With season three of The Mandalorian now in the books and fans continuing to dig into the details, Jon Favreau discusses the season and the reasons why Din Djarin didn’t become the character many fans assumed he would when we first met him back in 2019.
“I think people expected Mando… He had the sword, he’s gonna take the throne. He’s gonna change from a travelling bounty hunter to Aragorn or something, and you felt like, ‘Oh, that seems like where you’re gonna go with it.’
But if you look at the clues, it actually hopefully, makes you reach the conclusion of where we went because if you notice from the first time he uses the Darksaber, it’s heavy for him. Even The Armorer tells him that.
Bo-Katan gets her hands on the Darksaber when Din Djarin’s trapped, and she uses it like a fencing foil. She coveted that Darksaber so much but, without thinking, gives it back to him before he wakes up. After she rescues him.
And so, what many may have expected to be a showdown between the two of them ends up with them both going for something very different and working together. And ultimately, all of the different Mandalorian groups coming together.
We spoke with Jon Favreau in a roundtable interview recently about season three which you can hear on Making Tracks.
