- Did Rebels change everything we thought we knew
about Star Wars. (laughing)
(beeping)
Did rebels change everything we thought we knew uh oh.
(laughing)
(beeping)
Did Rebels change everything we thought
we knew about Star Wars?
A huge detail was dropped in the latest episode of
Star Wars Rebels and it truly
has fans losing their (beeping)
faster than Anakin getting denied by
the Jedi Council. (laughing)
Yeah. (beeping)
- What?
- Now if you aren't up to date on Rebels and wish
to keep your Star Wars spoiler free, then look away.
These aren't the spoilers you're looking for.
(light saber whirring)
Now in one of the final few episodes of Rebels, a huge
potentially galaxy changing sci-fy plot device was
introduced and it's that most slippery of plot slopes.
Oh, it's time travel ya'll. (laughing)
We're (beeping).
More specifically, the potential use of the force
as a means for time travel.
I'm not doing it over. (laughing)
Fans still seem to be in a state of shock
at this huge whopper, but when you start to dig deeper
into what that could possibly mean, the possibilities are
endless and troubling for the Star Wars Universe as a whole.
In the latest espisodes Wolves at the Door
and A World Between Worlds, Ezra Bridger and crew arrive
at the Jedi temple on Lothal guided by Loth-Wolf's
force friendly Doggos that are native to the planet.
At this temple it is revealed to the Rebels that there
is a pathway to all time and space
and whoever controls it controls the universe.
Now this is a major reveal for a universe that
quite a few people have been battling to control
and of course Ezra finds his way through the portal
into the World between Worlds, he hears voices from
Force users past and present: Yoda, Obi-Wan, Anakin
and future Force kids Leia, Rey and Kylo.
But what this finally confirms is what really happened
to Ahsoka Tano after her big showdown with her
old master Darth Vader back in season two.
We assumed she had sacrificed herself during the fight
with Vader in order to give the rest of the team time
to escape, but we never quite saw her fate.
Turns out while Ezra is between worlds, he is led to that
moment in time, and is able to rescue and return her
back to that moment later, alive and unblown up.
But when Ezra tries to save his fallen master Kanan
he gets a lesson from Ahsoka in not messing with the past
too much and decides to honor Kanan's sacrifice which
seems a little hypocritical when she herself just got
saved moments earlier via time travel.
But whatever, selfish.
So besides the Rebel's specific questions this time travel
business creates, what does all this mean for the future
of Star Wars, or the past?
Hey yo. (laughing)
First off, time travel in any franchise opens a
huge can of worms, and every fictional universe has
their own rules for what can and can't be affected.
Back to the Future rules dictate that you can travel
whenever and wherever you want as long as you've got
enough garbage in your flux capacitor.
In Quantum Leap, the traveler doesn't have a ton of
control regarding when and where they're traveling to.
And in Star Trek, well, it just depends on the episode.
Rebels establishes that anyone inside
the World between Worlds can view and interact
with important moments in history by
traveling through time portals.
It's like Chrono Trigger for the Super Nintendo.
But this is where things get extremely confusing.
When Ezra used the portal to save Ahsoka,
is that what was supposed to happen?
Is there a reality where Ahsoka was turned into
a Force sensitive paste from a bunch of falling rocks
and did her surviving cause a huge time paradox.
We're not sure yet.
We'll have to see how the finale shakes out next week.
Now in the Rebels Recon YouTube aftershow,
it's confirmed that the entrance Ezra used
to enter the World between Worlds was destroyed
but there are other entrances that a Force user
can conceivably access and use to alter the timeline.
As we've mentioned before on this show, Rebels has been
sort of a testing ground for things Lucas Film and Disney
want to use in their main Star Wars films.
Hammerhead Corvette's and using the Force to
fly through space were both in Rebels before we saw them
on the silver screen, and like those examples
this could be Disney laying the ground work for the future.
Now the problem with introducing
time travel into the Star Wars universe is,
once you open up that mystery box it's hard to close it.
Now that we know it's possible
to influence the past and change the future,
what's to stop Kylo Ren from saving Emperor Palpatine
moments before he's killed by Darth Vader or
George Lucas from going back in time to prevent
the holiday special from ever happening.
Although that's the gift that keeps on giving.
There are rumors that J.J. Abrams wants to use Episode Nine
to tie all three trilogies together, and what better way
than through time travel, like we saw with Lost.
(laughing)
- We have to go back!
- But what do you think?
Are you excited to see time travel
in the Star Wars Universe?
What do you think will happen in the series finale of
Rebels, and do you think Chewbaca and Rey will trade in
the Millennium Falcon for a Tardis or Delorian?
Let's discuss!
(upbeat music)