Star Wars: Resistance, “Into the Unknown”, Review!

Star Wars: Resistance continues with season 2 with this episode was written by Dave Filoni.  The finale of season 1 tied into Force Awakens with General Hux’s speech.  Kaz has lost his father on Hosnian Prime.  He was mentored by former Rebel and former racer, now mechanic, Jarek Yaeger.  The Colossus Base on Castilon under threat by the First Order has made a wild hyperspace jump.  The strange pelican-like birds flock next to the First Order destruction on the Castilon seas.  A TIE Fighter heads to the Star Destroyer.  Commander Pyre (Liam McInyre) reports to Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie) with Agent Tierny (Sumalee Montano).  Tam (Suzie McGrath) reports to the officers and is intimidated that Pyre wants to know all about her associates.  Hyperspace spins in the eye of Bucket next to CB-23.  An interesting image.  Then, the Colossus Base makes the jump.  Kaz (Christopher Sean) asks his friend Neeku (Josh Brener) if they jumped to D’Qar, they head to see Captain Doza.  In his office, Doza communicates with Yeager.  The captain tries to console Kaz over the possible loss of his father.  

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He leads them to the command deck.  Yeager is checking on the ship status.  Torra Doza (Myrna Velasco) reports that they are three parsecs from D’Qar which makes Neeku try to hold in his glee.  Kaz believes there is a Resistance Base on D’Qar.  Then, suddenly Kaz panics as he floats in zero gravity.  Yeager sends Kaz and Tam to engineering.  Kaz seems to slam, float upside, and bump into everyone.  They swim ahead while a red droid eye watches them!  Kaz notes that Tam would be better at working on the gravity generator.  Neeku goes to check on the turtle-like Childae in hibernation.  Kaz sends CB-23 to work on the comunications relay, in a dark room, the red droid eye looms.  The droid shrieks as the red light closes on her.  Aunt Z (Tovah Feldshuh)’s cantina has the pilots in a party move.  Flix (Jim Rash) and Orka (Bobby Moynihan) are also having a drink.  Kaz activates the gravity, the cantina denizens fall, and then Torra is crushed by the gravity.  He tries to adjust the gravity.  On board, the Star Destroyer, Tam tries to update Agent Kierney about her friends and loyalty.  Commander Pyre tells Tam that she should get her pilot’s uniform.  Kaz is still goofy, even more than Neeku, and we get a few of our regular characters.  

STAR WARS: RESISTANCE -- “Into the Unknown” -- Disney/Lucasfilm. 

Neeku goes to check on CB-23.  He sees the droid floating without her head!  The red light appears behind Neeku.  It attaches a cable to him and pulls him back!  Torra and Kaz go to check on the missing in the dark room.  Neeku groans tied up on the ceiling.  Kaz sees the black First Order droid, BB-9E!  On the Command Deck, Captain Doza gets the report that gravity is not resotred.  Torra and Kaz fight with the droid they thought they destroyed.  Kaz is shocked by it, Torra floats him away, and they try to hide from the droid communicating with the First Order!  Kaz knocks it down while Torra tries to interfere with the signal.  Neeku juggles CB-23’s head with his feet to place it on her body.  The two droids face each other.  This cool to see a droid duel.  Kaz opens a hatch to get rid of the evil droid, Aliens-style, and just Aliens, the droid’s cable attaches to Kaz.  Torra closes the hatch sending the droid spinning in space.  Gravity is restored and the Aunt Z’s cantina denizens fall.  Kaz wants to send a coded message to Tam.  Suddenly, she’s his friend even though she was chastising him and betrayed him.  Tam of course has made her decision on which side to join even thought the First Order eliminated several systems of people!  Some elements of tension and horror with the many characters introduced.  

 Three Lightsabers out of Five!  

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