Wow that was excellent. And supposedly this is the relative low point of the season!
Scattered thoughts:
Episode 1 was probably the weakest because it had a lot to setup and the contrast between the truly horrifying (and based on real historical events)
Imperial meetings about Ghorman with
Cassian encountering those absolute moron rebels. Although the commentary the latter is going for makes sense.
Loved Cassian
struggling to fly the TIE Avenger like it was a ship in a video game ha.They were only in it for a couple of minutes but those Ministry of Enlightenment guys made my skin crawl.
Episode 2 was great and better than episode 1.
Really good development for Perrin.
That speech was genuinely touching!Episode 3 was
incredible, one of the best of the show.
First of all, the Bix stuff needs to be talked about (content warning sa).
Quite shocking they went there, not so much in the attempted rape scene itself, that I could probably see them getting away with, but I am amazed that they actually said the word out loud. Its a harrowing sequence but also an important one as its dealing with real exploitation and sexual violence that happens in situations like that. My concern however is that between this and the torture scene from season 1 Bix has now been subjected to probably the two darkest scenes in all of Star Wars and I hope she is built on positively from here so shes not just getting victimised all the time. Shes a great character and performance as she showed when she killed that bastard, shes just been through it!A contrast that really, really worked was the contrast between the horrors infolding above and Mon Mothma
going absolutely ham on the dance floor.On a
much lighter note,
the Syril/Dedra/ Eedy sequence, lol, lmao even. Apparently him lying on the bed distraught was improvised.The looks on everybodys faces in the last scene had me tearing up.
WazzupGenius00 posted... Was Kleya hitting on Vel for a second there
I actually viewed this as being the other way around,
Vel hitting on Kleya, like Jleya says surveying the prospects and Vel goes okay then Im going to survey you. Speaking of that storyline, the episode 3 reveal of
Cinta was really well done, I thought theyd been written out then it hits you.