At one point, Ahsoka smiled in this episode and it made me wish we could get a Star Wars show that didn’t feature a dour, moody, stoic protagonist for once.I just find the way she’s written very perplexing. Why is she being written as a 20-year-old when she’s at least 30 by now? She’s written as young and naïve and impulsive, but she’s a veteran of war, a Mandalorian fighter, a (admittedly terrible) Jedi apprentice. I like Sabine but I’m confused by her character.Of course, this being Star Wars and Disney, some of the episode just didn’t click: Another galaxy to explore sounds pretty cool also. I’m mostly just happy that the bad guys made it out in time and that we’ll (maybe) get to Thrawn sooner than later. The hyperspace ring is cool and the jump that Holdo-maneuvered half of Hera’s X-Wings was pretty neat.Not sure exactly how she would end up there instead of dead but hopefully that’s all explained. This is also where Ezra Bridger once saved Ahsoka, and could even be another pathway to Ezra and Thrawn’s location. Speaking of the World Between Worlds, this appears to be where Ahsoka finds herself after being cast off the cliffside by Baylan.Of course, Anakin showing up at the end (presumably in the World Between Worlds, since he’s not a Force Ghost) represents a third option for the Fallen Jedi in the title. In some ways, her path and her master’s path represent a chaos that is fundamentally vulnerable to Sith influence, whereas Baylan’s peculiar restraint feels more traditionally Jedi. She isn’t actually a Jedi, but she was Anakin’s apprentice and she abandoned him and the Jedi Order, striking out on her own path.

Ahsoka could also be viewed as a Fallen Jedi (which is also a nice reference to the Respawn video games).Nice to see this variety (though I have a couple quibbles for later). Shin Hati fights with a ferocious, wild abandon. Ahsoka wields her blade more like a katana. Baylan is fighting with the style of a European knight, battling with a heavy great sword. I love the lightsaber combat in this episode.There’s so much to unpack with Baylan, I can’t wait to see where the show takes him. When he mind-tricks Sabine, preying on her love of Ezra and her resentment toward Ahsoka, he promises he won’t harm her, and he keeps to his word when Shin Hati tries to Force choke her moments later. His reluctance to fight Ahsoka-“How inevitable,” he says with a heavy sigh-shows that he is much more than merely evil.

He is a Dark Jedi, but he’s not the only Force user in this episode who could be referred to as a Fallen Jedi.

Baylan is the most interesting character in this show and one of the most intriguing new Star Wars characters since the original trilogy.

Fans had a lot of theories, but when Ahsoka makes quick work out of him and nothing more than smoke and gases erupt from his cut-through torso it becomes clear that he was just a nobody.

The mysterious Marrock turned out to be nothing more than a reanimated Inquisitor brought back to life by the Nightsister, Morgan Elsbeth.

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