I was looking forward to this, then on reviewing the list of episodes, disappointed to see the narrower focus, when compared to Tales of the Jedi.
Morgan Elsbeth is a character who quite arguably didn't really need any more of a back story than she received in Ahsoka. The storyline here is very lacking. It shoe horns her character into events of the Separatist attack on the Night Sisters of Dathomir and that was one of the most unconvincing story arcs of Ahsoka. In the Clone Wars series, Asajj Ventress is a Night Sister - and looks like one. Morgan Elsbeth just looks human and it feels that she was reinvented as a Night Sister after Mandolorian by the script writers of Ahsoka. It feels improvised and for me it just doesn't work. The episodes leap from the time of the Clone Wars, then to Elsbeth meeting Thrawn and the connection with the TIE Defender project, to the period shortly before Ahsoka's arrival. It doesn't tell anything new and attempts to build in some kind of back story for a character who is really just a generic one, from a particular Mandalorian episode, without actually providing anything substantial.
Barriss Offee's episodes are more compelling, but felt rushed. I'm not convinced anything more expansive could have been squeezed into three 15 minute episodes. I don't have a problem with the redemption story at all. In fact it fits the character well and I am glad they went with that. In Clone Wars, Barriss came across as a misguided idealist, not a murderous, ambitious Sith apprentice and as far as we know had no connections to Palpatine. Personally I never saw her becoming an inquisitor or a Sith, no idea how/why some fans predicted that one. In the end Bariss redeemed herself through her actions and in her death helped to save another from the dark path.
Tales of the Jedi were short Episodes which worked well as stand alone, the same cannot be said here. Barriss' story needed more time, Morgan's didn't really bring anything new and for me, just leaves more questions.
6/10.
Morgan Elsbeth is a character who quite arguably didn't really need any more of a back story than she received in Ahsoka. The storyline here is very lacking. It shoe horns her character into events of the Separatist attack on the Night Sisters of Dathomir and that was one of the most unconvincing story arcs of Ahsoka. In the Clone Wars series, Asajj Ventress is a Night Sister - and looks like one. Morgan Elsbeth just looks human and it feels that she was reinvented as a Night Sister after Mandolorian by the script writers of Ahsoka. It feels improvised and for me it just doesn't work. The episodes leap from the time of the Clone Wars, then to Elsbeth meeting Thrawn and the connection with the TIE Defender project, to the period shortly before Ahsoka's arrival. It doesn't tell anything new and attempts to build in some kind of back story for a character who is really just a generic one, from a particular Mandalorian episode, without actually providing anything substantial.
Barriss Offee's episodes are more compelling, but felt rushed. I'm not convinced anything more expansive could have been squeezed into three 15 minute episodes. I don't have a problem with the redemption story at all. In fact it fits the character well and I am glad they went with that. In Clone Wars, Barriss came across as a misguided idealist, not a murderous, ambitious Sith apprentice and as far as we know had no connections to Palpatine. Personally I never saw her becoming an inquisitor or a Sith, no idea how/why some fans predicted that one. In the end Bariss redeemed herself through her actions and in her death helped to save another from the dark path.
Tales of the Jedi were short Episodes which worked well as stand alone, the same cannot be said here. Barriss' story needed more time, Morgan's didn't really bring anything new and for me, just leaves more questions.
6/10.