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Interesting. I'll admit, when Rebels first started I didn't like the character all that much. She grew on me a bit, however, as her character was developed.
And if they're casting Sabine, then I imagine they might be on the road to introducing Ezra Bridger, since Ahsoka and Sabine were going off to search for him after the Rebellion won.
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Interesting. I'll admit, when Rebels first started I didn't like the character all that much. She grew on me a bit, however, as her character was developed.
And if they're casting Sabine, then I imagine they might be on the road to introducing Ezra Bridger, since Ahsoka and Sabine were going off to search for him after the Rebellion won.
Since the plot will likely revolve around hunting for him, I'm guessing we won't see Ezra until season 2, or at least not until the season 1 finale.
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‘Star Wars: Ahsoka’: Natasha Liu Bordizzo To Play Sabine Wren In Disney+ Series
I can’t recall ever seeing her in anything, but she certainly looks the part (to me, anyway).
you know, i was about to write a thread in because i couldn't believe no one had a thread going about Ashoka...
I liked it. Not sure where it's going but i like it so far
Loved the homage to rebels in sabine mural.
The loth cats.
I really like the Big Big bad for some reason. Not here for the evils just doing my job.
The astrolobe/theadolite markings are absolutely stunning.
Not too happy about
General Syndulla's special effects need another level of omf. What works on a background character quickly shows up on a main character.
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Ray Stevenson killing it as the bad guy. A great shame he passed away just a few weeks ago.
Overall, pretty solid start.
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My number 3 all time favorite starfighter is now officially canon. I am happy.
My number 3 all time favorite starfighter is now officially canon. I am happy.
1 would be y wing. 2 would be z wing. 3 would be... I'm out of letters.
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3 would be the Colonial Viper (the old one). 4 would be the Starfury.My number 3 all time favorite starfighter is now officially canon. I am happy.1 would be y wing. 2 would be z wing. 3 would be... I'm out of letters.
*sigh*
Okay it's now my FOURTH favorite starfighter...
I really liked this one. They made Skols saber strikes look absolutely terrifying with the apparent weight they have behind them. Not jumping around and flashy but still solid and inevitable. Like getting run over by an avalanche or punched by George Foreman.
Even the folks that are saltier than crait are liking this episode. As much as they like anything.....
My boss tells me I should watch this. I haven't watched any of the Star Wars streaming series except Obi Wan (which I liked when other people didn't). No I haven't even watched the Mandalorian, which I have heard is amazing but the premise just doesn't appeal to me personally.
Should I watch Ahsoka?
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You should watch andor.
I thought that was very good. Some outstanding, epic imagery: the Clone Wars battles, the Ghost and the X-wings skimming along the water, the rescue, the New Republic cruisers amongst the whale pod. This is one of the rare nu-Star Wars episodes that feels like they actually spent the rumoured $15 million per episode.
I think I get what they are going for with the rest of the season and maybe into the follow-up movie:
> Both Team Baylan and Team Ahsoka find Thrawn in the other galaxy.
Shenanigans ensure to stop Thrawn's return. During this, they find Ezra. Maybe he's a prisoner or maybe he's joined Team Thrawn or he's escaped and is MIA in the new galaxy. Ahsoka, Sabine and Ezra form a power trio to stop Thrawn.
> The shenanigans fail. Thrawn returns to the Galaxy Far Far Away, probably at the end of Episode 8.
> The movie or Season 2 (if there is going to be a Season 2 before the movie) is then Thrawn uniting the Imperial Remnants into a single fleet and fighting the Republic. A wild card is Moff Gideon's cloning plot, which culminates successfully in the creation of Snoke.
> Huge war ensures. Thrawn is killed and both the Imperial and Republic fleets are decimated. The Imperials and Republic agree to a truce, with official recognition of the Imperial Remnant as the First Order, with Hux's dad and Pellaeon playing a key role. Pellaeon signs the peace treaty with the New Republic (I swear to god if they do this, we just need to lynch the person responsible for terminating the EU, this is just a mildly time-disjointed version of the EU at this point).
> Wild card possibility: an alien threat in the next galaxy. Not the Yuuzhan Vong (way too NSFW for Disney-SW) but a force fulfilling a similar threat. They invade the Galaxy Far Far Away and the Republic and Imperials stop fighting to unify and defeat the invaders. Thrawn is killed in the process (maybe Ahsoka as well?) but the victory allows for a New Republic/First Order peace treaty.
Something someone on Reddit pointed out: the only shot from the trailers left is the one of Thrawn. Absolutely everything else was seen in Episodes 1-5, and we don't know anything from 6-8 at all apart from (SPOILERS) they find Thrawn.
d'awwwwwwwww!!!! I want one!!!!!
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This was pure Star Wars. The slightly goofy, friendly aliens, the non-verbal creatures with a vague comedy presence, the evil-but-competent Imperial commander planning stuff with more mystical bad guy Force-users, some stunning vfx (the arrival of the Chimera is an all-time epic shot), the young callow hero(ine) being somewhat out of her depth but also competent enough to deal with the situations. Thrawn is very hard to get right but they seem to be doing a really good job, and the actor playing Ezra is pretty spot-on. It's also doing an interesting mix of deepish lore cuts (the idea of Bokken Jedi, the Dathomiri witches) and new stuff, even if some of the new stuff is a remix of the old stuff (non-Tusken Raiders and Ewoks-but-they're-turtles-I-guess).
The show was far too slow to start with, but the last two episodes were outstanding. And it's odd that it's taken this long for someone to actually say "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." in dialogue (and it's amusing that it's Doctor Who who gets to say it).
