Getting Ready for The Mandalorian Season 3

[canyonwalker]

Season 3 of The Mandalorian has started to drop on Disney+. It looks like the first episode was released yesterday.



I haven't started watching it yet. I might watch it in a few days, or I might wait a few weeks so I can binge-watch a bunch of episodes in a few days.

Meanwhile I've read a few articles in my newsfeed summarizing what's happened so far in the series to get ready for watching the new episodes. As I read one of those articles I realized all the stuff it was summarizing about the story of The Mandalorian didn't actually happen in The Mandalorian. It happened in The Book of Boba Fett. Or as I dubbed it, Boba Fett Writes a Book about Someone More Interesting.

I even remade the poster for BoBF/BFWaBaSMI chapter six:



So, to recap, here's how The Mandalorian's storyline advanced in The Book of Boba Fett:

• Din Djarin, aka "Mando", met the two surviving members of his tribe of Mandalorians (there's more than one tribe...) in their new home on a ring-shape space station.


• Mando learned more about the origin of the Darksaber he carries from his tribe's semi-official chief, The Armorer.


• The other surviving member of Mando's tribe challenged him for ownership of the Darksaber. Mando won in a tough fight that showed how the Darksaber must be finessed, not forced. Mando's opponent was physically stronger than him but could not use the weapon effectively because it opposed him trying to muscle it.


• The Armorer demanded to know if Mando has been faithful to The Way. Specifically, she asked if he'd taken his helmet off. He admitted he had. She told him he is banished from their tribe until he atones....


• Said atonement requires washing himself in the sacred underground waters of planet Mandalore— which was destroyed years ago by Imperial bombardment. It sure looks like Mando's own tribe has given him an impossible quest.


• Mando reunited unexpectedly with Grogu, aka "Baby Yoda"— who'd made an interesting choice, choosing Mando's gift of Beskar steel armor over the Jedi lightsaber. Other Jedi said it was tantamount to choosing war over enlightenment. BTW, I call BULLSHIT on that craptastic turd of writing. Grogu chose protection over a literal weapon. Choosing the weapon would be choosing war. Choosing the armor is choosing defense against aggression.

That's a lot! It's almost more than everything worth writing about Boba Fett in his own dang series.