When Maul says, "Your passions give you strength and through strength you gain power. You have seen it, you feel it. You must break your chains." Still gives me chills to hear it on the screen. As a fan KOTOR this just made my day. That's it. Just wanted to praise that moment.

Turned out not to bad for a few hours work

On my most recent Rebels rewatch, this whole sequence from "Zero Hour: Part 1" stood out to me as a bit of striking character/theme work:

https://explicatingstarwars.substack.com/p/gaining-glory

Okay, honestly not sure if this has ever been brought up before? Or maybe I just watch this series waaaaaaaay more than others in the SW Universe.

But lately as I'm dad'n around the house. Doing dishes, chores ect, have my ear buds in and listening to the dialog in the show, between Phoenix Squadron and especially Hera... it's almost like you can understand what Chopper is saying if you let your imagination fill it the gaps..??

Anybody else??? Should I just go smoke another one?? Serious thoughts?? Maaaaybeeee cut back on how much I really truly watch this show 🤣

Edit-Context; I really started to noticed this phenomenon in Ashoka (which, yes. I know is not SWR), but last episode when Ezra finally got back home disguised as one of Thrawn's Stormtroopers. Chopp rolled up slowly in the shuttle bay...and I heard... "Ezra"..?? But of course it was actually Chopps wah wah?? As I kept rewatching the series it was like I understood what he was saying more and more!! Fun discussion I guess🍻

Edit 2- yes, sometimes I am not watching my screen. I dont always get a chance to sit down and watch the amazing series like I would like to, as my family is a tornado of craziness and I'm doing what I can to clean up and maintain 🍻

I know there's a ton of lore in the old EU, and maybe some in the new, but did Rebels/Asohka ever address why a non- human is so far up the empire's food chain?

I can understand not wanting to address racism in a kids show, but seems like there would be some kind of throw away "he's one of the good ones" or anything alluding to the bigger motives he had in the old EU while chatting with the sisters.

It's the one plot hole in the filoni-verse that's really sticking in my craw.

Thought it might be fun to see everyone’s thoughts on the “what if?” Scenario of Ezra becoming Maul’s apprentice.

I feel like season 3, episode 11 gives us a really interesting glance into it. Filoni really did some interesting work here, where Maul got them into some deep shit with the ghosts of the nightsisters and instructed Ezra along the way, but in a way that felt wrong compared to Kanan teaching him.

Would it be different if Ezra was willingly working with Maul and straight up down to clown on being a dark boi, or is Maul inherently selfish as it pertains to his “mission”, despite being wronged by the Sith at every crucial junction in his life?

I don’t want to rewatch that particular set of episodes right now because, well… you know

I just got thinking about the ghost crew never got to say a proper goodbye to Kanan. Ezra kinda did through some weird force stuff with the Dume wolf

But other than that I don’t remember them holding an actual funeral for him

sooo basically i love rebels! except i never finished s4 because i read about a certain someone’s death and decided to put it on the back burner for now. will eventually finish it, but i know it also means i don’t know much about thrawn.

i want to read “a new dawn” about kanan and hera’s meeting, but do i need to have finished rebels to understand the full book?

im trying to start rebels but on every site i can find, the first 2 episodes, a spark of rebellion part 1 and 2 dont work at all and ive been told theyre necessary episodes? does anyone know any sites that work?

I've seen the movies but was behind on the shows, and I ended up watching everything out of order. I watched ahsoka before I watched Clone wars and rebels but man!?!?! What an incredible journey I can definitely say I favor rebels more than any of the other star wars shows or movies I just want more!

Finally giving rebels a shot. I hope it's worth it. I love clone wars and bad batch but this seems not as good hope I'm wrong