One of the nice things about season 2 of Star Wars Rebels has been that they do fewer one off filler sorts of episodes. Sure, we had Wings of the Master a few weeks back, but overall, they’re getting into an arc. And I honestly like it; I prefer episodes like this.
I’ve got to start with the fact that I find it weird that only Rex is around. I have no idea where the other clones went. It might just be a time/cost saving measure, making it so that Dee Bradley Baker doesn’t have to mentally shift to the other clones or record extra lines. I just wonder where they went.
Anyway, Why does Hera keep sending Ezra to do shit? Every single time, it’s trouble. All that Jedi training never seems to include being inconspicuous, either. At least it’s paid off for him in other ways, though. He even manages to impress Commander Sato, who is not generally impressed by much. I’m almost sure that this was half of the point of this episode, since he’s mostly sat out of the action over the past few episodes.
Remember how much smack the clones were talking about the stormtroopers and their armor? Well, upon realizing he’s going to have to help Kanan rescue Ezra and the Commander, he talks a bit more shit… just before he finds out that he’s going to need to wear that crappy armor. Their helmets are used as the excuse for why stormtroopers have shit aim this time, too, because it sure fucks with Rex’s shooting until he takes it off and chucks it at them.
This is also the first time Interdictors have been in actual canon. Previously, they were relegated to novels, so that ought to make even the people that actually like Karen Traviss’s books happy. It’s no Sun Crusher (thank God!), but it does kick off the plot of the episode. And it proves that they’re going to go about this with a bit more tact than the literally hundreds of writers that did all kinds of inane shit with their novels.
Ezra’s attempt to pass himself off as Jabba the Hutt to Admiral Titus fails. It’s probably because everyone knows Jabba is an obese Irish man in a fur vest, not a thirteen year old. Anyway, Titus is super smug, and doesn’t take Kallus’s advice regarding Ezra seriously, to his complete and utter loss.
The other big thing in this episode is that it finally puts Rex and Kanan on good terms. Kanan’s been pretty butthurt by the whole clones thing the entire season, even though Rex and the others removed their chips beforehand. I guess watching friends and teachers get slaughtered by your other friends does that. Still, the number of near heroic sacrifices in this one started to drive me a little bit nutty. Kanan’s admission that he considers Rex a friend, though? Worth it; it’s so tortured, like admitting it is painful to him.
Final Thoughts:
– How did the Admiral’s pod get away? Did he jump ship like a total coward that early, or what?
– The fakeout with the interrogation droid sort of pissed me off. Mostly due to flashbacks to Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast.
– Chopper killed hundreds of Steve Blums like the cold-blooded mothafucka he is.
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