It belonged to my teacher, Master Yoda.
If you choose the armor, you'll return to your friend, The Mandalorian.
But if you choose the lightsaber, you will be the first student in my academy.
Which do you choose?
Welcome back, everyone
It's Charlie.
This will be my Mandalorian Season three Video about Grogu.
Why he left Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy so fast.
It seems like he wasn't there that long.
Jon Favreau clarified some of this, and it has a lot to do with the way
that they're using Grogu on the show in the way that he's sort of a nexus point
between the Mandalorian culture and the Jedi culture.
And Mando has the darksaber he's trying to bring together all the Mandalorians.
There are also some practical concerns, too,
with the way they move the story through each of the different series,
because Jon Favreau,
who came from the Marvel movies like he did the first two Iron Man movies
he executive produced the first three Avengers
movies through Avengers, Endgame and he's happy.
Hogan In the Spider-Man movies,
he also explained how he modeled a lot of the way The Mandalorian Series works
with all the crossovers in that part of the timeline.
We call it the Mando verse technically, but it's a Soka book of Boba Fett,
the Skeleton Crew series
all taking place in a shared universe around that time period in the way
time passes. So there were a couple of surprises.
Like he wasn't with Luke Skywalker for the amount of time
that people thought that he was with Luke Skywalker.
The Mandalorian Season three episodes are starting this week.
Of course I'll do videos for all the episodes.
Be sure to subscribe to get them all.
It is going to be crazy.
I'll do a special giveaway in all my episode videos too,
like I've done in previous seasons.
But here's the big surprise that Jon Favreau
revealed about the Mandalorian timeline after Return of the Jedi
and how quickly things are moving along since season one.
You know, he is definitely somebody who has spent time in both worlds.
And we know that he started off earlier in the Jedi Temple.
We've seen flashbacks to that.
And then we know that he's been rescued
and spent many years with The Mandalorian, went back with with Luke.
Now we've been two years apart from him.
Their training.
What's interesting is that as he chooses to return to his friend, The Mandalorian,
because he's developed an attachment, it's
interesting how that echoes, in a way, Luke's path when he was, you know,
was drawn to the attachment to his friends and how that helped shape the future.
And what is the relationship of those two civilizations?
Because the Mandalorian Armor, as David's taught me,
was developed to counteract all of the natural abilities
that the Jedi had and made it a more level playing field.
So we have a lot to draw from both from the Clone Wars,
where they both cooperated and fought.
And we also have ancient history, as we saw in games and in extended universe.
So in that clip, Jon Favreau reveals it's actually been many years
since the events of season one. He's going to vague.
When he says many years, I think he means to say 4 to 5 years.
And he confirms that Grogu, who was with Luke Skywalker
training at his Jedi Academy for two years,
which is way longer than I think people assumed
because it seemed like he was only there for a hot minute.
And generally
the seasons of The Mandalorian Series and all these spinoffs are meant to happen
the same way that the Marvel movies and the Marvel Disney
Plus series move in relatively close to real time one right after the other.
Season one came in 2019.
Season three episodes are coming in 2023, so it's about four years.
It's been a little bit longer than that in the universe of The Mandalorian
and Star Wars right now, Grogu left with Luke Skywalker to begin his Jedi
training in Mando had left with the Darksaber
to find the armor and his former cover to Mandalorians
because he still has the darksaber that effectively gives him a claim
to the throne of their home planet Mandalore in the title of Mandalore,
which is what they call the ruler of their people at any
given time in Grogu who had been training with Luke Skywalker on the planet
where he eventually creates his Jedi temple, his academy
that we've seen in the movies.
Luke barely having just begun to construct the actual physical temple itself.
And he had intended for Grogu to become his very first student
at the New Jedi Academy.
Even though so Cayetano was also at the Jedi Academy.
They weren't trying to say
that she was going to become an instructor at the academy.
She was just there for a brief stay to meet with Luke Skywalker and see
Grogu begin his training and then go off on her own mission
that we'll cover during the Ahsoka episodes and that series next year.
Just because Luke Skywalker
is beginning his new Jedi
Academy doesn't mean that Ahsoka is coming back to the Jedi Order.
And that's meant
to dovetail with the reason why Grogu,
who decided to leave the Jedi order and go back to Mando.
It was a great episode.
