![]() ![]() What Up With Boba Fett’s Armor? The Mandalorian, Explained Stay strong, little Grogito papa’s coming to get you! ![]() Plus, maybe we’ll get some help from Bo-Katan and Ahsoka by season’s end? Maybe even Frog Lady can help out!Įither way, we’re gearing up for a rousing, climactic showdown for The Mandalorian season 2, and it’s exciting to see the show slowly morph from its adventure-of-the-week format to something more focused and plot-driven. We see them head back to Nevarro to visit Cara Dune ( Gina Carano), who refuses to help at first (given her new rank in the New Republic), until Mando tells her, “They’ve got the kid.” He also asks about Mayfeld (Space Boston’s Bill Burr) from last season’s “The Prisoner,” so we can presume the Rebel sharpshooter will join the team. The Razor Crest is Destroyed?!īaby yoda What Up With Boba Fetts Armor? The Mandalorian, Explainedīy the looks of it, the last two episodes of the season will be an epic heist, with Mando, Boba, and Fennec at the center of it. We don’t even get to see our heroes take them on before four Troopers snatch up Grogu and take him up to Gideon’s ship. The story for that game involved taking down the Dark Trooper program before it went offline evidently, Gideon has resurrected it. ![]() While we saw them at the tail end of Chapter 11 a couple of weeks ago, here we finally see them in the cold light of day, robotic stormtrooper droids with black beskar-like armor and jetpacks who seem a whole lot meaner and nastier than your workaday troop.ĭark Troopers are a deep cut even for Star Wars lore, created for the mid-’90s LucasArts game Star Wars: Dark Forces, a Doom clone where you played spy and mercenary Kyle Katarn. While Mando, Boba, and Fennec make short work of the troopers, Gideon (hovering in upper atmosphere in an Arquitens-class light command cruiser, which looks like a Star Destroyer but is really a holdover from Rebels) sending down his secret weapons: Dark Troopers. Rodriguez escalates the action here wonderfully, from just showing off Fennec and an un-armored Boba, to throwing Mando in the mix, to giving Boba his armor back and watching him raise even more hell as a result. The E-Webb blaster cannon makes another appearance after introduced with such menace in “Redemption” last season, Rodriguez and writer Jon Favreau treating it with the same destructive import as the Gatling gun in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch. ![]() Both get some fun moments to shine, from Boba shattering stormtrooper armor with his gaffi stick to the fancy flips and boulder-rolling mayhem Fennec gets up to. What follows is a tense but exciting firefight on the hills leading up to the temple, with Fennec and Boba raising mighty hell on two dropships worth of troopers. Good thing, too, as she proves mighty useful against the hordes of Imperials loyal to Moff Gideon ( Giancarlo Esposito) who show up shortly afterward to interrupt their Corellian standoff. Turns out he saved her life, and in exchange, she’s pledged to him in his mission. Lucky for Boba, he didn’t come alone - that’s right, former assassin and sniper Fennec Shand ( Ming-Na Wen) is along for the ride, which confirms that the boots we see walking up to her presumed-dead body at the end of “The Gunslinger” last season were Boba Fett’s. What’s the Deal With That Henge on Tython? It’s a bittersweet moment, one made even more tragic (hey, that’s the name of the episode!) by what happens later. As he explains that the child is too powerful to be trained by a simple Mandalorian, you can hear him convincing himself that it’s the right thing to do. While he was tasked with returning Grogu to his people, it’s clear that Mando has grown attached to the little guy. It’s a bittersweet development, as we see in the ep’s opening minutes Din’s really bonded with Grogu, and the little chuckles he gives when seeing the child respond to his own name (and as they play Force-catch with Grogito’s favorite ball) are absolutely heartwarming. Last week, Ahsoka Tano told Mando ( Pedro Pascal) to bring The Child Formerly Known as Baby Yoda to the planet Tython, where the ruins of a Jedi Temple lay that could give li’l Grogu the chance to connect with other Jedi. ![]()
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