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00:00 Welcome back to New Rockstars, I'm Eric Vos, and this is a breakdown of Star Wars Rebels
00:03 Season 4, the final season, and the conclusion to our four-part Rebels Rewatch series to
00:08 give viewers of Ahsoka, The Mandalorian, and other Star Wars live-action titles a bit of
00:12 a cheat sheet to know the most important names, easter eggs, and pieces of lore from the animated
00:17 Rebels series.
00:18 While Season 4 was down to 16 episodes from 22, every moment of this final run was so
00:23 good and worthy of watching, but here is a recap and breakdown of the most crucial details.
00:27 And please enjoy this whole Rebels Recap series as a companion to our Ahsoka breakdowns, and
00:32 you can support us with an Ahsoka Fulcrum shirt at NerdRiot.shop.
00:35 Okay, here we go.
00:36 Episodes 1 and 2, Heroes of Mandalore.
00:38 On the planet of Mandalore, Sabine leads her Clan Ren on a rescue mission for her father.
00:42 Empire loyal Mandalorians are led by Tiber Saxon, brother to Gar Saxon.
00:46 So this final season opens with the Rebels retaking one of their homeworlds, Mandalore,
00:50 and it ends with a sort of liberation of Lothal, Ezra's home, making this whole season a full
00:54 homecoming.
00:55 Sabine has a new jetpack with purple wings and still carries a darksaber, after Season
01:00 3 Episode 11, Visions of Voices, saw her possessed by a Nightsister ghost on Dathomir and take
01:05 it from Maul's temple, and Kanan trained her with this saber in Trials of the Darksaber,
01:09 but it does remain a cursed artifact that she doesn't really want.
01:12 Sabine is saved by Bo-Katan Kryze.
01:14 Katie Sackhoff is returning from Clone Wars, but she also doesn't want the darksaber initially.
01:18 Ezra's uncertain jetpack flight this episode is modeled on art for the Rocketeer, directed
01:22 by Joe Johnston, who did the original jetpack designs for Boba Fett.
01:25 These Rebels learn that war with the Empire has erased their want for leadership even.
01:29 Once upon a time, these plains were covered with grass.
01:33 And it never grew back?
01:34 Never had a chance to.
01:36 This is what continuous war has done to my home.
01:39 Mandalore was initially scorched after an ancient war with the Jedi, but further fusion
01:42 bombs by Moff Gideon that will take place after this will turn this surface into rocky
01:46 glass.
01:47 We'll see this in The Mandalorian Season 3.
01:49 Yet vegetation will begin to grow in caves and a Mythosaur will appear in the living
01:53 waters.
01:54 The Mythosaur's quest is set before those bombings happen.
01:56 The Mandalorian capital city of Sundari is still standing.
01:58 Its domed appearance actually came from the design development for Clone Wars.
02:01 George Lucas suggested to use a trackball mouse as a starting point.
02:04 Andrew Cushino voices Captain Hark after being the original voice of Saw Gerrera in Clone
02:09 Wars.
02:10 Saw Gerrera in this show is voiced by Boris Whitaker from Rogue One.
02:12 Their attack on the transport was inspired by the truck chase in Raiders of the Lost
02:15 Ark and the tank chase in The Last Crusade.
02:16 Sabine uses purple paint to blind the driver.
02:19 The power of art in action.
02:21 Later on this season they'll use spray paint to get the upper hand on Rook.
02:24 The assassin!
02:25 And this artistic flair is something that Sabine actually gets from her father, Alrick.
02:29 Your design aesthetic is still derivative of the pre-exile masters.
02:32 Tojan was an influence obviously, but I made it my own.
02:36 Ursa and Tristan's group gets wiped out by a laser that vaporizes wearers of Beskar armor.
02:41 Something that Sabine, we learn, designed during her time with the Empire.
02:44 They call this weapon the Duchess after Bo-Katan's sister, Duchess Satine.
02:48 Which just feels doubly cruel for the Mandalorian people.
02:51 King Thrawn seems uncertain about conquering Mandalorians with such cruelty, showing that
02:55 he understands the importance of respecting ancestral heritage.
02:58 This is the first time the Mandalorian armor is referred to as Beskar in canon.
03:02 It was first mentioned in Star Wars Rebel Commando Hard Contact.
03:05 The original idea for the episode actually was to have Sabine knight her Mandalorians
03:08 with the Darksaber, leaving scorches on their armor.
03:11 So really the Darksaber for her is more of a paintbrush than it is a weapon.
