The Skywalker Saga might be over but that doesn’t mean that Star Wars is! Who would have thought only a few years ago that we’d be watching both a new Star Wars movie and have episodes from two Star Wars television shows on either side?
This week’s episode of Star Wars Resistance moves the plot forward a bit with an episode that actually delightfully ends on a cliffhanger! The Colossus picks up a distress call from someone named Norath Kev on a Resistance frequency. Kaz, CB, Yeager, and Synara go to check it out only to find that Norath has been captured by the bounty hunter Ax Tagrin… and that it’s definitely a trap!
Even though this episode didn’t have Tam in it, I really enjoyed it more than I expected and not just because they got Daveed Diggs to voice Norath Kev and Joe Manganiello to voice Tagrin although that definitely helped. This felt like the sort of episode that we should have been getting more of this entire season. Yes, the Colossus is trying its best to survive but for a show with the word ‘Resistance’ in the title… yeah. We haven’t gotten too much of it and I’ve wanted to see more episodes about precisely that. I’ve also wanted to see more episodes that have bigger plot lines than can be contained in 20 minutes. Thankfully, this episode delivers on both fronts. Honestly, all this episode needed for me to be even happier was Tam and Torra.
It’s like the show heard me the other week by including Yaeger on the ground team this episode! He’s a far better choice to go with Kaz this week than Neeku and so is Synara who has been criminally underused throughout the entire show. Sure, Kaz is uhhh… a little bit better at being sneaky than he once was but he also still isn’t exactly great at it so having competent back up is key here. There’s an amusing moment where Synara actually calls Kaz out on always bringing her along on the dangerous missions and it works both in and out of universe because she’s not wrong.
Looping back around to Daveed Diggs (you didn’t think I’d let that one go, did you?), I really love that they got him for this episode even if he’s voicing an alien. He’s just fun in this role and I’m not just saying that because I loved him in Hamilton. Okay, maybe it’s a little influenced by his performance in Hamilton but the man has talent, okay? Poor Norath just sounds so tired and it’s a nice look at what’s left of the Resistance outside of the handful of people on the Falcon. They’re still trying their best to fight back against the First Order in any way that they can even when people like Tagrin are out there happily selling their services to whatever team’s currently winning. Both characters fit nicely with the galaxy we’ve gotten to know within the show and that Resistance Reborn fleshed out.
Oh and also? CB-23 is the hero we need but perhaps not the hero we deserve. We stan a rolling legend.
I’ll be honest: I don’t have too much else to say about this episode except that I enjoyed it and that I can’t wait to see how the story continues next week. Hopefully, we get more like this throughout the rest of the season… just with more Tam.
