IR TV Review: WILLOW - EPISODE 8 [Lucasfilm/Disney+]

The path to the city at the end of the world is paved with ideas of what life should be and what is desired versus what is needed. The season finale of "Willow" in Episode 8 brings to a pinnacle a series that has gotten better with time. Within the final texture of this season we see that there is a plan (without giving anything away). At the inset, it is not clear whether or not the intentions of the endless sea would change the ambitions or focus of the team involved. The characters, especially with the progression of Kit, have formulated in more where they should be without hitting certain story points too much over the head. The aspect of the twins (again the hark back to "Star Wars") still retains the truth. However the true ideal of the Cron and the intentions overall of Bathmorda's followers is not as clear as it should be.

The path of Dove is much more crisp though and this is where the balance flows. The disappearance of Madmartigan is also in play but it cuts more deeply with Kit it seems than her brother. But that might have to do with the idea of Elora Danan and her importance and protection to that lost individual. And Boorman as a character is playing up his idea but yet he is elusive because there are things he is not revealing. While Willow steps back at one point to let the true idea of what the Chosen One needs to do and be take its course, letting go of the reigns may cause an unintended but possibly catastrophic side effect as the tease per se shows. "Willow" adequately and with significant gains closes its season well, re-establishing a different team and their dreams (despite the absence per se of Val Kilmer's Madmaritigan understandably). B+

By Tim Wassberg