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Post by Newan on Oct 17, 2017 16:36:34 GMT -5
The two part premiere was pretty good, actually like I said before I think every week is 2 episodes this time, wookiepedia hasn't changed it, says episode 3/4 are next week.
Anyways I like that Bo-Katan became the new leader, it means Sabine can go back to the Rebels. Also it's interesting how the Jedi appointed Bo as the new regent when they came to liberate Mandalore, she was kind of a terrorist after all but I'm sure Kenobi probably made a case for her. I liked when Ezra opened the door and it was like Kenobi in the Lawless or when Kanan jumps down and was sorrunded, reminded me of Anakin and Kenobi in the elevator, or Vader at the end of Rouge One.
Also something I found kinda interesting but the new Saxon referred to the emperor directly as Palpatine, not sure any Imperial has done that, Tarkin refers to him as Emperor Palpatine and Thrawn and Vader just say The Emperor. Just thought that was kind of weird.
Next week Saw is back, something about spying on an imperial outpost, my guess is the planet from Rouge One where Jyns father was.
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Post by Newan on Oct 17, 2017 16:38:56 GMT -5
I do really like Sabines soundtrack, they reused the one from trials of the Darksaber and altered it at times, Thrawns themes are superior however
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Post by Newan on Oct 17, 2017 16:49:09 GMT -5
I like how Ezra gradually became more proficient with the jet pack though, Kenobi just putting it on in TCW and acting like a pro after the first couple seconds did seem kinda odd to me
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Post by Kenbo on Oct 17, 2017 18:52:10 GMT -5
Oh it started? I thought it was next month lol
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Post by Kenbo on Oct 22, 2017 10:22:33 GMT -5
The first episode had some good action sequences. And I liked the star destroyer setting in the second one. Music was quite good as well but everything else was still a cringe fest...
A weapon that targets specific types of armor? Seems kinda retarded.... And no way Sabine would be able to design such a thing by herself at the age of like 15 or something. And she was going to be like a soldier or pilot or something in the academy right? Not an engineer.... And how did she and Bo-Katan not die when hit by the weapon...
Also I think they should've killed off Sabine's mom and brother. Where did her dad come from though? He just came out of nowhere I don't think he was mentioned at all last season. He was kind of pointless as well except to engage in some more cringe dialogue...
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Post by Kenbo on Oct 22, 2017 10:25:25 GMT -5
But idk like seeing all the mandalorians in the first one coming out of the trench... It felt cool. The real problem is the characters who all just suck. Ezra and Sabine were the worst parts of this they're just so annoying..
And they decided to just now start the Kanan/Hera romance thing after 4 seasons... okay....
Honestly don't really like the whole Mandalore arc... Seems kinda pointless. Hope they don't come back to it soon
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Post by Potato on Oct 23, 2017 10:37:04 GMT -5
I wasn't a big fan of the Mandalore episodes. I like the idea of different clans and factions, but the copout death of Sabine's family was really lame. They should have stuck with killing her mom and brother, especially because they don't even really serve a purpose anymore.
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Post by Potato on Oct 23, 2017 10:40:36 GMT -5
In the Name of the Rebellion was much better though. I liked seeing Mon Mothma and Saw actually arguing with each other, and I was really surprised they killed off both Brom Titus and Captain Slavin. Just a couple issues though: Ezra's still slicing Stormtrooper blasters. I get that they're not going to show stormtroopers getting cut in half, but I don't see why no one can at least get cut by a lightsaber. Saw stunned some stormtroopers. Why? Doesn't seem to fit his character. He'd kill stormtroopers every chance he gets. Death Troopers speaking normally? What? I thought it was supposed to be garbled and incomprehensible... it sort of takes away some of the mystery of what they really are. Plus, the Death Troopers in this episode kind of sucked. The Krennic mention was cool though. I really hope we see him at some point (and voiced by Ben Mendleson  ). |
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Post by Newan on Oct 23, 2017 18:17:59 GMT -5
Yeah I really liked In the Name of the Rebellion, actually I really like this whole 2 episodes per week format as well, now I kinda wish previous seasons did this and TCW even.
