Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Mandalorian season 3, episode 4.
The Mandalorian delivered arguably one of its most important chapters this week, with the latest installment of the Disney Plus hit’s third season finally revealing a mystery that’s been eating at Star Wars fans for years now. Namely, who was it that saved Grogu from the Jedi purge during Order 66? As expected, it was a familiar character from the saga’s lore, although it’s fair to say no one expected it to be this character, in particular.
Yes, it turns out Jar-Jar Binks is Grogu’s savior! Well, OK, not literally, but prequels star Ahmed Best returned as his secondary Star Wars role, Jedi Master Kelleran Beq, a character he previously played in the Jedi Temple Challenge game show. While Beq properly becoming canon, and Best getting something of a redemption by rescuing everyone’s beloved Baby Yoda, has got fans weepy, they’re also admitting to being kind of sick of Star Wars continually manipulating their emotions by revisiting the franchise’s darkest moment.
We should know by now that whenever Dave Filoni is involved there will be an Order 66 flashback somewhere. The Clone Wars co-creator co-wrote this episode along with Jon Favreau so naturally he embraced the opportunity to reawaken our PTSD over Palpatine’s Jedi massacre.
Order 66 supercut when?
Do they realize how much it hurts every time?
At least the fascination around Beq is drying some tears.
Forget the Revenge of the Sith, Filoni might want to fear the revenge of heartbroken fans.
In recent years, we’ve revisited Order 66 in everything from The Bad Batch to Obi-Wan Kenobi, and with Filoni and Favreau not going anywhere, you can bet they’ll force us to revisit it yet again in the near future. Better emotionally prepare yourselves for another flashback in Ahsoka, people.