Welcome back everyone it's Charlie
This will be my new Luke Skywalker Mandalorian Season 3 Video.
A lot of people are asking
what's going on with him right now in the timeline, since grogu you left.
So I'll explain because he's still a really big part of the story.
Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni have teased him coming back, so we'll break it all down.
If you're brand new to the channel, I'm doing videos for all the episodes.
Be sure to subscribe to get them, and I will do Ahsoka episodes
later this year when it premieres too, because it will continue to the story.
Like they'll have their own story,
but all the shows in this part of the timeline are called
the Mando verse, so they're all meant to be connected
and move around the same timeline with a few exceptions.
Jon Favreau confirmed at the beginning of The Mandalorian Season
three that the timeline for each of the seasons
was supposed to move close to real time
the same way things do in the Marvel movies.
Jon Favreau famously said he's used his time working on the Marvel movies.
The first two Iron Man movies.
He was also executive producer on all the Avengers movies through Endgame
that when they created The Mandalorian and all the spinoff shows,
they call it the Mando verse, and they base the structure
on the structure of how the MCU works together.
So each season of The Mandalorian, the other shows is meant to be
about a year's worth of time.
So in present day of season three, we're about nine years
after Return of the Jedi Grogu, who was just with Luke Skywalker
at his Jedi Academy on OS's for about two years.
And by the end of the Mandalorian Season three, Grogu will have been away
from Luke Skywalker for about a year, so not that much time has gone by.
He hasn't been gone from Luke Skywalker for that long.
Most of what has been happening on The Mandalorian, with the exception
of going back to course on in the Core Worlds,
has been happening on this far right side of the outer rim,
up and down like the Mandalore planet, The Mandalorian system is way up here
in the upper right
hand corner that's near where accesses Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy.
But a lot of the events of The Mandalorian,
especially the first couple of seasons,
took place way down here in the bottom right corner.
Like Navarro, tattooing
those planets are down here in the bottom right hand corner of the galaxy.
We make all the jokes about how the Armor's new planet is kind of
like the Star Wars version of Jurassic Park.
There's somewhere on a version of Jurassic Park
just getting eaten by animals every single week.
So wherever that planet is, they'll probably reveal it later.
It's probably somewhere else here in this part of the outer rim,
like somewhere in the right hand side of the galaxy.
Originally, Luke Skywalker had planned for Grogu to become his first new student.
Officially, he did train Leia briefly before she got pregnant with Ben
Solo, Kylo Ren.
There's no official date on when that happened, just a date range.
The latest they list is around 11 years after Return of the Jedi.
The way that star Wars records dates, too, is a little bit different
from the way Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni talk about it.
If you look up Star Wars dates, they always list ab
y, which is after the Battle of Yavin, which is about four years
before Return of the Jedi.
But every time Dave Filoni, Jon Favreau talk about dates for the band over shows,
they always use Return of the Jedi as the point of reference.
So for example, nine years after Return of the Jedi,
The Mandalorian Season three right now when things are happening,
would be 13 years after the Battle of Yavin.
So in about two years we'll say Kylo Ren is born.
So as of right now on The Mandalorian Season three, while Grogu
is busy becoming a Mandalorian, getting his pieces of armor,
Luke Skywalker is continuing to build his Jedi Academy on OS's,
finished physically constructing the actual buildings themselves
and he started training Leia, like Leia, has not gotten pregnant yet.
She's about two years out from Kylo Ren, being born.
They haven't featured her in The Mandalorian yet,
but we just went to Khorasan again,
which is a huge hub for the New Republic government.
They revealed the New Republic seat of government
actually moved to Hosny in prime.
It used to be on Coruscant,
so they haven't completely explained when that transition happened.
But Mathema became the chancellor
of the New Republic after they fought out of the rebellion.
Ilia has been her number two, like she's served
inside the New Republic government for many years.
At this point, Luke Skywalker has not yet found any other force
sensitive people to train.
Like I said, he's still training Leia right now.
Like as we're talking,
once she left training to give birth to Ben
Solo, that's when he started finding other children to train.
So by the end of The Mandalorian Season three, we're still about a year away
from that happening.
