Star Wars: Rebels Revisited – Part 5: Tutorial Over!

Here we are at the end of season 1. It simultaneously feels like its been five minutes and a thousand years since I started this one. Maybe that’s because I spent ages thinking about starting the series in the months between finishing Clone Wars and starting this one.

And now having finished the first season, I can’t get over this feeling that everything I’ve seen so far is just place setting, establishing the pieces before actually jumping into the meat of the story.

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Star Wars: Rebels Revisited – Part 4: A Cavalcade of Cameos

For a series called “Rebels”, I’d kind of thought that the show would be much more focused on, well, y’know… The Rebellion. What we’ve ended up getting has been much more Jedi focused than I’d expected.

If anything, the “Rebellion” we’re seeing here feels like this tiny little pocket of troublemakers pretty much contained in and around the planet of Lothal

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Star Wars Rebels Revisited – Part 3: Empire Day

I ended last week wondering if I’d just end up talking about two episodes of Rebels this week. Well, turns out the show took that decision out of my hands when they gave me what turned out to be a secret three-part storyline. This time focusing on Ezra and Empire Day, the 15 year anniversary of the formation of the Galactic Empire.

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