The Mandalorian is one of those series that almost never go easy on you, today have been very busy for me and was in a time crush so had to eat at work instead of going home, Im lucky I live 10 minutes from home and everyday I go home for lunch, anyways I was eating at work and at some point the episode was so good I stop and kept watching, on this series they always exploring, fighting, escaping, arrested or trap so there is always something interesting its not just people sitting at a table talking or a boring flash back, that's one of the reasons why I love so much this tv series.
The last episode Din aka Mando was trying to bring to life an old droid friend IG-11 model to help him explore Mandalor, rumors were that the planet was doom, poison and probably nothing can survive the planet conditions but Din found a piece of rock from Mandalor so he though that if at that point in time someone was able to retract it from the planet then at least he could explore it whether if air was breathable or not, his main mission was to dip into the mines water to redeem himself for braking the creed and once again walk the path of the Mandalorian, This is The Way.
Here my post of Chapter 17
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Before starting his adventure to Mandalor, Din consult the Armorer that as usual is the one who knows more about their Creed and planet Mandalor, as Din ask her who was Bo-Katan Kryze he understood she could be the one to help him navigate the planet, Bo-Katan Kryze was royal family and once attempt to rule the planet but failed and now spend her days alone in ther castle. Din pays a visit to Bo-Katan but she reject the idea of going back to Mandalor, as I mention I think Din was not really after saving the planet or explore it but he knew on that planet was the only way he had to redeem himself against the creed and get his Mandalor status back as the Armorer confirm.
Din was still decided to get the memory chip he was looking for the IG-11 so he pays a visit to a friend who probably knew how to get it, the same friend who build his speedster, Peli Motto a mechanic that appear on previous season, she is the one who build the speedster that was not originally for Din but when he arrive and needed a ship to get back Grogu he did a deal with Peli, she has close contact with Jawas friendly little minions who steal everything they can to then resell it at high prices for great profits so Din knew if someone could get that memory chip for the IG-11 was Peli.
Din arrives in times of holidays and besides Jawas said it was too old and almost impossible if not impossible to get one, for them to say that and not even try then most likely was impossible, this guys will do anything and steal anything as long as they can make a profit and in a survival enviroment probably who can blame them, they short, are not fighters so they are merchants but fishy merchants.
Peli is a sneaky merchant too so after Din explain her why he is so interested in getting a droid right away she tries to sell him one but this droid behaves a bit coward not necessary what Din needs, she insisted and even sold him the Droid for half a price and reinstall the droid adapter to his speedster so the Droid could be the copilot, Din accepts and start his last journey before getting to Mandalor.
As they arrive to Mandalor, Din sends the droid to a cave so he can pick up air samples and find out if its safe to come out, Din has his helmet but I dont think his oxygen tank has enough to complete the mission.
The next scenes are very dark so depending on the monitor that you have or TV, could be difficult to watch, I was using the monitor at work an old square VGA Dell and some scenes could barely watch but it was still fine.
As Din and Grogy get to the cave they had to fight three guys that look like alien cave mans, Din had to use the dark lightsaber, this is still very difficult for him to dominate, looks like it weights more than he can lift but its not the weight of the saber the problem is Din himself who do not have the will and confidence, this was well explain by the Armorer in season two when Din present her the dark lightsaber.
They go deeper into the city until they reach the bottom, as they walk into the dark they say all kind of creatures who live there now waiting for sometime to attack. Din sees what looks like a mandalorian helmet but it was a trap, some kind of droid who drinks either blood or some body substance caught Din and brings him to his cave, Grogu follows them but he still too weak to confront such enemy, the droid was big in body but look like a small alien with an exo armor, Grogu tries to free Din but failed so he decided to get on the ship and look for Bo-Katan as instructed by Din. Its known that Grogu and Din cares a lot for each other, Peli even call Grogu Din's son.
Grogu gets to Bo-Katan castle and tells her what happen, with Grogu its hard to understand what he is saying because he is not saying anything, all he makes are this baby sounds but nothing else, there are no substitles no nothing but everyone seems to know what he is saying.
Bo-Katan decides to go to Mandalor but she takes her ship with Grogu and Din's droid, after all she is a Mandalorian and once leader of their people so she care for Din, at the same time visit a place that use to be her home.
As they come back the alien droid that capture Din starts to feed from him, I'm not clear if it was blood but was hurting Din, Bo-Katan was getting closer but first had to fight the same cave mans Din did, I didn't like this because it felt redundant like to kill some time on the series.
As Grogu tells her where Din is eventually they found the alien droid an she had to fight it, Bo-Katan for sure is better fighter than Din, royal members most of the time are train to the core plus she was using the Dark Lightsaber that Din couldn't, she handle it so easy until she kills the creature and safes Din from the creature.
Besides the scene been this dark the potato monitor doesnt help, Bo-Katan decides to help Din get to the mines waters to sumerge and redeem himself, once again swear his oath and walk the way of the Mandalorian again, Bo-Katan still has the dark lightsaber and Im not sure if she gave it back, I have a feeling now that she knows Mandalor is not toxic probably get back her planet and try to unite Mandalorians again but I dont know how that would work since a large number of them are now mercenaries and there has been an ongoing war between some groups.
After Din gets into the waters he sudenly falls, deep, but it doesnt look like something pulls him down so Bo-Katan jumps in the water and gets him back to the surface.
But not before watching the eye of what seems to be a huge monster, Bo-Kata told Din after rescue him, there were living creatures in the city that use to leave way far from it, its possible that during all this time they move in expecting to get either food or shelter, might be the case of this monster, I thought they were going to be attack by what looks like a kraken but the episodes ends right after they get out of the water.
The Mandalorian never disappoints, there are a few things that are pending from this episode, will Bo-Katan give back Din the dark lightsaber? will he ask for it? will she want to reconstruct Mandalor, will the Mandalorians at are with the Armorer come back, there are so many questions and possibilities for what happens next, cant wait for the next episode.