THE PHANTOM MENACE Was More Exciting And Made More Political And Military Sense Than This. Why is General Hera Not Sending A Small Reconnaissance Instead of Needing a Fleet?
HERE WE GO AGAIN...Hera Is A Useless General Who Is Unable To Send A Few X-Wings or Probes To Investigate, Instead She Wants a Fleet While Acting Like A War Monger. Enemy Fighters Aim For The Tiny Astronaut And Not The Crippled Ship. Sabine Is Defeated By A Cup. And There Be Star Whales Here! In Short, Little Happens. Ahsoka Continues its STALE Run of Weak Writing.
General Hera embarrasses herself before a panel of senators by not acting like a military leader. Her non-logical emotional arguments of personal war mongering are based on little information, and the most compelling evidence she has she doesn't present. A group of Sith fighters stealing a hyperdrive engine and killing the crew of a New Republic cruiser, an assassination attempt on Sabine. Hera skips on what is the most compelling evidence, to instead present what is not enough to support her request for a whole fleet, or her claim of Thrawn being alive and wanting to start another war.
"Anakin, don't let your personal feelings get in the way!" -Kenobi in Attack of The Clones
Hera shows a deep conflicted personal vendetta for Thrawn and is willing to blindly send a fleet without knowing more information, when she should be sending a reconnaissance team. A some group of X-Wings and probe droids to search the area, and assist her friends who are already on they way there. Surely she can send these with her military rank? She does have the power and authority to send a small team without senate approval, but doesn't. Filoni decided to make the entire senate look foolish as hell for absolutely no reason, by accusing Hera of simply wanting to look for Erza. However, this puts Hera in a prime spot to present all her supporting intel from the previous episode, and she doesn't. Instead she allows her personal feelings to interfere with her military leadership. She is not a competent general. Senator Xiono states, as senators their duty is to serve the people, and Hera's request would be a waste of valuable resources which are being used to aid the people of a fragile and still re-building Republic. Senator Xiono is RIGHT. There is no logic in Hera's requests. Again, she should be asking for a reconnaissance team, not a fleet. Also, Hera is not presenting them all the intel information she gathered in the previous episode. She's actually withholding evidence.
Ahsoka and Sabine go investigating alone, but not without a unsettling callback to Luke's training in A New Hope. Again, Filoni thinks his SW audience may not catch the reference. The two characters continue their stiff lifeless acting, with Ahsoka having the same tone of voice the entire episode.
Action ensues when they exit hyperspace early, siting this as a Jedi tactic when it's really a basic investigation tactic.
Within seconds of exiting hyperspace, a distance away from the target, Shin and the weakest enemy fighters quickly jump ascend on. Almost like they read the script and were anticipating them showing up right there and then. Makes sense in the Battle of Endor, not in this episode. No joke, the laser blasts from the enemy fighters are the weakest ever seen in Star Wars. Ahsoka tells Sabine to "man the gunner" and her order comes with no sense of urgency, tension, or danger, but comes off as bored. Sabine, who the episodes have remarked on what a great Mandalorian shot she is struggles tremendously in hitting a single fighter in a 3D space environment. Eventually, she shoots down a fighter and joyfully shouts, "I got one!" just like Luke in A New Hope. However, as seen in Rebels, Sabine has clearly shot down several fighters before. Luke in A New Hope shouts this when it comes was actually his first ever starfighter kill.
The witch, Morgan Elsbeth, has her turbolasers to open fire on Ahsoka's ship. After dozens of deflected shots they hit the ship, and somehow dealt the smallest amount of damage ever seen from a turbolaser. Then, the canons stop firing once the ship is hit. WHAT? They think the ship was destroyed when this Millennium Falcon size ship is visibly disabled and floating in space.
Shin Hati says her fighters will finish the job. Why not just have the canons continue to fire, since Shin is further away? This gave Ahsoka enough time instantaneously suit up and exit the ship into outer space to fight off enemy starships using her lightsabers...THIS EPISODE HAS HIT ROCK BOTTOM. A lightsaber can take off an entire wing of an enemy fighter, but when people like Sabine and Reva (Kenobi show) survive getting stabbed in the gut. Shin and her fighters, instead of targeting and destroying the already crippled giant spaceship, aim for tiny Ahsoka. In a scene which gets dumber by the second, and the Star Whales have not shown up yet. Sabine fixes the ship in the most convenient timing. They're pursued down to the planet where, "ADMIRAL, THERE BE WHALES HERE." Dave Filoni's Star Whales randomly show up and it's simply for showcasing. However, Ahsoka does use these rare and majestic creatures as shields from the laser blasts. A move which feels cruel coming from the protagonist. Positive, Ahsoka actually smiles. There has been so little expression from any of these characters, when the main character first smiles you cannot help but notice.
The episode ends with poor Ray Stevenson looking bored, un-used, and asking himself, "THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE STAR WARS?"
Was there anything good?
