Interesting, but the cloaking stuff was too cliched. Not to mention contradictory. Those shots of the radar screen while they were cloaked made me groan. If they're in stealth mode, why the hell are they using active scans? That would give away their position.
No complaints about the military tactics or astronomical issues here, because SW has always been a complete fantasy where those things (and most other things) are concerned, and the "space" battles are really just WWII battles dressed up a little differently. So I just don't worry about it. Sure, some of the shots would've required either that the ships be hundreds of kilometers long or the planet be only a couple of dozen kilometers across, but that's just the fantasy conceit they use.
Mainly I liked the focus on Admiral Yularen. We got some nice subtle acting from Tom Kane, and some excellent facial animation on Yularen.
What's with Bail Organa's Jamacian accent?
It's not Jamaican. I think it's Phil LaMarr's attempt at a Latin accent, like Jimmy Smits. I suspect you're used to hearing LaMarr's voice as the Jamaican-accented Hermes on
Futurama, so it sounds similar to you. I kind of have that reaction too. Sometimes what you imagine as a similarity of accent is really a similarity of the speaker's own personal speech timbre, pronunciation, and rhythms. (For instance, James Marsters always sounds to me like he's speaking with a bit of a British accent even when he isn't, because I first became familiar with him as Spike. Your mind sort of blurs the elements that come from the accent with the elements that come from the individual.)
You can even hear some music cues from TWOK in this episode. as well as Trench's "There she is."
Not actual cues, which would mean entire compositions and would of course be illegal plagiarism, but just a couple of similar building blocks. I did notice a few bars of a rising-and-falling ostinato that was essentially the same as one Horner has used, but it came right after a fanfare that was very Williamsy.