Seeing Saw was cool and I like his interaction with Ezra. Also I tend to quite like Ezra and Sabine episodes... I liked the Krennic reference and seeing that Kyber explosions on screen was pretty damn cool, the one in TCW was just in the unfinished story reels sadly. But if we didn't see Krennic this episode, he's probably not going to show up at this point.
Though I wouldn't mind a Through Imperial Eyes part 2 with like Tarkin, Thrawn and Krennic
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Post by Kenbo on Oct 25, 2017 17:16:16 GMT -5
First part was whatever. Kallus just came out of nowhere and didn't do anything... Second part was actually not too bad. The mystery about the Death Star and whatnot was cool, that is what most of the episodes should have been like. The Death Trooper commander's voice was annoyingly lame though... Didn't like when they stopped the voice scrambling. It'd make more sense after there was only one left since they would need regular troops to understand them. Also they should've added Saw's breathing thing but I guess I can't expect such details in Rebels...
A show about Saw and his rebels would've been much more interesting instead of some wannabes... I want a gritty and dark show about the rebellion. Preferably live action.
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Post by Newan on Oct 31, 2017 13:57:38 GMT -5
The Occupation and Flight of the Defender were pretty good, tbh I like Sabine with darker hair better and Hera's disguise in the Occupation was better then her normal outfit...
The Wolf was interesting, probably some kind of force related entity similar to the Bendu. Wasn't Ahsoka originally supposed to be related to the White Wolf? Maybe when the Wolf returns we will see Ahsoka again in the second half of the season
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Post by Maverick-Jedi-Valen on Nov 12, 2017 4:37:26 GMT -5
"All paths are coming together now."
"What does that mean?"
"I don't know...'
Behold, one of the single most stupidly written exchanges ever to come out of this franchise, which is seriously saying something...
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Post by Newan on Nov 12, 2017 13:09:07 GMT -5
Haven't watched Kindred and the other new episode yet... But just wanted to point something else out, I rewatched Rouge One last night with my father and I think it was Potato that didn't like the Death Troopers speaking in Rebels. But actually I think one of them did speak in Rouge One, when Krennic was incapacitated on the platform on Eadu, someone says 'We have to get the Director out of here" and there doesn't appear to be any other imperials around at the time other then the Deathtroopers that go to pick him up. |
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Post by Kenbo on Nov 12, 2017 18:50:09 GMT -5
Haven't watched Kindred and the other new episode yet... But just wanted to point something else out, I rewatched Rouge One last night with my father and I think it was Potato that didn't like the Death Troopers speaking in Rebels. But actually I think one of them did speak in Rouge One, when Krennic was incapacitated on the platform on Eadu, someone says 'We have to get the Director out of here" and there doesn't appear to be any other imperials around at the time other then the Deathtroopers that go to pick him up. I think they say "Director we need to evacuate" so they were talking to Krennic who would not understand their scrambled communications. When talking amongst themselves I would say scrambled makes sense |
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Post by Newan on Nov 12, 2017 21:41:55 GMT -5
Haven't watched Kindred and the other new episode yet... But just wanted to point something else out, I rewatched Rouge One last night with my father and I think it was Potato that didn't like the Death Troopers speaking in Rebels. But actually I think one of them did speak in Rouge One, when Krennic was incapacitated on the platform on Eadu, someone says 'We have to get the Director out of here" and there doesn't appear to be any other imperials around at the time other then the Deathtroopers that go to pick him up. I think they say "Director we need to evacuate" so they were talking to Krennic who would not understand their scrambled communications. When talking amongst themselves I would say scrambled makes sense In the Rebels episode the Commander Deathtrooper was talking to an imperial officer though and later talking to the Rebels, so not having it scrambled I guess makes sense for that. And I think she talked to her squad normally once as well but I feel like it might be for story telling purposes on Rebels |
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Post by Newan on Nov 14, 2017 15:45:22 GMT -5
I watched Kindred, Crawler Commanders and Rebel Assault just then.
