I grew up feeling the first Star Wars movie was when the all characters first got together, so seeing Anakin build C-3PO and R2 on Padme’s ship seemed forced. But if you look at it in chronological order starting with the prequels then TCW, where the droids were essentially already part of their family, then it makes complete sense they’d be around on the Tantive-IV.

Ding Djarin went looking for other Mandalorians and Jedi. Since there aren’t many Mandalorians around, I’m not surprised he met some I’ve heard of. The scarcity of Mandalorians is even mentioned in the show. Jedi are even more rare at this time, so when Grogu calls out from the stone, there’s a really high percentage someone we knew would show up. In my opinion, inventing new characters for these parts of the story would not be the way to go when you have existing characters that make more sense. Again, the show is written well enough you don’t need to know who they are.

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