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Episode 6: The Eye
Official summary: With cover from a spectacular local festival, the Aldhani mission reaches a point of no return.
Trivia
To protect their garrison on Aldhani, the Empire uses gun turrets. While they are of a different kind then the ones that the Rebel Alliance used on Hoth to defend Echo Base with, it does bring that in mind.
Talking about Echo Base, when stationed there Han and Luke used the callsigns Echo Three (Luke) and Echo Seven (Han). In this episode Echo One is being used.
It is mentioned that Tarmyn was a stormtrooper who deserted. Now we have had quite a couple prominent people starting out this way. From the movies we got Finn, Jannah and her group as told in The Rise Of Skywalker, even if they deserted from the First Order and not the Empire. Defecting as a stormtrooper from the Empire is what Davin Felth (the “Look Sir, droids” stormtrooper in A New Hope) did. His name made the transition from Legends to Canon, but so far him defecting is still a Legends story. A Matter Of Perception, a comic published in Star Wars Adventures #22 (2017 series) also featured an unnamed stormtrooper defecting after a mission on Aleen. Back to Legends, we also have the Kalaan defectors from the game Force Commander.
As always look for the end credits for some full names of characters like the family name Beehaz for Jayhold, his wife Roboda and their son Leonart.
Not clearly seen in the episode except for an engine, Vel and Cinta use some kind of small submarine vehicle to reach the dam. This is reminiscent of the One Man Submersible Devilfish and Underwater Turbo Sled Pike that the Republic and Quarren forces use during the Battle of Mon Cala in The Clone Wars.
Vel threatening Jayhold that they can just take his hand would fit in with the many hand losses that we have seen throughout the Saga by now.
The look of Imperial tech throughout series matches with classic 70’s and earlier time period of the Original Trilogy and Solo. Corporal Kimzi has the same kind of head set as the Rebel technicians at Yavin Four.
The game that the Imperials play during their break is new.
As the TIEs prepare to take off at Alkenzi Air Command we hear the familiar Imperial alarm sound effect.
Doctor Quadpaw could very well be a Jillsarian, a species from the West End Games RPGs that was also seen in the Droids cartoon. In the episode The Lost Prince we meet Doodnik, an orange-skinned alien with four arms who is a chef. It can be surmised that this was the inspiration for the other four-armed chef (Dexter Jettster from Attack of the Clones), but maybe it also inspired Doctor Quadpaw.
Quadpaw was portrayed by Aidan Cook (who has had many roles, including the about to return Benthic Two-Tubes from Rogue One), while Paul Warren and Matthew Lyons assisted in the performance.
Unfortunately, Senator Dhow is not a reference to an existing senator. The Ghormans are mentioned again, will we get to see the massacre in a later episode?
While it is difficult to make out which species the other person in Bail Organa’s senate pod is, it is however the only alien species seen in the Senate in this scene. Is this due to the lateness of the hour? Or due to the Empire’s xenophobia?
The color of the jewel that Luthen tries to sell is a Devaron blue, which is a bit ironic as the Devorian species have been depicted most commonly in red, or hue variations of it, brown and green, but never as blue. The planet Devaron is also a lush jungle world, so green is more apt to be associated with Devaron.
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