A/V STAR WARS REBELS (show's over, spoilers allowed)

I would bet that if Corellia's going to play a part in the Han Solo film, they're letting THAT film's creative team define its canonical visual look.

 

Is Corellia even canon anymore?

They call the Falcon a Corellia ship, but it could now be the business name.

Even if it's still a planet, for all we know it could be a radioactive toxic dump, or a gas giant, now.

 

Of course it's still a planet! A scene from Aftermath even takes place in Coronet City, Corellia. And according to the Databank, it has cities, jungles, and forests.

 

Worth saying: if something gets stated in a BTS context like Recon...that's not technically canon. Note how often Pablo couches his statements (on Twitter too) with something like "I get the sense that..."

Obviously anything directly from SG should be taken seriously as their current, or at least initial, intention, but sooner or later some creator is going to come up with a fun new tweak that goes against an old BTS statement and that's not gonna stop them--if it's not in a story it's not 100% certain.

 

Correct, Corellia has appeared in Aftermath. It's a member of the New Republic.

LelalMekha I can't find a Databank entry for Corellia. Where are you getting that from?

--Adm. Nick

 

PFFT, you expect me to care about games?

 

--Adm. Nick

 

AdmiralNick22 Here you are.

 

Strange, when I search the Databank with "Corellia", that doesn't pop up. Interesting.

--Adm. Nick

 

There are a few entires like that, go figure why. Other examples are the "Kaleesh" and "Cerea" entries.

 

The TOS search thing is awful in my experience. Almost as much as JC's.

 

The Wynkahthu Job
Ezra being irate because Zeb was put in charge was insanely immature. Get over yourself. He was a jerk the entire time because of it.

Azmorigan is bloody annoying. Like shut up and stop shooting. I also find Hondo annoying, but that's simply because he's a greedy sometimes jerk. But he has a good heart.

"What do you mean 'every man for themselves'? YOU'RE A DROID!" - Ezra to Chopper
That was hilarious. Probably the best part of this episode.

Spoiler

An Inside Man
The beginning scene had great visuals. We could really see the size scales of different objects, especially when compared to people. And the Imperial flags gave it a more ominous feel.

In both Legends and canon, walkers' legs are helmed before Hoth. You'd think the Empire would have learned... *sigh*

Ezra whispering "Thrawn" was chilling. I don't even know why, but it was. And it felt awesome. And then I thought Ezra was the only one acting erratically among the workers but then I saw the others moving about when the speeder blew up.

Oh, it's GREAT that Ezra and Kanan worked in tandem. I don't feel like we've seen enough of that this season.

Thrawn having them test the machines is a brilliant idea.

Kallus helping just makes me smile. Him getting thrown through glass was hilarious. Doesn't surprise me that Ezra get to it before Kanan.

Rawr. TIEs don't have shields. This won't last.

"Wait. Kallus is Fulcrum?! THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE!!!"
*laughs*

Ah man, is that Mandalorian art in Thrawn's office? Love it. And if it has been pointed out before, well I missed it.

 

New titles

Spoiler

(January 7, 2017)
Ghosts of Geonosis, Pt. 1


The crew returns to Geonosis in search of a missing rebel team sent to investigate suspicious activity there, and are surprised by what they find.
Ghosts of Geonosis, Pt. 2


After finding a missing rebel team member, the Ghost crew discovers another surprise on Geonosis, and work to conceal it from Imperial forces.
https://jedi-bibliothek.de/2016/12/titel-und-inhalt-der-winterpremiere-von-star-wars-rebels/

That's sooner than last year, good.

 

Well, stuff happened this episode.

Spoiler

Kallus is Fulcrum, this is confirmed. And Thrawn knows! Thrawn forcing that old farmer to test that sabotaged speeder bike? Kanan and Ezra don't save him. Named, good guy characters die this episode.

 

Spoiler

another Filoni cameo! "You're in the line of fire 271! I can't get a shot" that makes two weeks in a row now that Filoni voices a Red Shirt. One in either side of the war. Has he been doing cameos all season?

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And if you have read Catalyst ... here is the requested Rogue One tie in as well!!


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Spoiler

Just restating my hypothesis that Kallus's true loyalty is Thrawn's downfall. He's using Kallus for his longer game but doesn't expect him to turn when it truly matters.

 

Spoiler

And I'm just stating that I really, really love this idea.

 

Thrawn is just observing the Rebels and collecting information about them in this season, I believe in the next season he will start to deliver huge blows to the rebellion.

 

Agreed, whatever happens with Thrawn, I hope they use him for more than one season. He deserves more than the Inquisitors, and you can't really go any higher in villain cache than Thrawn without pulling in Vader or the Emperor.

 

Spoiler

There are two things about this I really like:

1) Thrawn the chessmaster in the old EU screwed up because he was so good at predicting his opponents' moves he wasn't paying enough attention to his own pawns. Kallus in this case mirrors but does not exactly copy Rukh if he somehow betrays or otherwise foils Thrawn's plans.

2) This is a good way to write Thrawn off the show rather than killing him, and leaving his plot open to the future. That is, have Thrawn leave the show disgraced. The rest of the Empire was trying to do that to him all the time in the old EU. So again, it matches the old Thrawn while not copycating the original EU plot.

 

This was a much better episode than the last 3, which is a surprise for a Lothal episode.