03:14 Sabine hands off the Darksaber to Bo-Katan Kryze in this episode, and Bo-Katan uses it
03:18 to unite all the Mandalorian factions.
03:20 "I accept this sword for my sister, for my clan, and for all of Mandalore."
03:27 But Sabine says that the saber came to her so that she could pass it to Bo-Katan.
03:31 And I look at that the way diseases work.
03:34 Viruses, curses, these things exist so that the host can transmit them as far as possible.
03:40 Alright, episodes 3 and 4, in the name of rebellion, we see the Yavin 4 base in the
03:44 Massassi Temple.
03:45 Which of course was first seen in matte paintings in the original 1977 Star Wars.
03:49 This is Chopper's first time here, ahead of his live action cameo in Rogue One, when
03:52 the Ghost crew will actually join the Battle of Scarif.
03:55 Saw Gerrera appears, the rebel extremist matching his appearance in Rogue One when his gray
03:59 hair has grown in.
04:00 Yet he still has his legs these episodes, so those injuries, plus the breathing apparatus
04:04 he'll need to use, those happen after this.
04:06 His massive holoprojection literally talks down to Mon Mothma, but she stands her ground
04:11 and snaps.
04:12 "If we degrade ourselves to the Empire's level, what will we become?"
04:17 This line mirrors what Saw Gerrera will tell Jyn Erso in Rogue One.
04:21 "What will you become?"
04:23 Saw's U-Wing arrives to help.
04:25 It is the same black and white partisan markings that we see it have on Jedha in Rogue One.
04:29 They find a group of engineers from Coruscant being shipped to Jedha, and a giant kyber
04:33 crystal, referring to the collaborators of Galen Erso that were shipped from Coruscant
04:36 to Eru in Rogue One, and the crystal being what the Empire wanted to use to power the
04:40 Death Star superlaser.
04:41 Ezra senses this at first by hearing the crystal as a song, which I believe links his force
04:47 abilities with the song of the Pergol hyperspace whales.
04:50 The crystal explodes, releasing a green shockwave, evoking the detonation of the Star Wars superlaser,
04:55 like we saw kyber crystals exploding in Season 1, Episode 6.
04:57 Alright, Episode 5, The Occupation.
04:59 Sabine has now updated her look with darker hair, and she keeps her the rest of the season,
05:03 until the epilogue.
05:04 Mon Mothma calls the planet Lothal, and I just really appreciate how Filoni does this,
05:08 even though it's Lothal, just recalling the planet's pronunciation from the series pilot
05:12 episode, and kinda like mixing up calling AT-ATs AT-ATs and Walkers.
05:16 He just kinda makes room for everyone's pronunciation, and shuts down those gatekeepers
05:19 like to um actually people in the comments.
05:21 That said, Pergol is singular and plural.
05:23 You don't say Pergols, that's just basic human decency.
05:26 Okay, Vazago returns, getting traded some puffer pigs, returning from Season 1, with
05:30 some piglet versions.
05:31 These designs were made for the Season 1 Lando episode, but scrap from that episode, they
05:35 come back here, they're a lot of fun.
05:36 Lothal's ecology, we learn, has been scorched.
05:39 Its grasslands have been wiped out, echoing Sabine's lament over Mandalore's ecological
05:43 transformation.
05:44 Thank god we do see a stray look at Inanali.
05:46 So some wanted posters of the Spectres lining the walls, using their photos from their Season
05:50 1 and 2 appearances, this is when they were outed.
05:52 At the old Joe's Bar from Empire Day, the bartender is now Imperial pilot Valen Ruder,
05:57 returning from Season 1 when he was given the parade armors.
05:59 The holonet screen ticker in Orbesh reads "Farewell" and then "2-1, Chloe, Dirkness,
06:04 Elicious, and Sammy have left the building."
06:07 Must be some kind of in-joke with the animators.
06:09 Jykel returns, calling Ezra "Oleg", which was the name of the loyal Imperial cadet who
06:13 nearly spoiled Ezra's undercover mission in the Breaking Ranks episode.
06:17 Jykel now on Ahsoka serves as a senator on Lothal with Governor Ryder Azadi.
06:21 Episode 6, Flight of the Defender.
06:23 Three adorable Loth-Cats hop up next to Ezra and he cannot help but smile at these celestial
06:27 gifts from Mortis, giving them well-deserved scratchy-scratches.
06:30 Now the sound of the cats are actually recordings from sound designer David Accord's cat, Tex.
