The Mandalorian Season 2 finale is pure ecstasy with the best of Star Wars

It is not usual. In fact, it’s very rare to come across episodes that close a narrative arc so satisfyingly that your audience simply feels like their hearts are overflowing. For every leap into the future of Six feet under or crash in the Nazi laboratory of Breaking Bad, for setting some of the highest possible rods, there is a fade to black of The Sopranos, or an escape from limbo of Lost, That ends up setting the tone for a generally unsatisfactory resolution. Yes, there are people who defend these latest cases to the death, but they are a minority.

The situations of almost absolute dissatisfaction are much more recurrent. That is, you don’t even have to delve into the end of Game of Thrones or that closing season of The Walking Dead that left Glenn’s death on hold, so that his mere mention revives the annoyance in a lot of people.

But forget about all that, since what was done by the end of the second season of The mandalorian it is on the opposite side of the road. It’s literal an orgasm for fans and followers of Star Wars. And those who are not, can also enjoy their polished proposal that definitely ranks among the best they can see on their television today.

Without going into any detail about what happens in the chapterI just want to emphasize that from the first minute a narrative framework is generated that perfectly closes the central points of the story that confronted the Command, the Child and Moff Gideon. They do this by using very well the secondary characters that have been congregating throughout the last eight episodes, thereby enhancing the feeling that one is experiencing a complete episodic proposal.

At the same time, this latest chapter not only presents things never seen before in a live-action environment of Star WarsStarting with the way they dispatch a stormtrooper into deep space from inside a ship, it also features remarkable action sequences. Most importantly, it opens the floodgates for the future in a series that will draw the lines that will define the future of all Mandalorians in the galaxy. Ready, I buy my seat in green for the third season.

Did you want a good one-on-one fight against a Dark Trooper? Well, they have it making use of elements planted by previous chapters. See the Dark Saber in combat? Do not hesitate! And what about the call of strength that Grogu made on the stone? Oh, get ready for absolute satisfaction.

Inevitably, when talking about the end of this second season, all the words are concentrated based on what happens in the last 10 minutes of the episode. What happens before is very good, especially where a Moff Gideon is involved, but what unfolds in resolution is simply exceptional.

I don’t want to go into detail, as it’s a surprise that I really hope a tweet or Facebook comment won’t ruin them, but I do want to bring up the fact that I ended up clapping standing. And that for me is not usual.

I usually smile if something seems very good to me. I may get a colloquial “screwed up” when what is presented on screen exceeds my expectations. But here I applauded. Standing. Totally ecstatic, like that time when he was even willing to make the wave of pure joy at the death of Gus Fring in Breaking Bad.

Despite the fact that a few minutes have passed since I finished watching the episode and started writing this text, so I’m still on top of the wave, I think I have the answer to the why of my reaction: They gave me everything I want to see from Star Wars.

They didn’t like simple empty fanservice, which is what characterized the last film trilogy, since here everything exposed is done in a way that narratively there is nothing random.

Also the staging is perfect, since once they remove the veil of their great surprise, they had me delivered in the palm of their hand. And when I was completely satisfied, they handed me over a post-credits scene, because this has one, which ends up being the icing on the cake to get excited about the episodic future on Disney +.

In the long run, like The mandalorian ended up giving me what I always wanted to see from a story of Star Wars located after Return of the Jedi, I only have flowers to distribute in his honor. The work done by Jon Favreau, as the creator and writer of all the episodes of the second season, was phenomenal. Dave Filoni’s input is invaluable. And, of course, I never thought director Peyton Reed could reach these heights.

It only remains to highlight that the second season generally had very high points, and some that were not so high, but between the western-samurai episode that introduced us to Ahsoka Tano and this imperial ending worthy of renewing hope, I only have applause worthy of a perfect grade. It is what something deserves that brought back my love for Star Wars in an instance where I believed it had been buried with the closing of the last trilogy.

So I simply give thanks and again stand up for Din Djarin, Grogu and their remarkable company. Long live Star Wars!