Where Does Ahsoka 'Time To Fly' Rank Among Shortest Star Wars Episodes?
Ahsoka viewers may have felt like a purrgil grabbed hold of them and swam into hyperspace, given how quickly Episode 3 sped by.
The episode "Time to Fly" ran 37 total minutes, tying it for No. 4 among Disney+'s shortest live-action Star Wars TV episodes to date (and there have been 52 in all).
The title of breeziest Star Wars episode remains held by The Mandalorian Season 3, Episode 4, which clocked in at 33 minutes and chronicled the Mandalorians' mission to rescue Ragnar Vizsla from a large raptor.
As for actual content — recap, opening titles and closing credits excluded — Ahsoka Episode 3 delivered a little over 29 minutes of storytelling. So what all happened in that sub-half hour?
"Time to Fly" opened with a sequence that evoked several Star Wars projects before it, as Sabine resumed her Jedi training under Ahsoka's guidance — vision-obstructing visor included. Alas, Sabine still struggles to exhibit any Force powers. Hera meanwhile met with a hologram of Chancellor Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly of Revenge of the Sith, Rogue One and Andor) and several senators, who voted to deny her request for resources to hunt down the presumed dead Grand Admiral Thrawn. (Senator Hamato Xiono even went so far as to dismiss the ask as but a folly to find Hera's long-missing friend Ezra Bridger.) Along the way, we also got a Jacen sighting, as in Hera's son via the late Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus.
Ahsoka, Sabine and Huyang thus forged ahead alone to the Denab system by themselves, and quickly found the T-6 in a firefight with Shin Hati, Marrok and others. Sabine had a rough go of it at first, manning the rear gun, but eventually she suggested some crafty maneuvers that allowed her to pick off a few bogies. Alas, the T-6 took a bad hit from the Eye of Sion's laser defenses, sapping its power. As Sabine got to fixing the craft, Ahsoka chipped into the cause by spacesuiting up for a wing walk, and using her lightsabers to fend off blasts and even damage one fighter.
As the T-6 recuperated, Ahsoka and Sabine marveled at a pod of majestic creatures passing by, which they later learned from Huyang were purrgil aka "star whales" capable of hyperspace travel. (Of course, it was one such purrgil that Ezra Bridger used to trap Thrawn's army, and himself, after which they all got hyperspaced away to...??)
Huyang debriefed everyone on his scan of the structure that Morgan Elsbeth is having constructed near Seatos, powered by multiple stolen Imperial hyper drives. He says that this "gate," once the final hyper drive is installed, will be capable of astonishing hyperspace travel — even to neighboring galaxies. The T-6 then set down inside a thick red forest on Seatos, not visible to Shin and Marrok as they flew overhead.
"Time to Fly" closed with Baylan Skoll ordering an array of troops and HK assassin droids to hunt down the Jedi who have taken refuge in the red forest.
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