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00:00 So if this didn't kill Sabine Ren how the heck is Han Solo dead
00:06 I guess it was the header off the bridge that killed him
00:09 Although maybe you could argue that by the very nature of a lightsaber blade it cauterizes the wound
00:15 So it's actually not that deadly
00:17 I mean, I don't know
00:18 I think it takes a little bit of the excitement of lightsaber fights cuz you're like if they poke you with that
00:23 Don't worry. You'll be just fine. I
00:25 Wouldn't think you know, I would think that any torso shot would be deadly. I mean, how about this one?
00:30 How's the captain not still alive, right? He should be okay, by the way with that opening sequence
00:35 Even though the crew was wearing blue and brown uniforms, you could see where it was going
00:41 I was like, they're all red shirts
00:43 In fact, I felt like you should have put some red detailing into their uniforms to kind of make it an inside joke, right?
00:49 They were so stupid the rebellion or now the New Republic is so dumb after seeing how they operate in
00:55 Mandalorian season 3 and now here they are these stupidest group of people. I mean, it's amazing. It's just it's shocking
01:03 How stupid they are we'll talk about it a little bit more
01:05 but
01:07 So I but I think it would have been fun to have a little bit
01:10 I mean, although I guess you can't put red into the uniform of a New Republic officer. That's that's a that's a evil color
01:16 But I I don't know I would have been tempted because they were so obviously red shirts
01:20 also the whole opening sequence it was weird to me because
01:24 What undercut it was that Vader did it better at the end of Rogue one?
01:28 I was like, are you really doing a redo and a less adequate redo?
01:32 Of that amazing iconic instantly iconic sequence to open up the show. That was a weird choice
01:38 But yes, hello and welcome to my breakdown of episodes 1 & 2 of Ahsoka where to start. Don't worry
01:44 I will fill you in on all the rebels connections, but I want this, you know
01:48 I have mixed feelings about the show and so I was a little we had a little fun in the opening there
01:53 So let's switch to some of the positive things about the show next I want to talk about coolest moments
01:59 So shout out to Dave Filoni for going old-school Star Wars from the opening crawl in red. Thank you very much
02:06 I like that as soon as I saw it it brought a smile to my face
02:09 I thought it was very effective and it was very well written
02:12 You know some of the newer crawls have just you know been there for the sake of having a crawl
02:17 But this one really made you feel like the story had already started and you were like, oh, let's see what's happening
02:23 Oh, this is gonna be great. It was really cool
02:24 And then they cut to a Star Destroyer close-up, which of course is a classic Star Wars move
02:29 Only this time it bore the logo of the New Republic
02:31 acting just as dumb as an Empire ship
02:34 Some the more things change the more they stay the same
02:38 I maybe Star Wars is in fact at the end of the day anti big organization and bureaucracy
02:43 But anyway, I also thought the 1970s look of the crew on the ship was kind of cool
02:48 It was very old-school Star Wars, but at some points it was a little 270s for me
02:52 I was like are they just wearing like flaps over their sneakers for boots?
02:55 Is that what you guys got going on here? You know like a cheap Halloween costume
02:59 Ahsoka versus droids though. Ah, I love that
03:03 Is this dude also a droid by the way because we can't see his face
03:06 But he seems dressed like an Inquisitor and are there no more Inquisitors at this point, right?
03:11 I mean, maybe not maybe maybe that guy stole all of his stuff from the office, right?
