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No. I'm not forgetting Bo-Katan's accusation (Come on, we all know what Bo did back in the Clone Wars, OK? I know she has changed. She is a way better person now, but she accused Din of her crime and didn't even think about apologizing, this is just pure irony and unfairness) to Din at the beginning of Season 3 and Axe's insult to Din at the end of episode 6.

Also, Din was the only Mandalorian who had shown his rethinking about the education he had and said something like "I was wrong", although he pretty much is the last one who should do this among them, because he actually didn't do any actual damage to Mandalore and Mandalorians. And then the true uniter of the Mandalorians (which is Din Djarin) just became a random ranger to his own planet and culture who doesn't need to get the credit he deserves. All of this has just become more and more sarcastic and unfair right now.

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They just destroyed Darksaber in The Mandalorian season 3, but they didn't actually change anything. It is the people themselves who caused the wars, not the saber. They actually could change the meaning of the Darksaber in Din's hand (it could represent bravery, become a symbol for all the people who lost their home because of the war, like Din and Grogu)，but they just wasted it and chose the laziest way to "solve" the problem. What a shame.

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The true uniter of mandalorians in The Mandalorian season 3 is absolutely Din Djarin, he is the one who had seen all the hatred but forgave everything (including Bo-Katan's insult to him at the beginning of this season, and the Axe's insult to him at the end of episode 6) and even is the only person who had said something like "the education I received about other Mandalorians is wrong"(even though he's not that wrong about Bo-Katan was actually selfish and uncaring, he just doesn't know) to show his rethinking about all the hatred he had seen, although he's actually the last one who should do this according to their planet and culture's history. He is also the one who gave up the Darksaber to Bo-Katan to unite all the Mandalorians, and then they just gave all his credit to Bo-Katan.

I really don't understand why they did this to him.

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I think the original thought of The Mandalorian season 3 is that they wanted to tell a story that Din Djarin is a good fighter and Bo-Katan Kryze is a good leader, but now the result is to the contrary. Din Djarin is already too good to be not described as a good leader, so they just gave up, let Bo-Katan be the military leader, let Din do all the works a uniter should do, and give his credit to Bo-Katan in that ridiculous way.

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In a certain way, you can say Din Djarin is basically space Aragorn, but in the early years when Aragorn was still a ranger. He's even a ranger to his own planet and culture because he just left when the Mandalorians got their home planet back with his help, doesn't even have to be at the reborn ritual in person, and he left to continue to fight the greater evil in this Galaxy. Now even the Darksaber was broken like Narsil once did.

I hope I'm not just being sarcastic in this post.

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The biggest problem of The Mandalorian season 3 is that, if they want to tell a story that Bo-Katan is the chosen leader of Mandalore, they should've let Bo-Katan do all the things that Din did in this season.

She should be the one who found the children of the watch in the first place. She should be the one who bathed in the living water and put on the helmet ON PURPOSE to get the trust of the children of the watch. She should be the one who decided to help Nevarro and get that land for mandalorians. She should be the one who defended Din's right on the Darksaber (not just his right of being a Mandalorian) when Din was facing the insult from Axe. She should be the one who said "They will get along if they wanna survive". She should be the one who said "For thousands of years, we have been on the verge of extinction, and for thousands of years, we have survived". She should be the one who said "But it (Mandalore) was once green and beautiful, back when the songs were written." And after all these plots, Din could give her the Darksaber because he thinks she's a suitable leader.

But instead, we got a plot that says "we don't know how to do all these things without letting Din out of his character, because he's just too good and has a perfect story of Darksaber, so we decided we could just let Din do all these things as himself, and then give all his credit to Bo-Katan in a very ridiculous way. In the end, Din doesn't even need to be at the reborn ritual of his planet in person and absolutely doesn't need to get the credit he deserves. And we will put him back to being a ranger, so we could keep him as a character who could be summoned at anytime in our future Star Wars shows, because audiences love him and Grogu.”

All I can say is these are straight bullshits. They not only treat Din very unfairly, but also totally wasted Din's huge energy as a very unique character in the Star Wars universe.

I don't understand why they did this to Din. They even make him like an outsider of his own planet and culture and people after all he has done for Mandalore. All of this just made me angry and sad.

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The finale of The Mandalorian season 3, when the Mandalorians are chanting around the great forge without Din Djarin, this scene made me angry.

That's a total unfair to Din. He is the one who actually unites all the Mandalorians but at the end not only he doesn't get the credit he deserves, the ritual also just "doesn't even need him there". He has his time to rest at his cabin on Nevarro (and this cabin is a present from Greef but not Mandalorians, another outrageous thing）but "doesn't have time" to at least see the ritual because "he has go on to his journey". This just outrageous.

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Actually when I saw Bo-Katan ask Grogu "Did you think your dad was the only Mandalorian？" in the trailer of The Mandalorian season 3, I thought this means that she also sees him as a Mandalorian like herself and now she's here to help him as his friend/kindred/ally.

I really hope and believe that Bo-Katan and Din could be friends and share their own stories with each other.

