fatwookie66Feb 14, 2023
It’s only 2 weeks until the first episode of The Mandalorian Season 3 will be released and it has interested me why we don’t see the darksaber in much of their promotion. The first couple of trailers saw just about none of it and the main poster featured just Mando with his blaster and Grogu. Mando did have the darksaber in one of the later official posters, however.
From a marketing point of view, I would have thought Star Wars would want to be taking advantage of having 'lightsabers' back in Star Wars again.
Mando with Darksaber. Credit: Lucasfilm.Explanation
There are a couple of explanations I can think of for this:
- Mando isn’t using the darksaber until he has been forgiven for his transgressions. The darksaber is a weapon so heavily steeped in the history of the Mandalorians that he doesn’t feel like he has the right to use it until he goes to the living waters in the mines of Mandalore. He used it in The Book of Boba Fett when he was fighting Paz Vizsla but perhaps stopped when The Armourer confronted him about his 'sin'. This may also explain why he didn’t use it in the final episode of The Book of Boba Fett during the final battle.
- They don’t want to spoil the Mandalorian for those who haven’t seen it.
Thoughts?
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