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Episode 3 of Disney's new streaming Star Wars show "The Mandalorian" saw our hero (wait, is he the hero?) make an important choice.
Photo: 2019 Lucasfilm Ltd.Episode 3 of Disney's new streaming Star Wars show "The Mandalorian" saw our hero (wait, is he the hero?) make an important choice.
Episode 3 of Disney's new streaming Star Wars show "The Mandalorian" saw our hero (wait, is he the hero?) make an important choice.
Episode 3 of Disney's new streaming Star Wars show "The Mandalorian" saw our hero (wait, is he the hero?) make an important choice.
Spoiler Super Warning: If you haven't seen episode 1-3 of "The Mandalorian" you should probably not keep reading this. However, if you have seen episodes 1-3 of "Tha Mandalorian," you should probably keep reading this, plus our episode 1 recap here and episode 2 recap here. This is the way.
There's an alternate universe out there that is 999,999% identical to ours, save for one minor plot change in Disney+'s new Star Wars streaming show "The Mandalorian" that completely shifts the trajectory of the series.
And that minor plot change comes in episode 3, "The Sin."
After returning Baby Yoda to a bunch of suuuuper sketchy Empire dudes at the onset of Ep. 3, the Mandalorian collects his bounty, gets some shiny new armor and hits the cantina. It's there that he finds his Bounty Hunter pimp, Greef Karga (who looks super familiar *quickly Googles 'bounty hunter boss guy'* OOOOOH MY GOSH IT'S APOLLO CREED, YOU GUYS). Greef hands him a new assignment, which is to hunt down the son of a "nobleman" who looks like the spitting image of Admiral Ackbar. And, according to the gospel of Wikipedia, could actually be Ackbar's kid because it sounds like Dad-bar was retired from military service at this point in the Star Wars timeline (five years after "Return of the Jedi").
So is this actually Admiral Ackbar's son? And back up a second: Is Baby Yoda actually Yoda's kid?? Are we totally about to find out about both??? Or one????
We are not, because, of course, it's a (plot-line) trap.
Up until this point it wasn't super clear whether the Mandalorian was a good guy. Or a bad guy. Or an in-between guy. Or just a guy guy. But once he gets back to his ship — ready to blast off to Ackbar-landia — we find out that the Mandalorian is very much a Baby Yoda guy. The sight of the missing knob on his lightspeed lever gets him all misty eyed in his helmet (probably), and we see him turn the entire ship off and head back to the Empire dudes' HQ to go "Taken"-Liam Neeson on a bunch of Stormtroopers, who he electrocutes, flame-throws, stabs, shoots, and heat-seeking-missiles.
And that's all fine and good, because everyone is definitely #TeamBabyYoda, and also because we then get to see an "Iron Man 3"-caliber fight scene where a billion Mandalorians jet pack out of nowhere to save our hero from a siege of other Bounty Hunters.
But — and hear me out — how different would this show have been if the Mandalorian turned out to be a cutthroat who didn't give a single F...ett about Baby Yoda? What if he just left him behind to instead set his sights on Ackbar Jr.? What if (!!!) by the time we got to season's end he'd carbonited Chewbacca's cousin, Lando's brother and Princess Leia's Au Pair? How incredibly awesome would that have been? (Editor's note: very incredibly awesome.)
Unfortunately, we're left with *just* Baby Yoda and the ensuing onslaught of Baby Yoda merch, while everyone in that 999,999% identical alternate universe gets to see what a gritty, "Dark Knight" version of a Star Wars property could actually look like.
Grant Marek is the Editorial Director of SFGATE. Email: grant.marek@sfgate.com | Twitter: @grant_marek
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