Spoilers The Mandalorian Season 3

[Reverend]

I didn't see any distinctive markings, but I think the real give-away is that it was an effective multi-pronged attack, and there was no gloating transmission from some puffed up Imperial warlord.

Of course if it was Thrawn that means that he wanted Bo Katan chased off, not killed, otherwise he would have waited until she was on the ground to bomb the castle, then land troops. All he sent was bombers and interceptors and no troop transports; which means he knew she wasn't home, and that she was flying a Gauntlet.

As I said before though; the clearest evidence that it was Thrawn from a meta perspective is that we never saw where those fighters launched from. If it wasn't the Chimera, then there'd be no reason to obfuscate.

 

[Finn]

I don't think a Force mind probe and a droid with a needle are mutually exclusive. And since we (retroactively) know the Force mind probe is a thing, why wouldn't Vader use it?

Who said he didn't? Yeah, he would have known something was up but at that point, she was set for execution anyway.

 

[Reverend]

For what it's worth; the drugs the floaty ball droid injected Hera with in the final season of Rebels was referred to as "the mind probe", and no force users were present (until Kanan showed up.) So that seems fairly conclusive.

 

[Turtletrekker]

If I recall the Star Wars Radio Drama, Darth Vader has the droid pump Leia with drugs, and then he used the Force to mind probe her with suggestion. She was very strong to resist him.

There's a certain irony in that scene that I love, which was written before it was revealed that Darth Vader was Luke and Leia's parents.

Vader is trying to get Leia to reveal the location of the rebel base. At one point, he claims to be working for her Bail and he yells "your father demands that you tell us the location of the secret rebel base!" Turns out, Vader was speaking truer than he realized.

 

[Dee1891]

I didn't see any distinctive markings, but I think the real give-away is that it was an effective multi-pronged attack, and there was no gloating transmission from some puffed up Imperial warlord.

Of course if it was Thrawn that means that he wanted Bo Katan chased off, not killed, otherwise he would have waited until she was on the ground to bomb the castle, then land troops. All he sent was bombers and interceptors and no troop transports; which means he knew she wasn't home, and that she was flying a Gauntlet.

As I said before though; the clearest evidence that it was Thrawn from a meta perspective is that we never saw where those fighters launched from. If it wasn't the Chimera, then there'd be no reason to obfuscate.

If Thrawn was still alive, surely that meant Ezra was dead. How did they survive a decade together on the same lost ship without killing each other?

People want fairy tales.

I want a good story, even if it doesn't end happily.

Is this story with Pershing and Kane going to play out through the rest of the season or is this some introduction for "Ahsoka"? Because I thought Season 3 was going to be about the Mandalorians.

 

[Tuskin38]

How did they survive a decade together on the same lost ship without killing each other?

I doubt Filoni would kill Ezra off screen. But Thrawn is alive.

He probably wouldn't kill Ezra after the jump, there's no need to anymore, and I doubt Ezra would kill him, he's helpless.

Because I thought Season 3 was going to be about the Mandalorians.

It can be both.

 

[fireproof78]

Is this story with Pershing and Kane going to play out through the rest of the season or is this some introduction for "Ahsoka"? Because I thought Season 3 was going to be about the Mandalorians.

It's also about the politics of the realm.

 

[Saul]

I can't fucking believe they basically stuck an episode of Andor into The Mandalorian. Its like mixing dogshit and peanut butter. 10 minutes of cool Star Wars stuff with Mando book ending the episode, then 30-40 minutes of generic Andor bullshit. Seriously, replace the round glasses scientist with that wormy bureaucrat from Andor and it just becomes an Andor episode. I legitimately expected Stellan Skarsgard to walk out of the shadows at some point. Is this revenge for Boba Fett basically having a full episode of Mandalorian stuck into it? I don't know, but this is now easily my most hated episode of Mandalorian, beating out the terrible ice planet episode.

