The Mandalorian: Season 2

And so, everyone, the final episode of The Mandalorian: Season 2 dropped on Disney+ two days ago and I'm here to talk about the entire series. I already mentioned a bit of it when Disney announced all their new Marvel and Star Wars projects a few days ago. But, now I'm gonna be giving my thoughts on the entire season from start to finish. What I'm gonna do for this one is the same with my TV show reviews I've been doing recently with going through the season episode by episode and give my thoughts as I go along. So, you all know I really loved the first season. I thought it was absolutely amazing and was probably my favourite thing Disney has ever done with Star Wars. There was so much about it that was amazing and I was really excited to see more. And, thankfully, they delivered. Season 2 is even better in my opinion. Almost everything in it is so exciting and I had a blast with every episode and I was always extremely excited every time there was a new episode every Friday. So, let's begin with the first episode. The first episode is about Mando still with Baby Yoda and he's trying to find a Jedi because at the end of the last season, that other Mandalorian told him to. So, Mando is going from place to place trying to find more and more information about any Jedi that might be out there. And, in the first episode, he's led to Tatooine where he encounters someone with Boba Fett's armour. He wants the armour because he believes it should only be worn by a true Mandalorian. And so, he and the man make a deal that if Mando helps get rid of a Krayt dragon creature that's destroying the town, he'll give it back. And, from there, we get an awesome action scene where Mando teams up with him along with some Sand People and the people of the town to try to kill it and it's really cool. I thought the ending of it in particular was really cool with Mando having to let himself get eaten with a bantha with bombs attached to it. That whole part was really awesome and I love how Jon Favreau was the one who directed this episode too. The fact that another Marvel director, who was also the creator of this show, was the one who directed it just made me really excited and he did a really good job with the episode. He's also the person who wrote the season. Aside from one episode, he's the one who wrote the whole season and the last season too. I thought he did a fantastic job with the action in this episode and the ending was really exciting where we saw Boba Fett looking at Mando who now has his armour. That part was really cool. When I first saw it, I didn't know who it was until some time later when I saw some people were talking about it. The second episode was directed by Peyton Reed, as in the director of the Ant-Man movies. Like I said, it's always cool for me whenever I see a Marvel director works on anything Star Wars like this. Anyway, this was probably my least favourite episode of the season because there really isn't anything of much interest in it. At least compared to the rest of the season. This is about Mando being the escort for some frog alien in exchange for giving him information about any Jedi. The rest of the episode is about them trying to get this alien to a planet while under attack by some in the rebellion. They then crash on some ice planet and Mando then has to fix the ship until they get attacked by some white spider things. This part was pretty cool with Mando and the alien just trying to shoot a bunch of them. And it was cool when the guys from the rebellion showed back up and killed all the spider things for them. That was cool. Overall, a pretty good episode, but probably the lowest of this season for me. The next episode on the other hand is by far one of absolute best episodes ever and it was directed by Bryce Dallas Howard. Mando gets the frog alien to her planet along with her eggs and he gets some information and gets on a boat with some people until they betray him but then he's saved by some other Mandalorians. One of them being Bo-Katan.

As soon as she showed up, I lost my mind. As soon as I saw her armour, I wondered if it was her and it was. I got so excited when she showed up because she's a character from The Clone Wars and Rebels and it was so exciting to me to see her. Anyway, she agrees to give Mando some information about a Jedi if he helps with a job and they do it. We also learn that she's looking for the Darksaber, which Moff Gideon has, as we saw at the end of the last season. Anyway, they do the job and Bo-Katan tells Mando that if he takes Baby Yoda to some planet, there he'll find Ahsoka. And as soon as she said that, I lost my mind even more because they finally confirmed that we were gonna be seeing Ahsoka in live action and I could not have been more excited. This entire episode had me excited from beginning to end. I thought Bryce Dallas Howard did a fantastic job with directing this episode and it was so cool seeing Bo-Katan in live action. I didn't expect to see het at all in this and it was so awesome. And seeing how I recently finished watch all of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Rebels, it just made me more excited. And the ending with Bo-Katan confirming Ahsoka, I can't even describe how excited that made me. I just felt so giddy when she said it. The next episode was directed by Carl Weathers, who's also the person who plays Greef Karga in this show. I love him as this character and he did a really good job with this episode. This about Mando going to meet up with Cara Dune and Greef to help fix his ship and they do but he also helps them infiltrate an imperial base and they eventually end up destroying it. This episode was pretty fun and it was cool with the action because the three of them were having to shoot their way through this place and going through Storm Troopers. It was cool and we got a funny scene with Baby Yoda having to stay in this little school place and then he comes back later on having taken one of the student's food and that was really funny. But the end also shows that one of the people working on Mando's ship put a tracking beacon on it because he's working for Moff Gideon. The next episode was directed and written by Dave Filoni, who I've been hearing about a lot lately with him being a huge worker on Star Wars. Being the person who created Ahsoka, Star Wars: Rebels, is one of the main producers of this show and so on. And I was really excited to see what this episode was about and it's 100% my favourite episode of the whole show. We finally see Ahsoka in live action. Like I said, I know I mentioned this already, but now I can talk about it properly. I was so excited to see her here and it did not disappoint. As soon as she showed up, I could not have been more excited. She's in the first minute of the episode and it's awesome. She's going through guys in a forest and calling out a woman running a village who treats the people terribly and then she disappears. It was so cool. But then Mando shows up to the village and the woman has him try to kill Ahsoka. He goes out to find her and we get an awesome encounter with them with Ahsoka fighting him and Mando trying to talk to her.

