One non-plot plot related point. Loads of the exterior scenes in this episode were shot on the west coast of Scotland, north of Ullapool. It’s an absolutely beautiful, and fucking bleak, part of the world. Highly recommend if you like standing alone in nothingness and feeling small, especially when it’s pissing it down.

Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos.

Easily the best episode so far. As always with star wars I’m sure I can nitpick - why do the pseudo hermit-crab bipedal-lobsters have houses if they also have shells? - but I found the episode to be much more captivating than others so far.

I quite enjoyed the start of the story, and how while yes it’s pure fan service, it also bases the films as stories being told to others. I don’t know why I found this oddly beautiful, but I did, and I really like the idea of Star Wars being this whole, vast, story being told to young students as an education, presumably after all the problems have been solved.

I found Thrawn to be the only redeeming part of this episode. Otherwise the pacing felt so slow I though we were coming to a grinding halt. Sabine knows that she actually needs to hurry in order to have any chance of getting back. But no urgency whatsoever. Finding Ezra also felt way too easy. In all that running time we could have learned something about the turtle people or the circumstance of those raiders.

We’re so spoiled by the CGI and production values of the Star Wars shows but I find the writing really lacking in some aspects.