Star Wars: Resistance, “The First Order Occupation”, Review!

Some flapping creatures fly over the sea followed by a TIE fighter headed to the Colossus Base.  Synara argues with a droid, it sounds like the gate droid in Return of the Jedi (1983), who informs her that the station is on a lock down from the First Order.  Kaz walking with Neeku and Tam stops to watch a passing TIE fighter.  Neeku asks if Kaz is excited about the First Order presence.  Stormtroopers pass them.  An alien merchant is without his identification and falls.  Kaz runs over to them and the stormtroopers suspect he is the spy!  They ask Kaz his name and Neeku fills in the information.  The alien brings them his card and Kaz slips away with the others.  Tam maintains that they are just doing their job.  A sympathizer!  Captain Doza speaks with a hologram of Commander Pyre.  Doza doubts the occupation by the stormtroopers.  

STAR WARS: RESISTANCE -- “The First Order Occupation” -- Disney/Lucasfilm. 

Kaz tells Yeager about wanting to contact the Resistance.  Yeager takes him to aside to say not to make any contact.  Neeku has brought stormtroopers that question Kaz about pirate’s placing a spy on the station.  They are looking for Synara.  One stormtrooper gets a message and takes the other troopers, he says Kaz has to stay in the hangarKaz sneaks to see Synara when a crate falls on him.  He follows her with BB-8.  She contacts Kragan via hologram to take her out.  An alien is taken away by stormtroopers for breaking curfew.  Stormtroopers question others.  Kaz defends Synara’s actions.  I get that Kaz has a crush on Synara, but this relationship doesn’t make sense, there is no chemistry between either of them.  He sneaks around the base at night and walks up to Synara and she hits him.  He tries to warn her about the stormtroopers.  Kaz sneaks Synara in a crate with a welding helmet.  He has BB-8 open a security door.  An alarm goes off and stormtroopers rush over.  

She enters a shuttle as Kaz and BB-8 run from the stormtroopers.  They are cornered in a row of crates.  The stormtroopers are knocked out by Synara.  The shuttle takes off.  Kaz takes her to see Neeku.  He takes them to the turbo lift to reach escape pods that launch underwater.  Neeku sets off a steam pipe and runs with the stormtroopers following.  Kaz sends BB-8 to help him.  BB-8 sets off some smoke and the stormtroopers chase after him.  There are two stormtroopers and both are need to chase after one suspect?  Kaz helps Synara into the escape pod.  Kaz’s klutziness is not endearing, just a running joke.  He runs off as the stormtroopers reach the escape pod.  The escape pod passes a sea creature while Synara sends the signal to Kragan.  Kaz returns to the hangar and talks to Tam.  A screaming Neeku enters and collapses.  The escape pod breaches the surface and Synara sees the blinding light of a pirate ship and climbs a rope to see Kragan.  Of course with Synara gone, the spy suspicion will be on Kaz, not a brilliant move!  This is an ok episode, more about the pirates than the conflict with the First Order. 

Three Lightsabers out of Five! 

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