“The Mandalorian” finally on the trail of “Game Of Thrones”: after the new episode, the mythosaur is even more important

The third episode of The Mandalorian Season 3 picks up right where the previous one left off. Bo-Katan (Katee Sackhoff) rescued Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) from the waters of the Mandalore mines. After he regains consciousness, a scene of great importance unfolds. Because Bo-Katan asks him what he saw underwater. Nothing, he passed out quickly. To be on the safe side, she also asks if he really didn’t see anything alive. Only when she can be sure that only she has noticed the huge creature is she satisfied – and hides her encounter from Din Djarin.

That’s why Bo-Katan is silent about the mythosaurus

But why? The underwater creature is a Mythosaurus. That was already clear after the second episode. It was more or less confirmed by the retrofitting of corresponding scenes at the beginning of the third episode. How important the mythosaurs are to the story of Mandalores, we explained to you last week for the second episode:

It is important: The Mythosaurs’ close connection to the Mandalore lordship may be why Bo-Katan has remained silent about their underwater encounter. Because she wants to rule Mandalore and her people again. Until now, the dark saber seemed to be the only way to do that. But she should win this in a duel against Din Djarin. Now the mythosaur opens a new option for you. Because the first ruler of planet and humans, their namesake Mandalor, based his claim on taming a mythosaur.

Bo-Katan can now assume that her claim to rulership will be accepted without the darksaber – if she manages to tame a mythosauralmost like the ancestor of their people to ride one.

After a long journey to Coruscant, where the focus was on the second major cloning technology plot, which could build a bridge to the return of the Emperor in “Star Wars 9”, we finally see Bo-Katan and Din Djarin again. The last shot of the episode is crucial.

That’s why the last scene of the episode is so important

Because the “This is the Way” cult, which lives strictly by the old rules, has a mythosaur head as its symbol. At the end, the camera captures how Bo-Katan lets her gaze linger on it. Because she finally sees how she can get to power and why maybe it’s not so bad that she’s now a member of the cult she used to laugh at because of her strict rules and old customs.

Because her previous entourage left after failing to recover the Darksaber. The cult to which she now involuntarily belongs does not believe in the sword, but at least in the mythosaur. If she could present herself to them with a mythosaur, everyone would fall to the dust before her. She would be the new leader, she would claim to unite all Mandalorians under her leadership – and without having to fight Din Djarin, kill her boyfriend or lose to him.

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It is increasingly reminiscent of the finale of “Game Of Thrones”. After all, it also involved a very similar claim to power. Daenerys could justify it with the history of her family, who used to sit on the throne, and her dragons. Bo-Katan also now justifies it with her family’s history, who used to rule Mandalore (as she very briefly did) and with a mythosaur instead of a dragon.

The parallels don’t stop there, by the way. Than both here and there there is an involuntary adversary who does not actually strive for dominance, but is somehow the man of the people. In “Game Of Thrones” it was Jon Snow, in “The Mandalorian” Din Djarin seems to have this role. He has made it clear that he has no interest in ruling, but that the majority of humans would immediately follow him (although not his cult, for that he would have to ride a mythosaur).

Incidentally, there is another possible parallel: it has now been suggested several times that Bo-Katan is mentally unstable. There we see her alone in her castle at the beginning of the season and in the new episode she almost panics when it is destroyed. She only wants to go after the superior numbers (who were probably more interested in Grogu than her) and is out for blood. Only Din can bring her to her senses at the last minute.

So, like Jon Snow and Daenerys in Game Of Thrones, will Din be forced to take on Bo-Katan? Does he perhaps realize that their leadership would only lead his homeland to further destruction? The other episodes of the current “The Mandalorian” season should provide information on this. The next episode is on March 22, 2023.