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Hey brother!
Guys, today I find myself with mixed emotions.
On the one hand, the Mandalorian is over for the year,
which is so sad.
On the other hand, 2020's over, so.
But I had really grown accustomed to waking up
really early every Friday morning to watch
prime television before you know,
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On the actual other hand though,
oh my god, they freaking did it,
they freaking did it!
Luke Skywalker!
I might not have stopped grinning all weekend.
I mean, from the moment the X-Wing shows up to the
recreation of the Darth Vader, Rogue One scene,
to the like, super heartfelt, emotional goodbye
where Grogu reaches out and touches Din Djarin's face
you're like, oh my god.
I mean, I genuinely teared up.
Seriously though, I dare say the Star Wars Renaissance
is in full swing
and I am here for it.
That said, as amazing as this episode
and the whole season was,
there are still many questions left unanswered.
So today, we're counting down our top seven
unanswered questions from the Mandalorian.
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Question number one,
is Grogu off the show now?
Okay, so the entirety of the first two seasons
appear to have been leading the Mandalorian,
Din Djarin, down a single path
to return Grogu to the Jedi.
- You expect me to search the galaxy
for the home of this creature and deliver it to a race
of enemy sorcerers?
- This is the way.
- I mean, everything he has done
since becoming Grogu's guardian has been in service
to this mission.
This is the way.
But now, as the season comes to it's very emotional end
and the mission is complete, Grogu is with a Jedi,
you have to wonder, are we gonna see him again?
Or will the Mandalorian veer off in a new direction
for season three and focus in on something else like,
rebuilding Mandalore and reclaiming it from the empire?
Actually, I dare say that is exactly
where this show is going but I also definitely think
Grogu is going to be along for the ride.
I mean, I don't think it is a stretch
at all
to say that Grogu has been the most popular
fictional character of the past two years.
And there is just no way
they are gonna drop him from the storyline.
In fact, they could be leading us down a path
where Grogu is the eventual leader of all of Mandalore like,
the title, The Mandalorian could be referring to him.
Which leads us to question two,
is Din Djarin the current leader of Mandalore?
Okay, so in the finale, we learned from Moff Gideon,
the rules, if you will, of the dark saber
and how the culture of Mandalore respects it.
According to him, the blade must be won in some sort of
trial by combat and that whoever owns the blade
is the current ruler of the planet and people
of Mandalore.
It's kind of like the throne in Game of Thrones
or no, maybe it's more like the Elder Wand in Harry Potter?
Thor's hammer that's, you know, it's like Thor said,
"Only the worthy may wield."
Actually, no, you know what?
It's the dark saber from Star Wars.
That's what this is making me think of.
The dark sabers, wait.
Yeah, okay, the dark saber is like the dark saber
that settles that.
So, to that end, in a way, yes,
right now, Din is the current ruler of Mandalore
because he's the one with the dark saber.
But the caveat is, that's only if you believe
what Moff Gideon is saying.
According to him, Bo Catan, isn't accepting it from Din
because she knows you have to win the dark saber in a fight.
But that is just not true.
I mean, the first time Bo Catan accepted the saber,
it was from Sabine Ren and she just hands it over.
So, who knows, maybe she does plan on challenging him
for control of the saber.
But the other possibility is that she's not attacking him
because now suddenly she realizes
he is the ruler of Mandalore.
Sure, taking it from Moff Gideon would have been fine
because he stole it from the Mandalorians,
but Din is a Mandalorian.
So, if she fights him and kills him,
then it's like, a form of regicide at this point, isn't it?
Now sure, earlier this season, she did chastise him
and call him an extremist for not taking his helmet off.
But moments after she refuses to take the blade from him
in the finale, he takes his helmet off in front of her.
So, even as Mandalorians, if at the beginning,
they're coming from two different places,
by the end of the season, looks like they're headed
towards the same place.
And besides that, I just totally shipped
these two characters and if they end up together,
well then that just solves both problems anyway.
And if Din is the ruler and they rebuild
and they have like, a line of succession,
that means that Grogu would eventually inherit the throne
and the saber and then be the ruler of Mandalore
for like the next 850 years.
Sound good? Me too?
Question number three,
what are they gonna do with Grogu's blood?
We know for the past two seasons, that Mando
has been protecting Grogu but from what?
What has been the objective of Moff Gideon?
Well, apparently it was just to get his blood,
which he confirms they did.
- I've already got what I want from him.