03:15 He's like I'm keeping all this right and going on an excellent
03:19 Post career as a hired hand
03:22 But he has an Inquisitor style lightsaber, which I wasn't impressed with in the obi-wan show
03:28 But then after watching rebels and seeing what you can do with that style lightsaber
03:31 I was excited to see it
03:33 But unfortunately, it seems they couldn't afford to go out all out at least at least in this sequence
03:38 I mean, I'm telling you when someone deploys one of those things it should be leading up to an amazing
03:44 lightsaber battle
03:46 Ahsoka's first fight fight against the droids. I love those droids and they revealed themselves
03:50 I was like and they were popping up like daisies. There were so many of them
03:54 I was like that is a great droid design
03:56 And I knew when she was backing up that she was gonna drop down through that hole
04:00 So those droids need better programming on their anticipation
04:03 protocols
04:04 But her next move of evening the playing field by dropping down some of the other droids through the ground with her lightsaber
04:11 I like that twirl trick. Although when the lightsabers cut the ground in an angle
04:15 It was bothering me that the cuts were straight down
04:17 I was like it would be in an angle because you're not throwing them straight up
04:21 It would be impossible to be able to have that that to be able to be exactly perpendicular
04:26 It would be more at an angle this little stuff gets me. Alright, so anyway
04:30 But that was cool and I didn't see her doing that I was like that's a neat idea
04:34 But as I said in my non spoiler review Rosario Dawson while she looks fantastic in these fights. She's too slow executing them
04:43 Executing the fight choreography which forces her component her opponent to also have to slow down which makes the entire fight weird
04:51 But in her episode 2 droid fight
04:54 There were still some cool moments like when she cut through the glass to go down to the level below
04:58 That's from the trailer. It was so cool
05:00 Also in the trailer because these are such amazing moments is when that Inquisitor type figure let his cape go in the wind
05:06 I loved it. It was so great. He's like, I don't even need this cape
05:09 I got a whole bunch of them on the ship. Don't worry about it. I mean, it was fantastic. I was like that is cool. I
05:14 Appreciate all the lightsaber moves. That was so great to see but there isn't enough force you still in these fights
05:22 You know either to push back an opponent or to do a super jump you see that a little they definitely do it a little
05:28 bit but not enough because if you watch rebels again
05:31 They have the best Jedi fights Lucasfilm has ever done and they're using force moves
05:37 Constantly just as much as they're wielding the lightsaber to move their opponents around to get up get them out of the way to take
05:44 Some of them out. I mean, it's really cool
05:45 It should be like one hands doing a lightsaber one hands doing the force moves and here they're limited and I guess maybe it's for
05:52 The budget but I wish they'd find a way
05:54 I mean they found a way to animate a gazillion droids bring me some more for stuff
05:58 It was it was cool when the Inquisitor called back his blade and Ahsoka
06:04 Nonchalantly just kind of dodged it just a little bit. I was like that is that was a boss move
06:08 There shall be a rematch between them. I'm sure
06:11 Speaking of fights Sabine Ren versus shin Hati
06:15 I'm surprised Star Wars has never gotten called out for all these Asian style names
06:21 And having very few they have some I mean they've certainly gotten better. But you know, they're really you know
06:26 The cultural appropriation is semi strong with these
06:30 All right, so I just I had to say it bothers me a little bit particularly with like Dave David Tennant's
06:35 Droids name. All right. So anyway
06:37 How on earth did Sabine feel that she could take this woman on with having with having very limited lightsaber skills?
06:45 I was like what I mean, it's important to be brave
06:47 But it's also an important lesson to realize the distinction between brave and stupid
06:51 Perhaps if Ahsoka had trained her better
06:54 I think Yoda would have the guts to say that this to say there was a difference between brave and stupid
06:58 This shot was very cool. I was like, oh, I like that
07:02 But after her darksaber training and rebels
07:06 So if you had if you had not seen rebels, you would just think that Sabine was you know
07:10 Not particularly a good fighter
07:11 But if you've seen rebels and you know that Sabine already had it made
07:16 Clear to her that her best advantage in these fights would be to use both her Jedi and Mandalorian skills
07:21 You would be as frustrated as me that she seems to have totally forgotten that very important lesson
07:26 It took two episodes to teach her that and then she forgot it
07:30 Hoiang David Tennant's robot points out or droid
07:34 Points out that Sabine will never be the best Jedi. She just doesn't have a strong connection to the forces
07:41 He says any other Jedi who ever lived?
07:43 But I think what he's getting at and what's already been pointed out to her is that she can be a great Jedi
07:49 Mandalorian hybrid like Grogu. Although again, why aren't we just exploring this with Grogu? But anyway, yeah
07:55 I mean that's what she should be working towards and she should have done when she went and grabbed her lightsaber to take on
08:00 Shinhati she should have grabbed some Mandalorian stuff as well
08:04 Alright other cool moment this hologram freeze. Ah, that was so cool during the briefing. I was like, wow
08:10 It's like having really cool collector statues in the room
08:13 If only Balin skull and shin Hathi were this cool in their live-action appearances
08:17 I've liked I was like, I know these guys in real life. I've never seen them look that good
08:22 I mean that was really cool. I loved that
08:24 All right. So before we dive into the characters and their best moments
08:28 I want to talk about story parallels and expansion with rebels, right?
