Din Djarin and Luke Skywalker are both two men who get progressively scarier the more you watch them.
Like, Luke in A New Hope was baby af. He was a child. Even in the Empire Strikes Back, what a little guy. A tiny fellow.
Then boom, Return of the Jedi, and Luke is smiling and like āTell these Ewoks that you are their God and that if they do not release us, you will be Angeredā¦ā He is in all black, he is missing a hand, he has gone off the rails conpletely. Heās like āHow will I tell Leia that weāre siblings? ā¦Oh! I know! Riddles!ā Luke Skywalker gets struck by Force Lightning like nine times and still gets up and drags his dadās lifeless body out. There were moments one might look at him and think, āno, ur wrong, he still babieā but you are the wrong one! He goes into Jabbaās Palace and straight up stands there smiling and threatening him the whole time. Heās standing on a plank over the Sarlacc and heās still like āSo this is how youād like to play :)ā Luke straight up snapped, he got spooky by the end of the og trilogy.
Din Djarin, straight off the back, is kind of intimidating. He is a man in full armour who hunts people and freezes them in carbonite and appears behind their shoulders when they least expect it. But, after Grogu shows up, you probably think āthis man is weak to this baby, he will become softā but no! The opposite happens!
Iām talking about episode 6. The Prisoner. I have wanted desperately to talk about this for days, but have only just found the words to do so. Let me explain.
Din Djarin is filmed and edited like a horror movie villain. Like a supernatural force of evil who stalks his prey. Straight up like a slasher villain out of the eighties. Thereās hints of this beforehand, what with Din appearing behind a guy in the very first episode, and the fact that he has been shot point blank (many times) but no matter how many times he falls, he always gets back up. Okay, thatās all fine and good.
But episode 6 goes beyond that. He stalks a bunch if assholes through flickering red lights. He splits them up, he takes them out one by one, and the last person standing manages to get out, thinks theyāve escaped, only to die (technically) at Dinās hand anyway. He is straight up a horror movie villain I donāt know how else to explain it, he is a horror movie villain.
Donāt take this the wrong way. Being spooky and intimidating isnāt a bad thing, especially not in Star Wars! Luke Skywalker and his ability to say terrible things while smiling, Din Djarin and his predilection for appearing right behind someone, these ar egood things. I like these things a lot. I love these. I love that Luke is the cutest little scary fella in the galaxy. I love that Din is the most awkward little scary fella in the galaxy. I think itās great.
Well, for one, I have been trying to word my view on Din Djarin for days now. I love this man, I have to mock him or Iāll feel incomplete. And I think itās a disservice to pretend that Luke isnāt a person who most people in the Star Wars universe think about and shiver. Donāt get me wrong, I love sunshine boy Luke, but he isnāt really like that, at least not by this point in the series. He just strikes me as the type of person to say incredibly dark, deranged things with a blank face, then smile at cute kittens. Luke is messed up, and we should talk about it more because itās very interesting to explore the various ways heās messed up.
But for another, I am a big fan of Din and Luke being buddies who go absolutely anywhere and scare the shit out of people. A Mandalorian next to a Jedi Knight? Two people who eat Storm Troopers for breakfast?? Can you imagine how much the fragments of the Empire that are still left are quaking??? Those two would go absolutelu anywhere and the anyone on planet who ever sided with the Empire would give themselves up or run, immediately.
Like, Din singlehandedly took out that whole troop on Nevarro. All by himself, he shot out all of the Storm Troopers and everyone inside and I like to think there are whispered stories about him similar to the ones about the Boogeyman.
Now, I know Luke didnāt actually kill the Emperor and Darth Vader, but does anyone in universe know that? Or does everyone think that Luke not only blew up the Death Star, but he also murdered the two head honchos and came out completely unscathed? Luke is definitely a boogeyman.
I donāt know. Something about two terrifying men walking into a bar full of Imperials only to walk out five minutes later of a bar full of dead Imperials just really fills me with joy. Something about the mental image I have of Storm Troopers fearfully sharing increasingly terrifying stories about these two makes me happy. I like bad people being scared shitless, all right? Sue me.
