With the Mandalorian Season 2 episode 4 or chapter 12 dropping very shortly on Disney+,
we’re once again going to make some massive predictions about the future of Din Djarin’s
journey with the child, and how the other well known Characters like Ahsoka Tano,
Bo Katan and Boba Fett will play into the story.
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To begin, we once again got confirmation from Disney and Lucasfilm that the length
of Chapter 12 will be 40 minutes, just like it was in the last episode. Of course,
as usual I would love for the episode length to be around 1
hour similar to how the first episode was, but after seeing last week’s awesome story, I think
they’re definitely managing to pack a lot of awesome stuff into a slightly smaller time frame.
We also know that this episode will be directed by
the man who plays Greef Karga in the show, Carl Weathers.
For this chapter, we were also given the official episode synopsis by Lucasfilm,
which does give us a massive hint to what may be going down. So I’ll read that to you now:
The synopsis goes: “The Mandalorian Rejoins old allies for a new mission”.
So, as you can see it’s a very bland and boring description of the episode, but it does actually
confirm a few big plot points that we pretty much knew had to come early in the season.
First off, it unfortunately confirms that the Mando will not be visiting Ahsoka Tano in this
episode, even after learning her location from Bo Katan in the previous chapter, which of course was
in the City of Calodan , on the Forest world of Corvus. I’d say it’s very possible that we
get a small tease or hint maybe with very quick shot of Ahsoka at the end of the episode, just
like we got with Boba Fett on Tatooine, but we certainly won’t be continuing her story just yet.
We’ll very probably be continuing on that story line in Episode 5, which we know is being directed
by Dave Filloni. Dave Filloni is of the course the primary driving force behind the character
of Ahsoka Tano, along with George Lucas from the Clone Wars series, so he will definitely
want to be directing the episode that gives his golden character her live action debut.
The Other thing that this episode synopsis does point to is that the whole season will
be following a very simple structure of 1 action packed, blockbuster episode,
followed by a less action packed and more cinematic episode, without too much progression
of the story. I don’t mind this format too much, but I would of course like to get back to the Boba
Fett storyline as soon as possible, as well as seeing what moves Moff Gideon is going to make.
Because of the synopsis, we pretty much know that after the Mando zooms away
from the water moon of Trask, he will be reuniting with his crew from last season,
with Cara Dune and Greef Carga. On top of this, because Season 2 trailer only covers
the first 4 episodes from what can tell so far, and we haven’t seen Mando visit Nevarro,
like he did in the trailer, yet, this is where they will end up.
One of the first images we saw from Mando’s trip to nevarro is him exiting the Razorcrest,
with the Child in hand. This is probably just as he arrives back on the planet from Trask,
meeting up with Cara Dune and Greef Karga for the first time in a long time.
Interestingly, you can also see what looks to be a creature frozen in carbonite,
which looks like it’s about to be taken out and delivered to Greef Karga.
If this is actually a person frozen carbonite, then it is almost certainly the same blue Mythrol
character from the first episode of Season 1 of the Mandalorian. We know this because in one of
the shots from the trailer, we see Cara Dune and Greef karga piloting some sort of Vessel,
with the same blue Mythrol sitting in between them. My guess is that they needed some extra
man power taking on Moff Gideon, so they unfroze him and reluctantly allowed him to join the crew.
And bonus points if they pull some sort of gag where he is blind for a short period of time
after he comes out of the Carbonite, as we know how much Jon Favreau and Dave Filloni love their
references to the Original trilogy, even though Carl Weathers himself is directing the episode.
This vessel is probably the transport vehicle which we see in the trailer, racing over the
fiery, lava spocked surface of the planet. This is also the same transport vessel which plunges
down from a platform, and is quickly chased by a horde of stormtroopers on their swoop bikes.
So at this point, the mission is either a success and Mando’s crew is attempting to escape, or the
mission has gone horribly wrong, and they are also forced to escape with a big confrontation.
After this, we of course saw many shots of Moff Gideon’s fleet being completely obliterated,
as well as the crew boarding what looks to be one of Gideon’s ships.
This points to a huge confrontation between Gideon’s imperial remnant
and the Mando’s crew going down, as well as a huge fight going on.
Because we see Cara Dune, Greef Carga and the Mando on board what is likely one of the imperial
vessels, It’s possible that they are trying to gather either intelligence on Moff Gideon,
or weapons for themselves, or maybe even attempting to capture the Moff himself.
If this is actually the case, we’re almost certainly going to see the awesome, ancient
black blade, the darksaber. With the actual name of the weapon being spoken for the first time in
the Mandalorian, by Bo-Katan Last episode, that could very easily be some massive foreshadowing
for Chapter 13. If Moff Gideon is actually present himself during the group’s raid on his fleet,
he will certainly need to defend himself with the Darksaber if things get dire.
Next, we also got an image of the Mando zooming out of a lava pit with his jetpack,
as multiple stormtroopers fire their blasters at him in a rage.
This could be Mando attempting to make an escape after failing the raid on Gideon’s forces, or
he could actually be chasing someone. Because of this, I’m going to make a
wild prediction which I definitely don’t think will come true, but I want to mention it as a
fun possibility. We know that Gideon is very interested in Mandalorian culture,
and clearly has a fondness for the Mandalorian weapons and artifacts, like the darksaber. So
maybe Moff Gideon acquires his own Mandalorian Jetpack somewhere along the line and uses it
to save his own life. This would of course deeply anger Din Djarin, as he despises outsiders wearing
the armor of his culture. This theory is of course probably not going to happen, but there are major
rumours that Moff Gideon himself is actually a Mandalorian and a descendant of Tarre Vizsla,
the first ever Mandalorian Jedi and the man who crafted the Darksaber during the time of the Old
Republic. So if he is actually a Clan Vizsla Mandalorian, it would make a lot of sense that
he believes the Darksaber is his birthright, and would even go as far as to obtain his own jetpack.
And write in the comment as soon as you see this the episode number that you think we will see the
darksaber make its first onscreen appearance for the season. I’m going to say either 4 or
6. I don’t think they’ll pull it out for the Ahsoka episode since the focus will be on her,
unless they put Moff Gideon up against Ahsoka, in a white blade on black blade fight.
There are also some rumours that say Sasha’ Bank’s character, the Nite Owl, Koska Reeves will be
returning for this episode, but I really don’t see that happening as we already saw Mando leave Trask
without her on board, so there’s really no way for her to be there unless she went there separately,
and in that case the rest of the Nite Owls from the covert there would join her.
So, I wouldn’t count on any of them appearing the next episode,
but they’ll certainly make a return later in the season. Also let me know down below which
of the Three Nite Owls was your favourite from that last episode. For me, it of course has to
be Bo-Katan at the top for obvious reasons, but let me know what you think down below!!
Finally, I think that this whole mission will lead to us finding out a whole lot more about
what exactly happened during the great purge, and everything that Moff Gideon did during his
time on Mandalore as part of the Imperial Security Bureau. We already know that he escaped execution
for war crimes, even after rumours spread throughout the galaxy that he was killed.
Maybe the Mando will discover some records or holo documents on the things that Moff Gideon
did on Mandalore, leading him to hold even more anger than he already does at the man.
So those are my small little predictions for the Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 4 or Chapter 14,
before it releases very shortly on Disney+.
Make sure you let me know down below what you think will take place in the episode, and if
you think we will get that long awaited Ahsoka Tano reveal, that we’ve all been waiting for.
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