I have to start off by apologizing for last week. Instead of John Boyega, I put David Oyelowo who actually is on this show. I’m going to chalk the whole thing up to early onset Alzheimer’s or something.
Anyway, the other shoe drops this time on Star Wars Rebels. Agent Kallus doesn’t accept Wolffe’s little excuse about his cybernetic eye acting up, because the drone picked up more than enough to prove that Kanan and co. are there. And the TIE they sent down to scout for them found them anyway. I have no idea why they decided to destroy the TIE fighter when it had already likely sent their location back to the star destroyer, but they sure do blow it up.
Agent Kallus does not like this. So what do high ranking Imperial officers do when they don’t like something? If you guessed “throw a bunch of AT-AT’s at it”, you were right! Which forces the heroes to to drop their catch from last episode and head into a sandstorm to blind their opponents. In what I think may be a slight reference to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and is definitely a reference to every submarine movie ever made.
Since Jedi have no need of targeting computers, and Rex absolutely trusts both Kanan and Ezra, even if Kanan doesn’t trust the clones, he has them lead their walker to a place where they can make a stand and thin the herd. Which is important, because they don’t have any support, and all their equipment is old and crappy. Ezra mans the main gun, and uses the force to take out one AT-AT by shooting it in the neck.
They ditch the other two walkers, giving them a chance to repair the damage the drone did to the Phantom last episode. Which they do just as they lose the ability to safely take off. The clones decide that this is their fault, so they’ll cover the Phantom’s escape. Kanan is in charge, and the only one that’s one-hundred-percent in love with the plan. And it leads to one of the best fights in the series, in my opinion.
Oh, yes, I’d die happy if I found that someone dubbed Duel of the Fates into that scene. They’re just nudging the damn thing’s foot as hard as they can. And it’s hopeless, until Ezra reminds Kanan that Ahsoka’s going to be pretty disappointed that they left her friends to die. So they hijack one of the AT-ATs and screw Kallus’ shit up.
And as a taste of what’s to come, we finally get to see one of the new inquisitors in the show. It’s interesting that they always seem to be aliens, considering how xenophobic the Imperial ranks tend to be otherwise. It’s also funny that the star destroyer had to ditch Kallus in the middle of the desert to pick this guy up.
Final Thoughts:
- The clones talk some smack about the stormtroopers. Why wouldn’t they, with their inaccurate guns, their low visibility helmets, and tendency to Wilhelm scream?
- Kanan probably has an idea who the clones served under, especially since they refer to their commander as a “he”.
- When Darth Vader says jump, you say how high. Or he might just find your lack of dedication disturbing.
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