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Season 1 Episode 7 Centers the Best Action of the Show At the Expense of Its Many Plotlines

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While Winstead is as charming as ever in the role, this narrative feels unnecessary to the show as a whole. We then spend significant time with Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) and the recently rediscovered Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi) as they banter like the long-lost friends they are.

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In contrast, the seventh episode gives us far too little of Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson), who marked himself as the show’s most fascinating character in the last episode.

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For a show that’s a continuation of Star Wars RebelsAhsoka has done an excellent job of inviting viewers unfamiliar with that show into its narrative and functioned well as a standalone show about Rebels (not so much with other pieces of Star Wars media, but more on that in a moment).

TOO MANY (AND SOME QUESTIONABLE) IRONS IN THE FIRE

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It’s a shame because Winstead and Dawson have fantastic chemistry, and their few scenes together at the start of the show and in the fifth episode are a joy to watch. But by and large, Ahsoka leaves Hera behind.

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Much of the episode sees Ahsoka arrive from hyperspace near Peridea and avoid several threats before she touches down on the planet. First, while still in the mouth of the Purrgil, they’ve traveled with, she and trusted droid Huyang (David Tennant) realize that the villains have surrounded the planet with mines.

BEST ACTION SO FAR

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But the mines aren’t the only threat. Soon, enemy fighters engage the T-6, following it into the Purrgil boneyard that forms Peridea’s rings. These dogfights are thrillingly choreographed and shot like those in the show’s third and best episode.

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The episode takes baby steps on both a character level; the sadly more annoying than charming scenes with Ezra and Sabine don’t develop those characters meaningfully, and on a grander narrative level, the central plot point of the episode is Ahsoka’s reunion with her students.

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ACTION AT THE EXPENSE OF GROWTH

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It’s the best episode of the show regarding its action sequences, outpacing even the third episode, but it fails to combine action with storytelling in the same way that episode did.

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