Another fun episode with some very welcome and much needed character development for KB! I don't know what her accident entailed, but it must have been pretty horrendous to require replacing what looks like ALL of her occipital lobe with cybernetics, and given her inability to move when the implants malfunction; probably a t least a chunk of her cerebellum and maybe a section of her brain stem too.
Interesting choice to have the two best friend pairs split up and essentially swap "sidekicks", or rather the two that seem to get treated that way, but are anything but. Indeed it took Neel of all people to get Fern to think about helping others instead of just assuming everyone can keep up with her when she goes barrelling off. Wim seems to have gained a little self-awareness too.
I like the new look of the Onyx Cinder, or rather what one assumes was the original look of the ship before Rennod modded it with all that extra armour, weapons and engines. Also a skuzzy beat-up pirate ship that can shed it's skin and become a sleek star yacht? Not exactly a subtle metaphor, but still a neat twist! I can't help but feel a little sorry for the cleaning crew though; they just got done pressure washing that outer hull!
As for the design itself; it looks like the Stinger Mantis crossed with a U-Wing, with a tiny bit of Nubian in there too. I like it!
I liked the repair scene but wouldn’t that be very hot to handle? Kid acted like it was nothing.
Some metals cool down pretty quickly, especially the highly conductive ones like copper or aluminium (aka, the kind one might find in electrical wiring.) It may have been a *little* faster than it should have been if one wants to be overly pedantic, but only in the order of a few extra seconds. I think a little brevity is fine if it's in the aid of a little dramatic tension.
Well, he's a pirate, having the ship look like a blocky cube of crap when it's actually a sleek prequel-era chromed hotrod would lull others into a false sense of security. I've heard fan-theories that Han never cleaned up the Falcon for the same reason, the worse it looked, the less likely it was to attract attention.
That and his standards for living conditions are very low. I mean he literally grew up in a sewer . . . after that even a junkheap freighter must feel like his own personal mansion.
