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Star Wars: Rebels

IT WAS A GOOD EPISODE. There was a lot to like! Mon Mothma! Dutch Vander! TIE Defenders! Dantooine!

Considering this is supposed to be the big moment in the formation of the Rebel Alliance it felt a bit weird to have it in the middle of a random episode BUT STILL.

The ship scenes also looked really pretty but that's what Rebels can do best.

ON THIS WEEK'S REBEL'S RECON they talk a lot about Mon Mothma.

 
Did we really need another comedy droids episode so soon after the last one? Do we ever need another comedy droids episode?

I mean, the parts where AP-5 started singing in space and watched Wedge having a piss were funny because they were so bizarre. But the main plot of the episode was literally nothing. I always find it weird how Hera built/repaired Chopper when she was young and you'd think there would be affection between them but they barely ever interact. So the moment where she went nuts and (somehow) blew up the Imperial nerds didn't ring true at all.
 
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It was OK? I liked that finally someone realised that literally the only C1 droid on an Imperial base is probably Chopper. IS THIS THE FIRST CANONICAL INSTANCE OF SOMEONE TAKING A PISS IN STAR WARS?

AS SOMEONE WHO JUST WATCHED ALL OF IT, I CAN TELL YOU THE ANSWER IS: PROBABLY?

A lot of HOT CHOPPER ACTION in Rebels Recon.
 
Oh man, so much of this episode was done so well. Tatooine looked beautiful. Stephen Stanton was amazing as Alec Guiness Obi-Wan. It felt like something special getting some new material on that version of Obi-Wan at last (really he was only seen alive for half a movie and then five minutes as a ghost before this.) The duel being so short made sense given that they're both old men now and Maul was pretty much commiting suicide by Jedi. His death in Obi-Wan's arms was sad. Even the gratuitous Luke appearance made me feel emotions.

But here comes my predictable complaint: Ezra. He wasn't actually that bad in the episode, I liked the part with Chopper following him into the desert, it's just that...did we have to spend so much time with Ezra? I get that Rebels is never going to do an episode where no one from the Ghost crew appears, but was this really a great episode for Ezra's character? He ran off (how did he even know Obi-Wan was on Tatooine by the way?), got lost in the desert, talked to Obi-Wan for 30 seconds, then went home. I guess he learned not to go running off every time he hears a spooky voice in his head, but he really should have already learned that lesson.

Those five minutes of Obi-Wan though! That was great.
 
I've never heard a better impression of Alec Guiness, it left me wanting more.

Loved the fight, swift as it was, makes you wonder if he could have taken Vader down as easily, but I guess he knew it wasn't his destiny.

I guess its official that Luke was the chosen one, not his father, now.
 
I pretty much agree with Wacky - the good parts of the episode (everything with Obi-Wan) were really good, including the fight being so short, but the episode had some serious pacing problems. I could have done with a longer conversation between Obi-Wan and Ezra instead of Ezra fighting Sand People. Or more of a conversation between Obi-Wan and Maul (REMEMBER WHEN MAUL KILLED THE WOMAN THAT OBI-WAN LOVED IN FRONT OF HIM AND SHE DIED IN HIS ARMS? IT WOULD HAVE BEEN COOL IF THAT HAD BEEN REFERRED TO IN LITERALLY ANY WAY).

It was also really weird that Ezra gets to leave his post at a time when he was told it was really really important to stay, lose a Starfighter, and then everyone just gives him a hug when he comes back. This is part of the Ezra Bridger Is Always Right problem that Rebels has always had.

A lot of people seem really angry at the episode because I guess they thought it was going to be some big epic dual but those people are dumb anyway. Also people think that Luke was a child at the end which is also incorrect!

IN THE REBELS RECON THEY TALK MORE ABOUT THE FIGHT AND THERE'S SOME COOL DETAILS IN THERE.
 
They could certainly have had more of Maul in this last ever Maul episode.

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I guess its official that Luke was the chosen one, not his father, now.
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Obi-Wan believed Luke was the Chosen One ("that boy is our last hope") becauase he lost faith in Anakin after the whole turning evil thing. But that doesn't meant Obi-Win was right! Anakin was the one who killed the Emporer and brought and balance in the end (well before whoever the fuck Snoke is came along.)
 
Well that was certianly the most action packed episode (two episodes) of Rebels ever! A huge number and variety of different spaceships made for a lot of fun space action. It was basically Star Wars porn. SABINE finally returned with her jetpack and being cool and even Ezra is less annoying around her because he knows she's so cool. Sato's sacrifice was a strong moment since we at least recognise him and are a bit sad when he dies. I liked that Thrawn was pretty much right about everything and only failed to kill our heroes because that one guy disobeyed his orders and because of something nobody could have predicted.

SPEAKING OF THAT, the Bendu stuff was the weakest part just because...I didn't know he could fly? And it felt a bit like DS9 when Sisko goes to the wormhole aliens for help when Kanan was asking him for help. Yeah he did shoot at the rebels too (and really it's weird that he let them stay for so long) but he was mostly killing Imperials. I like Tom Baker but the character did feel a bit out of place in this episode? But it was good that they brought back all the elements of the season.

Hera finally caled Kanan "love" but I'd like to see them really making out and touching each other.
 
YEAH IT WAS GOOD.

I liked that while I GUESS the Rebels had to escape, it was done in a way that didn't make Thrawn look weak. The things that made his plan fail were an idiot officer and a crazy centuries old creature who can also turn into a storm apparently.

I get what you mean by The Bendu being a bit out of place, and it's kind of true, but it still work of worked for me. Although yeah it totally felt like Sisko and the Wormhole aliens but I liked that all it really did was piss The Bendu off.

WHERE WERE THE TIE DEFENDERS, EH???

I guess we'll be going to Yavin next season so hopefully we'll see all of those Rogue One characters who died before A New Hope!

ALSO IT'S GOOD THAT SABINE'S BACK THAT'S GOOD NOT ONLY BECAUSE SABINE IS GREAT BUT IT ALSO MEANS TIYA SIRCAR IS IN REBELS RECON.
 
More like Tiya SOCUTE.

I always thought watching A New Hope that they'd only recently left Dantooine and arrived on Yavin, but I guess they'd actually been there for a couple of years going by this.
 
Well my belief wasn't really based on anything, it was just a feeling I always got!

Maybe they'll talk about the history of the Yavin temple which is being explored in Doctor Aphra right now.
 
Maybe everyone but Hera and Chopper dies in season four and at the end she decides to go suicide mission at the Battle of Scarif.
 
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