Here’s How The Mandalorian Season 3 Writes Gina Carano Off The Show

The Mandalorian, a popular Disney+ Star Wars series, faced controversy when the actress who played Cara Dune, Gina Carano, was fired from the show due to her controversial tweets. Carano’s character was a mainstay on the show during Seasons 1 and 2, but the actress was let go due to her inability to stop tweeting, culminating in a tweet where she compared people disagreeing with her false conservative conspiracy theories to being persecuted by Nazi Germany.

The role was not re-cast, and the character of Cara Dune was simply not present in the Season 3 premiere of The Mandalorian. However, the show did provide viewers with details on how the writers ended up writing her out of the show’s universe.

In the Season 3 premiere, Mando and Grogu are reunited, but Cara Dune is nowhere to be found. In the show’s first scene, Mando returns to Nevarro to resurrect the assassin droid IG-11 to help him on his quest to Mandalore. Mando encounters Greef Karga, who runs the place, and Karga offers him a plot of land. Their meeting is interrupted by street toughs working for a crime lord named Gorian Shard, who used to have dealings with Karga. Karga and Mando deal with the street toughs, but it’s a more tense situation than Karga would like.

“I gotta level with you, Mando. I need a Marshal,” Karga says as they walk away from that encounter.

“What about Marshal Dune?” Mando replies.

“After she brought in Moff Gideon, she was recruited by Special Forces,” Karga replied, before shifting the conversation to Gideon and then back to the job offer for Mando.

The show’s writers have left the fate of Cara Dune open-ended, indicating that she is still alive and potentially in play at any moment. However, the vastness of the Star Wars universe means that it will be very easy to just never talk about her again, while also allowing the opportunity to bring her back if the showrunners find a recasting situation that makes sense or if Carano makes strides to rehabilitate her image in the future.

Overall, the controversy surrounding Gina Carano’s firing from The Mandalorian has raised questions about the role of actors and social media in the entertainment industry, as well as the importance of responsible use of social media in general. However, the show’s writers have navigated the situation deftly, leaving the door open for the potential return of Cara Dune while also allowing the show to move forward without her.