Fyraltari watches The Clone Wars (2008) for the first time

[Jasdoif]

One of the weird side effects of the non-linear-time episode orders, is that some episodes are a little too heavy with the in medias res openings.

No the beginning is just weird.

I agree. That's what makes it too heavy....I get the intent, they couldn't find an interesting way to do the setup so they glossed over it; but this was too much to try that with.

Name dropped in Empire Strikes Back, too.

I don't recall.

When Luke's recovering from being half (or more) frozen, after the bacta immersion, Han tells him he looks strong enough to "pull the ears off a gundark".

Well if it is it could have been done better, because Obi-Wan's insult are completely gratuituous making him look less "exasperated teacher" and more "prick".

Again, I agree.

That makes some sense but it doesn't mesh with Vader sensing Obi-Wan on the death Star for example. Especially since Anakin knew Obi-Wan was coming.

Ahsoka actually talks a little about how sensing people "works" later on, in season 3.