History Recap / TheMandalorianS2E8Chapter16TheRescue

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--->'''Sabine:''' Not exactly...
--->'''Ursa:''' Then you have no claim to it.

** Bo-Katan refuses to take the Darksaber from Din, no matter how much he insists, because tradition says so. It wasn't so long ago that she was giving him grief over his sect's rigid adherence to tradition. [[JustifiedTrope In her defense]], while Bo-Katan may not respect traditions, she knows her ''people'' does, and they would not respect a leader who simply took the Darksaber for their own, especially not when she has more than three witnesses around who can attest to the fact she took it for herself. So if she wants the legitimacy of the Darksaber, she knows she has to earn it and fighting Din Djarin is not something she intends to do, especially having said that Mandalorians have been fighting each other for too long.

'''Sabine:''' Not exactly...\\
'''Ursa:''' Then you have no claim to it.

** Bo-Katan refuses to take the Darksaber from Din, no matter how much he insists, because tradition says so. It wasn't so long ago that she was giving him grief over his sect's rigid adherence to tradition. [[JustifiedTrope In her defense]], Bo-Katan ''does'' have respect for the traditions regarding the Darksaber, especially since she knows it has to be earned through combat rather than just gifted, so Din offering it to her isn't how she needs to secure legitimacy for leadership over the Mandalorian tribes out there.

->Written by Creator/JonFavreau
->Directed by Creator/PeytonReed
->Release date: December 18th, 2020

->''"One X-Wing? Great, we're saved."''

* BigDamnHeroes: The team have barricaded themselves on the bridge as the Dark Troopers slowly break down the door. Gideon smugly tells them they are all going to die. Then a lone X-Wing arrives and boards the ship as its pilot disembarks to begin massacring the Dark Troopers, saving everyone's lives.

* EvilDetectingDog: Inverted; every Dark Trooper -- the "evil" and the "dogs" here -- all shift their focus on the arriving lone pilot from the X-Wing instead of continuing their efforts to enter the bridge, as though all the Troopers sense the much more powerful threat coming and are suffering a collective MassOhCrap

** As the X-Wing lands, Grogu perks up. It's the Jedi he called.
** The Jedi that comes to Grogu arrives in a lone X-Wing, has a gloved right hand, and a Kenobi-style lightsaber with a chrome finish and a ribbed brass upper grip, and, most prominently, an emerald-green blade. To hardcore fans, the shot of the lightsaber hilt was confirmation of Luke's identity.

* FreezeFrameBonus: As the X-Wing first appears towards the hangar, there is a brief glimpse of a certain blue astromech droid, giving further hint at who the pilot is.

** Tying into the above, Boba referring to Koska as "little one", when he's barely taller than her (For reference, Creator/TemueraMorrison is 5'7", Wrestling/SashaBanks is 5'4", though her costume probably bumps her up a few inches), though he is likely a fair bit older, so "little one" could be a reference to her age rather than size.

* InsaneTrollLogic: The Imperial pilot justifies the destruction of Alderaan, which killed billions of civilians, because of the millions of Imperials killed on the Death Star. Never mind the fact the Death Star blew up Alderaan ''first'', and was built with the express purpose of blowing up any world that wouldn't submit to the Empire. The pilot also said that destroying Alderaan was a small price to pay to fight terrorism. He's forgetting the fact that Alderann was a '''loyalist''' planet that Tarkin had destroyed just to prove a point to the rest of the Galaxy without the approval of [[EvenEvilHasStandards Emperor Palpatine]]; [[PragmaticVillainy who had signed off for the Death Star destroying a random backwater world]], but didn't think that Tarkin would use it to destroy an important world like Alderaan, making the whole incident a textbook case of ''[[{{Hypocrite}} UNSANCTIONED State Terrorism]]''.

-->'''Koska:''' All clear.
-->'''Bo-Katan:''' A little ''too'' clear.

* JustOneMan: When a single X-Wing arrives to help, Cara sarcastically remarks, "One X-wing? Great, we're saved." Of course, she doesn't know ''whose'' X-Wing that is.

* TemptingFate: A New Republic X-Wing shows up at Gideon's cruiser. Only ''one''. What's a single X-Wing pilot going to do, Cara asks? [[OneManArmy Well...]]

* WhamShot: The shot of a lone X-Wing, followed by a shot of Grogu reacting to the pilot, makes it clear just ''who'' has shown up to rescue them before the actual reveal. And if that wasn't enough, the Jedi in question is wearing a hooded cloak, a black outfit, a black glove on his right hand, and wields a green lightsaber with a distinct silver-and-gold handle. This all serves as tantalizing buildup to the shot where he finally [[DramaticUnmask pulls down his hood]] to reveal Luke Skywalker.

** The team's reaction to a single X-Wing coming to their rescue (before they find out exactly who is in that X-Wing).
--->'''Cara:''' One X-Wing? [[SarcasmMode Great, we're saved.]]