Spoilers ahead. So many spoilers ahead.
Even the episode title spoils a little bit: “The Rescue.”
Mandalorian Chapter 16 picks up where 15 left off: Moff Gideon has captured Grogu and is whisking him away in shackles to some unknown destination. Mando has Gideon’s coordinates and has joined forces with Cara Dune, Boba Fett (!), and Fennec Shand. He still needs to add some firepower before taking on Gideon and his Dark Troopers. There’s a Mandalorian by the name of Bo-Katan available, and she has her own grudge against Gideon, so it stands to reason Mando will reach out to her.
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As someone who has been a “Star Wars” fan my entire life, I don’t ever remember a world without it. “Star Wars” is a sandbox so rich with potential it makes the Saudi deserts look barren. Yet until “The Mandalorian” debuted on Disney+ last year, that sandbox was running dry.
The original “Star Wars” trilogy of the 1970s and 1980s was a film series that changed the movie industry forever. There simply weren’t movies like “Star Wars” when it debuted in 1977. There weren’t movies that drove billions of dollars in merchandise sales to multiple generations of people around the world. There weren’t movies that played in theaters for years, returned time and again, and perpetually sold out. This was a story that transformed cinema.
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Before I begin there’s a tag scene on this puppy, and it’s kind of important. If you missed it, now’s your chance to run back and watch because I don’t want to spoil the post-credit reveal.
Spoilers ahead.
Summary
Din, Cara, Fennec, and Boba board a ship carrying Doctor Pershing (Omid Abtahi), and Cara drops the imperial pilot holding a blaster on the doctor after he taunts her about Alderaan. Pershing assures the group that Grogu is safe and gives them more intel about Gideon’s ship. They need more hands, so they head back to the Trask moon to ask Bo-Katan Kryze and Koska Reeves for aid. There’s a scuffle with Boba Fett because they don’t consider him Mandalorian seemingly due to the fact that he’s a clone. Din reveals that he can get them to Gideon and the Darksaber, which gets Bo-Katan to sign on provided that she gets the saber at the end. They make a plan to board Gideon’s cruiser, but Pershing points out the problem of the squad of D
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