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we'll just start at the beginning and work our way through. Shot by shot.
Talking about Easter eggs and WTF moments,
starting with the episode titled Time to Fly,
which is a reference to a couple of different things
to their dog fight against the Darksiders in general.
Them taking off on their mission to stop that from
bringing Thrawn back with the super hyperdrive.
this is also meant to be a big reference to the prequels.
The space whales in the reason why they were at that planet Seatos,
why the purrgils were in the atmosphere through all those clouds.
This is a reference back to the Star Wars Rebels episode where they kind of explain
how the prequels actually survive.
part of the idea is that they can navigate hyperspace naturally,
but in order for that part of their body to function, for them to live
that way, they have to consume special hyperdrive gases.
They get refined by normal people and put in regular ships.
So the idea is that
the CTOs planet is meant to be kind of like a refueling station in a cosmic sense
on the path that the prequels take to this other galaxy.
It's like the last stop
on the way to the other galaxy before they jump off on their trip.
Before it's time for the pergolas to fly, so to speak,
that's why this special ancient record, an empire waypoint here with the map
is the last destination before the big trip to that other galaxy,
like where they're specifically building the hyperdrive ring here.
the whole idea is this is like the last stop on the way to the other galaxy.
a lot of people also asking you about this new intro here.
They swapped it a little bit for the Ahsoka series
with all the different heads and the helmets of the different droids.
So the new ones are the clone trooper helmet, because so much of
this is referencing back to the Clone Wars in the Star Wars Rebels episodes.
HK Droid heads because the HK Droids Morales Inquisitor helmet
chopper himself and who Yang's head all the other heads are
the familiar ones that you saw at the beginning
of the Mandalorian episodes, the other Star Wars episodes.
noticed during the opening scene, too, that the music starts
in that same Japanese samurai film inspired type of music.
The whole idea is that the Ahsoka series is meant to be more inspired by Samurai
films like George Lucas was inspired by during the original Star Wars trilogy.
that's why a lot of the designs, the way that Ahsoka has her ship here,
like even her training room here and who Yang is talking about using
traditional Jedi fighting forms, sound very samurai, very martial arts inspired.
the actual
opening scene is of Sabine Wren being trained in the traditional Jedi
fighting forms with a bunch of lightsabers that Yang is using now,
other holographic lightsabers like training lightsabers.
But if you look on the wall here,
a soldier has what looks like at least nine different lightsabers.
see, you can let me know who you think these belong to.
one of them might be cannons light saber.
But Ezra Bridgers lightsaber actually belongs to Sabine right now.
She has that.
my guess is Ahsoka just slowly picked up light saber hilts along the way,
and she's just using them here.
The other funny moment here too, is who Yang using for different
lightsabers is a bit of a callback to General Grievous
during Revenge of the Sith because a lot of this is referencing
the events of the prequels with Anna and Skywalker in order 66
when he starts using
these traditional terms ki say akira gei yada.
They're all part of traditional Jedi fighting forms
that would have been used when teaching Patton's back
as far as the Old Republic, because Hou Yang is an old Republic droid.
They keep making jokes about that during the episodes about his programing,
the traditional Jedi programing that was given to him.
So everything that he says, like his protocols
are all based on things that are many, many thousands of years old.
generally the entire room is meant to look very similar
to the room that they saw inside the Lothar Jedi Temple.
When Kanan learned that the Grand Inquisitor actually used to be
one of the Jedi Temple Guardians.
the set up here
too, is meant to look like a traditional martial arts fighting dojo.
For instance, the helmets are meant to look like kendo helmets
because kendo inspired a lot of the traditional Jedi fighting styles.
When George Lucas was creating lightsaber fights for the original trilogy.
when she starts referencing the taichi, that's actually a real life reference to
the torch, i.e. The Blind Swordsman.
he was a fictional character, a blind master swordsman.
During the Edo period.
There have been tons of novels, tons of movies based on the character.
They're all great.
I would recommend checking out some of them if you haven't before.
but the funny thing is that Dave Filoni is also saying that in the Star Wars
universe, Satoshi was a canonical Jedi at some point in the history
who developed these fighting styles that Ahsoka is using to train Sabine,
she also references beings and Mandalorian trained skills, just more references
to her being a Mandalorian.
I just did a video about how
Sabine and Grogu, who are both the future of the Mandalorian Jedi.
they make a couple references to Mandalorian Jedi later in the episode too.
I'll talk about that in a second.
they're a couple very on the nose.
Luke Skywalker references when she tries to train her with the kendo helmet.
this is meant to be almost the exact same type of scene as Luke
training with the Blaster helmet in the exact same dialog.
in universe they're calling the wooden swords
that they're using to train Sabine with Barkin's sabers Buck in or actually
a real life type of Japanese wooden sword used for training in Kenji TSU.
