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Mandalore the Ultimate was considered one of the most powerful warriors of his time and tended to fight with overwhelming force and war droids. He was one of the last Taung to claim the Mandalore title and was known to some as the "Great Shadow Father" He sought to lift his people from the hole of betrayal and humiliation that plagued them since the Great Sith War With highly advanced equipment and weapons he dominated the battle field. He wore an armor made of Mandalorian iron, also known as Beskar, that was highly resistant to blaster fire, lightsabers, and other types of attacks. He carried a personalized helmet that had a long T-shaped visor and a jetpack that allowed him to fly through the air. His primary weapon was a customized Mandalorian ripper, a melee weapon that could cut through almost anything with ease The Ripper was a large vibrosword that he carried with him during battles. It was a symbol of Mandalore the Ultimate's leadership and prowess in battle. Mandalore the Ultimate had a strong mentality towards Mandalorians. He saw them as the greatest warriors in the galaxy and believed that they should be united under his leadership to conquer the galaxy. He was highly respected by the Mandalorians, who saw him as a leader who could bring them glory and honor. He was also known to be highly intelligent and strategic, able to make decisions that would lead his army to victory. Mandalore the Ultimate disliked the Jedi, as most Mandalorians did, he saw Jedi as weak and inferior to Mandalorians. He believed that the Jedi Order was holding the galaxy back and needed to be eliminated. His strong disdain for the Jedi due originated from their interference in the Mandalorian Wars. The Jedi Order, who were opposed to the Mandalorian aggression and the war they waged on the Galactic Republic, intervened in the conflict by supporting the Republic's forces. This intervention ultimately resulted in the defeat of the Mandalorians. Mandalore viewed the Jedi as meddlers and interfering do-gooders who prevented the Mandalorians from achieving their goals. Additionally, the Mandalorians held the belief that the Jedi's use of the Force was a cheap trick and not a true measure of strength. Mandalore's hatred for the Jedi may also have been fueled by a sense of pride and honor, as the Mandalorians saw themselves as superior warriors and resented being defeated by those they deemed inferior. Mandalore the Ultimate engaged in a one-on-one battle with the Jedi Knight Revan on the planet's surface. The details of the fight are unclear, but it is known that Mandalore was killed in battle, and his helmet was taken by Revan as a trophy. His death was a turning point for the Mandalorian people, who were forced to retreat and eventually lost the war. Despite this, Mandalore the Ultimate is remembered as a hero and a symbol of Mandalorian strength and honor During his reign, Mandalore the Ultimate changed Mandalorian culture in significant ways. He created the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders, a military force that brought the Mandalorian people together and allowed them to conquer other worlds. He also implemented a new code of honor for the Mandalore. Now Mandalore the Great was a Mandalorian leader who held the title of Mandalore in The Mandalorian show on Disney plus. He led a series of conflicts against the Jedi Order in ancient times. By the time of the New Republic, the Jedi had become a myth, though the battles between Mandalore the Great and the Jedi were known to some Mandalorians through ancient songs. He was known to have rode into battle riding a mythosaur, leading the mandalorians. It is is said whoever can tame the mythosaur beast and ride it into battle again one day, will lead all of Mandalore once again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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As they walk through the mines, Mando picks up a dusty Mandalorian helmet, when he’s captured by a large cyborg with a general grievous looking organic eye. Super cool concept whoever came up with this and then got it approved did a great job. I loved this, had some old revenge of the sith concept art vibes. He moves like Grievous, and is literally just a brain with one eye, the rest is mecahnical. Whatever this creature is, he has some very high end cybernetics, akin to Grievous’s. Grogu tries to free mando with the force but fails and so Din tells Baby Yoda to go get Bo Katan. Now some people in the live stream chat were wondering why he didn’t say go get Boba Fett, but I would say because there’s less explanation needed with Bo Katan and the fact that Bo knows Mandalore well. Landing back on Mandalore, she tells Grogu it didn’t always look like this you know, as they land down and go find Mando, heading deep into the mines. Taking her helmet off as she stares at what has become of Mandalore. She says this once was a beautiful city, and that her family laid claim to it all…now it’s just a tomb. She’s quite aware of her surroundings as she pushes Grogu aside and blasts down some Allamites. We see how proficient she is as a fighter and mandalorian as she makes quick work of them without the dark saber at her side. Heading into the general grievous 2.0’s lair where mando is being held, she fights him and then summons the dark saber as she ignites it and moves so smooth and swiftly around unlike Din Djarin who wields it like it’s Thor’s heavy hammer and he’s unworthy as heck. Bo beats the creature twice, once in his grievous form, and then again in his mecha warrior suit. The Dark saber is rumored to be more powerful than a lightsaber blade, but who knows for sure in canon. She seems inspired or perhaps has a nefarious plan behind this but tells Din she’ll take him to the springs he seeks for atonement. Grogu pfffts which tells me he doesn’t trust Bo, he can probably feel her nefarious feelings perhaps. Bo admits as a child she went to the springs to play but as her royal family would have her do, she would publicly recite the mandalorian tenets infront of large crowds. Mandalorian people loved to see their princess do so. The Mandalorian tenets, also known as the Resol'nare, are a set of core principles that define what it means to be a Mandalorian. The six tenets include: wearing armor, speaking the language of Mandoa, defending oneself and family, raising children as Mandalorians, contributing to the clan's welfare, and answering the call to action from the Mandalore. Mando tells her he wishes to have met her father, and that he died defending mandalore. Mando pauses and says this is the way. She realizes how patriotic Mando is, and she seems to like it. I think there’s a bit of a chemistry here perhaps, but a love hate relationship perhaps. They arrive at the living waters, and it’s a dark dungy looking place now. She reads the plaque and it states that this is the place of the great mythosaur, that mandalore the great was able to tame the mythical beast. It is said that if a mandalorian rides a mythosaur, they control all mandalore and mandalorians. I think it even goes beyond the authority of the dark saber. Personally, I think Mandalore the great is just the new canon version of mandalore the ultimate. Mandalore the Great was an ancient Mandalorian ruler who led the Mandalorians in a series of conflicts against the Jedi Order. As Din walks into the water and recites his vow as a mandalorian and the creed, Bo looks on in admiration of his loyalty and passion for Mandalorians. She seems like she really respects it, as he recites and walks further, he drops like a sack of bricks in the water all the way to the bottom surface where Bo grabs him and as she blasts back up to the surface with Mando, she passes a GIANT creature, a mythosaur thought to be extinct! