Ahsoka's Finale is DISAPPOINTING... (review) 

I can see this opinion is quite controversial - but I wish it ended on a better note. Overall though, I'm really happy we got so many awesome moments in Ahsoka. And it's a step in a good direction for Disney/Lucasfilm! Let me know your thoughts about the show and the finale below! Come follow me on Twitter! - twitter.com/100PerStarWars

I think that a good solution to the whole part about Thrawn not doing the optimal thing would be to make it so that they were still bringing the cargo to the Chimaera, and create some tension between Thrawn wanting to lift the ship and depart, and the three Great Mothers insisting on bringing every single box to the ship, refusing to go otherwise.

I really think they should have just done another seasons of Rebels. And by that I also mean animated. The bad batch looks great, that technology has come a long way since the first season of the Clone Wars. I think by going with animation they could have done a real season of say 15-18 episodes. Not the 8 short episodes that we got.

I didn't even realize that was the season finale, it felt like the second to last episode of the season, no the finale

Is it not possible that Thrawn didn't bring the Chimera to the Eye of Sion because he simply couldn't? It is missing its two main engines.

He was introduced as a genius and a threat in a way that undermined him, because they did it backwards. In the old Thrawn novels, Thrawn was essentially an unknown that nobody was prepared to deal with. They gave him a series of military victories against the New Republic’s best, while the heroes were off doing other things. Meanwhile, they showcased how Thrawn was able to win by his deductive reasoning and his fascination with his opponent’s cultural influences. They had Thrawn slowly reveal his plans for us, while the heroes spent their time trying to gain intel. Thrawn didn’t trust any Force user because they were wildcards capable of the impossible, without precautions. And so, he found ways to stall and distract them and pitted them against each other, and with shielding against them. He strung his Force user ally along for good measure so that they won’t completely turn against himself, as they needed him as much as they believed that Thrawn needed them. Meanwhile, nobody knew how to deal with Thrawn, since they didn’t know exactly who he was, what he was doing, or were well positioned to take him out or what his next plans and grand plan were. And he was only stopped by the unexpected after a series of his major victories pushed the New Republic to near the breaking point. while the Force users were tied up out of the way. And all the while, everyone was glade that the bulk of the Imperial Remnant sat back. What Filoni and his team are doing with Ahsoka is the opposite of that. Rather than the New Republic fleet being.split up trying to stabilize their territories and so couldn’t commit to a new war. In Ahsoka, they have a war fleet just hanging around presumably in anticipation of a major threat like Thrawn. The team that they have dealing with Thrawn, already know him, have experience with him style, they are half Jedi, who have been shown in another earlier series’ to have a neck for foiling his plans, and Thrawn, himself. And that team’s goal is just to get to him to either stop his return or to finish off Thrawn for good. As for Thrawn and his distrust of Force users except as useful distractions? He immediately sent out the two Dark Jedi who chose to help him, and whom probably understood that Thrawn just wanted them gone,.. while also his plans are completely dependent on his Force using allies (who are mostly unknown and whom most likely have their own agenda) without any precautions. And why did Thrawn need to wait for Morgan to arrive before he started to load his Death Troopers? Which the team doesn’t seem to interested in, beyond the ones that they needed to cut down to get to Thrawn’s ship for a ride home and to get to Thrawn himself. And the Death Troopers effectively just amounts to Thrawn having more Storm Troopers than he has. It’s just backwards.

I don’t have a problem with her using the Force, it just feels cheap and waters her character down. In Rebels, she felt like Han Solo. As in, everyone has Force Potential, but for some people it is so minute it manifests in things that seem like “luck” or being the best pilot in the Galaxy. It made it feel like normal people were still special even though they couldn’t lift rocks or mind trick people. Sabine felt like more of a badass without her Jedi handicap.

I respect your assessment but I do disagree. I feel there are many reasons that could explain issues you had with the story. Something simple like your first point, maybe Thrawn’s destroyer was unable to make orbit on its own power with its crippled engines.

