The Mandalorian season 3 just revealed how the darksaber is won!
Yay…finally some clarity in my chaotic Star Wars life.
And it helped me track down who exactly owns the Mandalorian blade!
For a lot of years, Star Wars fans have been a little confused as to how Din Djarin even
claimed rightful possession of the darksaber.
This includes me.
I was confused.
Kind of still am.
A lot of people said Din Djarin won it fair and square.
I thought, “well, that’s just because they want Din Djarin to own it.”
I mean, why not?
He’s a pretty cool character.
His armor is shiny, he’s a bad ass in certain situations, and he is as just as he is cunning.
Why not let him have the shiny toy?
But there are moments in the Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels that lead us in a different
direction, when it comes to the ownership of the darksaber.
Situations that lead us down a path where neither Din Djarin nor Bo-Katan Kryze should
have had it.
Hang on…that doesn’t mean I don’t agree with what’s going on in the Mandalorian.
These are just technicalities.
Let’s forget the fact that the darksaber was never shown as a right to lead prior to
Maul taking it from Pre Vizsla.
As Pre Vizsla and even Paz Vizsla said, it had been passed down in the Vizsla family
for generations.
Yeah, we are going to leave that alone for this video.
I’m tired of talking about it.
And honestly, I think the darksaber should be destroyed.
It’s the only real way to change the significance of the crackling blade and what should constitute
a leader.
Anyways, where was I?
Oh yeah!
Let’s look at a timeline of events.
Maul defeated Pre Vizsla during the Clone Wars and took the blade.
Claiming to be the divine leader of the Mandalorians.
Never mind the fact that we never saw Maul take the Mandalorian creed.
Maul has it…it’s his.
Whatever.
Palpatine…aka Darth Sidious defeats Maul in the throne room of the Mandalorian capital
of Sundari.
Palpatine is then defeated by Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi.
The iconic Mandalorian symbol of leadership should then belong to Darth Vader, right?
Then some speculate it should go to Luke Skywalker, then Luke is defeated by Rey, hey…I didn’t
write the stories.
So, in the end, the darksaber should belong to Rey.
Right?
Nope…no…it isn’t right.
And the Mandalorian season 3 tells us why.
Okay…it hints to why.
Before I get too much into how the darksaber got to where it is today…or yesterday…or
30 years after the Mandalorian…no…it’s definitely during the Mandalorian timeline.
Ugh…before I get into how Bo-Katan Kryze is now the legitimate owner of the darksaber,
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Okay, let’s get back to the darksaber and the Mandalorian stuff.
I’ve been through the whole ownership of the darksaber in past videos.
Who owned it and when and how legitimate their claim is to the throne of Mandalore.
And when it boils down to it, no one should own it right now.
I’ve also made claims that Boba Fett should be the only one to own it and I showed how
his father defeated Tor Vizsla in single combat and it should have passed down to Boba Fett.
But then you have the whole Mace Windu thing, then Palpatine kills Mace Windu, and that
puts us right back to square one.
Which means Boba wouldn’t own it.
But what if I told you the darksaber should still be sitting in Maul’s cave on Dathomir?
Why?
Because no one physically took it from him.
Yes, it’s true that Palpatine defeated Maul prior to Ezra Bridger stealing it.
But there’s a line in the Mandalorian Season 3 Chapter 22 that explains why Palpatine never
owned the Darksaber.
And it’s pretty simple.
Din Djarin explains that he was captured and Bo-Katan defeated his captor.
Therefore giving Bo-Katan Kryze the right to own the blade.
But wait…that’s interesting.
Din Djarin says something that clarifies it all.
He says, “while I was exploring Mandalore I was captured.
And this blade was taken from me.”
Did you catch it?
Ah then, I shall repeat it…”this blade was taken from me.”
The organic skill crane robot thingy took the darksaber from him.
Taken from me…taken…Now, this was a line that a lot of people missed.
But I caught it almost immediately.
I wanted to include it in my review video, but I’m sure you all appreciate me keeping
the videos length shorter.
Anyways, this deserved its own video and I had to go back and watch the other scenes
from the Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels to find clues.
