The Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 2 Ending Explained: Who Is the True Heir to the Dark Sword? Mitosaurus Return?
The Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 2 is preparing to unite the various crumbs scattered throughout the episodes concerning the fate of Mandalore and its people. From that mention of the Great Purge in the first season to today, many elements have been brought into play, starting from the protagonist’s beliefs up to Bo-Katan Kryze. The second episode wastes no time and immediately takes us to the surface of the planet, where Din Djarin will be able to find his redemption. The episode picks up the story after an all-too-sluggish season opener. The action is the master, like the wonder of a world now in decline. The ruins of Mandalore still retain their sheen, though now cold and ghostly. Not all the legends scattered over time seem to be true and our Mando is preparing to uncover Pandora’s box. With him little Grogu, now an adopted son and faithful companion. But let’s not go further and let’s analyze the episode up to the suggestive final cliffhanger.
The Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 2 Ending Explained: What Happened in the Second Episode?
The beginning of the episode sees the regular seasoned meeting with Peli Motto, who will give our protagonist a not-quite-brand-new droid. These will help him analyze the surface of Mandalore, to find out whether the air is truly toxic or not. On the planet, they will discover not only that the air is breathable but that someone, or something, seems to live on Mandalore. Din Djarin understands that the Curse of Mandalore is pure folklore and that his people could return to the planet. However, he is taken prisoner by a half-alien, half-robotic creature. Grogu thus launches towards the ship in what will prove to be his first solo test. The little Jedi will go to ask for help from Bo-Katan, who has taken up residence on one of the moons of Mandalore. The former regent of Mandalore will go to Din’s rescue and save him from the clutches of being.
However, Mando’s mission is to go down into the mines, where he can bathe in the living waters, considered sacred and miraculous. These should re-establish his status as a Mandalorian following the events of The Mandalorian season 2 and The Book of Boba Fett. Especially in the latter case, the spiritual guide of his clan points out to him how only in living waters can one be redeemed and mentions a detail that now acquires greater significance. She reminds Mando of the ancient legend of the Mythosaurus, a legendary creature whose resurrection should herald a new Mandalorian era; but let’s go step by step.
The Return of A Legendary Creature
At the end of the second episode of The Mandalorian Season 3, Din Djarin throws himself into the living waters but is caught and dragged to the bottom by something. Bo-Katan promptly rushes to his rescue, but as they return to the surface, a beast looms ahead of them. Immense, with large horns and a body like that of a dragon. There is no doubt, what the two have seen in the depths of the mines is the legendary Mitosaurus. This could restore hope to Kryze as much as the entire Mandalorian people. The Mitosaurus was found on the planet years and years before the Galactic Republic. These were tamed and ridden by the first Mandalorians. However, over time they seem to have become extinct, disappearing from Mandalore. Their skull, however, has remained the symbol of The Mandalorians or we find it very often depicted in armor or places of worship. We deduce that the creature occupies a fundamental place in the cultural history of The Mandalorians and its return could upset the current status quo.
What this means for The Mandalorian is still early to say, but it certainly foreshadows a new colonization of the planet. However, Din Djarin still holds the Darksaber and Bo-Katan will have to reach a compromise to get it back. Is it possible that we will see the first live-action iteration of Sabine Wren before the release of Ahsoka? Unlikely but not impossible, certainly the return of the Mythosaurus will cause quite a stir in the galaxy. As we know, The Mandalorian people have split into various clans and factions, each with a different mission. Perhaps, we will witness the clash between the various tribes, before they reach an agreement, now everything is possible; this is the way.
Grogu Uses Force
Din and Grogu start exploring and reach the Sundari Civic Center, a place very similar to Moira’s Mines from The Lord of the Rings. The waters of those ruins should flow into the much-coveted Acque Vive to which Mando points. Seeing the planet in such ruins is a blow to the heart, especially for those who have known it as full of life in the animated series. As Din recovers an old Mandalorian helmet he is captured by a gigantic droid that traps and stuns him. A kind of Wall-e villain who collects parts of the ruins in this furnace-like place. The droid appears to be commanded by a sentient being within it that uses an exoskeleton to move around. Although, we later find out that his body is all encased in his head with his eye bulging. Din is in trouble and tells Grogu to go to Bo-Katan for help.