They put the crab people in dangers way by hovering along over them for no good reason.

This Thrawn is dumb. Common sense: Finishes loading the ship. Flies away / Bombs the tower 3 stooges (No disrespect for the 3 Stooges) *Surprised Pikachu face.

What a train wreck.... How can something with 6 decent episodes of build up fall apart so spectacularly in the last 2 episodes? I was all in till the shit that was EP 7. Every character has no clear motives other than Thrawn. And even he behaves like an idiot instead of a genius mastermind he is supposed to be. I give this episode a 6\10 but the whole show is now a 5 for me. Filoni has failed big time and the whole show just feels like an excuse to have that moment of Anakin and Ahsoka together. Everything else is senseless and meaningless. This was very telling in the last 10 mins of the last episode. Almost like they were saying "this is what we left on the cutting room floor but didn't have the budget to execute, but give us a good rating so we can try again in season 2!" No thanks... I am sick of mediocrity. Is it so much to ask to get a good season 1 before we even think about season 2? Like, what did I just watch? If you can't do proper set ups and pay of in the first season, what makes you think that I will stick around or want a season 2? This show had to be nothing short of amazing to bring Starwars back on track and it's struggling just to be good. Poor Ray acting his heart out with no real material to work with. I'm glad it's over.

You might be the best star wars reference out there man, keep up your genuine great work.

Why can't the writing... just be better? Blow me away come on!

Sabine and Hera facing no consequences is lame. The charge to the tower is very stupid to a comedic extent. Balen and Shin not really getting anything from the finale was weird. Having the decision to show Ezra reunite with Hera later on kills any potential tension that could be had from him navigating an imperial ship with 3 force sensitive Nightsisters that could sense him. Episode 6 was the only episode in this show I actually liked because it introduced Thrawn well, revealed Baylen's motivations (even if they're kinda Kreia derivative), and made me like a moment with Ezra in it for the first time.

Honestly I think the show is very mediocre. Also the reunion with the rebels felt disappointing & just boring. Thrawn kept making foolish decisions. The writing in the show felt very sloppy and that is surprising coming from Filoni. The guy wrote the clone wars and rebels but he allows this to be written. It’s just really confusing lol 😂

I guess those theories about Abeloth aren't look to crazy now huh xD

Ugh you're right! If Thrawn was going to bring the eye of scion down the atmosphere he could have at least moved the Chimera away from the temple so no one could jump on.

About the Chimera: The in-atmosphere flight was possible, because of repulsor lifts. Anti-gravity generators that allow vehicles to fly through a magnet effect and these things are responsible for preventing the badly damaged Chimera fall into Minas Tirith. However, it's impossible to leave a planet with just a repulsor lift. And looking at the engines of the Chimera those aren't a great help either. The Eye of Sion had to fly into the atmosphere, because the Chimera was unable to leave the gravity well. With that said, there is no reason why he stayed on his vulnerable position.

It was odd to me too. The moment they told Thrawn that the cargo is ready I was like: "Alright... Let's go." Could the ship not break atmosphere anymore without the ring? Was it too damaged? Has it been hovering planet side for years? I Guess so. Then we got turtle people. Why were they sticking around with them for so long? It's not like anyone cares about them. Thrawn certainly doesn't. In fact, their starship hovering over them is what made the turtle people a target and put them in danger. If they really wanted to protect them, then leave them alone. Besides you're about to jump a couple of million light-years away from them, which was the plan all along. A plan that only Ezra succeeds in. I didn't think about it until you said it, but he was just happy to be back. Ahsoka? Sabine? Who that? As long as I got my bitch ass back home. It was a 2 for 1 trade. A massive net loss because Thrawn is back now too.

Fantastic video. You’ve managed to capture exactly how I feel. I really like the show but the last two episodes disappointed me and the finale was dreadfully frustrating for all the reasons you mention. Agree about Sabines force moments too. At the same time you acknowledge the shows strengths. Excellent balanced take and we’re of the same mind.

