THE MANDALORIAN: Jon Favreau Explains Show's Timeline... Leaving Fans Very Confused In The Process

THE MANDALORIAN: Jon Favreau Explains Show's Timeline... Leaving Fans Very Confused In The Process

Fans have often wondered about The Mandalorian's timeline, and showrunner/EP Jon Favreau has now offered an explanation - but his comments have led to a lot of confusion online!

By MarkCassidy - Mar 01, 2023 09:03 AM EST
Filed Under: The Mandalorian
Source: Via SFF Gazette

The third season premiere of The Mandalorian is now streaming, and the cast and crew have been taking part in roundtable interviews to promote the return of the Disney+ Star Wars series.

In one such interview, executive producer/showrunner Jon Favreau shared a very interesting detail about the show's timeline, and it's left fans more than a little confused... to say the least!

The filmmaker states that the first two seasons of The Mandalorian take place "over many years," and that Grogu was supposed to have been with Luke for two years before being reunited with Din Djarin during the events of The Book of Boba Fett.

Okay... what?

It was generally assumed that the first two seasons - and TBOBF - played out over a few months, because the shows never gave us any indication that they didn't!

If you think about what transpired over the course of those three seasons of TV, this simply doesn't make sense. Are we to believe that Mando was just wandering around the galaxy without a ship for two years, for example? Or Boba and Fennec Shand spent years living a nomadic life on Tatooine prior to infiltrating Jabba's palace?

To be fair, Favreau did clarify his comments during a follow-up interview with Variety, suggesting that events played out in real-time when Grogu was with Luke (just over a year). 

What did you guys think of the first episode of The Mandalorian season 3? Drop us a comment down below.

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supermanrex
supermanrex - 3/1/2023, 9:26 AM
lead with the fact that he cleared it up......
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 3/1/2023, 9:38 AM
@supermanrex - I mean, he didn't really... even if it was just over a year, it still doesn't make much sense.
supermanrex
supermanrex - 3/1/2023, 9:40 AM
@RorMachine - well now we all watch and see where they fill in the blanks. there's a lot of season left.
hummingbird68
hummingbird68 - 3/1/2023, 10:42 AM
@RorMachine - People keep forgetting that the Book of Boba Fett was only supposed to be Four episodes - the addition of the Madalorian and Grogu was down to the big gap between season 2 and 3 of the Mandalorian (ultimately messed up the original concept and writing)
Cap1
Cap1 - 3/1/2023, 9:26 AM
Clearly they’re backtracking so the reuniting of Grogu and Mando halfway through someone else’s series makes more sense, but all they’ve done is make the timeline entirely nonsensical
bobevanz
bobevanz - 3/1/2023, 9:27 AM
Hurr durr it's a time skip hurr durr. Maybe if you had more than an episode of training with Luke, I'd believe it
GhostDog
GhostDog - 3/1/2023, 9:29 AM
Reuniting Grogu with Mando in another series is definitely going to confuse some folks
AC1
AC1 - 3/1/2023, 10:12 AM
@GhostDog - Agreed, I LOVE The Mandalorian but having such an important plot point happen in another show was kinda nonsensical.

A friend of mine has basically dropped The Mandalorian at this point because he knows the reunion with Grogu happens in BOBF and he refuses to watch it because he hated the first episode and heard that the rest of the series was pretty bad too. Bit extreme when I've advised that he could just watch the last two episodes of BOBF because they're basically just bonus episodes of The Mandalorian but I understand where he's coming from, something that important shouldn't have happened in a spin-off.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/1/2023, 10:14 AM
@GhostDog - it does. Already told my dad he should go and watch episode 5 and 6 of Boba Fett, otherwise he would end up feeling confused. The mere mention of having to watch another show already confused him though
Goldboink
Goldboink - 3/1/2023, 10:23 AM
@GhostDog -
It's all the same story. Not confusing at all
GhostDog
GhostDog - 3/1/2023, 10:25 AM
@AC1 - my boss is a Mando fan but not a Star Wars fan. He gave BOBF a chance and Kenobi but wasn't a fan and won't finish either. I had to fill him on Grogu. Agreed, its such a huge moment for Mando that it should've happened in his show.
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 3/1/2023, 9:30 AM
*Angry nerd stuff*
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/1/2023, 10:14 AM
It playing out over real time works for me.

And that would mean the third season takes place somewhere around 13 ABY. Wouldn't be surprised if we get to see a young Ben Solo soon, given he starts training in 15 ABY.
MrTshirt
MrTshirt - 3/2/2023, 6:34 AM
@bkmeijer1 -
Where do you get these numbers ?
First season starts 5 years after ROTJ, so about 8 ABY. Only 3 years pass between ep 4 and 6.

So that makes season 3 around 11 ABY
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/2/2023, 7:04 AM
@MrTshirt - thought the first season took place in 9 Since RotJ is 4 ABY I believe (and the battle of Jakku in 5 ABY).

So given Mando's first season aired in 2019, I figured this season takes place in 13 because as it airs in 2023.
Kyos
Kyos - 3/1/2023, 10:50 AM
Why is Swamp Thing a pirate captain in Star Wars? 🤨
DocSpock
DocSpock - 3/1/2023, 11:38 AM


Tequila confusion to Deep Purple is always a great idea.

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Soon2B
Soon2B - 3/1/2023, 12:03 PM
He doesn’t know- making it up as he goes…
WarMonkey
WarMonkey - 3/1/2023, 12:09 PM
So it's canon now that after Luke and the Rebels defeated the Empire he went right to the island and hung out with Grogu for a year and taught him basically nothing that he wouldn't know from being at the Jedi Temple and then Grogu said peace out and left. Ok then...
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