The new darling of Disney and Lucasfilm studios, Grogu, aka Baby Yoda, lights up the first episode of season 3 of “The Mandalorian” with his humor. This season inspired by “Star Wars” plays out its episodes, week after week. The first puts an efficient part back into the machine.
It’s Disney+’s biggest series. Launched at the start of confinement in France, it had the merit, not only of not disappointing fans of the saga Star Wars, but also to dig worlds, and create new characters, starting with a baby yoda, who has since become the new marketing darling of the Disney studio.
The Mandalorian returns for a third season. The first episode, the only one available, puts a coin back in the machine. The series takes place between the end of the original trilogy, Return of the Jedi And The force awakens. For its author, Jon Favreau, director until then of films Marvel and the remake of Lion Kingit’s about exploring how the world freed from the yoke of Darth Vader will plunge into a new dictatorship.
This first episode allows us to find the hero, The Mandalorianmercenary from the planet Mandalore, bounty hunter like you find in good westerns, accompanied, like a baby sitter, by the famous cute Yoda, in a cradle suspended in levitation.
This episode introduces a new quest. The Mandalorian had banished himself from his fellow citizens. He must return to his planet, to clear his honor and redeem himself. The series explores for once this planet Mandalore, never seen in the saga Star Warsand does not skimp on space battles and attacks of giant crocodiles, nor on duels with pirates worthy of the films of Sergio Leone.
Jon Favreau said from the beginning that he draws on what inspired his saga to George Lucas: samurai films, classic westerns and also Flash Gordon, this comic book hero who had to save the earth from an invasion in the 1930s. It offers new nods to the saga Star Wars by bringing in these little creatures, the Anzellans, with their beady eyes, to try to fix a statuesque humanoid.
This first episode is just a bit short, 30 minutes, but the means, and above all the second-degree humor instilled by Jon Favreau, are there, with an omnipresent Pedro Pascal under his helmet – he is also the hero of The Last of Us. next episode of The Mandalorian Wednesday, March 8.