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omg, I didn't know you watched Star Wars Rebels!! That's awesome! I loved the Clone Wars series, so I was instantly hooked on Rebels when it came out! It was so cool seeing old and new characters (Nera, Rex and Ahsoka made me cry), and more exploration of the whole SW mythos. What did you like most about Rebels? Have you seen the Clone Wars series?

OHHHHHH MAN, my friend, you have opened up quite the can of worms. heads up yall, this is gonna be a LONG POST bc i havent yelled abt rebels in ages.

i think i started watching when the first season was about half-over? and if im remembering correctly i caught up on rebels, and then binged the clone wars (and cried at every clone death) while keeping up with new rebels eps, so i got to catch all the little references i’d missed before. so yeah, rebels was really the first star wars media i got into. i mean, im pretty sure i sat through at least one of the original movies when i was a kid at my parent’s insistence (prob my aunt, tbh) but it didnt rlly click. im big into cartoons tho, and when i kept seeing it on my dash i was like, oh what the hell.

CAN I JUST SAY…. rebels far exceeded my expectations. is it a perfect series? no. could they have done things better? absolutely. but the bottom line is, it was a TV Y-7 cartoon, and they absolutely did not have to go that hard. but they did, and im so thankful.

i’d have to say, one of the things i love about rebels was their beautiful portrayal of the found family trope (which is my favorite). especially from ezra’s pov as the newcomer; we got to see this jaded street rat open up to the idea of being a part of a family again, one that was already established. and then we got to see everyone grow even closer, those bonds getting deeper and stronger.

another thing i adore is the portrayal of an unconventional jedi in kanan, and eventually in ezra. kanan is nothing like the clone war era jedi, and it was so cool to see the show explore that, and depict it as not a bad thing. i honestly believe he embodies the original jedi values better than most jedi we’ve seen in canon, and gasp, he has attachments!!!! and doesnt fall to the darkside!!!!!!

i felt rebels was a great successor to the clone wars. do i wish they’d done a bit more with ahsoka? sure, bc i will stan ahsoka till the day i die. but what they did was fantastic and every ep she was in was a treat. rex too, even tho i was constantly stressed he was gonna die lmao.

genuinely, i think rebels is one of the best things to happen to star wars lore. they explained how lightsabers work and how non-force users can wield them, they went into mandelorian history and clan politics and the dark saber, and maul’s involvement with it, (maul’s involvement in general), the relationship between clones and jedi following order 66, and even the construction of the death star and the genocide on geonosis…

and even the new elements, like the lasat people were just really well done. even if they were completely out there!! like giant wolves that fast-travel across planets!! and space whales that can jump to hyperspeed!!! a magical time traveling portal!!!!! dave filoni is a wild son of a gun but damn if he isnt a fantastic showrunner, no matter how crazy an idea might seem it just fits perfectly into the show.

and the villains. oh my god, the villains. the grand inquisitor (who decapitates two imperials just off screen). the seventh sister and the fifth brother. maul (giving him a fulfilling character arc after filoni resurrected him for tcw). and thrawn. holy shit i could make a whole other post abt thrawn, but i’ll refrain.

and darth-fucking-vader, who they did complete justice to and was iconic every rare moment he was on screen.

all in all, i thought rebels was a really satisfying show, and even if they could’ve ended it better (a few characters got the short end of the character development stick in my opinion, but that’ll happen with a large cast…) i would absolutely recommend it to anyone who hasnt seen it yet. sabine’s arc in season three is particularly compelling, and it was rlly nice to see a young woc get such complexity and development in star wars.

so yeah! i was big into rebels, i actually wrote some fic for it thats still on my A03 account. and i think the show will always have a special place in my heart (ezra is like, my original boy. my sweet son.) thanks for the ask, srry for writing an essay, @ all my followers feel free to yell at me abt rebels anytime!!!

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