Ahsoka - SPOILERS

[MarkB]

Similarly, when the green lady - Hera? - says to just trust Sabine with the super important space map that can restart the war, that's DUMB! Ahsoka is right that it's dumb. It doesn't matter how much you like or trust the person, it is just a terrible idea to let something that important vanish to who knows where with one person protecting it. Because, I dunno, maybe the bad guys are trying to get it? Oh look, they got it. Hera is instantly made to look a fool. And real people don't do that, only characters in poorly written stories. Let's say it's a nuke, and Hera is a real world general. Do you think that, for even one second, she is comfortable letting the nuke vanish with her buddy? Let alone while knowing bad guys are after it? It's absurd.

Why is letting one person look after the map any worse than letting one person and a non-combatant droid look after it?

 

[Vael]

I'm calling him an idiot for:

A) assuming it's safe to let this ship on board in the first place - what is it carrying? Is it going to blow up? Is there one of many possible super weapons onboard? They are obviously trying to get on board for a reason.

B) assuming that the two VERY Jedi looking people (lightsabers!) are not actually Jedi.

C) showing up with just six guards and letting the two Jedi walk right up to them.

Basically, what this Captain does is make a bunch of snap assumptions, all of which are obviously terrible and clearly there to just facilitate lazy writing. And he's wrong because of course he is.

How could the captain had known there were two Jedi looking people on the ship before boarding? B and C assume he's precognitive. If only the Captain had read the script.
- Captain ... I think we're in the pre-credit sequence.
- Oh naughty word, and I have just 3 days until retirement and how many here are on their first deployment?
hands raised
- Well, nothing to do now but put on our red shirts and die then.

 

[Rabulias]

But then they get accosted by Hondo's pirates ...

I love Hondo. I hope he shows up with the Rebels reunion.

 

[Stalker0]

Saw episode 2, and its a LOT better, so much that I may just have to give Episode 1 a "pilot" status, and move on. The pacing is much better, dialogue sharper and better delivered, everything is a step up from the last.

They may have also salvaged the "space map", in terms of why the heck you would save such a map in an ancient temple. I think its less that this ancient map was "here is where you will find Thrawn" and more "this is the ancient space path to get to this other galaxy (the one that Thrawn happens to be in, and so would be located at in order to get back). I can buy that, and if that's the case this makes a lot more sense.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

As I pointed out in my OP, I think any show should stand on its own merits, and I know a lot more about Star Wars than the average viewer anyway. And knowing all the Easter eggs wouldn't make the basic plot less ridiculous.

So every movie or TV show that is a sequel should have no connection to the past stuff it is a sequel for or it can't "stand on its own merits"?

 

[pukunui]

I love Hondo. I hope he shows up with the Rebels reunion.

Yes! If Cad Bane can get the live action treatment, so can loveable old Hondo Onaka!

Saw episode 2, and its a LOT better, so much that I may just have to give Episode 1 a "pilot" status, and move on. The pacing is much better, dialogue sharper and better delivered, everything is a step up from the last.

They may have also salvaged the "space map", in terms of why the heck you would save such a map in an ancient temple. I think its less that this ancient map was "here is where you will find Thrawn" and more "this is the ancient space path to get to this other galaxy (the one that Thrawn happens to be in, and so would be located at in order to get back). I can buy that, and if that's the case this makes a lot more sense.

Yeah, exactly. This was less a case of "Luke Thrawn left behind a map to his location" and more of a "here's an old map that shows us how to get to the place where we believe Thrawn to be".

 

[Clint_L]

K, episode 2 is MUCH better, thank goodness. The opening scene was still a bit cringe-inducing, as Sabine heedlessly risks everyone's lives again rather than taking a few minutes to not possibly blow everyone up while hacking the droid head. I really hope the rest of the series gets away from these boilerplate ticking clock scenes that completely strain credulity.

The rest of the episode is pretty good, though. Hera's a bit of a one note character, but I quite liked her janky droid. Rosario Dawson was great, and the plot points were all fairly logical. There were a lot of really nice looking shots - that's one thing that the Star Wars Disney+ shows have consistently done well, much more so than their Marvel peers. The lightsaber battle was fine - it never felt like Ahsoka was threatened, but I think that was the point. Sabine going Mandalorian was cool (and probably a big selling point given the popularity of that series). Cutting her hair with one stroke of a knife but then showing up in the next scene with a gorgeously styled hairdo was a bit funny; I assume she saw the result of her hack job and made a quick detour to a salon to get it fixed. The David Tennant droid is probably my favourite character. I would have given the first episode a 4. This one is a 7.5.

 

[pukunui]

Sabine going Mandalorian was cool (and probably a big selling point given the popularity of that series) ... Cutting her hair with one stroke of a knife but then showing up in the next scene with a gorgeously styled hairdo was a bit funny; I assume she saw the result of her hack job and made a quick detour to a salon to get it fixed.

She always had short hair (of varying colors) in the cartoon. As a graffiti artist, she frequently painted her armor in different styles, and her personal starbird symbol eventually morphed into the more familiar Rebel Alliance symbol. She's also the one who painted the mural with the Rebels cast on it.

Sabine also recovered the darksaber from Maul and wielded it for a bit before giving it to Bo-Katan (which turned out to be a bad thing, as we've since learned ...).

I quite liked her janky droid.

That's Chopper, voiced by Dave Filoni himself. He once said that if you liken R2 to the family dog, then Chopper would be the family cat.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

as the David tenant character robot in the rebels show?

The Clone Wars. Didn't appear in Rebels.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

We as the audience know that letting someone pretending to be a Jedi onto a starship can only end badly

Or, indeed, actual jedi. See The Phantom Menace. Or a great many episodes of Rebels.

Frankly, there was no decision the new republic captain could have made that would have prevented the pseudo-jedi freeing the prisoner, short of throwing her out the airlock - no doubt illegal. Vaporise the shuttle before it gets close? Also illegal, and a jedi would have been able to sense and evade incoming turbolaser fire. Don't let them in? Lightsabres cut through the hull. Run? A force-guided concussion missile takes out the engines.