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00:00 but it was still a jam-packed episode nonetheless.
00:04 The live action debut of Thrawn, his armada,
00:09 Ezra's live action debut as well,
00:13 and the reunion between him and Sabine,
00:16 and just some really thought-provoking dialogues
00:20 between Shin and Skull that I really was fascinated by.
00:25 And there's still a lot more beneath the surface
00:28 that we've not really scratched on at all.
00:30 Like what is hidden away on this planet?
00:33 Why do the Dathomiri want to leave it?
00:35 And that's another thing, live action Dathomiri.
00:38 You know, more than just Morgan.
00:40 Lots of fun stuff in the episode.
00:42 So let's go ahead and jump into New Rockstars' breakdown
00:44 of all the little details that we might've missed
00:47 during that reaction.
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00:51 and their channel in the description below.
00:53 With that all said, let's go ahead and hop in.
00:55 - Welcome back to New Rockstars, I'm Eric Boss,
00:57 and this is a breakdown of Ahsoka episode six,
01:00 Far, Far Away, a title that evokes
01:02 the classic Star Wars blue text
01:03 that was invoked by Jason Zundula last episode.
01:06 The phrase, "Far, far away," proving to be the answer
01:08 to the question of where Thrawn went,
01:10 as well as the answer to this question.
01:12 Where are the turtles?
01:14 So many cool questions and deeper bits
01:17 of historical lore time.
01:19 (Eric laughing)
01:22 - Oh, what the fuck?
01:24 Oh, that was good.
01:26 That was good.
01:27 Oh my Lord, not a comment that I've got other than that.
01:31 Great, great joke.
01:33 I don't even know that reference,
01:34 but that was just fucking hilarious.
01:37 But yeah, Far, Far Away, and a galaxy.
01:41 Far, far away, no other.
01:43 - I ended this episode, so let's take it scene by scene
01:45 for all the details you might've missed,
01:47 and thanks to Mystic Play for sponsoring this video.
01:49 More about them in a moment.
01:50 And again, we really, really appreciate you tuning in
01:53 to these Star Wars analyses.
01:54 It's honestly an honor to stay up late
01:56 writing these breakdowns every week.
01:58 I just care a lot about this series,
02:00 and I want to share all of that with you.
02:02 So let's dive in.
02:04 Okay, over that Lucasfilm.
02:05 - I wonder why they've been very vocal about that lately.
02:08 I mean, I don't think we've covered some of their stuff
02:12 more consistently when we're between series like this,
02:18 but yeah, they've been very much expressive
02:21 about how much they really love these breakdowns
02:23 for this specifically.
02:24 I don't remember them being that much before us.
02:26 I mean, I think there's been some things behind the scenes
02:29 that have happened over there,
02:30 and I don't know that has anything to do with it.
02:32 I just thought it was odd all of a sudden,
02:34 and maybe we'd just been away for a little bit.
02:36 I don't know, but they've been very like,
02:38 they've opened every video so far,
02:41 I think, that we've covered in that vein.
02:43 So I was just saying it was an observation.
02:45 - Opening, we hear this.
02:47 - I know they had to lay off a bunch of people, so.
02:49 - According to closed captioning, distant Purgle calls.
02:52 But we don't begin this episode distant from the Purgle.
02:55 We open with them inside of one.
02:57 So this call being distant tells us
02:59 that we are actually hearing this call
03:00 from the perception of the three great mothers
03:03 of Pyrrhidia, native Dathomiri,
03:04 night sisters of the Purgle. - That's a good idea.
03:06 That's a good grab.
03:07 - This call is how they know the Jedi is coming.
03:09 Hyperspace in this opening shot looks different
03:12 than we've ever seen it before in Star Wars.
03:14 Normally it's a glowing blue tunnel
03:15 surrounding the travelers.
03:16 - It's very rainbow-y. - And it's streaks
03:18 of teal and pink and yellow and orange,
03:20 all the colors in the visible spectrum,
03:22 streaking past the whales,
03:23 streaking between each other and under their fins.
03:25 It's just such a cool way of showing
03:27 that this form of hyperspace travel
03:29 is beyond the kind that we've seen before,
03:31 because we are traveling from galaxy to galaxy.
03:33 Now you may remember that moment
03:35 in "The Mandalorian" chapter 17,
03:36 when Grogu and Din Djarin were traveling through hyperspace
03:39 and Grogu saw a Purgle.
03:40 And I might be crazy, but in this shot,
03:42 for a few frames on the right side of the screen,
03:45 you do see a blur through hyperspace
03:48 on the other side of this.
03:49 - I mean, I did posit that what if this was the part
03:53 of whales that Grogu saw as they were going
03:56 through hyperspace in my reaction.
03:59 I don't remember if I left it in or not.
04:02 I know it's in the full length,
04:03 but I don't remember if I left it in the actual video.
04:06 But yeah, that, I mean, I don't know.
04:10 - Could, could be Dins in one "Starfighter."
04:13 I just scrubbed through it all,
04:14 frame by frame to see this.
04:15 I think I honestly spent an hour staring at this shot.
04:18 - I mean, he might be seeing something there,
04:21 like himself, but you know, I don't know.
04:26 I don't think it's that absurd to think,
04:29 but maybe that, to think that that detail
04:32 was intentionally his fighter, maybe.
04:36 But I agree with the sentiment.
04:38 - Oh, I can't like unsee it.
04:40 Now you may be asking, would the timeline match up?
