We Didn’t Like: Morgan’s One-Note Anger
Morgan’s side of Tales begins with a horrifying moment: her witnessing the near-extinction of the Nightsisters as a people, and then, in her desire for revenge, nearly getting another clan of Dathomiran witches wiped out in the process. You would think this sets up a narrative of how Morgan became the person she is by The Mandalorian and Ahsoka, or how revenge blinds people to becoming monstrous themselves, or even what it means to carry that kind of grief and anger without a defined outlet for it for so long.
Instead it mostly means Morgan is angry for the next 20-ish minutes of animation. Empire has absolutely nothing to say about Morgan’s interiority, and is only interested in facts—how she met Thrawn; how she, out of nowhere, was apparently the designer of the TIE Defender and just bizarrely brought that to them like she’d designed an Imperial Navy Original Character Do Not Steal in her spare time; why she locked down Corvus to what it became in The Mandalorian. It’s a terrible waste, because ultimately we come out of Empire with no real new understanding of Morgan and who she is that we didn’t already know from her prior appearances. And considering those prior appearances climax with her death, it’s hard to make this feel like anything more than a lot of wasted time for a lot of boxes ticked off on a factoid checklist.
