We’ve spent a week praising Chapter 23 and the balance that co-writers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, alongside director Rick Famuyiwa, struck between delivering weighty character moments and big spectacle. Hopes were high for the finale, and it mostly hit all the right notes. No unexpected pirouettes though.
Season 3 has been an uneven but ultimately satisfying ride, and it’s now clear that Favreau bet most of his chips on Bo-Katan and the retaking of Mandalore. Grogu also solidified his position as the future bridge between the Jedi and Mandalorian cultures, and maybe it was Din who got the short end of the stick; until this last episode, there wasn’t much going on with him after since he bathed in the Living Waters in Chapter 18.
