fashionmwah]

@@monikahanus9183 He said that?! That there was actually romance? 😱😱😱 I tried googling, but I didn’t see.

[@rockrollangel1972]

as a mom watching Mando trying to be a dad to toddler grogu had me cracking up!

[@VenhedisKaffas]

Ugh, I'm gonna miss Paz so much. I'm so upset, but also very glad that they had to pull out the special reinforcements to take him down. Also, I wonder if maybe the armorer made a deal with Gideon somehow. Like, handing over Din and/or Bo to Gideon and Gideon gives her Mandalore so she can get the Mandalorians back to the old ways. It feels like she was a little quick to embrace Bo-Katan and the other tribe. It could just be her being super understanding and wise, but I'm a little suspicious.

[@kkmac455]

Can’t believe Skinny Pete from Breaking Bad is a Mandolorian 😂🤘🏻

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

from "This is the shit" to "This is the way"

[@edinalewis4704]

I think of the customs around the dark saber like the rules around Din's helmet. Rules and customs only matter when they matter, sometimes there are more important things than the rules and customs.

[@NikkiStevenReact]

totally agree... they shouldn't have made the rules around the dark saber a thing this season and Din should have just given Bo the saber in S2 when he offered it

[@michaelgreenwood3413]

@@NikkiStevenReact Well, the issue is she took it when offered back in Rebels. It's more the fact she's unwilling to potentially repeat how things went from that time.

[@gallopintojacinto]

When I saw the praetorean guards, I understood that Bo using the saber to scape the other way, made sense. Imagine getting the entire crew killed for just being carried by emotions. Paz left the most honorable way I could imagine.

[@arobin6695]

if she had cut through and attacked they would have killed Gideon and those pretorians, Rey took out like 3 or 4 of them at the same time on her first day with a lightsaber

[@Dominus62680]

Paz went out like a BOSS!! I salute you Paz Vizsla! THIS IS THE WAY!

[@firehorse2008]

This is the Way!👍🏾

[@preciousotoakhia9789]

Legends never die 🙏

[@ESPirits87]

He died because of plot armor, the thickest of them all.

[@stevenrod100]

Many have said before that the spikes on the armourers helmet reflect the horns on Darth Mauls head from when he controlled Death Watch. Many think she is a certain character from the clone wars. Also I don't think that was the actual Mythosaur in this episode but some other large creature. The Mythosaur is much deeper underground.

[@Duganator]

I'm more suspicious of Ax Woves than of the armorer. He took his loss to Bo pretty poorly & seemed rather acrimonious towards the other tribe. Add in Gideon knowing who has the dark saber & Woves quick exit, & it seems pretty odd.

[@Jdubayou]

I agree. I think the armorer is a red herring and it’s him that is the traitor. At least I hope so, because the armorer is a cool character.

[@ChocolateThaiE]

I was thinking it was one of the Night Owls or one of the “survivors”. They led everyone right to the ambush.

[@arobin6695]

they wouldnt make one of the female characters a traitor

[@Rated314]

1. Totally agree that something feels sus about the armorer, but I want to believe because this entire series has trained us to expect betrayal. 2. Grogu... his force powers aren't that advanced. Jump and Push, and he put that one beast to sleep (but it also wrecked him). What is he to do when Din is outnumbered 30:1 and behind a blast door? 3. The dark Saber. The dark Saber is a little better than regular sword against beskar. And the blast door... that wasn't quick. If she tries melting through the forward facing door, Gideon just focuses fire on the hole and cuts them all down before they even make it through. You don't create your own bottleneck for the enemy's advantage. Tactical retreat was the only option. 4. Grogu again. We slowly been introducing more autonomy with Grogu. The buttons are silly and cute, but also give him the ability to communicate in a limited fashion. The next is, his teeny tiny little legs. I commented to myself; a few episodes ago, how Grogu is stuck in that stupid pram because of his little legs. This Jaeger gives him the ability to self ambulate and keep up. It's getting to the point that it's getting frustrating watching everyone react to him like he's a baby, when he is usually the oldest in the room.

[@redguy2215]

Grogu will do something next episode. Heck maybe something related to the mythosaur.

[@jmboyd65]

I think Grogu is gonna ride the Mythosaur. Also, there's a big possibility that the Armorer is Rook Kast, one of Maul's Mandalorians. Rook also had a helmet with horns.

