who, or what, that cyborg thing was. It’s an awesome design!

Sad Batch but not as an insult. It's not a shock to see Crosshair start to see the evil of the Empire in another episode but it was played out brilliantly. My only gripe is where the has this been so far? The early episodes have been largely rubbish with some little good bits or one-offs but the last two episodes have been really good.

Does feel a bit dragged out and it feels wrong to have Din Djarin called that but it's nice to see Bo Katan do things again.

So I guess they stop screwing around with Crosshair and the band is getting back together again, huh?

Yay, Bo-Katan action!

Aside from that, I guess the show has gone full comedy now? Bit weird, but whatever.

I think it's establishing a uni-/multiversal constant that if you dig too deep, you either find Necrons or a Balrog. And morlocks.

Isn't she the Imperial cloning facility scientist lady from the previous episode?

So happy to see R5 D4 in action!!

Din is seemingly being set up as the true heir to Mandalore. He claimed the Dark Saber in combat - without knowing what it is. He’s proven Mandalore is habitable, and probably not cursed.

He’s arguably the purest adherent of The Way, given the lengths he went to in order to stop being an Apostate.

And he might just be about to ride a Mythosaur. Dark Saber, Mythosaur - who in whichever splinter of Mando culture will be in a decent position to argue the toss.

But…if he does, as I predict, reunite Mandalorains everywhere?

Where the bloody blinking effing flip….you read it right. FLIP were during the sequels?

My fear is Din May fail simply to service the sequels.

I do hope I’m wrong. It could be Mandalore became insular, content to look out for itself once again and leave everyone else to it,

Sure, given what the sequel trilogy presents you'd have to wonder where a rebuilt Mandalore was, but then again don't you also wonder where literally everyone else was? Making those movies without much of a plan on how they fit with the rest of the setting is one of the trilogy's many, massive flaws.

That doesn't have to have an impact on Din's success though. Provided you're on the right track, here are some scenarios I can think of:

- New Mandalore could become politically at odds with the New Republic who sees in it a rising threat and does what it can politically and economically to hamper Mandalore's development. In turn, Mandalore is in no hurry to join a war even the New Republic doesn't want to fight and just sees to its own defense.

- Din has twenty years to become a jaded ruler who spends more time handling the schemers in his court than the planet's political affairs. When the First Order attacks, Mandalore is badly prepared. It holds its own, but has no resources to spare to go out and help anyone else.

- The First Order gains enough popular support on Mandalore that Din can't fight the Empire 2.0 even though history tells him they should. Mandalore stays neutral, even though it's overtly a bad idea, but luckily the whole thing blows over.

- Mandalorians do what Mandalorians do best and happen to have a civil war going on at the time. Why go look for fun elsewhere when the party is right downstairs?

- Din rules happily until before the sequel trilogy but has to go on a mythic quest, thus robbing Mandalore of effective leadership for the three and a half days the war against the First Order lasts.

-Since the war against the First Order lasts only three and a half days, Din is meditating in his mountain retreat and learns of the war only when it's over.

- Mustering Mandalore's forces takes four days, which is decidedly longer than three and a half days.

- Mandalore actually fought the First Order but picked Tatooine as their battleground so Din could fight alongside Even Older Man Boba one last time.

You can go a lot of ways with this, from plausible to ridiculous. I'm thinking there might be a desire to pull another Clone Wars and have supplementary shows make the sequel trilogy look better in hindsight, even if it's so badly constructed that it's going to take a lot more effort to fix than the prequels.