Star Wars Rebels Season Two (spoilers)

[ALF]

The pacing of this fall finale episode was kind of weird.

I actually really liked what they did with Ezra's parents storyline. That takes some balls to pull off on a kid's show. The action/excitement was upfront and then they dealt with the loss at the end. We feel the connection between Luke (parents died) and helplessness (Anakin too late to save his mother) that brings emotional depth to Star Wars.

Now, Ezra will have a built-in connection with all the freed-prisoners-turned-rebels by their ties to his parents. Maybe it will all fuel his anger going towards (almost) going to the dark side, who knows? He can focus all his rage towards the Empire now, if he wanted to. He will truly be a Bridger... which is appropriate for someone highly skilled at Force Connecting.

As for the hotly anticipated Snips vs Vader which feels strangely absent from this episode, is coming next, and can I point out how exciting it is that we don't have to endure a months-long break for the Rebels goodness to continue? They're saying January. Deck the halls, Loth cats.

Rebels Recon 2.10:
https://youtu.be/_JrVry8kgyw

 

[Ithekro]

Just a mid-season finale of sorts with a holiday break plus The Force Awakens.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Actually, if you read Kenobi's line and take it at face value:-

"For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times. Before the Empire."

You could take it to mean that the "Dark Times" he refers to is a separate period then the current Imperial regime, referring instead to the century of rule under former Sith Empire.

Or he's referring to the transition of the Republic to the Empire (i.e. replacing the clones with conscripts, building the bigger Star Destroyers, mopping up whats left of the Separatists, stamping out any remnants of democracy Palaptine may have missed after declaring himself emperor, and ect.) and the remaining Jedi being hunted to near extinction by Vader and the Inquisitors.

For clarity, another way the phrase it might be: "The Jedi Knights were the guardians of the Republic for over 25,000 years. They were there before the "hundred years darkness", they were before Empire."

So he's ignoring the time his Jedi order was running around defending the galaxy?

Personally I think the Jedi were still doing it for thousands of years they just did it from the shadows during the Sith Empire, until they could defeat it and restore the Republic (like during the OT.)

I figure the Sith not being thorough wiping out the Jedi likely lead to their defeat, and Palaptine putting a decent focus on making sure the Jedi are all dead this time is to keep history from repeating itself.

Especially since it looks like missing a Sith or two is what let them plot in secret to take their revenge on the Jedi and take over the galaxy.

 

[kitik]

I liked that they were bold enough to finally confirm his parents' fate. Though it was surprising that it happened after they heard Ezra's broadcast.

 

[ALF]

Hera and Kanan are Ezra's parents, now. They sort of always were, anyway, for the run of the series so far.

Ezra says in (I believe it was) in Gathering Forces, "I'm afraid of knowing the truth!" (in regards to the truth of if his parents were alive or not). Does this mean Ezra is now fearless? He now knows the truth, or enough of it anyway*. He certainly threw himself into the attack on both Inquistors in their hangar on Garel. For the rest of the series are we looking at Kanan and Hera trying to hold Ezra back, for his own good?

There's a lot of talk of who won't survive the series. Now I'm starting to suspect Kanan may make the most sense because without him, Ezra can't continue his Jedi training - thus maintaining the delicate canon of the beginning of A New Hope (that others seems to care a great deal about).



* - This probably depends on the future storylines featuring http://starwarsrebels.wikia.com/wiki/Ryder_Azadi, who also voiced Savage Opress. Really enjoyed that actor in HBO's Carnivale as well.

 

[Christopher]

* - This probably depends on the future storylines featuring http://starwarsrebels.wikia.com/wiki/Ryder_Azadi, who also voiced Savage Opress. Really enjoyed that actor in HBO's Carnivale as well.

You mean Clancy Brown.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

It looked like the character model resembles Clancy Brown as well.

 

[Reverend]

It was nice to see Clancy Brown play a friendly character for a change. A few notable exceptions aside (this, Earth 2 & Starship Troopers...kinda) he almost always plays villains.

IIRC he lamented this when he was cast as Lex Luthor in the old Superman Animated series--he'd auditioned as Superman.

 

[publiusr]

It was nice to see Clancy Brown play a friendly character for a change. A few notable exceptions aside (this, Earth 2 & Starship Troopers...kinda) he almost always plays villains.

IIRC he lamented this when he was cast as Lex Luthor in the old Superman Animated series--he'd auditioned as Superman.

Lex was an anti-hero in that. The episode where he talks down the Amazo android (Picardo voicing) was the high point in that series.

 

[Christopher]

It was nice to see Clancy Brown play a friendly character for a change. A few notable exceptions aside (this, Earth 2 & Starship Troopers...kinda) he almost always plays villains.

