In the end, The Mandalorian has returned with its first new episode in additional than two years.
The live-action Star Wars collection wrapped up its second season within the winter of 2020. Now, The Mandalorian season 3 has made its long-awaited premiere on Disney+. Whereas the collection’ season 3 premiere is a surprisingly directionless and lackluster installment of tv, that doesn’t imply the episode, titled The Apostate, doesn’t elevate some compelling questions on the way forward for The Mandalorian.
Right here’s every thing we’re dying to know after The Mandalorian season 3 episode 1.
Will the Purrgil seem once more?
Throughout a hyperspace journey early on within the Mandalorian season 3 premiere, Grogu seems to be out of his mini-cockpit and sees the silhouettes of a number of creatures flying simply outdoors the bounds of Din Djarin’s (Pedro Pascal) hyperspace path. Followers of Star Wars Rebels ought to instantly acknowledge the creatures as Purrgil. Launched in Star Wars Rebels, the Purrgil are a race of huge, tentacled house whales who’ve the flexibility to naturally journey by hyperspace.
The Purrgil are, maybe, best-known for his or her position within the Star Wars Rebels collection finale. The creatures are utilized by Ezra Bridger in that animated collection’ last episode to hyperspace bounce each himself and Grand Admiral Thrawn to an unknown area of the galaxy. Whereas it stays to be seen whether or not or not the Purrgil can have any position to play in The Mandalorian season 3, the creatures will virtually actually seem in Ahsoka.
The upcoming live-action Disney+ collection is anticipated to be a quasi-sequel to Star Wars Rebels — one that will very nicely reveal what occurred to Ezra and Thrawn after the Purrgil took them someplace far, far-off.
Who will turn out to be the brand new marshal of Nevarro?
Throughout his go to to Nevarro, Din Djarin (aka The Mandalorian) is stunned to find that the planet has not solely turn out to be a profitable and booming new commerce cease, however that additionally it is in determined want of a brand new marshal.
Din is requested to take the place by the planet’s Excessive Justice of the Peace, Greef Karga (Carl Weathers), however he turns the request down. Which means another person must finally step up and turn out to be Nevarro’s new marshal, but it surely appears secure to say that viewers must wait to seek out out who Karga chooses to fill the place as an alternative of Din.
Who’s Gorian Shard?
Over the course of The Apostate, Din Djarin makes a brand new enemy of a fierce pirate captain named Gorian Shard (Nonso Anozie). Nonetheless, regardless of the hazard he appears to pose to each Din and Greef Karga, little or no info is definitely revealed about Shard in The Mandalorian’s season 3 premiere. Sadly, there’s nowhere else followers can search for information about Shard, because the character’s look in The Apostate marks his Star Wars debut.
Based mostly on Shard’s response to simply how soundly Din and Greef handle to close down his assaults in The Apostate, although, it appears secure to say that the pirate king will present up once more sooner or later in The Mandalorian season 3.
Will Bo-Katan try and take the Darksaber?
On the finish of The Mandalorian’s season 3 premiere, Din pays a go to to none apart from Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff). Din makes an attempt to hitch Bo-Katan’s campaign to deliver their folks again to Mandalore, however he’s knowledgeable by Sackhoff’s mandalorian chief that her forces all slowly left her after she did not retake the Darksaber from Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) within the Mandalorian season 2 finale.
Bo-Katan asks Din if he nonetheless has the Darksaber simply earlier than telling him to make use of it to win the assist of her former followers. Nonetheless, whereas Bo-Katan doesn’t make a transfer towards Din throughout their temporary interplay in The Apostate, it’s clear that she’s turn out to be immensely bitter over the influence his defeat of Moff Gideon has had on her declare to the throne of Mandalore. Taking that under consideration, it appears truthful to ask: Will Bo-Katan ever develop bored with sitting in her citadel and determine to try to take the Darksaber from Din herself?
The Mandalorian’s season 3 premiere actually lays the groundwork for that very flip of occasions to occur, however followers must wait to seek out out whether or not or not Bo-Katan’s potential feud with Din ever involves fruition.
What’s going to Din discover on the floor of Mandalore?
If The Apostate makes one factor explicitly clear, it’s that Din goes to go to the supposedly destroyed planet of Mandalore sooner or later in The Mandalorian season 3. Over the course of the season’s first episode, Din repeatedly states his want to wash within the planet’s dwelling waters and redeem himself for the previous cases by which he has taken off his helmet.
Din has, in response, been advised by a number of folks that the floor of Mandalore was become a toxic wasteland by the Empire, however he appears decided to seek out out for himself whether or not that’s true. Sadly, as is the case with most of the leftover mysteries from The Mandalorian’s season 3 premiere, we’ll simply have to attend to see precisely what Din finds each time he really makes it again to his folks’s dwelling planet.
New episodes of The Mandalorian premiere Wednesdays on Disney+.
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