The Mandalorian Rewatch, Chapter 16: The Rescue
Children of the Watch: A Star Wars After Show
Children of the Watch
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Join Children of the Watch as we wrap up Season 2 of the Mandalorian Rewatch! This week, we're diving deep into The Mandalorian's Season 2 finale, Chapter 16: The Rescue. In preparation for the next Star Wars film, The Mandalorian & Grogu, we're going back through The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, The Book of Boba Fett, and The Mandalorian itself to break down all of the easter eggs, connections, and hints about what could be coming in the movie.
Up top, we address the new footage we got over the weekend in the updated teaser for The Mandalorian and Grogu.
Then, we talk about the amazing action contained in this episode, the spear fight against Gideon's dark saber, Luke Skywalker's re-animated appearance, and what these events mean for Din and Bo-Katan moving forward.
We'll be back in the New Year with coverage of The Book of Boba Fett!
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| 0:00.0 | We're back. It's a Christmas miracle. |
| 0:13.0 | Oops. |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah, sorry about all the, you know, schedulings, it's weird. |
| 0:19.0 | It especially gets weird around any kind of holiday. Oh, yeah. And, you know, scheduling's, it's weird. It especially gets weird around any kind of holiday. |
| 0:21.7 | Oh, yeah. And, you know, Christmas is just around the corner. First of all, Merry Christmas. |
| 0:27.2 | Everybody has Elbrates and, you know, happy holidays for everything else. |
| 0:31.4 | Yeah. Absolutely. It's a great time of year. Sure. I hope everybody's having a good time. |
| 0:37.8 | Absolutely. |
| 0:38.3 | Look for people around you who may not be having a good time around the holiday and try to help them out. |
| 0:44.0 | I think that's the, if I had one holiday message to share with everybody, that's the one. |
| 0:50.2 | So, cool. |
| 0:51.5 | But yeah, we're back. |
| 0:52.9 | Sorry about all the scheduling kerfuffles. |
| 0:55.5 | You know, we were waiting on a trailer that we didn't know if it was going to come. |
| 1:00.4 | And let's get into the teaser. |
| 1:03.0 | Let's get into it. |
| 1:03.7 | Okay. |
| 1:04.1 | So there was rumors that a Mandalorian and Grogu trailer was going to come out in front of Avatar, |
| 1:10.7 | firing in Ash. |
| 1:11.6 | And it's true that did happen. |
| 1:14.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.4 | But it wasn't an actual brand new trailer. |
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