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00:00 Welcome back to New Rock Stars, I'm Eric Vos, and this is a breakdown of Star Wars
00:03 Ahsoka Episode 3, Time to Fly!
00:06 Bail and Skull saw a few pergol in the clouds of Cetos in Episode 2, and sure enough, they
00:11 are back to really apologize!
00:14 We're sorry for taking your friend.
00:19 Oh please don't click away!
00:21 No more whale speak in this video, I promise.
00:23 Let's breakdown this episode scene by scene for all the Star Wars Easter Eggs and details
00:27 you missed.
00:28 We see the same opening metallic faces and helmets as last week, Vader 3PO, Clone Trooper
00:32 helmet, HK Assassin droid, the Inquisitor, M'Rok, Hu Yang, Stormtrooper, Chopper, and
00:36 Sabine's helmet.
00:37 So quick note on M'Rok before we begin.
00:39 I did not address this before because I think it's a very silly theory, but no, I do not
00:44 think M'Rok is Ezra Bridger, are you kidding me?
00:46 Ezra would have had to come back from this other galaxy, and regardless of his dark side
00:50 temptations, our man would never have broke bad and become a freaking Inquisitor.
00:54 Come on, have we learned nothing from Rebels?
00:57 By the way, if you haven't seen all of Rebels and don't have time to watch all those episodes
01:01 or you just want a refresher, we made an excellent four-part Rebels recap series to catch you
01:06 all up on all of the episodes, the characters, the Easter Eggs, and the bits of lore that
01:10 you need to know.
01:11 Please watch those and share those with all the others out there who are like, "I don't
01:14 know how to get into this series."
01:15 Now when it comes to M'Rok, we did see Sam Witwer's name in the additional voices of
01:19 the credits of episodes one and two, leading some to believe that M'Rok could be Starkiller,
01:25 but M'Rok's performance has been done by stunt actor Paul Darnell.
01:28 We also saw his name in the credits of episode two, and Sam Witwer's just one of these regular
01:32 Lucasfilm dudes who voices one-off characters like that Shore Trooper in Andor.
01:37 He could have voiced any of those droids or helmeted figures.
01:40 Notice how his name also appears besides names like Matthew Wood, the sound editor who has
01:44 voiced General Grievous in Bib Fortuna.
01:46 So who knows, we may just get a number of voices that echo through the past and the
01:50 future episode, and the sound team blanked and credited all the voice actors who helped
01:53 out on the season.
01:55 But in this episode, M'Rok actually speaks.
01:57 "If you wish, she's on the way.
02:01 Nothing."
02:02 Now I gotta admit, the voice does sound a bit like Sam Witwer to me, but Sam is also
02:05 just a very good voice actor whose voice is just kind of like the taste of chicken.
02:09 Everything sounds like it.
02:10 But the most important detail is that in the credits of this episode, the role of M'Rok
02:15 is fully credited to Paul Darnell, which is a big upgrade from him just being credited
02:20 for stunts last week.
02:22 Now Witwer's name does once again appear at the very end of the credits with the additional
02:25 voices section, just as it has appeared in episode one and two.
02:27 So I just don't know if they would have credited M'Rok entirely to Paul Darnell if Witwer had
02:32 been voicing him.
02:33 Like they bumped up Darnell's credit in an episode in which the character speaks.
02:37 That's a big deal.
02:38 Episode credits are contractually required to be accurate.
02:42 And I know some of you may say, "Well, there was that episode of Rebels, season four, episode
02:45 11, where Dave Filoni credited the loathwolf Doom to the force."
02:49 But folks, that was animation.
02:50 In live action, episode credits are taken very seriously.
02:53 So all of this is really to say, I don't know, we're three out of eight episodes in, and
02:58 I think M'Rok is just going to be M'Rok.
02:59 Okay, the episode opens with Ahsoka's T6 in hyperspace.
03:03 When we saw hyperspace looking like this in The Mandalorian, season three, episode one,
03:06 Grogu saw a purrgle floating past them.