04:42 Ahsoka Tano doesn't appear in the "Mandalorian" season three,
04:45 but Captain Carson Teva does appear on both seasons.
04:48 And I suppose it's possible for his mission
04:50 with Hera on C-TOS--
04:51 - They're supposed to run consecutive.
04:54 - In like Tim Meadows in the "Mandalorian" season three.
04:56 But you know, for all we know,
04:57 the Purgle could be bending time
04:59 with their form of hyperspace travel.
05:01 I just want this to be true.
05:02 - Let me stir it.
05:03 - Ahsoka tells Hu Yang--
05:04 - It's possible.
05:05 - That she remembers the Purgle
05:05 from the stories that he would tell them.
05:07 - When we were younglings back at the temple.
05:09 - Ah, yes.
05:10 History of the galaxy bothers one, two, and three.
05:14 - One being the best, of course.
05:16 - I love this.
05:17 It could be a meta nod to the "Star Wars" original trilogy,
05:20 where I would definitely say the first is the best,
05:22 but you know, I can respect the opinion
05:23 that "The Empire Strikes Back" might be better.
05:25 Although we could--
05:26 - I mean, he might be talking about the compendium,
05:28 'cause if you're looking at the volumes one, two, and three,
05:31 we've got three trilogies.
05:33 So it might just be the trilogy as a whole,
05:35 but I've also heard that interpreted
05:37 as the first trilogy also chronologically.
05:40 I mean, is this Dave's saying the prequels are his favorite
05:43 or the best or whatever, or the most fun?
05:45 You know, it's a lot of ways you can read into it.
05:47 I do think there is a meta element to it,
05:49 but you know, you can twist the interpretation
05:51 to line up with whatever your thing is.
05:55 Also, it could just be as simple as usually
05:57 our infatuation goes back
05:59 to the very first introduction to it,
06:01 and it never quite hits that same high sense.
06:04 - Also see parts one, two, and three as the three trilogies,
06:07 the prequels, the original trilogy, and the sequel trilogy.
06:09 And Ahsoka might be saying that the prequels are the best,
06:11 because that would be more of her era,
06:13 but really she spans all the eras.
06:15 Look, if you legit think that the prequels
06:17 are better than the original trilogy, no shame.
06:19 I just think Ahsoka would be more into a trilogy
06:22 that ends with Anakin being redeemed
06:23 rather than one that ends in tragedy for him,
06:25 even if Dave Filoni identifies most with the prequel era.
06:28 But that's just our meta understanding of this.
06:30 What does this mean for the characters in the universe?
06:32 George Lucas originally conceived his "Star Wars" narrative
06:34 as the Journal of the Wills,
06:36 with the Skywalker saga being an epic myth
06:38 told by an advanced alien race
06:40 called the Wills to inspire their youth,
06:42 which is why every film would begin with the phrase
06:44 "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,"
06:46 which again, supplies this episode with its title
06:48 and is a phrase now being examined by this Ahsoka series
06:51 as we, for the first time, travel from one galaxy
06:53 within the "Star Wars" universe to another.
06:55 But what would the actual in-universe history
06:57 of the galaxy be that Hu Yang would tell
07:00 all these young Jedi?
07:01 Currently, the accepted chronology begins
07:03 with something called the Wellspring of Life,
07:05 the birthplace of midichlorians.
07:06 This gets explored in "Clone Wars" season six,
07:08 episodes 11 and 12.
07:10 Episode 11 takes Yoda to Dagobah,
07:12 where he hears Qui-Gon's voice explaining to him
07:14 that all living things form the living force
07:16 and that feeds the more abstract cosmic force,
07:19 and that cosmic force is contained in this wellspring.
07:22 So in episode 12, "Destiny,"
07:23 Yoda heads to that wellspring and encounters inside of it
07:26 this kind of planet,
07:27 geysering up all this midichlorian energy,
07:30 and he encounters these five masked priestesses
07:32 who each represent emotions
07:34 and put Yoda through various trials.
07:35 It's a really cool arc,
07:37 and it's really where life began in this galaxy.
07:39 Sometime after this, the gods of Mortis came to live
07:42 in the ethereal realm of Mortis,
07:43 and then eons after that, sometime around 25,000 BBY,
07:47 the Dai Bindu, an order of priests
07:49 who were precursors to the Jedi,
07:51 established what became the Jedi Order on Ahch-To,
07:54 led by the Prime Jedi,
07:55 which was the figure depicted in that mosaic pool
07:58 that Luke set aside in "The Last Jedi."
08:00 And I feel like that last part of it, the Dai Bindu,
08:02 would be the part one that Hu-Yang would have told Ahsoka
08:05 about, the dawn of the Jedi Order.
08:06 As the Wellspring of Life and Mortis
08:08 were kind of surprises to Yoda and Ahsoka
08:10 and Obi-Wan and Anakin,
08:11 like while these mythological elders
08:12 have been buried somewhere in the Jedi archives,
08:14 I don't think it's something that Hu-Yang
08:16 would have been programmed with
08:17 and told his bedtime stories
08:18 to all these young Jedi on the Crucible.
08:19 Then again, in "Rebel" season four,
08:21 Palpatine and his archeologist friend
08:23 did kind of mention how the Jedi archives
08:24 mentioned the gods of Mortis.
08:26 I just don't know how much
08:26 all the Jedi younglings would know about it.
08:28 Still, they are important for us to know,
08:30 and I will explain why later.