My guess is that next week is Ahsoka arriving and trying to stop their departure, and in the last episode Thrawn returns to the SW Galaxy and wreaks some havoc, leaving things on a cliffhanger for the movie. Which I'm guessing they were expecting to be shooting by now and out next year, which now won't be the case due to the strike.
They're hardly ewoks. Besides small and cute.
They haven't even TRIED to roast anyone ye...
Hey wait. Did that shell they were cooking look a LITTLE too much like one of their own to anyone else?
Does anyone know what the pen things everyone (empire and rebel) has in the pockets of their uniform are? they look like some kind of rank insignia or spare bullets.
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They're code cylinders. Security Access keys basically.
They're code cylinders. Security Access keys basically.
Thats weird... (someone else said that i didn't believe them)
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Different systems they need access to. It’s less like a physical key and more like an MFA token, but in this case featuring high end encryption
Episode 7
cool but not much plot movement.
That actor absolutely IS ezra.
Might feel different in 5 years but I was hoping for a little more resolution now after all of that build up. Please tell me they actually know what balons going for and they're not pulling an Abrams mystery box.
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They do know what Baylen is going after.
There is an arc of stories in The Clone Wars called The Mortis Arc, it ties in heavily to the world between worlds where Ahsoka faced Anakin. Baylen is standing on a statue of one of the mythical Force deities presented in that story.
I don't want to spoil too much, you should definitely check it out.
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All in all, a solid season overall. It started a bit slow, but definitely picked up tempo in the end. 8/10.
I just binge-watched all eight episodes of Ahsoka (season 1) over the course of two evenings. It was a bit slow in the start, but the plot and action picks up in the later episodes.
The map special effects, particularly on Seatos, were fantastic. And I watched the end credits map each time just because I loved it too. :D
I agree that the twi'lek lekku do not look real enough on Hera. They're supposed to move by themselves, not bounce off the actor's back. (Can't remember if togruta lekku are supposed to move similarly or not.)
The actors for Baylan and Shin nailed it as a non-Sith Darksider master/apprentice pair with mysterious agendas. (Although I'm wondering how Baylan survived the Empire.) Ezra's actor did equally well. I also liked the political manoeuvring back in the New Republic. (Mon Mothma looks pretty good for someone who's spent the last 30 years or so in politics and running a successful underground then open revolution. No signs of stress on that woman!)
There are lots of dangling plot threads for another season/series or a movie to pick up: Thrawn's return, that mysterious cargo being loaded in Peridea (and bound for Dathomir), the Nightsisters' plans, and whatever designs Baylan had on Peridea.
Some other thoughts: the Ahsoka series does end up neatly stranding some interesting characters in a distant galaxy so that viewers need not to wonder why they aren't present/mentioned during the Sequel Trilogy (or any future Mandalorian-related series). And Ezra might eventually rejoin them there, as he can easily hitch a ride with a purrgil.
Peridea is an interesting addition to the SW lore. It is supposed to be the original home of the Nightsisters (which deepens the divide between the Legends and New Canon versions of Dathomir and the Nightsisters). It also has some connection with the Force entities from Mortis arc from The Clone Wars: the mountainous statues in Baylan's final scene, the owl-like creature which Ahsoka saw, and the artwork in the first episode's temple (where Ahsoka found the map sphere leading to Peridea). And stories about the planet were told to younglings in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.
One question about the last episode: does anyone else wonder why Shin (after being told by Baylan to go with the Imperials in the previous episode) was seen approaching the bandit camp? Wookieepedia made it sound like she hadn't been able to make it back to the night troopers' gunship before they left, but it didn't seem like that when I watched the episode. I'm wondering if her staying on Peridea was added in later (after Baylan's actor died), so that a potential season 2 of Ahsoka would have an antagonist left on the planet.
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The forthcoming movie Heir to the Empire is supposed to cumulate the Mandalorian, Ashoka, and Book of Boba Fett plots and characters, so the characters in Ashoka who are stranded on Peridea almost certainly will be back for that (and I'm thinking for Ashoka season 2 first to unstrand them). They won't simply stay stranded there for the sequel trilogy.
I'm still hoping that the Mortis gods change things to shunt the sequel trilogy off to some other timeline, but doubt it. More likely is that some characters will die, and the others will be off doing other things in the sequel trilogy (or showing up without dialogue or screen time in the final battle, since the Ghost is one of the ships to heed the call).
... More likely is that some characters will die, and the others will be off doing other things in the sequel trilogy (or showing up without dialogue or screen time in the final battle, since the Ghost is one of the ships to heed the call).
I remember seeing the Ghost in the final space battle in Rogue One. Was it in Rise of Skywalker too?
Anyway, if we're getting Ahsoka season 2 before the live action movie (is it definitely titled "Heir to the Empire"?), then it does sound reasonable that Ahsoka et al. will be "unstranded" then.
By the way, I noticed that the Mandalorian series thread covers more than just the first season - is that normal for the TV series threads? I would have thought that it would have been better to devote a new thread to each season of a series ...
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Yes, it's definitely called that, in reference to the Timothy Zhan EU book series featuring Thrawn. Obviously, that will need to have serious re-working since it will feature a very different set of heroes.
And yes, threads in these forums for TV shows cover all seasons generally.
By the way, I noticed that the Mandalorian series thread covers more than just the first season - is that normal for the TV series threads? I would have thought that it would have been better to devote a new thread to each season of a series ...
yeah, we'll have one thread for the entire thing from the announcement all the way till the end of the thing.
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It seems that Disney plus just released a 2h "show" of Sabine's Loth Cat while she was away. I'm guessing it's 2h of it doing cat things, and will likely watch 5 minutes, but what fan service to everyone who clamored about what happened to the cat when she left!