Welcome back rebel fans to another recap focusing on the
series mid-season finale and mid-season premiere. Both episodes filled with
exciting action, humor, and character reveal and development. With a crossover
that was intriguing, Easter eggs, and callbacks to the prequels these episodes
have become my favorite this season. The finale deals with the aftermath of
combining the Sith and Jedi Holocron and the premiere takes us back to Geonosis
where the Empire has hidden some dark secrets.
So, from this moment on SPOILER ALERT is in effect, do not read ahead if
you have yet to watch these episodes.
The mid-season finale starts on Chopper base with the rebels
discussing another mission. But Ezra
can’t seem to shake the feeling or seeing for that matter Darth Maul presence
on chopper base. Becoming so paranoid
Ezra almost kills a fellow rebel pilot confusing him for Maul. Kanan then
decides to take Ezra to see the Bendu for wisdom for dealing with the visions
of Maul. Ezra starts off saying he doesn’t want to see Maul anymore and the
Bendu answers then don’t turn around.
Once they combined the holocrons, they were also combined with each
other and allowed Maul to find chopper base.
He threatens to reveal the base to the Empire if Ezra does not join him
and completing what they started with the holocrons.
To protect his friends and gain answers about defeating the
Sith he decides to go with Maul. Knowing how Maul operates Kanan takes Sabine,
and they follow Maul to his destination. That destination being Dathomir Maul’s
home planet. For those of you who watched the Clone Wars series this planet
should be very familiar along with the planets mystic and dark past. So, Maul and Ezra arrive and reach a cave
which is clearly where he has been hiding out for a time.
There are shrines and collections of items he has taken throughout his victories and conquest. This is where the Easter eggs appear for this episode. There is a cubist painting of Duchess Satine, who is one of Maul victims, and past love interest of Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. There is also ancient Sith writing on the wall that reads KENOBI. I guess it’s safe to say Maul still holds a grudge for the guy who made him half the man he is today, pun intended.
There are shrines and collections of items he has taken throughout his victories and conquest. This is where the Easter eggs appear for this episode. There is a cubist painting of Duchess Satine, who is one of Maul victims, and past love interest of Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. There is also ancient Sith writing on the wall that reads KENOBI. I guess it’s safe to say Maul still holds a grudge for the guy who made him half the man he is today, pun intended.
The plan for getting the information requires a ritual where
they both must drink a potion created by Maul but based on magic from the
Nightsisters. That right there should
tell that's a bad idea anything dealing with them should already be presumed a
trap because all magic comes at a price.
They both drink the potion, and their questions are answered with
finding one man but for different reasons.
Master Obi-Wan lives, and both now know where to find him, Maul probably
wants to kill him and Ezra wanting help to defeat the Sith. This character reveals promises to be a real
treat for fans in later episodes and maybe a showdown between Maul and Kenobi.
The information has been given and now it time to pay up
with their souls. Of course, this is when Kanan and Sabine walk in and are
possessed by the Nightsisters. Maul and Ezra running from his comrades leave
the cave, and they do not follow. Maul ask Ezra to come with him, and of
course, he refuses, and Maul escapes again.
Leaving Ezra to save his friends on his own. He starts with Sabine and
force pushes her out of the cave which causes the Nightsisters to leave her
body. When it comes to Kanan that took a little more effort by destroying the
altar with his lightsaber and the dark saber, which frees Kanan. The episode ends with Sabine finding the dark
saber and taking it as her own and will be explored more in other episodes. Her
destiny is coming to fruition, and we can’t see it unfold in later episodes.
This next part of the recap will focus on the mid-season
premiere which held an epic crossover. Saw Gerrera first appeared in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars and then
crossed into Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
and now he appears as a younger version of the film appearance in Star Wars Rebels. This character did not disappoint in this
two-part episode but touched on some underlying issues of right and wrong in
war.
The episode starts with the ghost crew including Captain Rex
receiving a new mission to find rebels who were sent before them and gained
intel on Geonosis. The planet that birthed the clone wars, the planet that
constructed plans for the death star, and where Mace Windu decapitated Jango
Fett on accident. So, this world holds some history for the Star Wars universe
and still has more to offer abundantly in this episode.
The ghost lands on the planet while it has a sand storm and
they are reading two signals one being Saw Gerrera’s team and the other an energy
signal is a mystery seeing as the planet should be deserted. Kanan, Ezra,
Chopper, and Rex go after the signal coming from a cave and Sabine and Zeb head
in the opposite direction. Once they reach the cave, they realize the signal is
coming from underground in the catacombs. Sabine and Zeb find a shield
generator and start on extracting it for chopper base.
The other team runs into some droid and droideka in the
catacombs after following pieces of rebel equipment further into the
catacombs. They defeat them with some
assistance from Saw Gerrera who is the last survivor from his team. They learn that the droids are being
controlled by a geonosian who is the last of his kind. They need to find him
and destroy his remote-control droids with haste because up above Sabine and
Zeb are surrounded by droideka.
Ezra is the one to find the geonosian and destroy the remote
control which saves Sabine and Zeb and the carry the shield genitor to the
ghost. With all that noise, down there thy are bound to attract some attention.
The Empire realizes the ghost crew is on the planet send fighters down to
pursue them. Hera and Sabine and Zeb hold them at bay and Sabine utters my
favorite lines of the episode. These lines are a throwback to the prequels that
people love to hate, but I love every bit of them. Sabine makes a comment about
hating sand because it gets everywhere which is said by Anakin in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.
Down below, Saw Gerrera wants answers about what’s been
happening on the planet and uses lots of force to get them. Ezra does not feel this is the right way to get
answers and has becomes attach to the geonosian. He named the geonosian klik-klak
and tried another approach by just talking to him about what’s going on and
what happened to his planet. He draws a circle on the ground in regards to what
the empire was doing here, and he also shows them a geonosian queen egg which
would help restore his race of people.
Saw Gerrera threatens the egg for answers and revenge for
his team that was killed and with some stern and wise words from the ghost crew
he softens gives klik-klak back the egg. The ghost travels down into the
catacombs deeper and finds poison gas canisters are how the empire committed
genocide on the geonosian people. The ghost crew takes pictures of the canister
and connects it to ship as evidence against the empire.
As they try to escape the Empire covers the exit
and sends down rocket troopers, the crew starts to fight back, and then Sabine
comes out in her jet pack and decimates the troopers all on her own. The rest
of the crew watches in amazement. She is
starting to come into her abilities and is becoming stronger and so is Ezra,
they both have grown a lot from the beginning of the series.
The ghost crew escapes and loses the canisters, but they
still have the pictures which will help bring more to their cause. All in all,
another successful mission and for Saw Gerrera the rebels helped him in not
letting their war consume him and not becoming as cruel as the empire for now. Star Wars Rebels continues to amaze and
thrill and so will the rest of the season. So, enjoy this video showing what’s
to come in the remainder of the season.
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Created by: Jasmine Yard
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