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

Let's go back to debating whether Ezra should die.

 

We got get down to the REAL issues. Praying to the Force that Thrawn live's to see Season 4. Or better yet a post ROTJ world.

 

Maybe that's what Obi-Wan was talking about with all that destiny stuff.

First person here to say the season finale was "so artfully done" gets a purple nurple.

(I can't imagine Thrawn is getting a novel because they're planning for him to be a one-season villain on a show for children.)

 

I could definitely be wrong, but I would place a bet Thrawn will live on the basis that, this being the last episode of the season, killing him off... er... hold on better do the spoiler thing...

Spoiler

Killing him off right after Maul would be a real blow to the villains and leave little to work with for the next season, unless they have a trick up their sleeve like Season 1 when they killed Inqui but brought back Ahsoka. The seasons tend to end with potential plots for the next season. I can see Thrawn loosing and falling to the back for a while to lick his wounds, but dying at this point still seems too soon. Unless they replace him with a bigger badder villain, someone with a hook for the next Season. The rumormill has been unusually quiet lately.

 

Killing him just seems like a waste. Shaming him with a surprising defeat and having the Emperor reassign him elsewhere, maybe...but killing him just seems unnecessary.

 

Spoiler

They're is one rumor that says S 4 is Rebels last season based off something I read on a different thread on the forums. Apparently Pablo gave a seminar on some cruise and someone wrote down things he said, but who knows how much of that I can trust/

 

Thrawn won't die this season! He will win!

 

I wanna do a complete dovetail into another topic and bear with me because this is a lot of unorganized brain vomit...

Looking back on Yoda sending the Jedi to Malachor and what that means in light of what we have seen up to this point with Ezra in Season 3.

Having Yoda essentially send the Jedi to their potential death was an odd story beat, yeah? I mean, I am okay with it because it seems like Yoda trusted them not to die, but I think there was also something else going on there.

I think Yoda sensed what I would call a Force thread--like a shatterpoint I guess but more far reaching, meaning in meditating on Ezra and Kanan and Ahsoka he senses the Force pulling their destiny towards that planet and beyond that planet. Yoda could sense that what happened on Malachor was going to lead Ezra and Kanan onto their next step of growth.

Up to that point in Season 2 Kanan was having issues with being a part of the Rebellion and Ezra was slowly becoming obsessed with learning a way to destroy the Sith. Yoda, however, is fully aware that that destiny didn't lie with those two characters however, but that the answer to their separate problems was focused in on Malachor.

So everything on Malachor happens. Kanan is blinded and Ezra is betrayed by Maul. Ahsoka is...seemingly killed. This seems to be the end of a chapter but it is actually the beginning of Ezra's journey towards a greater understanding of his role in the future.

So all throughout Season 3 Ezra's obsession with defeating the Sith is heightened because of everything that happened on Malachor, but he doesn't understand that that isn't his role in cosmic events just yet and he is always kind of off in places all season--like he just can't get his **** straight. It isn't until he meets Ben that he has come along enough to really heed Ben's words: destroying the Sith is not where his destiny lies.

You may think Ezra's dilemma could've been solved had he met Ben sooner, but I don't think so. Ezra has been distancing himself from his family all season as he has been distracted with his mission, and Maul's presence in his life has not helped. I think it took everything up to that point to really wake Ezra up and understand his place in the world at this point in his life. His question to Yoda has finally been answered in the best way it possibly could, because Ezra wouldn't have been able to handle the answer way back in Season 2.

Sent from the Kessel Run in twelve parsecs

 

Talking ESB, I don't disagree with anything you've said. I'm not trying to slam Ahsoka, she did well, but losing is losing. It doesn't mean it's not heroic.

 

Not in a world where Chopper exists...

 

u wot m8 chopper is the best character fite me irl

 

Yeah, I think that Yoda sending them to Malachor was meant to have Ezra reach his current state of mind and embrace his real destiny (which is to fight the Empire, not the Sith), but in an extremely roundabout way, with one of the steps being, ironically, a ritual that had the potential to send every destiny careening out of the rails.

 

I thought Yoda sent Ezra, Ahsoka and Kanan to Malachor for a couple reasons.

1. To pit Ahsoka against Vader in the hopes she would be able to kill him.

2. To stop Maul or the Empire from acquiring the Sith Battlestation

3. To draw the Inquisitors into an ambush, where the Jedi would have Maul as a quasi-ally and be able to destroy them.

Ezra asked Yoda how to destroy the Sith. He told him that to find Malachor, as their opportunity to destroy the Sith was there.

But, as Kanan said.

"We asked for an opportunity to destroy the Sith and we failed."

 

Do you remember which thread? or do you remember what else Pablo said?

 

I read it as well and the post was had some provable inaccurate information. If it's correct it would probably be by chance. Although Pablo was asked on Twitter and he deflected so, yeah.

 

Spoiler

http://boards.theforce.net/threads/...for-sophisticated-discourse.50035498/page-954 This is the thread

 

While the above post falls into rumor, it seems fairly accurate to me. I would not be surprised if all of that turned out to be true.

Well, it's pretty logical given the roughly one year per season pace the show has kept on so far. Season 4 will be 1BBY, with Rogue One being the logical end point at roughly 0BBY.

After that, we're either getting an OT series, or a post ROTJ series (the latter of which seems the most logical to me, but who knows?)

 

Pablo's response when asked about if this is legit or not
''Looks like a mix of things I said, and things this guy heard, and those are not the same. Not really interested in clarifying.''
I do think that Rebels will end in Season 4 tho and that we'll learn about the new animated series at Celebration

 

A cool thing to tie Ezra in with the films and give me something I've been wanting to see, is to have him be the rebel that blows up the Emperor's statue on Coruscant. Let him go to Imperial Coruscant and establish a cell, thus giving us a chance to see the Imperial capital in detail. Have his mission be derailed by him trying to infiltrate the Palace and find that ancient Sith temple underneath, giving him some kind of Jedi-related test of will. At the end of the arc, he'll lead insurgents against the local security forces and we get the statue-toppling event as the finale.

 

Gonna spoiler tag this because it's a bit of a spoiler for the finale.

Spoiler

It would appear that the rebels use their carrier to ram and destroy the Interdictor.

What I think is interesting is how this ties into Hera's Heroes. Thrawn has already learned that the Rebels are willing to sacrifice so much for even the smallest victories. Them being willing to give up their command ship to take out his Interdictor likely won't come as any surprise to him, and he'll probably have a plan in place for that exact scenario.

Also, as we can see from this image, Sato's onboard the carrier:


Guess it's bye bye Sato. Which is a shame, I think I'm one of the few people that actually really liked him, I was really hoping that he'd at least survive until Scarif. Who knows though, maybe he'll make it to an escape pod.

 

Zero Hour is so close, I can't wait! The only sad part is that I know they will leave us at a moment which we'll just have to speculate about for a long time.