Since day one, The Mandalorian hasn't really let up but, at the same time, it's also been something of a slow burn. We still don't know what Moff Gideon wanted with Grogu, for example, though there have been hints 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 the villain looks to create a new body for himself in the wake of Return of the Jedi. There have already been hints Gideon might play a role in Supreme Leader Snoke's creation, but will the upcoming third season finally shed some light on that?
Talking at D23 this past weekend, The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal teased the show's epic scale ahead of its return and confirmed we'll start seeing 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?"
The biggest unresolved storyline 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 major revelations.
Throw in the fact we still don't know who rescued Grogu from the Jedi Temple and Din Djarin being the new wielder of the Darksaber, and there are lots for the next lot of episodes to delve into. That includes what looks set to be an epic fight to retake Mandalore, possibly explaining why Pascal really doubled down on that word!
The Mandalorian season 3 is set to premiere on Disney+ sometime next year.