That was awesome. Ahsoka was scary, I loved the beginning with how she would just vanish by turning off her Lightsabres. She was truly a force.
And this episode had a great blend at the end with the Samuri/Western hybrid scenes. Two fun duels. And given how powerful Ahsoka is it was nice to see she never used the force on that woman because she needed her alive, briefly.
Its funny, because this was a far more vicious Ashoka when it came to her fighting, She's now at the point where even though the Empire has fallen, she completely blames herself for Anakin and there's much fear in her as well.
In a sense her and poor Ben were two of a kind, Ben was haunted by the fact that he was the key influence in Anakin's life and failed.
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But consider some of what she has done before, like nearly and casually flicking a slaver off a roof or when she threw the Transhodan chief to his death. She chose to duel and not just murder her like she did those goons in the opening sequence, those people were lambs to the slaughter.
Anikin did spend time teaching her restraint. And she seemed as you said changed, but calmer and more calculated.
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Little things that I loved. The one salute to the Rebels fight when she took on Vader and said "I'm no Jedi" and did that cool cross ignite (1:42) of the clip below. She did the same ignite in the alley.
I admit it I nerded out
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Forgot to mention, it was fun seeing Michael Biehn on screen again. The guy has always been great in his various action and sci-fi roles over the years. He's been fairly busy according to his IMDB page, but it looks like most of them are low budget straight to VOD titles and voice work in video games.
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They're a natural part of her body, similar to the head tails on the dancing girl in Jabba's palace in ROTJ. I believe the upper part is supposed to be more bony, like horns, and the lower parts are fleshy.
The costuming there wasn't great, imo. That didn't look like a natural part of her body, it looked like a hat held on by a band.
I loved everything else about the episode. I'm interested to see what happens with the Beskar staff. The armorer was in the recap this time, would be awesome to see her again, and maybe make some new toys for Mando.
Sort of feels like we're due for a random side quest/monster of the week type episode. Although with only 3 episodes left in the season (boo!) maybe not.
I would expect there won't be anymore fillers with three episodes left. Having to reach Tython and getting Gargu to decide his fate. We still have to deal with the Empire and his killer robots.
I expect that the season will end with a cliff hanger with the child in the hands of the Moff and a major character dead.
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Okay. I dont watch the cartoon show so I clearly have no idea who these people are.
But Star Wars....I am warning you...if you go back to the 'if you knew this/watched that you'd know whats going on' Well....I am going to be seriously pissed.
You really need to get off this soapbox. It's a Star Wars show. They're going to incorporate stuff from other Star Wars shows. You're not even being consistent in complaining about it, it's not like you're complaining about not understanding how the laser swords work, or what X-Wings are, or why the Stormtroopers are wearing armor that doesn't seem to actually serve any defensive purpose... because you've seen the movies.
I couldn't get into Rebels - too "kiddy" for me to stomach - so there's going to be a bunch of stuff I don't get. But it doesn't matter, because the show does work just fine on its own without prior knowledge. Its quality just scales up if it's also giving you fanboy nostalgia excitement. Everyone can enjoy it, the fanboys like CC will just enjoy it more.
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And what if Filoni decides to end Ashoka's character, I mean she's clearly dead as we hear her voice at the end of ROS talking to Ray with the other dead jedi.
This is fine, she's a Togruta, they don't live any longer than humans do. She should already be over 50 in this.
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Is there a reason this Asoka character wears an airline pillow as a hat?
I can only imagine what you must have thought of Shaak-Ti's headgear in the prequels... same species.
... Anyway, I've enjoyed this series a lot, especially this season. Olyphant was perfectly cast in Ep 1, which might be my favourite of the whole thing. And this week, instead of a western they switch it up and do a full-on samurai movie. Beautifully done in terms of the setting, and just... cool as ####.
The show really is a lot like Clone Wars. Two central characters involved in a series of discrete episodes with their own internal story arc, occasionally a multi-episode arc, joined by an assortment of recurring characters depending on the week.
I wonder if they'll find a way to use Mark Hamill at some point. Probably not in person without a lot of de-aging work, but through a transmission hologram, or something? Obviously no need for him to play a central role in anything because enough with the Skywalkers already but it seems like it would make sense for him to take an interest in a next-generation Yoda.
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Forgot to mention, it was fun seeing Michael Biehn on screen again. The guy has always been great in his various action and sci-fi roles over the years. He's been fairly busy according to his IMDB page, but it looks like most of them are low budget straight to VOD titles and voice work in video games.
