The Mandalorian season 3

 Mando and Grogu are back, in a quest for Din to redeem himself of being forced to take of his helmet.

And so Noshi and me sat behind our Disney+ and decided to have a look for more baby Yoda adventures...

 

But do note, in order to follow the story adn why Grogu is back with mando after leaving with Luke Skywalker in the previous season's finale, you must watch The Book of Boba Fett first before starting season 3!

A journey that will require Din and his little friend to travel to the destroyed planet of Mandalore, uninhabitable according to one, but Bo-Katan claims the world still has some kind of liveable conditions. He seeks out the help of old friends and acquintances, but instead of getting IG-11 restored, he is sold an astromech, R5-D4, with whom he travels to his ancestral planet.  

Here, he is attacked and captured by a cyborg, but Grogu goes to Bo-Katan who goes to his rescue.  He finds the Living Waters, but as he drops in a sinkhole, Bo-Katan going after him.  On their way back up, No-Katan sees a Mythosaurus, a beast of legend that is the model for the Mandalorian crest.  But Bo-Katan withholds this sighting from the then unconcious Djarin.  As they return, Bo-Katan's castle is bombed by TIE fighters, and they are forced to retreat.

On Coruscant, Dr Pershing has become a part of a reintegration program, but also finds Elia Kane there, the former communications officer of Moff Gideon.  She agrees to help him in his cloning work, outlawed by the Republic, and go to an old star destroyer for a lab.  She betrays him though to the authorities and sabotages his mind wipe procedure to make him forget everything.  Meanwhile, Djarin and Bo-Katan arrive at the secret Mandalorian hide-out, where she is welcomed because like Djarin, she also bathed in the Living Waters of Mandalore.

When one of the younglings is captured by a Raptor bird at the enclave, Bo-Katan leads the rescue and earns the clan's respect.  On Nevarro, a pirate captain is reigning terror, but Mano and Bo-Katan come to the rescue together with the other Mandalorians, and earn a piece of land for themselves as thanks.  After travelling to Plazir-15 (in a famous people and easter egg filled episode) they also bring Bo-Katan's former troops back in her fold, and the Armourer appoints her as the uniter of the clans, as Djarin returns the Darksaber back to her.

Deciding to reclaim Mandalore, the Mandalorians find resistance there in the form of a returned Moff Gideon and his upgraded, Beskar armoured troops.  He will destroy the remnants of the Mandalore people, as such claiming the Great Purge completed and (easter eggs again) pave the way for both Grand Admiral Thrawn, but also for General Hux's (yep, that guy from the sequel series) project Necromancer.  Which we know is the return of a cloned Emperor, but funnily enough Hux is also the New Republic spy, so why would he want to bring Palpatine back???

But even though they loose a lot of their number, Grogu, Djarin and Bo-Katan finally defeat Moff Gideon as he perishes in the blast of a crashing cruiser, while Grogu protects the others with a Force shield.  The Great Forge is restarted, as Djarin now adopts Grogu as his true son, moving to the outskirts of Nevarro to make Grogu versed in the ways of the universe.

So this was a good season, and Mandalore is back on the rise as so many times in their long history.  So as the series is starting to connect the dots between about anything Star Wars related on television, I still can`t wait for the next (and supposedly final?) season to come out...