Has a Villain for Din & Grogu Been Revealed? | The Mandalorian Rewatch, Chapter 23: The Spies
Children of the Watch: A Star Wars After Show
Children of the Watch
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🗓️ 21 March 2026
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Summary
The Mandalorian Rewatch continues! Join Children of the Watch as we dive deep into Star Wars by breaking down Chapter 23: The Spies to show you the easter eggs and the greater connections to the larger Star Wars universe. Plus, we break down a theory that Zsinj from Star Wars legends could be in the Mandalorian & Grogu.
Who is all in attendance at the Shadow Council meeting in this episode? What does it mean for the origins of Snoke, the First Order, and the events of the sequel trilogy? Could Thrawn unltimately prove to be a foil for these shady characters? Tune in to find out!
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| 0:45.7 | Mandelorian rewatch episode before the Mandalorian and Grogu |
| 0:49.7 | simply because of this shadow counsel scene that is in this particular episode. |
| 0:57.8 | And, you know, we're recording this a little ahead. |
| 1:00.9 | So, you know, by the time you're listening to this, we recorded this almost two weeks ago. |
| 1:05.4 | So I do want to warn you, we might actually have this information by the time you're |
| 1:10.8 | listening to this but if we're right it's gonna sound like we're super smart and we |
| 1:16.6 | guessed it before that information came out so we got some images from the Empire |
| 1:22.6 | magazine that were not in the trailer and it's actor Johnny johnny coin who was in the shadow council he's the |
| 1:29.8 | bald guy that is part of the shadow council and he is sitting and it looks like he's watching the gladiator |
| 1:37.8 | fights with grue in a cage yeah right and so yeah he's an imperial in the Shadow Council. And there's potential that this guy is a very |
| 1:49.8 | important guy from the expanded universe before Disney acquired Star Wars and a pretty important warlord. |
| 1:58.1 | I'm not going to spoil it just yet. We'll get into it in the breakdown. |
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