Review of Chapter 13: The Jedi

I may be one of the few who didn't enjoy this episode, but I will give you positives first. I liked seeing Ahsoka again. I liked that Dave Filoni got to direct this episode. I did not like how this episode, the one we were waiting to see since the summer, followed the same formula as the others, except it had Ahsoka so it was slightly better. Every episode has the Mandalorian meet someone who will help him if he completes a side quest for them. Then they can't really help him, so they send Mando to another planet. We were told by Bo Katan that the Mandalorian needed to bring the Child to Ahsoka. But she doesn't want to train him, which I guess it's ironic-now a member of Yoda's species is told that they can't be trained after Yoda said the same thing to and about Anakin and Luke. She agrees to, however, if Mando helps her (again, the formula). When he does, she tells him, sorry, not gonna help you. But, you guessed it, go to this next planet and maybe someone will help you. And the episode itself felt just very lackluster, compared to the buildup. It's a different actress for Ahsoka, so I'm still bothered by that, since Ashley Eckstein had the role for 12 years. We start with Ahsoka revealed within the first few minutes-face reveal and character reveal. She's on a planet fighting faceless bad guys and we don't know why she's there or what she's doing, and this is only kind of answered by the end. They don't give us much in the episode, but they think that through a couple name drops, that they can keep us watching for the next episode that will ultimately follow the same formula. This new Ahsoka did not help them except by telling them to go to a new planet and it gave us Baby Yoda's name. They gave us a "lightsaber" fight between the new Ahsoka and this other woman who was using a Beskar spear, which isn't technically a lightsaber fight. Really, that scene and when Mando met Ahsoka were the only things of note in this episode. Really nothing huge, they just baited the next episode and hoped that that would make this episode good