One name continues to haunt the Star Wars universe, specifically “The Mandalorian,” and that name is Gina Carano.

Did you know a new season of “The Mandalorian” starts on Wednesday?

Unless you’ve been really looking forward to it or you stumbled on the announcement somewhere in your social media adventures, you probably didn’t even know the show was up for its third season. On a list of Disney+’s offerings, “The Mandalorian” sits up near the very top and yet the hype for it seems to have dissipated enough to where there’s not as much excitement for the show as there was previously.

There are many reasons for this. Disney’s treatment of Star Wars has been less than stellar with sub-par storytelling and political posturing plaguing most of the entries. It’s ruined legacy characters at every turn, from Luke Skywalker to Boba Fett. As a result, people have been tuning out.

But of all the things Disney screwed up, Carano takes the top spot. Her refusal to bend the knee to the woke mobs who wanted to force her to obey their politics and her constant encouragement of peace between political foes wasn’t going to fly in today’s mainstream society, dominated by leftist thought. After #FireGinaCarano trended on a Twitter still owned by leftists who were only too happy to put their thumb on the scales to make the call for her termination seem larger than it was, Disney fired Carano from “The Mandalorian,” sending her character into the shadows.

Her crime? She wanted to show people how othering one another over our backgrounds and political affiliations can lead down horrific paths by using the rise of the Nazis in Germany as a historical context. This was deemed “abhorrent” by Disney, which publicly used her firing as a virtue signal opportunity. Apparently, using the same historical context to push leftist points does not get the same treatment as was demonstrated by Carano’s co-star, Pedro Pascal.

(READ: Mandalorian Star Pedro Pascal Is Guilty of the Same Kind of Tweet as Gina Carano, So Why Isn’t He Fired?)

A couple of years have passed since this went down and yet, Carano is still on people’s minds. It’s pretty clear that her firing did damage to the show’s reputation, and while it is definitely still a highly viewed show, Disney is seeing a huge reduction in subscribers and views. While it’s not been confirmed, rumors abounded from within Disney that some of the bleeding began when they unfairly terminated Carano.

In a conversation between Deadline and director Rick Famuyiwa, the question about Cara Dune came up, namely how they planned on writing her off:

In a conversation with Deadline, EP Rick Famuyiwa told us that addressing the Cara Dune’s departure was on the minds of the writers’ room. Famuyiwa directs episode 1, 7 and 8 of Season 3 after previously helming three episodes for the Disney+ show.

“Cara was a big part and continues as a character to be part of the world. It had to be addressed in the creative and [Jon Favreau] took the time to think about that,” Famuyiwa said. “It was something that was discussed as we knew it was going to have impact on the show, but at the same time, what has been at the heart of the show are the two characters — Din Djarin and Grogu — so ultimately it felt like a servicing of that, and around the Mandalorians.”

So is Cara Done out there in the universe just bounty hunting?

Answered Filoni: “It’s a big galaxy and we have many characters in it — many characters are fighting for their screen time. We’ll just have to see as the season unfolds what the adventures are, but it’s a great character, someone who was vital to Din Djarin’s beginnings; we’ll see if he has evolved beyond that.”

I can’t help but think there’s some regret from Filoni and Famuyiwa about Carano’s departure, but if there’s one thing that defines adherence to the social justice demands of the woke mob, it’s regret. To be sure, Disney’s reputation was damaged as a result of Carano’s termination and there’s no way around that.

The question is whether or not Carano’s termination is going to continue to be a dark mark on the series going forward. The feeling of the show has changed publicly and it seems, given various statements and rumors, that it’s not going over too well on the inside either.

Carano was an important part of “The Mandalorian” to the point where she was a secondary character paling around and fighting alongside the main character. Suddenly ripping that out for real-world political reasons is going to look bad from a story writing perspective, but more importantly, it makes the galaxy far far away seem way too close to home. It’s bound to put a bad taste in the mouths of those who agree with Carano.

And there are a lot of people who agree with Carano.