![]() Clone Troopers spectacularly manifest like ghosts and beseige Ahsoka, who for long stretches of this episode appears younger (played by an actual child actor, Ariana Greenblatt, instead of machine learning buffoonery). ![]() ![]() In what is essentially an interrogation of Ahsoka and her relationship to her former Jedi Master, Filoni’s vision for the character's turmoil is as elegant as it is haunted. And even so, Ahsoka herself is woefully eclipsed by the bombast of Anakin despite the script’s own emphasis of her unrest.īut man, what a story it tells, and how. Perhaps too much, as its secondary story following Hera (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) attempting to locate Ahsoka and a third plot bringing them together lacks the same grandeur and profundity. The A-plot of 'Shadow Warrior' is arresting. Their participation in the Clone Wars was so unusual and out of pocket, it’s why I remain annoyed by Luke’s splashy return in The Mandalorian, but that’s another matter. Swooping into the heat of battle and dominating like Michael Jordan in the fourth quarter isn’t the Jedi way. In Rian Johnson’s divisive (and in my book, fantastic) The Last Jedi, it made sense when Luke rebuffed Rey’s insistence that he rescue the Resistance. The Jedi altogether have a different vibe than, say, the Avengers, even if they’re all in the peacekeeping business. In the decades since Luke’s hallucination, the way of the Jedi has been a distinctly spiritual one. Arguably the most lasting impact of The Empire Strikes Back isn’t Harrison Ford’s enviable winter fits on Hoth or the swagger of both Lando and Boba Fett, it’s the surreal few minutes on Dagobah when Luke meditates and finds hints that his greatest enemy, Darth Vader, is closer to himself than he might care to know. Star Wars is at its best when it looks inward.
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