Spoilers below for The Mandalorian’s Season 3 finale, so be warned if you haven’t yet watched the Moff-a-licious ep!
Ever since its start, The Mandalorian has had one foot firmly in this ever-expanding corner of the Star Wars universe, with its other foot constantly tapping around other established canonical elements. Season 3 has earned its fair share of criticism for basically feeling like The Bo-Katan Show (which isn’t at all a bad thing unto itself), but the finale seemingly capped off that chapter with “The Return,” bringing victory to Mandalore’s warrior elite and lethally concluding Bo and Din’s feud with Giancarlo Esposito’s Moff Gideon. But let’s not kid ourselves here: the biggest takeaway from the episode is that Grogu has entered his toddler phase, instantly bringing to mind Yoda’s fight with Count Dooku in Attack of the Clones.
