The Mandalorian returns next spring to fill Star Wars-sized hole in your life
Andor may be over, but The Mandalorian returns this spring
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Lest anyone thought that Disney could go five minutes without sticking another Star Wars adventure on Disney+, The Mandalorian is making a comeback. Fresh off the conclusion of Andor, Lucasfilm announced that Mando and Baby Yoda will return to Disney+ on March 1, 2023.
It’s been a while since Luke Skywalker showed up and whisked the best part of the show away. While Skywalker’s deepfake performance has been memory-holed in the deepest, darkest annals of the Star Wars mythos, and no one will ever mention it again under penalty of death by Rancor, it’s relieving to find out that Baby Yoda isn’t gone forever. At least if the tweet from the verified Mandalorian account can be trusted—not that we can totally trust verified tweets these days.
Since The Mandalorian left us, Disney has launched numerous Star Wars spin-offs, including the direct Mando one, The Book Of Boba Fett, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. And as hard as it is to believe, both shows aired new episodes this year. It feels like a lifetime ago that people were complaining about the multi-colored Vespa speeders on Boba, especially compared to our Andor-gaga culture of today. Who knows what Star Wars opinions we’ll have by the time the new Mandalorian drops?
While we don’t know the exact plot of the new season, we were treated to a teaser trailer earlier this year. The central premise seems to be that Mando is deep Bantha poodoo (if we’re using that term correctly) over removing his helmet, and the Armorer strips him of his Mandalorian title. But it doesn’t matter much because our friends Babu Frick and Salacious Crumb are back. At the very least, we can all continue fawning over the adorable Baby Yoda, who has escaped Luke’s de-aged grasp and returned to us. We missed you, little guy.
The Mandalorian returns to Disney+ on March 1.
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Expecting the Mandalorian to fill the hole that Andor left is like expecting a popsicle to make up for a steak dinner
Could everyone please stop making me question my love of Andor by insulting the rest of Star Wars in comparison in the most asshole way possible? Thanks.
Star Wars coverage continues to be insufferable from all angles.
Andor was the best Disney-era Star Wars output since Rogue One. That’s a full-on fact.
it’s not.
I agree 100% except for your opinion that Rogue One was anything more than mediocre.
I rewatched Rogue One over the Thanksgiving holiday thinking that maybe I’d like it more because Andor is so good. I didn’t, it’s still badly edited and full of a lot of nonsense.
What?
I’ve started hating Andor because everyone continues to shit on the rest of the franchise. I like the rest of the franchise.
It’s not “Andor’s” fault, but there is an annoying subset of the show’s fans who seem to think they can somehow like it MORE by knocking down other shows. It’s like that snobby jerk who thinks that loving Radiohead means they can’t also enjoy “Get Low.”
Totally normal response.
I hate it when people are mean to trillion-dollar IPs.
Baby Yoda is already played out. When are they going to age him into adolescent Yoda like they did Groot? I wanna see that dude start sprouting secondary sex characteristics already. My fanfic is starting to get real stale in the meantime.
They should have left him with Luke. That story is done, and it’s just going round in circles now.
We got that cool Lone Wolf and Cub reference, at least.
Disney execs: “But we sold so many Grogu toys! I don’t care what you have to do to make that story drag out but by God you better do it”
Probably when he’s around 200 years old.
Is it next spring or this spring? WHICH SPRING IS IT!!?
Hopefully they actually make it about Mando and Grogu and not a bunch of backdoor pilots and a way to tell live action stories about cartoon characters I have little to no interest in.
It felt like they ran out of things to say pretty quickly.Season 1: Mercenary loner learns to care for an alien moppet.Season 2: Um, remember all these other Star Wars people?!