So a lot of the series is taking from Real world inspiration.
when a soldier starts talking about how anger and frustration
gives you more power in battle, she's talking about
the dark side of the force unbalancing you.
Being a side effect is also a reference
to how Obi-Wan was ultimately able to defeat Enoch and Skywalker on Mustafar,
even though Anakin Skywalker was vastly more powerful than Obi-Wan,
that's probably going to be a clue in how Ahsoka is going to be able
to defeat Balan's skull, or at least not get killed by him
or save herself from being killed by him
because he does seem like he's going to be way more powerful.
part of the problem with that, though,
is that it seems like he's actually accounted for, that like his path to
the force isn't completely towards the way of the Sith.
So he's found a better way to harness
some of that extra power of the dark side without some of the downsides.
Then we go back to home. One of the New Republic fleet.
You see a bunch of wings fly by Monmouth.
Momma comes back with a bunch of other new senators that we haven't seen before,
But there are a couple connections to canonical characters.
this senator's yono is meant to be the father of Kazuto
from the new Resistance TV show from the sequel movie era.
all the others except for Monmouth are meant to be brand new characters.
most of you could probably predict how this was going to go though.
Like they obviously want Thrawn to have this giant war against the New Republic.
They want to have their Star War The whole idea is the New Republic
can't be prepared
because if they were prepared then Thrawn would never be able
to mass the Shadow council and bring them together.
so they have a reverse logic
kind of situation where the plot needs the New Republic to be super dumb.
the whole idea is that everybody still thinks that Thrawn is dead.
All he disappeared during the battle of Atholl like he's been dead for years.
But we worry about him coming back.
The remnants of the empire all scattered because they don't know about the Shadow
Council either.
What seems like is that man Mathema is the only one who's
actually concerned about the threat of threat.
Like, Oh, she remembers.
Oh, Thrun, you're talking about him coming back. Oh, crap.
but all the other senators seem like they don't want to alarm
the general citizens with another war,
like we don't want to worry or burden people with the thought of another war.
Redditor the original trilogy in the War against the Empire.
So even if they're not meant to be super shady, they're still trying
to bury their heads in the sand and just pretend like there is no problem.
I think the idea is they
probably wouldn't have believed Hera unless they saw Thrawn in orbit.
Of course, like they're going to wait till the very final moment
when Thrawn shows up with his giant fleet in the bay like OC.
Maybe there's a problem after all.
and also there probably are a couple imperial loyalists
who are part of the Senate.
most of them, though,
especially some of the ones
that are on this high council here, seem like they're just more opportunist,
like we're just kind of waiting to see who comes out on top and we'll support them.
you notice during their argument here with here against them, the other thing
that gets mentioned way more than I expected was Ezra Bridger himself.
probably just for a new viewers for their benefit to remind you like,
oh, there is stakes.
Like they do have a friend they're trying to say,
but it's weird that he would be such a huge figure in the New Republic Senate.
what probably happen
is that after the Battle of Lothal, after Thrawn was defeated in
the Seventh Fleet was taken by the Pergolas to this other galaxy,
the members of the Gos probably explained to the rebellion forces at the time
because it wasn't the New Republic yet they were only able to defeat
Thrawn, defeat the Imperial Fleet here because of Ezra Bridger.
So they just canonized him as this huge hero.
So going forward, everybody just thought of this really big hero
That's why I'm wondering there's
going to be a huge twist when they reveal what really happened to Ezra.
Like, is he going to wind up being the Marrok character
or is something else really shady going to wind up happening with this character?
why would they keep building up the myth, the legend of Ezra Bridger,
if there wasn't going to be some huge rug pull moment
when they actually reveal what happened to him?
so just keep that in the back of your mind.
part of the idea with Mon Mothma here, too, is that even though
it seems like she's sympathetic to Hera and wants to help her,
she doesn't wield dictatorial power the way that Palpatine
did during the last days of the republic and then during the empire.
So at least right now her hands are tied, Monmouth also references Jacen Syndulla.
A lot of people wondering if he was going to be on the series.
They finally confirm when they show him during the actual series
he was in the trailers, but we only saw the back of his head,
so it wasn't really clear
how they were going to be using the character Notice that Jacen seems
a little bit older than he did during that rebels ending scene.
And we see chopper here with them.
They have some more jokes about him just revealing all the secrets,
which I think is a bit of a joke about R2-D2
being this droid that has all the knowledge,
all the secrets from the prequels, but never really tells anybody about it.