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thank you for listening to today's episode. I hope you have a great day, and I'll catch you in the next one! May the force be with you, ALWAYS! (Originally Streamed Mar 6, 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are so many different Mandalorians in Star Wars and I feel The Mandalorian Season 3 will show us many different factions and sects of Mandalorians. This episode should clear up and explain some of the more notable ones including: Death Watch, Mandalorian Neo Crusaders, True Mandalorians, New Mandalorians, Wren Clan, and Children of the Watch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why did the Jedi and Mandalorians have a major problem with each other for generations? Let's take a deep dive at the history and lore behind these two great factions and both of their reasonings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon Favreau says Grogu trained with Luke Skywalker for 2 years! I must have missed the memo!! I hope they make content around these 2 years that flew by for Mando, Grogu, and Luke! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

as we begin the first episode of the mandalorian season 3, we get the armorer crafting a new mandalorian helmet, ceremoniously welcoming a young mandalorian boy into their creed of mandalorian’s which are the children of the watch. The same as Djin Darin. We also see Paz Vizsla there amongst them, who helped Mando in the first season. He’s pretty cool with his gattling gun. He also is a direct descendant of Tarre Vizsla I assume as they have the same last name. Tarre Vizsla was the first jedi mandalorian, whom i believe Grogu will follow suit eventually. Now, this creed is different from other mandalorian sects, in which a mando cannot remove one’s helmet in the presence of any sentient being. As they say their creed and swear on the names of their ancestors that they shall walk the way of the mandalore, a massive sea monster emerges from the ocean, giving major jurassic park meets star wars vibes. Seeking retribution for his good will, we walks into the cave of the armorer where she says you removed your helmet, you are no longer a mandalorian. if we remember from the book of boba fett, he told her this and she said he’s no longer a mandalorian for this. The reason behind this is because they’re very traditional, they’re not like new mandalorians like bo katan who follow a more relaxed ideology and much less superstitious, but also to protect them by hiding their numbers. For it’s hard to track numbers by helmet as they can all look similar, but it’s easy to count by faces. She says redemption is no longer possible since the destruction of mandalore. He shows her a piece of crystal from Mandalore that Jawas bought from a random traveler. She is stunned to see it as it’s impossible for anyone to take anything from Mandalore, as setting foot on the planet would kill them as it is poisoned. Clearly, it hasn’t been, since he now has this proof. She says this proves that mandalore’s surface has been crystalized by fusion rays, from all the bombing from the night of a thousand tears. They leave to Navarro 7 in hyperspace, as Grogu looks out the window to notice massive space whales travelling with them in hyperspace. These are the Purgil we was from star wars rebels who helped Ezra and took him to an unknown place, along with Thrawn. I like how they showed this, it was a nice scene, and connects Ezra, Ahsoka, and Thrawn to the timeline. Maybe we’ll see them in this season of the mandalorian, maybe we will in Ahsoka’s show only. I guess we’ll see. They head to Navarro 7 where we meet up with Greef Carga again, as he lands down and the town looks really clean and rennovated. Lots of life, merchants, aliens from all over. It’s buzzing with droids and beings. It looks great and very star wars, unlike Kenobi which barely had any aliens in it. We come up to the IG-11 droid statue, where his parts have been salvaged as much as possible, and he stands as a becaon of hope to all for his efforts. Grogu uses the force to spin his chair, which is the same thing Yoda did in revenge of the sith at the end of the film on polis massa, albeit he wasn’t doing it for fun, he just had to turn to talk to Obi-Wan and Bail Organa as his feet are too short to touch the ground. They walk off and Mando gets offered the job of Ranger where he asks about Cara Dune, where it’s revealed she was promoted to special forces when she brought Moff Gideon in. It’s a better send off for Cara than saying she’s dead or something, but I still wish she was in the show and that Gina didn’t get fired. Moff Gideon was sent to a New Republic War Tribunal. Heading to his final destination of the episode, Mando and Grogu arrive to kalevala, another planet in the mandalorian system and home to house Kryze as they come to a Mandalorian Castle…where Bo Katan is kicking her feet up on her empty throne, alone. They gave her a new wig this season and it looks very much like her animated form. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a recent interview with Jon Favreau, he was asked if there's something in the mandalorian season 3 that will break the internet again...just like how luke skywalker returned in the mandalorian season 2 finale and so many star wars fans were emotional...this indeed might just happen again but maybe on a bigger scale!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ultimately, it's about quality, not quantity, that said, it would be awesome to always have more Mandalorian, especially for the first episode. I'm excited to see where the premiere takes us as we are thrust into the story from the book of Boba Fett. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon Favreau talks about The Mandalorian Season 4 script being done and production starting in October of 2023! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New official The Mandalorian Season 3 clip has us with Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal playing Din Djarin) and Grogu / Baby Yoda with Grief Carga. Carga wants Mando to have a place on Nevarro 7, where Mandalorian tells him he has to fix his apostate status since he revealed his face to baby yoda. This must be before he heads to Mandalore and sees Bo Katan in the mandalorian trailers we've all seen. I'm excited for this sesaon, I hope it's a great one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thank you for listening to today's episode. I hope you have a great day, and I'll catch you in the next one! May the force be with you, ALWAYS! (Originally Streamed Feb 13, 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thank you for listening to today's episode. I hope you have a great day, and I'll catch you in the next one! May the force be with you, ALWAYS! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thank you Splinter for bringing us this information and the risk you took at Lucasfilm! