The third episode of the brand new Star Wars TV collection Ahsoka has arrived on Disney+. “Half Three: Time to Fly” continues the story of Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) as she makes an attempt to coach Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) within the methods of the Power. The episode begins with Sabine receiving coaching from the droid Huyang (David Tennant). Sabine is having hassle utilizing the Power, and we’ve an episode that pushes issues in the best course for a collection that’s nonetheless discovering its footing.
This is among the extra nostalgic episodes of Ahsoka, combining previous Star Wars with new Star Wars. Sabine’s coaching at first of the episode is paying homage to Luke Skywalker’s coaching beneath Obi-Wan Kenobi within the authentic 1977 Star Wars film. That is evident in how Sabine should discover ways to see utilizing solely the Power. It’s additionally fascinating to see how Ahsoka has stepped into her function of (sort-of) Jedi Grasp, as most of her appearances in Star Wars: The Clone Wars featured her as a Padawan to Anakin Skywalker.
Later within the episode, Hera Syndulla (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has a gathering with a couple of senators. This scene options the return of Genevieve O’Reilly as Chancellor Mon Mothma. O’Reilly has performed the function in lots of Star Wars movies and reveals, most not too long ago in Andor. The scene the place Hera is attempting to persuade the senators of the looming risk of Imperial remnants is efficient. It provides a show of Hera’s historical past as a Insurgent and her private motive for wanting to forestall Thrawn’s return.
Hera’s son Jacen says he needs to be a Jedi. It is going to be fascinating to see if this storyline will proceed and if he shall be used additional in Star Wars media. Fairly quickly, the episode enters a dogfight, with Ahsoka and Sabine needing to discover ways to talk with one another. This looks like a traditional Star Wars battle, at instances paying homage to the battle between the Millennium Falcon and the TIE Fighters within the authentic movie. Whereas this episode is probably not as groundbreaking as different Star Wars media and is in the end quite simple, it will get to the DNA of what makes the franchise work with some wonderful concepts.
One of the best a part of “Half Three” is when Ahsoka arrives on the wing of the shuttle in a spacesuit. That is one thing that we’ve seen in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels, and seeing such a motion in live-action is sensible. That’s what the present has been doing the perfect of taking among the finest animated Star Wars content material and translating it completely to live-action. It’s additionally good to see Ahsoka and Sabine studying work collectively because the chase goes on. Though the emotional beats want a bit extra work, it’s more practical than it was within the first two episodes.
The episode ends with Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson) ordering his troops to search out the Jedi within the forest, ending the perfect episode of the collection thus far.
SCORE: 7/10
As ComingSoon’s evaluate coverage explains, a rating of seven equates to “Good.” A profitable piece of leisure that’s value testing, however it might not attraction to everybody.