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This article contains spoilers for Star Wars Rebels Season 3, Episode 3

It didn’t take long for that Sith holocron to show up again, did it? I wish Disney XD seen fit to put all three of Star Wars Rebels’ new episodes together into a major, 90-minute event. The revelation at the end of “The Holocrons of Fate” (more on that in a moment) feels like a season-shaping event.

Still, Darth Maul’s return made for a strong story. Seeing Maul use the same dark side interrogation technique Kylo Ren uses against Rey in The Force Awakens intrigued me – as did the fact that, I believe, the scene marks the first on-screen use of Kanan’s real name.

I knew the name “Caleb Dume” from John Jackson Miller’s novel A New Dawn and from Marvel Comics’ Kanan series, but for some reason I’d pronounced Caleb’s last name as though it were French (“doo-MAY”). To hear Maul speak it as a homonym of “doom”? I’ve got a bad feeling about that…

“The Holocrons of Fate” leaves me with these three questions:

1) Have Ezra and Kanan really reconciled?

I think they have. Truthfully, I’m a little disappointed. I don’t want their master-apprentice relationship, let alone their friendship, to end in failure; but lingering conflict over Ezra’s actions during Kanan’s absence could have continued to be a rich source of plot and characterization. The potential for continuing friction exists – the Bendu twice uses the word “perhaps” regarding Kanan and Ezra’s restored “balance” – but for now it seems the two are a strong team. And the fact that they embrace in such an archetypally rich sequence – the classic descent into the underworld, undertaken to return with a gift – makes me think we’re supposed to accept their reconciliation as the journey’s true goal. Nevertheless, both holocrons remain aboard the Ghost, meaning Ezra might wrestle with the temptation to use that power, jeopardizing his relationship with Kanan again.

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