Lol that spin was just campy in a good sense, it fit the rest of the chapter.
I don’t know if I can really say anything that hasn’t been said by now. Was a solid finale for the series, entertaining even if not great (as is my opinion above the series overall).
I’m pretty sure there were corporate constraints to bring Din and Grogu back together as soon as possible. As much as I love the duo, I was pretty pumped to see how Din would act in the absence of his newfound moral compass, i.e. more scenes like the butchery fight in the cold open of Chapter 5. I also concur it’s going to be a pretty awkward experience to bingewatch The Mandalorian without throwing BOBF in.
In retrospect I find it so easy to imagine ways to improve the show that it ends up being frustrating on how Rodriguez or Favreau didn’t think of them. It’s clear the series wasn´t one of the priorities for Lucasfilm which is a shame.
The series could have been fixed so easily by establishing Cad Bane earlier, maybe at the end of the third episode when we see the Pyke forces land on Mos Espa. Then have Bane and Fett meet in an extra episode set right before the finale, and we sould see flashbacks of Cad mentoring Boba as a teenager and having a talk about Jango. Maybe show some past incident that led to Boba’s resentment about how other people use bounty hunters, as he told Fennec in chapter 4.
BUT i found Cad Bane’s death to be necessary. Boba had to be the one that killed him. But his defeat would have held so much more weight if we saw their prior interactions. We literally saw once when Boba paid a favor to Bane in prison (TCW) and all we’ve seen of Bane’s passing of the torch to Boba was a cancelled arc and a couple of animatics.
I wish Mando’s visit to Luke’s temple had been kept offscreen, and saved for the first couple of episodes of The Mandalorian S3. Or have the epilogue/post credits scene for the finale be Mando flying his starship to Luke’s planet, and we see Luke and Grogu from a distance (much like a shot of the actual chapter 6). That way it would have been far more open-ended, hype-inducing, and less insulting to the ending of Mandalorian S2.