āHe doesnāt want to go with you.āĀ Ā āHe wants your permission.āĀ I didnāt think anything could destroy me like that, but I am absolutely gutted by it, how Grogu must have felt torn between these two worlds, how the Force called to him, how connecting with that energy field that was woven so deeply into his soul, feeling at war with how he loves Din and has such a strong attachment to him, and possibly even that Grogu himself knows that his feelings for Din are potentially so very dangerous, he apparently understands a lot.Ā How much might he have understood about what happens to Jedi who fall prey to attachment, to the desire to own people, to possess them, as thatās what attachment is, not love, but the desire to keep them for yourself because youĀ are afraid to live without them.
The way he perks up when he senses Luke, the way Luke clarifies that Groguās hesitance isnāt because he doesnāt want to go, but because he cares about Din and wants his permission, wants his approval, because he lovesĀ Din.Ā That just destroyed me, thinking about how hard that must have been for Grogu, to parse his feelings that way, after everything heād been through, all the sheer terrorĀ of the genocide of the Jedi, then of all the years in between that heād been kidnapped by the Empire or by pirates and by Moff Gideon again, that it keeps happening.Ā That itāll keep happening, whether itās Moff Gideon or someone else looking to profit off a Force-sensitive in this shitty, shitty galaxy.
And how much Grogu must have wantedĀ to go with Luke.Ā To go with a Jedi that was Groguās earliest memories, that was someone he could speak to through the Force and have them understand him back, to understand what this tremendous connection to the galaxy means.Ā To have it in your mind and heart the entire time.
But to also honor his connection with Din, especially since I assume theyāll eventually be brought back together, but right now it was Groguās decision to want to go and he did want to go, so Din let him go, because thatās the heart of Star Wars, that if someone wants to go, you let them.Ā You love them, you protect them, but you donāt own them.
Din, too, had to struggle with this and his willingness to let Grogu go was heartbreaking but also I have never loved Din Djarin more, for the strength it took to do that.
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