1x09 Idiot's Array

5.4/10. As cool as it is to have Lando back (and have him voiced by the irreplaceable Billy Dee Williams himself no less!) it's a shame that he's wasted on such a trite, silly story. The whole "Lando divides the team" premise had some juice to it, where as smooth as Lando is, he's able to pit Hera against Kanan, Ezra against Sabine, and Chopper against Zeb. But the whole caper with an inflatable pig and an additional hog-like bad guy and the silly crosses and double crosses and exposition about working together all fell flat to me. This is a disposable, skippable episode, which is all the sorrier when it features the long-awaited return of one of the most fun and interesting characters from the original trilogy. Hopefully his promises that they'll meet again will come true, but they'll have something better for him to do.

(As an aside, the design work on Lando was a little off. I understand trying to capture the more realistic features of a character whom we know from live action, but the mix of realism and cartooniness didn't really work visually relative to the other characters on the show.)

Hey Mine Doesn't Do That

It's nice getting characters like Lando into the show but this was a little bit too much of everything. He was just too smooth, too much sweet talking, he was uber-lando.

this episode was so awesome.. nice to have billy dee back as lando!

[Rewatch] It's hard not to enjoy a story with Lando, and this one stays fun the whole way through. I'm finding myself enjoying Rebels a lot more on my second time through, especially these relatively silly early episodes.

I have to say though, the Ezra/Zeb antics are getting tiresome already. And this episode highlights that Hera has been underused so far.

Lando Calrissian isn't my favorite character, but this episode was still pretty good--though not great--for what it was.