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Rebels 4x15&4x16 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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Thomas Corp

Yes, a most outstanding finale. The action at the beginning was great, I loved your reactions to that. Of course, Thrawn returns and forces our heroes into a tight spot, complete with the haunting John Williams selection from Return of the Jedi. When Ezra makes his decisions, it gets you. And indeed, your reactions to that were getting me in the heart, especially his moment of “Once more unto the breach.” with the vents. The action continued to be great when the heroes reset the shield generators. It is a scare when it looks like Melch gets killed, and Hondo is quite saddened. Thankfully, Melch is all right. Unfortunately, the same could not be said for Gregor. I knew his death would sadden you, but as he told Rex, he went out with his boots on, fighting for a cause that he chose. I KNEW you’d love Zeb fucking up Rukh, whose death is quite gruesome. I just laugh how because of Zeb being in The Mandalorian, you’ve known he’s safe, whereas the whole run of this show, he was the one I was most worried about, thus it was a relief that he lives, and he and Kallus have the makings for the beginning of a beautiful bromance, loved your reaction to that scene, by the way. A shame to say goodbye to Pryce, though I confess to respect for her decision to die on her own terms. Likewise, a shame she never does get the chance to reconcile with her parents. Of course, given how villainous she was, perhaps such pity is misplaced. Perhaps. Still. Then there’s the big emotional moment when Thrawn brings Ezra to Palpatine, your reaction to seeing Palpatine as he was before the attempt on his life left him scarred and deformed was great, Jess. A delightful and welcome surprise to hear Ian McDiarmid using his normal speaking voice. As you saw, Palpatine offered Ezra the final temptation. Made more deviously brilliant that from what we see, the offer was genuine, it just leaves out the key piece of information of what would become of the galaxy had Ezra given in. I’m proud of you, Jess, when you called Palpatine out on his side-stepping Ezra’s query, I said, “So, you caught that one, well done, Jess.” Taylor Gray sold Ezra’s emotional conflict well, especially when he commits to being a true Jedi, says his goodbye to his parents and collapses the gateway. It all serves as a perfect culmination to one of the best character arcs of Star Wars where Ezra Bridger has gone from being just some no-account street loth-rat to a powerful Jedi who defies the Emperor himself. It’s sold so well when the Emperor’s hologram emerges from the rubble, underscored by John’s The Emperor’s Theme. Taylor’s calm and cool delivery of Ezra’s line, “You’re wrong. I have a family. I don’t need anything from you.” and Ian conveying the Emperor’s fury with the seething, “Unfortunate.” After that, Thrawn becomes not very difficult for Ezra to defeat. I know you were tipped off about the purrgils, yet I love how the surprise of them coming in at the end remained intact. A surprise for all of us when it aired. It was emotional seeing Ezra making the sacrifice, taking Thrawn and himself off the board. Then to jump ahead to learn Hera and Rex fought in Endor, because of course they did, like you said. And it was beyond lovely seeing your reaction to Hera and Kanan’s son, Jacen. I confess the name irrationally triggered some nerd rage when I first heard it, but I’ve gotten over that, especially following the Obi-Wan show. And it all ends on Ahsoka and Sabine being quite ready for another adventure. But that’s another story. And so concludes Rebels. I have loved seeing your love for the show, and especially our dear Shady Bunch. Though they may be under the shadow of the heroes of the original trilogy, the good that came of the actions of the Shady Bunch is immeasurable. They are true benefactors to the galaxy. And honestly, I think they’d be fine with not having all the adoration and praise as they consider their efforts a greater benefit to the galaxy. “L’homme n’est rien, l’oeuvre tout.” as Gustave Flaubert wrote to Georges Sand. No? Still, to see you love them as you did, it warmed the heart, Jess. I am so happy to hear you say you’ve so appreciated the Star Wars fandom being so wonderfully kind to you during this journey. Kindly surprised to hear you say you’ve successfully avoided Ahsoka spoilers, reactions to which, I look forward to starting with great interest in two weeks’ time. Spoiler-wise, I reiterate: Mum’s the word. You have my word. Until then, I sincerely cannot thank you enough for this wonderful journey, Jess, it meant so much to me.