I'm not watching another second of that damn subplot. From now on, if Mando (or one of the actual supporting characters, like Bo Katan, Greef, Grogu, etc) isn't on screen, I'm fast forwarding until one of them is. I'm not watching another Andor, the first one was bad enough.

To quote Han Solo:
"Bring it down, bring it down".

 

[Reverend]

Yeah, there's no way they're killing main characters that important off-screen. Whatever else is going on; Thrawn and Ezra are obviously both still alive.

I mean why would Thrawn kill him after the jump? Ezra's already done as much damage to the mission as he possibly could and is no longer a threat. He is however potentially useful if say . . . oh, one were stranded in uncharted space, meaning the only reliable way back being the cooperation of a force sensitive to navigate through hyperspace?

 

[Tuskin38]

I can't fucking believe they basically stuck an episode of Andor into The Mandalorian. Its like mixing dogshit and peanut butter. 10 minutes of cool Star Wars stuff with Mando book ending the episode, then 30-40 minutes of generic Andor bullshit. Seriously, replace the round glasses scientist with that wormy bureaucrat from Andor and it just becomes an Andor episode. I legitimately expected Stellan Skarsgard to walk out of the shadows at some point. Is this revenge for Boba Fett basically having a full episode of Mandalorian stuck into it? I don't know, but this is now easily my most hated episode of Mandalorian, beating out the terrible ice planet episode.

I'm not watching another second of that damn subplot. From now on, if Mando (or one of the actual supporting characters, like Bo Katan, Greef, Grogu, etc) isn't on screen, I'm fast forwarding until one of them is. I'm not watching another Andor, the first one was bad enough.

get over it.

 

[Morpheus 02]

Sorry, but another timeline question... is this about the time that Finn anmany others were kidnapped to be part of the First Order?

And how would Thrawn fit into things? Would he possibly be doing more time traveling (unless he is used with Ashoka)?

 

[cooleddie74]

Finn was in his twenties in TFA so maybe? We're still about 23 years from the events in Episode VII.

 

[fireproof78]

And how would Thrawn fit into things? Would he possibly be doing more time traveling (unless he is used with Ashoka)?

Probably being used in Ahsoka since that's her stated purpose in The Mandalorian and fighting with the Magistrate. If Thrawn is active it would depend on where he ended up jumping to.

 

[Set Harth]

Would he possibly be doing more time traveling

???

 

[Tuskin38]

Would he possibly be doing more time traveling

He's never time travelled before.

 

[Reverend]

Sorry, but another timeline question... is this about the time that Finn anmany others were kidnapped to be part of the First Order?

Eh, difficult to say. For one thing we only have a general idea of when the show takes place. The best guess is that it started around CRC 7986, but we have no clear idea how much time has passed since then.
Another thing is that while I think it's established that Finn (or whatever his real name was) was born around 7988, he wasn't kidnapped until about 7991 when he was three. That more or less matches up with the other firm date we have for this kind of thing (7992, when a two year-old Kadara Calrissian was kidnapped.)
So they may have already started doing that, but it may also be as many as five years off.

Sidenote: If the children of ex-Alliance leaders were deliberately targeted, does that mean there was an attempt on Jacen Syndulla, or would he have been too old by that point? I guess just being force sensitive should make him a prime target all by itself, so probably.
Side-sidenote: while looking up some of these dates I noted that Shara Bey dies in 7987, so the clock for Poe's mum having a cameo in the Mandoverse is ticking down fast.

 

[Dee1891]

I doubt Filoni would kill Ezra off screen. But Thrawn is alive.

He probably wouldn't kill Ezra after the jump, there's no need to anymore, and I doubt Ezra would kill him, he's helpless.


It can be both.

It's that a bit too much for a season of eight episodes?

 

[Tuskin38]

It's that a bit too much for a season of eight episodes?

No.

 

[Dee1891]

No.

I think so, unless the two story arcs end up merging. I hope this will happen.

 

[Airmandan]