08:32 Because there's some really interesting stuff going on here when Ahsoka is in that night sisters
08:37 Aka daughters of Dathomir aka witches temple. That's all the same thing. That's just different ways things to call them
08:43 It's very similar to the Jedi Temple that needed to be unlocked at the end of rebels
08:48 Which Sabine also was the one to figure out how to open by the way, so on that note, let's talk about the force
08:55 This I find this interesting, you know, and if you're you know, if you're not really into this
09:00 You're not gonna love Dave Filoni Star Wars
09:02 Now one of the interesting things about rebels was how it expanded the idea of the force for instance
09:08 There the force allowed Ezra Bridger to be able to communicate and work with animals
09:13 That was very cool. And on Lothal by the way, Clancy Brown who works a lot
09:18 I'm sure all of you know who Clancy Brown is
09:21 But what you might not know is that he voiced one of the freedom fighters on Lothal in rebels
09:25 So it's a nice little Easter egg that he's playing that same character here who now leads Lothal again
09:31 Ezra born on Lothal was close with Lothcats who are so well realized here a great blend of CGI and practical effects
09:39 I was like that looks straight out of like Dark Crystal or Jim Henson or something
09:43 I thought that was so cool and
09:45 Lothcats would I often come to Ezra in dreams to help him to tell him things or help them show him the path to take
09:52 And he eventually went on to meet Loth wolves, which are so cool
09:57 If they bring Loth wolves onto this show, I'm gonna get so excited
10:00 But those are animals so deeply connected to the forest that they could travel through time and space and even move through objects
10:08 including a
10:09 Planet like one of the coolest shots from rebels
10:12 Season four is that they're riding these Loth wolves and the Loth wolves dive into the grass and into the ground and travel
10:19 Through the middle of the planet, you know, and they all lose consciousness and don't get to see it
10:23 But it was so amazing and to think that that's all stuff that can stem from the force. It's really interesting
10:30 And of course when Ezra was able to finally enter that Jedi Temple
10:34 I mentioned it put him in a place where he too could travel through space and time
10:38 And there were doorways to different important moments and he used that
10:42 Opportunity to save Ahsoka from dying in her fight against Anakin like a season or two beforehand
10:48 And there are rumors that Ahsoka might do a similar thing on this show where she goes through space and time to save Anakin
10:54 From what point to do what we'll see. I don't know if they're gonna do that. That would be quite interesting
10:59 Could they retcon Anakin through this show? I
11:02 Don't even know if that's a good idea
11:04 I think that would be insane
11:05 But I am also kind of into it because we would we need all the cool Jedi we can get so so maybe I mean
11:11 That's really that's what that's what we're talking about here. That's what rebels has opened up
11:15 But anyway, as you can see felonious making the force more than just Jedi versus Sith
11:20 Even the Nightsisters aka the daughters of Dathomir aka witches
11:25 They are force wielders in their own right in their own unique way
11:28 And this is further interesting by the fact that you're dealing with former Jedi here who are also no longer
11:33 adhering to the idea of there's just Sith versus Jedi Ahsoka during clone wars
11:39 Left the Jedi order to go on her own path as a rogue force user
11:43 And isn't that what Balin and his apprentice are doing? I mean sure they're still on the Jedi Sith spectrum
11:49 They're both just more towards the middle
11:51 And I think that's maybe why Balin respects Ahsoka and says it would be a pity to have to kill her because you know
11:56 He says he says there are so many so few Jedi left
11:59 So so few but I think also because I think there's a kinship between the two of them and that while they're still both Jedi
12:05 Not really, you know, they've both, you know, they're both deciding what that means to them and defining it for themselves, right?
