Star Wars: Resistance, “The Children from Tehar”, Review!

Colossus Base, Day, Neeku and Tam are working on an acceleration compensator.  Kaz is not happy being left out.  Tam works with them together, but Kaz breaks the part so she throws tools at him.  A light comic moment, but it is Tam’s fault since if it is a delicate operation she should be crystal clear in what Kaz should be doing and repeat what he should do.  Kaz goes to Aunt Zee’s bar and he gets a water and Neeku gives him some credits.  He hears mention about a bounty of 20,000 credits.  Two kids in a hologram are watched by a Gotal and Rodian bounty hunters. Kaz notices a symbol of one of the kid’s bracelets.  He of course gets into this misadventure.  The two kids are hungry and go to steal some food from an Ugnaught vendor.  The boy knocks down the crate the Ugnaught was on.  He leaps and rams into burly Klatooinian, Bolza Grool.  The kids coincidentally run into Kaz, Neeku, and BB-8.  He recognizes the symbol on the boy’s bracelet and tries to chase after them.  Kaz gets help from Neeku.  What doesn’t make sense is that Kaz doesn’t ask Yeager what he should do, he was right there with the accident.  

STAR WARS: RESISTANCE -- “The Children from Tehar” -- Disney/Lucasfilm. 

Neeku is getting help at the engineering level.  There are aliens that look bearded turtles called the Chelidae (Frank Welker). I think these new aliens are interesting. He introduces them to Kaz.  Neeku gives them his comlink.  A droid, 4D-MIN (Mary Elizabeth McGlynn), from Captain Doza brings them to the High Tower.  Captain Doza asks about the children.  He shows the wooden symbol the boy carried.   She gets a hologram of Captain Phasma and he tells her about the children.  She explains they are from a “high-ranking family” in the First Order.  The symbol is from a New Republic family?  Captain Doza reminds her that it is his station.  The girl, Eila (Nikki SooHoo), talks to her brother, Kel (Antony Del Rio) when a shadow falls on them.  Tam is impatient about the compensator and Neeku gets the message from the Chelidae that they are found.  Eila explains to Kaz that they ran away and her leg is broken. She says that Kylo Ren destroyed their village.  Kylo Ren’s shuttle arrives.  Kel leads them to herbs to help his sister.  A stormtrooper in gold armor, Commander Pyre (Liam McIntyre) asks an alien about the runaways. He seems a more interesting villain than Major Vonreig.  

Kaz finds a way for them to escape, Commander Pyre spots the kid, and they run with stun rings fired from the troopers.  BB-8 closes a hatch and then a Chelidae closes another one.  Neeku uses the bag of herbs on Eila’s leg.  Kaz opens a grate to the bottom of the base as the First Order cuts through the blast door.  The children jump into the sea and one troopers gives an update to Captain Phasma.  She explains that with the children gone the First Order can be safe from the Resistance.  The children are in the underside of the base with Kaz, Neeku, and BB-8.  Neeku explains that the two Chelidae who fell slowed down their life signs. The shell folk, they speak in groans, invite the children to stay.  One Chelidae has the fixed compensator. 4D-MIN informs Captain Doza that the First Order has left.  Kaz brings Tam the compensator with the help of some friends.  Kaz contacts Poe Dameron and instead reaches Ello Asty (Matthew Wood), the Abednedo pilot who was in the Battle of Starkiller Base.  I really like that Kaz finally, finally, finally reports in and there is a strong connection to the Resistance. Poe is on a mission.  Kaz gives the update.  Ello says that Tehar may be in the Unknown Regions.  He reports about Kylo Ren as the leader of the First Order army.  Ello thinks Kaz has done great work and will file the report with General Organa. The start was so weak I thought this might be the weakest episode, but it was saved by the rest of the episode.  

Three Lightsabers out of Five!      

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