One rogue
(This review contains
spoilers!)
After a frustrating and underwhelming
premiere, Star Wars Rebels managed to
spin itself back in the right direction this week with lots of action, fun, and
a very smart story that ties directly into Rogue
One.
Honestly, they should’ve used this
episode as the season premiere and saved Mandalore for next week. Everything
you want out of a good Rebels episode
is present in this two-parter. The Rebels have arrived on Yavin IV to join up
with the Rebellion once again, this time alongside Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and
that one bearded guy who’s name nobody knows. The Rebels are sent on a mission
to mess with a deflector dish Star Trek 2009
style, but things go quickly awry when Saw Gerrera shows up and recruits Ezra
and Sabine to help him uncover a dark secret of the Empire’s.
Saw Gerrera is always a welcome
presence, especially when he’s voiced by Forest Whitaker. It was really cool
how they moved him closer to how he looks in Rogue One than how he appeared in Season 3, but still missing a few
of the robotic parts he has in the movie. He also was the source of a great
moral question: how far is the Rebellion willing to go to take down the Empire?
Being a two part episode, the episode
is split into two separate stories, both of them good ones. The first half is
dedicated to the crew arriving on Yavin IV and trying to disable the Empire’s
deflector dish, and the second half sees Ezra and Sabine teaming up with Saw to
infiltrate a cargo ship to see what the Empire’s working on. Unlike the
ploddingly paced Mandalore episode, both storylines are supremely enjoyable and
kept me glued to my screen the whole time.
This episode tied in to Rogue One quite a bit not just with the
inclusion of Saw and Yavin IV, but also the presence of Deathtroopers as well
as the kyber crystals we know the Empire is using to charge the Death Star
laser. Granted that you can see both Chopper and the Ghost briefly in Rogue One
I wouldn’t be surprised if we got more ties to it throughout the season as we
get closer and closer to the time it takes place.
Please give us a Cassian and K-2SO
episode, guys.
Overall, I enjoyed this episode
leagues more than the premiere. It really felt like a true animated Star Wars adventure with the action,
comedy, quiet moments with Kanan and the kyber crystal stuff, and ties to the
movies with the Rogue One stuff.
While I still think the show isn’t quite as good as it was at the end of Season
3, I’m more than happy to give it the time it needs to get its space legs back.
FINAL SCORE
8/10
Great
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