[@richardmcquade6658]

Maud'Dib must call a big one from the depths.

[@frances3064]

Gideon has horns just now didn’t he thats weird

[@howitzer551]

I think the good comparison this episode for Bo-Katan is Aragorn from Lord of the Rings (from books specifically). Aragorn knows it is his destiny to rule but struggles with the burden of responsibility and wonders if he capable enough to honor his birthright (movies go more to the he doesn't want it route). Bo in a way is similar. When she was young, she made mistakes and was selfish at times, but everything since then has led her to want to unify Mandalorians not just to be ruler (like her dispute about ideology with Satine) but to protect her people, and she worries about whether she has the right to try or if she is even qualified to do so.

[@peppelonnberg1198]

The Imperial with white beard talking about Thrawns return is played by the same actor who plays Gregory from The Walking Dead! And one of the Mandos they found on the ship is Skinny Pete from Breaking Bad.

[@shannonmichael4773]

Ok I gotta admit Nikki’s “That’s what she said” streak had me goin lol 😆

[@gjalie]

One of the pirate Mandalorian's was Skinny Pete from Breaking Bad!

[@l.piloto7964]

"Take him to the debriefing room". OMG they are going to take his briefs.

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

"YES!" *"YYYYESS!"* _epic Raul Julia moment_

[@Billy01113]

"she bailed out at the right moment" well, she returned to the fleet hours earlier, when they still whre at base camp. I think, her bailing out, could also have been a narrative necessety, because they needed a command structure at the fleet, for when the Tie Bombers and Interceptors are arriving.

[@andiparker3733]

I think it's the survivors on the boat rather than The Armourer.. they've been there the whole time and they weren't there when the trap was sprung...

[@ronweber1402]

And how could they have missed Moff Gideon setting up a mining operation again and all the Imperial activity around that?

[@AmeerahMuhammad]

I think it’s the Armorer and the survivors. Hence the plural title of the episode “The SpieS”

[@Duganator]

I think Bo prioritized cutting through the back door so that she could get those in the room out and get word back to the fleet about the incoming imperial forces. It's not that she didn't value Din. She just put the lives of the whole rest of the fleet first.

[@ketchup016]

I think there's a different feeling from the first two seasons because Favreau and Filoni had Grogu's story planned out before they even started filming, they knew he was going to Luke. Then baby Yoda had people like me tuning in (this was the first Star Wars thing beyond the original trilogy that I ever watched) and there was more heart and chemistry between a masked man and a puppet than they expected. I don't think they did a poor job pivoting, except for shoving it into Boba's show. I think that was a case of the corporate financers forcing it over the best creative choices, personally. It's a little ironic, since originally some people didn't think they'd care about a random Mando who wasn't Boba Fett.

[@westonbyrne]

I think Din explained giving the darksaber to Bo, though, pretty well. He lost it in combat to the bio/droid, then Bo defeated the bio-droid. Thus, winning the saber by combat. I think it was done pretty well.

[@bigdawg702]

The Vibro-blades are a staple for Mandalorians. Not many people outside of them carry the vibrating blades. Since they were popular among criminals, vibroblades were banned on many worlds, especially in urban areas.

[@davidturner4966]

When you guys watched the episode, did you noticed the scene where babu frik and grogu passing each other and babu frik dropping a f-bomb!!! It was hard not to notice but it’s there if you hear it close enough

[@_Angel_Dust]

Din's clan are fanatics - their credo is "hit first, think later". Paz didn't have to die there, but he decided to do it anyway.

[@danthaden1165]

I missed on the first watch through but after the anzellan walks by Grogu and says “no squeezing” he says “I’m out motherf*cker”😂

[@Shayia918]

Great reaction as always! I've had quite a few frustrations with story elements this season however this episode was insanely good; I just wish that this storyline played out a little sooner to expand more on the reclamation of Mandalore. I'm also suspicious of the Armourer but I'm wondering if she's a red herring - I mean, Axe Woves left as well before the confrontation with Gideon happened so maybe it's him? Grogu's terrified face when Din got captured was so sad and Paz's sacrifice made me unexpectedly emotional. I think Grogu is going to have an important role in Din's rescue - it will mirror Grogu's rescue in S2; I think we'll see Grogu fully embrace the Force to save his dad. Also, Gideon dissing Thrawn - that's going to come back on him, lol.

