Whoa!
Time for a check-in!
Anyone else been keeping up with this? If so, what are your thoughts on the current "Goonies-meets-Star-Wars" storyline?
Personally, I'm enjoying it. I was a little worried it would just be lame kid junk, but the first episode was really interesting and they managed to turn the lame "kiddie morals" into plausible Jedi lessons, and by the end of the second episode in the arc, I was pleasantly surprised. I was worried that they were turning Hondo into some goodie-goodie trump card who would show up at the end of every one of these episodes, thus ruining him, but that seems to not be the case. I really like his character, he always makes me smile.
There was also a DC-17m in the second part, the blaster the Clone Commandos from Republic Commando use (Delta Squad from the game was very briefly featured in an episode last season) which got me jazzed up to see what they do with the Clone Commando they were showing in the previews for this season.
Also, I know the Mandalorian arc is coming up soon, and as a huge Mandalorian fan who has already seen them sullied by Traviss, I'm really hoping they get pulled out of the pacifist rut they're in sooner or later... the way that all is handled could make or break this season for me.
Anyway, I'm about to dive into the third episode in the Younglings arc, Bound for Rescue.
Edit: Just finished it.
Wow.
Maybe it's my cold-addled mind, but that was an excellent episode. Big space battle, adventure, a lightsaber fight, blaster fights, a daring rescue and escape, a weird alien menagerie, humour...
If that's not what Star Wars is all about, then I guess I've been watching a different Star Wars.
Sure, some of the humour was a bit corny, some of the show was cheesy, yes. But it felt like Star Wars, and certainly felt more like Star Wars than the prequels.
This episode, and others like it is why I love this show, why I think there's life in the old girl yet, and why I feel it's in capable hands.