That last bit is the only thing that genuinely angers me, especially since now giving it to Bo (again) in the first place was also a waste of time; what the hell does LFL have against actually following through with their “this lightsaber is like Excalibur!” set-ups? They ditched the shot they had at it with Luke’s lightsaber once, and now the Darksaber twice, and about the only overall effect I can see was that people who have a shallow knowledge of Boks history got two brief pops from seeing her ignite it twice.
I kind of hope someone makes repairing it and Din getting it back an entire epsiode of the next season, and we finally get the therapy session/training sequence that made Sabine a much better Mandalorian character than this season is allowing any of its cast to be out of, I don’t know, fear of offending fans who hate complexity or dealing with the fact that Mandos made great villains before they ever got hero treatment.
In general, this season’s adventures of the week kind for sucked, and this episode kind of got stuck trying to carry water for a season that seemed to deep down inside not want to do this kind of story.
It mostly worked… but I’d argue this season shows that Favreau needs major writing support if they’re not going to be ambitious with Din, or else we’re going to keep getting episodes that are just “creatures features,” “luckily the villain is dumber than a Bond villain,” or “I stuffed all three of our celebrity guest stars into one episode to try and sell a shaky, shallow mystery story.”
And I still say Bo Katan’s a boring Mandalore.