[@marshsundeen]

Grogu is a child. He also might be afraid of Moff Gideon. Grogu remembers that Gideon held him captive. I think the spy suspects are The Armorer, AXE Woves, or the dudes from the Pirate ship.

[@psychokitty71]

I don't know what that creature was, but it wasn't a mythosaur. It didn't have the horns or the long face. I don't think mythosaurs had a club tail, either. Also, I don't think Bo Katan could really use the Darksaber to go forward. She would have been too vulnerable as she cut through the metal of the door. Cutting an opening in the back door put the rest of the Mandalorians between her and the enemy, so she was protected while she cleared the way. I don't know for sure that Paz Vizla is dead. Badly injured, yes, but none of their strikes were in vital organs and their weapons cauterize the wounds. Now, how he would be able to be of any help while so badly injured, I don't know. I think that if they were going to kill him, they would have done something that would make his death certain, like beheading him. I guess we'll find out, though.

[@ColvyMolvy]

I dunno, dude got stabbed in the chest (looked like a heart shot) again in the abdomen then again in the shoulder which the blade went in up to the hilt at a preeeeeeetty deep angle.

[@Jethedril]

He’s def dead

[@psychokitty71]

@@ColvyMolvy But he was able to keep going after the chest stab, so it must not have hit his heart. He might be dead, but I'm not going to say that he's dead for sure until they confirm it. Too many times people were thought dead but they managed to survive.

[@psychokitty71]

@@Jethedril Probably, but I want confirmation first. I don't trust them.

[@Dene181]

Clone? :^)

[@zionofwestern]

@30:48 Yes the armorer is Rook Cast - a Mauldalorian from clone wars. Hopefully she'll reveal herself as the spy. She'll join Gideon in the finale.

[@YesterdaysNews]

Congratulations Grogu, you're now a Gundam pilot.

[@Kalmera6238]

Oh dear god no!

[@silverbane1977]

They turned Grogu into Krang

[@stwartic4296]

Paz Vizsla death has left me broken 💔 He had an OG episode only to die at the end. That hurt my heart 😔

[@jonsnow947]

So I thought the Armor was looking to make Din the leader of the Mandalorians but after Steve mentioned the Helmets I think he is right the Armor might be a spy. She did live through Gideon's attack on the covert. I didn't see the interview but have also heard that Grogu was suppose to be with Luke for 2 years or so before getting back with Din.

[@jamesmmcgill]

Plot twist: Grogu will face Moff Gideon but... instead of using his power to crush Gideon, he presses “yes” repeatedly. It is there when Gideon realizes something is not right in Grogu's droid vehicle. Gideon can't do anything but screams before Grogu's droid explodes. Gideon then comes out of the briefing room, half of his face got blasted away. He adjust his uniform before he retired... from life. *BRAVO VINCE!*

[@serial92989]

😂😂😂

[@DarthPlaya]

Favreau cleared it up in a later interview that when he mentioned "two years" he ws referring to us as an audience being away from Grogu and Din, NOT how long Grogu spent with Luke. He didn't give an exact amount of time Grogu spent with Luke but he inferred that it was relatively *very* short.

[@catenystrom6506]

I loved this episode. I think Bo didn't open a hole on the other wall because they would've been sitting ducks for all those guards, I think she was trying to preserve them. I wondered why Grogu didn't do something when Din was taken, but think we're heading up to something next week.

[@jesblazin4163]

All throughout the season Din keeps saying “I didn’t teach him that”. I think that’s building to something

[@JerryCrow44]

Giving Grogu a Mecha-Warrior "suit" is like giving your 10 yo an iPhone.

[@NicholasYbarra-ov8kz]

I wouldn’t have noticed this in the show when watching it but I saw a spoiler before I watched the show on Wednesday and it was that Breaking Bad actor Skinny Pete had a cameo in this episode has one of the Mandalorians on Mandalore.

[@Cetra29]

Necromancer = mages who summons the dead - explaining Palptaine's clone body.

[@JAYWALKER1000]

When Maul had the Dark Saber his Mandalorian supporters put Zabrak-like horns on their helmets

[@ortizmo]

Bingo. I noticed The Armorers helmet from day-fuckin-One.

[@nettieforce1]

The rest of the Mandalorian will be so good!😁

[@MARYWTHER]

By the way, that was not the Mythosaur. Yet 😅

[@frances3064]

The red troopers also protected palpating in ROTJ and Empire strikes back

[@blackyvertigo]

Those that remember the books - Thrawn had both clones and dark troopers. He may acquire them from Gideon next week.