03:09 And yes, this is a very big purrgle episode.
03:11 Hu Yang trains with Sabine using a bakken, which is a Japanese wooden sword used for
03:15 training in Kenjutsu.
03:17 Hu Yang says, "These are form positions.
03:23 They are numbered similar to the Mandoa numbers that the Armorer shouted at Din Djarin while
03:27 training him with a darksaber in the Book of Obafet, chapter five."
03:35 And of course, we are reminded of Sabine training with a darksaber with Ezra and Kanan in Rebels,
03:39 season three, episode 15, Trials of the Darksaber.
03:42 One, two, three, four, five, six.
03:49 These were the basics originally taught to Sabine by Ezra in that episode.
03:52 And Sabine made a bit of progress with the darksaber.
03:54 It started to feel lighter in her hands, but she later handed it off to Bo-Katan at the
03:57 beginning of Rebels, season four.
03:59 So other than that period and whatever Ahsoka taught her in the in-between years, Sabine
04:03 is still very much a novice.
04:05 Here Hu Yang, the Jedi Order's architect, droid, and expert on lightsabers, uses these
04:09 four hollow sabers.
04:10 Looking a bit like General Grievous, fore-dogging it like that.
04:13 But these are to record the vector and the accuracy of Sabine's swings.
04:17 Light yellow for more accurate, orange for off-target and more askew angles.
04:21 Ahsoka proposes, "How about Zatochi?"
04:24 This is a reference to Zatoichi, the blind swordsman, the recurring character in 25 Japanese
04:28 samurai films from 1962 to 1973.
04:31 George Lucas cited the Hidden Fortress in the Seventh Samurai as inspirations for Star
04:35 Wars.
04:36 This technique involves Sabine wearing this blindfold mask, similar to the ones worn by
04:39 Padawans in the Jedi Temple that we saw in Attack of the Clones, and the makeshift one
04:43 that Obi-Wan had Luke wear on the Falcon in A New Hope.
04:46 But this mask has an interesting symbol on it.
04:49 Kind of reminds me of something that they might have had in the Jedi Temple training
04:52 room that we saw in flashbacks in Rebels, season two, episode 18, Shroud of Darkness,
04:56 when the future Grand Inquisitor wore masks, but those had eye holes in it.
04:59 A similar mask that Kanan Jarrus put on after he was blinded in the season two finale of
05:03 Rebels in that Malachor Sith Temple.
05:05 Gronn did keep one of these Jedi Temple masks on his desk in season three and four.
05:09 This blindfold mask might also be based on the Kendo mask, which is used in Japanese
05:12 swords martial arts.
05:13 But I just find it interesting that Ahsoka keeps this whole training set on her ship,
05:18 with lightsaber training instruments recovered or rebuilt with Huyang to keep this art form
05:22 alive, even if she's uninterested in the Jedi Order.
05:25 Like she may have rigged her table and seats to descend to the floor to give her more room
05:28 for activities.
05:29 Ahsoka tells Sabine, "I want you to see with more than just your eyes."
05:33 Yes, this is the kind of thing Kanan Jarrus had to learn after he was blinded by Mal at
05:36 the end of season two of Rebels, how to see with more than just your eyes.
05:40 While Sabine is blindfolded, they do this awesome camera editing trick.
05:43 - Do you know where I am?
05:45 - Next to Huyang.
05:46 - Are you sure?
05:47 - Very funny.
05:48 - I love it.
05:49 We don't see Ahsoka walk to Sabine's right side, and the sound mix edits Rosario Dawson's
05:54 voice to be closer and on the right side of the stereo mix at first, but then shifts to
05:59 be on the left side of the stereo mix when she suddenly appears on the left side of frame.
06:02 We experience the same subjective confusion that Sabine does.
06:06 The camera stays on Sabine alone in frame for a few seconds, then...
06:11 Yes, since Sabine cannot see where Ahsoka is, neither can we.
