#i do not like din/bo Katan

[thejediandthemandalorian]

Every week I watch the Mandalorian. Every week my fears/concerns get a little bit closer to happening

[kraftykelpie]

I want to add flat colours to this digitally, but until then, have the clan of three <3 (if it looks sketchy, that's bcos it is <3)

[redbean-nom]

din djarin, age 10: clone wars refugee child

boba fett, age 11: in federal prison for destroying an entire venator while trying to kill mace windu

[thewriterowl]

Din: I just get so nervous when I look at him...what should I do?

Bo-Katan: (so incredibly tired) Just talk to him, I don’t know.

Din: And say anything?

Bo-Katan: As long as it stops you from bothering me.

Din: Alright...here I go. (approaches Luke) Your ass makes me forget about having dead parents.

Luke:....t-thanks?

Din: Did I need to say anything else?

Bo-Katan: I DIDN’T TELL YOU TO SAY THAT TO BEGIN WITH!!???

[ohsnapitzmarvel]

Paz Vizsla and Axe Woves perfectly demonstrating every family game night ever

[padawansuggest]

Din wakes up from a 48 hour nap once a month to Bo-Katan politely telling him what recent danger she saved him from and how Grogu played a major part in it. It’s little brother rights babey.

[sabines-wrens]

“you have done the highest honor of the creed - saving a foundling.”

of all the things that has happened this season thus far this is what frustrates me the most. why is it never brought up that’s exactly what din did when he removed his helmet? like did they just expect us to forget that?? to not connect the dots??

i hope it’s addressed during the finale. if not - then idk. din’s being held to a double standard that doesn’t apply to a character whose entire backstory has been ignored to make her more palatable. and that’s well and truly fucked up.

[n-evermores]

my favorite reason people give as to why Din and Bo can't be a thing is because they're gay as if bi/pan people don't exist or something. I deleted a post a while back saying how biphobic the star wars community is and honestly I shouldn't have deleted because it's true.

[crookshanksagentofowca]

Okay, breaking my silence on this. I think Din Djarin, Bo-Katan Kryze and the Armorer are all aroace and, as such, don’t ship any romantic ships involving any of them.

[zeb-z]

I need someone to call Bo Katan the fuck out this season of the Mandalorian. “Your cult fractured our people, where were you then?” As if she wasn’t an active and conscious member of Death Watch before they wanted to kill her sister, and even then she didn’t leave because of that.

“Your cult fractured our people,” that is soooo rich coming from a former lieutenant of Death Watch, who only changed sides because she didn’t agree with who won leadership rights through combat. It’s crazy how she’s all about tradition and honor, until it’s something she doesn’t agree with. The owner of the darksaber through combat is the rightful ruler of Mandalore, until it’s anyone she doesn’t like, until it’s not her specifically. All for uniting the people, until it means dealing with members of the cults that have fractioned them, and then she’s as harsh and exclusionary as it gets. No uniting her people, only judgement, looking down her nose.

“Where were you then” motherfucker he was hunting for his clan, he was providing for foundlings and family, he was risking it all to save a baby he had just met. Before that he was a fucking kid being indoctrinated by the group that took him in after his family died. Where were you then, Bo Katan? Killing innocents in terrorist attacks? Leading not one, but two Mandalorian civil wars? Losing the dark saber and Mandalore itself?

She wears hypocrisy far better than she’ll ever wear her armor.

[katy-89]

What happened to him where did he go

An episode of Book of Boba Fett used the Mandalorian/Darksaber plot way way better than his own show...

This episode had me so HYPED. All for nothing.

[callmeasinnercallmeasaint45]

Karga coming over with his wine to welcome his guests and seeing all the mandalorians at odds with each other:

[yamineftis]

One thing that is really breaking my heart in this season is how stupid and incompetent they’ve made all the mandalorians, like, are we supposed to root for these guys? Who live in Jurassic Park and claim their children are the most important thing to them, but just stay put and watch them get snatched by giant birds instead of idk, trying to hunt them? Couldn’t they like, have asked Din when he returned the first time this season to help them track the birds with his ship cuz apparently they took the space bus to this planet?

Couldn’t they like, be portrayed as the most fearsome warriors in the galaxy who are in the verge of extinction cuz they’re so dangerous the empire/renmants sends hoards of soldiers to kill them whenever they learn of a new covert? How did these fumbling fools manage to survive this long? lmao why

[thesora]

There are two annoying droids inside you.

One of them sees bo-katan and the armourer exchange looks that last a bit too long and goes: 👀

The other sees din swear eternal loyalty to his lady kryze and goes: 👀

You are bisexual.