The little one rushes to the ship thanks to his shell and escapes from the cave as in a typical video game, escape from the mines. Not before knocking out another Alamita with a forced push. On Kalevala, Bo-Katan – still depressed – finds little Grogu instead of Mando and they leave for Mandalore with his spaceship Gauntlet: the personal starfighter of Pre Vizsla, the one who led The Mandalorian Death Watch during the God Wars.
On a Trip to Mandalore
At this juncture Bo-Katan talks to Grogu, since we are in a scene with only one actress it is almost a monologue. The result is very moving for those who know the history of the character thanks to the animated series, but at the same time functional for those who have not seen them. “My family once ruled this beautiful place, now it’s a tomb.” The woman’s gaze and her words are very strong and exude sadness. Bo-Ka tells the little boy that she once knew some Jedi. There are two distinct periods: the one in which Mandalore was led by his sister Satine, to which Bo-Ka however initially opposed, and then took the side of Satine, who is trying to free her then had a tragic outcome. And the one in which she– albeit for a short time – ruled the planet. After the seventh season of The Clone Wars, Bo-Katan, with the help of Ahsoka ousted Maul from the throne. Later, with Order 66 the Empire was born, and the Saxon clan took power thanks to the approval of the emperor I n Rebels, after the defeat of Gar Saxon, Bo-Katan resumed his role as ruler wielding the Darksaber, uniting The Mandalorians. Bo-Ka ruled until the tragic events of the Purge.
The True Heir of The Dark Sword
Bo-Katan spots another group of Alamites that she defeats quite easily, and it is The Mandalorian herself who reveals to us that these creatures lived in the wastelands outside the bio-domes of Mandalore. Who knows which other species survived… While the sentient being is extracting blood from Mando, Bo-Ka arrives in time to save him, eliminating the enemies and we see how the droid is a small organic body that is focused on the head of the giant robot. It detaches from that exoskeleton and takes command of another gigantic droid. This too defeated, this time definitively, with a mastery in the use of the Dark Sword of a worthy queen of Mandalore. After a typically Mandalorian meal – the pog soup that Din doesn’t know – Mando wants to go all the way and immerse himself in the Living Waters. Bo-Katan doesn’t want to let him go alone and decides to accompany him.
Inconsistencies on Mandalore
Reaching the mines of Mandalore, Bo-Katan tells Din other details of his past which, however, contrast with some canonical information that we know. She says she was a member of the royal family and as a child she followed the Creed with all the customs and practices, ceremonies that she performed in front of her subjects just to make her father proud. Man, who died defending Mandalore. In reality, at least from what was seen in The Clone Wars, there was no royal family on Mandalore, and the civil war that broke out 10 years before Episode I was fought between the peaceful new Mandalorians and the traditionalist old Mandalorians, who wanted to restore old customs.
It is true that his father, Adonai Kryze, died during the conflict, but he was a Duke who passed away – probably – before the birth of Bo-Katan. The man was killed during the Great Clan Wars and was succeeded by his daughter, Duchess Satine. The leader of the Death Watch, Pre Vizsla, deemed her unworthy to lead The Mandalorians and planned an alliance with Count Dooku.
The Living Waters
Arriving at the Living Waters, Bo-Katan reads the inscription which mentions that the mines date back to the time of early Mandalore, millennia ago, and that those waters have been home to a mythosaur. Mandalore the Great mastered the beast and it was from this myth that The Mandalorian people adopted the symbol of the Mythosaur skull as their coat of arms. In the legends, the mythosaurs were exterminated by the Taung some 7,000 years before the Battle of Yavin. The Taung were led by a warrior named Mandalore the First, and from his deeds, the Taung people took the name Mandalorians. In the throes of total devotion to the Creed, Din plunges into the waters but is sucked deep within seconds by an unknown force. Bo-Katan dives down to save it and as he resurfaces, he sees with great astonishment first the snout, then the open and live eye of the Mythosaur. Then they are not extinct.
“Songs of eons past foretold the Mythosaur rising to herald a new era of Mandalore,” the Gunsmith told Din, though he concluded, “Sadly, it only exists in legends.” The Book of Boba Fett, episode 5. Why did the Mythosaurus wake up? According to some fan theories, this is because the creature sensed the “true ruler of Mandalore” in the Living Waters. Mandalorian ancestors tamed and rode mythosaurs thousands of years ago. Will we see Mando in these guises together with Boba Fett with his Rancor Di lei?
