Opening scene was wildly entertaining, in spite of plot armour and more hamfisted exposition about how tough Interceptors are. (Not tough enough for plot armour).
Comparing this scene to Top Gun: Maverick I have to wonder where Din got the time to train as an elite fighter pilot, but let’s say the N1 is AI-assisted and enhances his well-developed warrior instincts, reflexes and proprioception. Fan-splaining™ at its finest!
I had high hopes for this episode; Coruscant looked amazing in that first shot and in some subsequent scenes, but I was taken out immediately by poor sound design. I can buy that certain areas/levels will look lonely or deserted at certain times, but the lack of ambient noise was distracting and felt low-budget. Sure you could *say* it’s part of Coruscant’s ‘environmental controls’ but this is film and tv — to sell this place the background hum and roar should have sounded like NYC on steroids.
The Amnesty storyline could have been interesting but it felt like an extremely dumbed down (as in Saturday morning cartoon) rip-off of Andor. I won’t write a wall of text explaining why, I’m sure anyone without their Star Wars goggles on can see it — and to where it’s obviously leading. A lot of cringe all around.
Amongst the bigger plot contrivances: ticket droids can make footbridges appear between train cars but can’t lock down the doors? They also moved very slowly during the ‘pursuit’ which would have only made sense if the doors were lockable.
This is a place where jetpacks and cybernetic enhancements exist, aliens with strange abilities … maybe a few good Parkour athletes as well LOL … give those droids a little speed maybe.
So there’s … zero security in a yard full of decommissioned Imperial tech? Inoperable or not --sure.
Speaking of the Andor rip-off … the eventual fall of the New Republic with trillions of deaths is due to them emulating the soulless, bureaucratic Empire and alienating people that they designate and refer to with SERIAL NUMBERS and perform INVOLUNTARY PROCEDURES on?!
And also because they’re goddamn idiots and don’t have security of any kind around sensitive installations? Plus no one actually monitors or safeguards aforementioned INVOLUNTARY PERSONALITY ADJUSTMENTS which are easy to crank up to 11 for nefarious purposes.
This has all happened before, and will all happe — sorry, wrong franchise.
Anyway, at present this show is only good for action candy. The writing is degrading at a rapid pace. Perhaps fitting given where it’s leading to.
Random moments:
Mon Cal’s look when he heard “It was a trap!” LOLOLOL
Bo Katan telling everyone Din fell and had to be pulled out. LOLOL
… and looks like Bo found herself a new army … although the big guy may have something to say about that. How many duels is he gonna lose? Didn't Din already kick his ass? Maybe lay off the space cheeseburgers, bud.
