Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord
Season 1 Finale. Thoughts?
Edit: Also I’m declaring spoilers for all Star Wars content below. Ahsoka, Rebels, Clone Wars, Mando, etc.
Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord
Season 1 Finale. Thoughts?
Edit: Also I’m declaring spoilers for all Star Wars content below. Ahsoka, Rebels, Clone Wars, Mando, etc.
Spoilers for this episode below. My client doesn’t have spoiler tags so, I’m just warning everyone now.
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I hate cliffhanger endings to seasons, especially when we have no clue if/when we are getting another season. Also, Sabine couldn’t use the force at all, and them she used it once, and now she could throw Ezra super far? That didn’t really make much sense to me. I also think Rosario Dawson could use some practice with the choreography. She seems very bit stiff.
All in all, I really liked the show. I just didn’t think the finale was one of the stronger episodes. I hope they recast Baylan, because I’m way too interested in where his character is going for them to just say, “he died offscreen”
Re: Force jump-throwing.
First we have the obvious call back to Kanan and Ezra doing to same thing, so it makes sense Ezra is involved.
Second, while I do think Sabine learned a little quickly, it’s not super uncommon in times of peril for Force users to suddenly learn to control their abilities. For example Grogu vs the mudhorn, Din was about to die and boom, Grogu jumped in.
I also think it’s interesting that Kanan had difficulty training Sabine, even if it was just lightsaber training. Then later Ahsoka ultimately struggles to train Sabine. Sabine however doesn’t struggle with Ezra. She immediately has the confidence to throw him. Sabine and Ezra have a strong bond. I expect this will be explored in future seasons.
They need to bring in the sword fight choreographer from the prequels. I’m not impressed with Dawsons lightsaber handling or really anyone besides Balans, but probably cause his was pretty simple. We are getting season 2 and a movie for thrawn. Season 2 was written before the strikes.
I wasn’t super happy about the ending. Balan got robbed of any story, weird episode lengths, and fucking cliffhanger for 2-5 years. (I don’t mind a cliffhanger if it’s gonna be a year).
Honestly just give us 10 episodes of hour each. Waited a long time for this show and feel pretty meh about it. Story overall was ok, but even the other galaxy was like eh ok here’s a planet with Father and Son missing the daughter and Moraai. I’m being cynicle cause I expected more.
And! I’ll add! Stop with this introducing a character, give us a big build up of them and then don’t do anything. This happened with Cary Fisher in the sequels bringing her back and now Ray Stevens, and others who get introduced and then nothing but tidbits. Just fucking finish a story arc of a character. No one’s story was resolved this season besides Ezra and Thrawn and even then it was hey we found him now he’s home. The entire Hera trial was a waste, Jacen hearing the force did nothing besides confirm what we all already knew, Shin having 0 backstory and then told to fuck off. Like just finish a fucking story if you know the next season or movie is 2-3 years out.
Again sorry for the rant, just passionate about Ashoka and Filoni story telling and feeling like Disney is just playing with it.
Funny, the fight choreography between Ashoka and Baylan was a highlight of the show for me.
I loved the deliberate feeling to the fight. It felt more like the classic lightsaber fights. Closer to the samurai duels of old which those original fights were inspired by.
A major complaint I’ve had against Star Wars since the 90s was how flashy and acrobatic they made saber fights. It made them lose much of their weight.
Maybe that’s why it feels odd with the two sabers. When she had one against Elsbeth it looked more natural and same with Ezra and Sabine and Shin.
Maybe the dual wielding in the style of samurai makes it a little clunky
I think I can agree with that - Ashoka’s two sabers don’t really fit well with the more traditional samurai style combat as they are a relic of the 90s/00s gymnastic style fighting Star Wars had.
I just realized in the Ashoka/Baylan fight I was thinking of she only used one saber.