Star Wars: Ahsoka [Disney+]

I would say just watching rebels is fine, and as has been said, it's a good show. short 20 min episodes. you'll fly through them.

Can’t Google it in case of spoilers .

It makes sense to be biased towards him, as out of everyone in the Rebels group Ezra is the only native of Lothal.

Thoroughly enjoyed those two episodes. Starting off with a double episode was a great way to get going with the story. I'm still on The Clone Wars, so haven't watched Rebels, so haven't the full back stories on some of the characters, but the casting for Sabine and Hera looks to have made good characters. The storyline is a little different to the usual plots, so looking forward to the rest of the series.

Gah! I googled Ray and went with the first autosuggest without even checking. Thank you!

Ray Stevenson doing great in both episodes so far.

If I was to guess based on Filonis work from Clone Wars and Rebels. Plus some nods he gave to Solo tonight, he's not going to push a story that requires previous watching. He'll throw in lots of stuff as nods to them because he's a huge fan himself but he comes across to me as someone who likes to tell a new story each time. Where he tends to join in other stories, it feels to like like he's trying to make it all fit together. He did wonders for the Anakin image from the I, II, III trilogy.

The fact that Thrawn is in a different galaxy is utterly mad/cool/nuts/conceptually interesting.

Has anyone read the books that he appears in? is his species from another galaxy? you just know the physcis nerds that love star wars, who wrote the books, will go into some explanation of hyperspace in how to get there.

I really wish that Filoni would write the sequels out of canon. Maybe if someday he takes over?

But we really need some adventures with the old gang.

thanks, yes, when I watching Rebels I did some wookiepedia-ing...

IN Ahsoka, they have him pinpointed by the map in a different Galaxy. found that interesting.

Some good elements, mainly the bad guys. Ashoka as a character is very dull, her fight scenes are unconvincing and the green screen kind of makes the show feel sterile. I will still watch all of it and pay for Disney plus.

The dock yard look particularly fake, bland and seemed to be regurgitating previous Star Wars. I would love something more visceral…. Some real locations

i always wanted to see a more grounded dirty Star Wars….

I always thought being shot by lasers or being stabbed by a lightsaber would be less fatal than a real gun or sword, which people also survive. With those they would bleed to death while lasers and lightsabers would cauterise the wound so no bleeding out.

Cauterising the wound on the outside might be helpful especially if they were sliced across the body not too deep or completely cutting off a limb, but considering the lightsaber goes completely through the body, whatever organs have been affected are surely completely f*cked. Being stabbed in say the liver with a knife, it could be stitched back up. Stabbed with a lightsaber, there's going to be a permanent hole and seared flesh where the saber went through.

I think it just diminishes the effect of being stabbed with a lightsaber. Qui-Gon being stabbed in Phantom Menace, you could see Obi-Wan's pain at effectively knowing it meant Qui-Gon was dead. Now we've had Inquisators in the Obi-Wan show, and now Sabine in Ahsoka all stabbed with a lightsaber in pretty much the same way and be completely fine an episode later. Now bar actually being beheaded, being stabbed or even cut in half with a lightsaber means nothing.

I just don't know what purpose Sabine being stabbed with the lightsaber served. Injure her so the villain could get away, sure. But they went needlessly overboard with it by having her be stabbed and then be completely fine the next episode.

The weapons in Star Wars aren't really "lasers", as it were. Not in the way that we understand laser tech in the real world. They're more energy bolts, as far as I know. So, they're a weapon of force (not that kind of Force) more like a bullet.

Lightsabers, on the other hand, appear to be either incredibly powerful or incredibly useless at their job depending on who's doing the writing. We can see Jedi cut through inches of thick metal with relative ease and chop off limbs no bother. But then we also see people survive what should be fatal or near fatal wounds and be up and running about without a care in the world.

Now, while the Asian girl who was stabbed may have survived, it's the ease of her survival that's the main problem. Christ, I feel off the bike the other night and I'm still limping around. She took a weapon that can pierce metal to her ribcage and her liver and shook it off like a character in Monty Python.

Plus cauterising a wound like a chopped off hand is very different to burning a hole in your liver/guts.

I know Star Wars is fantasy and all that, but that shouldn't make it immune from shitty writing. Which it has been guilty of on far too many occasions, especially in the last near decade.