Ahsoka (through e06)
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extrapenguinWatching this after Kenobi was so soothing. I can see things! The camera is not having a panic attack in the middle of an earthquake!
I really like the cinematography. The shot in the first episode with Ahsoka spinning her lightsabers around her to cut a hole in the ground was great. There are a lot of shots I'm going to enjoy using in vids here. The visuals are clear and, more importantly, gorgeous.
The premise is a bit wat – there's a map to where the purrgils brought Thrawn? how???? – but that got explained to my satisfaction later on, so, hey.
I like the plot so far. I especially like Morgan Elspeth, since she's a type of dignified villain we don't often see in female, and I like how she strides around. The other new villains, Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati, are interesting. Baylan Skoll is very much a foil to Ahsoka – they both had crises of faith, Baylan after and Ahsoka before the Jedi genocide, and Baylan is now definitely not a Jedi, but also not exactly a Sith. He's stated he's trying to put an end to history/the cycle of Sith destroying the Jedi, and thinks Thrawn's exile galaxy has some means of doing so. IDK if he's trying to pull a Kreia and try to destroy the Force, or something else, but he's an interesting secondary villain who's just sympathetic enough I won't be surprised if he ends up allying with Ahsoka et al against Thrawn.Dollar Store Lana Beniko Shin Hati comes across as autistic.
Ahsoka is great. The fact that she apparently trained Sabine for a bit and then it fell apart, and this happened between Rebels and the TV show and no-one's shown it happen, was a bit ???, but hey. I really liked her dealing with her Anakin baggage in episode 5 and I hope that we get another brief Anakin bit for closure at the end – idk if she needs a spiritual Knighting like Kanan got in Rebels, but at least a "You've done well" + "It wasn't your fault" and a hug.
I wonder whether they'll end up leaving everyone in the New Galaxy to explain their lack of interaction with Luke's academy. Not sure if I'd find it satisfying, but that would give them the freedom to tell Ahsoka's all-new adventures with Huyang, Sabine, Ezra, and probably also Shin Hati after they heroically destroy Thrawn's transport home and probably also him.
Fight scene choreography: A bit faster-paced than the ST, I think, and the Anakin vs Ahsoka segment especially was great. Please give the rest of your lightsaber-wielding leads 3 months of stunt training like Hayden Christensen got, Disney.
WRT the casting, I really like Sabine and I have come around on Ahsoka (though I do wish her montrals pointed up, rather than back). Ezra I'll reserve judgement on until we see him shaved. Hera, OTOH, doesn't look, sound, move, or act like Rebels Hera, so I have huge difficulties buying her as the same character. Also the lekku are all wrong. Hera doesn't really do any action scenes, so surely they could've given her the same lekku they used in the OT for Oola? As is it looks like they're half as long as they should be. Live action Thrawn looks a bit off, but at least they got the voice actor to do it so he sounds mostly right.
(Also I need an Ahsoka icon.)
I really like the cinematography. The shot in the first episode with Ahsoka spinning her lightsabers around her to cut a hole in the ground was great. There are a lot of shots I'm going to enjoy using in vids here. The visuals are clear and, more importantly, gorgeous.
The premise is a bit wat – there's a map to where the purrgils brought Thrawn? how???? – but that got explained to my satisfaction later on, so, hey.
I like the plot so far. I especially like Morgan Elspeth, since she's a type of dignified villain we don't often see in female, and I like how she strides around. The other new villains, Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati, are interesting. Baylan Skoll is very much a foil to Ahsoka – they both had crises of faith, Baylan after and Ahsoka before the Jedi genocide, and Baylan is now definitely not a Jedi, but also not exactly a Sith. He's stated he's trying to put an end to history/the cycle of Sith destroying the Jedi, and thinks Thrawn's exile galaxy has some means of doing so. IDK if he's trying to pull a Kreia and try to destroy the Force, or something else, but he's an interesting secondary villain who's just sympathetic enough I won't be surprised if he ends up allying with Ahsoka et al against Thrawn.
Ahsoka is great. The fact that she apparently trained Sabine for a bit and then it fell apart, and this happened between Rebels and the TV show and no-one's shown it happen, was a bit ???, but hey. I really liked her dealing with her Anakin baggage in episode 5 and I hope that we get another brief Anakin bit for closure at the end – idk if she needs a spiritual Knighting like Kanan got in Rebels, but at least a "You've done well" + "It wasn't your fault" and a hug.
I wonder whether they'll end up leaving everyone in the New Galaxy to explain their lack of interaction with Luke's academy. Not sure if I'd find it satisfying, but that would give them the freedom to tell Ahsoka's all-new adventures with Huyang, Sabine, Ezra, and probably also Shin Hati after they heroically destroy Thrawn's transport home and probably also him.
Fight scene choreography: A bit faster-paced than the ST, I think, and the Anakin vs Ahsoka segment especially was great. Please give the rest of your lightsaber-wielding leads 3 months of stunt training like Hayden Christensen got, Disney.
WRT the casting, I really like Sabine and I have come around on Ahsoka (though I do wish her montrals pointed up, rather than back). Ezra I'll reserve judgement on until we see him shaved. Hera, OTOH, doesn't look, sound, move, or act like Rebels Hera, so I have huge difficulties buying her as the same character. Also the lekku are all wrong. Hera doesn't really do any action scenes, so surely they could've given her the same lekku they used in the OT for Oola? As is it looks like they're half as long as they should be. Live action Thrawn looks a bit off, but at least they got the voice actor to do it so he sounds mostly right.
(Also I need an Ahsoka icon.)