Full Series Grade The Episode 2.08: "Blood Sisters" (Spoilers Allowed)

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The episodes out now? :0

 

Nope. Not until 9:30 pm tonight.

 

Removed.

 

Awesome episode! Did anyone else realize this is the first episode without some of the main 6 rebels in it? No Kanan and Zeb. And Dave Filoni voiced a Rodian and a Stormtrooper in this episode. Wow.

 

My least favorite episode of season 2, but thats not saying much

Ezra just got way to Awkward for my liking.

That bridge crew was so stupid.

8/10

 

This is getting a an 8.5/10, rounded up to a 9. Ezra's babbling at the start of the episode was annoying. Good introduction for Ketsu, look forward to seeing her return.

 

Definitely a 10 for me! My second favorite episode of the season (behind Siege).

 

I gave it a 7/10. Most likely would've been a higher grade if Ezra wasn't forced to tag along with Sabine, and she went in on her own. It was certainly a thrilling episode, though. Still wish one of these episodes would leave some sort of cliffhanger; lasting into a two or three episode arc.

 

Looks like another 3 to 4. The Bounty Hunter could've been interesting had she not been another do-gooder at heart. They seem to like these random pop up bad-guys that are actually good guys that help save the day and vanish again The Imperials are as ineffective as ever looks like it will get worse next episode with the Interdictor getting blown up by disguised rebels.

 

Weaksauce. Like the different locales, and the the new bounty hunter armor, but gee, there was no threat, no sense of vastness like there was in epi's like Relics. The Hera episode was much better, with a small amount of background story. Worst episode of Season 2.

 

10/10

Amazing episode. I hope we get to see Ketsy come back again in the future.

 

I really liked this episode, 9 from me.

 

I give this episode a 7.

 

This one was alright. Ketsu was really cool, Chopper was marvelous as always. Unfortunately, like some of the other episodes in this series, the pacing felt rushed. Things weren't as complex as they could have been. This show really needs a longer timeslot in order to tell the best stories it can.

6/10

Also, disappointed Havoc Base is just "Havoc Base". What planet is it on? It looks pretty cool, I want a name!

 

Way better than last week's episode, but still incredibly mediocre. 5/10

Ezra's babbling was annoying and uncomfortable to watch. And the whole sudden rekindling of Sabine and Ketsu's "friendship" because Sabine forgives Ketsu was just jarring with its abruptness and completely unnatural flow and how oversimplified and overt this moral is. And it's not even like Ketsu stuck around for another episode or two to shed any more light on Sabine's background other than mentioning her past as a bounty hunter.

Chopper does remain my favorite character among the Rebel crew, and he was perhaps the most positive aspect of this episode for me.

I feel like the wildly disjointed nature of episodes is this show's biggest weakness, and that it is very apparent to me in these past two episodes. Last episode was supposed to shed light on Hera, and all it did was give some very forced monologue about why she likes to fly and she speaks about it more like a character from Mr. Roger's Neighborhood than someone from the Star Wars films. While this episode that was supposed to shed light on Sabine was slightly more illuminating, but just barely, and while they did leave the door open for Ketsu to appear again, the introduction of this rivalry with Ketsu willing to pull the trigger (literally) on Sabine at first and then all of a sudden being her friend within 20 minutes of screen time was just way too jarring and unbelievable. It makes for a bland viewing experience IMO.

I can only hope that as time goes on, these stories will become more intertwined and season-spanning. Open each season premiere with a scroll and end each season finale with scenes of just music as each film ended, if that helps. Keep all episodes in each season flowing from one into another. That blockade that Hera had to run? Make that relevant some how. Ketsu Onyo working for Black Sun and Black Sun's interest in stealing Rebel info (and how they even knew about that courier droid), develop that into a longer more compelling story.

In A New Hope an attack on Leia's ship over Tatooine led to R2 and C-3PO going to Tatooine, which led to them bumping into Luke, which led to Obi-Wan involving Luke in his mission to Alderaan, which led to them discovering the Death Star, etc.

One action leads to another. But in Rebels, what happens in one episode often has zero (or minimal) impact on the following episodes. Beginning each episode with the fetch-quest of the week is really dragging this series down for me, as is oversimplifying what could be good stories into 22 minutes worth of programming, rather than allowing the proper time to develop a story.

 

7/10: I really wanted a bit more - had we not been introduced to a new character, the episode would have felt like a repeat.

 

3/10

The lack of a meaningful story, combined with complete injustice in how they tried to give some backstory to Sabine, killed this episode. Not to mention more insanely asinine plot armor. Every, and I mean EVERY member of the Ghost crew should be dead. More incompetence from the Imperials. I'm tired of Chopper. They've made him into a child, without actually making him a child. It's a droid, leave it as a droid. All that aside, the worst part, is there is NEVER any sense of danger. Never do you feel like anyone is in harm's way. Not to say they have to be killed off, but at least give me the impression it's a possibility. Episodes have gone downhill this season, and keep getting worse.

 

Wow. This episode was quite the snoozefest.
Bad dialogue, awkward character development from Ketsu, Sabine’s cringe-y speech, no chemistry between the voice actresses, shoehorned Ezra, ridiculously dumb Imperials, no tension, ugh. It didn't even feel Star Wars to me, it felt like a bad fanfiction.
But it had really neat visuals, Alderaan and nice Chopper action, so I gave it 4/10.

 

6/10
an okay episode.
R2/Chopper/Gonk droid are awesome
Soundtrack is good.
The scene with Sabine/Ezra at the start of the episode is annoying and the "it's a long way to Alderaan" scene was just cringe-worthy, I'll summarize it with 2 stupid people doing stupid things.
Bloody purple eyes, ugh.
I still don't really know what to think about Ketsu, especially after how she so quickly flipped after being all "it's not personal, it's just business" all the time, I don't really bought it. At all.

 

Damn, people really REALLY hate Ezra :0

 

"Hate" is too strong of a word, but do I care about his character and his struggle now? Absolutely not.

 

3/10

Found it quite boring; had a very "Disney" feel to it - i.e bad person sees the light and turns out to be quite nice. Ketsu seemed mysterious in the trailers, but turned out to rather unappealing and someone I hope we never see again. Little or no information was added to the lore of Sabine's background and Ezra was just too darn annoying in this episode.