#and idk why i feel like they'll force bo and din to have a thing to kill her next season and make din lead mandalore 'for her'

[yamineftis]

Yes to all of this...

Uh, what I’ve also hated about this season is that now the Kryzes are straight up royals.

Like, idk if it was just me but, I never got that impression while watching Clone Wars, my understanding was always that Satine came from a faction that won the civil war and became their democratic leader. Sure she came from an important clan but she never felt like a Queen, no matter how Elizabethan they tried to make her look, so the concept of royals just didn’t seem to bode well with Mandalorians??? Like, we never saw Korkie as a potential next “duke” or someone in line to a “throne”... and the people turned against Satine when she couldn’t protect them, that just doesn’t align with how monarchies work...

So when Bo got the saber in Rebels, it felt like more of her being the one who cared about the planet and who would use the saber as a symbol to rally the clans together, not exactly bc of legitimacy but as a symbol, they all agreed to follow her.

Now in Mandalorian, at first we got “the heiress” as a title for Bo Katan, but it was never presented as bloodright?, in fact, the show purposefully mocked the concept of princess for Bo through Boba, cuz after she treated him like shit, he called her princess to mock her and it felt right!. We know Bo Katan’s past, she was part of a terrorist organization that helped destabilize Mandalore and then realized the wrong of her actions! She was never presented as an actual princess, “sometimes I think the only thing I’m good at is war”.

But by this third season? they bring up Bo’s father and how she was treated as a “princess” while she took the creed...? They have the saber suddenly matter to the nite owls, who have been loyal to Bo since the Clone Wars? And even went against Maul despite him winning the saber in combat?

And now they batlantly ignore any of Bo’s past failures to make her seem like a competent leader, sacrificing the other mandalorians by making them completely imcompetent? Were they seriously telling us the “best warriors in the galaxy” had been letting their FOUNDLINGS, the thing they cherish the most, be eaten and not try to fucking hunt that bird before Bo Katan appeared??? They even made Din lose the saber in a random way instead of making him a vehicle for Bo and the rest to realize the saber shouldn’t be what unites them? Heck, he had to TRIP into the waters for Bo to see the mythosaur and seem like a “chosen one” so the armorer suddenly just accepts her despite calling her a “cautionary tale”...

And it all boils down to Bo being a royal who deserves to lead for the 4th time, idk royalty and mandalorian culture just seem to dissonant. The show made us believe at least Din’s covert put the creed above blood, ya know “foundlings are the future", with the armorer even saying Bo claimed the throne just cuz she was from a “mighty house” and the sword, but all that interesting conflict was thrown out the window this season 💀

Even the dialogue doesn’t seem to make it’s mind cuz you have Din pledging his loyalty to Bo, saying his covert doesn’t care about blood or lineage...yet calling her “lady Kryze” 💀💀💀

"Every leader we've ever had has wielded that blade."

Literally nobody in Bo-Katan's family except Bo-Katan has ever had it. Satine absolutely didn't and given that Pre Viszla had it and claims it's been in his family for generations, we can probably assume that Satine and Bo-Katan's father didn't have it or anyone else in the royal house of Kryze before him. Which means there is an entire ruling family who have ruled for a few generations that appear to have ruled completely legitimately WITHOUT EVER HAVING THE DARKSABER.

Shut the FUCK UP about the stupid Darksaber, it's so meaningless, just LET IT GO.

Literally, the follow-up to Bo-Katan saying that too many Mandalorians have killed each other already wasn't to say she'd earned it in some random battle against a spider droid creature in a mine, but for Bo-Katan to refuse it and demand to be given the right to earn their trust in her leadership without it. The Darksaber was a Viszla family heirloom, it was used to unite Mandalore once but all it's done since then is tear them apart, and Bo-Katan won't be the person to continue to let it do so. Even if she used it to unite Mandalore, she couldn't guarantee the person after her would do the same any more than Tarre could. So the only way to keep it from happening is theoretically to strip it of its power. Refuse to rule through it.

This also would've been a great place to have them acknowledge something like how the only reason they're putting such heavy emphasis on it is because Mandalore's gone, now. They've lost so much of their culture that the Darksaber feels like all that's left. But Bo-Katan knows better, now. She knows that the spirit and culture of Mandalore isn't in the Darksaber, it is in its PEOPLE. So long as the people survive, so will Mandalore. It's not about the Darksaber and it never has been. She's been clinging to it as a spectacle, they all have, but they don't actually need it.