During the original trilogy, like part of the joke of Star Wars is that R2-D2
remembered everything from the prequels when C-3PO had his mind wiped.
he would even have remembered Grogu when he saw him again
during the Mandalorian season two.
Like, Oh man, is that little baby Yoda that we saw a long time ago?
back when he was in against Droid at the Jedi Temple before Order 66.
they also have a seen
answering a lot of people's questions about Jacen's future too.
Will he be trained by a soldier in the force because he says to Hera
I want to become a Jedi. I do just like Sabine.
The thing is, he's actually about the right age to become a Padawan,
almost a little too old to become a part about, remember, and a kid
who was almost too old to join the Jedi Temple when he joined.
normally children are selected when they're about four years old.
Jacen Obviously much, much older than that.
for the most part, he looks just like he did during the animated series.
He's got the same green hair.
The reason why he doesn't have head tails is because he's half human and half.
Tulloch.
there was even a brief moment where Hera pauses
when they're referencing Kanan and becoming a Jedi
like she was trying to remember him.
It sounds that they they played a little bit of his theme during then, too.
maybe.
If we're lucky,
we'll get a flashback scene with Kanan or some kind of Kanan force ghost scene
Freddie Prinze Jr keeps saying that he didn't do any kind of live action
cameos, scenes or anything like that,
but he could just be doing that actor thing where you lie.
People lie about that kind of stuff all the time.
I heard about it
and I did see it and it's a Photoshop.
Oh, they go back to a ghost ship.
It looks like they're drinking tea, not blue milk.
Any time anybody's drinking anything in Star Wars, you always try to check it.
They're drinking more blue milk.
They confirmed that Sabine is more sensitive,
like they have a conversation about that, like,
oh, she has a low aptitude this year.
I temple wouldn't take her,
but they're just trying to confirm that she is basically for sensitive, does it.
Her aptitude for learning things and connecting with the force
isn't as great as someone like Aniket or more powerful Jedi.
her using the force to joint the coffee.
Talking about starting small is also a wink at Grogu you on the Mandalorian
using the force all the time to steal more food.
who. Yang's argument with the Sokka about traditional Jedi teachings,
what the Jedi order would have wanted for us to be.
No, no, they wouldn't have taken her.
Her attitude isn't high enough with the force
is more about a soldier trying to turn away from the traditional Jedi rules
like she didn't believe in a lot of the Jedi Council's rules,
which is one of the reasons why she left the order back in the day.
So that's why who Yang says, Oh, well, you know,
you also came from a line of nontraditional Jedi.
It makes sense that Sabine would also become
another nontraditional type of Jedi.
the line, who Yang is talking about
is her coming from and Akin Skywalker, who was a nontraditional Jedi.
And from quite on, Jane, who also disagreed with the council
all the time when they referenced previous Mandalorians
who became Jedi, like, there were very few of them, really.
There was just the one.
And it was TAA Vizsla about a thousand years ago who created the Darksaber
then went back to the Mandalorian people to lead his culture.
Grogu who in Sabine would be like the next actual Jedi
who could call themselves Mandalorian Jedi?
I literally just did a video about this.
How about they're basically
the future of Mandalorian Jedi and the future of the Jedi Order
the whole thing, though, is Ahsoka says she doesn't need Sabine to become a Jedi.
She's talking more about the technical terminology
that the Jedi had for different stages of development in training
like Jedi Padawan, Jedi Knight, Jedi master.
she just wants to train Sabine to deepen her connection to the force.
And she can call herself whatever
she wants to call herself
when Harry calls in and says that
she can't give them any aid right now, they're on their own.
That's just temporary.
But it's also because Hera is still bound by military law,
because she's still a regular member of the military.
She's a general.
they'll probably be some moment later on where hair will find some way to lend them
some aid and then they'll actually learn about Thrawn coming back for real.
It'll become a huge threat in there'll be much easier
for her to get official resources Then they have their big dogfight in space
with she and her team, Iraq.
It seems like the rest are being piloted by other random mercenaries.
they all look like they're brand new characters.
the ships that they're flying, though, seem like prequel era designs.
And she in Haiti is wearing a communications device
just like Enoch and Skywalker and Obi-Wan did during Revenge of the Sith.
So these are all like super old technology.
This fight is more about Sabine
and Ahsoka learning to work together to operate her ship systems.
But Morgan Elspeth golden droids here, when they start attacking also brand
new creations for the show.
The other important thing during all these fights that they have with them
is that we finally hear Mark the Inquisitor speak
and he has a vocoder just like Darth Vader modulating his real voice.
But it does sound a little bit like saying we're and he was in the credits
again under additional voices
really hoping.
Ahsoka bus his mask off during episode four when they have a rematch
and we find out who he really is.
