[6.6/10] It’s a shame when the things that I enjoy about an episode are the details it points to about the universe and the things it’s teasing in terms of season-length arcs rather than anything actually done within the episode. I find it really interesting that the First Order stormtroopers are mentally conditioned and can get “mind scraped” when they act out. I’m also intrigued by the idea that the First Order is interested in the Colossus because it’s the perfect refueling station for a military supply line. But man, Kaz pretending to be a Stormtrooper and Tam having a half-hearted lesson that the First Order can be bad is really uninspiring stuff.
There’s at least the germ of a good idea with Tam. I like that the Empire gave her grandfather a job, and that having never had a run-in with the First Order, she’s apt to trust and feel protected by their authority rather than be suspicious of it. And I appreciate that after she hears the kids’ sob story, she at least starts to question whether she might be myopic in her perspective. But for the time being, it’s undercooked. If it motivates a gradual change-of-heart from Tam down the line, I might eat my words, but for now I wish we got more exploration of Tam’s perspective and less zany Kaz hijinks.
Again, Kaz is just the worst spy ever. He’s terrible at pretending to be a stormtrooper, talks to himself about his plans constantly, and stumbles into dangerous situations and gets out of them on sheer luck and slapstick. To paraphrase Frank Grimes, if he were on any other T.V. show, he’d have been captured and killed years ago. Him imitating his fellow troopers, getting into a tug of war with a First Order ball droid, and getting into yet another wacky chase just went on forever.
I’ll admit I appreciate the cleverness of Team Kaz switching the armor back on the original stormtrooper before Kaz’s brain gets wiped, but even there, the fish-tossing, trooper-shocking, CTE-inducing capers with the knocked out trooper didn’t do much for me either.
Overall, this is an episode that’s interesting for what it tells us about the Star Wars universe cerca the sequel trilogy, and what it hints at for the series as a whole, but not for anything that really happens in these 22 minutes of adventures.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2019-02-19T05:27:34Z
[6.6/10] It’s a shame when the things that I enjoy about an episode are the details it points to about the universe and the things it’s teasing in terms of season-length arcs rather than anything actually done within the episode. I find it really interesting that the First Order stormtroopers are mentally conditioned and can get “mind scraped” when they act out. I’m also intrigued by the idea that the First Order is interested in the Colossus because it’s the perfect refueling station for a military supply line. But man, Kaz pretending to be a Stormtrooper and Tam having a half-hearted lesson that the First Order can be bad is really uninspiring stuff.
There’s at least the germ of a good idea with Tam. I like that the Empire gave her grandfather a job, and that having never had a run-in with the First Order, she’s apt to trust and feel protected by their authority rather than be suspicious of it. And I appreciate that after she hears the kids’ sob story, she at least starts to question whether she might be myopic in her perspective. But for the time being, it’s undercooked. If it motivates a gradual change-of-heart from Tam down the line, I might eat my words, but for now I wish we got more exploration of Tam’s perspective and less zany Kaz hijinks.
Again, Kaz is just the worst spy ever. He’s terrible at pretending to be a stormtrooper, talks to himself about his plans constantly, and stumbles into dangerous situations and gets out of them on sheer luck and slapstick. To paraphrase Frank Grimes, if he were on any other T.V. show, he’d have been captured and killed years ago. Him imitating his fellow troopers, getting into a tug of war with a First Order ball droid, and getting into yet another wacky chase just went on forever.
I’ll admit I appreciate the cleverness of Team Kaz switching the armor back on the original stormtrooper before Kaz’s brain gets wiped, but even there, the fish-tossing, trooper-shocking, CTE-inducing capers with the knocked out trooper didn’t do much for me either.
Overall, this is an episode that’s interesting for what it tells us about the Star Wars universe cerca the sequel trilogy, and what it hints at for the series as a whole, but not for anything that really happens in these 22 minutes of adventures.