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Star Wars Rebels Episode Bracket: Round 1B

Which is the best Rebels episode?s

Season 1, Episode 9: Gathering Forces

Season 2, Episode 3: The Lost Commanders

Voting ended onJul 18, 2024

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Calm, caring adult wakes you up vs yelling, panicking teenager wakes you up

Everyone loves “Happy Birthday, Ezra Bridger.”

But I also love how we got here and what happened next.

The episode before, Empire Day, starts like this:

So we see that Sabine is then present for this conversation between Kanan and Ezra:

K: The point is that you’re not alone. You’re connected to every living thing in the universe. But to discover that, you have to let your guard down. You have to be willing to attach to others.

E: And what if I can’t?

K: If you hang on to your past, if you always try to protect yourself, you’ll never be a Jedi.

E: Then maybe I’ll never be a Jedi.

(BTW It’s a poor word choice here, but Kanan is actually talking about relationships, not attachments. He is emphasizing being open to connection.)

Next they end up at Ezra’s old house, he tells them what happened to his parents, and Tseebo informs them that it’s Ezra’s birthday. Ezra and Sabine discover his parents’ transmitter and the holodisk.

So whether he wanted to or not, Ezra has begun letting his guard down for both Kanan and Sabine as they learn more about him here. But then Sabine swipes the holodisk. Why, I wonder? Maybe just in case he wants it or maybe she thinks she can learn more about him?

But then…she gets nervous. She has second thoughts.

…you have to let your guard down. You have to be willing to attach to others.

If you hang on to your past, if you always try to protect yourself, you’ll never be a Jedi.

Maybe she knows this is true for her, too. This is a risky, vulnerable situation for both of them. Would he want this? Would he be mad that she’d taken it? Should she even try - because they haven’t even known each other that long - and it’s just easier to keep things on the surface? After all, she, too, has reasons for keeping her guard up.

In between, though, a lot happens to Ezra. With Kanan, Ezra confronts the truth about how he feels about his parents, he forgives Tseebo for abandoning him, and then at the prospect of losing Kanan, too, he touches the dark side. So when we see him at the end, Ezra is sitting in darkness.

Alone. Lost.

Then Sabine does an amazing thing: she chooses love. Not romantic love here but love as in she wills the good of the other. She has decided to give him this gift because he needs it now, whatever it costs her. And with that, when these two connect to each other, (and you can’t get much better with the SW symbolism), she brings him into the light.

And when she says, “Happy Birthday, Ezra Bridger,”

she uses his full name. Not the impersonal “kid” she’s mostly been using for him. Saying his name acknowledges him personally, as EZRA, and truly establishes their connection. He is seen and known, and by connecting with him, by letting her own guard down, her brokenness has begun to be healed, too.

…you have to let your guard down. You have to be willing to attach to others.

If you hang on to your past, if you always try to protect yourself, you’ll never be a Jedi.

Even better is that after this their relationship changes because at the beginning of the next episode we see this:

They were painting the TIE, right?!? And, clearly, he’s thrilled about it since he’s name-dropping here. 😆

…you have to let your guard down. You have to be willing to attach to others.

If you hang on to your past, if you always try to protect yourself, you’ll never be a Jedi.

So it seems to me that at the end of this episode, Path of the Jedi, it’s no coincidence that Sabine is the only other character in the shot with Ezra as he ignites his lightsaber for the first time.

Because even though Kanan and Ezra’s relationship does advance quite a bit at this same time, it was his connection to Sabine that made it all possible in the first place.

#star wars rebels #ezra bridger #sabine wren #ezrabine #sabezra #empire day #gathering forces #path of the jedi #hbd #happy birthday ezra bridger #sabezra meta

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So I’m rewatching Rebels and it turns out there was ABSOLUTELY a way to track ships through hyperspace that the Rebellion knew about as early as 4 BBY??? What was the point of the entire plot of The Last Jedi???

#like according to this episode the Empire could just tag ships with trackers #so why did they do the whole weird codebreaker espionage thing instead of just. having the resistance check for the trackers #they would logically assume were there?#is it because the sequel trilogy sucked and Ryan Johnson never actually watched any Star Wars?#yeah that’s it #btw this episode came out like 2-3 years before The Last Jedi so they don’t even have an excuse #wow #rebels #rebels rewatch #gathering forces #sequel trilogy #the last jedi #star wars #fuck you ryan johnson #stfu kor

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees our first “using your powers too much makes you pass out” moment, a CLASSIC of the genre.

