Star Wars: Ahsoka

Star Wars: Ahsoka begins with two episodes, starting on Tuesday evening in the US and therefore 2 a.m. here.

You’re not required to know everybody from The Clone Wars and Rebels (as well as Ahsoka’s live-action appearances) but it sure helps.

(Some specific Rebels nostalgia in amongst the general yay-Star-Wars. The Lothal Pointless Highway returns!(

I’m glad Sabine’s around because this is skewing towards Serious People With Lightsabres.

Clancy Brown gets to reprise his Rebels role, which is nice.

The new non-Sith are interesting.

E-Wings!

And the E-Wing astromech is based on the original R2-D2 toy that doesn’t look like R2-D2!

Thanks to Brawndo on RPGnet for the picture

The first episode could, I think, have survived being cut to forty-five minutes. The second rattled along a bit better for me. Maybe a bit too quickly in one plot point!

Being set in the New Republic era, which is now doomed not to be the well-deserved happy ending of the original trilogy by the sequels setting up the First Order, there’s a clash of expectations with the post-Imperial corruption and the Republic having been restored by the heroes of the Rebellion. Which is addressed here by having a couple of said heroes questioning some cynical practicality and immediately finding a nest of Imperial loyalists to fight. Which is funny, but kind of highlights my concern.