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the mandalorian Season 3 trailer we saw Grogu's Order 66 flashback, and it seemed different than the Book of Boba Fett one with Luke Skywalker. Here we saw 4 familiar Jedi who I think are the same ones from the holo recording in Revenge of the Sith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THE MANDALORIAN SEASON 3 TRAILER BREAKDOWN! Man this was a great trailer. Let me first say, the show needs Cara Dune / Gina Carano back in it. Other than that, the trailer looked really good. I think this will be the best Mandalorian season yet. I can't wait to see more of Grogu's experience with Order 66 and how all the Mandalorians unite to fight against the remnants of the Empire. I wonder what happens to Moff Gideon and the dark saber, as it seems Mando Din Djarin doesn't have it on his belt anymore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thank you for listening to today's episode. I hope you have a great day, and I'll catch you in the next one! May the force be with you, ALWAYS! (Originally Streamed Sep 12, 2022) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I hope this is not true. I hope the bad batch season 2 comes out this year, and in the worst case scenario, if it releases in January of 2023, I hope it won't delay The Mandalorian Season 3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mandalorian season 3 and Mandalorian season 2.8 (boba 2) talk today on Nerd Theory (Originally Streamed Jul 18, 2022) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

welcome back to nerd theory, today let's discuss all things new in Star Wars over the last week as well as our request for Celebration. (Originally Streamed Apr 11, 2022) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the coolest ships in Star Wars has returned from my favourite era...the Galactic Republic Naboo N-1 Royal Starfighter. I was so surprised when this showed up in The Book of Boba Fett (Mandalorian episode) and becomes Din's new ship! While the Razor Crest was epic, this ship takes the cake. So here are top 10 interesting facts about the Naboo N-1 Royal Starfighter Notice how The Mandalorian did spins just like Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace? I can't wait for The Mandalorian season 3 to see how Mando redeems himself on Mandalore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the Revenge of the Sith novelization by Matthew Stover, we get a really cool bit of inner monologue from Palpatine when Yoda shows up in his office (just after the transmission with Anakin Skywalker on Mustafar after eliminating the Separatists during order 66). He says this: "But his physical presence was an illusion; the truth of him could be seen only in the Force. In the Force, he was a fountain of light. “Pity your new disciple I do; so lately an apprentice, so soon without a Master.” “Why, Master Yoda, what a delightful surprise! Welcome!” The voice of the shadow hummed with anticipation. “Let me be the first to wish you Happy Empire Day!” “Find it happy, you will not. Nor will the murderer you call Vader.” “Ah.” The shadow stepped closer to the light. “So that is the threat I felt. Who is it, if I may ask? Who have you sent to kill him?” “Enough it is that you know your own destroyer.” I think this is really enlightening (pun intended) as to how Sidious viewed Yoda, that he was a fountain of light itself. Renewed energy constantly flowing in the light side of the force. Does this give a little credit as to why he's so obsessed with Grogu, or rather, why the remnants of the Empire are so obsessed with the the experiments done on Grogu? Could Grogu be more than just a body to clone or transfer essence into? Could it be to, dare I say, find a means of prolonging life as Yoda's ageing process is much better than Palpatine's. Imagine if Palpatine lived to be 900 years old. The things he could achieve would be extraordinary to say the least. I can't wait to see The Mandalorian Season 3 hopefully in 2022 with tons of Luke Skywalker, and of course, The Book of Boba Fett! Let me know on your theories on The Mandalorian Season 3 and Grogu being used for Palpatine's intentions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Nerd Theory! Tonight let's discuss how Jon and Dave are rumored to be moving to Star Wars movies! Patty Jenkins Rogue Squadron is apparently back in action! (Originally Streamed Dec 6, 2021) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mandalorian Season 3 has BEGUN filming! This puts the show on time for a expected release of Winter 2023. I think 2022 will be the most ambitious year for Star Wars with Book of Boba Fett (Dec 29 2021) trailing into Feb of 2022, where we might get Andor next or Kenobi in May, then Andor in the early fall and Mandalorian Season 3 in the winter. I am super excited to see Luke Skywalker, Grogu, Boba Fett, Bo Katan, Moff Gideon, maybe even Ahsoka and everyone else on the show. I am most excited for Kenobi, where we get to see Hayden Christensen return as Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader and Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Their showdown will be the most anticipated fight in all of Star Wars, imo. What do you want to see for The Mandalorian Season 3? Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, we love you, keep doing your thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recently we have news that Mandalorian Season 3 will begin filming in September of 2021. This is a delay of about 5 months from the April 2021 original plan. I believe this will push the show back from a possible spring/summer release to a fall/winter release, if it wasn't already planned for then. The Mandalorian Season 3 would be a nice back to back show after The Book of Boba Fett, but I think now we'll just get Celebration 2022 and from there we'll learn about the full schedule of Star Wars content to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thank you for listening to today's episode. I hope you have a great day, and I'll catch you in the next one! May the force be with you, ALWAYS! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

welcome back to Nerd Theory, today let's talk about the recent news about Rian Johnson wanting to direct The Mandalorian and more news in Star Wars this week. Welcome my co-host and buddy Josh from The Den of Nerds (Originally Streamed Apr 19, 2021) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we'll be covering a bunch of things, including the newly rumored Cara Dune replacement in Rangers of the Republic, Hera. Thrawn and Ezra are getting their own show too? Is that legit? Let's talk about it. (Originally Streamed Mar 1, 2021) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Nerd Theory where today we will discuss the recent interview Gina Carano had with Ben Shapiro regarding Lucasfilm's firing and Ezra being cast rumors. (Originally Streamed Feb 22, 2021) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thank you for listening to today's episode. I hope you have a great day, and I'll catch you in the next one! May the force be with you, ALWAYS! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Rule of Two Nerd Theory Podcast with Josh and myself from Den of Nerds and joining us is our Sith Lord Marc Fernandez. Today let's talk about Gina Carano, Ray Park as Maul and the Mandalorian Season 3 (Pedro Pascal in particular). (Originally Streamed Feb 15, 2021) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