[@clarissa182]

So the entire Grogu taking a backseat this season is allegedly because he wasn't supposed to be in this season. Allegedly Kathleen Kennedy told Favreau she wanted Grogu and Din reunited in Boba Fett, which allegedly almost led him to resign. So, higher ups said Grogu had to be a part of this season, which would explain why he appears to just be hanging around.

[@nettieforce1]

I would have stopped watching with no Grogu! And I don't think many others would have.😁

[@nathanhollywoodbrookshire1417]

Bo didn’t lose the saber the first time in combat, she handed it over to save her people… so very plausible that din would hand it over for the good of the Mando community.

[@17thknight]

Season 1: "He's gonna eat me!!!" Season 3: "He's my grandchild and if he wants an assassin mech then he shall have one."

[@papahamdrew9962]

Anyone notice that Skinny Pete from breaking bad plays one of the scavenger Mandalorians? Because I did 😂 and that wasn’t the mythosaur. The mythosaur is bigger and has horns on the sides of its head

[@SmugCanadian]

So cool they added Captain Pellaeon, one of my favourite EU characters.

[@ortizmo]

Can Mara Jade and Talon Karrde be far behind?

[@michaelgreenwood3413]

He was actually added all the way back in Rebels. This is just his first actual appearance that wasn't over comms.

[@belm7448]

Grogu: Jedi apprentice, Mandolorian youngling, mech pilot. 😂

[@Thurrak]

She couldn't use the darksaber on the other door, she would have created a small point of entry for a legion of troopers to just mow down whoever came through the hole. She made the right choice.

[@brettbarnard4501]

Horned helmets means the Mandalorian in question served under Darth Maul during the Clone Wars. He caused the split between Death Watch and the Nite Owls when he murdered Pre Vizla (a relative of Paz and the holder of the darksaber at the time). My guess is the armor we see Gideon and company wearing is salvaged from Mandalore (there were stormtrooper Mandos in the cartoons so the new dark troopers could have likewise done so)

[@TakeasRealm]

the thing with "cutting the other door open" is: if Bo even tried that, Gideon would probably instantly give order to kill Din/Mando. or, if he doesnt, he would order everyone to fire at the hole they want to go through and without having room to evade or defend themselves, they would all get killed.

[@arobin6695]

why didnt he just order them to kill Din anyway? one mando took out like all those troops, if they rushed in Gideon would be dead.

[@roronoa747]

@@arobin6695 probably wants to make din suffer for all the trouble hes caused. And they couldnt all just rush in unless Bo made a massive hole which she wouldnt have time to do, so the hole made would likely mean they could only go in one at a time, that much concentrated blaster fire at that hole would make them sitting ducks

[@arobin6695]

@@roronoa747 Gideon sliced a human sized whole in steel with the dark saber in like 3 seconds in the season 1 finale. Vizsla was standing there out in the open and all those troopers couldnt shoot him or take him down, the other mandos would have been fine.

[@LM-qi4ng]

Wait, what would Grogru have done? If he lifted the door, they would've been slaughtered. If he would've force choked a couple of guards the rest could've just killed Den. And if Bo would've cut a hole into the other door, all the Dark Troopers would've had to do was concentrate all their fire at one small hole. I hate it too but I think Grogu was being smart/tactical. Love your content. Keep it up.

[@NikkiStevenReact]

how about do something? Anything?

[@LM-qi4ng]

@NikkiStevenReact ...okay, fair. He definitely could've stayed behind for a sec at least. Like the decision was hard. I feel you.

[@AmeerahMuhammad]

@@NikkiStevenReact sometimes not doing anything in the moment is the smartest move. I wouldn’t want Grogu to do something just for the sake of doing something only to wind up getting Din and everyone else killed. Action for the sake of it is not always the best choice.

[@lizmagu3189]

There's a easter egg video on here that talks about the Armorer and her helmet and this episode..