06:34 They see the new TIE Defender, which was given a new color scheme, a reshaped rear engine,
06:39 a hyperdrive unit, and the wings now actually pop off in the style of the Kenner TIE Fighter
06:43 toys.
06:44 Thrawn arrives to inspect these, and Ezra sees on the hill his first Loth-Wolf.
06:47 And there's an animated dolly zoom on Ezra in this moment because these are extremely
06:52 important.
06:53 We actually saw depictions of Loth-Wolves in the Lothal Jedi Temple art in season 1
06:57 and 2.
06:58 And Ezra says while they haven't been seen in a hundred years, here they are.
07:01 Ezra follows a white Loth-Cat to safety, kind of like the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland,
07:05 as Ezra's journey with the animals of Lothal does take him through a looking glass.
07:09 A larger Loth-Wolf greets Ezra and takes him to safety.
07:12 "I don't understand.
07:14 Why did you help us?"
07:15 "Doom.
07:16 Doom."
07:17 Now at first we think it's Doom D-O-O-M, but it's actually Doom D-U-M-E, as in Caleb
07:25 Doom.
07:26 Kanan Jarrus' original name, but both homophones right now leave us with an ominous feeling.
07:30 Episode 7, Kindred.
07:31 Thrawn dispatches an assassin named Rukh.
07:33 You'll remember the word Rukh as the shutdown command for Thrawn's droids in season 3,
07:38 but the character of Rukh was Thrawn's bodyguard in Timothy Zahn's 1991 Heir to the Empire,
07:42 who eventually turned on Thrawn and assassinated him, but not here.
07:45 Now Timothy Zahn wanted Rukh's species to be called Sith, to justify Darth Vader's
07:49 title of Lord of the Sith, but later Lucasfilm would establish the Sith as a dark side cult
07:53 opposed to the Jedi, so instead he's called a Noghri.
07:56 And the Noghri's skull does sort of resemble the helmet of Darth Vader.
07:59 Here he's voiced by longtime Lucasfilm actor Warwick Davis.
08:02 Loth-Wolves lead them into caves, and Sabine sees these cave drawings of the Loth-Wolves
08:06 as constellations, like the path to Peridia closing credits in Ahsoka, which I translated
08:11 every single rune in in another video, definitely go watch that.
08:15 It's gonna be one of the most useful videos you can watch for Ahsoka.
08:17 The Loth-Wolves then lead them in this force-imbued path.
08:20 Now we'll see more of this realm later, but remember, back in season 2, episode 1, Minister
08:24 Tua, before her death, hinted at a real reason the Empire was interested in Lothal, and this
08:29 is it, folks.
08:30 But even more interestingly, cave paintings depict Jedi descending from space.
08:35 One of these is a tall, pointy head, likely Ki-Adi-Mundi.
08:38 We also see Yoda, with his lightsaber on his hilt.
08:40 Not just the Yoda species, this is a Jedi Yoda.
08:42 And then a third figure, a human beside them, I assume this is Mace Windu.
08:46 And then a Jedi child hovers over them.
08:48 So the assumption since then has been that this depicts these three Jedi bringing a young
08:53 Caleb Dume to the Lothal Jedi Temple as a youngling, and that is how he got the name
08:57 Dume.
08:58 But because these cave drawings are thousands of years old, this would have been something
09:00 that was predicted thousands of years prior.
09:02 The whole idea of this episode is, Kanan and Ezra are kindred through the Force, connected
09:07 to Lothal through the threads of fate.
09:09 Crawler commandeers, mining guild ore crawlers, burn up the Lothal grasslands.
09:14 Now these designs came from the World Devastators.
09:16 These were flying, automated factories from 1991 Legends comic series Dark Empire.
09:20 Captain Seaver listens to the same music that Zeb listens to back in the season two episode,
09:24 The Mystery of Chopper Base.
09:26 The slave master that Zeb fights is named Approach, a nod to Pat Roach, the stunt actor
09:30 who fought Indiana Jones in the first three Indy movies, though his scene was removed
09:33 from Last Crusade.
09:34 And then after decoding the schematics to the TIE Defender elite, Hera pushes the rebels
09:38 to strike their Imperial factory on Lothal.
09:40 Big mistake.
09:41 Episode 9, Rebel Assault.
09:42 Martin Matten from the Iron Squadron episode returns as a pilot in Hera's group, and
09:46 on his helmet is Sammy and Oribesh.