welcome back to Nerd Theory with Josh from The Den of Nerds and myself. Today let's discuss a myriad of things including Jon Favreau's recent interview discussing the future and production of The Mandalorian, as well as a rumor about Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Leia returning to Star Wars from an unused clip never before seen in The Force Awakens. (Originally Streamed Feb 1, 2021) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Star Forges were part of the Rakatan technology thousands of years ago in the Star Wars timeline. Did we see one in The Mandalorian Season 2 with Luke Skywalker? What were Star Forges? Let's learn about them in today's episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Luke at this point is gathering students for his jedi academy. This is true in both legends and canon. This is 5 years after return of the jedi, and his powers have only become stronger since then. The things he’s learned, the texts he’s read from, the powers he’s focused to develop are things we have barely just seen in the finale. So what can he show Grogu? Well, besides the typical training a Jedi receives that we saw throughout the prequels here and there with Yoda, the younglings, and of course anakin and obi-wan, we will see something more. Grogu was more powerful than we see him to be. He had to hide his abilities to stay safe from the empire, if he didn’t, he would have been found sooner. What powers did he hide? We’ve seen him use force choke, which Luke has used as well. Did Grogu learn this from Anakin when he stormed the temple during Order 66 to kill Jedi? Did he see him use that and then copied it? Grogu can toss people around, create a force shield to protect those he loves, and use force freeze. We have to remember, he’s a baby, but he’s 50 years old. He’s seen 50 years of life and received about as much training as Mace Windu and Anakin. This leads me to wonder how he was found eventually. Did he have to use his powers for some dire situation that exposed him? Either way, the relationship between the two will be transformative for both characters. How will Grogu impact Luke? If Grogu saw the events of operation knightfall on the jedi temple during order 66, then what could he tell Luke? Just like he communed with Ahsoka through his thoughts and feelings through the force, how could he do the same with Luke? The two will spend a considerable amount of time together, and Luke may enter his mind to learn everything that happened to him. While seeing Grogu’s path and memories, could he find happiness in seeing Yoda, seeing the other Jedi Masters, until the visions begin to darken, and he sees a hooded figure cutting down and killing his own kind at the temple. Masters, Knights, Padawans, and Younglings…Could Luke jump out of the vision in terror and fear, seeing the face of his father and what he truly did. How will this affect Luke? We know from the comics that he did see glimpses of what Vader did during Order 66, however seeing them from a first person vision while feeling Grogu’s memories and thoughts could be something that truly shakes him up. Luke Skywalker’s jedi temple won’t be a carbon copy of the same stuff we’ve seen before. Luke will use all aspects of the force to guide him, he won’t feel pressured to only use the light side, as at this point, his understanding of the force is that there is just the force, and it’s not necessarily what powers you use that make you light or dark, but what you use those powers for. It’s your choices that determine your allegiance and your heart, not your abilities. Now here’s the issue with why the Jedi were so worried about using anything remotely dark side, because they felt once you use those powers and tap into the dark side, it’s a slippery slope, and forever would it dominate your destiny. I think Luke’s training of students could show a new side. A fresh side of things. The only time Luke used his angry emotions mixed with fear and desperation was against his father in return of the jedi. It was here that he realized, once cutting his dad’s hand off, that if he continued down this path, he’d become just like him, not necessarily a monster or a machine, but someone disillusioned from who he wanted to be. It was this control over his thoughts and emotions that put him back on the path he chose, which was to use the force for good, not evil. Grogu telling Luke about Order 66 could pose the same emotional spike for Luke, or it could resonate the entire theme of the first 6 films, which is that no matter how far you’ve fallen from your way, it’s never too late to make things right, and get back on track. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Nerd Theory!! Let's talk about Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 2 finale with Luke Skywalker, and where this could lead for The Mandalorian Season 3. Boba Fett show also has been now confirmed. (Originally Streamed Dec 21, 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the Mandalorian Season 2, why was Moff Gideon so terrified of Luke Skywalker? I believe it's because he was a Jedi, which are so rare in the galaxy today. Not only that, but this particular Jedi defeated his bosses, Vader (to the Empire's knowledge) and Emperor Palpatine. Not only that, but he destroyed all of the Death Stars (2) (empire's perspective, but actually was Lando) and is now back to claim the child who is also a Jedi. Moff Gideon hasn't been to kind to Grogu, and papa Luke Skywalker is not happy about it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everything Luke Skywalker did to Defeat the Dark Troopers in The Mandalorian Season 2, including, using Anakin Skywalker's fighting style. I see this question a lot, why did the Dark Troopers stop once Luke showed up? My theory is that they were programmed to go after the greatest threat in the area. Once Luke showed up, they either were primed to sense a being with high midichlorian levels, which I would imagine Moff Gideon had implemented into their programming and hardware, like a metal detector, only for blood M count. Or, the most logical, which is that of the 40 or so troopers that I counted, Luke was already busting up the ones in the docking bay, the dark troopers either heard them or they sent a signal to the rest to be prepared. The main change with these phase 3 dark troopers and the ones from legends, are that these ones aren’t lightsaber resistant. In legends their armour could take lightsaber slashes and nothing would happen to them. In this one, they got absolutely destroyed. Now there’s bit of a legends theory I can spin on this, which isn’t true but I’ll explain it to you anyways, in legends you could turn a dial on your lightsaber hilt to increase the strength of the blade, make it longer or shorter. Qui-Gon has this on his hilt, in fact, and so do many lightsabers. It’s possible that Luke switched a setting on his saber to deal more damage, take more power from his kyber crystal, but in return, cause him to be slower. In the legends game Jedi knight 2 jedi outcast, you can actually change your lightsaber stance from blue to yellow to red. Blue yields low damage but you wield your blade extremely fast, yellow is medium, and red yields a super heavy blade that is devastating when clashed. Now I don’t think Luke did that with these troopers, because they seem to be lightsaber vulnerable, unlike their legends counterparts who were more tough, but also less maneuverable. Luke using his green blade was amazing and it made the little kid in me return, again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the mandalorian season 2 finale we got a ton of things that I explained in