Ahsoka Episode 7 Review: Action-Packed Star Wars Goodness

The story of Ahsoka continues with “Part Seven: Dreams and Madness.” This Disney+ collection set within the Star Wars universe has given followers of the franchise quite a lot of fantastic moments. This episode is written by Dave Filoni and directed by Geeta Vasant Patel, who each carry much more epic moments to the collection. The new episode is an action-packed outing for Star Wars, supplying you with quite a lot of what you’re keen on from this collection whereas additional enriching these characters and organising what might be a robust, thrilling finale.

The episode begins with Hera Syndulla (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) dealing with a disciplinary listening to for her actions. Senator Hamato Xiono (Nelson Lee) chastises her for her actions. His refusal to see the return of Thrawn as a attainable risk is well-written, as is Hera’s opposition to his agency beliefs. Soon after, we get the return of Anthony Daniels as C-3PO with a pretend authorization from General Leia Organa. This is an ideal little Star Wars fan service second that is sensible for the place the galaxy is on the time. Of course, it’s additionally nice to see Daniels again because the droid who was one of many first characters we noticed within the authentic 1977 Star Wars movie.

Furthermore, attending to see C-3PO work together with Hera is a worlds colliding second that we by no means knew we ended. It’s two generations of Star Wars coming head to head, which is one thing this present is ready to do once more within the subsequent scene. As Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) trains with a lightsaber, she performs hologram recordings that her former grasp Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) made for her many years prior. Anakin even mentions Asajj Ventress, a villain from Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The connection between live-action and animated Star Wars now feels extra full on account of a present that brings the mediums collectively completely.

On a deeper stage, it’s essential to Ahsoka’s character that she continues to be watching these messages. Despite understanding what he would develop into, she clings to the recollections they shared collectively, remembering what it was wish to be his padawan. The classes she discovered from him stay along with her, and she will be able to all the time hear his voice calling her Snips. As Ahsoka and Huyang (David Tennant) arrive within the appropriate galaxy, they discover themselves caught in a minefield arrange across the planet. Similar to the asteroid discipline chase in The Empire Strikes Back, a ship flying by means of a minefield is the precise enjoyable sort of scary scenario for a Star Wars collection. Furthermore, the scene will get dropped at life by wonderful banter between Ahsoka and Huyang.

Speaking of banter, Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi) and Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) are again collectively once more in scenes that really feel straight out of Rebels. They have the banter to a tee, and we get to spend extra time with them than we usually would with the hour-long episode format. You actually get the sense that these are two previous associates reconnecting after not having seen one another for years. We get caught up on a couple of of the occasions that occurred in Return of the Jedi, and we see that Ahsoka and Sabine are linked by means of the Force.

Out of all of the episodes now we have seen up thus far, Part Seven may be essentially the most action-packed. We have our rematch between Ahsoka and Bayaln Skoll (Ray Stevenson), and we additionally discover ourselves in a giant combat and shootout with Ezra, Sabine, and most of the antagonists from prior episodes. It’s fantastic to see not solely the humor between Ezra and Sabine, however the best way that Ezra returns to motion, combating the bandits utilizing the Force and demonstrating unbelievable talent with out a weapon.

The solely minor mishap right here is that when Ahsoka seems to combat alongside Ezra and Sabine, it ought to be an enormous crowd-pleasing second. Instead, it feels a bit too transient and anticlimactic, although the context is superb. We have a tremendous closing motion set piece because the Night Troopers and Hati retreat. Ezra is happy to return house, and we finish the episode on a extra hopeful notice than different penultimate episodes, which finish on the most important cliffhanger. One should marvel if that is how joyful Part Seven is ending, then Part Eight should have a nasty shock up its sleeve for the destiny of our characters. We should wait a bit of longer to search out out, however this was one other wonderful episode of Ahsoka.

SCORE: 8/10

As ComingSoon’s evaluation coverage explains, a rating of 8 equates to “Great.” While there are a couple of minor points, this rating implies that the artwork succeeds at its objective and leaves a memorable affect.

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