12:12 I mean Balin's definitely gone over to the Sith side, but I think he feels you know again
12:16 It's a sliding scale and you can move on that scale. He's like sits today. Maybe Jedi tomorrow
12:21 You don't know and we don't know maybe that'll happen
12:23 This is also why having Hoi Yang is a socus on Ahsoka's team is such a fantastic idea as was made evident during these
12:32 first two episodes
12:34 He is the droid who helped train all the Jedi and specifically helps them craft their lightsabers
12:39 He's like a database of Jedi not only of Jedi individually
12:44 But mapping their different approaches in the past the past that they've taken
12:48 He is a Jedi expert having studied them for hundreds of years
12:52 What a great idea as we explore what it means to be a Jedi, you know after after the original trilogy
12:59 I mean, that's just such a neat idea. I really like that
13:02 I thought it was great that Hoi Yang was able to identify
13:04 Balin by his lightsaber and then he also illustrated to Sabine how Jedi and the force work that no new energy is created
13:12 Instead it transfers and evolves. I love that
13:16 He points that out because she says that's Ezra's lightsaber and he says it was Ezra's lightsaber
13:21 But it's been transferred to you and you've made your own modifications to it. And now it's your lightsaber
13:26 I thought that was I mean people are making new lightsabers. Don't get me wrong
13:29 But I think that idea is really beautiful also in rebels
13:32 They had a Jedi funeral which also kind of alluded to this which was also really fascinating
13:37 So this is a very sophisticated way at looking at the force
13:41 Although I'm not sure how mainstream it is because the more you complicate something the more niche it becomes
13:47 I'm looking at you Westworld. So I
13:49 Question, you know the business idea of doing this exploration, but I certainly like it
13:56 I am also enjoying the further exploration of the importance of master and Padawan or
14:01 Master and apprentice depending on again what side or what side of the spectrum you're on
14:07 Beyond training the next generation at least that's how I've always just looked at it
14:11 You know
14:11 It's teacher and student but Hoang points out that Ahsoka is
14:15 Vulnerable in the field because she doesn't have a Padawan to watch her back
14:19 I thought that was great and we discover that that was briefly Sabine. Why did they do that off-camera? What a stupid idea
14:26 Why not make it that Ahsoka realizes she needs a Padawan during this show when we were watching and decides to recruit for sensitive Sabine
14:34 On the show that we're actually watching I guess they wanted to hit the ground running and Sabine already have some
14:40 Jedi training on under her belt, but she already had darksaber training
14:43 I mean just do a montage like everyone else man montage, man. I mean, I don't know
14:48 I I feel bad that we missed that
14:51 But still this whole thing and I think they're gonna continue with this and I like that makes me excited
14:56 It gives more depth to the master Padawan or apprentice relationship, and I think that's really cool
15:02 So as we start to put together, let's put together a team, right?
15:05 Let's take a moment to appreciate Ahsoka's awesome ship a t6 Jedi shuttle
15:10 It doesn't look very sexy flying around but the inside is faboo. Oh, wow from the bunks
15:16 Those are very small bunks though with absolutely no privacy
15:19 But Sabine is a graffiti artist by the way, which they didn't do enough with here
15:23 I mean, she's usually always graffitiing but here she was more admiring past work, but she's a graffiti artist
15:29 Which is how she recognizes her old bunk again, I guess from when she was previously training with Ahsoka
15:34 But I also love the main multifunctional room which has hollow is capable for hollow meetings
15:40 But also turns into a coffee clatch. Ah, really nice stuff. I think this is a very well designed ship. I love it
15:47 All right
15:48 So now let's dive into the characters on the show beyond Ahsoka Sabine Ren
15:52 Sabine Ren found out that she was force sensitive when fate brought her
15:58 She crossed paths with the Darksaber which she briefly wielded by the way
16:02 And now of course everyone knows that the Darksaber is because of man the Mandalorian
16:07 Now Sabine's Mandalorian clan house of Isla is quite powerful in the Mandalorian hierarchy
16:13 Making her sort of a Mandalorian princess just like Bo-Katan
16:17 And she and Bo-Katan have worked together in the past also
16:21 However, Ren is not only a talented graffiti artist but a talented weapons expert as well
16:27 And in fact went through the Empire's weapons training program like the young Empire
16:32 Internship program where there she created a very powerful weapon for the Empire which went used it on her own
16:38 Mandalorian people which is why when we first meet her in rebels