detail in my breakdown. One of the things I’d like to discuss, for today’s episode, is in regards to Bo Katan not being able to take the dark saber from Din after he yielded. In Star Wars Rebels, Sabine got the dark saber by basically stealing it from Maul’s den on Dathomir, and then she gave it to Bo. Bo was reluctant and said the same thing to Sabine that Moff Gideon told Din, that you it’s illegitimate if you just yield the dark saber to someone else, in the sense that you can’t give the dark saber to someone and automatically claim them as rightful ruler of Mandalore. The saber poses no power, but the story does. You have to rightfully fair and square beat the last person who owned it, who fairly beat it from someone else, like Din did to Gideon, like Maul did to Vizsla. Bo eventually accepted the dark saber from Sabine and she took it, becoming the leader of Mandalore, uniting her people. She did it without beating Darth Maul, or even facing him, and without fighting Sabine. So when she can’t take the dark saber in the exact same circumstance from Din Djarrin, is really confusing to me. I guess she couldn’t take it because there was a witness who wasn’t in favour of her taking it, and perhaps he’d blab about her not being the rightful heir to Mandalore if he ever got out of the jail he’s headed to. To me, I am excited to get more clarification on how they’ll explain this in more detail, because right now, it just seems like she could do it in Rebels, but can’t do it now when Din offered it to her. What I think will happen, well in season 3 I think she’ll either serve next to Din on Mandalore, or they’ll have to actually fight, and if she wins, then she gets the saber and rules Mandalore. Otherwise, Din is the rightful heir, his responsibilities now have his hands full with uniting a world that was taken and controlled by the Empire for so many years, now stripped bare. I think he’ll see Grogu again, but for now, we’ll follow the story of Din and Bo taking back Mandalore, while showing Grogu and Luke training as he builds his temple. Let me know what you think about the whole dark saber controversy going around right now, I’d love to know your thoughts because I can’t think of a good reason why there’s an inconsistency here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Star Wars has never been more alive. This episode meant so much to me, seeing Luke return the way he did. I can only imagine where it’ll lead us. I think we’ll see Grogu train with Luke, and become a powerful Jedi, and he’ll eventually reunite Grogu with his species, well before Kylo destroys Luke’s temple. I know a lot of people were asking if Kylo kills Grogu, and I Just can’t see that happening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ahsoka mentions that Grogu’s memory grows dark and faint after the he was hidden at the end of the clone wars, aka, order 66. He was raised at the Jedi temple on coruscant. Many masters trained him over the years. At the end of the clone wars, he was hidden. Someone took him from the temple, then his memory becomes dark. My next theory here after the Anakin one, is that perhaps Sidious took him. This would make sense since Sidoius was at the Jedi temple after Anakin raided it with the 501st. A lot of people miss this detail, but we can actually see Sidious in the Jedi Temple as Anakin kneels before him, calling him his master. Obi-Wan is watching the security recordings from the temple. If this was in palpatine’s office, which is not in the temple, then it wouldn’t make sense for Kenobi to be able to see this. Sidious sends Anakin away to Mustafar. This is right before Anakin goes to stop by at Padme’s place, before blasting off to Mustafar to officially end the Clone Wars by having Nute Gunray deactivate all droids across the galaxy. So when Anakin is here with Padme. Sidious is at the temple, and it’s this time gap that I’m thinking could allow him to search for any hiding Jedi who survived. Perhaps this is where he senses Grogu. Now how does he know about Grogu? Dooku! Dooku was a Jedi Master who left the temple after decades of being there since he was a small boy, and who is old enough to know Dooku? Possibly to even be trained by him? Grogu. Palpatine was always mulling over the idea of a new apprentice, and in the revenge of the Sith novel, the plan was for dooku and anakin to be alive and serve him. To which of course we know what happened there. I believe Dooku would have told Sidious all about Grogu and how he was immensely powerful, just like his father, Yoda, if that is his father I’m just saying that to make the story more dramatic. Sidious had a personal vendetta against Yoda, so to take his child would be sweeter than killing him. Imagine turning his son into a Sith Lord, or, harvesting Yoda’s genes and force powers for his own twisted Frankenstein abominations. Operation resurrection, perhaps. Palpatine wouldn’t go after just any force user. He needed a being with very high Midichlorians in their blood. Grogu would have been maybe 15-20 years old during Revenge of the Sith, and his force powers were far more powerful than what we see in the mandaloirna. He had to subdue his powers as to not be found by the empire. So what I’m thinking is, he was found and taken from the temple by Sidious, and maybe sent to KAmino to be an experiment and to learn from, and there during the next 35 years until we see him in the mandalorian, he perhaps escaped, and then came under the custody of the remnants of the Empire. Now, Sidious’s clone in episode 9, looks to be about 30 years old. Rey was born in 15 aby, 5 years after the Mandalorian, just about, so this would mean if he was put on Jakku around the age of maybe 6, meaning 21 ABY, then palpatine’s cloned son, Rey’s dad, was born about 10 years after Revenge of the Sith. This means Palpatine was trying to clone himself for quite some time, and trying to experiment with different ways to put the force inside a new body. This could give life to this theory that Palpatine did indeed take Grogu from the temple. Personally, I like the palpatine theory. If he took him, he’d just run tests on him as much as he could, perhaps keeping Grogu alive so that his body would grow, allowing the empire to harvest more of his blood as it grew. Perhaps this is why they didn’t just kill him off. They tried with other things as much as they could, but they ultimately knew that if they killed the child, they wouldn’t find another entity with as high of a force power in their blood. This actually could all be plausible, or, Grogu went wandering alone through the galaxy once the empire was destroyed, only to be put into Gideon’s control. