Why Did ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 Undo Two Story Points?

We older people can bear in mind a time when The Mandalorian merely had to have IG-11 at his facet when exploring Mandalore, it doesn’t matter what it took to revive the exploded droid. Gosh, are you able to consider that was greater than eight days in the past…?

Pay attention, there’s a lot to love, and a few issues to like, about Disney+’s flagship Star Wars sequence. But it surely’s been a bit puzzling why two very current story factors had been very casually “undone” with not a lot as a Jedi-like hand wave.

Take the entire IG-11 factor. A lot of the Season 3 premiere revolved round Din Djarin’s return to Nevarro — to not meet up with (Excessive) Justice of the Peace Greef Karga however to enlist his one-time droid associate in bounty searching to accompany him to Mandalore.

Greef thought Mandoooo! loopy to need to take the elements salvaged from IG-11’s self-destruction within the Season 1 finale (which had since been included right into a memorial statue) and in some way revive the droid. And but so decided was Din to have IG-11 — and solely IG-11! — at his facet for the journey to a possibly-poisonous Mandalore, that he unwittingly put Grogu’s life in jeopardy when the powered-up droid reverted to his authentic programming and viciously lunged for the Little one.

That was adopted by an entire (and pleasant) sequence with the Anzellans doing their finest to restore IG-11, however finally figuring out that they’re in want of a uncommon, outdated reminiscence chip.

Mando got down to discover mentioned reminiscence chip, as a result of solely IG-11 might assist him scope out Mandalore. It certain appeared like that was going to be the subsequent step within the present’s traditional “discover a factor to seek out the subsequent factor” construction. But within the very subsequent episode, when Peli Motto mentioned she and the Jawas had been contemporary out of reminiscence chips, Mando shrugged and determined that R5-D4 — a stout, anxious astromech droid — would suffice. All of the sudden, IG-11 wasn’t vital. Which is nice, as a result of it was nice to see R5 put his sputtering/sparking/smoking A New Hope ignominy behind him and truly assist Din decide that Mandalore is protected to discover.

However why the short-term reminiscence about IG-11? I predict that in his Season 3 travels, Mando will occur upon the wanted half, return to Nevarro, and inform Greef that IG-11 could be his new marshal.

Now, talking of R5-D4…. “Purple” accompanying Mando and Grogu to Mandalore brings us to this season’s different hasty reversal, seeing as Peli wanted to re-retrofit Grogu’s statement dome on the N-1 Starfighter to once more be a droid port.

Bear in mind, Peli and her pit crew had eliminated the N-1’s droid port in The E-book of Boba Fett Episode 5, when Mando first took possession of the spruced-up ship. However certainly at the moment, the Star Wars TV overlords knew that the dome wouldn’t final, so why trouble with it the primary place? Apart from to offer Grogu a solution to observe the hyperspeeding purrgil/area whales in a singular Season 3 episode?

(No, we received’t get into how mentioned droid port permits R5 to exit straight downward via the ground of the vessel, whereas, for instance, astromechs are lowered into their X-wing ports.)

Minor quibbles, we have now, erm.

Going from Mando insisting Mandalore is “cursed” and Bo-Katan arguing completely different (in Season 2, Episode 3) to a whole reversal of that within the Season 3 premiere is one factor — an indication of character POVs altering with studying. However for a TV franchise that reportedly has the scripts for Season 4 already full, we do surprise why two such conspicuous, albeit “minor,” plot factors — Let’s give Grogu a dome! I will need to have IG-11! — had been jarringly unwound only one to 4 episodes later.