Star Wars Rebels Season Four (spoilers)
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Given that they've just recently released clips for two different episodes, I'd say it's another pair on the trot next week. One can only assume it's a scheduling thing with Disney. That or they *really* want at least the first half of the season out before TLJ perhaps?
No, the entire first half of the season will be two episodes a week.
It occurs to me that if I go by the Star Destroyers for scale, those domes on Mandalore are about as tall as Mt. Everest. Or taller.
I am truly enjoying seeing how terrible Saw is. (And Whitaker is bringing his A game, isn't he?)
It never occurred to me that Saw's condition as a "broken man" could have happened all at once and fairly recently.
I am truly enjoying seeing how terrible Saw is. (And Whitaker is bringing his A game, isn't he?)
It never occurred to me that Saw's condition as a "broken man" could have happened all at once and fairly recently.
The Darths and Droids webcomic came up with its own explanation for the character's injuries in yesterday's strip:
http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1565.html
I wouldn't say "all at once" exactly, more like he reached a point of critical mass. 'Rebel Rising' showed that his increasing obsession and paranoia had been gradually building for years.
Sure. But I meant his physical condition. When he ruefully laughs "There's not much left of me." in RO, it might be because this is a very recent thing that's happened to him. As we can see in this week episodes he's more or less intact, physically. He might be on the edge mentally, but something is going to happen to him in the next year that will break him more or less completely.
I think the physical thing is cumulative too. He's already wearing the suit so his pulmonary system is already damaged. Indeed, for all we know half his organs have already been replaced with cybernetics. Granted, his drooping eye is a Forest Whitaker thing (an inherited genetic condition IIRC), but since the character didn't have it in TCW we can only assume he's suffered some kind of palsy or nerve damage.
The only real difference between what we see here and in Rogue One is the loss of a limb or two and the breathing problem. Supposedly his lung damage was from being down in those contaminated Geonosian tunnels for so long, it's just that the symptoms haven't become quite so chronic. So that just leaves the loss of his leg, which is yet to come.
Keep in mind that people in ill health (physical and mental) don't always exhibit symptoms in a consistent, predictable way. There are good days and bad days. As time goes on the bad days get longer and more frequent while the good ones get shorter and fewer and further between. I think what we see in Rebels is him when he's mostly keeping it together and that's probably largely to do with him being on a mission. He has a drive and a purpose (and probably drugged up to his eyeballs with Clone Wars issue combat stims!)
What we see in Rogue One is the other side of that. On Jedah, he's stuck hiding in a dry dusty catacomb, stewing about plots, secret Imperial projects and assassination attempts. His more recent injuries are compounding the older ones, the treatments getting less and less effective and his increasingly erratic mental state only serves to feed back into this. It's no wonder he deteriorated so fast.
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My cable schedule for some reason is only displaying Part 1, but chances are, if you find two subsequent listings for Part 1 back to back, the "second" Part 1 is in fact Part 2. That's what my cable schedule did for Monday night, had a rerun of Part 1 listed immediately after the New broadcast of Part 1. As I suspected, it turned out to be Part 2 instead.
Diabolical!
I have to admit I cheered when I saw the U-wing. I think that might be the first post-OT ship that has found it's way into my heart like that. Well, excepting the Ghost, of course.
And Yavin gave me goose bumps.
For all the "character struggles for acceptance over the sins of their past" kind of stories we've seen, Kallus seems to be right cozy, doesn't he?
Not strictly Rebels related, but I agree with this completely. Fell in love with the U-wing the moment I saw her. It's easily jumped up the list of my favorite Star Wars ships of all time. It has a kind of workman-like, utilitarian vibe that just really sells itself to me, but with just a little bit of that X-wing swagger in the engines and the lines.
Be glad you were able to get part one. Charter did not list any information for the programming on DisneyXD Monday evening and my DVR skipped recording ANYTHING. I only have the first 2 episodes of the new season, nothing else....
Q2
I had the same issue, and resolved the problem the same way.
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About this season so far. The Madalorian two-parter was ho-hum, basically. Not awful, but forgettable, really. So, onto the Saw two-parter.
The issue that stuck out with me the most was the fact than Mon Mothma's plan not to destroy the communications installation but instead to bug it was completely and utterly sensible. I suppose I can account for Ezra's impatience and urge to destroy it by his evident still ongoing immaturity. But in the case of Hera?!? That was eyebrow-raising to me. How is it that Hera just wants to blow shit up; can't she see the strategic advantage in a) exploiting the Empire's network, especially for something they could easily replace, and b) not tipping off the Empire as to what sorts of sources of information the Rebellion might have?!? Geez.
Other than that major gap, I thoroughly enjoyed the episode. Nice to see that they're really moving things along and getting this show in the thick of the setup for RO.
All S4 episodes really looked great. I was staggered at just how good the Saw episodes looked on a big screen TV. Awesome, really.
Be glad you were able to get part one. Charter did not list any information for the programming on DisneyXD Monday evening and my DVR skipped recording ANYTHING. I only have the first 2 episodes of the new season, nothing else....
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hmm either the cable companies are ballsing it up or Disney needs to extract the digit and provide the correct information
Looks like you might be on the money - found a repeat on Saturday morning that had PArt listed twice in the hour. Fingers crossed it works.
I suspect Hera might still have been a little pissed over the Imperials more or less kicking her ass on whatever mission she was on before this episode that forced her into the hot landing on Yavin at the beginning. So now she just wants to get some revenge.
If the Empire was already intending to use the station as a decoy up front, then that would imply that Mothma's spies had delivered bad intelligence. Mothma had evidently decided that the intelligence was good, so the Rebels had a window of opportunity to carry out the mission.
Of course, by the time that the Rebels had shown up a few times at places where the Empire thought there had been operational security, the Empire would be reevaluating its methods of secrecy and, I agree, it wouldn't take long before someone like Thrawn would figure out what component had been compromised. Knowing the installation that had been compromised might also lead to the uncovering of certain Rebel spies as well, like the ones who had tipped the Rebellion off about it (something that's a possibility right now, as it is). It's also true that at that point the Rebels would become vulnerable to getting lured into something. But they were always vulnerable to getting lured, and anyway that situation in particular would be after at least one Rebel of victory* of import greater than the cost of the installation itself and quite possibly more than one such victory; the whole reason for planting the spike was to find bigger fish to fry.
* - assuming they actually won that engagement, of course
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