06:16 Sabine swings at more air than a lightsaber kid, but there is one moment she makes progress.
06:24 Yeah, she actually did use a bit of the force there to sense the Bakken behind her, but
06:33 then she just gets too greedy with a kill lunge for getting her footing so Ahsoka can
06:37 trip her.
06:38 So it's not Sabine's lack of force sensitivity, though she is definitely number to the force
06:42 than the Jedi are, it's really Sabine's impatience.
06:45 Ahsoka says...
06:46 - Anger and frustration are quick to give power, but they also unbalance you.
06:49 - Yeah, Ahsoka means that literally and metaphorically, as fear is the path of the dark side, you
06:53 know, leads to anger, hate, suffering, et cetera, but the force is really the balance
06:56 between them.
06:57 On to the New Republic fleet.
06:59 We see four blue-painted A-wings flying into formation past Home One, that is Admiral Ackbar's
07:04 Mon Calamari flagship from Return of the Jedi.
07:06 We see some CR-90 Corvettes, those are the ones with the 11 engines like the Tantive
07:10 Four had, and a Hammerhead Corvette, we saw these in Rogue One.
07:14 The planet they orbit has a vast cityscape surface, could be Coruscant, but currently
07:18 the New Republic's capital is Chandrila, that's Mon Mothma's home world.
07:21 The capital currently rotates among the Core Worlds.
07:24 In the future, it's gonna be Hosnian Prime, that's the system that gets destroyed by Starkiller
07:27 Base in The Force Awakens.
07:29 Chandrila has more green land and oceans, it's not completely an urban cityscape, so
07:33 I'm assuming it's either Coruscant or Hosnian Prime, probably Coruscant.
07:36 Hera checks in with First Officer Vic Hawkins.
07:38 - She's waiting, there are several senators with her, one of them is Xeono.
07:42 - Not Xeono!
07:44 Senator Hamato Xeono is, I think, the first major detail to be pulled in live action from
07:48 the Star Wars Resistance animated series.
07:51 She's the father to Kazuda Xeono, pilot of the Resistance.
07:53 They hail from Hosnian Prime, and Papa Xeono stubbornly refuses to accept Kazuda joining
07:58 the Resistance, considering them extremists.
08:00 Boo!
08:01 Inside this room, which again, seems to be the auditorium-style room that we saw Mon
08:05 Mothma give everyone the briefing about the Bothans and Return of the Jedi, here are Greeks.
08:09 Chancellor Mon Mothma, Genevieve O'Reilly, returning from Andor, now elected the first
08:13 chancellor after the fall of the Empire.
08:15 With her is Senator Xeono, Senator Rodrigo, Senator Marwood, and a senator of the Grand
08:19 Race.
08:20 There's also a grand senator named Ask-Ak, who was a Palpatine loyalist during the prequel
08:24 era, but nah, I don't think he'd be in the New Republic government this high up.
08:28 But who knows?
08:29 Apparently a loyalty oath with your fingers crossed behind your back is enough to get
08:31 the top job with space Nazi destroyers unsupervised.
08:34 Mon Mothma asks...
08:35 - Hera, you look well.
08:36 How's young Jason?
08:37 - Fine, Chancellor.
08:38 In fact, he's on board.
08:39 Somewhere.
08:40 - Ha ha.
08:41 Causing trouble with Chopper, no doubt.
08:42 - Yes, they're referring to Jason Sendula, Hera's son with Kanan Charris from the movie
08:43 "The Last Jedi".
08:44 - I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be here.
08:45 - No, you're not.
08:46 - I'm not.
08:47 - I'm not.
08:48 - So, we have Sendula, Hera's son with Kanan Charris, revealed in the final minutes of
08:52 the "Rebels" finale episode he's played in this episode by Evan Witten.
08:56 Dave Filoni has said that Jason's name, J-A-C-E-N, is a tribute to the Legends character Jason
09:00 Solo, the son of Han and Leia, who eventually becomes a Sith Lord, Darth Cadius.