16:42 She's gone into self-imposed exile because she feels she did such huge such a huge betrayal and she totally did she's not wrong
16:49 Now eventually on rebels that got resolved to a point you can never really resolve that she was responsible for many many deaths
16:55 But clearly and so clearly Sabine still carries that guilt
16:59 Because being a genius weapons X a weapons expert brings great responsibility
17:04 But now she's also haunted by Ezra sacrificing himself to get rid of Thrawn at the end of rebels
17:11 You know Sabine painted that mural out of pain out of missing Ezra
17:15 And you know Ezra kind, you know as you kind of see here as you're kind of said Sabine we have the closest bond
17:21 I'm trusting you to like find me and she didn't really seem to do anything about it except just kind of camp out in
17:25 Lothal I guess and continue his work. I don't see her looking for him
17:29 But that's kind of how things were left at the end of rebels
17:32 There was also speaking of their history on rebels always a little flirtation between the two of them
17:36 At least I thought that Ezra seemed to really like Sabine
17:39 So I don't know why he said that she was like a sister to him. I was like, whoa Ezra
17:43 Why are you harsh on your own mellow here, man? What's going on? He's like, you know, he's blocking himself. It's bizarre
17:49 Anyway, bored is ill bored. Is oh looks her look here is absolutely fantastic
17:54 Although her chipped manicure is driving me. Absolutely crazy. I'm like, ah at first I thought it was just an interesting manicure
18:01 I was trying to give her the benefit of the doubt and I was like, no, it's just not at all maintained
18:05 But anyway when she cuts her hair, which by the way is exactly like how Kanan cuts his hair in rebels
18:12 I'm like what I'm still can't figure out why they had them both cut it the same way because nobody saw Kanan cut I guess
18:17 Did she come across his setup afterwards, but he did that by himself
18:21 So I guess maybe this is just like how everyone gives themselves super serious haircuts in Star Wars
18:26 But that was a really interesting choice, which again you would never know if you hadn't seen rebels
18:30 But I was like, oh anyone who saw rebels would be like, oh
18:33 But I felt bad that she lost the orange tips on her hair because it looks so beautiful in the sunlight
18:39 She lost all color gradiation to her hair, which she's always had
18:42 I was like after she cuts her hair
18:44 Can she fix it? Can she fix the color again?
18:46 Cuz you know, she's an artist but I guess she's lost the will to create because of Ezra
18:50 But with her Mandalorian armor back on at the very end of episode 2
18:54 She does look very much like her character from the show. No jetpack though. She always has rocked a jetpack
19:00 I'm disappointed in that and also I missed the checkerboard pattern
19:03 Ah, that was such a cool part of her original look and there's no reason she can't have a checkerboard pattern here
19:08 I'm like bring back the checkerboard. She did once like a tie fighter with checkerboard stuff
19:13 It was amazing the live-action costume just looks less cool than her animated one
19:18 And I don't see why they couldn't exactly duplicate it. I find that a little frustrating
19:21 All right. So yeah as a weapons expert Sabine is quite clever and able to unlock the star map
19:26 She's very good at tech and figuring it out and stuff like that. And I thought they did that sequence pretty well
19:32 I believed it. Thank goodness. The Soka digitally mapped the temple before it was destroyed
19:37 None of these puzzles by the way, though are as clever as complex as any of the ones on rebels
19:41 And these all seem pretty easy to me which makes it even more frustrating that they take so long to solve them
19:46 I'm like I can see the solve just do it
19:48 Unlocking the Jedi Temple in season 4 of rebels was a much cooler sequence
19:53 I thought they were gonna do that with the temple in the beginning of episode 1
19:57 I was like, oh these figures gonna move too and they didn't I
20:00 Did like that the evil droid was smart enough to smash up all of Sabine's equipment
20:04 So she wouldn't have a record of what she uncovered human henchmen are not as smart
20:08 I was like give that droid henchmen a raise or whatever a droid wants
20:13 Although I thought maybe the Lothcat saw the star map come alive
20:17 So when a Soka went back
20:18 I thought that you would be able to see the star map through the Lothcats eyes using the force
20:23 But I guess she's no Ezra Ezra. I think would have totally done that
20:26 I'd be like you were there weren't you Lothcat? Let me see it through your eyes. Oh
20:29 by the way
20:32 Sabine was living in Ezra's old hideout on Lothal and so that old
20:36 Communications tower the highway leading to it that look of the city all right out of rebels
20:41 Next here is Sindulla. What are the heck is your son?
20:44 Did they also figure out that was a bad idea?
