A Slow Ka

Last night's Ahsoka had some good qualities but, on the whole, it was another insubstantial episode. The action scenes were a little better though the show's lacking in good fight choreography. I was watching the last episodes of the second season of Iron Fist on Monday and when a show is outshone by Iron Fist you know there's a problem.

The late Ray Stevenson was good as Baylan and he did his best with Filoni's bone-headed dialogue, some of which was unintentionally funny last night. When he told Ahsoka that Anakin used to talk about her and she replied, "He never mentioned you," I thought, "But you don't know his name yet." Maybe Filoni hopes you'll forget such details in the vast space between lines.

SABINE: "Don't worry about me."

AHSOKA: "I'm not."

SABINE: "Good."

AHSOKA: "Should I be?"

SABINE: "What?"

AHSOKA: "Worried."

Oy vey. Filoni could write a book, How to Fill Five Minutes with Three Seconds of Dialogue. I said, "Worried," at the screen twice before Ahsoka said it. It reminded me of the sloth DMV scene from Zootopia.

By the way, worried is used as an adjective here and worry as a verb. The dialogue should have been, "Should I?" "What?" "Worry." Then Sabine could've said, "I just said don't!" and we could have kept the meaningless merry-go-round going for another ten minutes.

Ray Stevenson was good but, boy, Sabine giving the map to him was really dumb. Why did she assume he wouldn't kill her? Why didn't he kill her? What code of honour does he have? I saw people were joking about how Ahsoka criticised Grogu for feeling attachment to Din but seems to have turned a blind eye to Sabine's fanatical devotion to Ezra. A sure sign that a guy can't write female characters is that they spend all their time obsessing with male characters and it appears to be their sole motivation.

The episode ended with Ahsoka in the World Between Worlds where she found an eerily smooth skinned Anakin. You're out of luck if you haven't seen Rebels or Clone Wars. It would've been a lot cooler when Hayden Christensen called her "Snips" if people talked at the same natural pace on this show they did on Clone Wars.

I'm not a fan of the World Between Worlds introduced on Rebels. It's basically a way for characters to cheat death, another way to lower the stakes, and for the show to wallow in nostalgia. But I guess that's the name of the game here.

Ahsoka is available on Disney+.