Part Seven: Dreams and Madness

Thrawn, he was supposed to lead this episode, instead we see some turtles and the shaolin monk. You will probably realize the similarity with the ninja turtles. For the most part, the series is quite good, but there are also episodes like this one where things happen just to connect with the important ones. I'm sorry, but Ahsoka in this series does not compare to the one in the computer generated animation cartoons. But I don't know, in the absence of something else good, we keep watching. From what I have read on the Internet, it seems that the success of the series is not as great as the producers expected.

I only knew today that Ray Stevenson passed away. I have to say what a body frame, he was perfect for the towering role. I expected the legend that brought him to the planet would've been further unravelled, and instead I saw a weak protrayal of him. That's what made me do a search. At least, I hope it gets unravelled through other jedi's in the show. The direction or the final cut of the episode wasn't engaging, I felt like going through the motions, and just as an attempt to end it as soon as possible with some lighthearted interactions and seriousness that almost felt like mocking. I hope the first season covers all the necessary elements needed to satisfy it's regular viewers, and won't let them feel disappointed with an open-ended, broken off, unsaid wrap-up.

Great to see the story moving ahead. Would be interesting to see what path Baylon follows, and where it leads him. The jedi reunion creates nostalgia, and a much needed break reboot of the order, that does justice.

Looking to see how this storyline merge with Mando and Boba Fett. Would be amazing to see Grogu, Luke, Leia, Ahsoka, Ezra and Sabine come together to weild the force. As the plot thickens towards a mega franchise, I hope Dave and Jon recreate the episode's 7 to 9 star wars movie, and do justice to the franchise. Rather hope they create a mega series or movie franchise out of that.

The Force is back into pure Star Wars fun!!

This was yet another thrilling episode that I enjoyed from beginning to end! It had some great action with some familiar faces here and there!

First i want to praise the lightsaber duels! They are fast, well choeographed and they feel organic! Much better than most of the lightsaber batteri we have gotten recently! Great rematch between Ahsoka and Baylan! Ezra desciding to fight with no weapons was fun and creative as well!

Lars Mikkelsen once again proves that he is the man to play Thrawn! He is intimidating, calculative and scary whenever he appears! Since I have seen him in a lot of his other roles, including his danish ones, i can say that this might be one of his best roles!

We really see how everything went the way Thrawn wanted in this episode! He wanted to keep our characters occupied elsewhere so they could prepare for their take-off in peace!

As someone who has been a constant fan of Dave Filoni's work on the animation side of "Star Wars," it warmed my heart to know that he would be given the opportunity to make a live-action show with a character that he helped make into the fan favorite that she is today. And for the most part, he has done a magnificent job. There have been a lot of highlights in this show that are worthy of the "Star Wars" name and all its greatness. However, other things have been frustrating, like this episode which did fall short in terms of some real story progression.

For what it's worth, there are a lot of stunning visual aspects in this episode. Peridea looks amazing and it's one of the few locations throughout this show that hasn't felt like it was all volume. The quality in terms of the visual direction has been upped a lot and the aesthetic seems to have found its stride, especially during the action sequences which were very entertaining this episode. There were also a lot of great character moments, with Eman Esfandi finally showing us why he was the perfect casting for Ezra, both in terms of just capturing the essence of the character, but also through the physicality he brings to the role. However, for the most part, this episode didn't really give us anything in terms of progressing the story, and it's starting to give me a bad feeling about where the finale is headed. There's a lot that needs to be processed and we need to see something formidable in order for this show to have actually been worth it, which are big expectations to put on a finale, but it just goes to show how disappointing this actually was. Again, most of what happened was cool, but it was cool from a visual perspective. Another great lightsaber duel, but not a lot of character development this time around like there was last time. I'm honestly a little worried, but I'm keeping my head high and imagining that Filoni will be able to bring us over the finish line with a good result.

"Part Seven: Dreams and Madness" was a visually stunning episode, but an episode that left a lot to be desired in terms of where everything's going. Not a lot of actual progression happened, and except for a very nice reunion, all characters seem to be right exactly where they were when the last episode ended.