[@QuayNemSorr]

So sad to lose Paz. One of my favorite characters. Fortunately he got to go out like a total boss, died on the home planet and made a legend of himself

[@preciousotoakhia9789]

Legends never die 🙏 blood must be spilled for paz

[@intelligenceisattractive8458]

I feel the saddest for his son Ragnar. That kid has the worst luck. At his Creed/Helmet ceremony a giant dinosaur turtle monster tried to eat him. He loses a training match to Grogu, a toddler. If that wasn't humbling enough, his dad sounds disappointed when he repeated Din's response "One does not speak unless one knows." Ragnar doesn't even get 2 minutes to sulk/reflect on the lesson when a gigantic Shreik-Hawk snatches him up and flies off with him beyond the range of their jet packs. He was kept overnight and at some point he was swallowed by the Shreik-Hawk! He was regurgitated back up and dropped into the nest as food for the babies to eat, got snatched up AGAIN along with his father and had a terrifying free fall before being caught by Din and finally returned to his dad. Now Ragnar is an orphan. That poor kid can't catch a break.

[@sjordan2375]

guy that played skinny pete in BB played one of the surviving mandalorians!!

[@alittlecreepywhenyou]

IG-11 with a force user driving! Lets Go Grogu!!! I knew Skinny Pete was more of a Star Wars kind of guy than a Trekkie. Nice speech from Din supporting his Lady Bo. That helmet Moff Gideons wearing looks oddly familiar. hmmm RIP Paz Vizla. That episode made up for last weeks necessary sidequest. Finally.

[@ortizmo]

Pretty sure Badger was the Trekkie out of those two. 😁

[@alittlecreepywhenyou]

@@ortizmo Precisely! The teleporting pies were more Badgers thing yo, not Petes.

[@RockFan89]

I just realized Bo-Katan wasn't retreating. Moff had sent those fighters to bomb their fleet so Im thinking she was rushing to stop that.

[@serial92989]

Her “No!” made me tear up. So much emotion in that

[@BewareTheJabberwock]

I don’t think that was the Mythosaur… it looked like it had a big lizard head? Anyone else?

[@BJDevil20]

I agree. Not a mythosaur. It didn't have the tusks

[@laurencelauren]

I think Din waited to give her the DarkSaber so that the other Mandolorians that had abandoned her would be on board with following her as their leader because she earned it. I do think that Din did fudge the truth when he said he was defeated by his attacker which is kinda true but maybe not in strict meaning, lol. I DO think you will feel differently about the season as a whole after you finish this episode.

[@Fett411]

I think not much happened with Grogu this season as they expected to have the season without him while hes off with Luke. I think the powers that be above Favreau and Filoni had them bring Grogu back for merchandising purposes and they probably had to add him back in after theyd writted the series, squeezing his return arc into the book of boba

[@kdonig84]

I don' t know about the Armorer theory. Moff Gideon seems Very surprised to hear the two Mando tribes were joined together at the beginning of the episode.

[@misteryman526]

I'm hoping that Bo Katan ends up riding/luring the Mythasaur straight inside the Imperial Garrison and lets it eat a bunch of Gideon's new Stormtroopers.

[@mattzeigler110]

I've been suspicious of the Armorer for the last few episodes. Seeing Moff Gideon has horns on his helmet, made me suspect that perhaps he & the Armorer could be a couple or connected through Maul?🤷‍♂️

[@tjavendano]

Agreed with you guys so much, especially with regards to Grogu. He force - gripped Cara Dune for arm wrestling Din but, now with more force training, doesn't do squat when Gideon is capturing Din? Just seems a bit off. Guess we have to wait and see what happens

[@damnthisuser]

Way to go Nicki. I felt something was off this episode. When the Armorer left and flying to the fleet I thought it felt ominous. I was also wondering given the episode name and seeing moff that perhaps he needed help to make beskar...ur intuition seems accurate. Can't wait to see.

[@ErynRenee]

They hinted that Bo had earned the darksaber earlier in the season because the mythosaur presented itself to her, not Din. And it didn't matter to Din, because he has never wanted to be the ruler. It was taken from Din, and Bo did take it and defeated Din's captor. It was a far transfer, IMO.

