Opens with Hera in court unable and unwilling to provide evidence for Thrawn's return even though she's uncovered Imperials building a hyperspace drive in a Republic shipyard, for a spaceship so powerful it can can travel to another galaxy - something that hasn't been done for so long it's considered legend.
The guy who's questioning her, who is going to be revealed no doubt as working for the Empire, is absolutely right - she is a military officer who has provided no proof for her reasons to disobey orders, orders which led to the death of two pilots.
Why doesn't she show them the scans of the ship, or explain who killed those pilots and why?
The writers are so stupid this doesn't even occur to them. They don't even realise they should provide this evidence to make Hera look heroic and then it will also reinforce the ineptitude of the man questioning her if he still rejects her reasons, and her evidence, for disobeying orders.
He says her story sounds like a children's fairy tale but here he's mistaken because at least children's fairy tales are entertaining. They also have a moral lesson, something Ahsoka has never heard of.
Rather than justifying her actions a shiny convenience in the shape of C3PO appears to get her out of trouble, which not only takes away any agency from Hera but also makes the person questioning her correct in wanting to strip her of all authority.
Then Hera reveals to Mon Mothma that C3PO was lying and rather than doing her job Mon Mothma says 'how real is the danger that Thrawn will return?' Hera still does not provide any evidence, even to the leader of the Republic, the person who just broke the law to help her, that Thrawn is returning.
WTF is wrong with these writers? How unbelievably stupid do you have to be to get a job writing for Disney Star Wars?
None of these people should ever be allowed near a script ever again.
The we have Ahsoka practicing so slowly with her lightsabers, though to be fair she also fights at this speed, holding her lightsabers backwards because the writers think it looks cool when in fact it just means they know nothing about fighting and also makes Ahsoka incapable of fighting. It may work in animation but in live-action it renders her useless.
De-aged Anakin hologram appears, looking rubbish again.
Then on to Ahsoka's moronic plan.
Huyang raises the reasonable objection that they don't know where Sabine is and have no maps or star charts for the unknown galaxy so how are they supposed to find her.
Ahsoka says 'Sabine came here with the enemy, we find the enemy we find her.'
Maybe, but that still doesn't answer his question because you also have no idea where the enemy is so how are you going to find them? Answer the bloody question you ridiculous idiot.
'Direct and to the point, as always.' Huyang says. No she isn't. She didn't answer your question. That's the complete opposite of being direct and to the point.
I just have to pretend he's being sarcastic and is taking the piss out of her.
Moron Ahsoka takes it as a compliment, of course.
'You are assuming the whales have taken us to the correct galaxy.' Huyang says.
Yeah, and the correct planet, in fact to the exact spot where they arrived in this vast galaxy.
The Force in Disney Star Wars is just whatever the writers want it to be, a magic glue that seals shut every gaping plot hole.
The whales emerge from hyperspace into a minefield.
This is Thrawn's attempt, established in the previous episode, to destroy the whales with prejudice. Of course it doesn't destroy them. But it does seem to hurt them.
The whales don't stop but just plough through, getting repeatedly hit by exploding bombs.
How does Ahsoka, the character we're supposed to care about, feel about these poor whales which have brought her to another galaxy, to the precise spot she needed, getting hit by all of these exploding mines?
'At least the whales are providing some cover.' Huyang says.
The whales jump into hyperspace to escape, and Ahsoka says 'You had to say something.'
So Ahsoka, our hero, is upset that the living shields, the poor space whales getting hit by repeated explosions, have left to save their own lives because it potentially puts her life in danger.
Though of course it doesn't because nothing can hurt her, not even death.
On to a boring and pointless chase scene where her ship is shot hundreds of times without sustaining any damage, she flies into the bone graveyard of dead spacewhales which Huyang says is too dense to fly into and is instantly proven wrong as she flies into it.
Laptops should just explode when these writers sit in front of them.
The dreams in the title of this episode are the dreams of the writers imagining that one day they might actually write something that isn't complete drivel and the madness is the fact they believe it.
Dave Filoni needs to stick to cartoons or retire.
This show is awful.
Thrawn is an idiot with plans that make no sense, Ezra is a Jedi who doesn't want his lightsaber, Ahsoka is a dull bore, Hera is an irresponsible moron, Sabine is an insufferable twit, this show should never have seen the light of day.
Horrific.
Thrawn's dialogue is atrocious.
He says 'we need to control all variables.' without making a plan to do anything like that. In fact, as established in a previous episode, one of those variables is Sabine, who he had imprisoned and therefore 'controlled' before releasing her, doing the exact opposite of what he's suggesting in this episode.
My god, is there not a single living brain cell in the writers room?
Rather than controlling the variable of Sabine by either keeping her imprisoned or killing her when he had the chance, he armed her, gave her a mount and supplies and the last-known whereabouts of another one of those variables in the form of Ezra!
No wonder his eyes are red, his brain is bleeding out of his face to flee it's own stupidity.
Incredibly, it gets worse.
Sabine and Ezra and the crabs are moving across the planet surface in their levitating homes, and Ezra says 'so the Emperor is dead?'
Sabine: 'That's what they say.'
Why would she have any reason to doubt this?
He blew up in the middle of the Death Star in an explosion that turned that weapon into dust.
The only reason this line is in this episode is because of the sequels. But Sabine has no idea that the sequels exist. She is, an admittedly ludicrous, character that should absolutely believe that the Empire was defeated, and that Luke Skywalker and the Rebellion defeated and killed both the Emperor and Darth Vader.
That story would be the most famous story in this galaxy. Luke Skywalker would be a name that everyone would know and the Emperor's death, and the Empire's downfall, was an event celebrated around the galaxy.
This show is so stupid it hurts.
I can't be bothered to continue but it does actually get worse, with even more contrivances that drain the last drops of drama and suspense from this turgid show, not that there was any really, until it limps to a conclusion that absolutely nobody with a functioning mind would find interesting or captivating in any way.
Ahsoka from the beginning has been dull and boring, and has somehow managed to go downhill from there.
The second season will get cancelled and Filoni's movie will get cancelled because the only people who care about this are shills and shiteposters, and that is not an audience that can sustain a franchise.
Since the first Disney Star Wars movie I've been dismayed at the direction this once beloved franchise has taken but I never imagined we would get to this point.
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