Main cast: Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka Tano), Natasha Liu Bordizzo (Sabine Wren), Ray Stevenson (Baylan Skoll), Ivanna Sakhno (Shin Hati), Diana Lee Inosanto (Morgan Elsbeth), David Tennant (Huyang), Lars Mikkelsen (Grand Admiral Thrawn), and Eman Esfandi (Ezra Bridger)
Director: Jennifer Getzinger
Folks that have not watched Star Wars Rebels best have the relevant Wookieepedia pages open on some handheld device while watching Part Six: Far, Far Away, because that’s the only way to get even halfway of the whole picture.
The entries for Ezra Bridger and Sabine Wren, especially, may be helpful to explain why she is so obsessed with finding him that she is willing to risk everything else, and since this is a family friendly now, no BBC is involved and hence it’s “look it up” time.
This episode is the time for Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Ray Stevenson (RIP), and Diana Lee Inosanto to shine as the episode for once focus on these people, while yay, I finally get to see Thrawn… but he’s played by the other Mikkelsen fellow that nobody outside of Denmark knows about.
Hmmph. Ray Stevenson would have made a more memorable and hotter Thawn. He is channeling hot damn daddy here, while Mr Mikkelsen as Thrawn looks like a grandfather version of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation after it has been dipped into a vat of blue coloring.
Sadly, the script doesn’t do any of the characters here much justice.
As expected, Kathleen Wren is risking everything to be reunited with Ezra, who as it turns out isn’t in any danger or trouble at all. Really, is it the BBC? Not that there is any repercussion from this character making the choices that she does, as she is a present day girlboss, so she can do anything and everything without any consequence whatsoever.
Indeed, poor Natasha Liu Bordizzo has to subject herself through what is basically a montage of girlboss traipsing around in easy mode, as she shrugs off incompetent mooks with bad aim and somehow manages to get her way with the bad guys just glowering and posturing instead of killing her outright.
The whole thing is so lacking in excitement or even plausibility that I feel like I’m watching a grown-ass woman LARP-ing out a scenario meant for kids under 10. The second hand embarrassment generated by these scenes is pretty intense.
Throughout it all, I can only wonder. If Thrawn had been hidden for so long, how again does he manage to not only have a perfectly functional big-ass spaceship, he also has an entire army to command?
Also, is Mr Filoni, who wrote the screenplay, telling me that the bad guys need Kathleen Wren to lead them to Ezra because their huge army can’t locate some unarmed dude, who’s living in the wide open, one that Kathleen Wren manages to find without any apparent effort? Seriously? Is present day Disney telling me that a woman’s vagina is now the best GPS tracker in the whole galaxy?
So yes, Thrawn is an idiot in his first official appearance in a live action Star Wars show. The farce, er, Force is female indeed.
Wait, is Ahsoka even in this episode? I can’t recall, and the fact I don’t miss her at all tells you how memorable a character I find her. Ah-so-what, am I right?
Anyway, this is a potentially explosive episode dragged down the bog by the sadly now-to-be-expected dumb screenplay. How many episodes are there left? This show has long outlived its welcome.
