The Heiress competently kicks off the main plot of the second season. Director Bryce Dallas Howard has upped her directing game since the smaller-scaled ATST-centric episode from last season, delivering a tight engaging action-packed 35 minutes with an awesome guest appearance from Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff. It is the most cinematic out of the new season thus far, topping the IMAX-filmed Krayt Dragon sequence from The Marshal.
The art direction on this show never ceases to amaze me. I was impressed by how tactile the ocean planet Trask looked, it was reminiscent of the opening fishing boat section from Man of Steel or even the ocean scene with the offshore windmills from Tenet. The blue-toned gloomy working man atmosphere feels like some East coast fishing port and the fishing boat especially looked like it was used and lived in.
I always check the writer of the week's episode during the end credits and every week I see it's just Jon Favreau doing it all by himself. Really? No help from a writer's room so far? All that detail? In my best James Earl Jones voice, I say, "Most impressive."
The Heiress heavily incorporates lore from the Clone Wars animated series, of which I want to go back and finish now. Lacking the foresight, I had dismissed the series because it wasn't live-action and therefore not canon, only to regret it now. I love how Jon Favreau intelligently incorporates inconsistencies in the Star Wars lore and spins them into more stories. The idea that there are different sects of Mandalorians is quite clever.
In a post-Return of the Jedi timeline, I do wonder why it's so hard to find the Jedi. If there are any of them who are alive, they wouldn't need to hide anymore and are probably in the process of re-franchising. I would think Mando only needs to travel to Coruscant, the center of the Star Wars universe, to find Luke Skywalker. I digress.
The burning question left in my mind is "Is Giancarlo Esposito's Moff Gideon force sensitive?" The fact that he was last seen brandishing a lightsaber-like weapon at the end of season 1 and added with the fact that Jedi are going to appear on the show, I worry that the presence of Jedi and Sith would overpower a well-armed bounty hunter. On the other hand, we've seen our fair share of blaster fights so maybe this is a great way to mix things up. We've seen how well Jango Fett held up against the Jedi in Attack of the Clones, decapitation aside.
Suffice to say, I am pumped for the next episode.
The art direction on this show never ceases to amaze me. I was impressed by how tactile the ocean planet Trask looked, it was reminiscent of the opening fishing boat section from Man of Steel or even the ocean scene with the offshore windmills from Tenet. The blue-toned gloomy working man atmosphere feels like some East coast fishing port and the fishing boat especially looked like it was used and lived in.
I always check the writer of the week's episode during the end credits and every week I see it's just Jon Favreau doing it all by himself. Really? No help from a writer's room so far? All that detail? In my best James Earl Jones voice, I say, "Most impressive."
The Heiress heavily incorporates lore from the Clone Wars animated series, of which I want to go back and finish now. Lacking the foresight, I had dismissed the series because it wasn't live-action and therefore not canon, only to regret it now. I love how Jon Favreau intelligently incorporates inconsistencies in the Star Wars lore and spins them into more stories. The idea that there are different sects of Mandalorians is quite clever.
In a post-Return of the Jedi timeline, I do wonder why it's so hard to find the Jedi. If there are any of them who are alive, they wouldn't need to hide anymore and are probably in the process of re-franchising. I would think Mando only needs to travel to Coruscant, the center of the Star Wars universe, to find Luke Skywalker. I digress.
The burning question left in my mind is "Is Giancarlo Esposito's Moff Gideon force sensitive?" The fact that he was last seen brandishing a lightsaber-like weapon at the end of season 1 and added with the fact that Jedi are going to appear on the show, I worry that the presence of Jedi and Sith would overpower a well-armed bounty hunter. On the other hand, we've seen our fair share of blaster fights so maybe this is a great way to mix things up. We've seen how well Jango Fett held up against the Jedi in Attack of the Clones, decapitation aside.
Suffice to say, I am pumped for the next episode.