The Mandalorian this week make clear how precisely Grogu was saved years in the past from the Order 66 massacre — and the reveal concerned a big-time (iffa polarizing!) prequel trilogy callback of kinds.
The early gist of Season 3, Episode 4 (titled “The Foundling”) opened with the primary steps in Grogu’s coaching to finally rise as much as Mandalorian apprentice stage. That concerned a problem, towards a Mandalorian child, to a sport of “darts” — which on this case are wrist-fired paintballs. The first to attain three hits wins, and positive sufficient, Grogu’s opponent simply splats him with each of his first two salvos. Din counsels Grogu to do this very particular factor that he can do, and when the subsequent paint dart heads his method, Grogu somersaults over the child — after which back-flips to his beginning place — earlier than rapid-splatting all three of his darts at his opponent.
Upon being declared the winner, Grogu is led to the forge, the place the Armorer turns scraps of Beskar right into a rondel (small breastplate) for the kid to connect to his chain mail and develop into. But because the Armorer stamps the metal and sparks fly, Grogu’s face melts into the saddest frown you ever did see, as he flashes again to the night time that Order 66 was issued.
We’ve seen elements of this reminiscence earlier than, specifically a number of Jedi being felled by arriving clone troopers as an particularly wee Grogu watches from his close by pram. But this time round, the sequence continues with one Jedi shouting, “Get the youngling to Kelleran Beq!”
Kelleran Beq (Disney+ screenshot)
Grogu’s pram is then directed into a close-by elevate, whose doorways shut behind him as much more Jedis fall. When the doorways open again up, we meet Kelleran Beq, who’s performed by Ahmed Best — aka the mo-cap and voice actor for the prequel trilogy’s Jar Jar Binks!
(Best first portrayed Kelleran Beq because the host of the 2020 on-line sport present Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge; he additionally performed a personality named Achk Med-Beq in Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones. I depart it to our smaht commenters to element any familial connection which may exist.)
After utilizing his twin lightsabers to fend off quite a few clone troopers, Beq hundreds Grogu’s pram right into a speeder sidecar, they usually fly off into the Coruscant skyline, leaving the burning Jedi temple behind them. Gunships give chase, however Beq evades them with some nimble piloting into and out of a prepare tunnel. They make a tough touchdown on a platform, and simply earlier than a V-wing arrives with extra troopers, Beq and Grogu switch right into a starship and lightspeed away. Grogu comes out of the tough reminiscence to obtain his rondel from the Armorer.
Elsewhere on the Mandalorian covert: A large raptor swooped down on the sect’s lakefront coaching session and stole away a toddler, whom we finally be taught is Paz Vizsla’s son Ragnar. Din, Paz and others give chase, but their jet packs all run out of gas — which not often occurs in Star Wars! Bo-Katan in her ship, although, tracks the beast to a nest atop a excessive peak. She later leads Din, Paz and others on a mission to scale the steep mountain and get Ragnar again. Reaching the nest, they discover a trio of raptor chicks, after which momma arrives, coughing up (an alive) Ragnar from her mouth. The Mandalorians battle the beast, utilizing flame throwers, winches and such. Eventually Bo stabs it in its eye, forcing it to launch Paz from its talon’s grasp. Moments later, Ragnar is dropped from the opposite claw and hurtles towards the bottom, however Din catches him. The wounded raptor winds up crashing into the lake, the place the dinosaur turtle from the season premiere makes a fast meal of it.
Bo’s management within the foundling’s profitable rescue is deemed “the highest honor of the creed” by the Armorer, who then leads the clan’s new member to the forge. The Armorer makes a shoulder plate to interchange one which Bo misplaced throughout battle, asking if she desires one other Nite-Owl inlay. Bo asks if she will be able to get a Mythosaur as an alternative, and the Armorer fortunately obliges.
Speaking of Mythosaurs….
“What would you say if I told you I saw one?,” Bo asks the Armorer. The Armorer says Bo was “lucky,” that as one walks the best way, they see all method of noble visions.
“But it was real,” Bo maintains, to which the Armorer merely, obliquely responds — you guessed it — “This is the way.”
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