Review: Ahsoka, "Part Five: Shadow Warrior" | Season 1, Episode 5

You're not gonna believe me

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“I told them to stay together. But they never listen.”

As I approached the end of “Shadow Warrior,” the fifth part of this eight-part series (or season, I suppose), I was reminded of one of my favorite television shows of all time. I’m sure some of you were avid week-to-week fans of the ABC sci-fi adventure Lost, which spun out the idea of a ragtag group of people stranded on a deserted tropical island after a plane crash into something so vast that it encompassed the very fabric of existence by its series finale. The journey to get there could sometimes be very frustrating, because episodes often raised questions instead of resolving them. Especially in the second and third seasons, it was as if the writers were tacitly refusing to move the story forward more than a creative inch.

At the beginning of the second season of Lost, the writers spent a few episodes doubling back on a major event—the opening of a mysterious hatch in the jungle—so that we could se…