So I just finished episode 5, and here are my initial thoughts. I thought it was mixed. The first half was pretty good. I kind of wish we got more Anakin, but I thought they did a good job. It had the best lightsaber fight of the show so far with Anakin vs. Ahsoka and some flashbacks to the Clone Wars. They kind of did what I thought they were gonna do in that Anakin gives one last lesson to Ahsoka and I like her deciding to live. Still, I wish they had done more, but I’m not quite sure what. I’m hoping we get to see more Anakin, maybe as a force ghost at the end of the show. The second half though was way too slow. I thought the scene where Ahsoka used the force to find out what happened to Sabine unnecessary and took too long, and the stuff with the Purgil dragged on and on. Don’t get me wrong those shots were so gorgeous and majestic with fantastic cinematography that felt like movie quality, but it still took too long. I’m honestly not completely sure about my feelings with the episode so I’m gonna rewatch it again tomorrow so I can figure out what disappointed me or if it works better when I’m not anticipating something more. Actually I think that might be it the anticipation was what killed the episode as it was getting really hyped up, what with the limited theatrical release and the return of Anakin. Also the episode description made it seem like the rescue would be Ahsoka rescuing Sabine, not Hera rescuing Ahsoka so I expected them to go to hyperspace around 35 minutes in and give us 5-10 minutes maybe of the Bad guys, but nope. I think the future movie edits of this show could do a lot to cut down on this episode