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Nerd Theory for this week's second podcast where we'll speculate where the season finale for The Mandalorian is headed! Let's theory! (Originally Streamed Dec 16, 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the mandalorian season 2 episode 7 we went to morak to learn the location of moff Gideon’s ship. In doing so, we saw this quick one second image on screen of where he is in the galaxy. I spent the last several hours trying to figure out where exactly this could be and I’ve narrowed it down to all possible places that he could be heading according to each direction the triangle could be pointing and how it fits in with canon and legends to maybe give us an idea of where he’s going and where the season finale could end. Narshadda was the moon revolving around Nal hutta basically coruscant’s underworld full of crime and violence, except the entire planet, added to that it was filled with smog and trash. It was the top spot for the Hutt’s to do their business. During 10 ABY, which is exactly the time we are in, during legends, Leia and Han Solo were on this planet and ran into a lot of trouble. This is also the planet where Leia gets her ancient lightsaber from an old survivor of Order 66, vima da boda. On the planet, Boba Fett is also waiting for Solo as he hunts him down. I think if Moff Gideon is going here, we could see Leia and Han again, and Boba will maybe stop his mission with Mando to seize Solo. I could see Gideon having a base here for the child to extract his blood and transfuse it with the host or hosts that he may have. The end of the season could end with a clone body of some new species powerful in the force waking up, or, it could be a clone of someone we know, like Darth maul, Luke, Anakin, or a young palpatine, perhaps. Let’s say it’s not nar shadda, then he could be going downwards towards Daalang. The Now if he goes to Daalang, it would land him on a hyperspace route to Kamino. This, of course, is the hub for cloning and where the clones were created. This would make the most sense as we know there’s a huge cloning project going on with the season revolving around harvesting the child’s blood rich in a high midichlorian count, or in other words, high force energy count. Who knows what memories returning to the cloning facility will spike for Boba. Maybe we’ll see the old kaminoans once again. Now in the plagueis novel, the kaminoans were trying to clone other beings, some with shovels for hands for digging and mining. They were experimenting with abominations, however they realized human clones were much easier and straight forward to create. In the vats we saw in the Mando episode 4, one looked like a zabrak in the concept art, and another like a twi-lek, could that be talon, perhaps? George Lucas, allegedly, wanted to make the sequels to have maul train a young apprentice named Darth talon, with Luke gathering students and survivors from order 66. Could this show take us through that journey until the sequels? Now further down, we see another planet and this could be Vandor, which in legends is another imperial outpost where they captured Lando and the Falcon. I don’t see the significance of this place, but not every place has to be a place of old or to remind us of nostalgia. It can be a new world, which is cool too. If he’s not headed to those locations, then he’s going to what I think is Hapes near Onderron. Hapes was an inner rim planet They manufactured starship components. This is where Dr. Aphra, the archaeologist hired by Vader after episode 4, got some of the parts necessary for her ship, the ark angel. Elsbeth has a connection to ships built an industry that helped build the imperial starfleet. All locations point towards seeing some characters from the original or prequel trilogy, so I think going to Nar Shadda is probably the most likely, and if not, then Kamino. I feel like the remnants of the Empire can do what they want more freely on such a crime infested world without laws like Nar Shadda. Also seeing Han Solo and Boba together will surely make the mission go sideways, that is, if they want to stick with legends and if this is at that exact moment in time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Karthon chop fields as we see prison inmates serving time by dissasembling imperial machines, namely, tie fighters, as we even see ATAT’s repurposed in the background as cranes. As the droid walks up to Mayfeld, he tells him to salute Marshall dune, where she remands him in her custody. As they walk around the corner, they meet up with the crew, as we see the beautiful Slave 1, and of course Boba Fett, who repainted his rusted up armour. I like the look, it looks like he’s going for some batman matte green vibes. I love it. As they head to Morak, Boba tells us that Morak is mining Rhydonium Mando and Mayfeld get in the trooper suits, as we all know, he can’t show his face as part of his creed from death watch. Now Death Watch changed their rules after order 66 to reserve their identity and numbers, since the empire were against them, that’s my theory at least, until we know more for sure. As Mando and Mayfeld head inside to stormtroopers celebrating, they head for a terminal. Fennec and Cara stand guard outside, aim down their sights. As Mando and Mayfeld sith for drinks with the commander for drinks, Mayfeld says they should toast to operation cinder. Now operation cinder is a reference to when we learned about that during battlefront 2 campaign. Operation cinder was part of palpatine’s contingency plan to be carried out should he ever die. It was essentially that the empire’s enemies shouldn’t survive if he didn’t. So they set up massive satellites above planets and fired red lasers to mess around with the planet’s weather, basically causing Mother Nature on every planet to go absolutely insane and destroy itself in a blaze of fire and storm. Valin Hess says wow you know your history, when he says he was there during burnin konn, which was one of the planets they executed operation cinder upon. The people who died were around 5-10000, including many imperial troops. Valin Hess approved operation cinder on the planet, and you can tell Mayfeld is hit with some PTSD. Bill Burr at this point is giving an incredible performance man I gotta say, they guy did his homework for sure. As Valin Hess defends his actions of murder, he talks about how he made decisions to be where they are today, and the rhydonium that they just delivered, will make burnin konn look like nothing. To the empire, Hess says as he raises his glass, only to be blasted in the chest by Mayfeld a second later. The two shoot their way out of there, heading onto the ledge as Cara and Fennec offer sniper support ontop of the hill. Boba flies in and the boys head up to the ship as they leap into it while blasting troopers all around them. Mayfeld snipes the rhydonium far away and blows up the whole compound. As Boba escapes, two tie-fighters head straight for him, when he releases a seismic charge, which is the best sound in Star Wars. Shout out to all my prequelers who saw episode 2 in the theatre where we all lost some hearing when Jango dropped a couple of those on Kenobi in the asteroid field. Like music to my audio receptors. They meet up with fennec and cara, as they let Mayfeld go for a job well done. Claiming he died in the base’s destruction. Mayfeld probably gets off the planet somehow, and maybe we’ll see him again someday. Thank you for listening to today's episode. I hope you have a great day, and I'll catch you in the next one! May the force be with you, ALWAYS!Mando tells Cara he has the coordinates for Moff Gideon, and the slave one blasts off with that beautiful iconic blast off into the sky. We enter moff Gideon’s light cruiser as his officer informs him of a message and pops Mando’s hologram up on the desk. Mando recites the exact same lines Moff Gideon tells him in Season 1 episode 7, the same episode number as this one. Mof Gideon, you have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you’re in possession of. But you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. He means more to me than you will ever know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All of season 2 has revolved around the Jedi and