His blood.
All I wanted was to study his blood.
- I mean, to be fair, they did once before and they ran out.
So, who knows, maybe this time they just took like,
a lot more but he seems comfortable
with the amount they got.
And what the Empire's going to use that blood for
is almost definitely to create a body for
Emperor Palpatine's like, force essence to take over.
Actually, we have an entire video about this
if you want to check that out.
But there are really two main options for
who they're going to create with Grogu's blood.
The first, is Supreme Leader Snoke
and the second is actually Rey's father,
both of which represent a strand cast,
which is a different kind of clone
than we're used to in the Star Wars universe.
To create a strand cast, they're basically gonna use
the Emperor's genetic profile and combine that with
Grogu's blood.
Basically, what it means is that Rey's father,
the Emperor's son, isn't really a biological son,
it is a clone of the Emperor
who, as it turns out, has zero force sensitivity
but gobs of daddy issues.
Personally, I'm leaning more towards Rey's dad,
just because of Rey and Grogu both have demonstrated
the force healing ability,
plus, I just really like the idea that the two
are connected but both Rey's dad and Snoke
feel plausible.
Which brings us to question four,
where is Luke taking Grogu?
This is very much one of those Rogue One style questions
you have to wonder about.
By which, I mean, as you're watching Rogue One,
you're like, yeah, these characters are great and all
but like, if they're so good,
why didn't they show up in the main trilogy?
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And you sort of have the same problem with Grogu,
like, we know he's adorable, awesome and powerful,
but if he's so good, why isn't he in the sequel trilogy?
Well, there's at least one really obvious answer
in that, we know what happened to the rest of
Luke's students and that's that Kylo Ren killed them.
Does that mean he also killed Grogu?
Because if so, redemption over, Kylo Ren,
you are dead to me.
There's no coming back from that, I'm afraid.
No. No, no.
But honestly, I don't think that happened because
again, Grogu's like, the most popular character
to come out of the last two years
and I really doubt his story ends in an
off-screen death five years ago.
I think it is way more likely that Luke just
completes his training and then returns him to Din
and then they go and, you know, help
rebuild or reclaim Mandalore from the Empire.
And since, you know, almost the entire planet's
worth of people were killed off in a massive genocide,
and they're rebuilding from the ground up,
that is why you don't see Grogu and the rest of Mandalore
taking part in the battle against the First Order.
Seriously, though, the cool thing about Grogu
is his potential lifespan.
Like, have a trilogy where he is the hero
taking place like, 400, 500 years in the future
and he'd still only be like middle-aged.
In his prime.
I don't know who I need to talk to you at Star Wars
to make that happen but if you, like me,
want that to happen, leave a green heart emoji
in the comments right now, please.
Maybe it'll get to them.
As far as I know, that's how these things work.
So, I mean, it can't hurt.
Question number five, and this is the big tuna question,
I'm sure you were all dying to know about,
what about the pearl?
I know, I know.
If you blink, you could have missed it.
Well, I would have been like, a long blink like.
Oh, what happened?
But, you know, it's possible.
But don't think just because you were way back
in episode one of season two that I have
forgotten about you, pearl.
I have got my eye on you.
For those of you who maybe did commit the long blink,
you may have missed it in the aftermath when
Mando and the Marshal took down the Krayt Dragon.
And yes, I am being very generous with the phrase,
"And the Marshal."
But you see the Tuscan Raiders scavenging the body
and they pull out what looks like an egg.
But is actually a pearl.
Seriously though, I am like, 9000% convinced
they had that egg scene with the Jawas in season one
so that you would just overlook this pearl in season two.
Because that pearl is actually a kyber crystal
because that's how the pearls are formed
in the bellies of a Krayt Dragon.
And as such, I feel extremely confident that somebody
is getting a lightsaber from that thing.
My top candidates, of course, include Mando himself,
if Bo ever accepts the dark saber from him,
but he decides he too would like a weapon of such power.
And option two, is obviously Grogu
'cause he's gonna come back and be a little Jedi Knight
and he's gonna need a wittle white saber.
(man growling)
Plus, there's just no two ways about it,
that little ball he keeps carrying around
can, will, should
be a part of his lightsaber hilt.
Like, just, I mean, come at me, you know.
Or don't. Well.
I suppose in a distant third is Boba since he's
already on Tatooine and at this point,
you gotta figure, he probably knows a thing or two
about Krayt Dragons.
Which actually brings us to question number six.