The whole battle would have been an insult to: total war easy mode :D, but overall i really liked the show and appreciate your reviews.

Thrawn read Ahsoka like a book( i do think Thrawn was testing himself as he hasn't had a real challenge for 10+yrs ) Action scenes was crazy The sword of talzan was cool Chopper knew immediately that it was Ezra (needed zeb in this scene) Baylan and Shin were like forgotten characters Left on a cliffhanger 😤(now have to wait like 2yrs for the next part)

Thrawn return to the galaxy and plan conquest galaxy once again long live age of thrawn 🫡

The ending was done for greed rather then story other wise the story would have ended. Still haven't seen Ahsoka on the lava river between Anakin and Obiwan. I was hoping Ahsoka would go back in time and save Anakin so he and Padme could live to together without Palpatine causing trouble.

I think the main problem with this show is the mismatch in abilities between protagonist and antagonist. In my opinion the best Thrawn novels are where he plays the protagonist. He can then fight agaisnt the odds and fully showcase his abilities. Unfortunately, this is the role that the Jedi hero character typically takes, albeit with very different resources. Also, in this series, Thrawn has to use his military assets to fight Jedi. This is a mismatch in scale and quantity, in order for there to be a fight. And you basically know that a laserturret or stormtrooper will never take down a Jedi... This mismatch in scale also forces the writers to put their characters in very awkward unnatural positions. Additionally, Thrawn is known to checkmate his opponent before the encounter even begins. And given the setting of this series, that is is not something he can do consistently. I hope they will put Thrawn in an underdog position in the second season. Doing that would honor both the integrity of the character and the universe. It would also make for an interesting story. At the same time that will probably necessitate for the New Republic and Jedi to appear somewhat inept. But that is only natural given the circumstances. I just hope they don't dumb it down too much. Like you, I was not impressed by the Thrawn of the first season.

I was so eager to hear your review after watching the episode haha. I agree 100%

this is the huge limitation of show nowadays, 8 episodes per season is absolutely not enough, it should be at least 12

tbh i strongly disagree i really liked finale althogh it aint perfect 8/10

I was never hyped because of that I feel neutral not so bad but not so good either 5/10

dave filoni is not a good writer he is a good producer that can oversee shows but his writing is awful

Heavily disagree on how Thrawn is written. Thrawn made every right decision tactically. The only issue really just comes down to plot armor over and over. The chimera needed an explanation why it didn't go up higher, most likely because its in dis-repair

It was an awful finale. Sabine rey 2.0 jedi mary sue is not believable and it really, really ruins the show. She goes from failing to move a cup to being as good a jedi as ezra and ahsoka.... it's such a joke. I hope this show does not get a season 2.

This show is so meh

alot of this episode played like an episode of the Clone Wars or Rebels. Action takes top priority and if you think too much on some elements of it than it loses it's appeal, and I don't mind that about this episode and the whole series as a whole. Now I do have my own issues with the show, but overall, I enjoyed it. and in defense of Thrawn, You can't blame the guy, he has been out of it for awhile and he is going to lose some of his edge. Maybe the chimera lost it's space travel capabitily and needed the aid of the Eye of Sion to get it into space. I mean, the ship does look beat up, it’s a miracle it’s even flying to begin with. and would explain why Thrawn was on the Eye instead of the Chimera. Maybe the reason why Thrawn didn't take off when he should of was cause he was stalling for time so that Morgan could get back on the ship after she was done dealing with Ahsoka and her crew. But when Morgan failed he just went on to blow the place to hell, I mean, he did look a little dishearted when he learned of her death. The important thing about this is that in the end, Ahsoka and her team failed, Thrawn made it back to the galaxy and maybe from there, we'll start seeing more of the Thrawn we know.

