Why The Mandalorian Would Be Better Without Pedro Pascal
Pedro Pascal is one of the hottest actors in Hollywood right now, and it’s mostly due to his starring as the titular protagonist of The Mandalorian. However, amid reports that Pascal merely voices the character and has stopped showing up on set, the rumor mill went into overdrive that Pascal may not even come back to the show after season three, leaving someone else (such as Katee Sackhoff’s Bo-Katan) to take over. This sent fans freaking out, but we’re about to drop a truth hotter than a Death Star laser: the show would actually be better off without Pascal in it.
Given how haphazard the last season of the show was, it’s time to admit that we can only watch Grogu make cute faces and then get a lecture from Space Dad for so long before it gets boring.
Why would it be best if Pedro Pascal left The Mandalorian behind him? For one thing, the show is already running out of things for his character to do. The world may have fallen in love with the gruff space cowboy raising baby Yoda as a single dad, but that has proven to be something of a one-note story.
Given how haphazard the last season of the show was, it’s time to admit that we can only watch Grogu make cute faces and then get a lecture from Space Dad for so long before it gets boring.
And speaking of boring, the best thing about Pedro Pascal potentially leaving The Mandalorian is that we would get a chance to better know the much more interesting Mandalorians he is now living among. For long-time fans of the old Dark Horse comics, getting to see live-action demonstrations of Mandalorian culture has been a gift from the geek gods these last few years.
But since this is Side Quest: The Show, we usually only get brief moments with these characters before the main cast goes somewhere to save the day, and if Pascal ditched the show, we could end up with (gasp!) a Mandalorian show that focuses more on the Mandalorians as a group.
The world may have fallen in love with the gruff space cowboy raising baby Yoda as a single dad, but that has proven to be something of a one-note story.
To drive that point further home, we already have the perfect replacement for Pedro Pascal if he should leave The Mandalorian, and that is Katee Sackhoff’s Bo-Katan. This has been a fan-favorite character since The Clone Wars, and she has had an amazing arc that most recently culminated with her getting declared the leader of all Mandalorians.
Let’s be brutally honest here: wouldn’t it be cooler to watch Katee Sackhoff rebuild the Mandalorians into a galaxy-shaping force than to watch Pedro Pascal simply give a voiceover to another actor while his character goes on repetitive side quests?
For long-time fans of the old Dark Horse comics, getting to see live-action demonstrations of Mandalorian culture has been a gift from the geek gods these last few years.
It should go without saying that Pedro Pascal has been amazing in this role, and we’ll always respect the fact that his performance in The Mandalorian helped make Star Wars cool again after the unprecedented failure of the Sequel Trilogy.
But perhaps the hardest lesson from those sequels is that the Disney franchise needs to stop trying to stick with the safe and familiar and shake things up every now and then. In the spirit of Kylo Ren’s advice that we need to “let the past die,” we’re ready to ditch Pedro Pascal and embrace a Mandalorian show that is fun and inventive instead of one kept alive mostly by suburban moms sharing Grogu memes.