It seems a victor has to physically take the Mandalorian darksaber from their defeated
foe.
And the last character to actually do this was Maul, when he defeated Pre Vizsla.
Anything after that is illegitimate.
Why?
Palpatine never took the darksaber from Maul when he defeated him.
Even if he had, Darth Vader didn’t take the darksaber from Palpatine and Luke never
took possession of it after Vader/Anakin died.
Oh come on…we all know Bo-Katan had it during this time anyway.
Hang on, that isn’t accurate.
Chances are Moff Gideon took the darksaber from Bo-Katan shortly after the Heroes of
Mandalore story arc in Rebels.
I know the timeline is unclear as to when the Purge of Mandalore, or the Night of a
Thousand Tears took place.
But it really isn’t unclear.
It likely happened as a retaliation from the Empire due to the Mandalorians defeating the
Imperial sympathizer, Gar Saxon.
Confused yet?
How the coca-doodle-doo is Bo-Katan not the rightful owner?
I mean Din Djarin explained it plain as day.
Hang on…why is the saying “as plain as day?”
Are days plain?
Meaning boring?
I don’t think they are.
I feel like every time I’m permitted to wake up, that day is extraordinary.
Things to ponder…ANYWAYS!
Yes, Din Djarin did explain it.
But there is the little fact that Sabine Wren actually stole the darksaber from Maul’s
cave of antiquities on Dathomir.
Yes…she stole it.
She didn’t defeat Maul then take possession of it.
She stole it like a common criminal under the spell of voodoo.
So, Sabine Wren never had the right to even touch the darksaber.
Let alone hand it over to Bo-Katan Kryze.
That means the ownership of the Mandalorian sword ends with Maul.
But then people are going to say that Obi-Wan killed Maul and should own it.
Nope!
Maul wasn’t in possession of the darksaber when Obi-Wan killed him on the dust ball planet
of Tatooine.
So, he couldn’t have taken it.
The way Din Djarin explains it, the darksaber has to be physically taken after a victory
over the current owner.
Palpatine, Obi-Wan, Darth Vader, the little bat guy in the Cantina…none of them grabbed
the darksaber.
Sabine stole it without a victory.
By some accounts, the darksaber should still be sitting in Maul’s cave on Dathomir.
Or at least be seen as just a cool trinket to carry around.
If we are going to go by the whole darksaber being this divine right to lead, no one is
the leader…no one is the Mand’alor.
But if we destroy the darksaber and give the throne to someone with the most experience,
knowledge, and leadership abilities…Bo-Katan should be the Mand’alor.
If we go by the Legends stories of succession, then it should be Boba Fett leading the Mandalorians.
If we go off the title of the show, then Din Djarin should lead…just because it’s his
show.
And by the way…it is HIS show.
He IS the Mandalorian in the title.
How do I know?
Turn on the subtitles in the Mandalorian episode titled “the Mines of Mandalore.”
When he and Grogu are exploring the mines, and just before the weird eyeball cage thingy
captures Din Djarin, when Mando speaks, the subtitles call him the Mandalorian.
They don’t have him listed as Din Djarin.
But that doesn’t mean he has to lead.
It just means he’s the title character.
But did Maul deserve to lead the Mandalorians?
Not in my book.
Look, we can debate this all we want.
It’s fun…neat.
But Maul never took the Mandalorian creed.
Not that we’ve seen.
Axe Woves claimed he wouldn’t follow Din Djarin because he wasn’t a Mandalorian.
Bo-Katan rebutted by saying he took the creed and chose to walk the way of the Mandalorian.
But maybe Axe Woves was still bitter with Maul being an outsider.
A non-believer of the Mandalorian faith, if you will.
Afterall, Axe Woves was a Nite Owl and they split from Death Watch when the non-Mandalorian
Maul claimed divine right.
Be that as it may, if you lead Mandalorians, you should probably be a Mandalorian…and
Maul was not.
Not by birth and not by creed.
So, in that account, the darksaber should have went to Pre Vizsla’s next of Kin…Greg.
Yeah, that isn’t a real person.
