On the season opening of Star Wars Rebels, Kanan left the Sith holocron with Bendu. Which would’ve been a great solution for dealing with it, if they were the only ones that knew of its existence. Too bad blind guy somehow forgot about Maul.
Ezra and Kanan have had a strained relationship since last season. Naturally, Maul exploits that. By slaughtering a ship full of rebel soldiers to draw them away from the Ghost. He sends them an ultimatum; either they give him both the Sith holocron as well as the Jedi holocron he knows they have thanks to Ezra’s loose lips, or their friends die.
Kanan realizes that giving the holocron to Tom Baker Bendu was actually a bad idea, because they now need to go all the way back and get it from him. But it can never be that easy. Bendu wants to repair the bond between them, so he hid the holocron in the spider nest. Kanan can hear it, so he decides to send Ezra in without his lightsaber. No doubt a not to Empire Strikes Back, but also to force him to stop reacting to everything with violence. Ezra almost immediately gets eaten, though, so Kanan has to go in and help him retrieve it… and also to let him know that he doesn’t blame him for the loss of his sight.
On the Ghost, Maul forces Hera to give him a tour of the ship. And, while doing so, pries the location of Kanan’s holocron out of her mind. While he’s busy rage prolapsing over being unable to open the damn thing, they break his droids and set up a trap. Wisely, they magnetize the hull to make use of the fact that he’s almost more machine now than man. Unwisely, they decide that that is the perfect time to start shooting at the guy with a lightsaber.
Soon enough, Kanan and Ezra get there with the holocron. Maul splits the two of them up, and shoves Kanan out an airlock almost the second Ezra’s out of sight. But the whole blinding thing wasn’t intended, honest! Even then, Kanan somehow makes it back inside in time to rescue everyone else from execution by droid.
The Bendu had warned Kanan and Ezra what the effect of combining the holocrons would be. That being the ability to search for any answer one sought, but at a terrible price: you can’t unknowwhat you have learned. Conisidering that’s exactly what Maul wanted, Ezra agrees as long as he can use the effect to find a way to destroy the Sith. Ezra gets a few peeks at a planet in a binary star system. Kanan and the others pull him away before he learns too much, destroying the holocrons in the process. Maul, on the other hand, pretty clearly wants revenge for his legs. He flees the encounter, ecstatic about the fact that “he’s still alive”.
Look, Star Wars Rebels. I know you’ve got some good stuff in store for the season. But if this pays off in a grudge match between Maul and Obi Wan, I’m going to be happy.
Final Thoughts:
- Maul really shut Sabine down by mentioning how he ruled her people for a while.
- Seriously, that shirt is blue. If he got a yellow sun hat, Maul could call himself Primary Colors Man.
- It makes him look like an orderly at an asylum. Okay, I’ll stop.
3.5/5
‘Good’
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