"What does this have to do with us?" Bo-Katan asks during 'Guns for Hire.' It’s a good question. In a show peppered with loose threads – the reclaiming of Mandalore, Moff Gideon, and Grogu’s past are just some waiting to be tied up – The Mandalorian is in serious danger of going nowhere fast while still managing to leave its lead behind.
That meandering tone is hammered home by a cold open which sees Axe Woves (Simon Mario Kassianides) leading Bo-Katan’s former group of splinter cell Mandalorians as the titular guns for hire. Their privateer work here in the brief scene on the Quarren freighter amounts to little more than providing context for their place in the galaxy, a brief star-crossed lovers mission, and reams of melodrama and stilted line readings.
