![]() ![]() ![]() Not only is Sabine incapable of Force-pulling a cup across the table, but she’s taken aback by being asked to spar with her eyes covered-a test that typically comes pretty early in the “learn to wield the Force” course. When Ahsoka steps in to school Sabine herself, her pupil’s performance is less than encouraging. En route to the Denab system where Morgan Elsbeth and her crew are installing the final nuts and bolts on the Eye of Sion, Ahsoka oversees a sparring session between her newly reappointed Padawan and Huyang. Take the training sequence that opens the episode and sets an Episode IV–esque tone that carries through the small-scale space battle at the end. ![]() Not just the business of dispensing plot-it’s fine for that to take time-but the more immediate, crucial task of establishing motivations, developing characters, and building bonds between characters and viewers that don’t depend entirely on preexisting attachments to a series that some Ahsoka watchers haven’t seen. It’s a somewhat strangely structured episode that makes me long for a real-life Hamato Xiono who could cut through the pleasantries and prod creator and writer Dave Filoni to get down to business. ![]() It treads some well-worn thematic territory, builds up to a visually striking set piece with a conceptually creative but tactically nonsensical climax, and ends, abruptly, with its protagonists discovering something that the audience already knows. And so, evidently, does reaching the most compelling parts of Ahsoka, which literally lifts off but figuratively gets grounded in its third episode, “Time to Fly.”Įpisode 3 is shorter than each half of last week’s two-part premiere, and less eventful. Jedi training, the master tells her Padawan, takes time. “I’m afraid it doesn’t work like that,” she says. Ahsoka, her sphinxlike expression almost acquiescing to a smile, lets her student down easy. “I was hoping that the urgency of our situation could expedite my training a bit,” Sabine says to Ahsoka, after a frustrating sparring session. ![]()
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