With The Mandalorian and Grogu arriving on the big screen his week, it’s a perfect time to catch up with the previous adventures of the man we all thought was Boba Fett when images were first released. Every day this week, Alasdair Stuart will be covering a season of the show.

A quick note before we start down The Way – the watch order is:

Season 1

Season 2

The Book of Boba Fett

Season 3

A lot of people are going to tell you Boba Fett is unnecessary and not very good. I’m not a lot of people, and found the series’ central plot of an aging freelancer doing his best to unionize his backwater town oddly endearing. Onwards!

 

Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin makes his living the hard way in the post-Empire world. Orphaned by Trade Federation droid armies in the Clone Wars, Din was adopted by the Mandalorians and has been accepted as one of their own.

Working with Guild leader Greef Karga, he accepts a mission that pays in Beskar steel, the holy metal of his people. All he has to do is retrieve a fifty-year-old individual. What he doesn’t know is that individual is of the same race as Yoda, and fifty means he’s just a baby. One that the remains of the Empire will kill to get their hands on.

Din rescues the baby, fights his way through an opportunistic attack by Jawas and subcontracts with them to repair his ship. That subcontract becomes a brutal fight with a colossal, angry predator that almost kills him before the baby saves him using the Force.

Badly injured but healing, Din returns the child to his client and is worried when it becomes clear the client means the child harm, especially as Doctor Pershing, the scientist in charge of the project, clearly has Imperial revenant backing. Din changes his mind, returns to rescue the child and is drawn into a gunfight with Karga and his mercenaries, before being rescued by the Mandalorian enclave he’s been working with.

Hiding out from the Guild on a forest world, Din makes friends with former Rebel Alliance shock trooper turned merc Cara Dune. She’s in hiding and asks Din not to draw attention but ends up being drawn into his world when a local fishing villages asks the two to defend them from raiders. It’s successful, and the two are welcomed into the community. Din considers leaving the baby with the village until, a few weeks later, he’s saved from a Guild bounty hunter by Dune.

Reluctantly he leaves and finds himself forced to spend time on Tatooine while his ship is being repaired. He clashes with legendary sniper Fennec Shand and apparently kills her before leaving the planet.

Dragged into a ‘simple’ job by an old partner, Din is double crossed on a New Republic prison transport. He fights back, rescues the baby yet again and leads the New Republic to the mercenaries who betrayed him.

Not long after, he gets a message from Karga, whose hometown on Nevarro has been overrun by troops belonging to the Client who wanted the baby. Karga offers Din freedom from his debt to the Guild in return for killing the client and he agrees. Aided by Dune, Din and Karga finally meet Moff Gideon, the Imperial officer behind the Client.  He corners them and Din is badly wounded in fighting Gideon’s forces to a standstill. Desperate for help, he contacts his Mandalorian enclave and finds they’ve left the planet aside from the Armorer, the mysterious weaponsmith who made his Beskar armour. The Armorer agrees to hold off Gideon’s forces while Din escapes. In the ensuing battle, Gideon takes to the air in a TIE fighter but the Mandalorian uses the newly forged jetpack he’s received to bring him down.

Nevarro is safe, the Guild is on side and Din and his adopted son relax. But nearby, Gideon cuts himself free of his crashed TIE fighter with a mysterious, dark bladed energy weapon…

 

All seasons of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett are streaming on Disney+