With the Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 6, Chapter 14 releasing on Disney+ this Friday,
we’re once again going to break down everything we learned during the week
about the potential plot of the episode, and make some massive predictions about what may happen.
It’s really looking like we’re headed for a roller coaster last 3 episodes!
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I release my Mandalorian Season 2 episode 6 full breakdown video, very soon after it releases.
To begin, we once again got the length of the episode leaked to us early by the German FSK,
which is basically the television ratings agency in Germany. Unfortunately, the episode will only
be 33 minutes long, including credits, the intro and the recap, making it one of the
shortest episodes of the Mandalorian ever. I would definitely love for it to be longer than this,
but we know Dave Filloni and Jon Favreau can fit great stories into small time slots.
So moving straight into the predictions, I don’t think we will be reaching Tython just yet.
The structure of the Mandalorian Season 2 so far has pretty much remained the same,
1 episode of a person sending mando somewhere, and then the payoff to that 2 episodes later.
For this reason, Tython will probably appear in Episode 7, rather than the next.
Because of this exact same reason, I think the plot point about the tracker that moff gideon
placed on the ship of Din Djarin will finally be paid off, and there will be a confrontation with
the Mando and Moff Gideon going head to head. He does now have the awesome Beskar spear, which is
definitely a perfect weapon to go up against the Darkaber. We saw just how effective Beskar
is against lightsaber, in the small stoush with Ahsoka Tano in the last episode. To back this up,
Giancarlo Esposito, the man who plays moff gideon has said in multiple interviews that he has broken
upwards of 5 Darksabers while shooting his scenes… This is just an awesome statement by itself, but
it also tells us a lot about the story. If he has broken that many darksabers, and we still haven't
seen the blade in action at all this season, so it pretty much has to appear in Chapter 14.
Either that, or the whole chapter 15 is just one, massive darksaber fight, but that’s not likely.
I’m also predicting that we’re going to get a larger backstory both Tarre Vizsla and
the darksaber itself. At a minimum, I think Dave Filloni and Jon Favreau will tell the basic story
of the Darksiber within the Mandalorian show, just for those fans who haven’t seen the Clone Wars or
Rebels, but I think they’ll take it a step further and tell more of the story, especially regarding
Tarre Vizsla Himself, the first Mandalorian Jedi, and the Man who created the Darksaber.
As of right now, Tarre Vizsla and the Darksaber is one of the very few pieces of Canon that connects
all the way back to the Old Republic era, and with the Mandalorian being as popular as it is,
this series could easily set the stage for a future old Republic TV series,
Movie or even more games, which many people miss about the current Canon.
Right now, all we know is that Tarre Vizsla was the first Mandalorian to become a Jedi and that
he created the unique, black Darksaber to honor both of his cultures. After the fall of the Old
Republic, and the sacking of the Jedi temple, the darksaber was stolen back by the members
of House Vizsla, eventually going all the way down the line through Pre Vizsla, Maul, Sabine,
Bo-Katan, and now Moff Gideon. Because there is so little backstory surround this absolutely crucial
piece of Mandalorian culture, you can almost guarantee we;re going to hear more about it.
We’ve also had heavy hints from Katee Sackhoff herself,
that Bo-Katan will be returning for future episodes of the show, and that makes a lot
of sense and she was the previous holder of the Darksaber and is actively hunting for it once
more. She’ll probably end up fighting Moff Gideon one-on-one in a traditional Mandalorian battle,
but I don’t think that will take place just yet, it might even be in the season finale.
But I want to know right now, who do you guys think will come out of the ruler of Mandalore
by the end of this season? Do you think Moff Gideon will hold the darksaber and his rulership,
or do you think Bo-Katan will reclaim it, or even a wildcard Din Djarin?
We also still haven’t been filled in about the Night of a Thousand Tears,
many details of the Great Purge and how exactly Bo-Katan lost the darksaber. Because of that,
I think these final three episodes will form a mini-story arc explaining the history
of Mandalore, and how the Purge happened, including Bo-Katan’s loss of the Darksaber.
Following that, we also had a tweet from one of the people who work on animation at ILM,
the same company that of course runs “The Volume” technology and handles most of the graphical work
on the Mandalorian. In the tweet he says “ Y’all in for a rollercoaster these last three episodes”.
I don’t know about you guys, but this is pretty exciting stuff,
and is almost a way of telling us that they are done with the filler episodes for this season,
and will soon move right into the action.
I think all the stuff that has been built up, like Boba Fett, Dark Troopers,
the tracker and will be tied into these last three episodes and really push into a cohesive story.
I also do think this means that we will be getting more live action mentions of Grand Admiral Thrawn
himself. Based on some Dave Filloni comments earlier this week, where he basically said
that the Rebels Epilogue is potentially after the Ahsoka Episode of the Mandalorian, that would mean
that Ezra and Thrawn are both still stuck in the unknown regions. For this reason, I don’t think
we’ll be seeing thrawn in live action in this next episode, but we may get more and more teasers to
his current role in the imperial remnant and his connection to Moff Gideon and Morgan Elsbeth.
Grand Admiral Thrawn clearly has a much bigger role than any of us thought before this,
so his story is definitely going to be expanded upon in the Rebels sequel.
Personally, I think Moff Gideon and Thrawn are on separate sides of the Imperial Remnant,
with Gideon being connected to the more extreme, and fanatical side, who worship Palpatine
and are trying to resurrect him. This faction of the Imperial remnant
is probably what turns into the Final Order and would also have Enric Pride as one of its members.
Thrawn on the other hand is of course more tactical and calculated,
so I think he’s trying to rebuild the empire, but without the spiritual,
force side of things, putting him in stark contrast to the Palpatine fanatics.
This would definitely make for an interesting conflict and I really think they’re
hinting towards it with the Imperial Research and Cloning Base on Nevarro.
Finally, I do think that we might start getting more hints about what is happening with Boba Fett.
For the first 2 episodes of the Season, it was made very clear that Din Djarin
does Keep Boba’s armor, which means it’s probably still on the Razorcrest right now.
We’ve recently heard big rumours that the interior of Boba Fett’s Ship, Slave I,
wass potted under construction at the set of the Mandalorian 2 back when it was filming,
which if true, would mean we’re likely going to see a huge space dogfight between the two.
Honestly it will be awesome to see Slave I make a comeback, so I hope the rumours are true.
I’m really hoping that Boba actually has more than just a small cameo in the show and has his
story arc for the Mandalorian expanded. We do know that he is getting his own standable show,
set as a prequel to the Mandalorian, meaning his appearance could simply be
backdoor pilot for that, but… I think that would be a bit disappointing.
I don’t think there’s any way Boba just allows Mando to steal his prized armor,
so maybe we get a traditional western style stand
off to win back the armor in this next episode, or maybe even the season finale.
I’m also going to go ahead and say that we see the return of a man
everyone has loved since Episode 1 of this season, Cobb Vanth.
The way the episode ended, really did hint at Cobb Vanth eventually teaming backup with Mando,
similar to the end of last season, and maybe even becoming a real mandalorian at some point,
once things get back on track with the darksaber and Bo-katan reclaiming her spot as leader.
But either way, let me know down below what you think will happen in this next episode,
I’m really looking forward to it, since it’s the first episode of Season 2 that we have absolutely
no clue about. With the first 4 episodes, we had footage from the trailer, and Episode 5 we knew
would feature Ahsoka because of Dave Filloni. But from here on out, we’re going in blind!
So those are my plot predictions for the Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 6,
Chapter 14. Thanks so much guys for watching, remember to subscribe to be notified as soon as
I drop my breakdown for Episode 6. Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one!