The events of the Ahsoka series also just charting the next part of the timeline
will jump around a little bit in the timeline,
but the present day of that series will take place right after the events
of the Mandalorian Season three, just because of the way
all the handover shows are meant to move in real time.
The Ahsoka series is unique in the fact
that they're going to pull a house of the Dragon
where they jump mid-season in the timeline,
so there'll be a little bit of that takes place around Return of the Jedi.
Then they'll jump forward into present day grand.
Admiral Thrawn will be the main villain on Ahsoka.
He's supposed to be the major crossover villain for all the mando over
shows eventually.
So he's like the Thanos of the mando verse at this point of the Star Wars timeline.
So that's why they're slowly teasing him out on the Mandalorian.
They've been mentioning him a couple of times.
We'll see more Easter eggs for him during the Mandalorian Season
three, and eventually he'll show up on the Ahsoka series
at the end of the book of Boba Fett, we saw Ahsoka had spent some time
with Luke Skywalker and Grogu, who had his Jedi Academy.
She wasn't there for all two years.
That Grogu who was there, she just visited.
She'd been on that mission to find Grant,
Admiral Thrawn and Ezra Bridger for the past few years.
That's what she'd been doing when we saw her during the Mandalorian Season two,
tracking down Morgan Elsbeth, the agent of Thrawn.
She was looking for more information about his whereabouts,
and that had been happening since the end of Return of the Jedi.
Since this moment here, we'll see a version of this
in a live action, like when I say Ahsoka is going
to pull the house of the Dragon and jump in the timeline
at the beginning of the show,
I believe we're going to see a version of this scene in live action.
So when we saw her during season two of The Mandalorian, she'd
been looking for Thrawn and Ezra Bridger for almost six years.
During this time, she briefly visits Luke Skywalker and Grogan
just to check up on them.
The reason why she told Mando that she couldn't be the one to train Grogu
you either, like
why she pushed him towards Luke Skywalker is because of the trauma of what happened
with an infant Skywalker in his fall to the dark side becoming Darth Vader.
She had so much PTSD that she hadn't fully gotten over yet
that she wasn't willing to take a chance that that could happen again with Grogu,
who they got into this during the Mandalorian season two,
where she talked about
sensing the same fear, the same vibe coming from Grogu that Yoda Obi-Wan Kenobi
Quigg on Jane, the other Jedi master sense coming from Young and again Skywalker.
So if there could have been a 1% chance that the same fate could befall Grogu,
she didn't want to take it.
A soldier will continue to deal with her PTSD and again, Skywalker feelings
during the Ahsoka series.
Hayden Christensen is supposed to cameo in some way.
They didn't say exactly how.
So I'm assuming it's either
a force goes in again in present day or a flashback to the Clone Wars
or a flashback of them facing each other when he becomes Darth Vader.
Maybe if we're lucky, we'll get all three.
That would be really cool.
But when she visited Luke Skywalker and Grogu, who she told Luke
about her mission to find grand Admiral Thrawn in Ezra Bridger.
So now in present day, Luke knows about all the stuff that she's dealing with.
He knows about Thrawn, he knows about Ezra Bridger.
She leaves him saying,
May the force be with you
and telling him that perhaps they'll see each other again.
Will I see you again?
Perhaps
that's meant to mean that they will definitely see each other
like they were very on the nose about like,
Oh yeah, we're definitely going to bring Luke Skywalker back.
They want to set up further cameo scenes like we saw during the book of Boba Fett.
And here's where we get to our major Thrawn crossover,
where Luke Skywalker gets involved with the big battle
against Thrawn in the endgame for all these Mando over shows.
Luke is a big part of this, but for obvious reasons
they want to spend most of their time on all the shows developing Roku, Mando,
the Mandalorians in general as the people Ahsoka, the crew of the Ghost,
any other new characters they introduce like the skeleton crew characters.
They don't want to keep going back to Luke Leia, the legacy characters
every 5 seconds.
Like we don't want to keep going back to tattooing,
but all those characters are still really important to the events
that are happening in the galaxy right now,
so they'll continue to be a part of them when it makes sense.
That's the way that Dave Filoni talks about.
Like, does it make sense for this character to show up here?
