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 Drive. The episode begins with Sabine receiving coaching from the droid Huyang (David Tennant). Sabine is having hassle utilizing the Drive, and we have now an episode that pushes issues in the appropriate path for a collection that’s nonetheless discovering its footing.
This is without doubt one of 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 below Obi-Wan Kenobi within the unique 1977 Star Wars film. That is evident in how Sabine should discover ways to see utilizing solely the Drive. 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 just a few 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 lately in Andor. The scene the place Hera is making an attempt 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 purpose for wanting to forestall Thrawn’s return.
Hera’s son Jacen says he desires to be a Jedi. It will likely be fascinating to see if this storyline will proceed and if he might 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 seems like a basic Star Wars battle, at instances paying homage to the battle between the Millennium Falcon and the TIE Fighters within the unique movie. Whereas this episode might not be as groundbreaking as different Star Wars media and is finally quite simple, it will get to the DNA of what makes the franchise work with some wonderful concepts.
The perfect a part of “Half Three” is when Ahsoka arrives on the wing of the shuttle in a spacesuit. That is one thing that we have now seen in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels, and seeing one of these motion in live-action is sensible. That’s what the present has been doing the most effective 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 methods to work collectively because the chase goes on. Though the emotional beats want a bit extra work, it’s simpler than it was within the first two episodes.
The episode ends with Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson) ordering his troops to seek out the Jedi within the forest, ending the most effective episode of the collection to date.
SCORE: 7/10
As ComingSoon’s evaluation coverage explains, a rating of seven equates to “Good.” A profitable piece of leisure that’s price testing, however it might not enchantment to everybody.