Kindred was interesting, I like Rukh and glad he's canon again. The whole thing with the Wolf though I'm still really not certain what is going on, it's obviously a powerful force entity like the Bendu but I'm not sure what it's trying to achieve or what it wants out of Kanan.
Crawler Commanders was more of a filler episode, wasn't a bad change of pace. Zebs fight with the Foreman was kinda funny.
Rebel Assault might have been my favorite so far this season, I like seeing Thrawn in battle and we don't get to see cool space battles much even in TCW we didn't. Again with the Wolf though, I'm really interested now...
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Post by Newan on Nov 14, 2017 15:49:55 GMT -5
No more episodes until 2018 sadly... but I do like how connected this season is, even the filler episodes are directly connected to the main story. I'm guessing this entire season takes place within like 3 months, maybe a bit more since the first 2 episodes on Mandalore were a bit more distanced.
But I'm curious how this season and thus the show will end in these final 7 episodes... I mean obviously the Rebels can not gain a major victory since that happens in Rouge One which should only be a few months off at this point in the show. And we see this episode the Rebels were denied a major victory, the season 3 finale they were also denied. These defeats we are seeing likely are shaping the attitude we see the Rebel command have during Rouge One with their reluctance to help Jyn.
So what is going to be the big play at this point? Specifically with Kanan.... he's defintley going to die, or at least sacrifice himself
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Post by Newan on Nov 14, 2017 16:06:16 GMT -5
And I guess now we know why Kanan is drawn to Lothal....
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Post by Kenbo on Nov 22, 2017 19:20:21 GMT -5
Anyone got a link for watching this? Can't remember what the "good" sites were and they're not all up to date...
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Post by Newan on Nov 22, 2017 19:54:12 GMT -5
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Post by Kenbo on Nov 23, 2017 8:55:21 GMT -5
The Occupation was actually pretty enjoyable good to see Lothal again. Also the Baron is cool
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Post by Kenbo on Nov 23, 2017 18:35:32 GMT -5
Rukh is weird as fuck don't see how the Empire would work with him with their anti alien stuff. I mean at least Thrawn is pretty sophisticated..
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Post by Kenbo on Nov 23, 2017 19:33:02 GMT -5
Yeah these Lothal episodes are good. But really don't like that ugly nigga "roar"
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Post by Newan on Nov 24, 2017 1:05:21 GMT -5
Rukh is weird as Potato is Awesome don't see how the Empire would work with him with their anti alien stuff. I mean at least Thrawn is pretty sophisticated.. Rukh doesn't really work for the empire so much, he works for Thrawn who has a lot of pull given how connected he is. Rukh is a Noghri Assassin and in the old EU Vader actually had a very close connection with them as well, he used them as his personal death Squad basically. |
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Post by Kenbo on Nov 24, 2017 8:13:43 GMT -5
Rukh is weird as Potato is Awesome don't see how the Empire would work with him with their anti alien stuff. I mean at least Thrawn is pretty sophisticated.. Rukh doesn't really work for the empire so much, he works for Thrawn who has a lot of pull given how connected he is. Rukh is a Noghri Assassin and in the old EU Vader actually had a very close connection with them as well, he used them as his personal death Squad basically. He's an ugly monkey man |
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Post by Star on Nov 29, 2017 16:06:33 GMT -5
Regarding your episodes ranking Newan, I agree with most of them. I am also biased with your pick of Idiot's Array because of Lando, even though I know many would rank it lower. I thought that Double Agent Droid was pretty decent though, even if it did not have a major impact on the main story of Rebels. Seeing a bunch of "Lobots" was neat, as well as one of the few SW characters to actually have glasses.  Also, it was neat seeing the Imperial Information Office. A lot of S1 blends together for me, but I think you've got it right with most of those. Some of S2 I forget because there was a fair amount of filler, but TCW had that too at times. I don't mind it as long as it develops the characters, adds interesting stories/information, or is at least enjoyable. In all honesty, I need to rewatch all the episodes at least 2-3 times so I can gain that familiarity I already possess with TCW. |
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Post by Star on Nov 29, 2017 16:15:16 GMT -5
I do not think it is wise to devote a lot of time to the politics of this era within this show. References and monologues by high ranking characters are probably for the best. The conflict of Empire-Rebels is not as political as TCW was. Also, the politics should be pretty diverse and complex given the SW universe, so I do not think a show like this could do it justice. Although it would be extremely interesting, I just think there's too many ways it could go wrong or bore a majority of fans. On the whole, it did not turn out well for the PT, which is shame, so I think that also factors in and scares Disney away from entering the sphere completely. While it does leave the viewers a partly blind to the bigger picture, it does create a similar environment of confusion that likely plagued many systems in the galaxy during this era.