[ragnarssons]

you know, actually delving on youtube on videos of people talking about s3 of the mandalorian, i think i actually narrowed the problem for me? and like how people feel like din and grogu aren’t main characters anymore? because tbh, i’d say no character is actually the main character, just vehicules to the storyline, and that’s where it defeats the purpose of the story to begin with? it’s like how the plot drives the show, rather than the characters driving it. it’s the usual problem of writers wanting to put too much in a season. which happens to a lot of tv shows, and can be course-corrected right the next season, hopefully. because yes, you could argue that din djarin and grogu “took a backseat” this season, “they have no evolution” blah blah... but ignore din and grogu for one second. let’s say that yes, bo katan is the center of the season, the main character. what is her journey? what is emotionally her evolution? we see none of that. she’s taken here and there by the storyline, not even fighting it. like on episode 2 she challenges din on his belief system, still mocks the children of the watch, calling their beliefs “children’s stories”. but then at the end of episode 3 (where we barely see her because it’s the pershing episode), she actually joins the covert and is left like “???” at the end of the episode. yet on episode 4, nope, she doesn’t question it, she doesn’t challenge it, she’s just there, because actually the storyline needs her to blend into this group to actually understand their way of life and vision of the mandalorian culture. she loses her ancestral family home, and at no point does the show explore that, the emotional devastation it probably is for her, to lose what could be her last connection to her family that has been wiped out by the empire, the clone wars, etc. on the clone wars and rebels, bo katan is actually a complex character, being challenged by the storyline, struggling and evolving. on the mandalorian, she’s pretty stale because the storyline needs her to be. she’s passive in her own story, taking the darksaber even tho she has shown no prior sign of wanting it (on s3, i mean), getting back with the night owls even tho they supposedly betrayed her and abandoned her. like... no hard feelings about that? since when? and then you have the armorer. if we’re to believe emily swallow’s interviews from the star wars celebration, her accepting that bo katan walks both ways is actually a true evolution from the armorer. her challenging her views, changing her ways and accepting that mandalorians have different visions of their belief system. yet, on the book of boba fett, the armorer was still head-on saying that mandalore fell because so many mandalorians fell out of the way. so why not actually show this evolution through the season? well because the storyline needs to move forward, and they don’t have time to show it. same goes for din and grogu. we have so little emotional scenes of grogu and din, actually being reunited about what is supposed to be two years, grogu engaging on this path of becoming a mandalorian apprentice, and barely any emotional reward to these storylines. again, because the show doesn’t have time. and that’s what has been bothering me about, again, the two big monsters attacks on the mandalorians, we’ve got stuff being repeated, yet not enough time for rewarding, character-centric moments. again, action, plot, over characters. and that’s saying that, looking back at s3 structural intention. and i don’t know what plot-point i would deem uninteresting or not worthy of being on the show. i actually really loved that episode 6 took time to explore the separatists remnants and this whole political idea of the plazier-15 system, so i wouldn’t throw all the episode to the garbage, just like i loved how the nevarro storyline tied in with greef karga giving refuge to the mandalorians. just like i liked how “the foundling” explored this sense of family and belonging amongst the mandalorians as people, together, rebuilding and working together. just like idc, i loved the criticism of the new republic and the complexity of rebuilding after the damages of the empire, that were shown on episode 3. in universe, all these plot points are important to give depths to the background of the story, and what will ultimately be the setting of not only the mandalorian, but the ahsoka show, and the movie that will follow. i’d argue myself that it also tended to happen on the earlier seasons, but we felt it less because it was just din and grogu, with the occasional recurring characters visiting. but here where the stakes are higher, and the group of characters bigger, we feel it more. we have less din and grogu, because they’re part of an ensemble, but also we have no real character, so it’s like, kinda hard to understand why we don’t have as much din and grogu as before, yknow?? i do think the story wouldn’t have felt that way if the writing had been more challenging with the characters’ inner motivations, and not just din and grogu, but bo katan as well. she would have been a more compelling character to root for for “general audience” (who don’t know her from the clone wars and rebels) when she gets the darksaber at the end of episode 6. and yes, din finding a way to have grogu belong would have been more satisfying had he questioned his faith, their clan among the bigger clans and the future of mandalore etc. could the show still do it on s4? i believe so, but it could have been something for s3 as well. i guess then i’ll circle back to saying that either the episodes needed to be longer, or they needed one to two more episodes to this season, and i feel like it could have been a way better balanced storyline, giving to the characters and the plot real time to shine.

[allpromarlo]

i don't even know what to say about this episode