Main cast: Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian), Katee Sackhoff (Bo-Katan Kryze), Simon Kassianides (Axe Woves), Mercedes Varnado (Koska Reeves), Giancarlo Esposito (Moff Gideon), Emily Swallow (The Armorer), Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (Captain Carson Teva), Carl Weathers (Greef Karga), Brendan Wayne (Mandalorian Warrior), and Lateef Crowder (Mandalorian Warrior)
Director: Rick Famuyiwa
The Return continues from the last episode, with the tin cans just stumbling upon Moff Gideon’s secret hideout in Mandalore so that we don’t have to endure more episodes of people trying to locate him or anything like that.
So yes, Mandy does a few pew-pews here and then, some kicks and punches, and he is saved a few times by Baby.
Bo-Katty gets the final showdown with Moffy because let’s face it, she’s the Mandalorian now, just like how she’s your mom as well as dad and everything in between because Disney only acknowledges women as the only rightful sex to inherit the world.
That is, unless they cast Dylan Mulvaney in some kind of role in the next season, then Bo-Katty will fall out of favor as Disney’s waifu of the season before one can even blink twice.
Meanwhile, Moffy has clones, which are destroyed by Mandy, and Moffy then dies in a most anticlimactic way—thanks for showing up in just two episodes, Giancarlo Esposito—but I’m sure they will do a Palpatine and bring him back again and again whenever they need a bad guy later on.
So yay, Mandalore is the planet of the tin cans again, Baby becomes a tin can, and Mandy decides to head off with his brat to go “find his own way”.
Well, the good thing about this episode is that, hopefully, Mandy and hence myself will never have to deal with Bo-Katty again aside from cameo appearances in the future. Then again, who knows, maybe I’m wrong and the next season is more of The Book of Bo-Katan.
I can’t enjoy the action scenes, sadly, because I’m so bored of this season that I can’t find much enjoyment in anything in this episode.
Remember that scene of that idiot scientist getting framed by what’s her name minion of Moffy? Yeah, it turns out that that scene, which went on and on, has no further relevance to the story arc of this season.
How about Jar Jar Binks becoming cool for one minute of screen time? Yes, it’s also irrelevant to the entire season, just like the whole flashback of Baby about his past.
Perhaps these moments and more aren’t fillers but seeds for future plot lines but they were introduced so haphazardly and then never mentioned again that the idiots behind this show can’t blame people for thinking that these scenes are fillers. These nitwits have really dropped the ball this season, and if they didn’t like the complaints, they can either get their act together or just choke on their ego and hubris.
Oh, and remember Mandy having to redeem his honor in, oh, one and a half episode? Yeah, that one turns out to be utterly pointless because the same tin can hag that mandated this to Mandy had no issues declaring Bo-Katty the new boss of the tin cans because of women superiority or something.
That’s right, the dark saber thing… well, that thing is pointless as well. I hope not many people bought that expensive thing because I suspect it’s not going to have much resale value now.
So, kiddies, what do we get by the end of this season?
Baby and Mandy are back together, but they already had been anyway by the start of this season, so whatever.
Moffy is gone, but then again, he was out of the picture anyway by the start of this season and now he’s out again before he could crap out whatever half-baked plot he had stewing up his ass.
The tin cans are back on their planet, but given how incompetent they are as a cult and a population, they’d probably get killed by some giant Snorlax-like monster within the week. They did say the planet is full of predators, after all. Does anyone care about these one-note tin cans anyway?
In other words, this episode wraps up an utterly pointless season in a mechanical, by the numbers way. Now that the disappointment has passed, let’s hope the next season is a return to form. Then again, I don’t really care, as this season has killed any enthusiasm and optimism I have about Star Wars under Disney, and I won’t be holding my breath hoping that the next season is good.
In a way, I wish I hate this season, because that will mean that I still care about the show. Unfortunately, I don’t. I just feel that the later episodes are a chore to sit through, and in the end, I’m apathetic about the show.
That is perhaps the biggest tragedy of this travesty of a third season. It makes me stop caring, and that’s the worst thing any show can do to a fan.
