Might Grogu's Choice Disappoint You? And Other Questions Heading Into The Boba Fett Finale/Mandalorian Season 3

Disney+'s The Book of Boba Fett in recent episodes shifted into a new gear by catching up with a flurry of familiar faces. Heading into the Wednesday, Feb. 9 finale, what questions do you have (and perhaps hope to get answers to)?

Coming out of Boba Fett's guest star-studded penultimate episode (recapped here), first and foremost on everyone's minds is Grogu's big, life-changing decision. Episode 6 established that Luke Skywalker (played by a digitally de-aged Mark Hamill) had taken The One Formerly Known as Baby Yoda to an unidentified planet where the Master Jedi planned to open a school. There, Luke began Grogu's Jedi training, first with some simple (and adorable) dexterity drills. And yet as Luke would later tell a visiting Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson), he can't help but sense that Grogu's heart isn't in it....

Luke, upon receipt of the Beskan armor that the Mandalorian had quietly dropped off for his "foundling," presented his would-be padawan with a huge decision: take the lightsaber that once belonged to Master Yoda (and thus choose Jedi training that would preclude him from seeing Mando again), or choose the snazzy, mesh Beskar tunic (and in doing so forego mastery of the Force, to instead return to Mando's side).

Will Grogu's decision disappoint, regardless? That is but one of the several questions raised below, ahead of The Book of Boba Fett's finale, the arrival of The Mandalorian Season 3, and even the premiere of Ahsoka Tano's own series. Review our Qs and weigh in below!

For all this talk of an all-out war with the Pyke syndicate that has been angling to vanquish Fett, there's the question of where such a season-ending showdown will take place. Open desert wouldn't afford opportunities for strategic attacks or taking cover, firefights in the streets and alleys of Mos Espa could be a bit banal, and a series of hallways skirmishes within Jabba's palace seems a bit small-scale for such a clash.

In the name of Fett's journey "coming full circle," might the action take place outside the Sarlacc pit, even though said frightful maw was recently neutralized?

Upon being recruited for Fett's fight with the Pykes, Mando (Pedro Pascal) took it upon himself to reconnect with Cobb Vanth (Timothy Olyphant), to ask the Mos Pelgo Freetown marshal to offer up some additional manpower/firepower. Though he owed Mando no favors (and despite the protests of his Weequay bartender), Vanth was inclined to oblige.

Alasm in one of Boba Fett Episode 6's closing sequences, Vanth was felled by blaster fire, in a "High Noon"-like showdown with Pyke sympathizer Cad Bane. Vanth's deputy seemed very much down for the count (having been shot multiple times by Bane), but perhaps the marshal himself was more or less just "winged" and dazed?

Will Vanth pull off an 11th-inning comeback, to offer some day-saving marksmanship?

Speaking of Cobb Vanth....

The "flashbacks"/memories that Fett recalled during his Bacta tank sessions recounted many key moments from his past — starting with his post-ROTJ Sarlacc pit escape through to his saving of the assassin Fennec Shand and then their fruitless search inside the Sarlacc for Fett's lost Mandalorian armor.

Yet the dots have not been connected to set up Fett's very first appearance in The Mandalorian's Season 2 premiere, where from atop a dune he watched Mando and the Child bid Vanth adieu, after claiming said armor. Will we ever learn how he came to learn that the marshal of Mos Pelgo had been wearing that which was his?

As thrilling as it was to see Ahsoka Tano simply hanging out with Luke Skywalker — the son of the ultimately wayward Jedi whose padawan she once was — did that only make you hungry for more from the intrinsically connected duo?

Like, how, and where ,and under what circumstances did this "friend of the family" first meet Anakin Skywalker's kid? Is there a way for Disney+'s eventual Star Wars: Ahsoka series to revisit that important first meeting?

Boba Fett's first wave of memories detailed how after having his armor stolen by the Jawas and been left for dead, he was captured and then, after proving his intentions, "taken in" by a Tusken clan near Mos Espa. Alas, as his clash with the Pykes began intensifying, he came home one afternoon to find the Tusken camp scorched, and many denizens slaughtered.

But had all of his honorary Tusken kin perished in that brutal attack? Could a stray survivor or two who had been away at the time of the massacre resurface in the finale, to lend their friend some unexpected muscle?

From the moment in Episode 3 when Boba Fett told Rancor keeper Danny Trejo that he wished to one day ride the large beast, you just knew that moment would eventually come. The keeper, though, said that teaching both of them such a discipline would take time, and it doesn't seem as if Fett has had or made opportunities since then to practice.

Or... has he spent much of these past two, nearly Boba-less episodes doing just that off-camera, with an eye on him and the Rancor making their triumphant debut during the season-ending showdown with the Pykes?

Some have speculated that, since Jennifer Beals' Twi'lek cantina proprietor always came off as enigmatic and furtive, she was harboring a secret alliance with those who wished  Mos Espa's new daimyo harm. And as such, the bombing of her own club would throw people further off her scent.

But the fact is that, rewatching the scene from Episode 6 (capped above), Garsa was standing squarely between the protocol droid who found the "forgotten" camtono bomb and the entrance from which the blast/fireball/debris poured out an instant later. She dead. (What a feeling, indeed.)

OK, the biggie....

For starters, yes, if Grogu were to choose the lightsaber that once belonged to another Force-sensitive one of his kind, Master Yoda, and in doing so committed to years-long Jedi training, that would be disappointing — if only because it would mean that the Mandalorian would be flying solo in Season 3 of his own series.

As such, most of us surely assume that Grogu will choose the gifted Beskan armor, and in doing so express his wish to reunite with the Mandalorian who took him in as a "foundling" of sorts.

But if Grogo in fact "chooses Mando" — as great as that would be for The Mandalorian Season 3! — will a tiny part of you be sad that he will not fulfill a greater purpose, as a Jedi? Or is any such part of you quickly silenced by the knowledge that Luke Skywalker's Jedi school is fated to suffer a great tragedy, so Grogu will in essence be spared if he elects not to enroll?

Bonus question: If Grogu chooses Mando, do you think that will be revealed in the Boba Fett finale — perhaps the wee one is waiting for him, rocking his new armor, when Din heads to his starfighter after the showdown with the Pykes — or will it be saved for The Mandalorian's Season 3 premiere?