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Originally Posted by GreenLantern

I literally came to post this exact same thing. Episode 5 seemed even greater after watching episode 6, because Sabine wasn't in it.

The actress is just not good.

Agreed the character is a slog right now. Not sure it's much of the actors fault, tough when your character is an idiot. Her motivation is fine, but actions make no sense. Thrawn is right to let her go find him. Like "Yeah, okay. You know the only way you get out of here is on my ship, right?" And what how does she think Ezra will react to how she got there? He sacrificed his life to exile Thrawn and she's basically just going to bring them both back, making his whole sacrifice null? And yeah, sexless Disney is taking the heat out of what could be a nice little budding love story.

I liked the initial introduction to Ezra though, the second "Didn't it?" was like straight out of his Rebels portrayal. I literally saw Ezra standing there in that moment. It was great.

Personally I've never been a huge fan of Ezra as a character. Not sure what made him special enough to be worth risking more war for the galaxy. The portrayal is good. But also, he's been exiled for a few years, you'd think he might have a different sort of character.

Thrawn was good, he was quiet though CC is right about that. I liked his line about getting all the background on Ahsoka, that's his strength. He's not a super powered being, although I think his race has some elevated strength? At least it should if he is dumbying Dark Troopers with his fists and legs.

Really liked how his ship was all patched up, the storm troopers are worn and weathered. They even worked in the church organ music for him which was great, especially at the end there.

I find Disney+ overall to be hard to hear. Granted, my hearing is pretty bad, but I have to crank Disney more than double my normal TV volume to hear anything. That said, Thrawn has always been quiet and I think his demeanour here was perfect. Still composed but I could also get a little hint of desperation from him too in a few moments. Lars Mikkelsson is great. Something that bothers me though is that in the show Thrawn has a bit of a different face than a human (other than the colouring). I wonder why they didn't give him the cheeks and forehead that Thrawn appears to have.

I found it a bit hard to believe that Ezra was so hard to find, but then so easy for Sabine.. I fully expected those creatures to live under ground and that would make a bit more sense how he could hide. But also Thrawn might have exerted a lot of resources to find him initially, then clawed back as those resources quickly dwindled. At any rate, they had to progress things quickly I get that. Can't have full episodes of Sabine wandering through the desolate planet.

This also bothered me basically as soon as she set out. I knew she was going to find him within the episode and that it would be way too easy. But I also considered that Thrawn straight up doesn't GAF where Ezra is. Why would he?

I still think Stevenson remains the best part of the show. His Knight like attributes are great and very intriguing. I also love how we were all expecting him to say "not a jedi, a sith!" haha, but then "something more" to his apprentice.

Agreed the two fallen Jedi are the thing I'm most interested in. Stevenson is awesome. Stoic and calculated. Similar to Thrawn.