Saltire le Hutt

Firstly I'd like to offer my thanks Jess for your wonderful reaction and joyous enthusiasm for this series on your watchthrough. This was the main series I patreoned to your channel for, and it's been a thorough delight all the way! Its been a pleasure to watch see how hooked you became for this show, and realise how much of a great addition to the Star Wars universe this show is, when you adored the mighty Clone Wars. Its been a delight seeing how hooked you became for this show and its fantastic story and characters - especially the mighty General Hera Syndulla!! Looking forward to seeing you continue your Star Wars journey next with Ahsoka and hopefully Bad Batch after that!

Saltire le Hutt

In the opening of the very first episode when we meet Ezra, the two low-level officers harassing the goat fella fruit seller, tell the audience watching that they are the Empire, and "whose going to stop us?"; someone walks between them - Ezra. He stops them and sends the Empire packing from Lothal. From street rat to Jedi Knight who stopped Sidious twice gaining 'unlimited power' and made sure Thrawn wasn't around for the Battle Of Endor to wipe out the rebel fleet - Ezra did alright!! We can see now Kanan's death is a pivotal point here. The Emperor himself says it changes Lothal's fate, and we see now just the events Kanan's death spurs into motion. He takes down Thrawn's TIE Defender factory, which will be a huge help to the Rebel Alliance as they won't have to deal with those nasty buggers; then through his spiritual guidance, he helps Ezra seal up the World Between Worlds and enables Ezra himself, through everything he has learned under Kanan and the crew, to realise his own destiny of freeing Lothal from the Empire. Thrawn killing civilians as he bombards the city. I dunno how those who read the books felt about that (though the writer of them, Timothy Zahn was an advisor on the show) as I believe he's more of an anti-hero in them, but to me it shows he has no qualms about doing war crimes just to strategically re-establish the upper hand. He isn't sadistic like Tarkin, Pryce or Sidious; he does what he feels is necessary, and in that regard, he's more like Vader. The part where Ezra decides to leave them always brings a lump to my throat. The hatch opening is a really poignant recall to the early episodes as he says "one last time". Hera can't let him go, she has already lost Kanan and doesn't want another of her family to leave, but thats the lesson Ezra has learnt now after being in the World Between Worlds - he loves both his biological and found families, but as a Jedi he has to let them go in order to accomplish the task. His training is complete. Sabine and Ezra now take the lead on the mission. Early in the series, it was Kanan and Hera providing the missions and plans; now 'the kids' have become great leaders in their own right. Interesting discussion between Thrawn and Ezra before he is taken to the Emperor. Thrawn sees the power in the force to act the Jedi have, but he can only think about what they can do as a weapon. Ezra rightly answers that Thrawn is essentially close-minded here, that he can only see the force as a weapon, when its anything but. Thrawn's line about all that matters is who has power, is what drives him. He is not power-hungry per se, but the Empire to him represents that control, order and power he thinks the galaxy needs, and is why he supports what they do and is willing to take orders from Vader, Tarkin and Sidious, as he sees them as people with similar mindsets. Love the Emperor's disguise hologram. He is portraying himself as the kindly old Chancellor, and is essentially Lucifer changing form to appeal to those he needs to convince. Before the Jedi Temple on Lothal was closed off, he took the entrance to it, rebuilt it, and I think done some of his Sith Alchemy on it, to try to open this portal of it to the World Between Worlds. Indeed, when they face off in that episode, it was probably this piece of the temple, Sidious was using to try and get Ezra before. Here he is trying a subtler approach, using the images of Ezra's parents to manipulate him into opening the portal. We don't know had Ezra went through, that he would have went back with them, or if it was just an illusion (which it probably was), and had he done so, he would have undone everything he did with the Spectres, giving the Emperor Lothal back and 'unlimited power'. However, though the decision causes Ezra pain, he is beyond the Emperor's tricks now, through all his teachings, and the decision here to let his parents go as well, not only stops Sidious in his tracks, it ascends him to Jedi Knighthood as he has has now applied everything taught to