We then get a scene where Ahsoka and Baby Yoda are talking in their heads with the Force. And we finally find out what Baby Yoda's name is. It's Grogu. It was so surprising when I heard that and it was so cool. Also, me and a lot of other people have made the joke about how that name sounds just like Goku. But, yeah, it was awesome when we finally found out his name and we got a lot of funny moments from that. Speaking of, Grogu himself throughout the whole season is easily the highlight for so many reasons with being so adorable like in the last season and you can tell that they really wanted to show that. Anyway, Ahsoka then begins to show Mando a bit of Grogu's powers with the Force but she says she won't train him because she's worried about his feelings bringing him to the dark side like it did Anakin, which she even talks about.

Anyway, Mando and her then team up to go against the woman of the village and her soldiers and they win and Ahsoka reveals that she's actually still looking for Thrawn. That was an even bigger shock to me because, with Ahsoka, I sorta already knew she was gonna be in this season because a lot of people have been talking about it for a while, but with the mention of Thrawn, I didn't expect that at all and I couldn't believe it. And this has led a lot of people, myself included, to speculate that maybe she's still looking for Ezra after what happened at the end of Rebels. So the possibility of that happening and seeing both Thrawn and Ezra in live action makes me really excited. As a person who recently finsihed watching Rebels, this was really exciting for me. And the episode ends with Ahsoka telling Mando to take Grogu to some other planet where he might be able to use the Force to call another Jedi to him. Overall, this episode was absolutely amazing. Having finally gotten a live action version of Ahsoka in live action was already incredibly exciting for me, but Dave Filoni himself did a fantastic job directing this episode. There was so much amazing cinematography and imagery and the entire episode was just gorgeous to look at. And, like I said in one of my last posts, I thought Rosario Dawson was amazing as Ashoka. Having, maybe, my favourite Star Wars character ever have her live action debut like this was just a dream come true for me. The next episode was directed by Robert Rodriguez and was really cool. Mando takes Grogu to the planet and Grogu begins to use the Force to contact a Jedi. But then Boba Fett arrives to get his armour from him but then Moff Gideon arrives with his storm troopers so Mando and Boba, along with some woman with Boba, have to team up to defeat them. They do and Boba managed to get his armour. But then Gideon destroys Mando's ship, which was called the Razor Crest by the way, and uses some droids called the Dark Troopers to kidnap Grogu. So Mando then has to go back to Cara again and they have Mayfield from the first season come back because they need his help to break into this imperial base. This episode was pretty fun and I liked how they had Mando and Boba teaming up. They then become a team for the rest of the season. Then the seventh episode was directed by Rick Famuyiwa who directed a couple of episodes in the last season and it opens with Cara getting Mayfield out of prison. We even seen Boba has cleaned up the armour and given it a paint job and it looks awesome.

