#myrebels5

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Hot Take perhaps but "Ghost Crew Falls Apart Creating HotMess!ChiponHerShoulder!Angry!Sabine" is actually so compelling, and tbh I kind of wish they had committed to tearing the Spectres apart before rebuilding them. In this essay, I will -

[seleneisrising]

Perhaps the success of Maul: Shadow Lord is what happens when you a) focus on the one character's story that you want to tell; and b) animate a show that should be animated.

[seleneisrising]

If you think about it, Finding Ezra would have functioned really well as a standalone movie.

It never had to be Rebels S5 because the Epilogue didn’t set up Finding Ezra as a continuation of Rebels itself. What it did set up was a whole new story for Sabine and Ahsoka beyond both of their previous series.

So even though Ahsoka and Sabine were pre-existing characters who took off on a journey to find another pre-existing character based on a cliffhanger from a pre-existing animated show, the story itself was all new. There was very little, if anything, the audience needed to know from either Rebels or The Clone Wars in order to go on that journey because the journey is the new story that’s happening right now.

If Ahsoka had never existed (at least not in its current form), then a good writing team along with the action and special effects efforts of the Mando movie could’ve made Finding Ezra a satisfying, self-contained film for both fans and the GA even with two (previously animated) tv show characters in the lead.