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 9: Blades and Broods

I’m not going to say these two episodes were a downturn from what has been a very good series so far. But they are something of a stumble, and an unforced one at that. I’ve made it no secret that despite this being a show about a cast of characters, some of them have been getting served much more than others. This felt like a chance to rectify that, and I don’t feel like they ended up being quite up to snuff.

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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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