09:48 These X-Wings you'll notice are painted green, but they are not part of the Green Squadron,
09:51 they are just part of Hera's Phoenix Squadron here.
09:53 But other than a more recent appearance of an X-Wing in Andor season one, this I think
09:57 would be the earliest chronological appearance of X-Wings, ahead of their use in the Battle
10:01 of Scarif in Rogue One, and the Battle of Yavin in A New Hope.
10:03 Their build is slightly tweaked to match the proportions of the 1978 toy.
10:08 Let the TIE Defender elites just wipe out these X-Wings.
10:11 Had this TIE Defender program been expanded, there would just be no way the rebels would
10:15 have made it through the Death Star Trench Run, and the Empire would not have lost the
10:18 Galactic Civil War.
10:19 Episode 10, Jedi Knight.
10:21 Opens with Price torturing Hera, and Thrawn brings back in Hera's Calicori, and singles
10:25 out a single bead for a brother who died in the past.
10:28 As Ezra senses from the Tower of Prahera, we see some Loth bats, which flew to the city
10:33 from the Empire's ecological destruction, so they kind of made a mistake there, because
10:36 it creates an opening for the rebels to sneak in with these gliders.
10:39 Kanan uses a knife to cut his hair, a ritual that we see Sabine Wren do in Ahsoka.
10:44 Tarkin tells Thrawn, "Your TIE Defender program is at risk.
10:48 Orson Krennic has been quite persuasive about diverting the funding to his own project,
10:53 Stardust."
10:54 Now, of course, he's referring to Krennic's Death Star project.
10:57 So again, it's the quick fix of the Death Star that defunded the harder-to-eradicate
11:01 offensive hardware that the Empire would have been invincible with, the TIE Defenders.
11:04 I also like this detail because it's clear that Tarkin initially was super skeptical
11:07 of Project Stardust, but as soon as it was effective, he took all the credit for it away
11:11 from Krennic.
11:12 Hera says, "I have to tell you something.
11:16 I...
11:17 I hate your hair."
11:21 Now we've already seen them kiss, so yeah, I don't think she just wants to say "I love
11:24 you."
11:25 I think another Calicori bead is on the way here.
11:27 They fly down to pick up Kanan and Hera, but Pryce uses a walker to fire on the fuel pod,
11:31 and Kanan uses the Force to repel the flames.
11:33 His other hand to push back Hera to the ship.
11:35 No words are exchanged here, just observe and weep.
11:47 Interesting how Kanan's Force projection is tinted blue, like his lightsaber.
11:51 And it's pretty rare to see a manipulation of heat and energy and chemical reactions
11:55 like this.
11:56 It's not common to see this in Star Wars.
11:58 Kylo Ren did suspend a blaster bolt in The Force Awakens.
12:00 And of course, Grogu pulled off a very similar move in The Mandalorian Season 3 finale.
12:05 We are left this episode in heartbreak.
12:06 The closing title is rendered in bleak, charred ash.
12:10 Episode 11, Doom.
12:11 As Hera mourns, Chopper holds her hand, just like he did to Kanan when Kanan was first
12:16 blinded in the Season 2 finale.
12:17 Ezra meets the Doom Wolf, which has on its head the same symbol that Kanan had on his
12:22 shoulder armor.
12:23 In the credits of the episode, Dave Filoni credited the voice of the Doom Wolf as played
12:26 by "The Force."
12:27 But it does kind of sound like Freddie Prinze Jr., as the wolf is kind of an embodiment
12:31 of The Force through Kanan's essence.
12:33 "Restore past.
12:34 Redeem future."
12:35 The wolves give Ezra this stone with three hands.
12:44 One closed, one firm and open, another relaxed and open.
12:47 This stone will show up actually in Luth and Rael's shop in Andor.
12:50 And we will see the stone's importance in episode 12, Wolves in a Door.
12:53 They ride a pack of Loth-wolves to the Lothal Jedi Temple, and as they descend into the
12:58 tall grass, Hera experiences some flashbacks to major Kanan Jarratt's moments from throughout
13:02 the series, with lines from Spark of Rebellion, Path of the Jedi, Vision of Hope, Fire Across
13:07 the Galaxy, and Siege of Lothal.
13:08 They also use a recording of Thrawn from the Season 3 finale, Zero Hour, to distract the
13:12 scout troopers and steal their helmets.
13:14 Helmets that we might see in the back of Sabine's room in Ahsoka.
