Star Wars: Clone Wars, “Together Again”, Review!

This is final part of the Martez Sisters arc.  It’s a return to the same prison cell so this feels like an episode on repeat.  They start to argue with each other.  Rafa goes back to her mistrust of Ahsoka which we had this scene already.  Ahsoka has a plan and asks for Rafa’s trust.  The cell door opens and the Pyke guards lead them away.  They return to Marg Krim’s throne room which is a repeat of another scene.  This all feels repetitive.  Marg Krim wants the spice and threatens the trio.  There are three of them so if he really wants to carry through with his threat he would kill Trace since she isn’t part of the shipping agreement.  Ahsoka wants to negotiate a deal alone and says she should be trusted.   Of course this is the signal to Rafa.  She says that the sister hid the spice off-world at some unknown location.  The deal is to give them one rotation, a day?, or she will reveal the location of their family.  We know what happened to their family last episode.  

Marg Krim wants to know Ahsoka’s angle and she says it is her percentage of the shipment.  He agrees to the deal again threatening to kill all of them.  They leave and Krim’s majordomo, Fife, says it is a deception. Krim says he has no choice and also that a mysterious person “knows. He always knows.”   Guards escort the Martez Sisters to the Silver Angel, they don’t watch over them in the ship, and there is no tracking device.  The Silver Angel leaves, one Mandalorian (Sharmila Devar) notes that the Jedi was not with them to her leader (Katee Sackhoff).  Can we please have Katee Sackhoff in The Mandalorian?  She can play a different charater if needed.  Ahsoka is brought back to her cell and she uses the Force to open it, again.  The Martez Sisters are at the Orondia Refueling Station.  This was first seen in the episode, “Friends and Enemies” (2012), but I was not familiar with it.  Trace is a bit confused about Ahsoka’s plan and Rafa explains that she wants to return to rescue Ahsoka.  Rafa has a plan to bring the spice to them.   

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Ahsoka enters the spice processing plant and takes a bandolier of thermal detonators from an armory.  The Silver Angel reaches a planet with a Pyke facility.  Rafa bluffs they are coming for a spice pick-up.  The strange part is that there is no identification of their ship that happened to leave Oba Diah and was involved in withholding spice from the Pyke Syndicate.  I’m still not certain about how Rafa is able to make deals and bluff.  She doesn’t have a smoothness of a Lando Calrissian, no threat or authority like Mace Windu, and no charm of a Bazine Natal.  A Toong inventory clerk (Josh Brener), they are the aliens that have massive, long heads, and spindly bodies, seen as the podracer, Ben Quadinaros, meets with Rafa.  She says it is a special request from “up top.”  Rafa has him go find his supervisor and gets the others to scramble and load the ship.  I don’t get how Rafa can bluff.  

The former Jedi is setting thermal detonators around the spice processing plant.  She is just below a platform with Marg Krim and others meeting with a hologram speaker.  It is a familiar, sinister voice.  Krim notes that the Republic a week ago has stopped a shipment.  So why is Ahsoka worried about the shipments?  The hooded figure turns and it is Maul (Sam Witwer) who suspects involvement by a Jedi.  Ahsoka decides to leave as Maul’s attention is drawn to her.  He will offer the Crimson Dawn to take over the spice shipments if Marg Krim fails.   This is the organization run by Dryden Vos in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).  Fife notes Maul’s demands, but doesn’t go against him.  A guard notes the escape of Ahsoka and the group runs after him.  Ahsoka enters the room and finds that Maul’s transmission was from Mandalore.  Marg Krim and his guards interrupt her, but she uses the Force and her fighting skills on them.  He knows that she is Jedi and Ahsoka is hit with a stun blast.  

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The clerk notes that there is no record of the shipment request.  Also, he would contact the Pykes to confirm the special request, but this is not a strong plot point.  The manager (Tom Root) has arrived, he is Trandoshan, the same species as the bounty hunter Bossk.  He doesn’t see their authorization so doesn’t have workers unload the ship?  The manager starts tossing around Rafa and then has the platform they are on raised.  Trace takes on the Toong workers with a heavy pipe. Rafa takes care of the manager and they leave the station.  The Toongs don’t seem to mind the theft of the spice and don’t report it.  Again, the ship freely leaves without being detained or identified, but who needs logic in a Star Wars story?  Ahsoka has the thermal detonators control: because Pykes don’t search prisoners?  Rafa and Trace arrive with Marg Krim saying that Ahsoka is a Jedi.  The detonators are set off and the Mandalorians watch the explosions.  Ahsoka escapes with the Martez Sisters into the Silver Angel and they pursued by Pyke patrol ships.  Trace has Ahsoka take the control of belly cannon.   She is able to hit two ships and Trace rams another headlong while evading its blasters?  

They are followed by a Mandalorian Gauntlet starfighter.  We get the leader in blue armor tracking the ship in a mirror of the scene with Boba Fett and the Millenium Falcon in Empire Strikes Back (1980).  The Silver Angel returns to the hangar in Level 1313 on Coruscant.  Trace says that Ahsoka is a friend.  They are interrupted by the Mandalorian leader who takes off her helmet to reveal Bo-Katan.  She is sister to Satine Kryze and assures Ahsoka that there is no Death Watch.  Ahsoka is uncertain if she will help the Mandalorians since it will involve the Jedi.  The sisters tell her she is meant to help others and Ahsoka leaves behind her speeder bike to join the Mandalorians.  The best part of this episode is that it is the last of the Martez Sisters for Clone Wars.  It is not well written with Dave Filoni working with Charles Murray who also wrote for Luke Cage.  I can see what was the intention for the sisters, but it did not make them endearing.  Could they have survived the Clone Wars?  Don’t care.  Neither would I care if they showed up in a Disney+ series or an Ahsoka Tano show.  

Two Lightsabers out of Five!  

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