Theory time.
With the last episode leaving us all wanting more Ahsoka, I have a feeling we won’t see her again this season. I think her appearance was to set her live action performance for her own spin off show that will follow her and Sabine finding Ezra. I hope I'm wrong, and we'll see more.
Now, as for Mando and Grogu, here’s what I think will happen by the end of the season:
With Mando’s ship the Razor Crest having been blown up, this means Bova Fett will be his transport from here one in the Slave 1. We got to see boba badder than ever. In the next episode, we’ll spend time getting Bill Burr’s character out of jail, to find where Moff Gideon is hiding the child. What I’m thinking will happen, is that the child goes back to some lab base on a planet again, maybe near Thrawn’s fleet, and this is where the next episode could end. With the season finale having an all out war like endgame on that planet. I think finally when Gideon fights the dark troopers and Moff Gideon, using his beskar spear against his dark saber, he will eventually beat Mando and take Grogu.
The end of the season will have us devastated that Grogu might now die, until a Jedi arrives from Grogu’s call. This could be either Luke Skywalker, Ezra, or Cal Kestis, or heck I mean it could be Mace Windu. I think, I hope, it will be Luke Skywalker. Luke is searching for students at this moment for his Jedi Temple, now that he strives to take the title of Grand Master. It is here that he will come to Mando’s aid and season 2 will end with Luke’s arrival, or some important Jedi we know. Season 3 will all be about Luke and Mando tracking the Empire to save Grogu and destroy Moff Gideon, which is where Thrawn comes in for extra fire power.
Now here is where I think they could tie into Luke’s disappearance in the sequels and make it somewhat logically explained for his character, because the way he ran away and hid, was just not Luke. I think Luke could end up saving the child in season 3, but among doing this, he’ll learn of everything the empire might be doing and this is how Snoke secretly comes into contact with Ben Solo, since we know he’s been manipulating him from a very young age.
I think Snoke will play the role of a very influential and politically powerful being who is in one way or another, in the lives of Leia and Han Solo, to have come so close to their son.
Snoke may say he knew Anakin and his fall to Vader, this could intrigue Ben and start his path down the dark side. As for Luke, it could lead to his fight with Snoke, which was mentioned in the canon comics.
But at the end of it all, I think Luke will be so afraid of the empire taking his blood, with his mighty high M count from his father, that he’ll go away into hiding, and this could be how they possibly tie Luke’s sequel trilogy story to make a little more sense. It won’t change how I feel about the whole thing, but it’ll at least be a better explanation than him just being sad and scaring himself after trying to murder his own nephew.
Now if it won’t be Luke, then I could see Ezra coming into the show, perhaps Grogu on the seeing stone on Tython, once reaching out into the force, will be able to leave a trail back to him from those who can sense him, and with Ezra being lost in the unknown regions, or what I assume is him being lost, he’ll find his way back from Grogu’s call, and it’ll be answered. Ezra could teach him the ways of the force, maybe the ways of both sides of the force since he was always teetering on the light and dark at times.
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