They fly now.

This week’s episode of “Star Wars: Ahsoka” is aptly named “Time to Fly,” which is exactly what the episode delivers: a space battle in which reluctant master Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) must gel under pressure with her troubled Jedi apprentice, Sabine Wren (Natasha Bordizzo).

The space battle mostly works, though it does get a little clunky when Ahsoka decides to don a spacesuit and battle starfighters with her lightsabers when their ship is dead in the water after taking a nasty hit. It highlights the biggest challenge that faces “Ahsoka” and its director, Dave Filoni, who is a seasoned veteran of animation: Ideas that are better suited for a cartoon than live action.

Ahsoka, Sabine and Professor Huyang’s (David Tennant) main mission is to find out what former Imperial warlord Morgan Elsbeth (Dianna Inosanto), dark Jedi Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson) and his apprentice, Shin Hati (Ivanna Sakhno) are building with stolen New Republic ship parts. It turns out, it’s a giant Jedi hyperspace ring that can bring them to the galaxy where lost Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn and Jedi Ezra Bridger are.

We also see some pesky New Republic bureaucracy as foolish senators prevent General Hera Syndulla (Mary Winstead) from joining Ahsoka and Sabine, despite the leadership of Chancellor Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly), who hasn’t aged a day since the pre-rebellion show “Andor.”

The best part of this episode is when Sabine talks with Ahsoka about her doubts about being able to access the force, as she is struggling with it. The show does allude to the fact that this may be because she is a Mandalorian, who are famously very difficult to train in the Jedi arts, not that she’s not force sensitive at all. I think she has a mental block closing her off to it that formed when Ezra left, that will presumably be resolved by the end of this season.

There are some elements to like about this episode, but at its core, it’s filler that won’t sway those who didn’t connect with Episodes 1 and 2.

“Star Wars: Ahsoka” Season 1: Episode 3 “Time to Fly” gets a 7/10