reuniting Grogu with them. With boba, bo katan and Ashoka showing up, I can’t imagine who will arrive next. While I want to see Luke Skywalker again more than anything, I have to say one Jedi I do think could answer the call from Grogu on Tython is Cal Kestis. There are a few reasons that he in particular might come, and I think it’ll make a lot of sense once you reach the end of my explanations. Cal Kestis was a Jedi who survived order 66, this puts him as a possible candidate for knowing who Grogu was, especially seeing as how he was quite young when it happened, around the age of 12. Which makes him 17 once fallen order happens, which is 5 years after revenge of the Sith. I don’t think he was the one who saved Grogu, but they might have known each other, and shared a strong connection. Cal had a power called Psychometry. This was a super rare ability granted to very few Jedi. One other Jedi who had this, was Quinlan Voss who used it in the clone wars. Psychometry is the power of seeing the history of an object upon first touching it. If Cal were to sense the familiarity of Grogu’s presence reaching out on the seeing stone in the force, he would answer the call. He’d arrive on Tython and even though the dark troopers took Grogu to Moff Gideon, and Mando Boba and Fennec had left, all he’d need to do was touch the seeing stone to get a flash of everything that had just happened there. He’d see and feel what Grogu saw and felt. He would go over to the crater of the Razor crest’s remains, and he would touch the scorched earth, only to feel who destroyed the ship that belonged to Din Djarrin. He would sense the urgency of the matter, and he would answer the call of duty. Another reason it could be Cal, is because Jedi Fallen order ended in the beautiful realization that force sensitive children who escaped Order 66 are still out there in the galaxy, and Jedi Fallen Order 2 will basically be that story of him finding these lost younglings and padawans throughout the galaxy. Cal’s Jedi Master, who unfortunately died, while protecting the young Cal Kestis from the clone troopers, a Lasat male named Jaro Tapal, taught his padawan how to be courageous and focus on the good things in the galaxy, but also how to embrace failure as a learning opportunity. Because of his Master’s teaching, Cal spends his time helping others and trusting in the Force which is what lead him to Jedi Knight Cere Junda and her mission to secretly restore the Jedi Order. Morgan Elsbeth. During the Clone Wars, her people were massacred. She survived, and let her anger fuel an industry which helped build the Imperial Starfleet. She plundered worlds, destroying them in the process. Could she be in charge of some line of the Kuat Drive Yards. Now check this, one of the artists who did Inosanto's hair and makeup was done by Maria Sandoval. According to Sandoval, Elsbeth was one of the last survivors of Dathomir. Dathomir played a large chapter in Jedi Fallen Order with Merrin. Merrin must have known Elsbeth as well. There are a lot of connections between these people in such a large galaxy that makes me really think Cal could actually show up. Grogu sits on the seeing stone, which lights up in the ancient runes that we see all throughout Jedi Fallen Order. Like was Grogu saving his progressing and adding to his skill tree atop the stone? The lore being used is one and the same I think, so it actually makes me think, Cal might be just as logical of a Jedi to arrive, than Luke. In fact, maybe even more logical. He could show up in the end, only to help save the day, and name drop master Skywalker, who has sent him to recruit lost force sensitives throughout the galaxy. The only problem is, they’ll have to kill Cal Kestis off before the sequels start, otherwise it’d be too weird with him not around if he ends up being part of the story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I just got my art of the mandalorian book in the mail today which is a really nice book, I highly recommend checking it out, there’s tons of early sketches here as the show was in its earliest production and you really get a feel for how detailed and creative Jon favreau is with how he wanted everything to look and feel. Today’s episode is going to take a piece from the book and discuss one sketch I found particularly interesting. Now if you didn’t see the name of the channel already, then let me just say this is nothing but a theory and should remain as such. That said, this one really has me thinking and it makes me uneasy. During the team’s original conception of creating Baby Yoda, which they in fact refer to in the book as baby Yoda until his name was later revealed just recently, we can see all the different ideas and sketches they had when trying to create Jon’s vision of what he wanted the child to look like. The creation of this iconic being that took the world by storm is really more complicated than you might think, and it made me really appreciate just how much effort, detail and revisions went into it by Favreau and the entire art team. The first sketch was just a shot in the dark, and it was essentially what they write as a human child with makeup. They speak of the process regarding how difficult it was to actually get it right, as Jon didn’t want it to be too cute, but also not not cute at the same time. They also tried to make Grogu look like Yoda, while not looking too much like Yoda. Another issue they encountered was that he had to look somewhat old, yet be a baby. So once they drew the facial ratios for a child, they then went in and put the details Jon wanted in there. Finding that perfect balance was tough and it took a lot of time and trial and error, but in the end, they got it perfect. Gizmo from the Gremlins was even mentioned as a reference in Grogu’s physical creation. There are several pages going into detail about the nuances of getting Grogu right, however among all the sketches, I landed on this. This photo right here got be pretty worried, that maybe the theory I presented about Boba Fett dying, could come true. Why is he wearing Boba’s helmet? Look, it could just be a fun sketch to see the proportions of the child to the size of a helmet we all have known so well for 40 years. Or, it could be something more, something that involves the child being saved by Boba in a sacrificial effort that costs him his life. I say this not because it’s what I want, but it’s what I have a feeling might happen, especially after seeing this, and I hope I’m wrong. Boba’s death could push Mando to learn more about the true mandalorians and perhaps splinter off his dogmatic views instilled by deathwatch. I think with Boba’s death, since he was the heir to the throne of the true mandalorians, with his father being jango and jango’s mentor being master me reel, the former ruler of the mandalorians before the civil war, Din might see just how ridiculous his sect of Mandalorian is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We got confirmation that Boba Fett’s dad, Jango Fett, was recanonized as a mandalorian foundling. Now in the episode, Boba shows proof that his armour has belonged to him and his father for a long time, for 25 years it’s been in his possession alone, as he ignites the hologram on his wrist which now has been decoded by a Star Wars fan on reddit, so all credit goes to Kinneroth and everyone else who confirmed it in the comments from his finding. Now I’ll explain what the code means: so here’s the code we got, and here’s