13:18 We meet Varys Hayden, voiced by Malcolm McDowell, an advisor to Palpatine and a scholar of the
13:23 Jedi and Sith lore, a part originally meant to be served by Vaanay, Vader's assistant
13:27 in Rogue One.
13:28 But here, Hayden speaks with Palpatine, who of course is voiced by Ian McDiarmid.
13:31 "The symbols and iconography are reminiscent of a report I discovered in the Jedi archives."
13:38 "The Mortis Gods."
13:41 Woo, okay, the Mortis Gods.
13:43 I think we might have done a whole other video just on the Mortis arc.
13:46 But I'm gonna give you a quick recap here.
13:47 The Mortis Gods are from the Clone Wars arc in Season 3, Episodes 15, 16, and 17.
13:51 They are the father, the daughter, and the son.
13:54 And yes, they are essentially the Holy Trinity of the Star Wars universe.
13:57 Technically, they are considered Celestials in Star Wars lore.
14:00 Yes, there are Celestials in Marvel, but there are also Celestials in Star Wars.
14:03 The son represents the dark side of the Force, the daughter represents the light side of
14:06 the Force, and the father represents the balance between.
14:09 So in this arc, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, and Anakin end up in the realm of Mortis.
14:13 And they find these three figures.
14:14 The father actually tells Anakin to stay with them in Mortis because he is the Chosen One.
14:19 The son takes Ahsoka captive to try to force Anakin to join him in overpowering the father
14:24 and the daughter.
14:25 A lot of shit goes down.
14:26 But when the son is about to kill the father, the daughter sacrifices herself to save the
14:29 father and transfers her life force to Ahsoka.
14:32 And this connection is represented from here forward in the form of Ahsoka's bird, Morai.
14:36 Next the son shows Anakin future visions of himself as Vader.
14:40 And Anakin, freaked out about what might come next, decides to join the son briefly.
14:44 But the father ends up erasing Anakin's memory and kills himself with a sword to take his
14:48 son's power away, allowing Anakin to kill the son.
14:51 It is crazy.
14:52 Just watch these three episodes.
14:53 You'll see what I mean.
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15:45 Sabine recognized the three hands from the stone, the fist for the son, firm hand for
15:48 the father, and the relaxed hand for the daughter.
15:50 Sabine makes the connection of the three hands just as she makes the connection with the
15:54 three faces of the Night Sister's star map in Ahsoka.
15:58 Here she says, "The painting on the temple is like a star map, but none that I'm familiar
16:02 with.
16:03 Those lines are like paths and the rings are planets or doorways."
16:08 The lines are like paths and the rings are planets or doorways.
16:12 We see the same thing in the path to Peridia's star map in Ahsoka.
16:16 Especially in the closing credits, the golden line represents the path and the golden rings
16:20 represent planets.
16:21 Again, watch that video where I break down all the runes and what all those planets mean.
16:25 Ezra places his hand on the relaxed daughter hand and the ring lights up and the doorway
16:29 reconfigures and Ezra follows the loathewolves as they walk in a ring forming a portal.
16:34 Bringing us to episode 13, A World Between Worlds.
16:37 I'm telling you, it is the most important episode of this series.
16:41 Throughout this episode, we hear famous lines from Star Wars history.
16:44 First, Yoda.
16:45 This is from Attack of the Clones.
16:46 "Truly wonderful the mind of a child is."
16:50 Yoda speaking to Obi-Wan in the Jedi Temple when they were looking for Kamino on the star
16:53 map.
16:54 "Truly wonderful the mind of a child is."
16:57 I think we'd lead with this because Yoda is respecting how wonderful Ezra's young mind
17:00 is for discovering this.
17:02 Next, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon from Clone Wars, part of the Mortis arc Overlords.
17:05 "What is this place?"
17:06 "A conduit through which the entire force of the universe flows."
17:11 What is this place?
17:12 "Unlike any other, a conduit through which the entire force of the universe flows."
17:17 Ah, what Qui-Gon described then is what we are seeing now.
17:20 Next, Yoda in Empire Strikes Back, which happens after this.
17:24 "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."
17:28 "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."
17:32 He's speaking to Luke in this moment, a way of saying we are beings made of light and
17:35 the Force.
17:36 We are not just blood, bone, and muscle.
17:38 Next, Ahsoka in Season 2 of Rebels.
17:45 "Just when you think you understand the Force, you find out how little you actually know."
17:49 Spoken to Ezra and now we are seeing that the Force is far more complex than any of
17:52 us thought.
17:53 Next, Yoda in Revenge of the Sith.
