I do not know why the Mandalorian wants his weird baptism
After two seasons, Din Djarin has finally decided that he needs to take a bath. In its first two episodes, season 3 of The Mandalorianis highlighting something that is easy to overlook in all the Star Wars razzle-dazzle. Din Djarin, the Mandalorian, is a deeply religious dude with a very religious problem: He broke his weird cult’s rules and removed his helmet in front of others. And now he must atone for it by “bathing in the Living Waters beneath the mines of Mandalore.”
When you stop to think about it, it’s kind of weird that The Mandalorian is, thus far, about one guy’s efforts to be Cultist of the Year. It’s not clear until the show’s second season, but the Mandalorians as portrayed in the show aren’t necessarily representative of all Mandalorians, but a sort of religious fundamentalist cult that hearkens back to the earliest days of the now-ruined planet of Mandalore.
The first season shows Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal), the hero of The Mandalorian, adopted by this cult as a child after his village is razed, indoctrinated into their weird religion that involves, I don’t know, hunting increasingly challenging bounties in exchange for increasingly sick armor? It’s very video game-y. While that season shifted to focus on Din’s Lone Wolf and Cub-esque relationship with Grogu, things took a turn in the second season (and, inexplicably, in The Book of Boba Fett) as the show introduces other Mandalorians who are not into the same creed as Din, and then also shows Din regretting his decision to send Grogu to Luke Skywalker’s Jedi college and inviting him to learn the ways of his religious order.
On the one hand, Star Wars already has a weird and morally dubious religion in the Jedi Order. While it is conceivably good and
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