There was a massive amount of foreshadowing for next week. Ezra and notes of Vader's Theme. Not sure why it was playing with the bird though.
Someone on Reddit mentioned that apparently Owls (which the bird is a space version of) are somethings used to foreshadow bad things happening.
Yeah... I managed to watch the episode before its American airing due to a technical error on Disney's part, and it was such a delight to see them find a home... But then you realise that one of the trio that goes is not going to make it back
Didn't they use a similar creature in the TCW episodes that had Ahsoka surviving on a Trandosian hunting moon? IIRC they used the birds to mirror what was going on with the characters. So is this as much of a callback as it is a foreshadowing?
Yeah, I just watched it again and there's definitely something going on with the space-owls. In the scene where Ezra comes to sit with Zeb, one of the birds is already perched nearby and a second lands and sits next to it. Then at the end of the scene as the music plays out, both are seen flying off into the sunset. Then at the end of the episode, after Ezra fails to connect with one of the bugs, he looks up to see that now there's only one space-owl (they're actually called convorees, apparently) circling above, all alone just as Ahsoka moves into the shot and Vader's theme plays (specifically, a version that sounds a lot like the one that played over Anakin's final unmasking/death scene in RotJ) before blending into Ahsoka's theme. Then back to Vader's theme mixed with Ezra's, finally panning up to the lone owl, now perched and looking right down the barrel into camera with Vader's theme again, though this time with the ominous low-end cellos rather than the high violins. Clearly some pretty strong subtext going on here.
IIRC that theme was also used in the initial battle scene on Kashyyyk, so perhaps it's considered a general clone trooper/Republic Army marching theme than specifically an Order 66 theme.
They all sound pretty much the same to my ear, but whatever, it's still the same theme regardless and the only common factor between those three scenes is clone troopers being all soldiery. Unless of course you're suggesting that the spider thing was a Jedi youngling or something?
Yeah, that was so not subtle (yet, in a deliciously subtle way ), but I burst out into laughter, grinning ear-to-ear the second I heard it. Reminders of the good ole' times.
I was never a fan of Maul's resurrection. It always felt very contrived, forced, and completely unnecessary.
Rebels will not be up early on the Watch DisneyXD app this week, so for anyone watching the American broadcast you won't need to worry about spoilers. Also a promo gallery http://imgur.com/a/oau7E
That's what I thought going in, but damn if they didn't win me over. I actually like that they never really bothered to explain the details of how he went from being in two pieces falling down a seemingly bottomless shaft on Naboo to being a nerf-shit crazy half-machine centipede looking thing on a junk planet. One can connect the dots without being spoon-fed the answers. It also helped that they were able to create a character essentially from scratch, because let's be honest, he wasn't what you'd call a three dimensional character in TPM. Hell, he was barely a one dimensional character. More of a plot device with a scowl and an epic soundtrack. Darth Maul 'King of the criminal underworld and lord of all mercenaries' was a damn sight more interesting that Darth Maul 'glorified extra'.
The show didn't bother to explain it, but it was addressed in a comic book as seen here and here. ( And also here. )