08:31 Anyway, Ahsoka worries that Sabine
08:33 went with Balen willingly
08:34 and that she didn't have enough time to train Sabine
08:36 how to make the right choice,
08:37 but Hu-Yang says the Force provides insight
08:38 but doesn't give all the answers.
08:40 - Yup. - The house for Sabine.
08:42 - It was the only choice.
08:44 - A choice she made for herself.
08:47 - That is your fear.
08:50 - Ah, fear, Mr. Jedi.
08:51 Fear is a path to the dark side.
08:53 You know, it leads to anger, hate, suffering.
08:55 You're saying, "Don't let fear corrupt your mind, Ahsoka."
08:57 So Ahsoka takes the note
08:59 and she forces a fear out of her mind
09:00 and getting back to some stories.
09:02 - I like that glance she shoots him, though.
09:05 - A long time ago,
09:07 in a galaxy far, far away.
09:11 - That's a good element
09:12 because that is what Star Wars is for us.
09:13 A way for us to escape our anxieties
09:15 and just lose ourselves in some great stories.
09:18 And this is actually the first time
09:19 we hear this spoken aloud in Star Wars.
09:21 But unlike the Wills and some other galaxy
09:23 telling the story of Star Wars,
09:24 Hu-Yang must be talking about beings from another galaxy
09:27 from his perspective who came to this galaxy and settled it.
09:30 Those could be the celestial deities like the Morte's gods,
09:33 but this episode also implies other races
09:35 like the Death Amiri originate from other galaxies.
09:37 - Yeah. - What do you want?
09:38 - When the Eye of Sion--
09:39 - That was a nice nugget of information.
09:41 - With electric bolts,
09:42 which feels like a sippy violation of nature.
09:45 Like they weren't meant to go on this journey.
09:47 Like notice also that ring was smoldering orange
09:50 when it first arrives and then cools down.
09:52 Like it really feels like they pushed it to the limit.
09:54 So they approached the planet Peridia--
09:55 - Gonna push it, push it.
09:56 - Surrounded by a ring,
09:57 which turns out it's composed of pergol bones.
10:00 The Cetos star map depicted Peridia
10:02 surrounded by a ring of pergol.
10:04 - Oh, quite literally.
10:06 - Morgan says Peridia is--
10:08 - The ancient home world of my ancestors, the Death Amiri.
10:11 - So the Death Amiri, the people of the planet Dathomir,
10:14 home to Maul's mother, Mother Talzin,
10:16 were not originally native to that planet, Dathomir.
10:19 They settled that planet after--
10:21 - And then named it after themselves.
10:23 - And they just named it after their own race.
10:25 This is a huge deal.
10:26 Morgan says-- - That's a big revelation.
10:28 - The Pergol were among the first to harness
10:29 and ride the creatures in the days before time was counted.
10:32 - Jeez, between the Pergol and Dany Trejo telling us
10:35 in which the Death Amir also used to ride the rank horse,
10:38 these witches were just riding everything.
10:39 Now, in Star Wars Legends, the ancient Rakata
10:42 were the first to use hyperspace technology.
10:44 And based on that blue crystal
10:45 celebrating the Rakatan uprising
10:47 mentioned in Andor Episode IV, the--
10:48 - Maybe the first, I guess, with this new context,
10:52 they rode beings that could traverse hyperspace.
10:57 Maybe the Rakatans are still the first
11:00 to harness it technologically.
11:03 - Rakatans are Star Wars canon,
11:04 but Morgan says that the Death Amiri were among the first.
11:07 So there could have been like a few of them.
11:09 But she says the days before time was counted,
11:12 which would be old, predating recorded history,
11:14 predating the Jedi order.
11:16 Because when the Jedi started,
11:17 they were counting years back then.
11:19 Aelin says-- - Peridia is a graveyard.
11:22 - Ah, so it wasn't a fairy tale that he grew up hearing.
11:24 It was more of a ghost story,
11:26 a track that Pergol make at the end of their lives,
11:28 kind of like elephants migrating back
11:29 to their known burial sites.
11:31 That's a real thing, folks.
11:32 That elephant graveyard in "The Lion King"
11:33 was based on a real ritual that these massive mammals do.
11:36 It sounds like Pergol do a similar thing.
11:38 Their dropship takes them past towering statues
11:40 of night sister heads atop towering pillars
11:43 with their mouths contorted in this grotesque scream.
11:46 I wonder if these could function as amplifiers
11:48 for the great mother's voices that echo back to Morgan
11:50 through time and space.
11:52 The statues on Arcana--
11:53 - That would be cool.
11:54 That would line up, that would track.
11:56 - This is kind of the opposite.
11:57 It's just heads on skinny, skinny pillars.
12:00 It's kind of creepy, like they're giant pest dispensers.
12:02 But it looks so cool.
12:03 Remember, the statues inside the ruins on Arcana
12:06 were not screaming like this.
12:07 They looked at peace.
12:08 So I just kind of like the idea
12:10 that it's the witches who stayed who cry,
12:12 and it's the witches who left who listen.
12:14 They approach this towering structure
12:16 built into the side of the cliff
12:17 that looks a lot like a dour Minas Tirith
12:20 from "Return of the King."
12:21 Atop the statue is a more pristine version
12:23 of Cetus ruins. - Yeah.
12:24 - The slabs uncorrupted by the elements.
12:26 And Morgan finds here three night sisters.
12:28 - It also, while not forked,
12:30 reminded me of Vader's castle.
12:34 - The Great Mothers.