Hot damn I thought he looked familiar! WHY JOHNNY RINGO, you look like somebody just walked over your grave!
This means Mando is at least as fast as Doc Holiday, if not faster!
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Someone needs to dub over the end of that showdown with "You're no daisy... you're no daisy at all."
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I wonder if they'll find a way to use Mark Hamill at some point. Probably not in person without a lot of de-aging work, but through a transmission hologram, or something? Obviously no need for him to play a central role in anything because enough with the Skywalkers already but it seems like it would make sense for him to take an interest in a next-generation Yoda.
I'm also of the opinion that they should definitely leave the Skywalkers out of this. But if they were to throw in a Luke cameo somewhere down the line, would a different actor playing a younger version of Luke be out of the question? Or would that just turn the fans off and create more nerd rage?
I've seen talk on the interwebs about Sebastian Stan being a shoe-in to play a younger Luke if they ever went that route. The resemblance is uncanny.
I was thinking, maybe they introduced that beskar spear and showed the audience it can stand up to light sabers as foreshadowing for the inevitable Mando/Gideon dark saber battle.
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If you shoot Gideon, is he gonna saber block it? Unless he got injected with Grogu blood and trained with zombie Palpatine, Mando would just give him the Indiana Jones special.
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So some thoughts, I didn't know whether or not to spoil it but whatever.
Ok, overall a pretty solid episode. They really played up the gunfighter side of things with the quick draw thing on the street which I liked.
I'm not sure on the time line, but with Sabine not there, it throws the end scene of Rebels into play, and that this might have been return her picking up Sabine, but she now had a link to Thrawn. So this feels almost like a precurser to the Sabine and Ashoka search for Ezra quest.
Ok, Grogu, the Star Wars random name generator strikes again. Ashoka indicating that she had only seen one other like Grogu in Yoda? I guess poor Waddle gets forgotten.
Ashoka refusing to train Grogu because she saw what fear can to to a powerful Jedi Knight. I did predict that she wouldn't do it, those scars run deep.
HK droids, I wanted an HK-47.
Heading to Tython, bringing more Legends EU back and a key world in SWTOR, Filoni you bastard, sneaking in the EU Legends stuff.
Ok the gorilla in the room. It took me a long time in the episode to get me comfortable with RD as Ashoka. I'm, so used to the animated Ashley Eckstein portrayal and voice, that it was jarring how different this Ashoka was. I liked that they had a more mature Ashoka that seemed beaten down a bit and was far more serious. I think more work on the makeup, I just kept thinking Cosplay. I think the worst thing and its on me, I expected the impossible because of the animated Ashoka and how high speed and fluid she was, and the duel light sabre work looked in Rebels and Clone Wars. Through no fault of her own or the concept of live versus Animated, they couldn't hope to replicate it, but it was just way slower and at some times looked really clumsy with Dawson. I'm not saying I hate her, or yelling bring back Ashley, but I think I went in with too heightened of an expectation.
Overall I liked it, but Grogu, just call him kid, or the child.
Oh some other things. Go to Tython and sit on the rock and another Jedi will come, but there aren't many Jedi. So right now, there would probably be two Jedi, Luke and Leia, and whoever survived order 66. There aren't many in new Canon left. I heard a theory that I hate and hope it doesn't come true
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Mace survived the fall
#### off with the nitpicking.
This is why we can't have nice things. If you couldn't enjoy that episode and the many gifts it beared to us then what can you possibly enjoy in life.. actually.
30+ years. The character is going to change a little. Look how much Leia changed from the OT to ST.
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This is why we can't have nice things. If you couldn't enjoy that episode and the many gifts it beared to us then what can you possibly enjoy in life, actually.
30+ years. The character is going to change a little. Look how much Leia changed from the OT to ST.
Where in anywhere did I say that I didn't enjoy or love the episode, you're taking a lot of license in your post.
The Star Wars random name generator, Filoni sneaking in EU stuff etc all, the HK line all tongue in cheekcoments.
I wanted to address the Ashoka think, I did say that the makeup and the costuming looked cosplayish, and you can't help but compare the characters from the series.
But you need to relax man. Put your blast on chill or something.
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The makeup didn't bother me at all, honestly. And I liked her clothing. I didn't actually know it was Rosario Dawson for like half the episode before I recognized her.
The only thing I'd change would be the brown headband, but that's pretty nitpicky, and apparently nitpicking gets us yelled at so I'll keep that to myself.
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