The Clone Wars - S7E8: Together Again
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Finally, the disappointing four-episode arc focused on Ahsoka and the Martez sisters goes out — not with a bang but a whimper. What Together Again most reveals about this arc is that it was all set-up for the last four episodes of the show. The end of the episode does tie up its characters’ storylines and neatly finishes the spice-smuggling storyline, but those things are more of an afterthought next to the two big reveals that will give the next arc some forward momentum – something this one was sorely missing.
The narration at the beginning tells the audience that Ahsoka is grappling with a significant choice in her head: to escape prison but tell the Martez sisters about her Jedi powers or not to escape and keep her fragile relationship with them. What comes next is about as inevitable as it is boring, and the script never gives any real indication that she will not become best friends with the Martez sisters by the end of the episode.
Of course, it turns out that the spice Rafa was supposed to deliver was part of a larger scheme, and the Pykes were under the thumb of an even more powerful enemy. The “twist” here is about as dull as they come, and it is mostly because the character involved has been the subject of far too many holographic cameos.
Although the episode’s dramatic and narrative turns fail to create enough drama to pack a satisfying punch, the one comedic scene with Rafa and Trace attempting to bluff their way to some more spice does genuinely deliver. Watching Rafa talk her way past unsuspecting and oblivious workers is a delight in an episode devoid of much pleasure. The best part of the episode is undoubtedly the end when this arc can finally be forgotten and Ahsoka can move on to bigger and better things.
After the credits, viewers would not be wrong to ask themselves what this was all for. These four episodes were the only completely new episodes in the final season and yet, they did not bring anything new to the table except for a few throwaway characters. Maybe the lessons that Ahsoka learned here will make themselves apparent throughout the last episodes of the season but for now, those lessons appear to be nonexistent. It was a great disservice to the character to have her start and end this arc with an outlook so similar that someone would be forgiven for thinking she had not changed at all. The one tiny kernel of change was that the Martez sisters told Ahsoka it was fine for her to be a Jedi – as long as she was a good one – but that morality is something any of the show’s audience could have told her. People come to the show for spectacular action and engrossing character development but this episode, and its arc, had neither of those.