-Ahsoka telling Sabine, she intends to not train her to be a Jedi, but to be herself. This is actually in-character for Ahsoka. Glad to see Filoni get at least one thing right.
-SOME of the action was entertaining. WWII callbacks are a welcome, when they make sense unlike in TLJ.
-The sound effects for the enemy fighters were good.
And.... That's it.
General Hera embarrasses herself before a panel of senators by not acting like a military leader. Her non-logical emotional arguments of personal war mongering are based on little information, and the most compelling evidence she has she doesn't present. A group of Sith fighters stealing a hyperdrive engine and killing the crew of a New Republic cruiser, an assassination attempt on Sabine. Hera skips on what is the most compelling evidence, to instead present what is not enough to support her request for a whole fleet, or her claim of Thrawn being alive and wanting to start another war.
"Anakin, don't let your personal feelings get in the way!" -Kenobi in Attack of The Clones
Hera shows a deep conflicted personal vendetta for Thrawn and is willing to blindly send a fleet without knowing more information, when she should be sending a reconnaissance team. A some group of X-Wings and probe droids to search the area, and assist her friends who are already on they way there. Surely she can send these with her military rank? She does have the power and authority to send a small team without senate approval, but doesn't. Filoni decided to make the entire senate look foolish as hell for absolutely no reason, by accusing Hera of simply wanting to look for Erza. However, this puts Hera in a prime spot to present all her supporting intel from the previous episode, and she doesn't. Instead she allows her personal feelings to interfere with her military leadership. She is not a competent general. Senator Xiono states, as senators their duty is to serve the people, and Hera's request would be a waste of valuable resources which are being used to aid the people of a fragile and still re-building Republic. Senator Xiono is RIGHT. There is no logic in Hera's requests. Again, she should be asking for a reconnaissance team, not a fleet. Also, Hera is not presenting them all the intel information she gathered in the previous episode. She's actually withholding evidence.
Ahsoka and Sabine go investigating alone, but not without a unsettling callback to Luke's training in A New Hope. Again, Filoni thinks his SW audience may not catch the reference. The two characters continue their stiff lifeless acting, with Ahsoka having the same tone of voice the entire episode.
Action ensues when they exit hyperspace early, siting this as a Jedi tactic when it's really a basic investigation tactic.
Within seconds of exiting hyperspace, a distance away from the target, Shin and the weakest enemy fighters quickly jump ascend on. Almost like they read the script and were anticipating them showing up right there and then. Makes sense in the Battle of Endor, not in this episode. No joke, the laser blasts from the enemy fighters are the weakest ever seen in Star Wars. Ahsoka tells Sabine to "man the gunner" and her order comes with no sense of urgency, tension, or danger, but comes off as bored. Sabine, who the episodes have remarked on what a great Mandalorian shot she is struggles tremendously in hitting a single fighter in a 3D space environment. Eventually, she shoots down a fighter and joyfully shouts, "I got one!" just like Luke in A New Hope. However, as seen in Rebels, Sabine has clearly shot down several fighters before. Luke in A New Hope shouts this when it comes was actually his first ever starfighter kill.
The witch, Morgan Elsbeth, has her turbolasers to open fire on Ahsoka's ship. After dozens of deflected shots they hit the ship, and somehow dealt the smallest amount of damage ever seen from a turbolaser. Then, the canons stop firing once the ship is hit. WHAT? They think the ship was destroyed when this Millennium Falcon size ship is visibly disabled and floating in space.
Shin Hati says her fighters will finish the job. Why not just have the canons continue to fire, since Shin is further away? This gave Ahsoka enough time instantaneously suit up and exit the ship into outer space to fight off enemy starships using her lightsabers...THIS EPISODE HAS HIT ROCK BOTTOM. A lightsaber can take off an entire wing of an enemy fighter, but when people like Sabine and Reva (Kenobi show) survive getting stabbed in the gut. Shin and her fighters, instead of targeting and destroying the already crippled giant spaceship, aim for tiny Ahsoka. In a scene which gets dumber by the second, and the Star Whales have not shown up yet. Sabine fixes the ship in the most convenient timing. They're pursued down to the planet where, "ADMIRAL, THERE BE WHALES HERE." Dave Filoni's Star Whales randomly show up and it's simply for showcasing. However, Ahsoka does use these rare and majestic creatures as shields from the laser blasts. A move which feels cruel coming from the protagonist. Positive, Ahsoka actually smiles. There has been so little expression from any of these characters, when the main character first smiles you cannot help but notice.
The episode ends with poor Ray Stevenson looking bored, un-used, and asking himself, "THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE STAR WARS?"
Was there anything good?
-Ahsoka telling Sabine, she intends to not train her to be a Jedi, but to be herself. This is actually in-character for Ahsoka. Glad to see Filoni get at least one thing right.
-SOME of the action was entertaining. WWII callbacks are a welcome, when they make sense unlike in TLJ.
-The sound effects for the enemy fighters were good.
And.... That's it.
- tjstarr-99199
- Aug 29, 2023