Episode 21
Zero Hour: Part 1 & Part 2
Well, just as I feared, this
Season Finale fell far short of the
Season 2 Finale. There was just no way anything could top it, let along match it. Now, that's not to say that
Zero Hour wasn't any good. It was. I just think that when you create something so epic before, that there is a natural tendency to want it again and again. As for
Zero Hour, it played out exactly as I knew it would. The confrontation between
Thrawn and the
Rebels played out as I envisioned it...even down to the escape. I also knew that there would be no resolution with
Thrawn and that he would slink off to live another day and this is why I feel the writers f*cked up big time in these last 3 episodes.
If the original intent was to kill off
Maul and let
Thrawn live, then they absolutely should have gotten their episode order reversed. I just feel that
Obi-Wan and
Maul should have closed out this season in an epic
Lightsaber Duel on par with what we got in
The Phantom Menace. And it still rubs me the wrong way that they had
Maul go out like he did. He's broken and old....but can still fight. But he comes up against
Old Man-Kenobi and now suddenly
Kenobi is able to wield the Saber like a 30 year old? Keep in mind I am talking about the same
Kenobi that was old against
Vader in
A New Hope. It just doesn't jibe with me and kind of messes up the continuity between the series and the film.