Full Series Rebels 1.06: "Breaking Ranks" Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

Watto

Nice find. That's really cool.

 

Sorry 'bout that.

 

Did the markings on those Stormtrooper Cadet helmets remind anyone else of these?

 

A little bit yeah.

...So many V's. Is this a convention or something.

 

Not sure. Maybe a special viewing of the movie or something since I don't recall this scene being in the movie. Love your Rebels posts, BTW.

 

Huh. That would be something to see though.

Oh, thank you so much. I just saw what;s on my mind normally. lol.

 

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It was nice to hear Zuko again.

 

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And everything changed when the Galactic Empire attacked...

 

no?

 

Huh. Not really but that's interesting.

 

Great episode! I absolutely love the continuation of the kyber crystal plot from Crystal Crisis on Utapau. It's interesting to note that while the Separatist attempt to retrieve the crystal in TCW was a big military operation with Grievous, general of the droid army himself overseeing it, this crystal shipment only had a few ships. I think Palpatine has found a fair number of crystals at this point, so he isn't quite as concerned as he was before about the crystals' safety.

I loved the crystal explosion and how you can see it disintegrating the TIE, however how did it only take Hera a couple shots from the Ghost to destroy it? Granted the cruiser it was on blew up a bit as well, but the one in TCW required a few AATs to shoot at it before it finally exploded. To be fair though, there's always the possibility that this crystal was slightly smaller or something, or perhaps the ship's explosion was enough to destroy the crystal as well.

Seems the Inquisitor isn't hesistating at all at Vader's command to find the children of the Force. I'm hoping we see Dhara later on in the show as some sort of surgically modified and slightly cybernetically enhanced Dark Side Imperial. I'd love to see the Children of the Force plot from TCW continued in Rebels.

 

Can this be a meme.

 

It already is.

 

I know when everything changed the fire nation attacked or something but the empire I did not.

 

I'm confused. Were they informing the Inquisitor that those children might be force sensitive?

 

Nice episode- nothing really bad there. Nice imperial version of Clone Cadets kind of.

+ Continuity with TCW- training reminded me a lot of clone cadets and the box

+ Also Crystal was continuation of TCW- storyline (that was never finished though) and probably bound for Death Star.

+ Zare's sister is a reference to female imperials.

+ Way how Empire detects force sensitivity without making a lot of noise out of the Force explains well how force-sensitives are found out and people like Motti can still think that the Force is trickery of wizards and just an old religion (also that was like right out of my episode idea for rebels )

- Face models for imperials aboard the crystal transport makes me wonder why they decided that Empire doesn't clone anymore- they could have simply explained similar face models if Empire would clone- and they wouldn't need to hide their face inside the hat That looked ridiculous...

- We never saw the face of that "bad cadet" with green marking in his helmet (forgot the name) this together with the previous comment makes me to think that they are tired of animating new face models... (same thing as in TCW though- too much same models)

- Crystal Crisis TCW-episodes never officially came out so many must wonder what the heck that crystal is? I would if I wouldn't have seen the unfinished episodes of Utapau-crisis.

Yes obviously, but they didn't know about it- they were probably only told to send the names of those who portrayed especially well- better than normal good ones, which is sign of the force sensitivity but I'm not sure if they know about the Force being the reason

 

This was a nice and fun episode i give it 8,5/10
+Love how it ties into Crystal Crisis
+Like how everything the boy students do is friendly fighting, since that's pretty much how it is IRL
+Loved seeing a little more how the Empire functions from the inside.
+There is definitely more than one force sensitive in Empire serving Palps and Vader, seeing how the Inquisitor wants to train and recruit some of them.
+Loved seeing The Inquisitor
+IMO the ending has some dark implications, with the whole ''Let's take a walk'' scene. Seemed like something the Nazis or the mob would say before leading someone to their deaths.
-That academy seems to be pretty Anti-Teamwork, since they seem to encourage backstabbing your comrades

 

-Yeah they killed a defenseless middle-aged farmer couple. That makes them SO competent as soldiers, not.
-Obi Wan was killed by Vader, so that doesn't really count.
-Han and Luke DID basically destroy the Death Star on their own. What did we actually SEE the other Rebel fighters do? Get picked off one by one, that's what.

 

One thing I liked about this episode that hasn't been explicitly mentioned yet: it's kind of cool that the Inquisitor apparently actually "inquisits", in the sense of actively going around and trying to find out possible Force-sensitives in the population. He's not just a Jedi hunter.

 

DF even mentions it that they took inspiration from the box for this episode.

 

What led to the decision was Ezra was the only one who could easily pass for a cadet. Hera and Kanan even joke about someone else (Kanan in this case) trying to do it: "Oh yeah, you'd make a great cadet." I do get what you're saying about seeing them make the decision onscreen though, however then they'd have to do a multiple week jump to the actual events, which may not be the best choice.

 

The empire would have to except cadets Kanas age though so there probably would be a group for Kanan.