How does Mando intend to redeem himself in the recap of The Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 1? initially featured on Ready Steady Cut.
There are spoilers in this summary of The Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 1 (“Chapter 17 – The Apostate”).
I believe that The Mandalorian’s Season 3 premiere’s opening sequence might be considered bragging. That could have just been a brief glimpse into Mandalorian culture, providing a window into how young members of the Creed come to terms with donning helmets that they are never to remove. It might have simply been an action scene, a conflict with a huge CGI space crocodile, or whatever it was. It might have been only a recap of Din Djarin and Grogu, a cool welcome-back scene for Mando, and a pleasant comic beat for the youngster. But, no. All of the aforementioned had to apply.
The Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 1 Recap
In a word, this is The Mandalorian and the main reason it has repeatedly crashed the internet. Whatever you may think about the show’s use of nostalgia-bait, questionable CGI de-aging of Mark Hamill, and overt attempts to market cuddly toys, the fact remains that it is incredibly assured and competent television. That wouldn’t work at all if it were anything else in our time with fandoms that are constantly online and widespread anti-pop scepticism.
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How Does Mando Plan to Redeem Himself?
Mando is expressing his intentions to return to Mandalore, which was previously believed to be entirely uninhabitable following The Purge, and take a dip in the Living Waters under the mines by paying a visit to the Armorer and the other members of The Tribe. This, in accordance with the Mandalorian Creed, should atone for him willingly taking off his helmet in the Season 2 finale. However, the Armorer is still dubious about the planet’s state, despite the fact that a small object petrified by fusion rays and found by Jawas from a stray traveler suggests that Mando might be onto something.
Why Does Mando Return to Nevarro?
Nevertheless, there must be a detour in the interim. Return to Nevarro, which is now a prosperous small town with a monument of IG-11 taking pride of place in the street and Greef Karganow, a High Magistrate, overseeing what has grown into a significant commerce spur of the Hydian Way.
An appealing offer for an apostate, you’d think, but Mando has more important things to worry about. This means a construction boom, plenty of money to be made, and perhaps even a piece of land for Mando and Grogu where they might live out the rest of their days off the fat of the land as gentry. Also, it turns out that there will be some growing pains when you entirely transform a planet into an independent trading anchor.
Greef is experiencing issues with pirates who still want to drink in the bar that has been converted into a school, but he won’t ask the New Republic for official assistance in order to maintain Nevarro’s independence. Mando would be a fantastic lawman, but that’s not how it works.
IG-11, or at least what’s left of him, is what Mando needs from Nevarro since he needs a reliable droid to investigate Mandalore’s surface. Mando begins to reconstruct him, with Greef’s approval, using all the pieces that were found after his self-destruction and assembled into the courtyard statue. Is this a little too fan service-y? Absolutely.
When IG-11 is reconnected to a power source, however, it defies expectations by having him revert to his previous programming, which causes his bloodthirsty torso to chase after Grogu (his original target). In order for Mando to say, “Now that’s using your head,” Greef’s protocol droid must smash the man with a bust of Greef.
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The Ending — and Checking in On Bo-Katan
However, it also sets up Mando’s first fetch-quest of the season, as she must locate a crucial component so that the nearby Anzellandroidsmiths can fix IG-11. Mando sets off to collect the device after Grogu engages in some naturally endearing banter with these tiny little critters, but instead ends up in a dogfight with the pirates who he previously assisted Greef in embarrassing.
This is a fun and visually stunning sequence, although it serves largely to introduce Pirate King Gorian Shard, a prosthetic-clad swamp creature from which Mando temporarily flees but who will undoubtedly reappear when Mando returns to the system to fix IG-11.
Since he doesn’t even bother applying for the role in this premiere, that won’t be for a while. Instead, he makes a pit stop at Kalevala, another planet in the Mandalore system, where he meets a glum Bo-Katan who has been left behind by the rest of her warriors after returning without the Darksaber.
She is adamant that the mines’ repute for having magical properties is all superstition and that the planet is destroyed and uninhabitable, but Mando is unyielding in his resolve. He leaves with information of the location of the mines and a specific goal for Episode 2.
Chapter 17 – The Apostate, the first episode of The Mandalorian Season 3 is only available on Disney+.