him. Haha I did mention that Hondo's Ugnaught pal, Melch, was a bit of a legend, and here we can see why with all his shenanigans! Love the line Zeb says to everyone as they embark to get to the generator room, "let's go rebels" when that squad includes Kallus and Hondo, who have come so far along such a winding path to end up here, supporting the Rebellion. Gregor dying is sad, but as he said, he was at least fighting for something he and Rex chose, finally. I love they brought the Purgil back to destroy the imperial fleet around Lothal. It shows again nature fighting back against the Empire. And as they grab Thrawn, Bendu's prophecy comes to pass : "I see your defeat, like many arms surrounding you in a cold embrace". Now you can begin to see the link with what was said about Ezra and the Purgil in the Mandalorian. That whole scene is wonderful, the visuals and sound design are superb, as is the music, which ends with a final heroic version of Ezra's Theme, as he and Thrawn depart to who knows where; its so good. You've seen that Thrawn has been out the game for a while from The Mandalorian, now you see why; no one knows where Ezra and he went. I like how Chopper throws Ezra's lightsabre to Sabine as they make their escape from the dome. For one, we've seen over the series that she knows now how to wield a lightsabre; and two, for those thinking that these two have a thing (I personally don't), its an important item of his as a Jedi for her to have - like Anakin wanting to give Padme his sabre in Clone Wars. So they did it. They free Lothal from the Empire, the first world to do so. Filoni has since said, that the Empire would have come back to try to massacre the world to make a point about rising against them (or worse since the Death Star was nearly online by this point); but within a few weeks, the Battle of Scarif and A New Hope happens; so they never did, as the Rebel Alliance showed them they were a force to be reckoned with. Speaking of those films, this ending is also a convenient way of showing how Luke was the only Jedi active in the Rebellion at that time, with Ezra gone and Ahsoka staying out of the picture; as well as having Thrawn out of commission for the Imperials. In the epilogue, I always tear up at seeing Kallus be shown the Lasats weren't killed off. I'm sure that lifted a huge weight off his chest, as he would have regretted what happened at the Massacre Of Lasan of which he was a great part of orchestrating. Rex made it back to the rank of Commander and took part in The Battle Of Endor. In fact, there is a famous scene in Return Of The Jedi now, that if you want for your headcanon, shows Rex behind Han Solo! https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsuper-ficcion.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F05%2Fmaxresdefault-7-1-987x555.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=8c64b7047544b20a9ffaec5c41d03580c00d2d49230d91e079c2b77b907300f6&ipo=images That character was originally called Nic Sant (Saint Nicholas, Santa Claus - yes really!), but for those wanting it to be, he is now Rex! A fitting end for him too, he through no fault of his own, or his brothers, was forced to bring about imperial tyranny; but he was able to fight back to help bring them down, and restore his Republic. Great hearing Hera and The Ghost also canonically took part in The Battle Of Endor as well; they have been fighting the imperials all this time, and for them to be present when the Empire was all but destroyed, is more than fitting. And now we see that she had a son to Kanan, Jacen Syndulla. We see at the start of this episode, Hera briefly holding her stomach, an animation's way of showing a character is pregnant. This is also one of the things that I believe Kanan could have told her on the rooftop before the end - that he knew through the force, that she was with child, which makes his sacrifice that night even more poignant. In the last scene we see Sabine and Ahsoka The White complete with staff (another Gandalf comparison) go off to search for Ezra. Thats why Ahsoka in Mando was looking for Thrawn, as he and Ezra are still off together into the unknown. Anyway a fitting and wonderful finale to a masterpiece of a series. It has the lot and is pure old school Star Wars with everything that entails crammed into it. And as a nod to the original trilogy, we end with the outro music of the original films, whilst finding out finally who voiced Chopper! A fitting way to end it all! :D

Thomas Corp
>>123230720

Yeah, I’ve seen how much you’ve loved going through Rebels again. Jess and her love for this show was beyond fantastic. I’m looking forward to her Ahsoka reactions, and yes, hopefully Star Wars: The A-Team, aka The Bad Batch.