09:05 Yeah, don't name your kid Jason.
09:06 Senator Rodrigo says the Imperial loyalists on Corellia are outliers since ex-imps had
09:11 to take these oaths of loyalty.
09:12 And it's kind of hard to see here if she's just naive or actively pro-Empire.
09:16 But with Rodrigo and Ziono and that shifty looking grand senator, like notice how he
09:20 nods when Ziono shuts down Hera's task force request.
09:23 That would be either three to two or four to one on any vote they had about this.
09:28 Take it away, Kent.
09:29 - I've said it before and I'll say it again, democracy simply doesn't work.
09:33 - Hera alludes to Thrawn's allies working on a way to find him.
09:36 In addition to Morgan Ellsworth, we know of the Shadow Council in "The Mandalorian" season
09:39 three, including Captain Pellaeon, that was Thrawn's right-hand man in the Timothy Zahn
09:43 novels and currently played by Xander Berkeley in live action, saw him in "The Mandalorian"
09:47 chapter 23.
09:48 Mothma remembers Thrawn for how effective he was against Hera's Phoenix Squadron over
09:51 Lothal in the final season of "Rebels", which led to Hera crashing the next swing on Lothal,
09:55 getting captured, tortured, and Kanan's death while rescuing her.
09:59 Hera calls out Ziono though.
10:00 - Were you ever in the war, Senator?
10:03 - No.
10:04 - Just sat back and waited to see who came out on top?
10:07 - Damn.
10:08 So Hera currently represents the views of Senator Leia Organa, whom Claudia Gray's "Bloodline"
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10:17 and leaves to form the Resistance.
10:19 Hera's defiance to Ziono here may later make Kazuda joining the Resistance feel personal.
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11:24 Hera warns, "Thrawn is not your typical Imperial officer.
11:28 I know because I fought against him.
11:30 He killed friends, people who were like family to me."
11:32 Now, it is worth noting that Thrawn doesn't really kill many major characters in Rebels.
11:36 Like Kanan died because Governor Price blasted the fuel depot, a decision that Thrawn actually
11:41 hated because it slowed down the production of his TIE Defenders.
11:43 But his decisions absolutely killed a lot of people.
11:46 Many Phoenix Squadron pilots, Rebel fighters, innocent Lothal residents.
11:50 He shot Bendu.
11:52 Just kidding, Bendu didn't die.
11:53 He faded away laughing.
11:54 So we're learning here how attached Hera was to all these victims.
11:58 Jason asks, "Is it true Antspeed is gonna be a Jedi?"
12:01 "Now where did you hear that?"
12:02 "Chopper told me."
12:04 "What?
12:05 What's up?"
12:06 "Boo."
12:07 I love Chopper's utterances and I don't know if this was a growl or an awkward "Uhhhhhh."
12:12 But remember, Chopper was the one Ezra handed his lightsaber off to.
12:16 He's the one who tossed Sabine that lightsaber in the Rebels finale episode.
12:19 He wants this transition to happen.
12:21 And also, Hera, Chopper's not the best babysitter.
12:23 He's gonna teach Jason how to be a war criminal.
12:25 Now Jason of course then asks, "I wanna be a Jedi."
12:28 "Yeah, I know you do, Jason."
12:30 Now she is looking in his eyes and totally seeing Kane and Jairus and likely doesn't
12:33 want Jason to follow down that path because, you know, it leads people to hop on top of
12:37 fuel cells and hold back flames to save the people that you love.
12:42 But also, watch that Rebel season 4 breakdown because there is some unresolved history with
12:47 Caleb Dume when he was brought to Lothal, it looks like based off of those Kane paintings,
12:51 by Yoda, Ki-Adi Mundi, and Mace Windu.
12:53 And Jason is totally inheriting that.
12:55 What?
12:56 Okay, so back on the T6, Sabine says, "I was hoping that the urgency of our
13:00 situation could expedite my training a bit."