#psychic powers drama ACTIVATE #Min watches misc #that was a VERY big friend Ezra found in that chasm #hello big friend go stomp the villain with the evil fidget spinner #SWRebels #Gathering Forces #Empire Day #Ezra Bridger #Dark Side

Watched “Empire Day” and “Gathering Forces” yesterday. The writers really have it in for Ezra, don’t they? He got put through the wringer these episodes. To be born on Empire Day, the original Empire Day at that, when the Empire that hurts and oppresses an unfathomable number of people seized the galaxy, and to then have that Empire take your parents away from you for protesting it and leave you homeless is so utterly depressing; and that’s before the actual plot with Tseebo and the Inquisitor gets underway. Poor kid’s never had a real birthday, and he won’t until the Empire falls. Even then, the pain of all the past ones won’t disappear. Thank you, Sabine, that holopicture is probably the best birthday present he’s ever got. Happy birthday, Ezra Bridger! You’re not alone anymore!

What happened to his parents though? Are they alive? In prison? Did they escape? What happened to them? What?!

Kanan’s Jedi training methods continue to be… not quite Jedi temple quality, but he’s doing his best and Ezra himself actually works best when he needs to survive. Can’t bond with a tooka, can bond with a vicious fyrnok. And his Padawan has his own issues besides (”Give me your lightsaber and I’ll make the connection!”).

I imagine the Inquisitor as a child building his lightsaber while Darth Vader gives him the “Your lightsaber is your life, an extension of yourself, a reflection of your identity” talk and exiting the Force trance to find a double-bladed spinning lightsaber. That was when the Inquisitor’s true essence became clear: a dramatic little bitch.

On that note, Ezra needs a lightsaber. My dad disapproves of continuing to use his little catapult when blasters are readily available; I argued it functions as a taser, but admit it’s still unimpressive and inefficient compared to the alternatives. I understand the kid not wanting to kill people, but I’m fairly sure he has by now anyway and he does know many blasters have a stun setting, right?

Ezra’s brush with the dark side was chilling. All my thoughts were just ‘Ezra no no Ezra no bad no, I mean, yes, the Inquisitor can get it but no -’ I wasn’t expecting it, but in hindsight with an abundance of baggage and no Jedi Order safety net to ground him in the light side, struggling with the dark was inevitable. Looking forward to more of this arc! Give me the angst! (I already know I’ll regret that dare.)

#rebels #star wars rebels #sw rebels #empire day #gathering forces #rebels empire day #rebels gathering forces

Everyone loves “Happy Birthday, Ezra Bridger.”

But I also love how we got here and what happened next.

The episode before, Empire Day, starts like this:

So we see that Sabine is then present for this conversation between Kanan and Ezra:

K: The point is that you’re not alone. You’re connected to every living thing in the universe. But to discover that, you have to let your guard down. You have to be willing to attach to others.

E: And what if I can’t?

K: If you hang on to your past, if you always try to protect yourself, you’ll never be a Jedi.

E: Then maybe I’ll never be a Jedi.

(BTW It’s a poor word choice here, but Kanan is actually talking about relationships, not attachments. He is emphasizing being open to connection.)

But then…she gets nervous. She has second thoughts.

…you have to let your guard down. You have to be willing to attach to others.

If you hang on to your past, if you always try to protect yourself, you’ll never be a Jedi.

Alone. Lost.

And when she says, “Happy Birthday, Ezra Bridger,”

…you have to let your guard down. You have to be willing to attach to others.

If you hang on to your past, if you always try to protect yourself, you’ll never be a Jedi.

Even better is that after this their relationship changes because at the beginning of the next episode we see this:

They were painting the TIE, right?!? And, clearly, he’s thrilled about it since he’s name-dropping here. 😆

…you have to let your guard down. You have to be willing to attach to others.

If you hang on to your past, if you always try to protect yourself, you’ll never be a Jedi.

Because even though Kanan and Ezra’s relationship does advance quite a bit at this same time, it was his connection to Sabine that made it all possible in the first place.

#star wars rebels #ezra bridger #sabine wren #ezrabine #sabezra #empire day #gathering forces #path of the jedi #hbd #happy birthday ezra bridger #sabezra meta

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