17:55 "Train yourself to let go of everything you fear."
18:00 "Train yourself to let go of everything you fear."
18:05 "Train yourself to let go of everything you fear."
18:06 "Train yourself to let go of everything you fear."
18:07 Now, very important advice for Ezra in this realm.
18:09 Next, Obi-Wan in the Season 3 episode, Twin Suns.
18:12 "What you need, you already have.
18:15 Unfortunately, you seem to be letting it all go."
18:18 "What you need, you already have.
18:20 Unfortunately, you seem to be letting it all go."
18:23 Which, old Ben said to Ezra and also seems to respond to Yoda's previous line.
18:27 Next, Kanan in Rebels.
18:28 "I won't let him lose his way, not like I did."
18:29 "I won't let him lose his way, not like I did."
18:35 Showing how Kanan's guidance is still with Ezra even now.
18:38 Okay, so Ezra walks through the World Between Worlds.
18:41 This is a realm in which the Force connects all of time and space.
18:46 Next we hear a very important line.
18:47 "The Force is what gives a Jedi his power.
18:50 It's an energy created by all living things.
18:53 It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxies together."
18:59 This is, of course, Alec Guinness, Obi-Wan, and a New Hope, a conversation with Luke that
19:02 has not happened yet.
19:03 "The Force is what gives a Jedi his power.
19:07 It's an energy field created by all living things.
19:10 It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxies together."
19:14 Now more come a bit later, they're all kind of mixed together.
19:16 "Master Yoda?
19:17 Obi-Wan?
19:18 Where are you?"
19:19 So you heard three there.
19:24 There was Yoda in Revenge of the Sith.
19:26 "Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force."
19:30 There was Maz Kanata to Rey in The Force Awakens, way in the future from now.
19:34 "I see your eyes.
19:36 You already know the truth."
19:38 And Chirrut Imwe in Rogue One.
19:39 "The Force is with me, and I am with the Force."
19:43 And then right after this we actually hear Jyn Erso from Rogue One.
19:46 "The time to fight is now!"
19:49 And then the voice of Kylo Ren from The Force Awakens.
19:52 "Show me."
19:53 Interspersed with Rey whispering in The Force Awakens.
19:56 "We'll see each other again."
19:59 And then some words from the father to Anakin in the Mortis episode of Overlords.
20:03 "And now you see who you truly are."
20:08 Then Poe Dameron whispering from The Force Awakens.
20:10 "I will not be intimidated by you."
20:15 Then the dying words of the daughter in Altar of Mortis.
20:18 "It is his nature."
20:20 Then Maz Kanata again from The Force Awakens.
20:23 "The belonging you seek is not behind you."
20:28 And then Leia in A New Hope.
20:29 "This is our most desperate hour."
20:33 Then Yoda in Revenge of the Sith.
20:34 "The shadow of greed, that is."
20:39 And then Leia finishing her line from A New Hope.
20:41 "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope."
20:47 And then Anakin in Clone Wars telling Ahsoka.
20:49 "You never would have made it as Obi-Wan's Padawan."
20:53 So Ezra finds the Mori bird taking Ezra to a portal through time back to Ahsoka's duel
20:59 with Vader on Malachor in the Rebel Season 2 finale.
21:02 We never saw exactly how that duel ended and now we see what happened.
21:06 Vader is just about to kill her but Ezra pulls her out of time.
21:10 Ezra up until this moment had thought Ahsoka was dead.
21:12 So he thought in this moment he changed history to save her, not realizing that she was always
21:16 alive.
21:17 So he mistakenly runs away from Ahsoka to try to find Kanan.
21:20 And we actually hear some voices from Kanan.
21:22 Like here.
21:25 This was the moment he revealed himself as a Jedi in the Season 1 early episodes.
21:29 "Kid, I'm about to let everyone in on a secret."
21:31 Then a line overheard by Ezra from Kanan Tahara in the Season 2 premiere.
21:35 "I survived one war, I'm not ready for another one."
21:41 Then Kanan in the Season 3 episode about Rex's Clone Wars memories.
21:44 "Battles leave scars, some you can't see."
21:49 I love that we hear this line here because battles leaving scars is evidence that those
21:54 battles happen.
21:55 That you can't change history to erase the scar, you have to keep the scar with you.
21:59 And sometimes you can't see it, it's just something you have to carry with you.
22:02 That is the point of life experience and we cannot erase or evade or sidestep that life
22:06 experience.
