Part Six: Far, Far Away

One of the better episodes if you know the story arc of Rebels.

The pace it too slow again.

Everybody is acting in slow motion.

Fight scenes of Sabine are not good. Her saber swings, her kicks, the editing of the fights, all are just meh.

Ahsoka is faltering, too serious, too emotionless just like in other episodes. She does not feel like Ahsoka Tano. I was expecting her to act a bit differently after last week's episode, as she got rid of the the burden of her guilt she carried for long years. However, she is still stiff.

I never liked the actor choice for Thrawn and after this episode I am convinced that the Thrawn in Rebels was more intense and scarier.

Nightsisters were spot on.

It is the 6th episode and finally somethings are gonna start to happen. Better late than never.

For an extended universe fan this is what Star Wars should have been for the Sequel trilogy! Thrawn should have been the evil returning during the time of the New Republic and that is truly whats happening

To be painted blue and still be able to portray such a menacing performance Lars Mikkelsen knows this character inside out. Going back and reading the original Thrawn trilogy from Thimothy Zahn back in the 1990s he is how i believe that he during those stories. Live action quietness and calculating every possible outcome to beat his opponent without knowing what hes true intentions are.

The rest of the story so far is literally the prologue that is going to lead to Filonis movie. He is living the dream of playing out all Star Wars Extended Universe stories in real live. This is going to blow everything that was done in the Sequel out of the water and into the Galaxy that Thrawn was stuck in

2 more episodes to go and i know that we are going to want more. Getting that movie released is going to be the greatest piece of Star Wars for a very long time.

The main problem with this episode is that Sabine just isn't fun. She hasn't had any major growth arc. She gets ambushed in this episode and even though she's not wearing a mandalorian helmet and takes a bunch of direct shots she basically just shrugs it off. Nothing involving her feels like it has any stakes, despite every character insisting that all of her decisions have terribly weighty stakes. It's very ham-fisted and distracting the way every character tries to make her feel bad about her choice in an earlier episode, even though nagging her about it makes 0 sense for their characters.

Ray Stevenson does alright with his lines, and Lars is fine too. But the real star of this episode is rat-horse, which is almost immediately charming despite it having no plausible reason to act as nicely to Sabine as it does.

The problem this series runs into is I don't care about Ahsoka and I don't care about Sabine. It's not like this episode on its own is jarringly bad, but it was this episode where I finally decided this series really just is too dull to even enjoy for the spectacle.

Sabine arrives at her destination as Ahsoka follows.

I am relieved that the plot has moved from where it was lingering for the first five episodes and the introduction of certain characters is a positive.

I still find it difficult to keep interested in the story as there is a lot of exposition dialogue that I feel ambivalent about. For me we need to see something happen that does not involve reflection on the past or build up to characters we are yet to see. I appreciate I might feel different had I watched Rebels.

I think the best scenes involve the character Baylan Skoll, as you feel like it's laying the foundations of what is to come and just about keeps me wanting to find out what happens next.

Natasha Liu Bordizzo carries it well for the majority of the time and Lars Mikkelson adds a much needed presence.

Visually it continues to be beautifully designed. I love the battered Star Destroyer and the look of certain characters. As good as a certain location looks, I think it needed something significantly different to convey that we are in a different galaxy. What that would be though I have no suggestions. The art designers involved in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise are very creative, so maybe Disney should have consulted them.

Star Wars has always been more fantasy than Science fiction. Something that is almost forgotten after the sequels were made and up until now with Ahsoka.

Ahsoka series feels like a direct continuation from the prequel and original movies. (Though, It could be an advantage to have seen at least Rebels to get the finer nuisances of the story telling. Maybe Also Clone wars series).

Though I liked Andor, Rogue one and even Obi-wan Kenobi series, they did not have the fantasy aesthetics as the originals Somehow more sterile and more towards science fiction(with primarily humans) than fantasy. They were missing mystery, occult-like scenarios, magic ...and they had a serious lack fantasy steeds, creatures and beings.

They barely touched the realm of Knights, Princesses, Evil rulers, Slaves and people/creatures with strange powers and sinister fortresses.

All this was remedied by the arrival of Ahsoka.

If you liked the original movies and the prequels, then it is a must to see Ahsoka.