Did I misunderstand what happened in the hangars with the shuttles? Or did one shuttle take off, then get pulled back to the ground and torn apart dramatically by Vader, only to reveal that it was empty? Without even a pilot, apparently? And then a second shuttle took off that was filled with our hero and all the…

*babies Yoda 

He still looked like Anakin when he was in the Jedi Temple, not a 7' tall cyborg with a completely different voice. The one thing they could have done that would make some sense is to have shown Reva playing dead and have a clone call Anakin, Lord Vader, or something. Otherwise there is no reason she would connect…

I’m going to head-canon that Vader was weakened by holding the first ship that he had no Force-juice to stop the second...

That tracks.

The good: Vader being a total badass

To be fair if she would have just ignited her lightsaber behind his back and impaled him instead of screaming and trying to slash at him, things might have been different.

Wasn’t the whole point of the Luke/Yoda “Do or Do Not” scene in Empire that the Force didn’t give a crap about the size of the ship? Or did 8 year old me just misconstrue it (I was kinda a dumbass at times)?

“This show is about 5% cool scenes and 95% ridiculous contrivances” is a perfect descriptor.

So didn’t Vader snap her sword in two ?

“This show is about 5% cool scenes and 95% ridiculous contrivances”

This show is about 5% cool scenes and 95% ridiculous contrivances, and/or everyone being an idiot, to stitch them together. The hangar fight was spatially nonsensical. It was a huge gun fight where everyone was about 40-50' apart to start. It kept cutting to the same shot of about 15, supposedly untrained, defenders…

The entire fight in the hangar was nonsensical. The two sides were shooting at each other from 30-40' away. It was comical and ridiculous. Sometimes stormtroopers would walk right up to people, while not firing their own weapons, just to get shot from five feet away.

Hey, it’s Jimmy Smits! I got impatient so I figured I’d leave a message with details of that big galactic secret we’re keeping about the boy on Tatooine with Owen! I mean, I guess I could have said “the thing in the place with you-know-who” since you do already know who and all, but I... did not do that.

At least this series corrects one major problem I had with the Prequel Trilogy.

By the way, I do genuinely adore how one of the running themes of this show is how ridiculously easy it is to escape the Empire.

Rey did it in that Star Wars movie I keep trying to forget I watched (twice).

This week’s episode had a lot of potential but sadly was let down once again by poor execution. It seems that common sense just doesn’t exist in the SW universe. Why sit outside shooting at a heavy door when Reva can just easily cut through it? Why do both sides just stand out in the open firing at one another after…

You’d think that, but then in this very episode she makes a point of saying how she doesn’t want to use him and HE has to convince HER apparently.

I really, really want to like this show. And in many respects I do. I’d underestimated how much it would mean to me seeing Ewan McGregor back in this role. And like the reviewer, that scene last week of him fighting stormtroopers did a lot for me. Plus, he was unequivocally the MVP of the prequels trilogy, so I’ve…