On top of being a live-action Rebels Season 5 and semi-heir to the Empire retelling, Ahsoka wants to position itself as another link between Star Wars’ original series and the sequel trilogy — a way to explore how the New Republic’s filings blinded them to Imperial schemes under their watch and laid the groundwork for the First Order’s rise, presumably aided in part by Grand Admiral Thrawn’s return. Of course, that new war is at least a decade away, and, at just over half an hour, “Part Three: Time to Fly” struggles to convey all this detail in a neat package. But it makes up for that with some classic Star Wars dogfighting and the return of many familiar faces.As a B-plot, the New Republic scenes only make up a fraction of “Time to Fly,” but these conversations remain deliberately unnerving. Hera, now convinced that Thrawn is still alive, attempts to present her Corellian shipyard discoveries to Chancellor Mon Mothma (a returning Genevieve O’Reilly) in hopes of providing Ahsoka and Sabine with military backup. Unfortunately, this is stymied by Mothma’s senators — including Hamato Xiono (Nelson Lee), the father of Star Wars Resistance protagonist Kazuda Xiono — who view this as mere overreaction. These bureaucrats fail to grasp the danger a strategist like Thrawn poses to the New Republic’s stability because they haven’t seen Thrawn in action and because the New Republic seems convinced the Empire cannot return. It’s an arrogant move that echoes the New Republic’s dismissive treatment of “rehabilitated” ex-Imperial officers like Dr. Pershing in The Mandalorian.Ahsoka and Sabine’s journey, meanwhile, is all about reconnecting. At times, their story has the feel of a bottle episode, primarily constraining itself to Ahsoka’s ship as they venture to Seatos in hopes of tracking down Morgan Elsbeth and the hyperdrive she stole from Corellia. “Time to Fly” opens with Ahsoka observing a training session between Sabine and Huyang, the latter making adequate progress in her forms, but as Huyang puts it, “Not bad. But not good.” Ahsoka’s solution? Make Sabine fight her blind, allowing her to tap into some well of Force awareness and predict Ahsoka’s movements like Ben Kenobi taught Luke Skywalker in A New Hope. The original Star Wars homages don’t stop there. The episode’s back half involves a space dogfight against Shin Hati, Marrok, and Elsbeth’s goods, with Sabine operating the gunner seat, much like Luke and Han shooting down TIE Fighters.RELATED: Ahsoka Episodes 1 and 2 Review: This is the Show Clone Wars and Rebels Fans Have Been Waiting For
On top of being a live-action Rebels Season 5 and semi-heir to the Empire retelling, Ahsoka wants to position itself as another link between Star Wars’ original series and the sequel trilogy — a way to explore how the New Republic’s filings blinded them to Imperial schemes under their watch and laid the groundwork for the First Order’s rise, presumably aided in part by Grand Admiral Thrawn’s return. Of course, that new war is at least a decade away, and, at just over half an hour, “Part Three: Time to Fly” struggles to convey all this detail in a neat package. But it makes up for that with some classic Star Wars dogfighting and the return of many familiar faces.
As a B-plot, the New Republic scenes only make up a fraction of “Time to Fly,” but these conversations remain deliberately unnerving. Hera, now convinced that Thrawn is still alive, attempts to present her Corellian shipyard discoveries to Chancellor Mon Mothma (a returning Genevieve O’Reilly) in hopes of providing Ahsoka and Sabine with military backup. Unfortunately, this is stymied by Mothma’s senators — including Hamato Xiono (Nelson Lee), the father of Star Wars Resistance protagonist Kazuda Xiono — who view this as mere overreaction. These bureaucrats fail to grasp the danger a strategist like Thrawn poses to the New Republic’s stability because they haven’t seen Thrawn in action and because the New Republic seems convinced the Empire cannot return. It’s an arrogant move that echoes the New Republic’s dismissive treatment of “rehabilitated” ex-Imperial officers like Dr. Pershing in The Mandalorian.
Ahsoka and Sabine’s journey, meanwhile, is all about reconnecting. At times, their story has the feel of a bottle episode, primarily constraining itself to Ahsoka’s ship as they venture to Seatos in hopes of tracking down Morgan Elsbeth and the hyperdrive she stole from Corellia. “Time to Fly” opens with Ahsoka observing a training session between Sabine and Huyang, the latter making adequate progress in her forms, but as Huyang puts it, “Not bad. But not good.” Ahsoka’s solution? Make Sabine fight her blind, allowing her to tap into some well of Force awareness and predict Ahsoka’s movements like Ben Kenobi taught Luke Skywalker in A New Hope. The original Star Wars homages don’t stop there. The episode’s back half involves a space dogfight against Shin Hati, Marrok, and Elsbeth’s goods, with Sabine operating the gunner seat, much like Luke and Han shooting down TIE Fighters.
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