Category Archives: Star Wars Rebels
10 HIGHLIGHTS FROM “HERA’S HEROES”
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HERA MEETS THRAWN, AND THE TWI’LEK MUST MAKE SACRIFICES TO SURVIVE.
What do you do when you have more thoughts about Star Wars Rebels than you know what to do with? Make a list of your favorite moments — in no particular order, because that might fry your circuits. Welcome to Ranking Rebels.
When the Empire takes over the Syndulla ancestral home, Hera plans a mission to recover a precious piece of her family’s past. Hera’s friends support her all the way, teching her that everything she’s trying to rescue is already safe. “Hera’s Heroes” is an essential episode for fans of our favorite Twi’lek pilot — and fans of Thrawn. Here are my 10 favorite moments from the episode!
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Star Wars Rebels – Rebels Recon #3.04: Inside “Hera’s Heroes”
Star Wars Rebels – The Menace of Thrawn – Hera’s Heroes Preview
Star Wars Rebels – Rebels Recon #3.03: Inside “The Antilles Extraction”
Star Wars Rebels – Welcome to the Rebellion, Wedge – The Antilles Extraction Preview
Dave Filoni Talks Rebels And Rogue One Connections
Star Wars Rebels, which has kicked off its third season, is a series in evolution, both in terms of its characters and a scenario that is growing increasingly more complex as it goes on. It’s a precedent set by the last animated series, Clone Wars, based on the creative desire to have the show grow up with its audience.
Of season three, Lucasfilm describes the set-up as follows: “Having established a secret base on Atollon, the Ghost crew, now led by a more powerful Ezra, strengthens the rebel fleet by acquiring new resources and recruits eager to stand against the Empire. However, the Imperial efforts to eliminate the rebellion are now being led by the coldly analytic Grand Admiral Thrawn, whose strategic, tactical and cultural insights make him a threat unlike any they have faced before.”
In the following exclusive interview, executive producer/director Dave Filoni reflects on the events of last year and previews season three, including the introduction of Thrawn and the ways that the show could connect to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
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Ezra’s Vision in Star Wars Rebels
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I can’t be the only one who literally screamed at their television during the most recent Star Wars Rebels. In the episode, “The Holocrons of Fate,” Ezra Bridger and Darth Maul share a moment that potentially speaks volumes for the Star Wars saga and, we were lucky enough to get executive producer Dave Filoni on the phone about it.
Before we get to Filoni though, let’s talk about what went down.
***Spoiler Warning***
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Star Wars Rebels – Rebels Recon: Inside “The Holocrons of Fate”
WHICH MEMBER OF THE GHOST CREW IS MOST ESSENTIAL?
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WHICH STAR WARS REBELS HERO IS MOST VALUABLE TO THE TEAM? TWO STARWARS.COM WRITERS DEBATE!
One of the great things about Star Wars is that it inspires endless debates and opinions on a wide array of topics. Best bounty hunter? Most powerful Jedi? Does Salacious Crumb have the best haircut in the saga? In that spirit, StarWars.com presents From a Certain Point of View: a series of point-counterpoints on some of the biggest — and most fun — Star Wars issues. In this installment, StarWars.com asks which rebel brings the most to the Ghost.
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Star Wars Rebels – Maul Returns – Holocrons of Fate Preview
Binge-Watching Guide: Star Wars Rebels
Via Wired.com:
WHEN DISNEY BOUGHT Lucasfilm, the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which at the time was airing on Cartoon Network, was cancelled. But Disney still wanted a Star Wars television series, so the creative team behind The Clone Wars rebooted the idea with a time-jump to 14 years after the establishment of the Galactic Empire in Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith. Keeping a few characters left over from the prequel trilogy and sprinkling in some cameos from the original films, Star Wars Rebels was born.
Ezra Bridger (voiced by Taylor Gray), an orphan on the planet Lothal, encounters the crew of the starship Ghost, who complete smuggling missions and have a growing connection to the fledgling rebellion against the Empire. Kanan Jarrus (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), a former Jedi apprentice who survived Order 66, senses Ezra’s abilities with the Force, and recruits him as a padawan. Rounding out the crew are Hera Syndulla (Vanessa Marshall), the ship’s talented pilot, Sabine Wren (Tiya Sirdar), a Mandalorian former bounty hunter with a penchant for graffiti art, and Zeb (Steven Blum), a Lasat who is the last of his kind and the heavy combat member of the team. Imagine if Joss Whedon’s Firefly was set in the Star Wars universe, and you’d have a pretty clear idea of the type of story structure Rebels is working with.
Rebels is an in-between series, so it’s clear where the larger plot ends up, but it’s not as foregone a conclusion as everything going on in the The Clone Wars, which never properly wrapped up. Like almost every new story since Disney acquired the franchise, Rebels references and takes cues from core storylines, but is mostly concerned with fleshing out new characters who can take paths divergent from the main saga. The crew of the Ghost contributes to the rebellion but aren’t major players, and Kanan and Ezra continue the tradition of master and apprentice without the weight of continuing the Jedi Order on their shoulders. It’s a rather brilliant sidestep that keeps a younger protagonist at the center while appealing to older audiences with world-building content.
Sound interesting? Well, Season 3 of the series just started this past weekend on Disney XD. Here’s how to catch up on everything that came before.
Star Wars: Rebels
Number of Seasons: 3 (39 episodes)
Time Requirements: With 39 episodes (plus four web-only shorts on YouTube), the total running time of the first two seasons is a little over 14 hours. That’s totally manageable for getting caught up while the third season is currently airing.
Where to Get Your Fix: If you’ve got an applicable cable or satellite subscription, you can catch up via Disney XD’s website. Otherwise, episodes are available to purchase on Amazon Video, iTunes, and Google Play.
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Rebels Recon: Inside “Steps Into Shadow”
Grand Admiral Thrawn In New Star Wars: Rebels Clip
Via Ew.com:
After Vader, there was Thrawn.
That’s why the presence of this blue-skinned Imperial officer has longtime Star Wars fans beside themselves with the arrival of season 3 of Star Wars: Rebels this week.
Above, we feature a clip from episode three of the new season, in which the pilot Hera Syndulla falls under the ruby-red gaze of the commander while on a covert mission. (More on this scene below.)
When the Disney XD animated series returns on Saturday, Sept. 24 (8:30 p.m. ET/PT), it heralds the return of the villain who first picked up the pieces of the shattered galactic Empire and served as antagonist in the ongoing stories of Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, and Han Solo.
Thrawn was the central foe in author Timothy Zahn’s trilogy of Star Wars novels in the early 1990s, which became a new hope of sorts for fans who suddenly found the story didn’t end with Return of the Jedi.
“It was a huge deal. You couldn’t believe it,” says Rebels executive producer Dave Filoni, who was just a kid when the first book in the Thrawn trilogy came out in 1991. “I would go the bookstore and you’d see all the Star Trek books, tons of Star Trek books, and nothing Star Wars. Then all of a sudden this standee appeared! We waited for that book and we devoured it because we were so hungry for the continuation of the saga.”
Those books were shelved when Lucasfilm erased the so-called Expanded Universe of storytelling from the official canon to clear way for The Force Awakens and the new series of films to tell the continuing story of Luke, Leia, and Han in their own way.
Filoni has been recanonizing parts of these stories by working them into his show, and Thrawn marks the biggest, most beloved effort yet to pull a major character out of the “Legends” realm and back into the official storyline.
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