Bo-Katan Kryze

At this point it is impossible to separate the story of Din Djarin and Grogu from the wider universe of Star Wars’ galaxy far, far away. In a similar manner to how the unlikely duo met, The Mandalorian has picked up iconic characters from across Star Wars film and TV to become part of its story. But for once, its latest surprise was less about pointing at the familiar, and doing right by someone Star Wars has rarely done justice with.“The Foundling,” the fourth episode of The Mandalorian’s third season, largely focuses…

Just a reminder: like Marvel’s various Netflix series combined to create a Defenders crossover series, its sister company Lucasfilm has similar plans for its sprawling Star Wars TV universe. Lucasfilm head honcho Kathleen Kennedy mentioned it back in 2020, but in a new interview with the Wrap the grand overseer of that TV universe, Dave Filoni, essentially confirmed it’s on the way by not confirming it.“I think that the reality of there being a big event in this time period is very real, is all I would say to that,” is…

The Mandalorian is a show that rarely wants to sit in its worldbuilding. Things are said, they are present in the moment they need to be, and then it moves on to the next thing, like its wandering mercenary hero. But this week it tried something different—taking a leaf out of the book of its Star Wars streaming contemporary, Andor.“The Convert,” the third episode of The Mandalorian’s third season, largely keeps away from the story of Din Djarin and Bo-Katan Kryze, outside of book-ended scenes where we learn that Din,…

Screenshot: LucasfilmThis week’s Mandalorian whisked us back to the ravaged homeworld of the once-warrior race, Mandalore, to further delve into the complicated history of its people and its warring cultures. But it climaxed with Bo-Katan Kryze and Din Djarin uncovering something that could change the world—and what’s left of its peoples—forever.“The Mines of Mandalore,” the second episode of The Mandalorian season three, concludes as Din Djarin is rescued beneath the surface of the fusion-bombed planet by Bo-Katan. She’s…

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Screenshot: LucasfilmHundreds of years later, it is this fractured society that gives way to a new cultural divide among the Mandalorians. Horrified by the cataclysm that ended their eons of war against the Jedi, a sociopolitical group formed under the banner of the New Mandalorians, a faction that advocated for a rejection of Mandalore’s martial history and the warrior-clan structure in favor of a pacifist, isolationist parliamentary democracy.Civil war broke out between the New Mandalorians and the Martial…

Image: LucasfilmTo paraphrase Luke Skywalker, “If there’s a nice center to the universe, Mandalore is the planet it’s farthest from.” The home planet of Jango Fett, Bo-Katan Kryze, and Sabine Wren is a hellhole, and it has been throughout the entirety of Star Wars’ main continuity. So much so, in fact, that I don’t think anyone needs to go back, whether it be characters or viewers.Mandalore has been a major point of interest—obsession may be a better word—for Dave Filoni since he began the Clone Wars cartoon in 2008, and…