The reason Luke didn't know about Grand Admiral Thrawn before Ahsoka tells him
everything is because for all of Luke's existence is a core part of the rebellion
against the Empire.
Everything that's happened to him since the New Hope Grand Admiral Thrawn
has been lost in the unknown regions in most of his colleagues in the Empire.
His fellow officers had even written him off as dead.
Most assumed he'd never return. They just forgot about him.
So when Luke comes along in a New Hope, joins the rebellion with Obi-Wan
Kenobi is push.
Nobody is talking about Thrawn, even the Empire.
Luke never learns about him.
In fact, most of the other Imperial officers
hated Thrawn so much because he was better than them.
The Emperor showed him so much favoritism.
Even Darth Vader hated Thrawn and was happy to see him disappear
like one less person to challenge me for my supremacy.
But now that Ahsoka has learned
Thrawn has returned, the threat of the Seventh Fleet is back.
The empires were surging, trying to reform in the outer rim.
She's told Luke about this and he's at least aware of what's going on.
Thrawn would want to get rid of Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy,
but the location of the academy on Aziz was a big secret that Luke kept from
almost everyone except Leia. Ahsoka.
Now Mando, only a small handful of people know how to find it.
It doesn't appear on a lot of the newer maps,
but it's on all the Knights of the Old Republic maps.
The planet is right
above Antalya on the upper right hand portion of the outer rim near Luthor,
where Ezra Bridger is from, not too far from Mandalore, where we just were.
So it's very far away from the core worlds where most everyone's
attention in the galaxy is on.
Usually you go to the outer rim to hide out.
In Thrawn, for example, was lost
in the unknown regions on the complete other side of the galaxy.
So that's the other big reason Luke Skywalker wouldn't be super
worried about Thrawn. Like, okay, that's dangerous.
We should deal with that at some point.
But he's on the other side of the galaxy about as far away you could get
from Luke Skywalker's academy as you could possibly get.
So Luke is thinking we'll deal with this, but eventually
and at this point, the last couple of years,
it seems like Ahsoka
has just learned that Thrawn has returned through Morgan Elsbeth
and she's trying to prevent him from marshaling the rest of his forces
in that turning into a much bigger problem.
But it's still meant to be very early days for that.
And while we've been watching the first couple of seasons
of The Mandalorian, Thrawn has been pulling strings from afar,
influencing the remnants of the Empire along with Moff Gideon.
The two of them aren't friends or anything like that.
They don't particularly like each other.
It's more of a mutual arrangement.
We're on the same team kind of thing.
They both want
the empire to take over again, but each for their own different reasons.
Moff Gideon wants to help the Emperor return.
That's part of the whole cloning subplot.
Like another wrinkle in that Thrawn secretly hated the Emperor and is glad
he's gone.
He only wants the Empire to return so he can control it the way he thinks.
The galaxy should be run all to the benefit of his own people.
The kiss, his ultimate loyalty is to the ships race.
Everything he's doing with the Empire.
His whole time since the beginning,
after Revenge of the Sith has been to protect his people.
So eventually, once
he does return in force and starts taking over portions of the galaxy again,
all the characters start fighting him in a bigger way.
We'll probably see early theory
Luke Skywalker returning, fighting with Ahsoka, teaming up
with Ezra Bridger to being Grogu everyone who's for Sensitive or a Jedi,
and we'll see some really cool lightsaber battles,
like a version of what we saw at the end of the Clone Wars
with the Battle of Mandalore with them all teaming up.
Picture a live action version of this.
So that's basically what's going on with Luke Skywalker.
Their general plans for him in this part of the timeline the next couple of years.
For those of you
that also really like this part of the timeline,
the way that Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni are dealing with the Mandalorians
and what's happening in Star Wars, this whole heir to the empire
they're doing in live action, the way Jon Favreau talks about it, too,
this could continue for several more years,
like they'll just continue making more seasons of The Mandalorian.
These are the spinoff shows for as long as people
will continue watching them like there's
no hard out date that they have, they could wind up making ten seasons of
People continue liking it.
So let me know when you want Luke Skywalker to cameo next.
Do you want him to cameo
on the Ahsoka series later this year, or do you want them to save him
for a little bit later when they all team up again?
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