The Mandalorian Season 3 Just Casually Teased Emperor Palpatine's Resurrection
One of the biggest criticisms of the Star Wars sequel trilogy from die-hard fans was the lack of context and world-building--even now we have very little sense of how we got from the end of Return of the Jedi to the beginning of The Force Awakens. But that gap is very slowly being filled by novels and comics, and this week's episode of The Mandalorian helped with that effort by giving us our first real glimpse of what's been going on with the Empire as a whole in the years since the battle at Endor in Return of the Jedi.
And it also helped by introducing a character who will end up helping to found the First Order--a character who we just learned is apparently also helping to bring Emperor Palpatine back from the dead.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Chapter 23 of The Mandalorian, titled «The Spies.»
Season 3 of The Mandalorian has spent plenty of time giving us a ground-level view of life under the New Republic on Coruscant, but the big picture of the galaxy has remained elusive. But this week's episode of The Mandalorian, dubbed «Chapter 23: The Spies,» opened with a scene that more or less served to explain everything that's been going on with the Imperial Remnant.
It's the second scene in the episode, where we see Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) meeting with the Imperial Shadow Council--a council of Imperial governors and other key individuals who are secretly colluding while publicly pretending to be separate warring factions. As long as they don't appear to be united or otherwise a meaningful threat in any way, the New Republic can't be bothered to deal with them.
Most of the folks in this scene aren't important and aren't even named characters. But aside from Moff Gideon, there are two others here
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