The Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 6 Review
Credit to: Disney and LucasfilmHuh? What? What’s Happening?
Welcome back, y’all! This time around, we’re taking a look at episode 6 of Star Wars: The Mandalorian season 3! Well, with this episode, we now only have two left..! Yeah..! Haha… ha… hm… mm. Yeah, I’m not gonna lie, I don’t know how to feel. I’ve enjoyed the season so far but there’s something wrong here. Is it me, or does it feel like they wasted a whole lot of time with this season? Only two episodes left and we’re just now getting Mandalorians together, we’re just now revisiting the Darksaber issue between Din Djarin and Bo-Katan, we still haven’t done anything with IG-11, Moff Gideon, etc etc. It’s getting worrisome. Unless the finale is over an hour or something like that, we better get moving, because this is getting extremely underwhelming. Let me slow my roll and get into the review. Without any further ado, let’s just jump right into it.
Chapter 22: Guns For Hire
Pros
This first bit is interesting because I’m counting it as both a pro and a con. Sounds a little confusing, but it’ll make more sense when I get to the con side of it. Now, I did actually like that this episode felt like another Clone Wars type of episode. I enjoy that because well, it’s nice to have that kind of fun in live action. I’ll explain why it’s a con later. We get to see Din and Bo be partners in crime, quite literally, for a droid issue on a planet named Plazir-15. It’s here where we see some familiar types of droids, especially if you’re a fan of the prequel era content, but it’s also where we get not one, not two, but three very famous cameos, all in the forms of Lizzo, Jack Black, and Christopher Lloyd. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one… fairly welcome. Anyway, I did enjoy their appearances, because they very much are themselves, just dressed up as the characters they’re supposed to be portraying. Man, I’m trying to drag on this section, I won’t lie to you guys. Um, well, I liked the action? I actually did, I think Mando himself had a funny moment when he was kicking the droids, I actually did have a good little sharp exhale from my nostrils at that one. Super specific, right? Cause you know how something is funny, but not so funny that it gets you to really say, “Ha” or “Hmm hmm”? Yeah. Just a sharp exhale. Alright that’s enough of that. Cons time.
Cons
I have to be honest. I was bored. I really was. I had a great time with the really cool cameos, I enjoyed seeing them in this universe, it was fun to have them, but they weren’t enough to make the episode any more interesting than it already wasn’t. It definitely did feel like a Clone Wars episode, which I did like, sure, but now? Right now? We have two more episodes after this. Then that’s it. No more until we get season 4, which isn’t gonna be for a while. We can’t keep doing this to these projects. We were here expecting a big Mandalorian conflict that would somehow involve Moff Gideon and the Empire, but that’s not really what’s going on. I’m not saying we need a fight between Bo and Din, but MAN that was such an underwhelming way to hand off the Darksaber. Honestly, if this was always the plan, then Bo-Katan really should’ve gotten her own show, and I mean that. Really, what is going on? Bo had the sore loser face on, just for Din to get captured (not defeated in combat if we’re really going off of technicalities like this episode is doing) by the weird droid alien thing on Mandalore, forcing Bo to come to the rescue and defeat it, somehow making it make sense that she now has the Darksaber. Conflict over. That’s whack. Like honestly, that’s super whack. Din really had no point in having the Darksaber if something that weak was gonna happen. Gave him a cool moment when we first see him in The Book of Boba Fett with it, we see him defend his title as the wielder of the saber against Paz Vizsla, and we see him use it to help Boba take down the Pyke Syndicate’s droids. Fast forward to this series, we see him flail it around for what, two scenes now, just to get snuck and hand it over to Bo-Katan. That’s lame, I really won’t lie. Oh and Grogu gets knighted because he’s cute or whatever. Sure, that was cute, but whaaat? And to top it off, we finally see Bo-Katan reunite with Axe Woves, Koska Reeves and their group of Nite Owl Mandalorians, defeat Axe in combat, and give an inspirational speech about reuniting. Sure, reunite the clans, but dude this is something that would’ve been so much easier to digest if Din had handed over the Darksaber sooner. Not the Armorer suddenly being okay with Bo-Katan removing her helmet after believing her Mythosaur story, but with the Darksaber, things just would’ve made so much more sense. Man I don’t know. This episode seriously worried me. Ugh.
Final Thoughts
I trust the creators, I do, but this ain’t good. It’s not horrible, but you can just feel how rushed this all was. Again, I loved the cameos, I really did, but basically everything after was just a headache. They gotta do better. The season is almost up, and it would suck to have waited this long for an anticlimactic third season. But what did you all think? Let us know on Instagram, and make sure you’re following us there for the latest and greatest entertainment news and reviews. But that’s all from me, this has been The Wolf Den.
