THE MANDALORIAN: Here's Why We Didn't See Pedro Pascal's Din Djarin Remove His Helmet During Season 3

If I were him, I'd prioritize the last of us too since Mando has officially abandoned the idea it's his show anymore.

In my opinion Disney/Lucasfilm and Favreau missed a gold opportunity this season.

Kathleen Kennedy and Disney merchandising forced Favreau into bringing back Baby Yoda. That was a HUGE mistake.

1) They could have very easily cut away to scenes of Baby Yoda training with Luke and being mentored by Ahsoka during the season so you would often see Baby Yoda throughout the series just not with Din.

2) The bulk of the season should have been Din on his pilgrimage to get back to Mandalore to retake the oath and bathe in the waters in the Mines of Mandalore.

3) During his pilgrimage he could have been running into pirates who it seems like are reeking havoc with outer rim territories because of the lack of presence of the Empire when in actuality they were hired by the Empire to cause those problems and create a distraction. That makes the outer rim territories think the New Republic is incapable of protecting them, and some may end up longing for the order and control of the Empire.

4) While Din is exploring Mandalore to find the mines he starts to see some strange evidence that the Empire has been there, and may still be.

5) Then during the season, on his quest he teams up with the other Mandalorian faction (Bo Kattan and her group) and the words from Bill Burr in season 2 about him not wearing his helmet, and the respect he gains for her and her group as they fight along side him and help each other get through a few serious scraps starts to cause him to question his beliefs.

6) Then at the end of the season, when things are at their darkest, in the finale they need assistance and an X-Wing shows up. They think...New Republic. We think...Luke again? Oh no.
But it turns out to be Baby Yoda and he has left Luke to rejoin Din and help the Mandalorians this time with a lot more force power since he had been trained for all of that time with Luke.

7) Din wants Baby Yoda to be part of the Mandalorians (his faction) and the armorer will not accept Baby Yoda either because he cannot speak to take the creed, or because he has been trained as a Jedi and Jedi cannot be Mandalorians.
So Din makes the difficult but obvious choice and chooses to walk both paths and join Bo Kattan's group. And at the end of the series he removes his helmet leaving behind his group and staying with Baby Yoda.

Now you have Pedro Pascal able to remove his helmet, play the role and if he is unavailable to shoot they just keep his helmet on for that episode.
He finds it hard to break that habit and prefers the helmet on, but now he is with his own clan of him and Baby Yoda.

Done.

How hard was that to figure out?

Who cares - he shouldn't have even taken it off until the season 2 finale. That's the only time it really made sense to remove it.

There wasn't really a need to have him remove his helmet anyway. With Bo it made sense as she walks the way of both clans, but Din is clearly still Tribesman

That makes more sense than the seemingly endless bogus rumours …but this site posted these seemingly endless bogus rumors (not rumours) anyhow these articles are becoming more and more pathetic

A friend was telling me that Kathleen Kennedy had a big part in the story and scripting for this season as opposed to the last 2 seasons and thinking back on this season I can definitely see that rumor most likely being true. 🤷‍♂️

I doubt that.

Voice actor Pedro Pascal is quite obviously not into the role any more.