The first episodes especially the one that had Sabine get stabbed like qui-gon were some of the worst imo

I didn’t even bother with this show. It’s sadly gotten to the point where a re release of Dark Forces has me more excited than whatever crap is coming out of Lucasfilms

Why was this show live action? Something tells me we would be a bit more forgiving if it was animated. Then again, there would have been little chance to gain the non-cartoon audience they were looking to get. In the end, I doubt they gained any new sw fans from this show…

Thank you for the video Mr. Mocha Meatbag 😘❤

Yup. I didnt hate the the show itself either. The finale isnt all that bad imo but I could've added more depth to Thrawn, Ashoka and Sabine if it was handled better. Actually, did anyone here liked this finale 100%? Or you agree that I could've been so much more? Man, is in those moments that I miss the old EU. But Disney doesnt known how to handle this franchise...

“Look what they did to my boy” meme concerning Thrawn

Best character of the show for me is Baylan.

Its fully possible he might be under a spell at the end

So before they lost the ship, I suppose they could ride the puurghil back, but afterwards they couldn''t? They needed to hitch a ride with Thrawn at that point? But even then, like they fixed the ship and it was fine. Didn't seem like a big deal took like 15 minutes

Sad but not surprising it ended with disappointment!

Ahsoka was pretty fun, but the dialogue was so forgettable to say the least. Not comparable to Andor.

Thrawn made it back. Ezra is back it literally achieved what it was meant to? I fucking hate people sometimes

I feel like this series sucked sadly. When ashoka was flying towards the eye of Sion and they get shot, the ship wasn't damaged. It had sparks but no physical damage to the ship really. They said they lost them off scanners when that happened, but yet I can't look in the line they were flying to see them drifting though there fricken middle of the eye of scion. Idk the bad guys are just written so stupid in this series, and thrawn is the cherry on top of this bull crap.

WOahh im stunned to hear this buddy 😔😪

Thats the problem with "genius" characters ... you need "genius" writers. :-/

I'm not gonna lie, you're right in saying that the finale was a bit of a let down but you've ignored key visual details in the story just for a rant. The Chimera's engines were damaged so the Eye of Scion was needed to get the ship off world not just out of the galaxy. Thrawn tactically and sparingly sends two fighters to disable to ship which if he hadn't they would have potentially left the galaxy with them.

Thanks for the review

I think they could have made a better show out of it, if they hadn’t traveled to another galaxy but to the unknown region where the old sith empire was located. The references they could have made to old Republic ❤ They also could have made hints towards episode 9, sidious and exegol.

Its 100% *NOT* a good show at all. Theres nothing redeeming. I think you're working too hard to dimiss the constant problems.

Idk man it kind of just sounds like you're nitpicking. I swear, all you Star Wars "fans" have such a hard on for ThE WrItInG. That's literally the only defense you've all had for years now. It's played out so much it's just a buzzword now. How to get people to not take you seriously? Constantly talk about the writing.

to me it didnt end weaker than the show ran, it ended as weak as it was. to me, the characters just feel "defiant" - i have no better word to describe it, they just feel like "yeah, didnt work out, but i still did everything correctly and do not deserve any criticism" thrawn IS nothing but a regular Moff/Grandmoff w/o any tactical knowledge all throughout the series, making me sad having hoped for something decent oh, and the lightsabres? yeah, plastoid surviving strikes nonstop but somehow the one inside the armour is "unalived" while the outer layers of plastoid got scarred... at best i would give the show a 3-4 on a scale of 1 to 10 cause the visuals were nice, but the story? sorry, the writing was crap!

I gave up after chapter 4. People went way too crazy at Anakin returning despite the fact that the whole scene had no point and didn't reveal anything important. The pacing and dialog were terrible throughout, but congrats I guess to the Dave Filoni cult. He gave you everything you wanted and exactly what you deserve.

I think there's something that everyone is missing. Sure there were more "common sense" things Thrawn could've done but we all know Thrawn usually doesn't operate that way. He likes to test and feel things out when hes uncertain about stuff to learn any and everything possible about his enemies. In fact, I'm noticing that a lot of people are reacting the VERY SAME WAY a lot of people in Star Wars act around Thrawn when he does stuff they think is dumb or don't understand. And what happens? In the end it turns out Thrawn knows exactly what he is doing and surprises everyone. I think that dynamic is at play here right now. What you all see as "bad writing" is Thrawn doing his usual song and dance. Once this whole series concludes, I think we'll look back on this and see how it makes sense.