Thomas Corp
>>123231575

Ezra twice stopping the Emperor from gaining control of the World Between Worlds and taking Thrawn out of the equation for the original trilogy, that boy did good. Kanan’s sacrifice did indeed pave the way for the victory for Lothal. The Emperor couldn’t see how because he is deaf and blind to the Light Side. I see Thrawn’s actions as trying to get his project back on track, and also, he’s under pressure from the Emperor who informed him that they were going to have a long talk once he got back, hence Thrawn’s greater ruthlessness in bombarding the city. Though your idea fits well too. He’s not above such acts, but he’s not wasteful. He does such acts for specific reasons, and he’s otherwise not gratuitously wanton with destruction. Figured Ezra’s silent goodbye would be a scene that gets you, and yes, great growth of he and Sabine leading the charge. Good read on the contrast between Thrawn and Ezra’s understanding of the Force. It was beautiful seeing the Emperor wearing the mask of Palpatine ala Lucifer tempting those via changing his form to that of a more pleasing visage. He was after all, the fallen angel. Not Palpy, Ian himself even notes that one. I think the images of Ezra’s parents were real as they do respond to him in, and silently encourage and approve of his decision and they express their love for him as the portal collapses, things that the Emperor would not make them do. I do like the ambiguity though. Melch is great. Sad to lose Gregor, though lovely he and Rex have that moment. The purrgil came right out of leftfield that neither Thrawn nor the audience anticipated it. Bendu’s prophecy was artistically done. Right, Scariff and Yavin disrupt plans for retaliation, especially as the Death Star wasn’t even fully paid off yet. I can only imagine what that would do to Sheev’s credit. And, yes, the show explains why Luke is “The last of the Jedi.” I was under the impression that the Ezra and Sabine relationship had settled into a strong sibling bond by the time of season three. Hearing fans yelling about it, I said, “Really? You guys are still carrying that torch? Seriously, stop trying to make it happen; it’s never going to happen.” The Kallus scene is great. That side-by-side picture of Rex, that is the picture I showed my brother, only it had a subtitle, “When you’re so OG, you’re in the original trilogy before the writers even know you exist.” Like I said, hearing the name Jacen, it did trigger a mite of irrational nerd rage, which I’ve gotten over. Oh, Kanan knew. That was his biggest regret, that he wouldn’t get to see his and Hera’s son. Lovely final scene of Ahsoka the White and Sabine going on the adventure. Terrific ending to this show.

Dario Frei

what a ride that was! thank you so much for sharing your journey through this brilliant story with us! I always remember rebels very fondly, but whenever I actually rewatch it, I am baffled by how good it really is.. the storytelling, the acting, how well the music supports everything.. It's imho the most star wars-y star wars <3 Looking forward to your Ahsoka reactions :)

YodatheHobbit

"I see your defeat, like many arms surrounding you in a cold embrace" - Bendu Turns how it was more than "like" and was quite literal.

Saltire le Hutt
>>123225174

The only other Jacen that may ring a bell for me was a Jacen Solo I believe? Is that what you are referring to about the Kenobi show that Han and Leia in canon named their son Ben after Obi-Wan instead? I wasn't able to get into much of the EU stuff back in the day outside of some games with Revan, Kyle Katarn and Starkiller, so while the name rings a bell, I'm glad Filoni was able to bring a Jacen here for Hera's son, and its a good name too, Jacen Syndulla - even if he doesn't look anything like her aside from the green (!?!) hair - hell its Star Wars, the more ridiculous the better, eh!! :D Its great that Kanan will live on in some way through his blood with Jacen, and his teachings to Ezra and Sabine; and he played his own part in bringing down the Empire. What a legend. Nice line there about Ahsoka being quite ready for another adventure, especially with her staff and white robes adorning her!