![]() ![]() ![]() Good luck trying to make sense of anything without first having seen something else. That story line opens the door for the return in this week’s episode of both Cobb Vanth and Grogu, whom we first met in The Mandalorian, because everything in the Star Wars universe is interconnected now. When “Return of the Mandalorian” ended, Mando agreed to help Boba and his second-in-command Fennec Shand stand against the Pykes and the Syndicate who are running spice in Tatooine - but he had to visit Grogu first. ![]() In the words of the immortal Paul Rudd, Look at us! And what we want are Cobb Vanth, handsome devil that he is, and Grogu, the most adorably hungry foundling around. But I am ready to forgive and forget every single Book of Boba Fett transgression - the offscreen slaughter of the Tuskens, the underuse of Jennifer Beals, the implicit suggestion that the Hutt twins are incesty like the Lannisters - because penultimate episode “From the Desert Comes a Stranger” gave the people what we want. Then there was how last week’s episode, “Return of the Mandalorian,” was just what its title suggested: a mostly stand-alone episode about Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin–slash–Mando that basically functioned as a backdoor third-season premiere for Disney+’s other space Western series, The Mandalorian. The Book of Boba Fett is a strange show, what with its split timelines, Alita: Battle Angel affectations, and insistence that Tatooine is the only planet in the Star Wars universe on which anything happens. He turns over the promised armor, noting, “Tell your people I wasn’t one who broke that!” Mando with Child then speeds away on their bike, as the maskless Boba Fett watches from atop a dune.Spoilers follow for the sixth episode of The Book of Boba Fett, “From the Desert Comes a Stranger,” which premiered on Disney+ on February 2, 2022. Soon after, though, we see that Mando has used his long gun to taser the beast’s mouth, keeping him safe long enough to blow up the bantha that’s now in its belly.Īs the Tusken Raiders excitedly ransack the dragon’s skeleton, guts and ichor, Vanth tells Mando he hopes their paths cross again. When the dragon later sneaks up on the group from behind, Mando baits it with a bantha that is strapped with explosives, but due to circumstances must let it gobble up himself as well. Rather, amid much dust and smoke, the dragon bursts through the nearby hilltop, where Mando and Vanth taunt it further. Vanth then detonates the explosives… but it doesn’t get the job done. But the makeshift army antagonizes the dragon with gunfire and harpoons, causing it to slither out further. That is a bit easier said than done, as the creature begins to retreat upon snacking on one Sand Person. The plan is to seed the ground outside the dragon’s cave (an abandoned Sarlacc pit) with explosives, then wake up and draw out the beast, until its vulnerable belly is exposed. Vanth offers Mando a deal: Help me get rid of this bothersome creature, and you can have my armor. As the few locals begin scampering, we see tremors (but not Tremors) ripple through the sand, until a massive, serpent-like creature - a krayt dragon - eventually rises up to snack on a bantha, and then just as soon slither away. Mando is in the midst of demanding that Vanth turn over the armor ASAP when a rumbling outside demands their attention. ![]() This Cobb Vanth matter-of-factly removes his helmet, explaining that he bought his duds from some Jawas. Once in town, Mando is introduced by a cantina’s barkeep to the resident Mandalorian - aka the marshal, who we see is wearing Boba Fett’s seen-better-days armor. Motto says the Razor Crest would draw too much attention, so Mando rides a speeder bike to the location, crashing one night with some Tusken Raiders. She has an R5 unit project a map that shows where Mos Pelgo is located, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. But Koresh insists there is one, in the city of Mos Pelgo.Īrriving on Tatooine, Mando and the Child reunite with Amy Sedaris’ Peli Motto, whose droids give the Razor Crest a once-over. Mando is skeptical, saying he has spent time on Tatooine without ever seeing one of his creed. He then chases Gor Koresh outside and strings him up from a lamppost, until he divulges the location of a Mandalorian on Tatooine. But as the trailer spoiled us, Mando gets out of it (while Baby Yoda smartly retreats into his domed pram) by launching whistling birds. No sooner does Mando tell Gor Koresh (John Leguizamo) that he is looking for other Mandalorians, than he is surrounded by goons with pistols trained on his head. Inside, we realize it’s a fight club, where two Gamorreans are currently slugging it out with sonic scythes. The Season 2 premiere opens with Mando, Child in tow, arriving at a grungy, graffiti-riddled town at night, where he informs an establishment’s Twi’lek doorman that he is here to see Gor Koresh. The Mandalorian Quickcap: Let’s Revisit What Happened in Season 1 ![]()
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