From the very beginning, The Mandalorian hasn't really let up but, at the same time, the story has been something of a slow burn. We still don't know what Moff Gideon wanted with Grogu, for example, though there have been strong indications that the villain has a vested interest in cloning.
Given his loyalty to the Empire, we have to believe he's looking to lend a helping hand to Emperor Palpatine as he looks to create a new body for himself following his "death" in Return of the Jedi. There have already been hints that Gideon might play a role in Supreme Leader Snoke's creation, but will the upcoming third season finally start to shed some light on what he's up to?
Talking at D23 over the weekend (via SFFGazette.com), The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal teased the show's epic scale ahead of its return and confirmed that we will start to see a payoff to some early season 1 plot threads.
"I mean it's epic, it's definitely epic," he teases in the video below. "And we're going to get a lot of things that were introduced into the storytelling early in season 1, themes and ideas that you'll remember once we get into [the] full fruition of Season 3, and it's epic, epic...but I'm not lying, it is epic...the amount of times I say 'epic' gives everything away, okay?"
One of the biggest unresolved storylines from season 1 is, of course, what Gideon and that clone engineer, Pershing, were up to. If that is the case, then we can surely expect some huge revelations.
Throw in the fact that we still don't know who rescued Grogu from the Jedi Temple and Din Djarin being the new wielder of the Darksaber, and there's quite a lot for the next batch of episodes to delve into. That includes what looks set to be an epic fight to retake Mandalore, possibly explaining why Pascal chose to double down on that word!
The Mandalorian season 3 is set to premiere on Disney+ sometime next year.