Episode 3 was pretty good outside of the opening scene. Again the New Republic seems to be rather dull and stupid, but to be fair to them Hera didn’t do the best job of explaining things. Why didn’t she mention the former Jedi who busted Morgan out? Why didn’t she mention the map to Thrawn that she believes Ahsoka has found, and why didn’t she mention the inquisitor that attacked Ahsoka at the former Imperial Shipyards? It just feels like they had her do a bad job explaining things, and had the New Republic senators appear stupid so they could have a reason not to have the Republic help regardless of if it makes sense or not. It’s not even necessary either given that Hera disobey’s orders anyway. They could’ve just had the New Republic give her approval. It honestly feels like padding to me. Other than that this was a decent episode. The first half is mostly detailed to Sabine’s training, which was pretty standard as far as Star Wars goes. The second act is more interesting with a protracted fighter battle. The first part in space was pretty standard until they get attacked by the Hyperspace ring. Then it gets interesting as we get to see Ahsoka fight on top of the ship, and then we get the Purgil chase scene which is where the action in this episode shines. This was a good but not fantastic episode. I definitely enjoyed it but this is clearly more of a transitional episode.
Episode 4 is the best one so far it’s suitably tense with the ticking clock and the lightsaber battles being really cool and the final half was fantastic. It had some issues with pacing and trims that could be made to the material, but this is probably my favorite one since the second episode. So far though I haven’t been completely thrilled with all of Ashoka’s (the character not the show) lightsaber battles, it really feels like this is just a setup for her confrontation with Baylon Sabine’s ones I think have been better this season. I really liked how we can see how much Sabine struggles with whether to hand the map over. And the hyperspace jump was also really well done. It’s interesting to see The World Between Worlds, in live action and I’m intrigued by what they’re going to do with Anakin. Personally, I think they’re going to use it to give Ahsoka some closure over what happened with him and there’ve been rumors that they shot an alternate version of the battle on Mustafar where Ahsoka confronts Anakin after he becomes Darth Vader. I’m now fully hooked into the story and it’s way better than Bobba Fett or Obi-Wan were. I also think it’s better than Mandalorian Season 3 so far as well because so far. I hope it can continue on with this momentum for the latter half of the season.