Since your first statement is the opposite of the title of the video I’m led to the conclusion this title is clickbait.

While I do agree on the notes about Thrawn, he definitely acted stupid in this episode, I think you're dead wrong about Sabine and the Force in this episode. The whole season was focused on Sabine's struggle with the Force because the Force is not something that can actually be taught, it can't just be trained, and it's why Sabine, someone who trains a lot and excels in many things, has struggled with it. Sabine needed to make a connection, this is especially something we saw with Ezra's character arc through Rebels, his ability with the Force growing as he made connections, and Sabine's arc is mirroring that. Her problem was that she didn't have a strong connection with Ahsoka and was focused on finding Ezra. And once she did, she really started to grow, we saw her handling her blade better, we saw her finally using the Force, and most importantly when it was most important, the chance to finally get Ezra home, she made that connection and was able to use the Force to complete her goal. Now she's going to be forming a connection with Ahsoka.

Soooo, I get all the criticisms. But I want to know. What does the finale look like with Thrawn being the super genius he is? I feel like it would have been far less enjoyable with having someone who’s so overpowered cutting off every line of hope and the finale would have been a whopping 6 minutes, tops. While some criticism is fine and potentially warranted, we have to remember that stories, Star Wars or not, require the audience to have some degree for suspension of disbelief. Now the criticism I totally agree with is Ezra. They’re trying to leak some of that marvel humor into the show with him and I am NOT hear for it.

Didn't like this show one bit and here are my reasons. Ms. Dowson as Ahsoka has 0 emotions on her face except complete apathy and occasional bare visible amusement/anger. Ms. Shin believes herself to be brand new Wednesday with all that non-blinking-while-on-the-screen thing, it's rather annoying for me. World between worlds is bullshit. Ahsoka's character growth is out of nothing and people just went insane and just didn't care for nothing when saw Ani-boy/Vader-Man!. Like a hungry chimp when they see a banana. The traitorous bratty Sabine who just doesn't care about anything or anyone but herself and that annoying little shit Ezra. She basically did " Oh this super evil mega genius bad guy who wants to bring back space nazis may know where my buddy at with tiniest possibility, imma go ask and release him". The show itself is a hollow bullshit that could have been ended in 1st episode with Ahsoka just destroying the map if she wants to prevent Thrawn's return, at all costs, i might add. The show itself, besides being bullshit from disney, is also a huge fan service where people see shit they want and go nuts ignoring loads of bad writing and obvious flaws, they just don't care as long as they get to see they favourite character in live action/again. Also FUCKING SPACE WHALES.

There’s a whole litany of dumb things. Here’s a few. Why didn’t Thrawn send all available fighters ; we see he has many hanging. It’s what proper Thrawn would do if he was done playing. Why didn’t Thrawn just blow up the tower beforehand. Why didn’t the Mothers sense Ezra during the trip when we’ve been shown they can sense someone coming out of hyperspace. There are several more but the point is this finale was trash & they did what we feared by making Thrawn 100% basura

The Chimera probably wasn’t even space worthy the ship was damaged and pulled into deep hyperspace and managed to remain in low orbit for a decade. If you ask me this episode was literally a live action version of a Clone Wars/Rebels episode. You expect far too much from Thrawn my friend. He made several mistakes throughout his tenure as Grand Admiral in not just Canon but in Legends as well. Reread the old Zahn books and you’ll know where I’m getting at.

Welcome to Disney S.W. disappointing.

I thought it was amazing that the Stormtroopers got to be better shots after they became zombies!(they really didn't as they were just as bad living as dead). I don't think they thought that bit out.

A character is only as smart as the person writing them.

If you can leave from low planet orbit, why not bring the eye to you? I think this says more about your lack of understandings of timings(which any athlete or high level gamer knows) than it does about the show.

