Season 3 of The Mandalorian has been rocky to say the least but this episode made it all worth it. Not only is the the best episode of the season but also one of the best episodes of the show overall.
This episode started out with the reveal that Moff Gideon was out and working as part of a shadow council of the empire. It started off with a bang with the council talking about the rerun if Thrawn to lead the p empire against the New Republic. This is very exciting as it finally feels we have some direction and stats to connect all the shows together. We know that Thrawn is returning in Ahsoka so it will be very interesting to see how that connects to the already confined season 4.
The rest of the episode focused on what we were promised all along this season and that is the retaking of Mandalore. Bo Katan has managed to unite the different functions in order to retake their home planet. It was very nice finally see them attempt to retake this as we have been promised this since the beginning of season 3.
Before they retook Mandalore we got one of my favourite things of this episode. IG-11 returned this episode but instead of its own self returned as a sort of vehicle for Grogu to control. This was an absolutely brilliant idea as Grogu now has his own little droid and can somewhat communicate. Hearing Grogu talk through the droid was absolutely hilarious. Also it was nice seeing him break up the fight between the two Mandalorians, he would make a great Jedi.
Another aspect this episode had was really amazing action sequences. The big fights involving all of the Mandalorians were just fantastic and provided and really good energy to the episode which the last few episodes have been lacking.
What an emotional ending though, seeing that Moff Gideon had already set up a base on Mandalore and had designed new armour with Beskar steel. Seeing Paz get taken down was so sad. He sacrificed himself to save his people and it was an absolutely amazing scene. Although even though it was really sad it was still cool to see the Praetorian Guards return.
I honestly have no idea how this season is going to end next week, but I am very excited to see what they do after this fantastic episode and how they wrap it all up.
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