#I DONT CARE ABOUT 'THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU' I WANT TBOBF SEASON 2

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we were robbed by mando s3

i loved the first 2 seasons of the mandalorian. it had an overarching goal to each season and there were fun little side quest feeling episodes that helped us reach those goals and develop the characters and the relationship between them in a way that was just so engaging and kept peoples interest. And if we are being perfectly honest the show could have ended after season two. din djarin got grogu to the jedi. that was what the show had been building to for two seasons, yes he then had the darksaber and had broken his creed but the show really could have just ended there and everything would have been fine. I was not going to complain when they said they were going to come out with a third season and was really excited because I thought that it would be really interesting to see how these plot points were picked up, but I was severely disappointed and have not felt so much rage at a peice of media in a long time.

 the mandalorain season 3 was a dumpster fire it had no direction and each episode i watched felt pointless. i felt that there was hardly any development for any of the characters and somehow it felt too slow and extremely rushed at the same time. it feels like there was just so much missed potential in this season. Lets take a look at the three main things that happened in the season two finale: grogu is now with the jedi, din djarin had broken his creed for him, din djarin won the darksaber and is thus the leader of mandalore. WE HAVE SO MUCH POTENTIAL FOR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT HERE! so i am now going to discuss the way that season three should have gone and pretend that my version is the show that we got.

1. completely delete the book of boba fett. lets get it out of the way, it’s bad. the boba fett plot lines did not make me care at all and I only watched the show because I knew din djarin showed at some point and i was killing time before season 3 came out and i had already rewatched season 1&2. the biggest problem with tbobf is that grogu and din reunite there. its not even their own show that should not have happened. it should have been a much bigger and more emotionally impactful moment with a lot of buildup not a side scene in the middle of a poorly paced fight in a show with a bland plot. 

in all honesty he reunion of din and grogu should have been the finale to season three, throughout the season we could have developed how the characters struggle without each other and how they miss each other to further show the audience that their bond was and still is strong. it would have made grogu choosing to leave the jedi more impactful. 

2. din djarin should not have been able to restore himself to his creed so easily and it should have happened later on in the season at the very least. I had assumed we would be getting some 12 labours of hercules esque stuff, like he has to do a couple of things to restore himself to his creed which would work well with the style of the show as each episode would have different tasks to do in different areas with different people. like the first episode could show him struggling with the darksaber, which is one of the few things i thought was done well in tbobf, meeting with the rest of the covert, it being revealed that he has removed his helmet, and establishing what he needs to do to restore himself to it. then we follow him through the season doing that, continuing to struggle with the darksaber, have him question his creed as we have seen him sometimes do throughout the series, have him try to figure out if he wants to be the mandalor or not/does it out of duty or want (or something that kind of debate like i dont want to but it has been made my responsibility or if he wants to find a way out of it), through this we can also see him struggle with the loss of grogu and the impact that it has on him and the ways that he has developed from season 1 becase of grogu.

3. lets talk about the darksaber now. the holder of the darksaber becomes the leader of mandalore. i personally always enjoy stories where a person who may not have wanted to lead before is put into that position. i like this in stories because it often has the character lead from a sense of duty rather than a desire for power or prestige which aligns with dins character well. throughout hte series we could have seen din struggle with his identity and his devotion to the way, we could see him come to terms with what he wants/will do despite what he wants with being the mandalore, see him use the darksaber in more scenarios see him struggle with it and as the series progressed and he figures out who he is and what the creed is to him the weight of blade becomes lighter and he begins to grow stronger with it. the series then could have had the last or second to last episode being him finally reuniting with grogu making them a clan of two once again, them making it to the living waters on mandalore together and din deciding if he truly wants to restore himself to his creed, or if he wants to determine a new way of mandalore, maybe he decides this and still enters the living waters and since season 3 already reintroduced the mythosaur we can throw that in there but because grofu and din have made their way back to each other they together are able to tame/interact with the mythosaur showing how they are stronger together and how din is the true leader of mandalore.

then we have a more impactful ending than what we got, better development, and a set up for season 4, “how are din and grogu going to reunite mandalorians and rebuild mandalore together”. i feel that the season three we should have gotten should have been something more similar to this. instead we got lizzo and jack black making a cameo, a droid that is conically slow sprint through a city, and grogu force jumps that look terrible and break my immersion.

thank you for listening to my rant lmk what you think should have happened in s3 or if you liked how season 3 went.