Main cast: Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka Tano), Natasha Liu Bordizzo (Sabine Wren), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Hera Syndulla), Ray Stevenson (Baylan Skoll), Ivanna Sakhno (Shin Hati), Diana Lee Inosanto (Morgan Elsbeth), David Tennant (Huyang), Evan Whitten (Jacen Syndulla), and Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker)
Director: Peter Ramsey
Oh, things are heating up in Part Four: Fallen Jedi, as Ahsoka and Kathleen Wren conveniently crash onto a planet where all the enemies are!
This results in lots of drama and excitement… at least, I’m sure the loud music and flashing lights are telling me this is all so exciting, as the choreography of quick edits sure doesn’t deliver the martial awesomeness of the fight scenes.
The green screen effects are tad too obvious here, as is the cheap-looking nature of everything here, but I suppose it can’t be helped as Lucasfilm has been bleeding money for a long time now.
I’ll take this over the last few drab episodes, but still, it’s clear that the glory days of Star Wars are long over.
Idiot moments galore still in this episode, all I suppose to make things happen.
For example, Ahsoka and Kathleen Wren make no effort to secure themselves against unwelcome visitors once they are stranded, all the better for the obligatory fight scenes to happen.
The enemies make the dumbest choices so that our good guys get to do what the script wants them to. Likewise, the good guys do the same. Ahsoka and Skoll all forget that they have Jedi powers, because that’s what the script wants of them.
Even General Syndulla happily tells her son Jacen basically that girlbosses can break the rules if they wanted to, hee hee, and then take that brat to combat, again, because this is what the script wants even if it’s neither logical or sensible for that idiot general to do these things.
Meanwhile, there are references and allusions to various things that happened in past Ahsoka: The Mary Sue Awakens episodes, which I am completely clueless about, so I end up feeling that I am only getting one-third of the whole big picture here.
Then again, the big picture doesn’t seem to be shaping up to be something awesome, so I’m not too heartbroken about that.
This one gets three oogies because it’s better than the last two episodes, but it’s not exactly what I’d call compelling or even memorable.
Still, there’s one good thing about Lucasfilm continuing to try to keep Star Wars going despite their repeated bungles: they are helping Hayden Christensen pay his rent and maybe buy some new shoes, and bless them for that.