what it actually read - foundling, confirming Fett was brought into the mandalorian creed via other mandalorians, Fett was born on Concord Dawn, his mentor was Jaster Mereel, where as here it’s cut off as Jaste but we can assume the last letter is an r. Father is Jango Fett and the armour belongs to Boba Fett. Jango was a foundling on Concord Dawn, a surrounding world in the Mandalore sector. Long story short, Jango was the son of a farmer on Concord Dawn. A man named Jaster Mereel who was leader of the True Mandalorians, was on the run from a traitor named Tor Vizsla from Death Watch. Jango’s dad hid Jaster Mereel in his farm, and told Jango that he was feeding some homeless men. When Tor Vizsla came looking near Jango’s DAd’s farm, he found Jango’s Dad and beat him up infant of Jango, until Jango’s mom created a distraction and Jango ran for his life, leaving his parents who were immediately murdered, Fett ran into Jaster Mereel who eventually took the boy under his wing and recruited him in the Mandalorian Civil War against Death Watch, as one of the True Mandalorians. Jaster died eventually and Jango avenged him, becoming the leader of the True Mandalorians. Now the people who found Din, were death watch, so the two clans have always been waging wars against one another and have varying beliefs. Now this means that the armour is like a ranking system, and it only helps that the coding proves he is the rightful owner of it, passed down from generation to generation. That means he’s the rightful leader of House Mereel, who was the leader of all the Mandalorians before the civil war. This would grant Boba a high clan status, as definitely clan fett, but also, clan Mereel, as Jaster Mereel was avenged by Jango Fett and his rightful heir, who then took his mentor’s place, becoming the ruler of mandalorians. the right to rule once again as the leader of Mandalore, and as such, to claim the dark saber for himself from Moff Gideon. Well, this comes to how Jon Favreau will write the story for Boba. Maybe the right to rule Mandalore isn’t something Boba even cares for, as he said, he’s just a simple man making his way through the galaxy, but if they do decide to elaborate on the whole clan title, then theoretically, Boba would have a rightful shot as the ruler of Mandalore, since his dad was, and his dad’s mentor, aka, his adopted father sort of before the mandalorian civil war. Now what I think could happen, is that there are two scenarios based around this theory. The first being, Boba dies in some last effort to save Grogu as per his promise to Mando, and in doing so allows Bo Katan to get a clear shot at Moff Gideon, killing him and taking the dark saber, owing her ruling of Mandalore to his sacrifice. Or, he straight up beasts Gideon and kills him in a trial by combat. Jango killed tons of Jedi in his hay day, this is why Dooku convinced palpatine to choose him as the Clone template for the grand army of the republic. The guy had skills unlike anyone else and he proved it time and time again. That whole incident of him dying to Mace Windu, was because of the jet pack he had that got crushed by the Reek in the arena on Geonosis. Otherwise, he would have stood a good chance at killing Mace, at least better than what happened. If you didn’t know, he tried to acitave his thrusters at the last second, but they were broken due to the beast’s attack, resulting in his death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Nerd Theory where today we're talking about Boba Fett's insane return in The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 6. We have 2 episodes left, so what will the season finale bring us? Will Grogu be saved? Will Luke Skywalker show up? Will Mando or Boba die? What about Thrawn, Ezra and Ahsoka? Let's have some fun and talk all things Star Wars in today's podcast. (Originally Streamed Dec 7, 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Theory time. With the last episode leaving us all wanting more Ahsoka, I have a feeling we won’t see her again this season. I think her appearance was to set her live action performance for her own spin off show that will follow her and Sabine finding Ezra. I hope I'm wrong, and we'll see more. Now, as for Mando and Grogu, here’s what I think will happen by the end of the season: With Mando’s ship the Razor Crest having been blown up, this means Bova Fett will be his transport from here one in the Slave 1. We got to see boba badder than ever. In the next episode, we’ll spend time getting Bill Burr’s character out of jail, to find where Moff Gideon is hiding the child. What I’m thinking will happen, is that the child goes back to some lab base on a planet again, maybe near Thrawn’s fleet, and this is where the next episode could end. With the season finale having an all out war like endgame on that planet. I think finally when Gideon fights the dark troopers and Moff Gideon, using his beskar spear against his dark saber, he will eventually beat Mando and take Grogu. The end of the season will have us devastated that Grogu might now die, until a Jedi arrives from Grogu’s call. This could be either Luke Skywalker, Ezra, or Cal Kestis, or heck I mean it could be Mace Windu. I think, I hope, it will be Luke Skywalker. Luke is searching for students at this moment for his Jedi Temple, now that he strives to take the title of Grand Master. It is here that he will come to Mando’s aid and season 2 will end with Luke’s arrival, or some important Jedi we know. Season 3 will all be about Luke and Mando tracking the Empire to save Grogu and destroy Moff Gideon, which is where Thrawn comes in for extra fire power. Now here is where I think they could tie into Luke’s disappearance in the sequels and make it somewhat logically explained for his character, because the way he ran away and hid, was just not Luke. I think Luke could end up saving the child in season 3, but among doing this, he’ll learn of everything the empire might be doing and this is how Snoke secretly comes into contact with Ben Solo, since we know he’s been manipulating him from a very young age. I think Snoke will play the role of a very influential and politically powerful being who is in one way or another, in the lives of Leia and Han Solo, to have come so close to their son. Snoke may say he knew Anakin and his fall to Vader, this could intrigue Ben and start his path down the dark side. As for Luke, it could lead to his fight with Snoke, which was mentioned in the canon comics. But at the end of it all, I think Luke will be so afraid of the empire taking his blood, with his mighty high M count from his father, that he’ll go away into hiding, and this could be how they possibly tie Luke’s sequel trilogy story to make a little more sense. It won’t change how I feel about the whole thing, but it’ll at least be a better explanation than him just being sad and scaring himself after trying to murder his own nephew. Now if it won’t be Luke, then I could see Ezra coming into the show, perhaps Grogu on the seeing stone on Tython, once reaching out into the force, will be able to leave a trail back to him from those who can sense him, and with Ezra being lost in the unknown regions, or what I assume is him being lost, he’ll find his way back from Grogu’s call, and it’ll be answered. Ezra could teach him the ways of the force, maybe the ways of both sides of the force since he was always teetering on the light and dark at times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices