Star Wars: Resistance, “The Platform Classic”, Review!

Colossus Base, the floating posters for the racers are up, Tam tells the crew that the Platform Classic is the next day.  Kaz is smiling since he knows a secret.  Yeager tells them he is going to meet Captain Doza.  The others join him.  Doza tells Yeager that the prize for the Platform Classic is 100,000 credits.  He mentions that the Aces will be there and wants Yeager to compete.  Then, Marcus Speedstar (Keston John) joins them, after racing against Yeager 10 years ago.  Jarek Yeager then drops a bombshell, Marcus is his brother!  Yeager dismisses his brother and his last name Speedstar.  Kaz has heard the rumor of Marcus as a racer.  He enters the hangar and Kaz meets with an alien named Oplock (Jonathan Lipow), that unfolds his face fins, and his black astromech, R4-D12. 

STAR WARS: RESISTANCE -- “The Platform Classic” -- Disney/Lucasilm. 

Marcus says Yeager is his only family member.  Marcus is relaxing in the tower cantina when the Guavian Death Gang (voiced by Matthew Wood) find him.  They of course are the gang looking for money owed to them by Han Solo in Force Awakens (2015).  He owes 20,000 credits and they take away Oplock.  Yeager lets out that he going to race and Aunt Z takes bets.  Marcus tries to explain to Yeager and he pushes Kaz to volunteer as mechanic.  Kaz admits he is a pilot not a mechanic.  Yeager raced for his family.  In the last race, Marcus used hyper fuel, and struck his brother’s ship.  Tam and Neeku see Yeager’s racing ship.  The morning of the race, Bucket is in Yeager’s ship.  Kaz goes to tell Yeager that his brother really does need the money.  The ships are lowered underneath the Colossus Base.  

STAR WARS: RESISTANCE -- “The Platform Classic” -- Disney/Lucasilm. 

Yeager is ready to win and the race begins!  The ships race through the rings.  Marcus is just ahead of his brother.  A pilot in a black stormtrooper helmet, Griff Halloran (Stephen Stanton) shoots down a racer.  They head into space through rings into a final one with an ion pulse.  The ships plummet back to the planet.  Griff rams into Marcus’ ship, but he is able to slip into the re-ignition ring.  Yeager is ahead of his brother.  Marcus wants to apologize.  They approach the final ring at the base.  The Guavian nudges Oplock.  Marcus pulls back, but Yeager veers off at the last second.  At the cantina, Marcus pays the Guavian Death Gang.  Oplock is returned to him.  At the hangar, Marcus and his brother hug. Marcus takes off in his ship.  It is of course Kaz who has the words of advice to Yeager.  Then, BB-8 dismisses being friends with Kaz.  This is a fair Yeager based episode, but again what happened to the spy story?  If the spy is not important, then that should be a part of the premise.  Instead of a spy, it should be that Poe needs Kaz there to find the loyalty of the people at Colossus Base, a key location in dispute between the Resistance and the First Order.  Maybe this is a part of the show, but it is not evident and set up in the premise.  

Three Lightsabers out of Five! 

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