Hey Youtubers it's Charlie! So a lot of you guys asked for Star Wars Rebels video so this
is going to be all about the siege of Lothal technically it's like the first episode of
season two and the rest of the season won't air till October so it's it's a little bit
where there might've been some confusion about that that might seem where they decided to
drop it during the summer but it is probably just because they want to get people psyched
up about season to and and I felt like you were does a great episode so just careful
for spoilers if you haven't seen it yet lesser with top-five moments starting with the ghost
fighting with Phoenix quadrant in the rebellion all through season one Kanan me this huge
deal about staying out of the fight and a lot of the ark of this episode was him realizing
that you know you can't stay out completely it's in their DNA that they want to help people
make the galaxy a better place so so the ghost crew help remind him of that and that's what
the rebellion is all about do not fight your destiny Kanan so season to roll in heavy on
the rebellion which you think is a really good answer to a lot of the complaints in
season one it was just like a series of misadventures from week to week with you know like up a
recurring cast of villains now it's more like the ghost going up against the full might
of the Empire with the rebellion the stakes have appropriately risen season one wasn't
bad or anything like that but I feel like it was harder to take it seriously when they
were kind like often this little bubble to the side of the war between the rebellion
and the Empire they were going to try and help people but we have nothing to do with
the rebellion one of the most interesting aspects of the Star Wars universe opening
the episode mid space battle did not hurt things either this is kind of like a special
episodes so don't expect that much action every single week but there will be a lot
more of them engage in the Empire you know q. rebel scum rather than them constantly
trying to avoid them onto number four a much more complex empire part of the ark of this
episode totally would not have worked if people inside the Empire were not fallible not everybody
has a total hard on for subjugating the galaxy so Darth Vader's able to play that Imperial
officer against the rebellion he predicts she's going to defect and uses it is an opportunity
to fall the breadcrumb trail back to the rebellion and they had the balls to kill or die was
actually a really great moment in the episode is much you can criticize children's television
for for seemingly not having any stakes is because all we don't want it to be too violent
because children watch it they went ahead and kill that officer unit even if it was
in a bloodless way there's a weird thing about TV violence and blood it even happens like
on the flash on the CW shows what one of the writers was saying how they had to dialback
some of the violence because it was too much blood I feel like I'm letting Rebels go in
this direction it is going to do like to address dumbs storm troopers that's always been a
big criticism that like Imperial officers storm troopers very dumb people the expanded
universe goes into it a lot but you know you I guess you can consider a can anymore because
they did changed everything but it is really hard to get into the Imperial Academy even
even to be like a normal storm trooper it's a getting into Harvard or Yale so why are
storm troopers always so dumb is really funny thing to think about you know really is just
like they need someone for the heroes to be able to be whenever their hand is a loss like
Darth Vader he's going to be unbeatable he's was going to like you know stomp the crap
out of them so in some way the heroes need to have a when and unfortunately the lowest
people in the totem pole are storm troopers so if you ever wondered why storm troopers
go down so fast whether so disposable it's because there always has to be like a villain
that's super tough to beat and then a villain that's not so tough to beat the thing that
really interested me about this Imperial officer though is the idea that your imperials have
complicated motivations to it is we spent so much time with the heroes you you don't
get to develop a lot of those villain characters we spent a lot of time with the inquisitor
last season but he still felt like a relatively cardboard villain hopefully this new inquisitor
will be more complex onto number three though deep dive inside the rebellion it really doesn't
become apparent until much later in the episode when they meet is soak up on the rebel ship
that that there like they're inside the rebellion even though the ship got blown up by I know
that they made it seem like they crush the rebellion the imperials role patting themselves
in the back after Darth Vader blew them up there is more to the rebellion then just the
people at that battle but never really feels like they're part of this larger fight the
the like a small piece in the puzzle the did a good job a slippery get in but they did
imply that there are several high ranking people in the Empire which ships resources
power they just aren't quite ready to step out into the light and declare for the rebellion
so Ismay ships is just got blown up like they'll be able to get more Monmouth mama Bail Organa
both very big Imperial senators before they founded the rebellion but speaking of big
