Episode 6 First I rewatched episode 5 and it just solidified my thoughts that it just wasn’t very good. The 2nd half didn’t feel any better the second time, it felt just as slow and plodding as it did the first time. In fact, you can easily cut 15 minutes of that episode and lose nothing of value. It could’ve been a short 30-minute episode.
This episode in comparison, while still a little slow was a big improvement. We get a lot of reveals about Balon and his apprentice, the return of Thrawn, and Ezra and Sabine’s reunion. I’m pretty sure a lot of people are going to complain about the creatures that Sabine finds, but I found them great, and a big part of why I felt this episode was paced much more effectively. The episode felt really focused on reintroducing Thrawn and exploring the new planet and Galaxy they’re in. Still, it didn’t really feel foreign enough to be another Galaxy. However, I still can’t help feeling like the past 2 episodes should’ve been condensed into 1, even though this episode was much better it was still too slow I think they could’ve trimmed 10 minutes by cutting out some superfluous scenes or combining some of them into 1. These past 2 episodes easily should’ve been 1 big hour-long episode and that would solve pretty much all of the pacing problems with the 2 of them as a whole. Still, I get the feeling that the final 2 episodes might be really interesting as it’s really hinting at some kind of huge power on the planet they’re on, and I could see Balon potentially betraying Thrawn. Also, eventually, Exra will learn that Sabine teamed up with the enemy and I’ll be interested to see how that develops.