Season 3 ended with Din Djarin adopting Grogu and moving into a cabin. That's the ending. That's the whole thing. A man, a frog baby, a porch. Done.
Disney looked at that porch and saw $400 million in unrealized synergy.
So Pedro Pascal is back in the bucket, the animatronic is getting its joints re-lubed, and Dave Filoni is calling this "the beginning of a new era," which is what people say when they've run out of middles and endings.
The trailer has 11 million views. Supergirl has 25 million. Supergirl. The top comment is "Wow, I wish I felt anything," which is also my chart at the doctor.
Dr. Renata Holm of the Glendale Institute for Franchise Fatigue Studies estimates 62.7% of the audience can no longer distinguish between a Pedro Pascal project and a regular Tuesday. He's in everything. He was in my kitchen this morning. Fine, he wasn't. It felt like he was.
The one thing I'll give it: the puppet still rules. Tiny ears, tiny soup, tiny hand. Then they CGI a guy in beskar fighting basic thuganomics leftovers from a dead Empire and the whole thing collapses into a yawn crusted in render farm.
Three years off would've helped. Fifteen would've worked. Six weeks from now I'll see it in a half-empty theater eating popcorn that tastes like the inside of a stormtrooper helmet.
Based on the original article "Why bringing back 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' isn't the way for 'Star Wars'".
