The Mandalorian Season 3 Finale: Let's Talk About What Happened With Moff Gideon

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As one would expect, the Season 3 finale of The Mandalorian brought us some major story developments--and none of them were bigger than the reveal, finally, of what the hell Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) wanted Grogu for at the beginning of the series.

Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Chapter 24 of The Mandalorian.

Moff Gideon has always been an odd character, because he was created for The Mandalorian but the series has made attempts to retroactively tie him to existing characters and storylines--something they had to do after they showed him wielding the Darksaber in the Season 1 finale.

But this week, we finally found out for the first time what his deal is in the present. He's been implementing plans and doing machinations for three seasons of television--the man who hired Din Djarin to capture Grogu in the series premiere was doing so on Gideon's behalf. But The Mandalorian has danced around what his plans actually are.

Between last week's episode and this one, though, we've got a pretty clear picture: Moff Gideon needed Grogu's blood to create Force-sensitive clones of himself, which he would equip with beskar Dark Trooper armor. And then, with this power, he would rule the reborn Empire, which has been secretly reorganizaing itself under Thrawn.

But even while we were learning about these plans, they seemingly were ended by Din Djarin and Bo-Katan and the rest of the Mandalorian force on Mandalore. Din Djarin destroyed all those clones, and Gideon himself was incinerated by that crashing Mandalorian cruiser. Moff Gideon's story is over, by all appearances.

Or is it?

In the first two seasons of The Mandalorian, Moff Gideon sported a thin mustache. This season, when Gideon finally showed up for