Way To Go Brom Titus
Yavin IV - now that's a name I haven't heard for a looong time.
It was cool to see Kallus as a rebel. It will be interesting to see how his character arc progresses.
Well that went easily ... zip out of hyperspace shoot some big-ass starship, drop a couple of explosive containers and zip out. No wonder Saw prefers his method instead of the more "diplomatic" stealthy option of intercepting enemy information. :joy:
Huh, Saw Gerrera "vs." Mon Mothma is actually quite interesting. Both have different backgrounds and approaches/tactics while fighting for the same cause (more or less).
Saw definitely put on a great show. I wonder what Ezra and Sabine will experience next.
Hera seems quite troubled / unsure how to proceed.
Brom Titus had a bad day, I guess :D
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2017-10-26T22:38:14Z
[7.6/10] There’s nothing all that novel in a war story involving a struggle (even an internal one) between the people who want to fight with honor and take measured victories, versus the people who want to win by any means necessary. But Rebels gives just enough time to both sides in this one (as channeled through Mon Mothma and Saw Guerrera), to make it work. It also does well to use Ezra as the fulcrum (no pun intended) for this internal conflict. He understands the broader fight and greater good that the Rebellion can do, but he also has an urge to defend his people on Lothal, to avenge his parents, and hurt the Empire rather than just amass smaller victories in the hope of a larger one.
But what works about this episode is that it grounds these conflicts in a specific mission, that involves plenty of fun set-pieces. Having Ezra, Sabine, and Chopper run around a giant satellite dish, dodging imperial detection and fighting enemies, makes for lots of great action-y moments in the episode. I would often complain about what I called “video game plotting” in The Clone Wars, where our heroes would defeat one threat, only to fight a slightly more intense or different version of that same threat, and there’s some of that here. But the episode finds enough diversity in the action to make it work.
It also dovetails nicely with the theme, with the question of whether to bug the satellite dish or blow it up making for a nice symbol of the broader question Ezra is trying to answer for himself. Having Saw show up at the last minute to save the day, is a nice thumb on the scale of the “whatever it takes” side of the debate, but it also just fits as a nice conclusion to a tidy little story about a particular mission.
Overall, this was a very good episode, that had a nice balance between the Rebel/Renegade dichtomy material, and the nuts and bolts, old school Ghost team mission material.