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This is interesting, though a little odd:
Rebels will premiere Season 2 as a 1-hour special titled "The Siege of Lothal" on June 20, and then will resume regular weekly airing come the fall."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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So who else watched The Siege of Lothal (the season 2 movie) yesterday? Pretty damned entertaining!"A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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Originally posted by DigiFluid View PostSo who else watched The Siege of Lothal (the season 2 movie) yesterday? Pretty damned entertaining!Please do me a huge favour and help me be with the love of my life.
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Lots of nice subtle things, in addition to the obvious. For instance, I liked how Ezra seems to have grown up a bit since we last saw him. It was very deliberately understated, and I thought it worked excellently. Particularly paired up with how the team is not necessarily on the same page re: what they should do next.
Lots of other neat stuff too:
Spoiler:When Vader engaged them on the landing platform, holy crap. I was worried that the show would 'dumb him down' in order to service the story of the heroes, but they did an amazing job of making him a menace. That fight--Kanan and Ezra were just so outclassed, it was clear that not only were they no match for him, but that he was almost toying with them. And bonus points for how he nonchalantly deflected Sabine's blaster bolts back at her, scoring both a chest hit and a headshot!
How they showed Lothal was really awesome too. Setting so much of it at night was maybe a little obvious, but it worked really well. Particularly with the massively increased Imperial presence. All those stormtroopers, and the Star Destroyers both in orbit and hovering over the capital area...wow. And to burn down Tarkintown, one of the first locations introduced in the series, was also a great choice.
Two complaints...first, that Tarkin didn't appear. Yeah I know he was discussed and alluded to, but a bit of Tarkin/Vader banter would have been appreciated. Second: even though Sam Witwer did a fantastic job of playing the part, I was disappointed that we didn't get to see the show's take on the Emperor. It's vanishingly rare in SW for there to be an audio communication without the trademark blue hologram, so to me this stood out like a sore thumb."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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Originally posted by Teddybrown View PostSpoiler:I thought Kanan might not make it during the fight with Vader...
Yeah, I liked Lothal too, and its clever how Vader tried to turn the locals against the Rebels and killed the Chancellor so easily...
Why doesn't Ahsoka tell them about Vader...Spoiler:The episode certainly makes a good job of demonstrating how clever a tactician Vader actually is. You don't see that in the films much beyond Empire, but you do see it in Anakin during the Clone Wars. Very nice to see.
I was also wondering why she didn't say anything. I'd say it's either because she doesn't want to spoil Ezra's training by giving an example of where a Jedi has turned to the Dark Side, or because they don't want her view of her to be tainted by revealing that she was trained by a Dark Lord of the Sith... I mean she has to be asking herself some pretty deep seated questions about how she was trained.
I was a little disappointed that she found out so quickly actually. I was hoping for a spell where she helped Kanan train Ezra and keep calling back fondly to her training Anakin and having her feel proud that her Master probably died fighting the rise of the Empire, without realising that he helped form it.Please do me a huge favour and help me be with the love of my life.
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Originally posted by pscard View PostIt was fantastic!
Got to thinking: How many years after Episode III does this take place?
The newest episode/movie seems to be not too long after the season 1 finale, so we're probably in the same calendar year."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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