Star Wars: Rebels Revisited – Part 10: Just like the old days

So yeah, last week’s episodes were a little bit of a let-down for me. Despite my own best efforts to enjoy them seeing as how they prominently featured the most attention-starved characters in the series. So, if these week’s episodes; which go back to focusing on Kanan and Ezra were a lot better, would it be mildly painful for me to admit that as a real shortcoming of this series?

Urgh… yes. These are better…

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Star Wars: Rebels Revisited – Part 8: Slashers and Scalawags

I’m just looking at the two episodes of Rebels today. Two very different episodes that focus pretty hard on two of what I feel are the three pillars of Star Wars storytelling; The world of smugglers and scoundrels and the world of Jedi and the Force. The third of those pillars being the world of military and war. Which I don’t think we’ll be seeing much of for a while at least considering Clone Wars was a lot of that.

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Star Wars: Rebels Revisited – Part 7: You’re Gonna’ need a Bigger Walker

I knew we were getting some Clone Wars era characters showing up more and more in Rebels as the series went on. But I wanted to temper my expectations of them. After all, Rebels isn’t their show, I didn’t want my excitement for Vader, Ahsoka and familiar Clones to take away from Ezra and Kanan’s stories. I guess today is the day where I put that mentality to the test when we get those familiar faces showing up in force.

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