Star Wars: Tales of the Empire

They jump ahead to Morgan presenting plans for a (genius) new TIE Fighter to a bunch of imperials.

Along with being the magistrate of Corvus, it would've been interesting to know how she ended up like this.

- How did she became an engineer developing plans for a space ship superior to the empires? The Nightsisters didn't exactly seem to me to have engineering schools or technologically advanced knowledge.
- How die she became the magistrate of that City?
- Where did she get the spear of pure beskat?

They skip all the interesting things and jump to her being in her City and getting introduced to Thrawn...we already know they have a connection, nothing new there.

And who exactly are her enemys she speaks of? Either she believes the separatist army was defeated by the Republich/Empire or she knows the Empire was behind it all along.
Asuming the first, she has no enemys - asuming the later, she know works with her enemies....?

In Tales of the Jedi you knew right off the bat why the characters did what they did and how they ended up in the locations and situations they are in. You knew the characters.

Here I don't understand her motivations and how she got where she is.

I like the Inquisitor Lin. She is rutheless and you can see how she observes Barris. You can really feel that, if Barris were doing or saying the wrong thing, she would cut her down mercilessly (for a bad gal character that's a good thing !).

Barris looks just cool in her Inquisitor outfit, especially the helmet. I know that's not really important, but still, cool design.

Lightsaber battle in Episode 5 was good, made them look evenly matched which is a lot better than everything we saw in Obi Wan Kenobi.
But be sure to not offend the person you just killed with using the wrong pronounce...better be safe and use "they/them".... I am binary and be honest, if someone were to address me with "they/them" I would be the offended one xD.

The end of EP5 was disappointing though...I guess we can't have two lightsaber battles in one episode.
And if Barris was ready to leave the Inquisitors, she could've acted earlier.

The visuals of that ice planet are absolutely stunning. The mountain range at ~02:27 is wallpaper worthy, and other scenes as well.
The story is simple and predictable. The little easter egg with Barris sending the family to Ahsoka is nice.

But what happens then is...well I don't have a clue.
First of all, why does Lin have to redeem herself at the end. She was a perfectly good bad gal character. Could've left her evil or make her even more so.

Can someone explain to me what happened in that icey pass? Did Barris suddenly became a Yoda-level force wielder and was able to manipulate Lins perception? I don't get it.

During their encounter, Barris can easily dodge every blow of the lightsaber. But when she is secretly approaching her, with every advantage possible, she gets stabbed??