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Rebels: Flight of the Defender [4x06] ✦ Watchalong Reaction & Review
Added 2023-06-09 07:09:45 +0000 UTCHappy Friday everyone! I hope you all have some awesome plans for your weekend. Let me know what you're getting up to in the comments. This episode was super fun! Thanks for being here and we'll see you next week for more episodes! [Direct link here.]
Cheers,
✦ KL
Comments
Yeah maybe. I just noticed a LONG line of messed up dirt leading up to the cave entrance, so that had me concerned the Empire would see it. I am probably just being paranoid LOL.
kaiielle
2023-06-09 19:49:02 +0000 UTCI'm pretty sure they only dagged the hypeerdrive after Ezera said a thing about the cave/white loth cat. Earlier it sure looks like they pick it up fully.
Yoshi1990
2023-06-09 19:03:19 +0000 UTCI do remember the Loth-cat from back then! Was awesome to see them again. The Loth-wolf is so pretty and I feel like we'll see him again too.
kaiielle
2023-06-09 16:34:07 +0000 UTCVery cool!!
kaiielle
2023-06-09 16:33:14 +0000 UTCThanks for pointing out Kanan's behaviour, because to be completely honest I didn't actually notice it. That's how gradual it's been. To me, he's acted as he has for a *while* now, it's almost hard to remember how he was in Season 1. Agree on the animal theme, it's really great.
kaiielle
2023-06-09 16:32:50 +0000 UTCI believe I had commented before at some point about the TIE defender being Thrawn's proposal to the emperor, counter to Krennic's Death Star. This is a good background reason to have Thrawn so invested in Lothal and why he keeps showing up. The Death Star is obviously an intimidating weapon, but a fleet of TIE defenders is pretty scary as well. With this episode we find out that they have hyperdrives which means they can really go wherever and come out of nowhere whereas normal TIEs are always launched from a larger ship It's been a bit of a gradual change, but the last few episodes it's been very evident that Kanan is just different. We know he learned to "see things differently" with Bendu but just the way he acts, his calmness, not getting worked up over things, etc is a noticeable change from Kanan in seasons 1-2 and even parts of 3. The last couple episodes there have been times where someone he's with is concerned or worried or upset and he's like "it'll be fine", "they'll be fine", "i trust them to figure it out" whereas he was that person freaking out in earlier seasons. You could make the argument that Ezra gets a lot of the focus as the most "main" character in the show, but I feel like Kanan's development has been gradual and a bit under the radar that all of a sudden you realize "hey, why is he so calm and not worrying anymore?". Dave Filoni loves wolves. He's admitted it, they're involved in whatever he's doing in some way (Plo being his favorite jedi, his clones were under Wolf and the wolf pack), so it makes sense to bring in some wolves in here. This also continues the theme we see throughout Star Wars of nature fighting back against the Empire. We see it in Episode 6, we see it many times in clone wars, in Andor, etc. What the Empire does is unnatural (RIP Nemik), so nature will try to restore balance, in this case helping Ezra and Sabine between the Loth cats (we've seen a few times) and the wolf. One of my favorite Star Wars themes
Andrew Sitek
2023-06-09 14:07:38 +0000 UTCLoved that the brought the Tie Defender into canon while also connecting it to Thrawn. The Tie Defender first appeared in Star Wars: TIE Fighter (1994) where it was the top of the line of Imperial ships with a hyperdrive as well as deflector shields. Pretty sure the ship was also added as free DLC in Battlefront (2015) as well, Battlefront is regarded as canon in that everything in the game is canonical to the movies even if the game's just a series of non canonical Battles.
Isaac
2023-06-09 12:30:13 +0000 UTCAnother excellent episode, with more Excellent Thrawn moments to come with it! Not too much to say that isn’t spoiler related, but we have seen a White Loth-cat before. It was a White Loth-cat that lead Ezra to Ryder the first time they met him in season 2! The Wolfe is beautiful, I really like him. I am super excited for more!
Justin
2023-06-09 08:47:31 +0000 UTC
