Yesterday's episode of
The Mandalorian took us back to Tatooine and featured plenty of fun throwbacks to the planet we spent so much time on in both the original and prequel trilogies. However, something that's really got fans talking is the mysterious character who approached the body of Fennec (Ming-Na Wen) in the closing few minutes of the episode.
Wearing a cape and spurs on his boots, common sense says this is Giancarlo Esposito's mysterious Moff Gideon, a character featured heavily in marketing materials who we've yet to see in the show.
However, those spurs have led to many fans speculating that Boba Fett has made his return to the
Star Wars Universe as that familiar jingle could be heard both in
The Empire Strikes Back and in footage from a screen test featuring the character way back in 1978. Throw in the fact that Fett was last seen on Tatooine and it seems entirely feasible that he's somehow back among the living.
While this would be a typical example of fan-service, most hoped that the title character of
The Mandalorian would be revealed as Fett, something which was debunked fairly early on. Executive Producer Dave Filoni recently said that,
"It would be really hypocritical for the guy that helped bring Darth Maul back to life to say that somebody can't survive a Sarlacc pit but I don't know."
An older, battle-damaged Fett who managed to pull himself out of the Sarlacc Pit attempting to take out the Mandalorian in order to regain his reputation would be pretty awesome but time will tell whether that proves to be the case (with any luck, we'll find out as soon as next Friday).
What are your thoughts on this theory?
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