The Mandalorian Rewatch: The Darksaber Saga

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Join Children of the Watch as we wrap up the Star Wars: Rebels portion of our Mandalorian Rewatch! In preparation for the next Star Wars film, The Mandalorian & Grogu, we're going back through The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, and The Mandalorian itself to break down all of the easter eggs, connections, and hints about what could be coming in the movie!

We also get into some Star Wars: Starfighter and New Jedi Order news, rumors, and speculation!

For this week, the episodes covered are:

Season 3, episodes 15, 16, 21-22

Season 4, episodes 1 & 2

These episodes are jam packed with all kinds of Mandalorian goodness. We camp out on the history and legend of Tarre Vizsla, the first Mandalorian Jedi. We also cover the Dark Saber and its legacy, Sabine Wren's journey to become the Mandalorian she was destined to be, and the many many ties to the Ahsoka series found within these episodes.

Stay to the end to hear our thoughts on Matt Smith's rumored casting in Star Wars: Starfighter.

Next week, we are stoked to get into The Mandalorian Chapter 1!

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Music by Mac Lacey

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0:00.0	We've got rumors, Mac, and this is one of my favorite things that happens with Star Wars is when people
0:21.8	start getting cast in Star Wars projects, all these rumors start coming out about different
0:28.2	things, and it brings me life like no other thing. Yeah, we've got some casting rumors for Starfighter.
0:37.5	We know Ryan Gosling is attached to that project, but we've got some casting rumors for Starfighter. You know, we know Ryan Gosling is attached to that project, but we've got some other star power being added to the cast.
0:45.4	We'll talk about all that.
0:46.6	I mean, do we want to give a little tease about who is?
0:49.1	Matt Smith is going to be in Starfighter, which is incredible because there was, I mean, I think it was
0:56.5	all but confirmed he was going to play a young Palpatine and Rise of Skywalker. Yeah, we were
1:02.5	really far down that rumor mill road, I think. We had, like, I was shocked when the credits rolled
1:10.8	and we hadn't seen Matt Smith
1:12.1	Yeah basically so you know there's tons of we'll have to talk about that in in greater detail here
1:19.9	But we're gonna probably save that for the end
1:22.4	We're gonna yeah we're gonna get through the business we came here for and then we'll talk talk about all the news and rumors and stuff after we get through some Mandalorian Rebels content.
1:33.0	Yeah, because not only is there the Matt Smith stuff, and we'll speculate on who he could possibly be playing and what that means for the movie, but I think there's also a huge connection with some of the
1:44.2	rumors that are coming out right now about the new Jedi Order stuff and how that might be a
1:50.1	new playground for Lucasfilm after Mandovers. So it's kind of connected to what we're actually
1:58.0	talking about here of like, okay, if we're heading towards the culmination
2:02.5	of the mandoverse, what's next? And I think that's what's next. And we'll talk about it,
2:08.2	like we said, at the end of the podcast, we'll speculate, which, what we love to do. But like
2:13.3	Max said, we're here to talk about the Mandalorian and we're wrapping up our Mandalorian
2:19.0	rewatch coverage of Rebels. Yeah. This week. Yeah. This is the last will be touching in with
2:26.2	the ghost crew in our Mandalorian rewatch. Well, not all of them. Some of them will come up again.
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