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Many people keep forgetting (or some kind of ignoring) that Din is not Gorgu's biological father and they are very different from Skywalker father&son duo. Actually, I feel pretty frustrated about this.

Their attachment is based on the justice that Din Djarin saw an orphan like himself in Grogu, not the other way round（Like "this justice was based on their relationship/attachment that was mostly through their blood"）

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Just thinking: every person who has seen and felt Din Djarin's loyalty would want it to belong to them too. That kind of devotion just attracts people (and obviously makes people fall for him).

And he says sentences like "I'm with you until we both fall" to his friends.

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To me, supporters of the greatest shackle in the Star Wars universe (which is "a force-sensitive character has to be a Jedi, more or less") do not get the right to say "I think letting Grogu stay in the Jedi school is more respectful for his character and the possibility of his character development". Because Jedi aren't the truth and all the things of this universe, far from it.

Grogu could be more than a Jedi only if he could see this universe with his own eyes. There are way too many people who think this "force-sensitive character has to be a Jedi more or less "is the truth of this universe, just because it has always been that way.

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I suddenly realize, Din Djarin is basically justifying his love for Grogu by saying "He's a Mandalorian foundling/Jedi's no attachment rule is opposite to our creed" in The Book of Boba Fett. He can not give up this love, so he's desperately trying to prove "Grogu has a relationship with me" so he can continue loving him when he doesn't even require Grogu to love him back or remember him. What he had said before he decided not to see Grogu is "Either way, this armour will protect him" and we all know it means "I will love him forever, even if he may not have any relationship with me anymore”. This actually shows that he's not saying this "Mandalorian foundling" thing for "I want him to love me back/I can see him", but for "So I can continue to love him."

And now my heart is broken.

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Little Anakin: I love my mother, but I chose to go to the Jedi school and leave her.

Obi-Wan: I love Satine, I even said if she had asked this earlier I would leave the Jedi Order for her, but I didn't.

And our little Grogu: As a force-sensitive child/Baby Yoda, I chose to be with my beloved Din and literally (probably) gave up the way of Jedi for this wish. Din is not even my biological father, but I love him, I want to be with him and I don't want to "may not see him ever again in my life."

I'm not saying the choices little Anakin and young Obi-Wan made were totally "wrong", and I'm not here to complain about the no attachment rule of Jedi or blame anyone for it, because that's another question (And actually I don't think that's anyone's fault, I think it's more like "everyone's fault" because I think this Galaxy is too dependent on force-sensitive people and see way too special of them）. I just wanna emphasize that I think Grogu is very brave and actually wise in making this choice.

To me, the greatest dogma of Star Wars is "Force-sensitive (main) characters have to be a Jedi, more or less", but Grogu jumps out of it. The choice he made and the love between him and Din are so precious/different in this franchise, because the mere existence of them and their love has already broken the greatest shackle in this galaxy. They are not just a "father-son" duo but the salvation between two orphans of this galaxy. Their attachment was formed based on this justice, but not their attachment that had led them to this justice. I believe Grogu will become a great person in his future（You don't have to be a Jedi to be a great person, right?), because I believe he will understand the meaning of "I see myself in you" from his Mandalorian.

I think the true foundation of this Galaxy is exactly this kind of love. It could and will link everyone in this Galaxy, even better than "The Force".

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Actually, as a Dinluke shipper, I don't have any problem with The Book of Boba Fett.

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“I bet you never thought that I will actually accept this Darksaber when you decided to lose it to me. Hell, even myself had never imagined I will do it. But I know what I'm going to do with it now.”

“I don't know if I'm still one of them anymore. But they are my people. Mandalorians once gave me a home when I lose mine during the war. So I'm going to accept it now, I'm going to help them take back their home, just like what they did for me and what I did for that kid.”

“You can call it fate or destiny or whatever you like. But I know there is no such thing in this Galaxy.”

“It's just some people who want to see planets burn. And they must be stopped.”

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To me the reason why Bo-Katan had just took Darksaber before but she won't do it now is pretty obvious: "The Darksaber doesn't have the power, the story does." She wants this saber not for having it but for using her ownership of it to be the leader who can unite all Mandalorians, and this kind of thing actually requires story of the owner of this weapon more than weapon itself. How she got this saber is more important than she has it. And now Bo-Katan probably knows that she technically could just take it from Din but she actually doesn't have the story she needs, and even if she beats him in battle and win, this story couldn't be "The Story" more than Din's. So I really wanna see Din and Bo-Katan could change this "The person who has this saber is the ruler of Mandalore" kind of tradition and the meaning of Darksaber/Mand'alor together, they could use the story of Din to inspire other Mandalorians who lost their home(Din's story really is about a foundling who lost his home because of the war tried very hard to save another child who also lost his home), bring them together to take back their planet, but it's not about the power of a ruler, it's about the bravery of a brave. And as I always want, Darksaber could represents more about bravery than power from now on.

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To me Din is not defined by "Mandalorian", the truth is now is he giving definition to "Mandalorian" by being himself.