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Warning: This recap of Disney+/Lucasfilm’s The Mandalorian season 3 opener “The Apostate” contains spoilers.
Disney’s The Mandalorian returns with its tried-and-true formula of breezy action sequences laced with Star Wars lore, and after battle scenes involving bullying pirates, asteroid field spaceship chases and a really big alligator at what looks to be Lake Powell, Utah (where the first Planet of the Apes was shot), we get some answers on the danglers left hanging since last season.
This season’s first episode ends with Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin and Katee Sackhoff’s Bo-Katan having a conversation about –OMG– the darksaber. Scroll down.
We also get a few lines about where bounty hunter and Din’s BFF Cara Dune might be lurking after the actress who played her, Gina Carano, was dismissed from The Mandalorian over her controversial remarks on social media. The EP of the show and the director of S3, episode one “The Apostate”, Rick Famuyiwa, told Deadline that the outcome of Dune was at the top of the mind of the writers’ room this season.
How was Dune’s sifting away, explained away?
Well, during the middle of the episode, Din revisits his old buddy Greef Karga (Carl Weathers) who is living high on the hog as the high magistrate on the trade planet of Nevarro. However, he still has scuffles with ruffians, like a bunch of squid-looking pirates, who come through. Din and Greef shoot most of them down letting one of them, named ‘Vane’, go. Greef tells Mando he needs a good marshal now that Cara Dune is gone.
Wah happened?
Greef tells Din, “After she brought in Moff Gideon, she was recruited by special forces.”
Meanwhile Gideon (played on the show by Giancarlo Esposito) “was sent off to a New Republic war tribunal,”
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Executive producers Dave Filoni and Rick Famuyiwa have spoken out about the future of Gina Carano‘s character, Cara Dune, on The Mandalorian as the Star Wars spinoff returns with season 3. In an interview with Deadline, the two acknowledged that the character still very much exists in the larger universe but that the series is focused on two characters: Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu.
Dave Filoni and Rick Famuyiwa have spoken out about the future of Gina Carano's character, Cara Dune, on as the spinoff returns with season 3. In an interview with , the two acknowledged that the character still very much exists in the larger universe but that the series is focused on two characters: Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu. «Cara was a big part and continues as a character to be part of the world,» Famuyiwa said of the character, who was first introduced in season 1 and returned in season 2 before Carano was let go from the show. Filoni also added that «it's a big galaxy, and we have many characters in it — many characters are fighting for their screen time.
“The Mandalorian,” Cara Dune, will still be part of the Disney+ series.The 40-year-old actress and former MMA fighter was fired from the show in 2021 after several problematic posts, including one that compared the Nazi murders of the Jewish population to “hating someone for their political views.”Rick Famuyiwa, the series executive producer and director, confirmed to Deadline on Monday that Dune will remain in the series. The show returns with Season 3 on Wednesday.“Cara was a big part and continues as a character to be part of the world.
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