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Star Wars Rebels Season Four (spoilers)

Cubic Centimeter said:
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.
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She's having a problem seeing the long term advantage over the short term harm they can do. She just lost a bunch of people under her command on the mission at the beginning of the story (offscreen). She's pissed, hurt, and wants to hurt the Empire back. It's her recognition that Mon Mothma's strategic decision is correct that keeps her on mission even when she agrees with Ezra and Sabine.

It has to be an ongoing problem for people in situations like this. You keep losing friends and comrades, and what little you do in the long game hardly puts a dent in the Empire in any real way. Whereas if you blow the relay to hell, you get the satisfaction of watching them scramble over the fallout for a bit before they rebuild it and you're back to square one. One is the correct decision, the other one feels good for a bit before it gets you nowhere. But I totally understand the temptation.
 
Reverend said:
Anyone else notice how much improved Forest Whitaker's performance was? It's quite common to see a screen actor struggle a bit since voice acting is a very different discipline, but I think that's that fastest I've ever seen one really take to it.
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Yes, I did. It was... Well, it was a Forest Whitaker performance. When he called out Mon Mothma: "THERE she is!" I go goosebumps.

I do like the plot thread that "they're in a war that they don't even know they're fighting". I hope they give Ezra a little more depth with this than they did his "struggle" with the dark side last year.

It reminds me of some of the debates from the Continental Congress in the American Revolution. The men who felt that they had just grievances but that they could be settled within the existing government vs. the men who felt that revolution was the only way to their freedom.

Loving it so far.

Oh, "You're a very KIND droid" (re: Chopper) is the funniest line in Star Wars EVER.
 
Xerxes82 said:
She's having a problem seeing the long term advantage over the short term harm they can do. She just lost a bunch of people under her command on the mission at the beginning of the story (offscreen). She's pissed, hurt, and wants to hurt the Empire back. It's her recognition that Mon Mothma's strategic decision is correct that keeps her on mission even when she agrees with Ezra and Sabine.

It has to be an ongoing problem for people in situations like this. You keep losing friends and comrades, and what little you do in the long game hardly puts a dent in the Empire in any real way. Whereas if you blow the relay to hell, you get the satisfaction of watching them scramble over the fallout for a bit before they rebuild it and you're back to square one. One is the correct decision, the other one feels good for a bit before it gets you nowhere. But I totally understand the temptation.
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Yeah, I got it. It seemed out of character to me for someone who had been giving everybody else pep talks in the earlier seasons, was what I was saying.
 
They also updated saw’s character model. His hair is now completely grey, and his eyes match Forest’s.

According to the BTS gallaery, Two-Tubes is voiced by the same actor who voiced him in Rogue One.

Also in the original draft they had a new character as the pilot, not him.
 
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Interesting pair of episodes tonight. If Ezra really is committed to staying on Lothal, that could explain what happens to him when the movies roll around.

It's weird seeing Hera without her usual headset. Have we ever seen her ear spike/cone things before? It feels kinda like seeing her partly naked. Meanwhile, I like Sabine's new hair color. I never cared for her pale hair last season. The dark purple isn't as striking as her first two hair colors (in the show -- I assume we've never seen the color she was born with), but it's nice.
 
Nice set of episodes. Sabine looks pretty good. Ezra's holding his own in his own way. Lothal is a mess.

The Force is doing strange things in response to the Empire though. And Thrawn has nerves of durasteel.

I could swear I heard a musical queue from the old TIE fighter game from LucasArts during on of the scenes when the TIE Defender was up in the air.

I know Filoni said that the Lothwolf is not Ahsoka...but what about the white Lothcat? And then of course their is the Bendu-like option. Such a mystery there.

The Rebels are definitely going to need X-wings if they hope to have any chance against all these new TIE Fighters. The new elite TIE Defender will still outdo an X-wing, but the regular version from before and the TIE Interceptors....X-wing bait.
 
Ithekro said:
I could swear I heard a musical queue from the old TIE fighter game from LucasArts during on of the scenes when the TIE Defender was up in the air.
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I liked the major-key arrangement of "The Imperial March" as patriotic music in the Imperial bar. Have we heard that used in-universe before?
 
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^ Yup, I heard about that over on reddit. Is there any way a more casual fan that doesn't read the comics would understand that? I'd never heard (or don't remember hearing) that Kanan had a "real" name before.
 
B.J. said:
^ Yup, I heard about that over on reddit. Is there any way a more casual fan that doesn't read the comics would understand that? I'd never heard (or don't remember hearing) that Kanan had a "real" name before.
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Apparently Maul called him by name last year.
 
B.J. said:
^ Yup, I heard about that over on reddit. Is there any way a more casual fan that doesn't read the comics would understand that? I'd never heard (or don't remember hearing) that Kanan had a "real" name before.
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Well, it was in a novel too.
 
Stephen! said:
Perhaps what the Empire has done to Lothal is intended to be Base Delta Zero. Albeit without exterminating Lothal's population. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Base_Delta_Zero
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No, BDZ is basically a scorched earth tactic used to either deny resources to an opponent or as a punishment to the locals and warning to others. What's happening to Lothal is just the same systematic exploitation by the Empire seen on many other backwater worlds. Raada, Wobani Gorse & Cynda. Same M.O.

That doesn't mean to say the Empire won't end up BDZ'ing Lothal if the rebels manage to take out Thrawn's TIE Defender factories. We'll have to wait and see.
 
So, as it is the time of tying of loose ends: What of Minister Tua's cryptic message about the Empire's mysterious presence on Lothal? Was she just talking about the Defender? Or was it more?
 
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