20:46 Because at the end of rebels after Kanan's tragic heartbreaking death
20:50 Which none of us will ever get over and Freddie Prince jr. Said he's not coming back
20:54 I hope he's just Andrew Garfield ing us because I want him to come back come back as a force ghost
20:58 You know as long as our Soka's gonna run around in the in the past saving people go pull Kanan
21:03 That's what I would like her to do pull Kanan out of that explosion at the last minute
21:07 Oh, that would make me so happy go get Kanan. That's what she needs to do. Sorry
21:11 Sorry, Anakin. I would much. What would you who would you rather have back if you could only have one?
21:16 I mean she wants to go grab both of them
21:18 I'm not gonna complain
21:19 But if you could have if you were if you were want running around in the Jedi Temple or whatever and you could only bring
21:24 Back one Jedi and save them from a point in time right before their death
21:27 Would it be Anakin or would it be Kanan?
21:30 It would for me a thousand
21:31 What a billion percent be Kanan cuz boy if you have not seen Kanan fight you are missing out and it's Freddie Prince jr
21:37 Of all people I still can't get over that was him. He did a great job. All right, and he could use the use the gig
21:43 So anyway after his death that was revealed that he had apparently had one amazing night with her at least and that she had a son
21:51 With him, so I guess the New Republic has amazing daycare because where is this kid?
21:55 And it's been a couple of years. So he I think he was pretty big when we actually last saw him
22:00 So he should be walking around quite frankly
22:02 Anyway, I never got the feeling even on rebels that Sindulla had any real power in the rebellion largely because I never saw her controlling
22:10 Everybody she never was ordering anyone around or giving, you know, she never had a squad
22:15 You know
22:15 She almost more seemed like a point person to the rebellion like the contact person for the rebels team to interact with the rebellion, right?
22:22 And that's how it feels when this show first starts out again. No one's following orders from her
22:27 She's just there by herself being like, oh, yeah, don't worry. I can make people do stuff and you're like, okay
22:32 I'm just gonna take your word for it and you're in your track record
22:35 So also Mary Elizabeth Winstead, by the way has a totally different vibe than the animated version of the character
22:41 Which also at first threw me off but in episode 2
22:45 She started to be a little bit more like Hera
22:47 Like for instance her giving motherly advice and guidance to both Ahsoka and Sabine separately
22:52 Classic Hera if you watch rebels, you're like, ah, I see Hera and then also when she was at the manufacturing facility
22:59 And she starts to throw her weight around as a general a little bit. She's like you want to you want to bet I can't
23:03 Declassify that I was feeling it. I was like, that's awesome
23:07 And Mary Elizabeth Winstead did that better than Hera ever did on the animated series?
23:11 I was like, oh, I'm seeing the general I'm seeing the general but again
23:15 Why would a general go to such a situation without any troops with her?
23:19 Why doesn't she even have a small battalion to go with her? I mean it makes no sense
23:22 But then when she takes to the sky Hera is known for being an ace pilot. That's her claim to fame and
23:28 She had chopper in tow with her then things got really then things really started to groove particularly for these two characters
23:36 This again was classic Hera and chopper chopper is another great droid in my opinion better than r2d2
23:42 It's he's third because he doesn't talk he kind of talks
23:46 But it's for me it goes k2so hoi yang and chopper then chopper
23:50 Those are my favorite droids
23:51 But I do love choppers bad attitude the way he's always throwing his arms around throwing him up in the air and being great
23:56 He's so good. He still has his bad attitude in spades. He's still throwing his arms around when he bangs on the ship
24:01 I love it. I love it
24:03 Who would who would have guessed that arms would do so much to bring a r2d2 r2d2 style dry droid to life?
24:10 These are hard words to say in close succession, but I loved it
24:14 They got chopper right which was really fantastic to see so back to that manufacturing facility
24:20 I do like as we saw in Mandalorian season 3
24:23 Exploring the idea that the Empire was so big and had so many people working for it that you couldn't you can't get rid of it
24:29 Entirely so can you really get rid of it at all?
24:31 It's really just kind of lying in wait, you know, I can waves for what the general, you know
24:35 These ideologies are fighting to sway the general public, you know, just like real life, you know
24:42 Independent voters in the middle are the ones that really decide elections. You're always gonna have your diehards on both sides
24:47 So that to me is very interesting to explore that in the world of Star Wars again
24:51 Some people might not want politics in their Star Wars, but I find it very interesting
24:56 Now, of course, we all found it very frustrating with the latest Star Wars movies that the Empire was replaced by the first order
25:03 Which was pretty much the exact same thing because that's not how history as that's not how it works according to history
25:09 Like old foes do rise to power again
25:13 For instance look at how the Nixon administration came back secretly under George W Bush, right?
