Star Wars: Rebels Revisited – Part 22: Ironclad Idiots

Whoa, it’s been a while. I just guess I needed a break from all of this. Not that this is my grand announcement of me being back or anything. I fully expect to continue hardly posting and just getting round to these when I can.

It doesn’t help that my PC is basically dead and so doing all the image work for these post has become absurdly time consuming.

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Star Wars: Rebels Revisited – Part 21: Just Like Old Wounds

Both of these episodes feel like they’re throwing back to the Clone Wars show in various ways. Although I feel like my brain has been corrupted by listening to too many hours of intellectuals talking about the politics and real world parallels between the Clone Wars and Post 9/11 American politics.

There has been very little of that in Rebels by comparison. Or maybe I’m just no cleaver enough to spot it all out.

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Star Wars: Rebels Revisited – Part 20: ‘Greetins ‘Greetins!

You know what Star Wars has in spades? Good villains. You know what Rebels has really struggled to accomplish in my mind? Make its villains seem even remotely competent. Which is an impressive, making Darth Vader look like a fool on multiple occasions. Even more so when Kanan and Ezra hardly seem to have a brain cell between them most days.

Rebels has really missed an actually dangerous and threatening villain. It feels like season three is the one season that is trying to rectify that.

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