Osha wanted to stop her sister, she then has an unhealthy curiosity about her captor and the murderer of her companions, she fights her sister, then decides to kill Sol when she learns that he had killed their mother, thanks to a strangling power that appears out of nowhere. However, she has been the nice heroine throughout the series and had no Force gifts (or lost). Bravo morality. Does rejecting the Jedi order automatically mean taking refuge in the other side where she will be an outcast anyway? Also, I thought the kyber crystals determined the color of the saber, but no, it’s more dramatic when it changes color depending on your orientation.
Mae wanted to kill all the Jedi responsible for her family tragedy, then turns against her master (was completing her training and living with her sister incompatible? knowing that upon arrival they are both Jedi slayers), then sacrifices herself to her sister’s cause so that the latter becomes an acolyte of the dark side. I find her arc bizarre and unsatisfactory.
The self-proclaimed (or shadow-trained) Sith seems desperate to be joined in the dark side of the force, with any of the twin sisters. The helmet seems to have become the trademark of villains in SW; in this case, it serves him in fights where he is in the minority. He is absolutely overpowered in lightsaber fights, there is no doubt about that, but several times disarmed by Sol, he should have died… PS: being Sith allows you to erase memories like on droids.
Sol lets himself be completely overwhelmed by what is happening to him, wanting to both be excused by Mae and preserve Osha, because he is tortured about the incident when they were young. When he turns his back on his attacker in the ruins to talk, I understood that he was going to let himself be fooled by the twins. He should have warned the Order about the “vergence” rather than going it alone (don’t tell me the breakdown in transmissions was the excuse for not reaching Coruscant.).
The sort of original Jedi plot was interesting, I think, because it shows that there were flaws in the Order. Those responsible paid the price, with Torbin becoming mute and Kelnacca going into exile.
The duels are pleasantly choreographed, as if several types of martial arts were combined to offer us a refreshing vision of the fights. I didn’t understand Sol’s saber in the last episode, which looks like a toy.
I wasn’t expecting anything, but I was entertained by this new and somewhat disjointed story. I don’t know if it will have a future, because it touches on the foundations of the universe (cf origin stories), while the derivative series with the Mandalorian for example can extend as much as they want. Good to wait before Season 2 of Andor, let’s say.