22:07 But Ezra returns to the moment of Kanan's death on the fuel depot and Ahsoka says that
22:11 Kanan needed to die so that the others could live.
22:14 Then the Emperor calls out to them.
22:16 "This is her bridge and Ahsoka Tano, mine at last."
22:22 Now this blue flame on the pedestal appeared in Clone Wars Season 6 when Yoda went to Morriban
22:27 and the Emperor tried to corrupt his mind through his connection with Count Dooku.
22:30 It's just super creepy that the Emperor can see through time this way using a Sith sorcery.
22:34 The Emperor says, "Tell me the way, Ezra.
22:37 Tell me."
22:38 The way Ian McDiarmid says, "Help me!"
22:41 Recalls how he said it to Anakin after Mace Windu scarred him in Revenge of the Sith.
22:45 "Help me!"
22:46 So Ahsoka ends up going back through her portal to the aftermath of her duel with Vader in
22:50 the Season 2 finale when she limped out of that Sith temple on Malachor with Morai.
22:54 This is actually the episode we learn Morai's name and in Greek mythology, the Morai, spelled
22:58 differently, were the name of the three fates.
23:00 Ezra presses his hand against the fist of the sun and we hear some of his words on the
23:04 Mordesark in Clone Wars and Ezra passes out and the temple collapses.
23:07 Now Filoni has said that he doesn't think of the world between worlds as time travel,
23:11 but instead it's about gaining knowledge of the future and as the Doom Wolf says, "Restore
23:16 the past, redeem the future."
23:18 So again, Ezra has already changed the past.
23:21 That is how Ahsoka was already alive.
23:23 So in a sense, he just kind of closed the loop.
23:25 He restored the past and by learning to move on from Kanan Jarrus' death, he has redeemed
23:30 the future and learned a lesson about sacrifice to save your friends.
23:33 That said, the Ahsoka series, at least now, seems to be flirting with the idea of calling
23:38 to people through time and referencing the Loth-Wolves and the gods of Mortis.
23:41 So the world between worlds episode is essential watching.
23:44 In episode 14 of Fool's Hope, Hera, Rex, and Kallus recruit Hondo, Gregor, and Wolf,
23:49 and Ketsu from Seelos.
23:50 Ryder pretends to betray the rebels to Pryce, who attacks their cave dwelling, but it was
23:54 Ryder's ruse to lure Pryce out of her protection of the capital and Ezra gets back up from
23:59 the Loth-Wolves.
24:00 It kind of recalls the large fernock that appeared behind Ezra in the season one episode
24:04 on Anaxes, but now Ezra is fully in control.
24:07 Which brings us to the finale.
24:09 Episodes 15 and 16, Family Reunion and Farewell.
24:11 This episode actually begins as kind of a hoped for family reunion between Ezra and
24:15 his parents, showing a point of vulnerability for Ezra that we'll see later in this two
24:19 part finale.
24:20 The rebels use Pryce to infiltrate the Imperial base on Lothal and Ryder Azadi pulls in Ezra
24:24 to impersonate Admiral Yularen to order Protocol 13 to evac the base, but Rook has alerted
24:29 Thrawn who arrives in the Chimera.
24:31 The shield generator has capacitors that look like the design in the Endor bunker in Return
24:35 of the Jedi which are actually just stacked cups.
24:37 That was what provided the shield for the Death Star 2 while it was under construction.
24:41 Thrawn begins blasting civilian sections of Lothal and Ezra confronts Thrawn alone and
24:45 leaves his lightsaber behind with Chopper and Sabine gives Ezra a knowing look while
24:49 she distracts the others to let him go.
24:50 You gotta imagine, she carries a bit of guilt with her.
24:53 In Thrawn's quarters, he is framed perfectly between the Isamiri, the lizards from Heir
24:57 to the Empire which are force immune.
24:59 Which is just kind of ironic that he has these two force immune creatures that are on either
25:03 side of him when he is not immune to the forces of nature.
25:06 You also notice he still has his Jedi guard mask on his desk.
25:09 Thrawn and Palpatine we learn have removed parts of the Lothal Jedi temple to the Chimera
25:13 and inside Ezra sees his mother calling to him just as Aunt Beru called to Luke and twin
25:17 sons.
25:18 Thrawn and Palpatine are essentially doing good cop bad cop and Palpatine says, "You
25:21 know it is possible to change fate."
25:24 Palpatine knows Ezra knows it's possible because he saw him in the World Between Worlds.
25:28 As Ezra destroys the temple, he sprints through Palpatine's holoprojection as it flickers
25:32 into its true form of Darth Sidious and we hear the Emperor's theme.