12:35 According to the episode credits,
12:36 their names are Lachesis,
12:38 played by Jane Edwina Seymour,
12:40 who played the Borg Queen in "Star Trek Picard."
12:42 She's on the right with a rounded headdress.
12:44 Clotho, played by Claudia Black from "Star Trek."
12:46 - Yeah, the three.
12:48 - From the "Uncharted" games.
12:49 - What's the other one? - She's in the center
12:50 with a single pointed headdress.
12:50 - What's the other one?
12:51 - Who does most of the talking.
12:52 And then Actropaw, played by Gerald Prescott Galleon,
12:55 known for playing Madame Zandu on the "Swamp Thing" show.
12:58 She's on the left with a two pointed headdress.
13:00 So these names are a fascinating choice.
13:02 - They are, yeah.
13:03 - Lachesis, Clotho, and Actropaw
13:05 are the names of the three fates of Greek mythology
13:08 that we've referenced before.
13:09 Those fates are also known as the Moirai,
13:11 which is where De Filoni got the name
13:13 of Ahsoka's bird companion that represents
13:15 our Lord of the Sphinx. - Oh, I didn't know that bit.
13:16 - Which is, of course, where similar red headdresses
13:18 that Mother Talzin wore.
13:19 And that appearance was based off of original designs
13:22 for the Sith, created for the Phantom Menace,
13:24 and then repurposed for Clone Wars.
13:25 But the fact that these three headdresses that we see here
13:28 are all slightly different could be telling us something.
13:30 Because in Greek mythology, Clotho is the youngest,
13:32 and she spins the thread of human life.
13:34 Lachesis is the middle, who measures the thread.
13:37 And then Actropaw is the oldest, who cuts that thread,
13:39 and decides when people die.
13:41 So this Clotho, with a K, has the headdress with one point,
13:45 like the pointed needle that spins the thread.
13:47 Lachesis has the rounded headdress.
13:49 But Actropaw, who would cut the thread of life,
13:51 has a two pointed headdress, like scissors.
13:54 - Yep.
13:55 - But of course, these were the three witches
13:56 that Sabine and the other two, - Also the,
13:58 - figured out how to unlock the sphere in episode one.
14:00 - What is it, the maiden, the matron, and the crown?
14:03 - I'm wondering if there must always be three caretaker
14:05 witches on Peridia.
14:06 It's kind of like something that gets passed on
14:07 generation after generation.
14:08 But yes, these were the voices that Morgan Elspeth heard
14:10 calling to her on Cetos.
14:12 Episode two was titled Toil and Treble,
14:14 which was an allusion to three witches of Macbeth.
14:16 Devil, devil, toil and treble, fire, burn, and cauldron.
14:20 Like the fates of Greek mythology, they tell the future.
14:22 They tell the future in Macbeth, but it's always cryptic.
14:25 Anytime a political leader tries to use this magic,
14:27 it always blows up in their face.
14:28 Clotho says,
14:29 - Welcome child of Dathomir.
14:32 You do our ancestors credit.
14:35 - She speaks with additional voices layered on top of her
14:38 own, kind of like Mother Talzin often did.
14:40 It's like when one of them talks,
14:41 all three of them are talking,
14:42 they speak for all the witches of Dathomir throughout time.
14:45 Atropos says,
14:46 - It reeks of Jedi.
14:48 - And Lachesis confirms,
14:52 - It is dangerous.
14:54 - And this angle is especially creepy
14:55 because it's from Sabine's point of view,
14:57 as Jane Edwina Seymour looks directly
14:59 into the lens of the camera.
15:00 But they refer to Sabine as it,
15:02 disrespecting Jedi as animals,
15:04 like false practitioners of the force.
15:05 Because yeah, it sounds like they predate the Jedi order,
15:08 but it also indicates that Sabine does have some connection
15:10 to the force or at least connection to Ahsoka.
15:12 But my question is,
15:13 do they smell this Jedi doo-doo on Balen?
15:15 Because later they seem surprised when Balen is revealed
15:18 as a former Jedi by Thrawn.
15:19 - Yeah, I noticed that.
15:21 - Really good at blocking away that light side of the force.
15:24 Like the three witches in the Arcana ruins,
15:26 they hover the spheres over their own palms
15:28 and yeesh those fingernails.
15:30 It's just an interesting point to compare to Sabine
15:32 because we saw Sabine's fingernails in episode two,
15:35 that her fingernail polish was chipped.
15:37 And I like how the red beams that form between these spheres
15:39 kind of work like rope that ties someone up.
15:41 It's a kind of mystical thread being the weapon
15:43 of these three witches that are based on the fates
15:45 and they're controlling the threads of fate.
15:47 Three creatures howl at the Peridia Tower.
15:49 Dave Filoni's wolf obsession coming back,
15:51 but rather than wolves or loath wolves or anything,
15:53 these are the howlers that we see later,
15:55 which share their name with reptilian creatures
15:57 from Jedi Knight, Jedi Academy,
15:59 but these seem to be more canine and horse-like.
16:01 The VFX on these things are actually pretty good.
16:03 You kind of forget that they're not actually there.
16:05 Balen's dialogue in this episode is fascinating.
16:07 - This is a land of dreams and madness.
16:09 Children's stories come to life.
16:12 - He describes Peridia as a kind of archetypal forest,
16:14 kind of like in a Midsummer Night's Dream
16:16 where magic can happen.
16:17 But remember, he called this place a graveyard.
