Ahsoka - SPOILERS

[Kaodi]

Oh, naughty word, it is The Mother.

And with both Baylan and Shin surviving the season I wonder what there will be in store for them, though I am not sure who can take over from Ray.

 

[Zardnaar]

Well well what an episode.

 

[Rabulias]

Obviously, they can watch for purgill and try to hitch a ride back like Ahsoka and Huyang did to get to Peridea.

But with all the plot threads, I am wondering if Ahsoka season 2 will remain on Peridea and focus on Ahsoka and Sabine protecting the Noti, dealing with Shin and the bandits, as well as facing Baylan and whatever he is after. Ahsoka seems content to stay there, saying she and Sabine are where they are supposed to be.

The Filoni movie then could have a tighter focus on Ezra and the Mandalorians vs Thrawn.

Edited to add: Zombie stormtroopers! No surprise there, but cool to see. I was thinking though: Lightsaber off a leg or two, and it doesn't really matter if they reanimate...

 

[RangerWickett]

The show was decent, and if I had editing skills I'd chop out about 10% of each episode's unnecessary . . . slow . . . pauses . . . for . . . drama.

Just do stuff, and if you need drama, get John Williams Kevin Kiner to have the music do the heavy lifting. Like, we don't need a 60 second scene of some witches casting 'flame blade.'

Ezra and Thrawn are great on screen. No notes.

I still don't think they did a good job with storytelling about Ahsoka having and overcoming trauma. She just started off muted, then had a near death experience and got better I guess. It wasn't compelling.

Seriously, they all would have escaped if, when Ezra and Sabine walked behind Morgan, Sabine had just shot Morgan in the back. Yay, that's why you fight 3-on-1 when you're on a time crunch and don't have, like, a need to prove your honor or whatever.

Oh, and like Ahsoka overcoming trauma just because the plot decided she would, Sabine getting Force powers just because she was near death feels unearned. How many times has she been near death this show? Now if she'd done it to save Ezra, that feels like a more-earned character moment.

I'll give it a B-. As Star Wars shows go, it works, and has some genuine high points. It just needed better editing, and more motivated emotional arcs.

 

[Vael]

Overall, this felt a little empty and underbaked. Like ... had to wait until the last episode to finally clear up why Ahsoka stopped training Sabine? So little about how Ezra or Thrawn spent their exile?

I just feel like this show is missing some better character beats and managed to be both over and under seasoned, lol. Like showing Baylan on top of a Mortis statue is just not enough of a payoff for his whole involvement. Clearly it's all set up for S2, but the loss of Stevenson is going to be a bummer assuming they recast.

While I overall found the spectacle enjoyable ... I found the whole to be unsatisfying.

 

[Kaodi]

I am definitely thinking that there are other Nightsisters in the sarcophagi. They referred to Thrawn "waking up" the Night Mothers. Presumably they were chilling out in sarcophagi of their own. Not sure how I feel about Morgan Elsbeth's exit, though between zombies and Force ghosts maybe she will find a way to not stay dead-dead. Because the Night Mothers seem a bit void of personality compared to her.

 

[Zaukrie]

Awful. Not one injury to the good guys. The troopers just watch the two fight and don't shoot? No one ever just shoots their enemy from space? I get plot armor, but don't make it this obvious. And no payoff on the Baylon story at all. This series could have been really good, but it wasn't. Not for me.

Even thrawn didn't use good strategy and tactics. Sigh.

 

[Zardnaar]

Overall loved it. 6/8 episodes were good to great and the other 2 (3&7) were still good.

Thumbs

 

[pukunui]

I mentioned it upthread already but Ahsoka’s 8 episodes have approximately the same amount of screen time (6 hours) as the first and last seasons of Rebels, and yet it feels like hardly anything happened in Ahsoka compared to a single season of Rebels.

The pacing is probably the worst thing about this show. That and the fact that it never answered the question of Ahsoka’s connection to the Daughter.

 

[Zardnaar]

I mentioned it upthread already but Ahsoka’s 8 episodes have approximately the same amount of screen time (6 hours) as the first and last seasons of Rebels, and yet it feels like hardly anything happened in Ahsoka compared to a single season of Rebels.

The pacing is probably the worst thing about this show. That and the fact that it never answered the question of Ahsoka’s connection to the Daughter. And as far as I can tell, we didn’t get a single glimpse of Morai!

Any connection to the Mortis gods was pure fan speculation tbf. Hence why I never bought into Abeloth (the mother) idea to much.
Nor did they drop any hints that's where they're going with it and pull a swerve.

Something is calling to Baylan what it is.....