25:39 Hera and the others get the Lothal shield back online and the ghost arrives with a vast
25:43 pod of Pergyl returning from season 2 episode 15, The Call and now they are responding to
25:48 the call from Ezra.
25:49 They wipe out the fleet, tentacles smashing through the windows and wrapping around Thrawn
25:54 charging up to jump into hyperspace.
25:55 And this way we come full circle with Bindu's prediction of Thrawn's defeat in the season
26:06 3 finale.
26:15 But is Thrawn truly defeated?
26:16 The Ahsoka series explores how Thrawn and Ezra followed these Pergyl on the path to
26:19 Peridia and Thrawn's fate of many arms surrounding him in a cold embrace may take on yet another
26:24 meaning at some point in the future.
26:25 Let's also not forget the evolutionary link between wolves and whales.
26:28 The reason whales are sea mammals is that in the distant past there was a wolf ancestor
26:33 who lived close to water and lived more and more of its life swimming, eventually evolving
26:37 into whales.
26:38 They have a common ancestry.
26:39 Like Ezra and Kanan, they are kindred.
26:41 So the rebels launch and blow up the base.
26:43 They play a holorecording from Ezra.
26:49 Now we learn in Ahsoka that Ezra recorded a longer personal recording just for Sabine
26:53 where it sounded like he actually intended to disappear.
26:56 How much time did he have to record stuff?
26:58 So then we jump to an epilogue that takes place after the Battle of Endor, after Return
27:02 of the Jedi, and mirroring the opening shot of the series, Sabine now leans on the railing
27:06 of the Lothal comms tower looking out over the city, but instead of a star destroyer
27:10 over her head, it's Ahsoka's T6 shuttle and X-Wings, a storyboard that Dave Filoni also
27:14 reused for Ahsoka episode 1.
27:16 Sabine has cut her hair even shorter and now her armor bears a pauldron with a Pergyl
27:21 on it.
27:22 And now Zeb has taken Calus to Leerah San to prove that the Lossat species was not extinct.
27:27 We learn that Hera fought in the Battle of Endor, Rex fought in the Battle of Endor too,
27:31 and now she has a son, Jason Sindula, Kanan's son, Spectre 7.
27:35 Also similar framing to the shots of Ahsoka episode 2, but I much preferred this version.
27:39 Ahsoka wears white robes and carries a staff, which Dave Filoni intended to look like Gandalf
27:44 the White, the incomplete mentor returning as someone who is further down the path of
27:48 enlightenment.
27:49 The two go off in search of Ezra Bridger and end of series.
27:52 Ahsoka begins with them on the other side of that search, master and apprentice apparently
27:55 having failed to connect.
27:56 But you know what?
27:57 On its own, this Rebels finale is perfect.
27:59 It brings to an end all of these characters' arcs in such a great way, and you can tell
28:03 Dave Filoni really wanted to stick that landing considering initially Clone Wars ended in
28:07 kind of this open-ended state.
28:09 So as we walk away from Rebels, let's get a season 4 cheat sheet here.
28:13 Must watch episodes.
28:14 All of them, especially season 4, folks.
28:16 Come on, it's only 16 episodes.
28:18 But if you only have time for some, definitely hit episode 10, Jedi Knight, episode 12, Wolves
28:23 in a Door, episode 13, A World Between Worlds, and episode 16, the finale.
28:27 Okay, next.
28:28 The Mortis Gods are Star Wars Celestials who link with mystical Loth-Wolves in some way
28:33 to open up the World Between Worlds, a realm that allows a kind of time travel in the Star
28:37 Wars universe.
28:38 And while the Lothal Temple was destroyed, that realm still exists.
28:42 Next, the Jedi and Caleb Dume have some mysterious history with Lothal.
28:46 Next, Thrawn and Ezra were taken by the Purgle through hyperspace to some mystery destination.
28:51 Next, wolves in general are extremely important to Dave Filoni into Star Wars fiction.
28:57 And lastly, the World Between Worlds is described by Sabine as a star map.
29:01 All right, I want to thank you so much for joining me on this Rebels Rewatch series.
29:04 It's been so rewarding to do this.
29:06 Please recommend these Rebels recap videos to everyone you know who's watching Ahsoka
29:09 who just wants to know what happened to Rebels but doesn't feel like watching all the episodes.
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29:16 Thanks for watching.
29:17 I'll see you next time.
29:18 Bye.
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