Okay, Wow.
I just finished watching the season finale of Rebels: Twilight of the Apprentice
So let's get to talking.
Obviously, this video is going to be chock-full of spoilers.
This episode surprised me in so many ways.
The interactions between Maul and Ezra were fantastic right off the bat
With Maul using exact lines Yoda uses with Luke in The Empire Strikes Back
Maul is Ezra's dark side Yoda.
Not only does Maul parrot some Yoda lines,
He also tells Ezra to break his chains;
Which is the line directly lifted from the Sith Code.
I'm a little disappointed that we don't get an identity on the new Inquisitor
But I do think that it's totally awesome that the Emperor has won out searching for Maul.
Also they call Maul "The Shadow"
And Maul was known as the Shadow Assassin in Legends
I just really loved Maul in this episode. Sam Witwer killed it!
And he allows a lot of violence to happen without our heroes getting their hands bloody.
Of course he's still a bad guy
And he eventually turns on Kanan and Ashoka
Claiming Ezra as his new apprentice
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
And then he blinds Kanan!
What?!
And then Kanan puts on a Jedi Temple Guard mask
And takes up Ashoka's reverse grip lightsaber fighting style.
I'm not sure if that means anything symbolically, but it's cool.
Anyway, Kanan beats Maul
Who at this point seems like he's unkillable.
He's STILL alive
And without Ezra, I might add, so I was wrong on multiple accounts.
I feel like I should be angry that Maul is still around after all this time
But honestly, he's so compelling, I'm glad they're keeping him.
And now that Kanan is blind, he's got a real Rahm Kota thing going.
I have no idea if this will be permanent, but I think it's really interesting.
Dark but not overboard.
Of course I can't talk about this episode without touching on Vader's and Ashoka's fight
And holy cow, was it awesome.
Ashoka cuts off part of Vader's mask and she sees his face.
And his eyes are yellow, meaning he's fully entrenched in the dark side.
The big question that I think everyone will be asking, including myself is:
Is Ashoka dead or not?
I think we're meant to believe she is, but it's Disney
so they didn't actually show it.
But I'm not ready to completely write her off.
And I'm making this video before the Star Wars Rebels Recon comes out
so they might answer that and I'll put this out and seem foolish
But who knows? At this point, I'm questioning things.
Finally as the episode comes to a close,
Ezra opens the Sith holocron
I was expecting him to be a full fledged apprentice of Maul at the end of this episode
And while that didn't happen, Ezra opening that holocron means he's at least fooling around with the Dark Side now.
If you can't tell already, I thought that this episode was incredible
I love it
But I do have a couple of gripes.
First off, I'm not happy that they left Ashoka's fate ambiguous
We should've gotten some sort of confirmation, one way or the other.
Second, outside of just visiting Malachor,
We didn't get any extra major easter eggs.
and this was a perfect time to canonize Revan or Traya or Bane or something
Although that could very well come up in the next season
since Ezra still has that holocron
But my major gripe was that Yoda's reason for sending them all there was barely addressed.
It sounded like Yoda wanted Ezra to see what happened when Jedi do terrible things.
Instead, we got a line from Ashoka talking about how it looks like nobody won the fight.
Nobody learned anything and instead Yoda just sent them all into a really bad situation
full of Inquisitors and Sith Lords
I just wish we got more history behind what actually happened on Malachor
so Ezra can have more conflict
But really I'm just having nitpicky fanboy gripes
I loved the episode
It was a fantastic finale that had me geeking out on multiple occasions
And of course, I'm looking forward to Season 3
Ok, that's it.
Let me know what you guys thought of the episode below
but it's late for me, so I'm heading to bed.
May the Force be with you all.