I really liked this episode. It was nice to slow down and spend some time with these characters. I felt like I got to know Ahsoka better, and she deals with a theme that foreshadows Anakin’s struggle. It may not be important to the plot, but it is very important to the characters. Worthy of inclusion for sure. The only thing that felt weird was the abruptness of the ending.
REVIEW VERSION RELEASED - S02E06 - ATTACHMENTS (V2.0)
- REVIEW VERSION, not quite ready for full release, but presented here for feedback.
- Our sixth episode of season two.
- Comprising the original episode Jedi Crash.
- Running 24 minutes.
- DOWNLOAD LINK is in the tracker spreadsheet, PM me for access.
- Note: It’s recommended that you download this before watching, rather than streaming it directly from Google Drive.
This is by far the least important episode of my edit, featuring a pretty light ‘meeting the natives’ story. It’s skippable, but I’ve included it here for a few reasons: Mainly, because it balances out this place in the season nicely, since this period of time needed more Anakin, more Ahsoka, a little more exploration of the duo both together and apart, and more of this season’s focus on the war’s impact on the little guy. But also, it does begin with a great action sequence I’d hoped to include somewhere, it has a nice little hint at the Holdo Maneuver, and it does show us a little more of what happens on the fringes of the Galaxy, something that’s nice to see in the show but often appears in the show’s weaker episodes.
Good to know you think it fits from a balance perspective. The ending is tricky though. The music is played in the voice track so that final scene’s music can’t change. And it has that major rise, which all I could do was fade out. Perhaps if I move it so that scene isn’t the last one - maybe we have Anakin’s healing, then Ahsoka and Aayla talk, then Aayla and Tee Wat Kaa have their conversation which ends with “I still wonder… at what cost?” as the final line. I think I can modify the audio in that scene more freely, so I could use our typical ending music, which would also help cue the user in that the episode is wrapping up.
I’ll also dig through the second part again (which I’m barely using any of currently) and see if there’s any other scenes I can use to help wrap up the episode. Maybe Tee Wat Kaa talking to the healer Lurmen would bring their story to a better close and help pace it out a little, though I’d have to crop a few shots for that to avoid showing battle droids everywhere, which may not be quite possible. The shot of Republic cruisers arriving is a bit abrupt so I don’t think it’d make it feel less sudden.