16:19 So it's a place where magic once lived,
16:22 but when it was abandoned, the magic started to fade away,
16:24 kind of like the ruins of Valyria in "A Song of Ice and Fire."
16:27 The tomb of Valyria led to the gradual death of the dragons
16:30 and magic leaving this world altogether.
16:32 But Shin Hati says that she didn't grow up
16:34 with these stories, but Balen says.
16:36 - Stories of this galaxy are considered folk tales
16:38 from ancient past, long forgotten.
16:41 - With good reason.
16:42 Sometimes stories are just stories.
16:44 - Yeah, it's kind of a bit of commentary
16:45 on how sacred we should hold these Star Wars stories.
16:48 I love stories about stories, but with Shin's response,
16:51 it kind of feels like to the younger Star Wars fan,
16:53 what was sacred to the older generation
16:55 might not be as sacred to them.
16:56 Balen says that he watched the Jedi Temple burn
16:59 and he couldn't make sense of it at the time, but.
17:00 - As you get older, look at history
17:02 and realize it's all inevitable.
17:04 Fall of the Jedi, rise of the Empire.
17:07 It repeats again and again and again.
17:12 - Now George Lucas would describe this as,
17:14 "Oh, it's like poetry, it rhymes."
17:15 But for Balen, someone living inside of this story,
17:18 he's just sick of the cycle.
17:20 So when Shin asks him if Thrawn will give them power,
17:22 Balen says,
17:23 - That sort of power is fleeting.
17:25 What I seek is the beginning,
17:27 so I may finally bring this cycle to an end.
17:29 - So Balen is on a fascinating quest,
17:31 kind of like what Daenerys Targaryen spoke of
17:33 in season five, wanting to break the wheel
17:35 before she just kind of forgot about all that
17:37 in season seven and eight.
17:38 He wants a deeper power on Pyrrhaea beyond Thrawn.
17:41 - That beginning is here.
17:43 - If the old stories are true.
17:44 - I have some thoughts on what this could be later.
17:46 So inner dungeons, Bean whispers,
17:48 - So come on.
17:49 - Now in episode five,
17:50 when Ahsoka was pulled out of that water,
17:51 she said, "Anakin, but we heard a female voice
17:53 whisper from the cosmos."
17:55 That female voice might have been-
17:58 - I said this too,
18:00 and I think I cut that out of the reaction
18:02 because it just didn't,
18:03 it didn't flow very well with what we were seeing.
18:08 Yeah, I remember making a comment or a note about that,
18:13 but I don't know if it was in what I posted to the channel.
18:18 - So being in this moment,
18:19 Sabine tries to use the force to escape the dungeon.
18:21 And for a second, it seems like it's working,
18:24 but no, the rumbling is actually from the Chimera,
18:28 the story of Grand Admiral Thrawn that we saw in "Rebels",
18:31 "The Great Mothers" and "Morgan Watch It Arrive".
18:33 And I love how Clover seems to be holding a rope
18:35 or some prayer beads as she would be the fate
18:38 who initially spins that thread of life.
18:40 But the Chimera is framed perfectly
18:42 so that it looks like it's rising from that tower,
18:45 kept alive by night sister sorcery.
18:47 You can see one of its top spherical shield generators
18:50 and several plates all over its hull
18:52 are augmented with gold parts.
18:53 - Yup.
18:54 - The material that Eye of Scion
18:55 and Morgan's dropship are made out of.
18:57 These golden additions may be repairs
18:59 after the Purgle wrapped their tentacles around the ship
19:01 or to make it so that the Chimera can easily attach
19:04 to the Eye of Scion and get that hyperspace toe.
19:06 You'll notice that its underbelly
19:07 has the same painted pattern that it had in "Rebels".
19:10 And I just cannot get over the symmetry of the shot,
19:13 perfectly bisected by the fold of the hull
19:15 and the corner of the tower looks so good.
19:18 It's worth remembering that since the Chimera
19:20 got zipped off to hyperspace by the Purgle
19:22 in the "Rebels" finale, it still has on board,
19:24 presumably the pieces of the Lothal Jedi temple
19:27 that Palpatine tried to use to corrupt Ezra.
19:29 Thrawn's forces are revealed.
19:31 (dramatic music)
19:34 - Gosh, this music.
19:35 - I think this is my favorite meal drop
19:38 Kevin Kiner has ever composed thus far.
19:40 The organ plus the electric distortion just hits so hard.
19:44 It's such an uncommon sound in "Star Wars"
19:46 and it's done to shock us with this unlikely return
19:49 of a face that you do not normally see in "Star Wars".
19:52 Thrawn's stormtroopers chant his name.
19:54 (thunder rumbling)
19:58 They still worship this guy despite their dwindling numbers
20:01 and their broken armor.
20:02 Yeah, their armor looks awesome.
20:03 It's been nine years since their exile
20:05 in the "Rebels" finale.
20:06 Their armor's dirty.
20:07 It's got mismatched parts, probably taken
20:09 from some of the dwindling numbers.
20:11 Used to replace the broken pieces
20:12 when the people were still surviving
20:14 and it is all cracked.
20:15 It's held together with red cloth,
20:17 which shows how their wounds have been nursed
20:19 by these witches of the red cloth
20:21 and their imperial conformity has been fused
20:23 with a uniquely Dathomirian aesthetic.
20:25 We actually saw some red cloth wrapped around Maul's temple
20:29 behind that bonfire on Dathomir
20:30 in the "Rebels" season three episode, "Visions and Voices".
