With only a few more days until the second half of season three of Star Wars Rebels kicks
off, we got a midseason trailer!
So like I do with these things, let’s go through, break it down, and see what we can
expect from the remaining episodes!
A pretty big deal is made out of the rebellion becoming more and more unified.
Thanks to Rogue One, we knew the crew of the Ghost would be heading this direction, but
it looks like they will be officially a part of the Rebel Alliance by the end of the season.
We see Bail Organa, Jan Dodonna, and Mon Mothma all in the flesh.
And there are some new faces with Mon on the Ghost.
The Rebel fleet itself is looking more and more like the fleet we saw at the Battle of
Scarif.
We’ve got transports, hammerheads, nebulon frigates, Mon Calamari ships, and more.
The Y-Wings stolen in the season premiere see some action, and Wedge looks like he’s
back.
He seems to be wearing an A-Wing flight suit, which lines up with what he said about his
early Rebellion days in the book Aftermath.
Maybe we’ll get to see the exact mission he mentioned crashing his A-Wing and breaking
his leg.
But the Empire isn’t just sitting idly by, letting the Rebels gather power.
The Empire looks like they’ve got some new weapons of their own.
Of course we all know the TIE Defender from the first half of the season, but man is it
cool to see it actually flying around, and in multiple scenes!
Those Imperial sentry droids are back, but they’ve got a new logo on their shoulders.
It looks like Thrawn is just using them to train against.
But there is a new battle droid seen in a few shots.
The sentry droids were modeled after the Phase II and III Dark Trooper from Legends.
These are somewhat similar to the Phase I. And now that they’ve been revealed in Rogue
One, we can see Thrawn with a company of Death Troopers, and I think they are investigating
the caves of Atollon, but it could really be anywhere.
I think we can expect to see at least one major attack at the Atollon base.
We can see its distinct landscape under fire and there is a large Imperial Fleet that includes
Interdictor cruisers.
This shot to me looks like Ezra is destroying an Interdictor from the outside, maybe so
the Rebels can make the escape to lightspeed.
I think the Rebels will be forced to flee and join with the larger group, so maybe we’ll
be seeing Dantooine soon!
One shot looks like the Ghost and Y-Wings flying through a fiery environment.
This could be Base Delta Zero, which has been mentioned twice in the show now.
In Legends that was a military code that meant the complete surface destruction of a planet
and elimination of all life.
And gosh of what we see doesn’t look very similar to this Legends image, even down to
the TIE Defenders.
If Thrawn pulls this off, a major defeat of a Rebel base along with a number of ships,
I will forgive his voluntary ineffectiveness in the first half of the season.
Outside of the main Rebel and Imperial factions, we’re going to see more from the Mandalorians.
Now that Sabine has the Darksaber, she begins training with it so she can use it as a symbol
to rally her people.
Fenn Rau believes that if Sabine had her mother’s support, that all of Mandalore could follow.
And I still think her mother is Rook Kast.
A lot of this looks like it’s on a snowy planet.
Sabine says welcome home, so it could be a snowy part of Mandalore, but it reminds me
of Carlac from the Clone Wars.
There will be a power struggle with Gar Saxon, but I think Sabine will be successful, because
we can see Mandalorian Gauntlet fighters shooting down TIE Fighters at one point.
There is an Interdictor in the background of that shot, so maybe the Mandalorians lend
their support on that attack against the Rebel base.
There’s another shot of Ezra on what I think is an Interdictor that shows a possible Mandalorian
helping him out.
But the question becomes, what will happen to the Mandalorians if we don’t see them
as part of the Rebellion down the line?
They might not last long.
Real quick let’s talk about Geonosis, because we know that episode is coming up this weekend.
We’ve known for a couple weeks now that Saw Gerrera would be making his reappearance,
and we’ll probably get a look into his extremist ways.
The Rogue One Visual Guide mentions Saw needs help breathing because he ingested Geonosian
insecticide, so we might see him come into contact with the poison here.
And we’ll probably see some evidence of the Death Star, but not much before the Empire
attacks with some jetpack equipped stormtroopers!
We also know we’ll be returning to Lothal.
There is an Imperial blockade there, probably to keep the TIE Defender base safe.
Kanan and Rex look like they’re about to sneak through, wearing stormtrooper armor.
There’s a quick shot of Wedge back in his TIE Fighter outfit, so maybe he goes undercover
as well.
Kallus is also on the planet investigating Ezra’s old home for some reason.
The Empire is of course on the quote unquote hunt for Fulcrum, but I still think Thrawn
knows it’s Kallus.
Someone else that might be making a return is Agent Kallus’s boss, Wulf Yularen from
the Clone Wars and A New Hope.
He’s got the mustache, the white uniform, and the matching rank, and it’s known Kallus
reports directly to Yularen, so I think his appearance is very likely.
It would be interesting for Rex to meet with his old ally while in disguise.
The last few shots are of course what the Maul storyline and the trailer itself has
been building towards.
The reintroduction of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Tatooine.
It’s actually not really a reveal since we knew Maul was on the hunt, but it’s still
so awesome to see him onscreen again.
I guess Maul really is there to fight it out.
I would be surprised if we didn’t get some sort of mention or cameo from Luke as well,
but hopefully nothing too major.
What’s exciting about this trailer is that a good bit of it comes from the first three
episodes.
The Geonosis episode is this Saturday, the one I think will be introducing that possible
Phase I dark trooper will be the Saturday after that, and Sabine training with the darksaber
is the one after that.
So there’s still plenty to be revealed by the season itself.
One last quick note, @PaulRMQ on Twitter pointed out that the art behind Thrawn in this shot
is actual art by Ralph McQuarrie, and that’s just super cool!
That’s about all I caught in the trailer!
Did you see anything I missed?
Let me know in the comments and take your own guesses about what’s going to happen
this season!
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