Star Wars Instagram really turned into a Cobb-Vanth-fest today. The man’s got a lot of admirers.
It seems like a lot of viewers, maybe people who hadn’t heard of Cobb Vanth or knew of the rumours, were disappointed when it wasn’t Boba Fett, but their opinion of him went way up by the end of the episode and disappointment was easily overcome. Another nice aspect of Chapter 9, along with the ‘working together’ theme, is how Din Djarin moves from hostility to Vanth for wearing armour that isn’t ‘his’, to coming to trust him so much that he is willing to sacrifice his life for the village in the knowledge that Vanth will protect the child. I found that very powerful.
As Alex from SW Explained on YouTube mentioned in his review, perhaps Din is realising that it’s the actions a person takes that earns them the armour or the status of Mandalorian. This would be in line with some of the other themes of the series. At the end of the day, the Mandalorian creed is the Mandalorian creed, but I was still kinda surprised that Din didn’t let Cobb keep the armour.
No complaints though because now we’ll probably get an epic ‘Boba Fett reclaiming his old armour’ plot in Chapter 10.