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Mandalorian’s ‘The Heiress’: Bo-Katan name-drops Ahsoka Tano and fans are ecstatic

By Tanya Lara Published Nov 14, 2020 3:24 am

Have you forgiven Baby Yoda yet? It turns out it doesn’t matter because The Mandalorian’s new episode has given The Clone Wars and Rebels fans so many reasons to scream.

* Major spoilers ahead *

Last week’s The Mandalorian episode created a backlash against Baby Yoda. Who’d have thought the internet would lose its shit over sci-fi’s cutest baby snacking on some unfertilized frog eggs?

Yesterday’s new episode disproved online theories that Baby Yoda was, in some way, protecting the eggs by swallowing them or that at some point he would regurgitate them whole.

He really just ate them. “You little shit!” fans screamed. Why were fans shocked when we saw him eating live frogs in the first season? I thought it was hilarious! 

In Chapter 11: “The Heiress” (directed by Bryce Dallas Howard), Mando, the Frog Lady and the Big Snacker have finally arrived on Trask, where Mr. Frog is waiting to fertilize her spawn.

Mando with Nite Owls leader Bo-Katan (left) from the animated series The Clone Wars. 

He points Mando to the cantina where a Quarren says he can take him to his fellow Mandalorians but they have to travel a few hours at sea.

On the ship, the Quarrens fling the Child into a trap and is quickly swallowed by a monster. Mando jumps after him and the cage is shut.

Oh, Mando! Why did you trust these Quarrens? The port was clearly filled with scammers.

As Mando struggles for air, three Mandalorians swoop down on the ship and dispatch the Quarrens.

The Nite Owls have arrived, folks. And we know that voice! Katee Sackhof, who voiced Bo-Katan Kryze in the animated series The Clone Wars, is reprising her role in live action—the leader of the Nite Owls, an elite unit of Mandalorians.

WWE’s Sasha Banks plays a new character, Koska Reeves, who dives in to save Baby Yoda. Then the Nite Owls take off their helmets—and we can feel Mando’s jaw dropping under his. Big time.

“You do not cover your face, you are not Mandolorian,” he says.

Excuse me? Mando, do you know who you’re talking to? Bo-Katan is a warrior and the titular heiress in this episode. Her sister Duchess Satine ruled Mandalore (Clone Wars); she ruled Mandalore and was the last holder of the Darksaber (Rebels), the black-bladed Lightsaber.

Only one can possess the Darksaber, which is why when Moff Gideon appeared holding it in the last episode of season 1, it was sort of assumed that he had killed Bo-Katan in combat—the only way to claim the sword legitimately.

Bo-Katan correctly surmises (with a sigh) that Mando’s a child of the Death Watch, a group that broke away from the Mandalorian society, “a cult of religious zealots” that want to re-establish the ancient way.

Ahsoka Tano is coming to The Mandalorian! Anakin Skywalker’s former padawan is played by Rosario Dawson in live action.

“There is only one way, the way of the Mandalore,” Mando says before he jet-packs himself away from his brethren.

Well, it turns out there are two ways!

This is exciting because if Mando hangs around the Nite Owls, we’ll see more of Pedro Pascal’s glorious face. The Mandalorians took their helmets off in Clone Wars anyway.

Back at the port, Mando’s confronted by more Quarrens and the Nite Owls save him again. They repair to the cantina, and over octopus soup for Koska Reeves (Baby Yoda looks on enviously), Bo-Katan enlists Mando to help her seize weapons that are being used to plunder Mandalore in exchange for information about the Jedi.

Mando leaves Baby Yoda with Mr. and Mrs. Frog telling him, “I want you be respectful. And mind your manners. You know what I’m talking about.” (We’ve already forgotten, Child. There are bigger things in this episode than your snacks.)

The Mandalorians jet up to the Imperial Gozanti freighter and gain control of the weapons. Bo-Katan reveals the real mission as they examine the crates: they’re going to take the whole ship not just its cargo.

Mando whines, “This is more than what I signed up for.”

Will the Night Owls’ creed influence Mando? Will we see more of Pedro Pascal’s glorious face?

But he still doesn't have the information he was promised. So, on to battle more Storm Troopers guarding the cockpit.

When it becomes clear that the Mandalorians are going to take control, the ship’s mission to join the Imperial fleet turns kamikaze under the orders of Moff Gideon.

Mando and the two Nite Owls save it from crashing in the sea while Bo-Katan tries to extract information she already knows. Alas, the captain commits suicide by electrocution from his teeth.

Bo-Katan invites Din Djarin to join their mission, to which Mando says, “Erm, no thanks, I’ve been tasked to return this little imp to his kind. Now the Jedi intel, please.” Okay, he doesn't really say that.

Bo-Katan tells him to go to the city of Calodan on the forest planet of Corvus. “There you will find a Ahsoka Tano. Tell her you were sent by Bo-Katan.”

Just like that, the name-drop everyone’s so excited about. No Easter eggs, no teasers—just a straight-up reveal.

This hopefully  signals more animated characters jumping into live action and no character is more anticipated than Ahsoka Tano, who was once Anakin Skywalker’s padawan.

Judging by how Katee Sackhof as Bo-Katan looks so great in live action, it’ll be awesome too with Rosario Dawson bringing Ahsoka Tano to the live-action series.

The merging of the Star Wars universe on The Mandalorian fills some unanswered questions from Dave Filoni’s animated series, and it raises other possibilities. Can you imagine a battle between Moff Gideon with the Darksaber and Ahsoka Tano with her Lightsaber? Or Gideon and Bo-Katan battling (again?) for the Darksaber.  Will Luke Skywalker make an appearance or be referenced at least, who at this juncture in the Star Wars timeline, is building a new Jedi Academy?

This is the stuff wet dreams are made of especially for Clone Wars and Rebels fans—for whom Dave Filoni is a god by the way. All these years of animated characters now crossing over to live action.

This is the f*cking way!

TAGS: Baby Yoda Ahsoka Tano MANDALORIAN BO-KATAN NITE OWLS DEATH WATCH CLONE WARS

About the author

Tanya Lara

Tanya was previously with the STAR’s Lifestyle and Property Report sections. A lifestyle journalist for 22 years, she’s also a book editor, amateur underwater photographer and travel blogger at www.findingmyway.net.