I’m really enjoying this, and I thought that this episode was great. I’ve only seen a couple of episodes of Rebels, but I know roughly how it ended. I’ve read the Heir to the Empire trilogy many times over the years, though, so I know ol’ blue-face.
I liked the effects in this one. The shot of the Star Destroyer coming in over the column of rock was great.
I feel like the name “Enoch” is significant somehow. I’m not clear what he was meant to be.
Ray Stevenson has (had ) such presence. He oozes Shakespearean class.
After watching the latest episode, I have to amend my previous take. Baylan & Shin are in fact the best part of the show, so an episode that focuses on them raises the whole series. But I still think the Ahsoka & Hera stuff is stupid & dull. I still have no idea what happened with younk Ahsoka & dead Anakin, nor can I bring myself to care.
And I’m assuming Sabine will have to come clean that she had to undo everything Ezra sacrificed himself for in order to find him, and it will not go well.
Baylan is definitely the best part of the last few episodes. It was good to see Sabine back in action though, that is more what she was like in Rebels.
I really like the series overall, I feel like Ahsoka hasn’t had enough action but I expect she will come in during the last few episodes and save the day like Han Solo.
I have a question for those that haven’t liked any of the Disney+ Star Wars shows so far. Why are you still watching stuff you don’t like? Are you hoping they’ll start making shows more to your liking? Not trying to start an argument, I just don’t understand spending time watching stuff if you don’t enjoy it in the age of endless content and so many streaming services. It’s not for lack of choice.
I relate it to my experiences with The Walking Dead universe. I really enjoyed the show for the first several seasons, it was appointment TV for me for a while. But then, I realized I wasn’t enjoying it as much. I noticed my DVR unwatched episode list was growing and eventually I just stopped watching. I haven’t watched any of the spinoffs either, aside from the first handful of episodes of the first one. I just moved on to other things. I mean we all make our own choices and watch what we want, I’m not telling anyone what to do, I’m just curious why even watch Ahsoka if you haven’t liked The Mandalorian, BOBF, Andor, or Obi Wan so far?
I guess there’s such a thing as hate watching, and I suppose it makes sense for old school Star Wars fans who are just disappointed with the newer material to keep watching. So I kinda just answered my own question…
I thought the beginning of Asoka was weak but it got better so I am sticking with it. The only other one that I may have bailed on was Boba Fett but it became basically Mandalorian Season 2.5 so I watched it all the way through.
I didn’t like Andor but I watched it all and will watch S2 just in case there’s a lore drop. Same with Bad Batch. I don’t hate them enough to give up, but don’t enjoy my time spent so I half watch them while doing other things.
I am liking, but not loving, this series. I see what it’s trying to do but it’s falling short of success.
And I can’t imagine watching it without having watched the animated shows. What a chore and bore these people must be.
This week… I’m just frustrated by the writing. Thrawn can’t find Ezra for 10, 15 years and Sabine finds him in 15 minutes with help from scaly Ewoks? Yub nub. Why does Thrawn care if Ezra and Sabine are alive? He can take his ship and go back to the original galaxy and leave them to die. And even if he ignores Ahsoka’s impending arrival, should she pick up the rest of the Specters and successfully head back… so what? How are they going to stop him? It seems bad strategy on his part and he seemed smarter than that before.
Ha - that was exactly my issue with it. I’m a casual viewer who has t seen any of the animated stuff. I don’t mind jumping into their stories mid-stream - but I do mind careless writing. This was particularly bad, unless next week we see our turtle nomad friends take Ezra and Sabine into some cavernous underground metropolis completely hidden from the rest of the planet. But I doubt it.
Huh. My impression, from the conversation with the Great Mothers, is that he doesn’t actually particularly care if Ezra is found or not. Found, left behind, live, dead, no big diff. And Baylan plus one same thing. Baylan thought not around to get in the way going forward going back though? That’s the advantage of it. Just none of them to worry about after they leave. Easier to have Baylan busy on this mission than to try to dispose of him as having already served his purpose.
Same. For all my issues with the show that was fine…Thrawn hasn’t given a shit becaaise why should he?–they’re all stuck… and now that there’s a way out, he probably barely cares now, but might as well tie-up some loose ends.
Convoluted sentence. Sorry. He seems to want to have Baylan either dead or left behind too. Not coming back to their universe through hyperspace with them.
I think he sees Baylan as just a mercenary/ not a believer in the goal of reviving the Empire (he’s not wrong) and forsees conflict when their goals no longer align.
However, given how Baylan seems to have gone on this Ezra-collecting mission without quibble, I have a sneaking suspicion that he’s actually here primarily for Ezra and not Thrawn, all along. Going along with the Night Sister was just a means to an end. But that’s just a guess.
) such presence. He oozes Shakespearean class.