But the voice did definitely sound male.
there was the cool moment of Ahsoka getting in the space.
I think it's the first time we've seen Ahsoka wear an actual spacesuit,
taking one of the ships down the old fashioned way outside the other
interesting thing here too is that it doesn't sound like the dark jinn.
I really get along with Morgan Elsbeth, even though Morgan Elspeth is ones
that paying them all this money like she's not sounded
like she was making fun of her for not killing us.
So going to be like, Oh, I'll take care of it now.
that's usually the way it is amongst evil team ups is usually
they're all not best friends, like they're just together
because they're either being paid
well or because they want some gold, some great power.
the other thing going on here, too, is that you notice that Sabine is a much,
much better pilot than she is Jedi Padawan at this point.
But remember, she has all these
mandalorian taught skills so she would be a good pilot.
Then they fly past a giant pod of pergolas.
You can see them briefly during episode two in the atmosphere.
Like Baylan Skoll looks up,
you can kind of make out the shape of one in the clouds a little bit,
That's what I was talking about earlier in the video when I said that this planet
is kind of like the way station, like the last gas station for the pergolas
to juice up before their long trip to the other galaxy through hyperspace
intergalactic refueling station that's on their path
to the other galaxy, which they also reference
to when Hu Yang figures out what's really going on
they get super jazzed up at the sight of the purrgils
because they're connected to Ezra Bridgers disappearance.
The last time they saw
them was at the battle at all when Ezra called them to help him out
and take the Seventh Fleet, Thorne's fleet to the other galaxy.
So he thinks it's just another confirmation
that they're on the right path to find them again,
this next part was actually pretty cool, too.
Dave Filoni introducing a bunch of really, really old school, old Republic era lore
who Yang starts talking about the truth of what was really going on
with the giant hyperspace ring, the pergola, their hyperspace
route to the other galaxy, intergalactic hyperspace routes.
They said that there were records in the Jedi Temple about intergalactic
hyperspace planes that used to follow the per goals migration path,
but they're like ancient records that had been lost in present day.
this goes back to what Morgan Elspeth was talking about
when she was explaining the waypoint here to Badlands.
Skull was built by this ancient culture from a distant galaxy.
But they're dead in present day.
that ancient race was probably the infinite record of empire.
They probably just found a way to chart this path through galaxies.
Intergalactic hyperspace lines, because hyperspace did exist back then.
The idea
is that most of the modern cultures that you see in the Star Wars universe now
didn't really map the rest of the galaxy until much, much later though.
But hyperspace drives themselves did exist per their explanation
what probably wound up happening though is that pre old republic era like before
25,000 years ago you have the full the infinite record of empire
when they fell their technology all their information was lost
some of it was found by people like the knight sisters like they had the map
but the actual temples
and the waypoints were built by the infinite record of empire.
that's why the ancient Jedi Order, like early Old Republic
era, had records about it, but they didn't know a whole lot about it.
much closer to present day, Those real world facts
that Morgan Ellsworth was talking about, like, Oh, this is a real thing
had passed to myth and legend.
And we're talked about as children stories in the Jedi Temple,
even though the records actually had information about this.
end, even though I didn't mention it earlier, part of the idea, too, is
I think that the purge goals
actually come from that other galaxy, like the Space Wells home galaxy.
Is this other parity, a galaxy.
Then we have Baylan Skoll
sending the dark Jedi
out to kill the tokens they've been waiting at the array to fight
a soldier once he eventually probably defeats Marrok.
They also added a credit for Marrok in the end credits.
But it's Paul Darnell.
He's a stunt actor that's just doing the physical performance.
Like all the fighting scenes, like all that kind of stuff.
they do the same thing on The Mandalorian where Pedro Pascal just as the voice,
but they have a stunt actor in the armor or a couple of different
some actors that perform in The Mandalorian role.
I think they're doing the same thing with Morocco.
So fingers crossed that when a soldier defeats him, breaks his mask
and we see the face underneath and it's who's actually playing the character.
let me know in the comments, though, do you agree that his modulated voice
sounds like it could be Sam Witwer His voice just processed a whole bunch
to sound kind of like Darth Vader, James Earl Jones type of voice
next week, though, we have a Ahsoka versus Marrok rematch,
then Ahsoka versus Balan's skull in a whole bunch of Anakin Skywalker
references because of his history with Anakin Order 66.
it sounds like Ahsoka is going to get a whole bunch of truth
jumped on her about what really happened during order 66 and his relationship with
and again, Skywalker Sabine versus Shin Hati rematch and more details
about what they're doing with Thrawn Ezra during the next few episodes.
If you spotted any other Easter eggs or references
during the episode though, just write them below in the comments.
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