Rebels Star Wars: Rebels - Part 1

To be honest, no I'm not being fair. It's just that I'd argue Ezra suffers from being the protagonist in a series that sometimes ignores developement in favor of formula, and since the protagonist has a greater profile than the supporting cast, he suffers more from that issue than the others. The other characters can be absent from whole episodes, so their occasional closeups are all that matter.

I feel that maybe Ezra would be in a better place if they had kept Greg Weissman on staff. He's the master of making even filler episodes feel consequential, and considering how well he handled Ezra's arc in Season One in comparison to how all his protagonists from other shows just got better as. Seasons moved along...

 

Sometimes I do find Ezra a little flat. Other times I find him a little whiny. But I do like that at least he started young in the show, and he's grown considerably older at least.

I think if I have a problem with Season 3, despite the addition of Thrawn, it felt like a lot of filler and a lot of setup to things that never really happened. Or the things that did happen were somewhat anticlimactic.

 

They would have been better served by mixing some of the episodes up. Have all of Maul's appearances occur in the same month, have Sabine's adventure bee a full arc around the Maul one, and maybe move most of Thrawn's episodes to the end, so as to hasten the feeling of him hunting the heroes down.

 

I just started Thrawn by Timothy Zahn. Arihnda Pryce, Thrawn's right hand woman in Rebels, is in the book. Right now she is still involved in her family's mining business. I assume we will see how she ****ed over her home planet and came to work within the Empire.

 

Damn Marv.

 

What?

 

I just think it is funny how you jump to the screwing over of the entire planet. Nothing wrong, just hilarious.

 

Having finished the book, I can only hope they directly went to Zahn for season 4 of Rebels, because Pryce is fantastic in the novel. A revelation really, because she is far more human and complex here than what we got this season past. Really the Empire as a whole is looked at in a new light.

 

Im enjoying it a lot so far. Getting a first hand glimpse into Thrawn's mental processes is really interesting. The way he pays attention to even the most minor muscle tensing or the pitch of voice or the brightness of a person's eyes and people's body heat fluctuations is pretty crazy. Brings a whole new tension to the Thrawn scenes in Rebels. Poor Kallus never stood a chance of fooling Thrawn.

And I also hope that the Lucasfilm Story Group and Filoni have the very good sense to bring Zahn in as a permanent writer and story consultant.

 

Eh, she's a Moff. One that seems to have enough favor to bring in a Grand Admiral (even if newly minted). I'm going with she screwed someone over somewhere...

 

The Wookieepedia mentions that she sold out her homeworld for her own ambitions. Thats what I was referring to when I said she "****ed over her homeworld"


I assume the Wookieepedia is referring to what happens in the new Thrawn book.

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She signed her family mine over to the Empire to help her mother get out of trouble and to secure new jobs off world for her parents and herself. She basically swung the door open and invited the Empire into Lothal. And apparently Lothal is very traditional when it comes to business. They like to be involved and keep things in house. Pryce giving a family mine, that supports Lothal and its citizens, to the Empire (a bunch of outsiders) was a pretty big FU to Lothal. And we all know how the Empire treats its hard labor workers and how it treated Lothal.

 

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Pryce had been screwed over by the Lothal government and rival businessmen anyway, and as it was presented to her the Empire would have moved in regardless. She just took up the deal so that she could salvage something for herself and her parents, and climb the social ladder while she did it. Later chapters show that she doesn't view it as hurting Lothal, so much as making it more important to the Empire than any other Outer Rim world.

There are a few things in the last few chapters of the book that will make Pryce's role in the next season VERY interesting.

 

With Star Wars Celebration 2017 going on, how big of a percentage do you think that they will announce the Bluray release date for Star Wars Rebels: Season 3 this weekend?

 

Probably little, but unless something changes, we should expect the blu ray the last week of August/first week of September.

 

If you are looking for Rebels news, Sat is the day.

 

Filoni is doing the Animated Origins panel atm

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Some Season 4 news from Celebration

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A new look for Rex



And apprently Wolfe and Gregor will be back in Season 4

 

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How VERY Nik Sant

 

The Rebels seasons on Blu-ray are nothing special. Almost no extras for season 2. I mean at least we get the season sets, better than nothing, but c'mon. Give us some extras.

 

That looks good!

 

I just got to the part in Thrawn...

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where he reveals that the Chiss planted him on an Unknown Regions planet and faked his exile and lured the Empire into discoverng him so that he could infiltrate the Empire and discover whether the Empire was a possible ally against far darker and far more dangerous things than the Empire that threaten all beings in the galaxy. "Some of the enemies we know of some we dont."

Holy. ****ing. ****. Timothy Zahn is a gddamn genius. He took Thrawn's Legends canon exile and threw us a curve ball to make it new and even better.

 

Yep. I think that Thrawn and [blackout] The Chiss Ascendancy [/blackout] have a big role to play down the line.

I also liked the way Thrawn explained his authoritian ideology and his awareness of the Empire's flaws. The novel really goes deep and gives him quite a bit of complexity.

 

Not sure how I feel about this.

 

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It ties into what the Imperial remnants were doing post-Return of the Jedi; exploring the uncharted regions and probably finding Snoke there. Perhaps Thrawn and the Chiss knew of Snoke way back then, or at least something like him.

 

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I'm just not into the idea that Palpatine and the Empire were in fact more like antiheroes trying to prepare the "Galaxy" for some greater evil that was worse than them, which this seems to hint at.