Chapter 12: The Siege

I liked the episode, but it felt like they rushed through a lot of it. Maybe that's because most of the episode was stealth or action sequences. But also the editing felt a little choppy to me... mostly at the part where they split up to escape the base.

I'm not sure how to feel about the apparent ties into the sequels. That era doesn't interest me given how the movies turned out. But I'm trying to remain optimistic, since TCW boosted my enjoyment of the prequels immensely and perhaps this show can have a similar effect.

I wonder if Thrawn will appear at some point. He could be an interesting bridge in the transition from the Empire to the First Order and definitely keep me more engaged. At the same time though, last week hinted at future focus on Mandalore rather than anything ST related. It feels like they could take this series in a lot of directions, hopefully it doesn't overstretch itself.

People are saying the dark troopers are the things at the end, which they think means Kyle Katarn's in this, which I see as extremely optimistic thinking lol

It's funny because just yesterday I was excitedly theorizing about the whole Game of Thrones type Mandalore story they could have planned and was super hyped for a new episode but after seeing the Snoke looking pickle jars and First Order foreshadowing... Yeah all of a sudden my interest and excitement just dissolved

It's possible they are going a different route, I really hope so, but I don't think it's likely. Even if Palpatine/Snoke is not the plan, the First Order is clearly being set up. I just don't understand though. Why? Why do they need to tie it in. Are they really fans of the sequels? Do they like the depressing story or is someone telling them to do it? I mean who would tell them that I feel like KK doesn't really care now. She realized the movies were trash so the move would be to distance. Sequel fans are in the minority, there is no need to pander to them. The show would still be good without doing that. Besides the shills and consoomers would eat it up no matter what is shown...

I suspect he's slowly coming to accept he's been duped into militantly following a code that keeps him hot, sweaty and most likely a bit smelly with the BO lol. Unless stuff like the helmet comes with a cooling system, which I've always wondered if that's the case.

So people are drawing similarities with this episode to the old Jedi Outcast game with Kyle Katarn. I don't know much about it but I saw some cutscenes. I guess the Nevarro base kinda looked like Kijim outpost from the game. The game also had a character called Admiral Fyyar who was working on experiments to create Force sensitive soldiers or something. This could be what they're doing with Gideon and the clone things. I think Dark Troopers were also from that game series. Some are saying Gideon may don the dark trooper armor which will be lightsaber proof. That would be like Fyyar's cortosis armor

I would much rather they try to adapt some of these game concepts than connect to TROS. Maybe that is indeed what they're doing and people are just assuming it has to do with Snoke/Palpatine. Tbh idk why the vats were so surprising. From the moment we saw baby Yoda, we pretty much knew the remnant wanted him for some experiment. So why was seeing the experiment so shocking lol

Anyway that still doesn't fix the First Order foreshadowing.... Seeing FO vs Resistance stuff to me would be much more irritating than seeing them try to bring back Palpatine. The latter I could kinda see be something the remnant attempts (but they shouldn't succeed). Guarantee we will see First Order stormtrooper armor, Resistance pilots, T-70 x-wings, or FO TIEs before the show ends.