20:32 Now the captain of these stormtroopers is Enoch,
20:35 played by Wes Chatham from "The Expanse".
20:36 His stormtrooper mask has been fully broken
20:39 and pieced back together almost in the style
20:40 of Japanese Kintsugi art,
20:42 but with a golden face mask,
20:43 kind of like Tigris of Gaul in "Gladiator".
20:46 A bit like the golden mask of General Klytus
20:47 from "Flash Gordon", which was a huge influence
20:49 on George Lucas in the early "Star Wars" films.
20:52 So it just shows how Enoch is part
20:53 of a post-imperial cult of Thrawn.
20:55 Thrawn being someone who always loved art and history.
20:58 Actually, the name Enoch comes from the Bible,
21:00 who was a human who became the immediate attendant
21:03 to the throne of God.
21:04 A human who actually got to enter heaven as a human.
21:07 This reflects Enoch being the side
21:09 of this godly figure of Thrawn.
21:11 Now, Lars Mikkelsen voiced Thrawn in "Rebels"
21:13 and plays him here.
21:14 And images of this guy from trailers
21:16 just do not do him justice,
21:17 because really it is his voice
21:19 that makes the character so good.
21:21 He enters with one of the sickest opening lines
21:23 in live action of any "Star Wars" character ever.
21:26 - What was first just a dream
21:28 has become a frightening reality
21:30 for those who may oppose us.
21:33 (laughing)
21:35 - Described Viridia as a land of dreams and madness.
21:38 It's almost like Thrawn might've heard him with that,
21:40 because his response here is,
21:41 what was first a dream has become a frightening reality.
21:44 Sorcerers deal in dreams,
21:46 military strategists deal in reality.
21:48 So, Ermiter, Thrawn is a-
21:50 - He's got that like,
21:51 Sregobor, like,
21:53 slimy cadence to it,
21:56 but with this air of superiority
21:58 that this character actually earns.
22:01 - Diss with blue skin, red eyes,
22:03 and I love how they kept the V-shaped indentation
22:05 on his forehead.
22:06 We've talked before about Thrawn's origins
22:08 from Timothy Zahn's 1991 novel, "Heir to the Empire",
22:11 Dave Filoni bringing Thrawn back in a canon
22:13 as the villain of "Rebel" season three and four.
22:15 Watch our "Rebels" recap series for more info on this guy.
22:17 I also did a whole Thrawn timeline video back in April,
22:20 but just seeing him here carrying himself
22:21 with pomp and majesty,
22:23 it is exactly true to form for Thrawn.
22:25 But that said,
22:27 notice how they allowed Lars Mikkelsen
22:28 to keep his normal aged appearance and his build.
22:31 If you look closely at his white uniform,
22:33 it has been wrinkled and frayed in some parts,
22:35 especially on the collar.
22:37 Despite Thrawn's best efforts,
22:38 he cannot hide the toll nine years has taken on him.
22:41 Thrawn is now the Napoleon Bonaparte of "Star Wars".
22:44 Napoleon being one of history's greatest military strategists
22:46 who took over France as a dictator and a god king,
22:49 then exiled to Elba,
22:50 and then made a grand return to power
22:53 before his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
22:55 Thrawn is about to depart his Elba.
22:57 Thrawn says Enoch will begin the cargo transfer
22:59 as per Thrawn's agreement with the great mothers.
23:01 Morgan says,
23:02 - I have seen the catacombs.
23:04 It will take some time.
23:05 So what is this cargo?
23:07 They actually went into that
23:08 in an amazing episode of "Wookiee Legends".
23:09 - It looks like a bunch of coffins,
23:11 and it says it's in the catacombs.
23:13 - These casket shaped containers
23:15 from the tower to the Chimera.
23:17 I think these are corpses of past night sisters
23:20 and night brothers on Peridia
23:21 that the great mothers want to resurrect
23:23 in this other galaxy.
23:24 Kind of like what we saw Talzin doing
23:26 with the zombified corpses in "Clone Wars".
23:28 It's not just this small army of stormtroopers
23:30 that Thrawn plans to return with.
23:31 He's gonna come back with a true army of the dead.
23:34 Actually, later when we see one of these caskets
23:36 floating past the camera,
23:36 it shakes with an unnatural rattle.
23:39 - Mothers, you wish to speak with me?
23:41 - And as Thrawn tells Morgan,
23:44 death and resurrection are common deceptions
23:47 played out by both night sister and Jedi.
23:50 A clue that these night sisters plot
23:52 to resurrect their dead.
23:53 Actually, Marok may have been their first experiment
23:55 at doing just that.
23:56 So back in this scene, Thrawn recognizes Balen.
23:59 - Then you must be General Balen Skull.
24:03 - Of the Jedi order.
24:04 - He calls him General.
24:06 Thrawn knows that Balen had a military rank
24:08 as a fighter in the "Clone Wars".
24:09 This shows his expertise.
24:11 He knows all the names,
24:12 kind of like Batman knows all the names
24:13 of the detectives and the cops in the GCPD.
24:15 So then Thrawn meets Sabine,
24:17 recalling her as one of those rebels
24:18 he chased down in "Rebels" season three and four.
24:20 Thrawn is shocked that Sabine's obsession
24:22 with finding Ezra was worth so much to her.
24:24 - How that singular focus will reshape our galaxy.
24:28 You've gambled the fate of your galaxy on that belief.
