Disney Plus’s original series The Mandalorian ,season three episode one entitled “The Apostate,” kicks off with Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin as he helps his people defeat a creature due to it attacking them during a ceremony. The interesting part about this is how Emily Swallow’s The Armorer lets Din stay for a while instead of asking him to leave as he is no longer considered part of her people. This is a result of him taking off his helmet in order to get information that would help save his adoptive son. In his mind, he does not regret saving his son as he has grown to love him deeply. However, he does regret that it cost him his place with his own people. Deep down he knows that if he had a chance to do it all over again, he would if it meant that his son would be kept safe from harm. Also, it can be assumed by the viewer that he will eventually have to decide between saving his people and saving his son in the future. A decision that not even Din will know what he will choose himself.
Additionally, the viewer sees Din travel back to meet Carl Weathers’s High Magistrate Greef Karga due to his need of a spelunking droid. By the look on Greef’s face, the viewer can guess that he is desperate to have Din stay on his planet to help keep the peace. In his mind, he sees that Din has the skills to maintain the peace that his planet holds very dear. Deep down he is afraid that he will slip back into his old ways of looking out for himself. He figures that with Din’s help he can stay on the path of good without resorting to gruesome violence or selling out others. Luckily, as he deals with people from his past, he realizes that he will be okay on his own now that he is no longer a criminal.
At the end of the episode, Din visits Katee Sackhoff’s Bo-Katan Kryze in hopes of gaining her help to travel to Mandalore so he can be forgiven for taking off his helmet. Unfortunately, she will not go with him as she sees their home planet as a lost cause. In her mind, she blames Din’s people for weakening their planet’s defenses against the Empire due to his people causing a civil war. She believes that if everyone was united, they could have saved their planet from being destroyed. Deep down she blames herself for not being able to lead better during the siege of their planet as she also took part in the civil war. It can be assumed by the viewer that blaming Din’s people is just her way of trying to feel less guilty. This is why she tells Din to go alone as she does not want to see the wasteland that she once called home.
Rating: 9.5/10