Holy shit Thrawns Night Troopers were fucking wild. I never knew the imperial Aesthetic would mesh so well with like dark fantasy Roman Empire like wtf haha
Loving the design of that main new stormtrooper
You wrong for this lmao
Baylan is easily the most interesting character to come out of Star Wars in a while and I’m terribly disappointed that this season will be his only live-action appearance. I agree with everything he said in this episode about the Jedi Order and the cyclical nature of the Star Wars universe. He reminds me of Kreia, but not an asshole and with (seemingly) better intentions. Ultimately he’s probably learned the wrong lessons from the Order’s fall, but so far, he isn’t really wrong.
Agreed! He has become the most interesting character in the show for me, even during Thrawn’s debut episode.
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He was so great in “Rome.” I like that trope of the old warrior, disillusioned with the people he fought for. Kind of a, Jedi Smedley Butler.
So sad that he missed out on the career resurgence he was about to experience.
At least he’s immortal. Like all actors captured on film.He’s a Ronin Jedi
Kinda similar to the lead character in Yojimbo
I see a bit of Kurosawa influence in the show
Lars Mikkelsen is so good as Thrawn. So glad he’s back.
His calculated response to leaving the mercenaries, who were vital to his rescue, behind was so cold. I love it.
Those Night Troopers look so cool. If I’m not mistaken, there are heavy Japanese influences, their armor wrapped in red cloth and mended with gold, a practice called kintsugi the Japanese use with broken pottery.
Thrawn has to accept that his troopers aren’t going to be wearing mint condition armor (even Thrawn’s outfit is a bit threadbare in places) but he absolutely will not under any circumstances allow them to not look stylish.
Diggin’ the guy with the “300/Immortal’s” mask.
Thought it might be Ezra Bridger for a split second. This is how bad I’ve been influenced by that, “Any click is a good click.’ crowd. Who say the dumbest scat possible to engender a thousand angry clicks. Because, 'Any click is a good click.”
Captain Enoch’s helmet in particular is also channeling Roman Cavalry Parade helmets or “sport” helmets.
I thought that was a great touch. The main galaxy had some influences with samurai, especially Vader’s suit, but having this galaxy’s characters dressed in more traditional outfits, it really does set it as a place a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
The episode was great, other than it ended. I want more!
The kintsugi armor design of the troopers, “something beautiful rising from the rubble” or “the imperfections make it more beautiful” is an interesting twist on the design.
There was a lot of a mix of traditional Japanese repair and armor augmentation there Plus the Bandits in fantasized samurai armor
Ezra is going to be pretty annoyed with Sabine.
Anybody got some thoughts on what the night sisters are loading up into the Chimera? Anything we’ve seen before?
They talked about emptying the catacombs at the start, so I assumed it was previous Night Sisters.
I seem to remember from Clone Wars that the Night Mother has some kind of connection to all the previous Night Mothers that came before.
Maybe Night Sister WiFi only goes so far, so you have to bring the router with you.
I assumed it was previous Night Sisters.
Coffin shapes would seem to back that up. Must have missed the line. Interesting that Skoll seems to think that there’s something on the planet that the witches are afraid of.
Yeah, looking forward to whatever has “awakened”.
I wonder if we’ll get one of those pure manifestations of the force like that mushroom/tree giant guy that Kanan used to hang out with.
That would be interesting if there was a Bendu
Bandu! Yes, that guy! Doubt it’ll be him tbh, but something similar would be cool.
I hope it’s Abeloth
So atmospheric. They really did a great job creating a galaxy that has evolved very separately from the one we know.
I love that they brought back the Nightsisters. It was a shame to kill them off. I’m happy we may get more Nightsister stories in the future.
I love the lore they’re establishing with the purrgil and the witches who rode them before time had numbers. I’m wondering how much it’ll play into Dawn of the Jedi.
Thrawn’s lines in this episode have me kind of worried they’re gonna make him comically evil like in Rebels and discard the Grysk, Vanto, and Ascendancy plot lines. I hope I’m wrong, because I’d really like some follow up there.
Bit disappointed in the ‘other galaxy’, and the lack of effort to make it feel different. Especially the local raiders being basically tuskans, using the same energy rifles as the main galaxy, more sisters of dathomir just with a different name and they still know of and care about the jedi.
Would really have liked it to feel more distinct from the star wars galaxy, like it had a truely separate history, and not just like another planet.
This episode had a lot of positives though, more insight into Balen’s motives and the new storm trooper armour was great.
Did anybody catch the tiniest spark of empathy there from Shin when Baylan described Ezra as a “bokken” Jedi?
Oh is that what he said? I thought it was Balkan and I was really confused.
Edit: actually, thinking about it, Balkan does make sense if it was used perjoratively.
I had to look it up, but ‘bokken’ seems to be the consensus, though Balkan could make sense without much work.
Yeah, you’re definitely correct, the subs do say bokken. Wooden stick Jedi it is.
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Morgan Elspeth’s shuttle looks like one of the boxy ornithopters from David Lynch’s Dune (1989).
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I loved the Kintsugi to repair cracked armor
I really enjoyed the last few episodes but I think Ahsoka is still a bit to much Jedi for my liking and lacks a believable motivation. I just can’t fully understand her fear of Thrawn. Judging from the end of Rebels she should be a lot more understanding for Sabine not wanting to give up Ezra especially in the face of Thrawn being a very abstract and hypothetical thread.
