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Spoiler Alert: This blog was released after The Mandalorian aired on Disney +. Don’t read unless you’ve seen season two, episode five
I like the former. Good or bad, they are always memorable – Ahsoka Tano
They call me Yoda. They call me a resource. They call me little boy. They call me It. That’s not my name. That’s not my name. That’s not my name. That’s not my name.
No, it’s Grogu, and a chance revelation of the identity and history of this rarest and most precious creature is just one of the big moments in the best episode of the season so far.
Heralded as the live-action debut of Ahsoka Tano, the padawan of Anakin Skywalker, the star of the Clone Wars animated series and the owner of two lightsabers, The Jedi delivers. Rosario Dawson is a stern and serious presence, focused on her own research and unwilling to compromise when Mando arrives in her world.
Also, and this is definitely what people were really waiting to see, she is a fleeting, ghostly and deadly fighter who will cut two scars into your back as fast as possible “Where is Grand Admiral Thrawn?”
Mando and Baby Yoda (please allow me this last use) land on the planet Corvus in search of Tano. Instead, they encounter a Kurosawa staged with a stern magistrate and his familiar-looking gunman who rules with an electrified fist inside a militarized fort.
Instantly recognized as a bounty hunter, Mando receives an offer he can’t refuse. Kill Tano, says the magistrate, and you will get this adorable Beskar metal spear.
It doesn’t take long to wander through the misty woods before Mando and Tano meet, but there isn’t much to fight. Mando makes it clear that his quest outweighs any desire for fancy new weapons and that the quest means training Baby Yoda (OK, that was the last time).
Tano is soon immersed in telepathic communication with Grogu, and she exposes her backstory. Raised in the Jedi temple on Coruscant, he was hidden from the borders of the Empire after the Clone Wars. Which means it’s powerful.
He has only seen one of his kind before, and that was Yoda. But she has also seen what can happen when those who are able to channel the Force let her collide with unruly emotions (hi, Anakin). And unruly emotions are what Grogu has, due to his deep attachment to Din Djarin.
This is cute, and definitely a reminder that the relationship between the bounty hunter and the little green egg eater is here for the long haul. But Mando has none of that, he wants Grogu trained so that the boy can go off and do Jedi things himself.
Mando thinks he has an agreement: the couple will solve the magistrate and, in return, Tano will teach Grogu. They return to the fort, storm it with ease, and, in a synchronized epilogue, Tano confronts the magistrate in a saber / spear fight while Mando has a slow, itchy trigger finger stalemate with his henchman.
“It looks like your side won,” says the henchman, well in tune with the sound of Beskar being knocked out of a fighter’s hand. He’s right, but he still can’t help himself and, putting down his big gun, he tries to pull out a shot with his little one. Bad move, Bucko.
Then Mando attacks the gunman and Tano questions the magistrate about the whereabouts of Grand Admiral Thrawn, a character who has appeared many times in the wider Star Wars mythology (and a character whose real name is Mitth’raw’nuruodo , if you were looking to train your language). He has what he wants – but will he give Mando his part of the deal?
The answer is not entirely. Tano refuses to train Grogu alone, but will direct the pair to an abandoned Jedi temple on the planet of Tython. Place Grogu on a seeing stone there, he says, and a Jedi will emerge to train him. If they feel like it.
The moral of the story
A dog isn’t just for Christmas. By dog, I mean Grogu, and by Christmas I mean “a period of time that suits you”. Mando, suspected not entirely disappointed, is learning that his relationship with Grogu is greater than that of the delivery man and the package. As the bond between the two grew – watch them argue over the knob of that gearshift – so has Grogu’s dependence on Din Djarin grown. Consequently, this means that Mando’s responsibility towards the little one has also changed. Don’t expect him to dump Grogu on a seeing stone and walk away whistling a Tattooine club number.
Creature in the foreground
There’s some kind of huge cow bellowing in the woods chewing on branches, but when even Wookieepedia considers it an “unidentified herbivore,” don’t expect me to call it. Some idea? Ahsoka Tano, meanwhile, is a member of the species known as Togruta from the planet Shili.
Cameo corner
The Magistrate’s Henchman is played by Michael Biehn, practically one of the 10 best secondary military actors of all time. He is most famous for playing Kyle Reese in The Terminator and Hicks in Aliens in which he uttered lines like “I want to introduce you to a personal friend of mine. This is an M41A Pulse Rifle.” Congratulations on casting, in an episode directed by the master of Clone Wars Dave Filoni.
Yellow clock
He might still love playing with his knob (OK, calm down), but Grogu is growing. Or, more likely, it always has been. His telepathic conversation with Tano reveals a long history and some emotional turmoil. According to Tano, the time will soon come when Grogu will have to make choices for himself.
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