people onto number two the will of Vader so we just have to say how awesome it is that
they let Darth Vader out to play Disney doesn't let that happen very often that was always
one of the big questions when the series was announced wait you away before season one
like is Darth Vader going to be part of this know will why should I watch and then but
even if it's only for a little bit we get to watch them ter shit up for an hour if his
character design seemed a little bit where TV if you look a little strange like the helmet
the tunic it's because it's meant to reflect the old school Ralph McQuarrie concept art
just just like everything else in Rebels Rebels is a series is much more informed by Ralph
Pecora's concept art he serves like two really big roles in the narrative like he is and
just here for sightseeing one on the surface he he there to kick the crap out of the rebellion
he manipulates the crew the ghost all the the characters in the episode to get at them
that the ultimate goal crushing the rebellion that's why we didn't seem as much in season
one because the code because we were falling the crew the ghost they were really part of
the rebellion so Darth Vader had no reason to go after them any any didn't know about
the Jedi's second big role is to change the tone of the Jedi arc this season become a
level you you the story about the crew the ghost coming together fighting the Empire
on another level you have Ezra training to become a Jedi Knight think about the battle
they had with Darth Vader you just the way he fights is very different from the inquisitor
season one was all about their skill as a Jedi that's why think they gave that crazy
double bladed spinning saber was all about train to fight better see you can be the really
awesome fighter the problem is is that you're never going to be Darth Vader in a lifesaver
fight physically he's too strong and his will is too powerful so you know unless you names
like Luke Skywalker you're done for the only way to be Vader is to out match his will and
in his will is like the most powerful thing in the Star Wars universe next to the will
of the Emperor maybe Darth Vader is not a problem that punching is going to solve it
was fun to see them use some familiar tricks like you're making people think they've escaped
and playing their weaknesses against them like burning Tark in town doesn't this look
familiar Ahsoka sensing Vader probably my favorite twist in the episode I I don't know
how many episodes Ahsoka is going to be in but it seems like she's pretty much part of
the crew the ghost now she very clearly lied to Kanan when she's like I don't know who
was behind the mask I'm I'm not sure she definitely knew that that was Anakin Skywalker he sensed
it was her immediately Darth Vader immediately tells the Emperor yet that was deftly my apprentice
hopefully they'll follow up on that arc this season I have feel like they wouldn't of set
that up if they weren't intending to but finally my number one moment the new inquisitor so
Vader and the Emperor teased this new villain we haven't met yet who's going to be like
the big bad of season two one of the big things about successive seasons is in presenting
new challenges and villains that fit with that but the skills you developed to overcome
practical problems like helping the rebellion also help you fight the villain so the villain
should be fundamentally different from the season one inquisitor. Movie question view
guys what is your favorite moment from the episode and you know if you didn't really
watch season one that much did this episode convince you to watch season two like will
you be watching October when it comes I really do feel like they were trying to push people's
buttons like here look at all the sauce and stuff don't forget Rebels is coming back in
October there will actually be some Star Wars stuff it, caught in a couple weeks it so I
feel like the there is trying to carry the momentum into the fall like they did is they
don't want you to forget that this is a series one of the really redeeming things the episode
that I was really happy to see what was the idea that the Empire is interested in loath
all first sinister reasons I guess I just some random place that we keep going back
to season one really didn't explain why we were spending so much time there is like big
galaxy many many plans to go to why do we keep going back to this one planet now we
know there's something special about it that will learn about over the course of season
two as a season premiere this is definitely a Soliday episode but will see how the rest
of the season goes sometimes it's hard to remember that a lot of times season one of
any show is the writers just trying to figure the characters out see get to season to season
three in the show really starts to get interesting that used to be a lot easier to do now now
TV so competitive that like of the shows and super popular in the first season they'll
cancel it off see you never get that chance so if you're on the fence about rebel season
one I feel like season two's going to be a lot more fun I can't promise that all of be
able to make weekly videos for it but I'll definitely be watching In case you guys haven't
seen it I just posted a video explaining how resurrection works on game of thrones you
can click here to learn all about that and you can click here to learn all about the
multi-verse on the flash season two thank you so much for watching, everybody High Five
and I'll see you guys tonight!