It featured a lot of Easter eggs and callbacks to Luke Skywalker's Jedi
training with Yoda during Empire Strikes Back in a lot of the exact same scenes
running around in the little Yoda sized backpack, learning to levitate,
balancing himself, using the force while doing multiple things
at the same time, him learning to dodge the training drones Blaster
fire was more of a reference to Yoda's force
jumping and lightsaber fighting skills
during Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.
And for Obi-Wan Kenobi's training of Luke during a new hope
including the size matters not speech.
This is them showing you some of the things that Grogu can do.
We saw some of his skills during the Mandalorian season two,
like force choking and throwing around the stormtroopers.
So he is very powerful and Luke was helping him unlock
a lot of his prior training with the Jedi that he's suppressed is Jon Favreau
said Grogu's training with Luke Skywalker, then choosing to leave
is meant to be a parallel for Luke Skywalker
training with Yoda in Empire Strikes Back. They're getting
the force vision of his friends in trying to leave to go save them.
And even though Grogu didn't get a force vision of Mando being in trouble
during the episode, they try to show you how Ahsoka had to counsel
Mando about Jedi attachment issues and remind him what it did.
And again, Skywalker leaning to him,
becoming Darth Vader, going to the dark side of the force.
She basically explained why she and Luke Skywalker were trying to do
everything they could to avoid repeating that mistake.
And at the end of the episode, they show Grogu,
who is just as preoccupied missing Mando, not focusing on his training
as much as he should,
which is also meant to be another parallel for Mannequin Skywalker.
Yoda had his own version of this speech during Empire Strikes Back, speaking about
and again, Skywalker and Luke Skywalker,
like his father, however,
his mind on where he was,
what he was doing,
that's what his focus comment about Anik and Skywalker
meant when she told Luke, Much like your father,
the double meaning was that she was saying that Luke was much like his father
trying to train
a Padawan for the first time, like Ahsoka was in a sense, first Padawan.
But Ahsoka was also telling Luke that she sees a lot of the same energy
and grogu you that she saw on Mannequin Skywalker, which is kind of a warning.
And this dovetails with a few reasons why they had Grogu
leave Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy and his training and go back to Mando.
Within the story, they're using Grogu as a sort of inflection point,
like a nexus point between Mandalorian culture and Jedi culture.
And they're trying to use Mando with the Darksaber,
which is a Jedi artifact
created by the first Mandalorian Jedi to unite all the mandalorians
the same way their ancestor TAA Vizsla, the very first Mandalorian Jedi, used
the darksaber in his abilities as Jedi training to unite all their people.
So even though Mando is being viewed as the person to unite all these people
or have to do it, really, it's grogu
that the show is going to use to help unite all these different Mandalorians.
Also, there's the idea that Grogu will become a mandalorian Jedi,
just like TAA Vizsla, just not biologically a mandalorian.
The whole idea with Mandalorians like din djarin is that he wasn't born
a mandalorian. He chose to become one.
And it sounds like that's what they're doing with Grogu
who he will choose to be part
of the Mandalorians with Mando, like a family with Mando.
Even the armor basically called him Grogu, whose father you are as his father.
For now.
In the bigger, lower kind of way, it's all about the mistakes of the Jedi
and how their dogma set them up to fail during the prequels.
Like we talk about the Fall of the Jedi and as evil as Emperor Palpatine
and the Sith were a lot of the things that the Jedi wound up doing.
A lot of their teachings were actually wrong,
just in a completely different direction.
George Lucas talked a lot about this, about
and again, Skywalker bringing balance to the force.
And as much as that was about getting rid of the emperor during Return of the Jedi,
bringing balance to the force was also about getting rid of the Jedi
order as it existed when and again, Skywalker became Darth Vader.
The idea that even though
the Jedi themselves weren't evil, a lot of their teachings were wrong.
At the end of the episode, Luke Skywalker forces Grogu
to make the choice between the Mandalorian in the Jedi.
I choose the Mandalorians beskar
armor chainmail suit or choose Yoda lightsaber in the Path of the Jedi.
If he chooses the armor he forsakes the Path of the Jedi as Luke
Skywalker sees it, and if he chooses Yoda's lightsaber, Luke
is effectively saying, You won't ever see The Mandalorian again.
It will take you many years to master the ways of force
and you may never see The Mandalorian again.
