Man, I tell you, this show just keeps getting better. But I’m not gonna let it off the hook, because something about this week’s episode of Ahsoka has me a little bit peeved. A lot of fun stuff in there. At the same time, it’s time for a reckoning.

I’m not gonna go too deep into it. In fact, I’m not gonna spend a whole lot of time on this one at all, and the reason is that I spent most of my time last week talking about it. I mean that literally.

Two Halves of One Episode

The show is doing fine. The show is doing great. The show is doing all kinds of things I’d expect it to do. The thing that’s unforgivable for me this week is that this is basically the second half of last week’s episode.

Last week’s episode, before the credits, was like 24 minutes. This week’s episode, before the credits, was 34 minutes. That adds up to right around 58 minutes or so, just shy of 60, which is a full episode.

People are saying it’s 40 minutes. No. That’s with the credits. The episode itself is only about 34. As soon as it cuts to black and you see the first credit, from that moment, it’s 34 minutes. And I’m still not even taking out the recap of last week and everything else, so it’s probably a little bit less than that.

All said and done, this was the third episode, last week and this week together. I don’t know why they went Part Three and Part Four. I feel lied to. Look, man, if you’re just trying to milk another week out of this thing, I’m not okay with that.

The Parts That Do Matter

Either way, you get to see the second half of all of it. You get to see the hunters tracking them down. You get to see Huyang doing his best to rewire the thing back together. The HKs are the first ones to track them down, and from that point everybody’s attacking the Jedi and attacking their camp.

You get a rematch between Sabine Wren and Shin Hati, and the two of them go at it. It’s an excellent fight for the ages. So is the very interesting fight between Ahsoka and Baylan. There are some other things happening, but those two are really the core of what’s important.

You also find out that apparently Hera is still a rebel at heart. That’s where you get that line from the promos, because her and several other people are heading out there, including a certain leader we’ve seen in The Mandalorian in the past. It’s pretty cool seeing that character come back.

Every Time You Give Sabine Control

Ahsoka literally asks her, can I trust you? She asks because of what Ahsoka wants: worst case, they have to destroy the map. Sabine’s concern is that this may be the only map to Ezra that exists.

For those of you who are unaware, at some point Sabine is faced with the choice. She can destroy the map, because they haven’t completed anything yet, or not.

Mrs. Know-It-All felt the same way I did, by the way, which is that she made the wrong choice. This is what Mrs. Know-It-All specifically said: I didn’t like her to begin with. She was talking about Sabine, and this week simply didn’t help that.

Here’s the thing. Every time you’ve given Sabine a measure of control, she screws things up. That’s more me as a story person, the one who’s sitting there going, this is stupid, why are they doing this in the story, blah blah. It’s also just me as a fan being all excited about what I’m watching.

It’s one thing after another with them until finally Hera and the others arrive, just as the hyperdrive is coming online. And it goes. It’s amazing. It blows everything back as soon as it makes the leap. But yeah, they’ve failed to stop this.

The Only Ending That Matters

The ending of the episode is probably the only part that actually matters. At the very, very, very end, Ahsoka finds herself someplace. It looks like she’s on some sort of a space bridge, I don’t know what you want to call it. Then she hears the voice of Anakin, and we get to see Hayden Christensen as Anakin again. She’s even like, Master, is that you?

Who the Fallen Jedi Is

I believe Baylan’s an interesting character. The episode is titled, literally, Part Four: Fallen Jedi, and I can’t tell if it’s a double entendre or not. I’m thinking it is, just based on how the Mandalorian episodes were titled and things like that.

Fallen Jedi doesn’t necessarily mean Baylan and Shin, because I don’t know that they’d consider those two Fallen Jedi. Fallen Jedi could also be the fact that, seemingly, Ahsoka is defeated. And seemingly, Sabine has betrayed her. Sabine’s on the road to wherever they’re heading, the other galaxy they’re going to, and she’s with them on that ship.

So we’ll see what happens. It’s gonna be interesting, and I’m excited to see what goes on. What I’m not happy about, again, is that this literally could’ve been tacked on to last week’s episode. Somebody with half a brain can staple these two together, and they should run one right into the next.

The Verdict

Ahsoka Part Four, Fallen Jedi, lands at a 6.0 out of 10 on the Know-It-All Index.

I’m not even gonna bury the lede. A 6.0 out of 10, and that’s exactly right. That number is about this nonsense of splitting one episode into two. The quality was there. I don’t know who that serves other than themselves. We need one more episode, so let’s split the story right in the middle. It just didn’t jibe well with me, man, because it clearly feels like the second half of last week’s episode.

I’m sorry if this one’s a little bit abrupt. At the same time, I’m not exactly super happy with the state of things.

Your turn. Did Sabine make the wrong choice with the map, or am I just being a story person about it? Let me hear your thoughts, because I’d love to understand a little more about what you think. The conversation lives in the comments on the video above. And never forget: everyone loves a know-it-all.