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Star Wars Rebels S03E09 The Wynkahthu Job "The Rebels team up with unscrupulous pirates to salvage a freighter full of weapons the Rebellion needs, but find the mission is more dangerous than anticipated." What I thought Now this is more like it! After having to drag my enthusiasm through the last 3-4 episodes of Rebels, we have a solid half hour of entertainment. Boy oh boy this was an amusing episode. Sure, it had absolutely very little to do with the main arc of Season 3; there was no Maul, no Thrawn, no Rebel fleet hanging about or even any Empire turning up. But, for once, that didnt matter because the entertainment came chiefly from this weeks guest stars of the charismatic Hondo and his new crew: the rather silly Azmorigan and the lovably funny Melch, These three combined to produce a surprisingly likeable and enjoyable gang that bounced off each other brilliantly. We all know what fun and flamboyant mannerisms Hondo brings to every scene hes in, but even I expected ve...

Star Wars Rebels S03E20 Twin Suns Synopsis Reacting to a vision of Maul, Ezra defies Hera and Kanan to travel to a remote planet in hopes of stopping the former Sith lord from carrying out his plans. (S3 Ep20). What I thought Since Obi-Wans name was mentioned earlier on in this season, the anticipation of more Kenobi has been palatable. We have known it was coming now for a while, our juice buds salivating over seeing everyone�s favourite master Jedi once more. Would the Maul/Ezra confrontation with old Ben live up to everyone�s nostalgic and expected beliefs? Largely it succeeded. Sure, everyone would want as much Kenobi as possible and thus it would be hard to deliver something that would appease everyone in this episode yet somehow almost every tick-box was well and firmly checked in terms of A New Hope tie-ins and Obi-Wan, as well as putting an end well and firmly to the Maul arc. It�s with sadness in some respects that Maul delivered so much in his Rebel�s appearances but ultimate...

Star Wars Rebels S03E05 Heras Heroes Synopsis "Heras rebel supply mission to Ryloth becomes personal when she and the Ghost crew brave overwhelming Imperial forces to recover a memento from her ancestral home." What I thought? I wasnt really looking forward to this Hera episode. Shes not my favourite character but overall this wasnt anywhere near as bad as I feared. There were however numerous ridiculous moments during various battle scenes that, even though this is a cartoon, I couldnt overlook as there were just too many "What?" moments; Weve stormtroopers missing from close range, animals outrunning those speedbikes, a rocket launcher being used to knock a portion of cliff off when they could have taken out the Imperial walker and Kanan suddenly a blind jedi ninja. On the latter topic, I realise Kanan has accepted his blindness but the transformation in one episode is so great that its almost as if not having eyesight is no problem to him. Surely it would take lo...

Star Wars Rebels S03E15 Trials of the Darksaber What I thought Well, I wasn�t looking forward to this episode, or the next one, which is basically a part two to this one. I�m not excited about Mandalorian culture or history, aside from that they look cool and have fantastic gadgets. Sabine for me has been the weakest character in the show in terms of personality and development. She seems to be there to make up the numbers most of the time, or to occasionally kick-ass and be a chum for Ezra. Perhaps that�s all about the change now, as we have her reluctantly take up the mantle to train to use the darksabre and liberate her people. This whole episode is about that training. Sure, she�s initially convinced to do it rather too easily for me, but a show trying to convince someone to do something wouldn�t have been very interesting, so perhaps it�s good they skipped that one on quickly. Kanan and Ezra take Sabine out into the middle of nowhere, or to us who have seen this area before, somew...

Star Wars Rebels S03E10 An Inside Man "Seeking information on a new Imperial weapon, Ezra and Kanan infiltrate the Imperial factory on Lothal, but they must trust an unlikely ally to escape a lockdown of the building." What I thought Well, this is considerably better than most of Series 3 so far but no where near as fun as last week, although I dont really want every episode to be a comedy like the previous episode was. This week was much tamer and a return for Thrawn to continue his long calculating game of learning and luring the Rebels into a deadly trap. Thankfully he was much more prominent than any usual token "This is all my plan" scene, as he had lots of screen time and some interesting reveals into his nature, including deliberately luring a mechanic to his death, ousting another dodgy mechanic as a traitor, and showing us a room full of his calculating clues that hes learned. There were so many graphics in his office relating to the Rebels, you can see tha...

Star Wars Rebels S02E20 The Mystery Of Chopper Base Synopsis "Kanan, Ezra and Ahsoka prepare to depart to unravel Vaders secret, while the rebels find a way to fend off the predatory creatures that occupy the planet." What I thought? The calm before the storm ... A run of the mill episode with a rather unimaginative main plot on top of the underlying preparations for Kanan and Ezra to go Inquisitor hunting. Things start off somewhat interestingly, with Kanan and Ezra lightsaber dueling, but when we get to the mystery of the planet and the discovery of large big head spiders lurking, its really nothing new or engaging. The standard scary reveal, following by someone being captured, the rescue, the trap and then the figuring out how to escape - its all pretty typical plot stuff. Its not awful, but its also not really anything to get invested in. The spider creatures dont like the rebel transmitters, so it turns out, but only keep about a foot away from them. Sure they put tens ...

Star Wars Rebels S03E17 Through Imperial Eyes Synopsys The Rebels hatch a plan to rescue Kallus as Thrawn narrows in on Fulcrom. What I thought We�re now well into the second half of Rebels Season 3 and heading towards Thrawn�s endgame. Now is the time to start the momentum rolling, which this episode well and truly does by introducing the reality of the threat Thrawn brings to proceedings for our Rebels. This guy isn�t like any other regular Imperial toff; he�s a thinker, a patient man but he�s also physically strong with his muscles and his ruthlessness. We start off with a first-person perspective of Kallus being alerted to an attack on his vessel. It�s a great way to start things off, seeing events through his eyes, but a shame it doesn�t continue past the opening thirty seconds. The attack is Ezra in a shuttle from Lothal. Apparently no one in the Empire know what Ezra looks like, except Kallus. I can believe that there might be lots who don�t but we are just outside Lothal so yo...

Star Wars Rebels S03E12 S03E13 Ghosts of Geonosis Synopsis The crew returns to Geonosis in search of a missing rebel team. What I thought Well, what did we learn from these episodes that we didn�t already know? Really, it was very little. We already knew the Geonosians were wiped out by the Empire through piecing together the pieces of the puzzle. There was, however, confirmation of that although none of that evidence made it back to the Alliance or Senate. Interesting that politics was brought into this. I guess it was somewhat typical that at least one native survived, and a queen egg. I�d assume it wouldn�t take too long for a decent number of Geonosians to get born, given their numbers previously suggest a very high birth-rate. The main thing I expected to happen this episode didn�t; I was convinced Saw would do something courageous to save everyone and end up getting infected by the gas that the Empire used on the planet. That would have gone on to explain his breathing apparatus ...