“Disney just immediately folded and brought Baby Yoda back”: Disney Made Pedro Pascal’s Gutwrenching Arc Completely Useless With a Grave Mistake in The Book of Boba Fett
Disney’s one decision for The Book of Boba Fett undermined the emotional impact of Pedro Pascal’s heart-wrenching arc, leaving fans disappointed.
Disney’s Star Wars universe has been met with quite a lot of heartwarming plotlines and wholesome moments as well as heartwrenching storylines and bitter farewells. Just like Pedro Pascal’s absolutely painful goodbye scene with Grogu aka Baby Yoda in the finale of The Mandalorian season 2, which had pretty much every single viewer bawling their eyes out.
But while this scene won a majority of the fandom over (if not all of it), fans weren’t allowed to revel in the misery of this scene for long. If anything, it made that one gutwrenching arc in Din Djarin’s storyline seem completely useless by making Pascal’s Mando meet with Grogu a bit too sooner than expected with a grave mistake in The Book of Boba Fett.
Pedro Pascal’s Heartbreaking Arc Went to Waste by TBOBF
Regarded as one of the best-ever television projects from the Star Wars lore, The Mandalorian gave fans more than just entertainment and satisfaction as it also perfectly delivered along the lines of heartbreak and closure. While the entire series was one thing, nothing came close to the finale episode of season 2, which easily gave one of the most gutwrenching endings of all time.
To jog your memory a bit, the finale saw Pedro Pascal‘s Din Djarin bidding a sob-worthy farewell to Grogu as the latter left him to train with Luke Skywalker to become a Jedi. This was one of the most emotionally invested moments for fans from the entire SW saga that perfectly depicted Mando’s vulnerability in letting Baby Yoda separate from himself.
If anything, this scene perfectly explained that both Grogu and Djarin needed each other in their own respective ways. For Grogu, it was due to more than just the fact that he needed a guardian, while for Djarin, it was because he needed Grogu to grow past where he was and become the person that he held the potential to be. All of this made the sad goodbye as notable as ever.
However, The Book of Boba Fett pretty much undid this scene. In this spin-off series, season 1 of which succeeded The Mandalorian season 2, it was seen right in the season finale that Grogu returns to Djarin in an emotional turn of events. Apparently, Baby Yoda didn’t want to become a Jedi, and thus, decided to return to his guardian and Pascal’s character instead.
That said, many fans consider this a major mistake in the hands of Disney. This is because, instead of showing those two characters in each other’s absence to further emphasize how much they needed each other, it had the two of them meeting a lot sooner than expected, making that heartwrenching ending of season 2 seem worth nothing.
Fans Are Still Mad at Disney for Making the Finale Seem All for Nothing
Although it has been more than 2 years since this decision to more or less ruin the bawl-worthy finale scene of The Mandalorian season 2, fans are still mad about it all. To say the least, they believe the higher-ups just couldn’t wait for long enough to bring these two back in what could have been an incredibly heartwarming first episode of the series’ third season.
All in all, here’s what they have to say about the same on X:
Well, for what it’s worth, while both of these are among the most fan-beloved shows, the decision to reunite Din Djarin and Grogu sooner than expected was an inevitable mistake that undid the emotional impact of their original goodbye. If anything, these fan reactions perfectly justify just why the franchise should have opted otherwise.
The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett can be streamed on Disney+.