But that isn’t all.
I said Maul didn’t own it rightfully.
And that’s true.
He wasn’t a Mandalorian.
That means that Greg Vizsla, fictional name, would have been in possession of the Mandalorian
Jedi weapon.
Passing it down for generations until it landed in the hands of none other than…Paz Vizsla.
That makes Paz Vizsla the rightful owner at the time of the Book of Boba Fett.
Din Djarin then defeats Paz Vizsla and walks away with the darksaber.
Then passing it on to Bo-Katan.
Making Bo-Katan the true legitimate owner of the darksaber.
Then the question arises, would Paz Vizsla have challenged DIn Djarin if Paz already
had the weapon?
Nope!
But if we go off the events as presented to us, Paz Vizsla didn’t have to be in possession
of the darksaber in order to be the rightful owner.
Thus losing it to Din Djarin.
It’s all very confusing but with this logic, it shows Bo-Katan as the rightful owner of
the Mandalorian Darksaber.
It feels like Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni are trying to clarify everything and wrap
it up nicely for the story of the Mandalorians to gain some coherency.
But what do you think?
Let me know in the comments.
I still have one more topic to get through though.
And for my next trick, I’m adding a bonus.
For those of you who hate Season 3 of the Mandalorian because Din Djarin and cute little
Grogu have become secondary characters.
You are entitled to your opinions.
And I would never try to change your minds.
But I will ask you to consider this:
The original trilogy was the story of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.
In the 6 and a half hours of the original trilogy, Luke Skywalker was only on screen
2 hours of it.
Darth Vader only has 34 minutes in the entire trilogy.
Han Solo has one hour and twelve minutes of screentime.
So, if we go off screentime, that means Han Solo upstaged Darth Vader as an even more
important character.
That’s weird…George Lucas said that the story of Star Wars is the story of Anakin
Skywalker.
How can Han Solo have more screentime than Anakin’s alter ego?
Because most times, the main character is supported by other characters.
The events in the supporting character’s arcs directly influence the outcome of the
main characters.
Now, in terms of the Mandalorian, Bo-Katan’s actions directly affect where Din Djarin will
end up.
Where his story goes.
Yes, they need to focus on other characters once in a while.
If they didn’t, people would complain that the character has no development.
Season 3 of the Mandalorian hasn’t finished.
And even if it had, the story isn’t over.
So many Star Wars fans complained that the Bad Batch was full of too much filler.
But in the finale, we saw that every piece of that “filler” meant something.
The same will be true for the Mandalorian.
You really think it was pointless and without meaning that Doctor Pershing’s story was
shown?
That it will have no bearing on the entire story of the Mandalorian?
What about the Ahsoka show?
The Mandalorian, the Book of Boba Fett, the Ahsoka series, and I’d wager that even Skeleton
Crew are all tied together.
To have the Mandalorian stand alone in this combined story would make it disjointed.
So, I just ask that you reserve judgment of the Mandalorian, or anything else, until the
entire story begins shaping.
We’ve only seen the beginning of it.
And I promise that every side story shown will make sense.
Just as Din Djarin and Grogu’s arc in the Book of Boba Fett now make sense.
We didn’t like it.
And they could have saved it for the Mandalorian season 3.
But it makes sense how Grogu returned to Mando.
You can like or hate anything you want.
You can even hate an entire series based off one or two episodes if you want to.
All I’m asking is to be patient and let the story form.
For an example, look at a novel.
The Thrawn novels for instance.
Every chapter of the novel isn’t filled with Thrawn being a genius.
In fact, there are a lot of chapters in which Thrawn isn’t even mentioned.
Yet, they are connected to the entire series.
Okay, I’ll get off my soap box.
I shouldn’t be telling anyone how to watch shows.
And I damn sure am not telling you what to like.
But that’s all I have for today.
Let me know in the comments if anything I said makes sense to you.
And you don’t have to limit yourself to these two topics.
It can be anything in the Star Wars universe.
I do try to read all comments and I respond to as many as I can.
So, let’s get the conversation going.
Also, check out the other comments and see if you have any thoughts on them.
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