MDG FTW! Grogoo was Jedi trained before the dark times! And yes, Grogoo has a name! It’s Grogoo! Quite a bit of the wean’s background cleared up, but gaps left.

Also, Ashoka and Michael Biehn, in the same episode! Mr Filoni, you are really spoiling us!

In terms of the actual plot? Appreciating the Straight To Business approach. No long tease, just “look, you know who she is, and here she is, and yes she’s a bad bottom. Enjoy!”

Oooh....typing as I watch....did Ahsoka perhaps think Din might be force sensitive? ]

Some solid world building thanks to Ahsoka knowing her historical onions.

Are those Droids Old Old Republic? I’m not familiar with them or that era.

And some of the best live action Jedi stuff I’ve seen in a while.

Is the baddies Boss Moff Gideon? Probably, but maybe not. Could be another baddie thrown into the pot. HOLY POOP SOCKS!!!! I’ve got a fiver saying Gideon is Thrawn’s catspaw

Really, really cool to see Beskar being Beskar, doing what Beskar does best.

Also, interesting that Ahsoka’s sabres make a different sound?

And a new quest!

Like Ashoka was looking for Thrawn. this implies that by the 7 ABY point she still hasn't found Ezra...
and of course the new quest being to go to tython. it'll be intreasting to see how they square it and Ach to

Maybe she has found Ezra, just not Thrawn? And a quick Google shows Tython is in the Deep Core. That’s somewhere we’ve not really seen explored on-screen beyond Coruscant, as Clone Wars and Rebels etc largely focussed on the outer rim.

Very excite! And if I could, I’d buy Mr Filoni a pint. The highest accolade a Brit can bestow. I mean, sure the Queen gives out OBEs etc, but she does that every year. How often do you think she buys someone a pint?

Ahsokas Convor (owl) Morai in the tree watching Din

Thrawn is back so Ezra must be too that’s the backdoor pilot and set up done

Given how plot dense this chapter was, spesh for those clamouring for Ahsoka, the very drab and neutral colour palette really, really works. It means we the audience can better focus on what the characters are saying and doing, rather than drinking in the background spectacle Star Wars is rightly known for.

I really wasn't expecting Corvus to be burnt to a crisp but that was an excellent nod to the imperial war engine destroying planets for the sake of resources. I was expecting something lush and vibrant but this felt dark and dagobah-esque.

Also loved the fact Ahsoka wouldn't train Grogoo due to his attachments to Din, an interesting dilemma that Qui Gon had when he discovered Anakin and obviously that scene was a nod to Anakin's fall.

That Beskar spear is a great thing he'll have to use against Moff Gideon for that showdown.

I reckon Tython sets things up for either Ezra to show up if he's still about, or maybe we'll see Mace Windu as so many have theorised recently.

Shortly after catching Maul in the Siege of Mandalore, Ahsoka and her clone troopers led by Rex are on a Star Destroyer heading back to Coruscant when order 66 is invoked. Rex tries to fight it at first and tells Ahoska to find out about Fives a clone who had discovered the truth about the Inhibitor chip in all the clones heads after 1 malfunctioned and the clone Tup killed his Jedi commander prematurely. Ahsoka escapes the initial attack but is stuck on the Star Destroyer as Rex has jettisoned all the escape pods and the clones control the hangar

She lets Maul lose to provide a distraction and then finds out about the inhibitor chip from the records about Fives . She captures Rex and has a medical droid remove the chip which gets him back on side. Rex tries to convince the other clones Ahsoka is no Jedi (technically true as she was expelled from the order and stripped of her Padawan status before reaching the rank of Jedi Knight and she refused an offer to rejoin even after being cleared of wrong doing) but Jesse points out Rex's initial order was to specifically kill Ahoska. They turn on him a well. Ultimately the Star Destroyer crashes into a moon, Maul escapes in a transport and Ahsoka and Rex escape in a Y wing, everyone else is killed. Ahsoka leaves her sabers in the wreckage which Vader finds a few years later and it's assumed she died in the crash.

They may introduce Luke through Grogu reaching out to other force users at the Jedi Temple on Tython, then again it may be a different Jedi, force user or an agent of the dark side or all of the above

I hate Thrawn with great hate. Such a Mary Sue villain, he even has glowing red eyes. Fie on him! Fie!

There have been rumours for a while now about Mace Windu popping up at some point. Not specifically tied to this series, but it would probably make more sense here than having it be Luke, if only because it would be considerably easier to cast...

The designation would seem to be a call back to KoToR, but would presumably be a later model than the droids from that series.

It's supposedly $15mil per episode. Babylon 5 was roughly $800k. That comes up to $1.5mil~ today.
The Mandalorian looks better...I'd go so far as to say objectively better...but it's much more inconsistent. I never lost the feeling of verisimilitude with B5 and I loose it frequently with The Mandalorian.