Yesterday’s season finale of Star Wars Rebels teased some changes for the Ghost Crew, the
Mandalorians, and Grand Admiral Thrawn that we’ll likely revisit in season four.
We’re no doubt going to learn much more in a few weeks at Star Wars Celebration, but
for now, why don’t we have some fun and make some predictions!
Let’s start with Phoenix Squadron joining up with the Alliance more officially at Yavin
4.
I was expecting them to regroup on Dantooine, but nope!
We’re going straight to the Massassi Temple.
It will be exciting to see Yavin again, for sure, but the fact that they’re already
there just shows how close we are to the Battle of Scarif.
I’m not saying the show has to end once we catch up to that point in time, and Dave
Filoni has even said it could potentially go beyond the events of Episode IV, but thematically
I think it makes sense for Rebels to end at that point.
It seems to me that beyond just telling the story of the crew of the Ghost, we’re learning
how individual rebels came together to form a unified Rebellion.
Once that truly happens, which we see in the Battle of Scarif, I think the shows symbolic
journey will be at an end.
So I wouldn’t be surprised at all to hear that season four of Rebels will be its last.
The other side of this argument is that they could spend multiple seasons at Yavin and
just have a very eventful eighteen months.
Again, I’m not saying season four should be the end, I just wouldn’t be surprised
if that comes up at Celebration.
Either way, knowing we’ll be on Yavin opens up a lot of potential for more Rogue One connections.
I don’t think it’s a stretch at all to see Cassian or Kaytoo in between missions.
As for what might actually happen to our current cast, I’ve got some predictions specifically
for Kanan and Ezra.
In Star Wars Legends the temples were built by the Massassi, who were ancient Sith warriors,
and eventually the temple structures themselves were corrupted by the spirits of Sith like
Exar Kun.
So far in canon, they were still built by the Massassi, but we don’t know if that
group has any affiliation with the Sith.
Thanks to the Dr. Aphra comic, we know they definitely have some group of connection with
ancient Force users.
So we could see our two Jedi doing some investigating, and maybe they’ll have to deal with some
sort of dark side presence, much like Luke’s first students did in the Jedi Academy Trilogy.
As for our non-Force-sensitive characters, I expect they’ll still be dealing with Grand
Admiral Thrawn, and I bet even though they won’t be stationed on Dantooine, we’ll
still get a look at the base mentioned in A New Hope.
I don’t have any further predictions based on evidence, but my hope is that we’ll see
them continue to be hit hard by Thrawn.
I want him to keep them on their toes, and become a threat that could show up at any
time.
Kallus will probably be a huge help to them now that he’s officially defected.
He knows a great deal about Thrawn and just the Empire in general.
But I hope we get to see him struggle with his new life.
Kanan seemed ready to accept him, and he has done a lot for them this past season, I just
hope he’s not instantly like everyone’s go to guy.
I guess it depends on how much time has passed between seasons, but I just want to see more
of his transition.
Speaking of Thrawn, we have to talk about the Bendu’s prophecy.
Many arms surrounding him in a cold embrace.
Honestly, I’m pretty much drawing a blank here on any serious answers.
I think Bendu is hinting at how Thrawn will die, and I usually go to Legends for more
clues, but I got nothin.
Maybe the Thrawn book will give us something to go off of.
Or maybe Bor Gullet will kill him.
Who knows?
Ezra’s visit to the Mandalorians hinted at a pretty major storyline there I’m sure
the Ghost crew will help out with.
A Mandalorian Civil War between the Wrens and the Saxons.
We’ll almost definitely see more factions join that fight, since Katee Sackhoff confirmed
Bo-Katan would be reappearing six months ago.
This just goes to show you how early these episodes are recorded.
And also that the late announcement of Rebels Season Four means nothing.
They’ve been in production for a long time at this point.
We’ll probably see Sabine help pass along the darksaber to someone she feels is worthy,
and my money is still on Bo-Katan.
She’s a fierce warrior and the sister to the former Duchess.
She can handle the job.
My last prediction is that we haven’t seen the last of the TIE Defender.
The rebels never got to attack the factory, so I hope we get to see more of them in action.
However I do think we’ll see the destruction of the factory on Lothal sooner or later,
only because we never saw them in the Battles of Yavin or Endor.
To be fair, they were rare ships reserved for the elite anyway, but I think it makes
sense story wise for the rebels to eventually sabotage the factory enough to shut down production.
What predictions do you guys have?
Are you looking forward to season four?
Let me know in the comments!
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