[@danielvanous2426]

Was looking forward to your reaction all day long. Especially Nikki’s on “Gundam Grogu” 😀 loved the episode and the reaction! Greetings from the Czech Republic

[@GroovyMee]

All these shows just help make the Star Wars universe deeper and more interconnected. Hell, Anakin's character became one of the best of all time because of Filoni's work on TCW. The Mandalorian giving more info for future events is just good worldbuilding. I'm most excited for the sequels content like Rey Skywalker's movie. All three movies announced actually. That Ahsoka show too. This season of The Mandalorian is different than the previous seasons but I've enjoyed the stories in the show. Especially this last episode. I think most episodes in S3 got me hyped for the future of these stories to see how everything came to be. #StarWars #TheMandalorian

[@brettbarnard4501]

In fairness, Season 1 was structured very similarly to this one. Episodes 1-3 focused on plot, then 4-6 focused on more "Monster of the Week" type shenanigans, then Episodes 7-8 wrapped up plot. Then the villain of the week things were used for new plots in Season 2. Feel like we could see something here, with the filler episodes being used in Season 4.

[@Lunalove24]

It wasn’t a Mythosaur attacking them. It was some other giant creature.

[@masamune2984]

Crazy to me how anyone can’t like Jack Black, but we all have our own preferences! I agree that last weeks episode might have been the weakest of all Star Wars TV, in a season that is easily the worst Mandalorian season (but NOT the worst Star Wars TV season.) No idea who Lizzo even is, but this episode at least was damned good 🙂

[@walteralcaraz5898]

Looks like 3x7 and 3x8 are shaping up similar to 1x7 and 1x8. Both in 1x7 and 3x7, Mando and gang are trapped and Moff Gideon shows up and tells them they are screwed. Shows them too, with lots of troopers. In 1x8, he almost kills them, but they escape with Grogu's help and IG-11 too. Now, if that is any indication, 3x8 will have Grogu in IG-12 do something to help and they escape, but Moff chases after them.

[@mrlol2238]

It would have been better if JB came in as a inquisitor….named Tenacious Dume Ahhss. I hope it’s actually thrawn and not the old empire using a clone of thrawn as a symbol, that would be kinda weak.

[@GibsonGH]

I think the dark saber hand off from the last episode didn't bother me because it fits the theme of the season. The Mandos are trying to set aside their differences, including old beliefs and traditions, to unify and take back their ancestral planet. Din didn't care about the dark saber and didn't want to fight. And Bo wanted to be seen as legitimate and recognized as a leader. The handoff was a compromise in the name of unity, and to avoid conflict, because it clearly belonged to her. It made sense for them to fudge the lines to make that happen, because having a clear leader in Bo was more important than sticking to some archaic rule that would cause more division.

[@redfishrambo5761]

I swear I think the Armorer is the spy, I really do. How did Gideon know that Din didn't still posses the dark saber and that Bo does? Didn't the Armorer convince Bo to gather the mandalorians to take back Mandalore? Didn't the Armorer leave herself in a position in the episode to be close to the Gauntlet and get out of harms way if need be, shuttling the wounded back to the fleet? Doesn't the Armorer wear the same style Mauldelorian helmet that Gideon does? Coincidence? I dont think so personally.

[@smokeem15]

Yes! Plus it was her that told Din to melt the spear down that could be the only thing to affect Gideon's new fit.

[@emilianop.colome735]

Noup, it’s coincidence. The helmet Gideon uses, it’s a reference to Maul’s mando troops in the siege of Mandalore. Also if you remembered, in season 1 she killed stormtroopers so, she isn’t on his side.

[@RebelGaming4U]

@@emilianop.colome735 just because she killed stormtroopers doesn't mean she isn't bad. I mean hell look at the girl in the beginning of the episode. She is playing undercover as if she is on the New Republics side when in fact she is still an Imperial loyalist. You will do anything to protect your cover from being blown. I guess we will see in the next episode.

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

@@RebelGaming4U nobody was around during S1 to witness her kill those troopers. cover is only kept or blown when someone can tell the difference.

[@goransundell7914]

The real armorer could be killed and now the convert have a false withhout nowing it. Another aspect is she could have her own agenda. But what about her endless supply of sacret water? If the planet was cursed and unhabital as she claimed.

[@tomtricity]

We don't have to wait for season 4.... We have to wait for Ahsoka. Its the Filoni-verse.

[@RandomActsofGibberish]

Hey Steven, have you thought that Djin's capture was part of a greater plan and Grogu was playing a part, not letting MG know where his skills are at that time? That's where my mind went when I saw it on the first watch. It is a bit of a trope for something like that to happen these days.

[@jedijessic]

Axe is more suspicious than the Armor. But I'm thinking both of them are red herrings and it is one of the other Night Owls that agreed to go. Plus the Mandalorians found on the planet are suspicious.