24:33 You can see in his eyes though,
24:34 some uncertainty over this loose thread,
24:36 kind of like a chess master trying to outsmart someone
24:38 who is just kind of winging it.
24:40 That's one of the most crucial people
24:41 for chess masters to play.
24:42 Sabine gets a howler and blasters
24:44 and Ezra's lightsaber back and Enoch says,
24:45 "Die well."
24:47 Who called?
24:48 It is the kind of Stormtrooper on this graveyard planet
24:51 for nine years,
24:52 just trying to make the most of his death would say.
24:54 Sabine uses the same kind of scanner
24:55 that Han used to look for Luke on Hoth and Empire.
24:58 Hera actually used a bulkier version of it
25:00 last episode on C-TOS.
25:01 But Sabine gets attacked by marauders.
25:03 But whereas before she's been a better shot
25:05 with her blasters and not as good with the lightsaber,
25:07 now it's the opposite.
25:08 She has to resort to the lightsaber
25:10 and with the lightsaber,
25:10 she successfully finishes them off.
25:12 Now as Baelin and Shin ride out from the castle,
25:14 it does have some runes written along the top.
25:17 This is not the alphabet we figured out
25:18 for our end credit Star map video.
25:20 It's a different language.
25:21 It kind of looks like the Sith language of Ur-Katat,
25:23 but it's not that either because this would predate that.
25:26 These kind of look like the runes
25:27 that were on the inside of the chalice
25:29 that Maul had Ezra drink from on Dathomir
25:31 when he used the night sister magic to combine their minds.
25:33 Meanwhile, Thrawn and Morgan observe this galaxy star map,
25:36 which I'm gonna assume is not the galaxy Pyrrhidia is in,
25:39 but the main galaxy star map as it's all charted out.
25:42 Whereas I don't think the Pyrrhidia galaxy
25:43 would be this charted.
25:45 So it looks like Thrawn is making plans
25:46 for where to strike when he returns.
25:48 - Yeah, that's kind of what I thought when I saw it
25:50 'cause it's laid out in the same grid patterns
25:52 as we've seen with the core galaxy itself.
25:56 No, and the plan is to return.
25:58 So I thought he was being briefed
26:00 on what all has changed upon his return
26:04 so he has an idea of what's going on.
26:06 - We get some lighthearted hijinks
26:07 as episode of Sabine shaming the Howler
26:09 and then meeting the Eoteeth,
26:11 which are nomadic creatures,
26:12 akin to turtles or crabs that disguise themselves as rocks.
26:15 - Hermit crabs.
26:16 - They're a lot like the Ewoks,
26:17 but there's more pragmatism.
26:18 They seem a bit further along.
26:19 Like they wear multi-layered clothes
26:21 with fasteners made out of teeth.
26:23 My wife pointed this out,
26:24 but those might not be shells that are part of their anatomy,
26:26 but rather shell backpacks that they wear.
26:28 Because think about it,
26:29 where else would they get these slim-fitting clothes
26:31 on their bodies?
26:32 But this note, he recognizes the rebel insignia
26:34 on Sabine's pauldron,
26:35 because he has a similar patch,
26:37 proving that they know Ezra Bridger.
26:38 It makes sense that Ezra would get along with these guys,
26:40 as throughout "Rebels,"
26:41 he'd love to disguise himself in different uniforms
26:43 and using Silas pseudonyms.
26:44 Like at some points he calls himself Jabba the Hutt.
26:46 - Jabba the Hutt.
26:47 - Balin finds a severed staff
26:48 to know Sabine's lightsabers severed this,
26:50 and Balin tells Shin about Ezra Bridger.
26:53 - Comes from a breed of Bokken Jedi
26:55 trained in the wild after the temple fell.
26:58 - Bokken refers to the wooden training swords
27:00 of Sama, Sokka, and Sabine used in episode three.
27:02 So this just kind of refers to a homeschooled Jedi.
27:05 But Balin tells Shin that she's not a Jedi.
27:07 - He was trained as a Jedi.
27:09 You, I trained to be something more.
27:11 - Now Balin says that he misses the idea of the Jedi Order,
27:14 but not the true weakness of the Jedi Order.
27:16 And he sees the future here on this planet
27:17 in what was once the great witch kingdom of the Dathomiri.
27:20 And he says while the Great Mothers are fleeing,
27:22 Balin sees an opportunity.
27:24 - Perhaps they flee a power greater than their own.
27:28 Something calls to me.
27:30 Can't you hear it?
27:31 Something stirs here.
27:34 Can't you see it?
27:36 - So what is this greater power
27:37 in this Peridian wasteland?
27:39 - It's so interesting.
27:40 - That the Great Mothers are fleeing,
27:41 but Balin is drawn to.
27:43 Maybe the Mortis gods,
27:44 which might explain Balin's reluctance to kill Ahsoka
27:47 because Ahsoka has the spirit of the daughter inside of her.
27:49 Maybe Balin is drawn to the purest form
27:51 of the Force religion through the father
27:53 before it was bastardized by the corruptible Jedi Order.
27:55 But maybe this great power is Bendu,
27:58 the Force being in "Rebel" season three.
27:59 - Interesting.
28:00 - He eluded Thrawn and predicted Thrawn's defeat
28:02 at the arms of the Purgle.
28:03 Remember, Bendu was-
28:04 - That is true.
28:05 - Kind of an agnostic.
28:06 He reached out to both Kanan, Nezra, and Maul.