He was a good guy in Sleepy Hollow, as well as Buckaroo Banzai and Jackie Chan Adventures. And he was both a good guy (Captain Stacy) and a bad guy (Rhino) in The Spectacular Spider-Man, as well as Odin (maybe kind of a morally ambiguous figure?) in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Red Hulk (ditto?) in the current Disney XD Marvel animated universe.

 

[Ithekro]

I just realized that Ahsoka has a major growth spurt after the Clone Wars. She is rather tall now, or Kanan is kind of short. Though she was only about 14 or so the last time we saw her.

 

[sojourner]

It was nice to see Clancy Brown play a friendly character for a change. A few notable exceptions aside (this, Earth 2 & Starship Troopers...kinda) he almost always plays villains.

He was a good guy in Sleepy Hollow, as well as Buckaroo Banzai and Jackie Chan Adventures. And he was both a good guy (Captain Stacy) and a bad guy (Rhino) in The Spectacular Spider-Man, as well as Odin (maybe kind of a morally ambiguous figure?) in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Red Hulk (ditto?) in the current Disney XD Marvel animated universe.

Too bad we don't actually see him in all but one of those cases.

Please quote me so Christopher can see this response.

 

[Reverend]

It was nice to see Clancy Brown play a friendly character for a change. A few notable exceptions aside (this, Earth 2 & Starship Troopers...kinda) he almost always plays villains.

IIRC he lamented this when he was cast as Lex Luthor in the old Superman Animated series--he'd auditioned as Superman.

Lex was an anti-hero in that. The episode where he talks down the Amazo android (Picardo voicing) was the high point in that series.

^Different show. When they initially cast him in STAS he was still very much the villain.

Though you're not wrong in that by the end of the old DCAU, Lex's character had run the full gamut of supervillainy from evil business exec, to "mad" scientist, to alien hybrid-superbeing, to actually-mad-as-in-batshit -crazy scientist, all the way around to anti-hero and the man who finally took down Darkseid.

I just realized that Ahsoka has a major growth spurt after the Clone Wars. She is rather tall now, or Kanan is kind of short. Though she was only about 14 or so the last time we saw her.

I think by the end of it she was closer to 16.
If you pay attention, she actually grew over the course of the show; if you look at her in the '08 movie and in her last episode in TCW you can see she's visibly older than when first appeared.
Well, not grew exactly, they just changed her model to make her look slightly older at one point in season 3 IIRC. So it wasn't exactly a gradual thing.

But yeah, it's been something like 13 or 15 years, I should say she's grown quite a bit. Worth keeping in mind to that her headtails are bound to make her taller than say a human with an eye-line at the same height.

 

[P0sitr0nic]

We dont really know how Torgruta grow. She may be near 30 human years old but only stop growing taller now.

 

[Stephen!]

Does this mean Ezra is now fearless?

Given his reckless behavior, I wonder if they'd go as far as Ezra getting one of his limbs chopped off, sooner or later.

 

[ALF]

You mean Clancy Brown.

Thanks! I couldn't bring myself to Google him - I knew someone would know his name.

Here's a clip from an "upcoming" Rebels episode. Looks like x2 A-Wings vs x2 Mando fighters!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IVU87-jnrc

 

[Reverend]

We dont really know how Torgruta grow. She may be near 30 human years old but only stop growing taller now.

I don't think it really needs much of an explanation.
Even in humans, it's hardly unusual for someone to have a significant spurt in height in their late teens. I mean, anyone remember when Cirroc Lofton was a full head shorter than Avery Brooks? No?

Anyway, it's all a bit academic since she is most assuredly *not* taller that Kanan, even with her head tails. Indeed, her eyeline is actually a little lower than Hera's, which if she were human would make her only slightly taller than Sabine.

It's pretty clear if you look at the scene where she's reunited with Rex. Rex walks through the middle of the Ghost crew and you can clearly see he barely comes up to Kanan's nose (about the same height as Hera.) Then he stands in front of Ahsoka, who's eyeline is about in line with the tip of his nose, with her headtails making her about the same height.

 

[ALF]

And.... we have Rebels again!
Um, anyone remember Star Wars Rebels? It's been such a dry holiday season for Star Wars...

http://makingstarwars.net/2016/01/a/

January 20th: A Princess on Lothal.
A mere 13 days from now, Loth Cats. Speculation as to the meaning of the title of this episode can surely begin.

 

[Kegg]

January 20th: A Princess on Lothal.
A mere 13 days from now, Loth Cats. Speculation as to the meaning of the title of this episode can surely begin.

I'll say the obvious guess: Leia.

If the first season was five years BBY, we'd now be like, three years away from BBY, so Leia would be in her late teens and perhaps beginning her political activism (as she wound up as a Senator and all that jazz.)

Added to this our heroes already know her father Bail, so it's not a huge stretch.

Of course, there's plenty of other royal families in the Star Wars universe, or ones they can make up for the show. but hey, Leia, it could be.

 

[Tom]

Now that the TFA has been out a while, I wonder if Rebels will have anything that will tie to the new movie.