A lot of you were commenting about how it's lame for Luke to make him choose.
Like, why make him choose?
Why can't he have both the armor and the lightsaber?
And the reason why they actually wrote it this way, why they had Luke Skywalker do
this is to show you how Lucas repeating a lot of the same mistakes
as the Jedi Order with their rigid dogma about attachments
and he sort of setting up his Jedi academy to eventually fail.
Remember during episode five,
when Mando had the Darksaber and was talking to the armor about Grogu
and she told him the same speech about Jedi dogma and attachments?
Mando argued that their philosophy as Mandalorians was almost the opposite.
It was all about attachment and protecting your clan, protecting your family.
That is the opposite of our creed.
Loyalty and
solidarity are the way in your to remember that Mando is not on the path
to the dark side or anything like he's a little bit darker
as a character,
but they want you to think that he's walking the correct path,
like he might make some short
term mistakes, but in the larger sense of things, he's on the right path.
Whereas Luke Skywalker is just repeating the same mistakes of the old Jedi Order.
We saw how that ended not well in while Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni
aren't retconning any of the new Star Wars movies or anything,
they are preemptively sidestepping them using grogu you.
And here's how they're doing that.
Luke helped him unlock his previous Jedi training, making him much more powerful,
giving him access to more memories that he can continue to relearned Jedi
skills from. So he's just beginning to do that now.
And because Yoda's species lives for up to 900 years or so
grogu's only a little over 50 now he's got over 800 years
to develop his own version of a new Jedi Order
that's totally different from the old Jedi Order.
So in choosing the best score armor, they're basically saying Grogu,
who is going to reject
the old Jedi ways that Luke Skywalker is hyping up in this episode?
So eventually, someday, when Mando dies, either of old age or he dies
in some big battle in Grogu, who goes his own way, focusing more on
deepening his connection with the force, he'll start a new Jedi order of his own.
And because this is more than 50 plus years in the future
we're probably talking about here, unless Mando gets killed really soon,
that puts Grogu way past the events of the new star Wars movies,
effectively sidestepping everything that happened during the new movies.
Grogu off on his own with the help of Force Ghost Yoda
maybe counseling him or anybody that's still alive at that point, maybe Force
Ghost, Ahsoka Pretty much all the Jedi that you know right now would be a force
ghost by that point.
Right now, Grogu, who is the only character
that we know of that we've seen in the context of the show in the movies,
who would still be alive a long time in the future, creating a new, different
Jedi Academy, one that doesn't focus so much on absolutes or attachment issues.
There were a lot of jokes about this, too, after Luke Skywalker
made him choose Why is he making him choose only Sith deal in absolutes.
If you haven't seen any of the Star Wars Rebels episodes either, They introduced
the Bender character during that played by Tom
Baker of Doctor Who fame in the band who was a creature that wasn't a Jedi.
Or is it?
He wasn't a great Jedi either, but he wielded both the dark side
and the light side of the force in a more complete way.
That made him way more powerful.
And I think that eventually, in the distant future of the Star Wars
universe, Grogu will become something closer to the Bindu.
Even if he doesn't become a die bender himself.
Die Bender is the name of the order
that the bend do belong to is Big East Egg for that,
which is actually a big Easter egg
for George Lucas's origin or treatment from the Star Wars universe.
For those of you
wondering if Grogu would ever go back to pick up
Yoda's lightsaber, like would Luke's to let him have it,
I'd rather see him create his own lightsaber eventually.
This is totally different, even though he doesn't have the technical
knowledge in how to actually build a lightsaber force ghost Yoda or Ahsoka.
Tano could teach him how to do that.
If you saw the deleted scenes for Return of the Jedi,
they also had the deleted scene of Luke
Skywalker building his new green lightsaber.
He didn't get special plans in how to build that.
He got some help from Force Ghost Obi-Wan Kenobi in Yoda
so they can do the same thing for Grogu, who in the distant future
when he eventually creates his own lightsaber.
Also, Ahsoka Tano would know how to build a lightsaber.
She could tell Grogu how to do that too.
So there are other force users out there who are still alive.
The Grogu who can still learn new things from while he's
having adventures with The Mandalorian during season three and beyond.
But if you've any more questions about what Grogu
was doing with Luke Skywalker, how long he was with them,
how much training Luke Skywalker
unlocked in him, just write it below in the comments.
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