Official summary: The Mandalorian begins an important journey.
Trivia
The series opens with the Armorer forging a new helmet. While Emily Swallow did portray the character and voice again, this scene also used what the End Credits call a ‘Forging Double’, played by Heather McLarty.
While the mythosaur skull on the flag is a well-known sigil by now, the one on the white banner resembling a tree branch of sort is lesser known. But this is the sigil of House Vizsla as revealed in the official site’s Behind-the-Scenes-Gallery for the Rebels episode Heroes of Mandalore, but was also seen in the sourcebook The Star Wars Book. The other flags do seem to feature different symbols, showing that many other Houses are present for the ceremony, but they are too unclear to make out.
Not named in the episode, or the subtitles, but the boy who receives his helmet is named Ragnar and was performed by Wesley Kimmel, who also played the Tusken Child in The Book Of Boba Fett.
The creature, and the planet where this happens, is new and unnamed. The creature was originally envisioned with a different head as seen in the concept art, before it was settled on this alligator-like head.
On their way to Nevarro, Grogu spots in hyperspace a herd of Purrgils. These whale-like creatures were first introduced in Rebels.
One of the food stalls on Navarro is manned by a COO-series cook droid designed for Attack Of The Clones and also seen in The Book Of Boba Fett.
The street band seen consists of two Twi’leks, a Gran and an unidentified white-colored species seen for the first time in The Last Jedi with Grayla Stindy. The modern-day Gran mask was used before in The Mandalorian (the previous Chapter) and The Book of Boba Fett.
Blink or you miss it: a Senate hovercam droid can be seen on the left of the screen the moment we first see Greef Karga. He is also accompanied by two other smaller droids holding up his cloak so it does not touch the ground and gets dirty.
Karga has a new droid assisting him. The end credits mention this as the Nevarro Copper Droid and is another protocol droid role for Chris Barlett. The droid’s voice was Parvesh Cheena.
It seems a bit contradictive that while Greef Karga says that not much of IG-11 remains, that the torso and the head is still intact. Which is especially weird as the self-destruct is shown to be in his chest. IG-11 was once again voiced by Taika Waititi
Vane, the Kajain’sa’Nikto pirate on Nevarro, takes his name from the famous pirate Charles Vane. His clothing features a long coat, which is not uncommon amongst most of the famous pirate portrayals. This is also not the first time that a famous pirate name pops up in Star Wars. Most recently Anne Bonny’s name became the inspiration for the name of the crab-invested planet Aynaboni as seen in the recent The Bad Batch episode Spoils of War.
Vane is portrayed by Marti Matulis in his first Star Wars role.
Vane is accompanied, both on the ground and in the dogfight, by members of the Kajain’sa’Nikto, Klatooinian, Trandoshan, Quarren and Weequay species. A Shydopp (a species designed for Chapters 14 & 15 of this series) can be seen also among the pirate pilots. Barry Lowin (Klatooinian pirate pilot) and David St Pierre (Trandoshan Pirate Pilot) are also often returning performers for these series.
Din Djarin is taken to an Anzellan crew that maybe can fix IG-11 for him. These are different ones then Babu Frik, the Anzellan we saw on Kijimi in The Rise Of Skywalker. Shirley Henderson, who voiced Babu Frik in that movie, returned to do the Anzellan voices in this episode.
Dank Farrik returns, but also Sebulba’s curse from The Phantom Menace: poodoo!
Pirate King Gorian Shard is a new unnamed species, but it is easy to see that he was inspired by Davy Jones, but with seaweed-like hair rather than octopus tentacles.
Gorian Shard’s voice was performed by Nonso Anozie, who played roles in Zoo and Artemis Fowl. Carey Jones was the performance artist, who we all remember best as Black Krrsantan.
Among the pirate crew are a coxswain played by returning name Misty Rosas (Kuiil/Frog Lady) and voiced by Mat Fraser. Most exciting however is the alien species that resembles, with a few differences, the Whiphid species from Return of the Jedi. This ‘warthog pirate’, as the end credits refer him to, was played by Ian Goodwin.
Kalevala was earlier mentioned in The Clone Wars, and can now be seen for the first time. Din Djarin pronounces the world’s name “Kale-vah-lah”, which was how it was pronounced in The Clone Wars Voyage of Temptation. It was pronounced “Kah-lay-vah-lah.” in the subsequent episode, Duchess of Mandalore however.
Kalevala was mentioned in The Clone Wars as the homeworld of House Kryze, which is why we see Bo-Katan here in the palace of her family.
- FIGURE AND ACCESSORY-ACTIVATED: Protect Grogu at all costs by snuggling him into The Mandalorian's satchel to hear them interact, then attach his jetpack to enjoy even more galactic sound FX
- ADDITIONAL REMOVEABLE ACCESSORY: These Galactic Action The Mandalorian and Grogu toys also come with a blaster inspired by The Mandalorian
- 15 SERIES-INSPIRED SOUNDS: Activate 15 different sounds and phrases inspired by The Mandalorian through multiple ways of play, including pressing the button on the bounty hunter's chest
- CLASSIC CHARACTERS, LARGER SCALE: Have galactic fun with The Mandalorian and Grogu in a 12-inch-scale. Sized perfectly for kids to use in imaginative Star Wars play
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