This week’s batch of Shadow Lord episodes are all about the vibe shift. But it’s not just Janix losing something when that happens— Shadow Lord loses a bit of something along the way, too. For as good as the seedy crime noir feel the first four episodes of Shadow Lords have, there is something very compelling in just how different things feel coming into “Inquisition.” After last week’s cliffhanger of the literal Shadows of the Empire being cast over Janix, one of the most compelling things about this set of episodes is just how immediate and choking the Imperial fist is as it comes crashing down on the planet. Crashing doesn’t even feel like the right word—the Empire arrives quickly, but it doesn’t do so with the immediate brutishness such a description would imply. One moment, it wasn’t there. Then a Star Destroyer is in the sky.…