Rescue on Ryloth

I don't know, sometimes everything gets so stupidly unreal in the star wars universe, two girls against a whole squad of stupid empire soldiers.

It gets boring to see things like that.

I didn't review last week's episode because I didn't have a lot to say about it. It felt like the first part of a two-part arc, so I kinda knew that we were going back to Ryloth this week, and it felt more realistic to review both episodes as a big episode. My overall thoughts, though, about last week's episode was that it was fine, but not one of the more interesting episodes. However, with the arc now finished, I know get that there was a lot more brewing, and this episode really felt like it continued to explore the themes I've loved so far.

It felt like a safe bet that we would be going to Ryloth at some point in this show as it has had a frequent role in the animated shows. We're going through all the places that we know and are meeting up with characters that we've met before, and I think the first season is largely going to be exactly that, and that they will move away from this structure if they get to come back. However, with this episode, we got a lot of setpieces that were planted to set up what comes down the road for Cham Syndulla and his role in creating the rebel alliance. However, the main focus of the episode was showing how Hera came into her own, and that was an interesting point of view to take. Her interactions with Omega felt very honest and I liked how they left it all very ambiguous. What the episode did very well that I didn't expect was go into the thoughts of certain clone troopers who don't see eye-to-eye with what the Empire is doing. I like the exploration of consciousness in this show and how they force the clones to deal with their actions during Order 66 and what it has resulted in. The character in this episode was great and I hope that we get to see more of him in the future. If not, I believe they have sparked something that will be apparent throughout the rest of the show and may have an impact on everyone.

"Rescue on Ryloth" is a good end to a two-parter that began a little slow but came to a great conclusion. Showing were certain characters come from is what this show does, and they do it again here to great results, while also planting seeds for what may have become the end of the clones.

This episode is epic and has a very interesting ending. Its a huge step up from last week's 'detour' and is just so fun!

WIth the arcs of clone wars coming back to the forefront its great to see an episode that doesnt have to lay down the story for the first 5 mins but straight back to where it left off, with both Syndullas in prison and the new Governor who has to be Vice Admiral Rampart trying to find out where Hera has gone. There's still some doubt in Clone Captains Howzers face in whether this is the right thing to be doing.

Rampart is certainly a step up from Pryce who was the last Imperial that wasn't apart of the military. More cunning in his words and certainly more ruthless after last weeks episode. Not to the level of Thrawn but up to scratch with Tarkins performance in Rebels. Even in his questioning of Howzer who should be following each and every order there a underlying tone to everything.

With an encrypted message to the BB we finally have them involved in the story, another rescue from the Empire to secure a valuable target. The smalls of the different enhancements to the BB is great with just a small nod HUnter springs into action to take out a Probe droid, no explanation just gets the job done.

Big explosions and a decoy for the squad to get through but throwing in the line about becoming a pilot seems like they've got the TROS writers in and have to spoon feed the audience. Just jump in a shuttle and show she cant fly. Would love for the the shuttle they confiscated to have been the ghost seems like a missed opportunity.

In the final moments it seems as though the amount of clones that are not affected by the chips or still have free will seems to be increasing. Order 66 is final but after that clones are still a living being to make there own choices.

It continues the previous episode and it makes it very interesting and tied with other shows. I found it very interesting, my only criticism would be that Hunter defers too easily to Omega wishes. But I truly enjoyed this one.