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The following story contains spoilers for The Mandalorian Season 3, Episode 7, "The Spies."
WHERE THE first two seasons of The Mandalorian spent a whole lot of time connecting to the original Star Wars films—featuring characters like Boba Fett and Luke Skywalker—Season 3 has shifted gears. Instead of looking back to the original trilogy (The Mandalorian takes place only a few years after Return of the Jedi), this season has looked forward, and done it in a way that clearly aims to fill in many of the remaining mystery gaps about how things get to where they are in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which kicked off the Disney-produced sequel trilogy of films.
And writers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have taken a rather fearless approach. Rather than playing into the most universally well-received parts of the trilogy, they've taken it all on, with a primary storyline (involving Giancarlo Esposito's Moff Gideon and Katy M. O'Brian's Elia Kane) aiming to unravel the "somehow" in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's infamous "Somehow Palpatine Returned" line. The answer is cloning, but the how and the way are still very much in the works.
Season 3, Episode 7, titled "The Spies," continued to play into those sequel films. The episode eventually included thePraetorian Guards who figured chiefly into an unforgettable fight scene in Rian Johnson's brilliant (but polarizing) film Star Wars: The Last Jedi. But we only knew those guards were coming after we saw Gideon in a meeting with a Shadow Council that included someone with another familiar name from the sequel films: Hux.
Who is Commandant Brendol Hux in The Mandalorian?
Disney+It may take a second to realize who, exactly, Commandant Brendol Hux is in "The Spies," after he's introduced during his Shadow Council meeting with Moff Gideon. We hear the name "Hux," and immediately think that it must be General Hux—the Nazi Leader-esque villain played by Domhnall Gleeson in all three Star Wars sequel films.