25:18 But they looked different they operated different like you and that's why they were able to do it
25:24 Because they kind of like snuck in I was like a Trojan horse kind of operation
25:28 But I don't see no Trojan horse here. The Empire's just waltzing right back in so I don't know
25:33 I don't I mean but the New Republic is so stupid and letting it happen and so poorly run themselves
25:38 That I guess they didn't need to have a Trojan horse
25:41 Everybody just ran back to the old idea because the thing they don't like the way things are being run by the new government
25:45 Which I guess that is a little bit out of history, but I mean the New Republic is just so dumb
25:51 I can't believe it like how could a manufacturing facility that large be churning out so many
25:57 Assassin droids and making a hyper jump engine of that size without anyone noticing
26:03 Like does everyone at that facility said they didn't say everyone in that facility was turned
26:08 They said probably just enough people to be able to do some secret stuff
26:12 But like no one like, you know, you know, you know called the tip line to the New Republic
26:19 Also, aren't there regular inspections aren't there supposed to be at least annual inspections?
26:23 Although if you know, you're employing so many former Empire people when you've been doing monthly inspections
26:29 I mean the Empire sure did they look like they were doing weekly inspections in the Empire
26:33 I mean the Empire were no geniuses, but they weren't this level dumb
26:36 Is the New Republic so disdainful of the Empire being like we're not gonna be like the Empire and so naive
26:42 They didn't even bother to create their own Intelligence Bureau. I mean, it's absolutely ridiculous
26:48 But it it's also infuriating because I guess you do kind of see it happening in history
26:52 So it's just as annoying to see it happening in a fictional show
26:56 And I kind of think it's cool though, too because I love that holding a mirror up to stuff that we're experiencing now
27:01 All right. So as for the rest of the two episodes, I don't have too much to say about Morgan Elspeth right now
27:08 Although I do like her dress which actually it's revealed our pants. I was like, oh, that's a cool idea. I like that
27:15 Costume wise though. I think some of them are a bit overly bulky like they didn't choose the right fabric
27:19 And so they don't look as good as they should like Balin and Hattie's cloaks. So unwieldy
27:24 I'm like how much fabric do you guys have on there? Those must be so heavy
27:27 There was one weird moment also during the Hattie Ren fight or for some reason Hattie like did a dance move where she moved her
27:34 Cloak over Sabine's head and I'm like, are we dancing or fighting here?
27:39 I guess you know, I guess a little bit of both and then also I was disappointed in Ezra's jacket
27:44 I was like that is so bulky. It looks so bad. Why would you make it out of that material?
27:48 Why wouldn't you made it out make it out of lycra or whatever Harris pants are made out of I was like
27:52 Those are some nice pants. I
27:54 Liked this guy is the Lothal police pilot. He really popped on screen and he's just trying to do his job Sabine
28:00 I felt bad for him
28:02 These medical droids right out of rebels as well
28:04 And I liked when Hoi Yang asked Sabine if she was done with repairs. I was like, oh joy humor or just droid perspective
28:11 The potentially exploding helmet bit was funny. Like when Hoi Yang said to Hera, of course, you're okay with trying this out
28:17 You're a hologram. So, you know the explosion wouldn't affect her
28:19 I thought that was funny
28:20 But then I thought the information that they got out of the droid was really underwhelming
28:24 I was like, ah, it should have been a bigger get for what we what we went through
28:27 Also as for this space show, you know on the island and then also all of Morgan Elspeth's areas like the hyperdrive jump
28:35 She's building or whatever. They aren't well-defined enough that I don't really know what's going on or where we're going, right?
28:40 Like where does the map lead two episodes out of like six, right? Is it six?
28:46 But you know, I think actually might be a little bit more. But anyway
28:49 How do I not have a clever more clear idea of where we're going at this point episode 2 should have ended with a name
28:56 For where we're going. Well, I mean did they say I didn't catch it. I mean again, it should be real clear
29:02 I want a PowerPoint presentation Morgan when you know when she had her underlings lined up there. I'd be like, okay
29:07 When's the presentation start? So that's my breakdown of a soka episodes 1 & 2
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