My thoughts: It's a return to form for the charismatic Kaz who performs his full repertoire of comedy poses and expressions this episode. Quite frankly, he's totally OTT and ridiculous, but I have to say, highly entertaining. There's actually a lot of silliness to this episode, of which Torra, Captain Doza's daughter, seems to share the same genes as Kaz, as she's also too is hyperactive and easily excitable. Thankfully again, much like most characters on this show, she's very likeable. What I don't quite understand is why she continually sneaks out of her room and the tower but later when she "rescues" Kaz from her father's office, she chooses the trash compactor route for them to evade everyone? Bizzare. Naturally, I assume it's intended to link back to Rucklin's jump as some sort of glorified servant in the tower where he's emptying the trash from Doza's office. That can be the only reason, and of course the game simulator sub-sub-sub-plot of the episode, so they can do some crazy leaping and jumping about to evade the compactor's lasers. As enjoyable as it all is, especially to see a view that is so nostalgic to A New Hope, I can't help but worry about the efficiency rating for this compactor which seems to fire haphazardly at anything that moves, rather than the static trash that it's actually there to incinerate? Is it really this stupid or was this done for effect? I can only guess the latter.
Learning that Captain Doza was a former senior employee of the Empire really raises an eyebrow, although you just know that Kaz's assumption about what that means is going to be anything but accurate. Having also gained the data off the agreement form between Doza and the First Order, I'm wondering what that could possibly tell anyone that they don't know already? Most T&C stuff is really dry and hardly known for containing sensitive material. Hopefully we'll find out a little about that at least. Clearly one can tell from the conversation between Doza and the First Order that it's all a little sketchy on the finer details:
How many stormtroopers will be positioned on station? As many as needed.
When will they leave? Whenever.
It's hardly committal is it?
Nice to see Rucklin, our Fred Jones lookalike (from Scooby Doo) back again and has not totally left the galaxy. He's far from happy with Kaz, which is uncanny, given it was all his fault really about their fallout. I forsee him causing more minor issues for Kaz in the future but not totally getting his way.
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| What's in that contract? |
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| Kaz gets all up and close to the Empire ... uniform. |
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| Comedy ensures as Torra and Kaz beat the incinerator. |
Rating 7/10 - Enjoyable episode thanks to Torra and Kaz's eccentric behaviour as they skirt about The Tower.
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