28:08 And in the "Rebel" season three finale,
28:10 he equally destroyed Imperial forces and the Rebel fleet.
28:13 He's kind of on neither side.
28:15 And it would be really fun for Thrawn to see Bendu again.
28:18 But I'm gonna throw another theory at you.
28:19 That power that Balin recognizes
28:21 could be the priestesses from the Wellspring of Life.
28:23 What if the Nightsisters branched out from those priestesses
28:26 and the priestesses cast them out of the Wellspring,
28:28 like Lucifer from heaven,
28:30 and then banished them to this hell of Pyridea?
28:32 The reason why the Dathomirian might've migrated
28:34 to our galaxy could have been some gradual attempt
28:37 to get closer and closer back into that Garden of Eden.
28:40 I gotta dig into this in another video
28:41 because it's really heady and there's a lot of moving parts.
28:44 But Sabine follows the OT to their lakes and villages-
28:46 - I could see that.
28:46 - With rounded trailers that kind of looks like
28:48 the shells that they wear.
28:49 It looks like the females of this group
28:50 wear shawls over their heads.
28:52 There's just a lot of good world building
28:53 with these things.
28:54 - And then our man, Ezra Bridger, returns.
28:56 - I knew I could count on you.
28:57 - That's not Ezra Bridger, that's Jabba the Hutt!
29:00 - Left shoulder, just as Anakin appeared to Ahsoka
29:02 in the World Between Worlds.
29:03 Iman Isfandi plays Ezra Bridger, nine years older,
29:06 and he has a beard and he looks just like
29:08 his father, Ephraim Bridger.
29:09 - Mm-hmm.
29:11 And the hair.
29:12 - And that wrist tack that Ezra wore on his left arm
29:15 throughout the Rebel series.
29:16 Sabine and Ezra pick up right where they left off
29:18 with some playful banter that they always had.
29:20 - Typical.
29:21 Always a plan.
29:23 - It's never a good one.
29:24 - Hey, it worked, didn't it?
29:26 Didn't it?
29:30 (laughs)
29:31 - And I love that certain seriousness from Ezra.
29:31 - Yeah.
29:32 - Like, think about it, for nine years,
29:33 Ezra would not have known if Lothal was saved
29:35 or if the Rebels ever had a chance of defeating the Empire.
29:38 He just kinda had to make peace
29:40 with being completely out of the fight
29:41 and being completely in the blind.
29:43 But Ezra asks how Sabine found him,
29:45 like how she got there,
29:46 and she ducks this difficult conversation
29:48 the same way Ahsoka sidestepped Hu Yang's
29:50 difficult questions in the opening scene.
29:52 - Mm, yeah.
29:54 I, yeah.
29:57 I don't imagine he will.
29:59 Yep.
30:19 Mm, yeah.
30:20 Yep.
30:21 Mm, yeah.
30:43 Yep.
30:44 Yep.
30:45 Mm, yeah.
31:06 (laughs)
31:07 That's, yeah, that's how they spell it here.
31:11, yeah.
31:19, yeah.
31:31 Great, great, great breakdown.
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31:48 We've got some more stuff to come
31:50 as more information becomes available,
31:52 but I think this is, honestly, I don't,
31:55 I think they might be barking up the right trees
31:58 on some of these thoughts.
31:59 A lot of sharing, some I didn't quite think of,
32:03 like the priestess says that Yoda, you know, went,
32:06 there's a lot of parallels, you know,
32:07 all these different force entities and practitioners
32:11 that all have a different way of, like,
32:15 visualizing and giving forth to the same idea,
32:20 but in different ways.
32:21 And it'd be interesting to me
32:24 if that did end up being the case,
32:26 that those force priestesses, which, with the masks,
32:29 'cause that'll also kind of evoke
32:30 the whole Roman theater kind of aesthetic
32:35 that's going on here on Peridia with Thrawn and his forces.
32:39 So there's a lot of, there's some thematic ties
32:41 you can link together with that as well
32:43 that would be pretty interesting.
32:46 I don't know if we'll ever get
32:47 too many solid answers in this,
32:49 but I'm excited to see what we learn.
32:52 You know, they've talked about this
32:53 not being a singular season,
32:55 so I don't know how many answers we'll get here.
32:58 You know, we know that some of these Star Wars shows
33:01 are gonna be building towards a theatrical crossover event
33:05 that will link all these threads together.
33:08 Thrawn, I assume, being a major part of that,
33:12 if not the part of that,
33:13 that they will all be unifying to combat his return.
33:18 But then again, you know,
33:20 these more mystical elements of it,
33:23 these folk tales, these legends that Balin is here,
33:26 that is calling out to him through the void,
33:30 much like the great mothers were calling out to Morgan,
33:35 something here has been calling out to Balin.
33:38 And I'd love to find out what that is.
33:40 You know, Bendu has been a loose thread for some time.
33:44 You know, the Mortis gods and what is going on there
33:47 in the, is also, or like in their absence
33:50 is also a big question as well
33:54 that has kind of been up in the airs.
33:56 Also, you know, there's a lot of things
33:58 they've been juggling and playing with for many years
34:01 that this could feed into, could be something wholly new,
34:04 but I'm excited to see where it goes.
34:06 I'm hooked and I'm intrigued more than anything.
34:09 So guys, I'd love to hear from you all.
34:11 Were there any Easter eggs you guys caught
34:13 that maybe were missed here in this breakdown?
34:14 I'd love to hear from you guys
34:15 and what all theories you might have as well.
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