Between Sabines training montage with a "blast shield down" helmet, and firing off anticipatory shots from a swivel gun, this episode was a love letter to A New Hope and I am totally here for it. Filoni manage to make the movies better every single time he touches the material.

The training scene in particular was a choreographical masterpiece when you consider the last time we saw something similar in live action - a young Luke able to instinctually repel training droid blaster shots as a mere novice. The scene with Sabine helps to show just how unlikely and exceptional that is. I also love the implication that Mandalorians in general have trouble surrendering to the will of the Force, as a warrior people it makes perfect sense that they would generally rail against anything else controlling or manipulating them.

Even little things like powering the ship and droid down to avoid detectoon, much like 3PO and the Falcon in Episode 5, just help to reinforce this idea that people do shit for reasons in this universe and I LOVE it. They even found time to give Ahsoka a stupid Anakin badass moment cutting a freaking starship in half with a lightsaber. I have had a giddy grin on my face for every episode of Ahsoka and hope they keep on with it.

Shin has crazy eyes and I love it.

This episode has Rebels vibes, where they are constantly in space dog fights. Unfortunately not a whole lot of story, but I suppose not every episode needs to be a lore drop.

Somehow I didn't know that Mon Mothma becomes the Chancellor of the New Republic.

Hera is already over the New Republic's incompetent.

I didn't like it Ahsoka deflecting fire from a spaceship, don't feel like she, or any Jedi, could do it, space battle was the low point for me

This episode isn’t going to help the paving concerns. Felt like the episode crawled along and tbh felt like there was way too much time spent on training Sabine. After 3-4 minutes it started to drag on and I found myself really not interested.

I’m still not sold on Rosario Dawson as Ashoka. There’s nothing particularly wrong with it, just that her voice doesn’t match up and it’s jarring every time I hear it.

Very much my least favorite of the 3 so far. Hopefully it gets better, but I’m getting a suspicion this show will entirely bomb with the general public. If you didn’t watch rebels you’ll be beyond lost.

Has there been any explanation why in rebels nobody mentioned Sabine being force sensitive and suddenly, Ahsoka had her as an apprentice and has her as an apprentice again?

I remember Kanan and Ezra teaching her to wield the dark saber, for example, but no mention of force sensitivity.

It would also seem strange to pick up Ezra as an apprentice having been with Sabine for as long as kanan had.

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