Star Wars: Ahsoka, Season One
- DB
- 14 hours ago
- 3 min read
The Force is... not very strong with this one.
Here's what I've been watching and playing over the last seven days...
MOVIES
No movies -new or old - watched or rewatched over the last seven days!
I blame being out a bit and football for that, to be honest (stupid friends, stupid Arsenal).
GAMES
The Darkside Detective
I finished this off the night before writing this, but wanted to wait a bit before writing about it to make sure that I'm not just responding to how it finished - will write about this next week!
Robocop: Rogue City
I haven't started this yet, but have had it in my backlog for a while and will be the next game I'll be concentrating on.
I've also re-installed this so I can finally get around to the DLCs, although considering how big the base game is it might be a while before I get to them!
Also currently playing: Batman: Arkham City, Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020), Tyranny
TV
Star Wars: Ahsoka, Season One
Season summary: Set after the fall of the Empire, Ahsoka follows the former Jedi knight Ahsoka Tano as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy. (Wookieepedia)
Episode 1, “Master and Apprentice”
A strange first episode that neither really sets up anything nor explains who all these characters are, which is kind of important if you didn’t watch Star Wars: Rebels.
Episode 2, “Toil and Trouble”
What the season will be about has been made a lot clearer, but there’s no real tension yet, and it still really feels like just a new season of Rebels.
Episode 3, “Time to Fly”
Another so-so episode – it really feels like it shouldn’t have taken three whole episodes to get to this point.
Episode 4, “Fallen Jedi”
Continuing the same okay levels of quality – there’s a lot of pieces I should like, but functioning as less than the sum of their parts right now.
Episode 5, “Shadow Warrior”
The most fun episode so far, although mainly getting so see Clone Wars stuff in live-action, not because of anything built so far in this show.
Episode 6, “Far, Far Away”
Another decent episode, although what is clearly intended as the biggest emotional moment fell flat for me, and will fall even flatter for anyone who hasn’t watched Rebels.
Episode 7, “Dreams and Madness”
Like the season as a whole so far, it’s been okay but nothing special – and it really doesn’t feel like it’s the finale up next.
Episode 8, “The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord”
And so the season finishes feeling more like a set-up for season two rather than a conclusion in itself, with nothing really resolved.
I'm not really sure what audience Ahsoka was intended for, because it does a truly horrible job of introducing characters making their live-action debuts (mostly from Star Wars: Rebels); but if it was for fans of Rebels, then why wasn't it just made as an animated series?
Hell, I watched all of Rebels and this season just didn't work for me at all, feeling unnecessarily long-winded and, by the end, more of a world-building exercise to help set up the second season than a story worth telling.
Star Wars: Ahsoka's first season disappoints overall, while making no attempt to help those who didn't watch Rebels understand who most of the main characters are and assuming that those who do know will automatically feel positively about them. [4/10]
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