Why The Mandalorian Season 2 Ending & Grogus Goodbye Was Based On ET

Why The Mandalorian Season 2 Ending & Grogu’s Goodbye Was Based On E.T.

The emotional goodbye between Din Djarin and Grogu in The Mandalorian season 2 is based on the heartbreaking ending between E.T. and Elliott.

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Why The Mandalorian Season 2 Ending & Grogus Goodbye Was Based On ET

The bittersweet goodbye between Grogu and Din Djarin in The Mandalorian’s season 2 finale was actually based on the ending of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The Mandalorian was a savior for reviving the Star Wars franchise and positive consensus among audiences after the controversies over the sequel trilogy. The Disney+ series was a new concept for Star Wars, following a Mandalorian bounty hunter who decides to protect and care for The Child, who was originally his target, instead of handing him over to the remnants of the Imperial forces. Over The Mandalorian’s first two seasons, Din Djarin becomes a father figure to Grogu, affectionately known as Baby Yoda, who is an extremely young member of Yoda’s species that happens to be Force-sensitive.

Season 2 of The Mandalorian built up to major reveals within Star Wars’ missing timeline, bringing back several beloved Jedi from other movies and series. Aside from Luke Skywalker, the Jedi had long been wiped out from the galaxy, leaving their monastic organization as more of a myth to others. As Grogu shows growing abilities to wield the Force and connect with other Jedi, Din Djarin begins to seek out more people like him. After first encountering Clone Wars’ Jedi Ahsoka Tano earlier in the series, The Mandalorian’s season 2 finale sees a young Luke Skywalker take Grogu to learn the Jedi way.

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In the Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian documentary on the making of season 2, “The Rescue” director Peyton Reed revealed that the emotional moment behind Din Djarin and Grogu’s goodbye was meant to parallel the heartbreaking farewell of Elliott and E.T. in Spielberg’s 1982 movie. E.T. follows the journey of a boy who takes in an abandoned alien that he shares a profound connection to, having to hide his innocent alien friend from the world as government entities attempt to take him for experiments. Once Elliott is able to free E.T. from the government, he takes him to an open field where a ship full of others in his species have returned for him. E.T.’s final moment is extremely emotional, where Elliott has to say goodbye to the alien that has become his best friend. The Mandalorian’s season 2 finale scene attempts to recreate the sentiment of this parting, with Din Djarin having to let go of the young being to whom he has become a father figure in order to return him to his own kind, in this case, the Jedi.

While trying to truly recapture the heartfelt magic of E.T.’s goodbye scene, Peyton Reed arranged The Mandalorian’s characters in a way that reflected the movie. In E.T., Elliott’s mom, brother, sister, and friends are quiet and tearfully emotional as they witness Elliott emotionally letting go of E.T. to his species. Likewise, The Mandalorian’s Bo-Katan, Koska Reeves, Cara Dune, and Fennec Shand are touched as they watch Din Djarin hand over Grogu, who has been his surrogate child, to Luke. The circumstances behind their departures are also similar, with both Eliott and Din realizing E.T. and Grogu belong elsewhere for their own safety. Elliott knows that E.T. has to leave Earth with his own species, while Din knows that Grogu’s Jedi abilities need to be mastered and controlled as he’s protected by Luke, “one of [his] kind.”

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It’s hard to build a connection between a real human being and another species that’s really just a puppet, but it’s an emotional crux that both projects accomplish. Each ending creates a heartfelt, bittersweet farewell between two unlikely companions, who don’t want to part but understand it’s the right thing to do. The emotion doesn’t just come from the actor saying goodbye, though. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and The Mandalorian also have incredibly chilling scores by John Williams and Ludwig Gorensson, respectively, that drive home the overall sentiment. Reed called The Mandalorian’s season 2 finale goodbye the “win” of the episode, explaining how important it was to not be afraid to end it on a truly emotional note.

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