I have to wonder what they saw, and how much of that we'll see in near-future episodes. Maul is clearly after something specific -- some one specific, apparently now -- and I thought I heard Ezra say "twin suns" which sounds very Tatooine. Iiinteresting...
I hope the "he" in "he lives" is not Savage. But who else could it be ? Maul should be aware that Palpatine, his former master, is still there. He could mean Kenobi with he sure has a score to settle. Otherwise I didn't know who "he" could be and Savage would certainly be an ally for Maul.
Yay, the Sith holocron and Bendu are back - not the best circumstances though... :o
I really wonder how Maul will continue.
So Kanan's real name is "Kaleb Doom"? I wonder if that'll become relevant again.
Some nice bonding / trust building between Kanan and Ezra.
"Once a secret is known, it cannot be unknown."
"He lives." - I wonder how "he" is? Is it his brother or someone else?
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2016-12-03T04:46:07Z
7.1/10. Kind of an underwhelming followup to the otherwise quality season premiere. I raved of Sam Witwer's performance as Darth Maul in the S2 finale, but this episode reminded me why he rubbed the wrong way occasionally in The Clone Wars show. There's times when he speaks with the perfect Machiavellian malevolence, but there's other times when he gets into scene-chewing, mustache-twirling villainy and it triggers a bit of eyerolling on my part. Maul can be such an interesting, sometimes subdued, sometimes boisterous character, but when he's all ham and venom, it doesn't really work for me.
Still, it was enjoyable seeing the rest of the Ghost crew dealing with him while Kanan (Caleb Doom? What kind of name is that?) and Ezra were off trying to find the Sith holocron. There's an ingenuity and teamwork there that we haven't gotten to see as much as the characters have been given their own individual episodes and missions that's welcome. And the lot of them as reluctant hostages while Maul stalks through the halls of The Ghost and plots his next move worked well.
I was less on board with the whole Kanan and Ezra routine. While Ezra hugging Kanan, and showing his master that he still trusts and needs him was nice, it felt rushed. And returning to the Bendu well so quickly after we met him in the season premiere made that whole deal feel rushed. It's too quick a resolution to the pair's troubles, even if Kanan absolving Ezra and saying he never blamed him in the first place is a pleasant beat. I like Bendu, and I like the show dealing with how Kanan and Ezra's relationship was changed, but it needed to lay some more groundwork before it went here.
As for the third act, Kanan rescuing the rest of the crew after a doublecross by Maul worked well to separate him from Ezra but then prove useful. On the other hand, the prophecy with the combined holocrons didn't do much for me. The bright light was kind of cool, but the film negative coloring came off as kind of hokey, as did the vague declarations about the future. "Twin suns" seems like an obvious reference to Tatooine, especially given that Ezra wanted to know how to defeat the Sith (something that Luke does), and Maul's "hope" and "he lives" could mean anything -- Obi Wan? A reanimated Savage Oppress? The Emperor? It's cryptic, but more in an opaque way than an intriguing way.
Overall, not the best way to kickstart the season proper, but solid enough on most counts.