I was highly disappointed. Besides Andor I've lost all hope in Star Wars production. We can't get good stories nor a KotOR game. Nothing is staying alive and WELL. Ahsoka was almost peak star wars but it's not Peak Hollywood. Have you heard of Wheel of Time? I'd rather be an Aes Sadai right now over a Jedi. Also Star Trek is smarter when it comes to war tactics. I'm so almost done with this franchise.

Did he not review last weeks episode?

I liked it.

Disney and Lucasfilm handling Abeloth is a bigger mistake than trusting the IRS

If people enjoyed it that's great and no shade thrown at them at all. I just have to agree I personally found alot if inconsistencies and plot holes I just couldn't reconcile. But again if people enjoyed it kudos to them.

C´mon, Luke grabbing his lightsaber and Sabine grabbing hers are two different things. Luke is force sensitive, Sabine is just Disney - force - sensitive - she simply can´t grow to a force user.

No idea how anyone can think this show was 'very good' especially given youre liking for the complex morality tale in kotor 2. This show had no characterisatiom of Ahsoka, no surprising moments or anything resembling an interesting thought. Thrawn's return was embarrassing and he struggled against literally a few jedi so how can he hope to pose a threat to the new republic ? Also what was the need for it to be set in a different galaxy ? It totally breaks the canon on hyperdrives. Boring and lazy was Ahsoka.

Dave Fraudloni is not the “saviour of Star Wars”

Uhhhhmmm I agree the show wasn’t so bad after all , I’m sorry to mention but my deepest condolences to George Raymond Stevenson may he rest in peace I didn’t know he passed earlier this year. I must say I loved his character in the series and also I felt his screen presence strongly (he fit the role perfectly) I truly felt that he was a formidable opponent to Ashoka, I just loved to see his take and philosophy on the Jedi order and the Force and I was more curious everytime he was on screen because of his motivations and what was driving his character and inspiring him. (His dark Jedi portrayal was really great in the show and I’m okay with Dave filoni leaving the mystery there to give weight to our characters on screen) Fred/K.S

He speaks like he is Sun Tsu but acts like a dude who plays total war on easy mod (c) 100%StarWars the rancor enjoyer

I completely agree it felt way too rushed and yeah I guess it set it up for a season 2 but yeah for example SPOILERS: They didn't wrap things up with baylin all that well, how did Sabine become all of a sudden finese with the force? Just I dunno i felt let down... that's why I love this channel most the other ones praised this episode but this channel has the same opinions on a lot of star wars that I do, ESPECIALLY kotor

Yeah same. I quite liked the show until the last two episodes.

Ahsoka is DISAPPOINTING... Disney Star Wars is DISAPPOINTING...

Oh wow the guy who only loves kotor hates everything else again, even when it's loaded with kotor-esque lore. What a fucking twist.

Thrawn isn't out of character in the slightest. He has always been the bumbling, pseudo-intellectual, he is in Ahsoka. He's only out of character for the version you have come to want from the EU. A character this Thrawn bastardized and cannibalized for clicks to save time by letting fans conflate the two. They are not the same person. You have never seen a canon intelligent Thrawn.

The writers strike is good. All these talentless hacks need to be replaced.

Hot take: Ahsoka > Andor

I wish they hadn't brought up the Mortis story again. It was nonsense in Clone Wars and we don’t need more of it.

Barring Andor, every season of Star Wars TV has been cringier than the last. I really don't know how you watch this as an adult. It's manufactured for kids

The writers at Star Wars need to be fired

I am glad but surprised so many people liked it. I myself really thought it was meh.

If there's a bloody miracle (apart from me having an "I told ya guys and gals so" face, sorry), it's that Fionna and Cake admittedly fulfilled my expectations of interdimensional shenanigans and Elseworlds/What If?/Infinities scenarios, which Ahsoka woefully lacked despite the appearance of eldritch stuff and the World Between Worlds.

I agree that the finale was subpar. It was a great season overall.