Star Wars: Resistance, “No Escape: Part One”, Review!

TIE fighters fly over the seas and Colossus Base, there is some sea creatures like whales moving through the water, and an announcement by Commander Pyre about raising the base.  Captain Doza is angry at Yeager’s arrest and challenges the New Republic.  Pyre orders his arrest.  He has his personal droid, 4D-M1N, “stop them.”  She has shoulder blasters like Iron Man and Captain Doza is handy taking on stormtroopers!  Still, she is shot down by Commander Pyre.   He orders Doza’s imprisonment and also the Aces.  Overhearing all of this is Tora, who hides in a corner.  I think it is more important to free Captain Doza and the Aces than even Yeager.  CB-23 projects a hologram of the Colossus Base so Kaz can make a plan to help Yeager’s escape and get a shuttle to reach Hosnian Prime, his homeworld.  The sympathizer is eating with Agent Tierny who asks her about her friends.  She shows Tam a hologram of Yeager admitting he tried to get Kaz to join the Resistance.  

STAR WARS: RESISTANCE -- “No Escape: Part One” -- Disney/Lucasfilm. 

Tora enters her room and gives a mission to her pet voorpak, Buggles, to find Kaz.  Stormtroopers try to raise Colossus Base, they are interrupted by the Chelidae who knocks out one trooper, the door opens and the other troopers are taken out by Kaz.  He leaves his friends at the control room and decides to swim with CB-23.  Neeku calls Kaz Blowfish-1.  First Order sea troopers head towards Kaz and CB-23 firing blasters.  He frantically asks Neeku to open the hatch.  The sea troopers are there and Kaz asks Neeku to pressurize the corridor.  The power goes out in the corridor and Kaz rams CB-23 into a swim trooper(?).  Kaz struggles with the remaining sea strooper as Neeku hits random buttons to pressurize.  It does and sucks out the sea troopers.  Kaz holds on to CB-23’s cables and the hatches are closed.  Kaz thanks Neeku and heads back.  Eila, the younger sister, points out the hyper drive above them.  No voice for her this episode.  Kaz reaches the shop of Flix and Orka who are trapped in a storage locker.  Buggles hops on Kaz.  Neeku reports to Kaz that the base is like a ship.  Stormtroopers bring in Yeager and the sympathisizer.  He is taken to the cell of Captain Doza.  Buggles takes them to a grate where Torra is hiding.  She has a plan to sneak through the incinerator ducts.  

STAR WARS: RESISTANCE -- “No Escape: Part One” -- Disney/Lucasfilm.

The First Order droid finds them and signals an alarm.  It is strange that this droid was introduced in Last Jedi and I think I barely saw him.  Here he is featured more and not the nicest of droids.  CB-23 fires a cable to go droid to droid bumping into him.  His faulty sensor makes him an easy fake to fall into a chasm.  Kaz hides under the grate.  Agent Tierney makes an offer to the sympathsizer to be a pilot.  Kaz takes a stormtrooper’s rifle and almost accidentally stun blasts him.  This show has stun blasts going all over the place.  Where they are almost never used in the movies and other animated shows.  They drag the stormtrooper away.  Torra sends Buggles back to their room.  They hide from stormtroopers and overhear one mention Starkiller Base.  On a hologram, they see the transmission of General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson) speech about the New Republic. This is of course from Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).  It almost makes me nostalgic to the time when Star Wars was good.  Kaz, Torra, and CB-23 sneak past the stormtroopers.  Kaz watches as the planet of his family is destroyed.  This of course gives consequences to the Starkiller blast.  It also ramps up the consequences of this animated show so it is no longer about the weak premise of racing ships which never went anywhere.  A more action oriented show highlights the strengths of this series.  Part two next week! 

Four Lightsabers out of Five!

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