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 Genevieve O’Reilly (Chancellor Mon Mothma)
Director: Steph Green
I’m told and have read online that Part Three: Time to Fly breaks the canon established by Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which I haven’t bothered follow. Hence, I can’t verify myself how true this is, but then again, present day Star Wars happily disregards established canon when it comes to letting their current OCs run wild and trample everything, so I’m not really surprised if Dave Filoni broke his own canon so that his pet waifus can do their thing freely and whatever-ly.
Of course, one can spend hours arguing whether Star Wars: The Clone Wars is even canon in the first place!
What is inarguable, however, is that this show continues to drag out characters from that show and expect people tuning in to be able to magically follow things like they were all Rey Palpatine that don’t need any previous preparation to get everything right.
Well, perhaps watching how that spawn of Palpatine rightfully got an amount of backlash for being able to be a better Jedi than every Jedi that ever Jedi-ed just by the virtue of being female, this episode decides to show Kennedy Wren get some training.
Of course, this segment is just some immodest excuse for the wretch to whine about how everything is so hard and oh, that mean AI with a male voice says that she is the worst Jedi student ever, so Ahsoka is mad because how dare the AI mansplain to a woman that she can’t be anything she puts her mind to it without needing to first train or work hard for it.
I have to wonder: Ahsoka can’t train Grogu, but she is happy to train someone that has, at the surface, zero Force sensitivity—why? Is she the kind that likes to be surrounded by weaklings and zeroes so that she appear so much more awesome in comparison?
Then again, I’m pretty sure Kennedy Wren will conveniently display a burst of Jedi power at some crucial moment, so whatever, let’s just move on.
Aside from the training, this episode has Hera Syndulla trying to convince Chancellor Mon Mothma and her fellow senators that Thrawn is alive and the bad guys are looking for him, but for some reason she won’t tell them about the map, so those people are understandably skeptical. Anything to draw out the series, huh?
Then Ahsoka and Kennedy Wren go to space for some look-see and whoa, Shin Hati and some enemies show up to pew pew at them! That’s how I know the episode is coming to a close soon, as this is the obligatory action scene. Of course, the bad guys’ aim is terrible as usual, and then, something amazing happens.
Ahsoka jumps out, stands on her ship, and uses her lightsaber to destroy the enemy ships. I’m not kidding. She even slices one of the ships in two.
What happened to the lack of gravity in space, you ask? Bitch, this is Ahsoka, she can do anything alright, and even the laws of the universe bend to her whim!
That scene is as awesome as the Grogu flip, and all Star Wars can end right there and then, because it has attained the pinnacle of which no other shows in the franchise can ever dream of emulating.
Then, the ship lands on some planet, even when it had earlier been fixed so it could have just hyperspaced the hell out of there. Maybe Dave Filoni forgot that detail because his brain evaporated into orgasmic supernovas after finishing that lightsaber in space scene.
So, these two women are now stranded on some planet, and then, the sole male main character in this episode finally shows up to promise to track them down and destroy them.
Yeah right, as if female characters are anything but perfect, invulnerable, and +9,001 these days. No way is any of them losing to an icky white man!
God, this is so stupid. It’s Obi-Wan Kenobi all over again, only with dyed raccoon hair on the main character.