I like how they brought Mayfield back from that one episode from the first season because they made him so likeable here. I liked him a lot here. Anyway, they get into the place but then Mando has to have his face scanned to get into this computer so we get to see him take his helmet again. That was really surprising. I didn't think he'd do that but at the same time, it's showing that he's willing to do anything for Grogu, even go against his Mandalorian creed because he cared about him so much. We even learn more about Mayfield. Apparently he was an imperial before until he left when he realised the leader he was with didn't care one bit about the men who were killed. So we get a scene that's pretty intense with Mando, Mayfield and the same guy talking at a table where Mando has his helmet off. But then both Mando and Mayfield begin shooting everyone around them. But then we see Boba save them with the episode ending showing that Mando left Moff Gideon a message saying the same thing he said to him in the last season. This episode was a lot of fun and I didn't expect to see Mando take his helmet off. I figured we were only gonna see him take it off once at the end of the season like in the last season. But, like I said, I liked how they made Mayfield really likeable here and it was cool to see him and Mando team up. The final episode of the season was directed by Peyton Reed again and this is definitely a better episode than his last one. This season finale made me really excited and satisfied from beginning to end. Mando and Boba ask Bo-Katan to help them get onto Moff Gideon's ship, they make a plan with a doctor from Gideon's crew and they use an imperial ship to board it. We even see Mando go up against one of the Dark Troopers and it's pretty brutal with how he's just getting tossed around and punched into the wall, but then he sends them into space. I was thinking while watching this part that if that was the end of them, then that was pretty underwhelming with how they were built up, but then they return later. But then we get an amazing fight scene with Mando going up against Gideon who has the Darksaber and Mando uses a spear made of Beskar, as in the super strong metal that his armour is made out of that not even Lightsabers can cut through.

But since Mando defeated Moff Gideon, he's able to wield the Darksaber, which Bo-Katan wanted and is the reason she came on this mission and the only way for her to get it is to defeat Mando in some way. But, also, I just wanna say, it was really, really awesome to see Mando with the Darksaber. Just seeing him walk into the room with Gideon with Grogu in his arm and the Darksaber in his hand. That image was awesome. I wanted to see him with it and it was so cool.

Anyway, Mando tries to give it Bo-Katan, but Gideon tells him about how he can't unless she wins it from him. And that's kinda left unresolved for the rest of the episodes because the Dark Troopers return after Mando sent them into space. And as they're all getting ready to fight them, an X-Wing shows up with someone inside. This part was giving me goose bumps all over because we then see that it's a Jedi because they have a lightsaber and they begin to slice through the Dark Troopers and the whole time, I was wondering who it was gonna be. I had some ideas like maybe it was either Luke or Ezra or Cal Kestis from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. But then, it was revealed to be Luke and I was so exciting when that happened. It was so cool to see him.

I will admit, the C.G.I on him does look a little odd. Like there are moments where the C.G is very noticeable and that is a little distracting, but it's still an awesome scene. Just seeing Mando and Luke talk and then seeing that he's planning to train Grogu. So we see Mando saying goodbye to Grogu and he even takes his helmet off to let him see his face.

I'm not gonna lie, I kinda teared up a bit when this happened. It was just so sad seeing them say goodbye like this. And even R2 shows up and that was awesome and the series ends with them watching as Luke takes Grogu away. This was an incredible finale. Seeing all these characters come together to fight Moff Gideon and his troops was awesome and the ending was absolutely amazing with Mando having the Darksaber and then seeing Luke appear. And this technically means we've had a live action Star Wars show with Luke and Ahsoka in the same show. I had a thought a few months ago that I would love to see them meeting at some point. I would love if that happened at some point. And this entire season was fantastic, with some things being set up for the next season like wondering when Mando and Grogu will see each other again, what they're gonna do with Moff Gideon, how Bo-Katan will get the Darksaber and so on. Plus, there's also the fact that Thrawn was mentioned that could lead to us seeing a live action Ezra, though that'll probably happen in the live action Ahsoka show that was announced recently. And Peyton Reed did an incredible job with directing the season finale. I thought he did an excellent job and it left me wanting so much more. Speaking of setup, we even see an after credit scene in the final episode where Boba Fett takes over Jabba The Hutt's palace and it says "Book Of Boba Feet, coming December 2021."

So that means there's gonna be a live action Boba Fett show too and that's really exciting. I can't wait for all that and this finale cemented that. I can't wait to see all of that. And really, I mainly also can't wait to see more of this show. I have no idea when the next season will be out, but I can't wait for more. So, overall, this season was incredible from start to finish. There was one episode that wasn't as good as the rest, but there wasn't a single bad episode this whole season and every one made me more excited to see the next. And, as a huge Star Wars fan, it gave me so many things I wanted to see and delivered fantastically. The cast is still amazing here, especially Pedro Pascal as Mando who continues to be a fantastic actor for this character. I can't imagine anyone but him in this role and I hope we see him as this character for a long time. And I think Jon Favreau did brilliant work with writing the season. Like I said, he didn't write every episode, Dave Filoni wrote The Jedi with Ahsoka, but Favreau was the writer for the rest of the season and the fact that it's him writing this makes me so excited and happy because, like I said, any time I see a Marvel director working on this, it just makes me so excited. And, really, I just loved this season so much. I highly recommend watching it if you can. And so, everyone that's my review for The Mandalorian: Season 2. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.