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Post by Star on Nov 29, 2017 16:25:53 GMT -5
I thought the first two episodes of this season were very good. They kind of gave me a Clone Wars vibe for some reason. Maybe it was because it seemed like a "mission" similar to the ones Anakin, Ahsoka, and Obi-Wan conducted. The plot was pretty solid, and I do think it worked well into the overarching Mandalore story. It was disappointing Sabine's mother and brother didn't die, since that would given the episode a larger impact. The new Saxon leader was neat as well as the return of Bo-Katan.
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Post by Newan on Nov 30, 2017 15:46:53 GMT -5
Regarding your episodes ranking Newan, I agree with most of them. I am also biased with your pick of Idiot's Array because of Lando, even though I know many would rank it lower. I thought that Double Agent Droid was pretty decent though, even if it did not have a major impact on the main story of Rebels. Seeing a bunch of "Lobots" was neat, as well as one of the few SW characters to actually have glasses. Also, it was neat seeing the Imperial Information Office. A lot of S1 blends together for me, but I think you've got it right with most of those. Some of S2 I forget because there was a fair amount of filler, but TCW had that too at times. I don't mind it as long as it develops the characters, adds interesting stories/information, or is at least enjoyable. In all honesty, I need to rewatch all the episodes at least 2-3 times so I can gain that familiarity I already possess with TCW. Yeah I really liked Idiots Array for Lando, a shame we didn’t get to see him again. Was hoping he’d make an appearance this season. I like that filler episodes in this show basically are all related to the main characters and plot somehow. In TCW you would have weird filler with 3PO and stuff... |
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Post by Newan on Nov 30, 2017 15:48:37 GMT -5
I thought the first two episodes of this season were very good. They kind of gave me a Clone Wars vibe for some reason. Maybe it was because it seemed like a "mission" similar to the ones Anakin, Ahsoka, and Obi-Wan conducted. The plot was pretty solid, and I do think it worked well into the overarching Mandalore story. It was disappointing Sabine's mother and brother didn't die, since that would given the episode a larger impact. The new Saxon leader was neat as well as the return of Bo-Katan. Yeah I think her mother or brother should have died. I don’t know if both should have though. But it was an interesting episode and so far it’s basically the only episodes this season not really related to Lothal |
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Also, it was neat seeing the Imperial Information Office. A lot of S1 blends together for me, but I think you've got it right with most of those. Some of S2 I forget because there was a fair amount of filler, but TCW had that too at times. I don't mind it as long as it develops the characters, adds interesting stories/information, or is at least enjoyable. In all honesty, I need to rewatch all the episodes at least 2-3 times so I can gain that familiarity I already possess with TCW. 
it’s been quite a while. I’ve been pretty good, how about yourself? 