Episode 5 of the third season of Star Wars Rebels aired this past Saturday night. In this episode fans see Captain Rex team up with Ezra and Kanan to fight one last battle of The Clone Wars against Tactical Droid Kalani and his droid army.
I really, really enjoyed this episode. While it was very much a Rebels story, in spirit if really felt like a The Clone Wars story. This episode was incredibly fun, but it had a few gut-punch lines from Rex. The first was Rex calling out for Cody after waking up from being stunned. The other was when Rex chewed out Ezra, he said, “GOOD SOLDIERS FOLLOW ORDERS”. And I got choked up. Oh, man. That line is the most gut wrenching line in all of Star Wars. Anyone who watched season 6 of TCW remembers how tragic the ending of that story was and to have it recalled in a single line during Rebels certainly hurt emotionally.
Kalani mentioned reviewing 132 battles of The Clone Wars, which is a nod to the 132 production episodes of the show Star Wars: The Clone Wars. That includes every episode from all 6 seasons, the 8 unfinished episodes found on starwars.com, plus the 3 production episodes that make up the feature film. 132. I love that “Easter egg”.
It is cool that Kalani and the Battle Droids technically beat Rex and the Jedi. Seeing the Rebels then team-up with the Separatist droids to take on the Empire was pretty sweet, if highly contrived. But, come one, seeing Stormtroopers fighting Battle Droids was something we could only do with our toys and a few video games, now it’s really happened.
At the end of the episode, Kalani and some droids are left out in the galaxy somewhere. I think that Kalani will be back to battle against Grand Admiral Thrawn since it would be harder for Thrawn to anticipate a Tactical Droid since they don't create art. If Kalani is sacrificed to defeat Thrawn it will be less of a blow to the Rebels because droids have consistently been the enemy and they are not alive.
And, finally, having the show end with a TCW style title card with that show's closing credits music was like the cherry on top of a favorite sundae.
Hope everyone enjoyed the episode.
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