![]() That’s often a stranger and more difficult task than it appears, and the bits of business with the Noti firing slingshots and throwing spare parts at their attackers show mastery of the silly stuff a lot of filmmakers would probably feel sheepish about including. The fun Filoni has layering this sequence, initially cross-cut with Ahsoka dueling Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson) before Ahsoka and Huyang team up for deus ex machina action of their own, is a reminder that he’s the guy who seems most committed to making George Lucas-style Star Wars. ![]() ![]() (She fills Ezra in on the events of the past five years–though not really the most recent threats to the New Republic–offscreen, in between episodes.) The extended sequence with Sabine, Ezra, and the Noti (the little snail/turtle guys Ezra has been hanging out with) getting attacked by Shin Hati (Ivanna Sakhno) and her makeshift crew of bandits is an amusing reminder that Star Wars is, after all, a space western it’s basically a scene where enemies literally circle the wagons on the prairie. Sabine, too, is on the move and not really making any big revelations. Despite the moment with virtual Anakin early on, Ahsoka isn’t really going on an emotional journey here she’s back to help her friends, reinvigorated and less conflicted than she was earlier in the season. She needs it, because this episode is largely about moving the Ahsoka piece around the board: Into the mysterious other galaxy, through a space battle, hiding in a debris field, and then locating her apprentice Sabine, who has in turn succeeded in finding Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi). Her banter with Huyang, too, has a little more of that ol’ Snips zip. Something about Rosario Dawson’s physical performance in Episode 7 looks more like the animated version of Ahsoka than ever the more reserved bearing that she carried earlier in the season (and that isn’t always a great match for Dawson’s skills as an actor) has loosened a bit, and become more energized. These winking elements seem to signal a settling of Hera, Ahsoka, and Sabine into their more familiar grooves – especially Ahsoka, who’s feeling retro enough to watch one of the holo-videos Anakin recorded for her during the Clone Wars as she practices her lightsaber moves.
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