Season 2 – Episode 8 of 8
Disney+
Air date: December 18, 2020
Run time: 46 minutes
Directed by Peyton Reed
Chapter 16 – “The Rescue”
Boba Fett, Cara Dune and Mando intercept and disable the imperial ship carrying the clone engineer featured in an earlier episode. They stop by and pick up Bo-KaTan to join in the fight to take Moff Gideon’s ship and reclaim Grogu. Alas, the Dark Troopers are standing guard as well as a battle to reclaim the Darksaber which carries a secret of its own. Pinned down a ship arrives carrying a stunning visitor ready for battle.
Will Grogu be saved? Will Moff Gideon fall at the hands of Mando and his team or live to further build his evil Imperial forces? Who will control the power of the Darksaber? Who is the mysterious visitor that arrives?
Everything builds to an epic battle aboard Moff Gideon’s ship.
Summary
Did not see the ending coming, nor especially the arrival of that familiar Star Wars visitor. The Dark Trooper battling Mando on the ship was one of many entertaining scenes. This episode is pure Star Wars gold, the best of any so far in this series. Do not miss the end credits either, as a surprise awaits there as well.
We’ll be back in a future post to cover spoilers and more, but this episode is too good to ruin that this soon. I can’t wait to see where this series takes us next. Season 3 is totally primed. In the meantime, we’ll just have to speculate about how awesome Disney+ will be with more of this quality and type of Star Wars. Great work all around from Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni and their team. They should have been given the keys to the Star Wars kingdom as soon as Disney purchased from Lucasfilms.
Oh, and one more time Mando takes off his helmet. Can we stop having articles saying Pedro Pascal is complaining about not being able to take off his helmet? His helmet has come off multiple times in season two. We know his face. We know that perfectly manicured mustache. If Pascal ever did complain, it might be that it was about how hot it was having his head inside the mask so much. That part is believable anyway. This is a huge role for him. What actor wouldn’t want to be Mando?
S2:E8 Chapter 16 “The Rescue” rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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I was literally screaming at my TV for the last 15 minutes. It was perfect! I loved it. I have so many questions and want to talk about it, but will wait. I haven’t been this excited since I spent so many lunch periods in the school cafeteria debating whether Darth Vader was really Luke’s father or if he was pulling his leg.
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Yeah, this was fan heaven. Such a great, great show!
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An excellent episode! Although, if you have not seen the episode (SPOILER ALERT)
I did find Luke’s appearance to be a bit of a stretch. This is a show about mercenaries and crime. Boba Fett is fine, Ashoka was right there on the ledge but I like the character so I don’t mind… but Luke? Why not other bounty hunters from Legends, like Dash Rendar or BoShek. Something, anything, as long as I don’t have to hear from the Skywalkers again.
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