What is the deal with Boba Fett?
Okay, so if you stuck around to the post credit scene
from the finale, you saw Boba Fett walk down the stairs
to Jaba's palace and promptly gun down Bib Fortuna,
who was sitting on Jaba's throne.
A name I feel confident you only know
because you, like me, owned the action figure
when you were a kid.
Please, dad, can we get it?
Uh, who is this?
Oh, geez Dad, it's Bib Fortuna,
the guy who was on the screen for like, 10 seconds
in Jaba's palace in Return of the Jedi.
(man sighs) You never pay attention
to things I like!
I introduced you to Star Wars!
Anyway, after Bib Fortuna dies,
the screen fades to black and the text appears on the screen
saying, The Book of Boba Fett, coming December, 2021.
And since the episodes of the Mandalorian
are all titled, "chapter," it almost felt like,
wait, is the Din saga of the show over?
Are we gonna be following Boba, a different Mandalorian now?
In fact, no, confirmed today actually,
The Book of Boba Fett is going to be its own
stand-alone show.
And notably, not a physical book,
which is what Ben thought they were promoting.
Anyway, it's coming out next December and will feature
Boba and Fennec basically running
the criminal underworld of the galaxy.
Because you see, sitting on that throne, is kind of like
owning the Elder Wand, it's like,
wait, we already did this.
But what's really exciting about this,
is wondering what is Boba's motivation for
doing this?
Because it seemed like him and Jaba
had a pretty good working relationship
and it wasn't Bib's fault that Boba Fett died.
Well, died.
But why come back and shoot up the place?
Well, mostly for power, I'm thinking
and possibly, to also hunt down the man who did
knock him into the Sarlacc Pit,
Han solo.
And wouldn't you know, they recently cast
a young version of Han Solo, look at that.
But really, that's not my main question.
My main question is, number seven which is,
what was Boba Fett up to between this moment.
(small explosion) (man yelling)
(man grunts)
(creature roaring)
(loud belch)
And this moment.
(dramatic music)
'Cause it's been like, five years
and for a guy who was really, really productive this season,
he has made it shockingly little distance.
But first question, how did he survive the Sarlacc Pit
in the first place?
Actually for that matter, how did Bib Fortuna
survive this? (loud explosions)
Did anyone die that day?
I swear, if they bring Jaba back to life.
But yeah, they say Krayt Dragons can eat Sarlaccs
and there's always a bigger fish, we get it.
- There's always a bigger fish.
- But like, how does the thing that ate you
getting eaten
help you?
Aren't you just two layers deep now?
Regardless, I guess we know he gets out but then
he loses his armor to Jawas?
I mean, you gotta be having one heckin' bad day
to finally cut your way out of the Sarlacc's stomach
only to find yourself
in a Krayt Dragon's stomach.
And it's not like the Jawas was aren't capable
of putting up a good fight.
I mean, they defend against Din in season one
before he gets his shiny Beskar armor.
But like, I don't know,
Boba Fett seemed pretty skilled even without the armor.
Speaking of which, are you telling me this guy right here,
who is smashing in Stormtrooper helmets,
couldn't retrieve his own armor from this guy?
For five years?
What have you been doing, man?
That guy barely even helped with the Krayt Dragon
and apparently, you climbed out of two stomachs!
Also like, you had Slave I this whole time
and yet you stuck around on Tatooine?
Why?
Maybe because your plan was to march into Jaba's palace
and shoot the place up?
But why you didn't do it before now?
Again, same planet.
Those people brought him to the pit.
It just seems to me that commanding the criminal underworld
would be a way faster way to get your armor back
than waiting for someone else to come along
and bargain it away from the guy who took it
and then follow that guy to another planet
to bargain with him?
Also, not for nothing, but Slave I, I think on its own
could have destroyed the entire little village
the Marshal was defending.
But whatever, I'm sure we will get all those answers
and more come next December,
which I just cannot wait for.
Seriously, what an awesome time
to be a Star Wars fan right now.
But there you go guys, those are our answers
to our top seven unanswered questions
from the Mandalorian.
If there are any more questions that you want answered,
please let us know in the towel section down below.
Also, just a quick heads up,
this will be the final week of the year that Ben and I
are producing videos here on this channel
but we will be a-back at it again the first week
of the new year.
Happy Holidays, everyone.
Thanks as always for watching today's video.
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in further detail.
But Ben, until next time,
I will see you in another life, brother.