13:04 Jedi like Anakin and Ahsoka were in a hurry to get better with the Force during the Clone
13:08 Wars and for Anakin to go back and save his mom, which really is the worst time to hone
13:12 this kind of training because you take it harder when you don't pick it up fast enough.
13:15 You're worried that every failure and setback is causing pain and hurt somewhere around
13:19 the galaxy.
13:20 Peace time is the best time to become a good Jedi.
13:21 Sabine says that she can't use the Force and Ahsoka counters, "The Force resides
13:25 in all living things, even you."
13:27 Yes, in Rebel's Trial of the Darksaber, Kanan says essentially the same thing about
13:31 Sabine to Hera.
13:32 "The Force resides in all living things, but you have to be open to it.
13:36 Sabine is blocked.
13:38 Her mind is conflicted.
13:39 She's so expressive and yet so tightly wound.
13:42 She's so..."
13:43 "Mandalorian."
13:44 Which is a much nicer way of putting it than what Hu-Yang has been dropping this episode.
13:48 Beep beep, you suck.
13:50 Hu-Yang even continues to talk shit.
13:51 "The Jedi Order would not have accepted her.
13:54 She is not an acceptable candidate."
13:56 "By their standards."
13:58 "Standards which were proven over a millennia."
14:01 "And failed."
14:02 Ooh, shots fired from Ahsoka.
14:04 Ahsoka is expressing her parting ways with the Jedi Order during Clone Wars Season 5,
14:08 and yes, the Jedi Order's obvious failure when Anakin betrayed them and led the Purge.
14:12 Ahsoka may also be stung all the way back from the Clone Wars movie when Anakin told
14:16 her when they first met, "You never would have made it as Obi-Wan's Padawan, but you
14:20 might make it as mine."
14:21 Hu-Yang says, "You realize, historically, there have been very few Mandalorians.
14:25 Whoever became a Jedi."
14:27 Well, one who did was named Tar Vizsla, the first wielder of the Darksaber, and since
14:33 Sabine hails from House Vizsla, technically she is his descendant.
14:37 Like maybe she's like 1/64th Tar.
14:40 Hu-Yang also says, "Well, I suppose you do come from a long line of non-traditional Jedi."
14:46 Yeah, he's referring to the chain of masters that Ahsoka comes from.
14:50 Her master was Anakin, his master was Obi-Wan Kenobi, his master was Qui-Gon Jinn, his master
14:54 was Dooku, and his master was Yoda.
14:56 So all of them, exceptions to the norm.
14:58 Sabine does that thing that we have all tried to do before when you're eating breakfast
15:02 alone and you try to force some in a cup across the table.
15:04 And I love how she initially squints with one eye aiming like a blaster.
15:09 Her background, of course, is in weaponry, but she exhales and she refocuses, keeping
15:13 both eyes open to the living force.
15:16 We learn all the comms in the Denam system are being jammed, cutting off Hera's bad
15:19 news, and Hu-Yang drops them out of hyperspace far from CETOS following standard Jedi mission
15:24 protocol, which was referenced back in Ahsoka episode 1.
15:26 Hu-Yang says, "The transport was in orbit on the far side of the planet.
15:30 However, there also seems to be a second object, something much larger."
15:34 Yeah, we get an ominous look at the planet of CETOS and we can't help but recall the
15:38 Falcon crew arriving to the Alderaan debris field and seeing a moon that ended up being
15:42 the Death Star.
15:43 "That's no moon.
15:44 It's a space station."
15:47 Six pilots led by Shin and Murok pursue them in these awesome looking fighters with weathered
15:52 red and yellow paint and a buzzing World War II style design.
15:56 Based on how beat up they look, I'm going to assume that these ships come from the Clone
15:59 Wars era, maybe modified Belulov 22s originally from the Republic Commando game and later
16:05 came back in Revenge of the Sith and Clone Wars as Separatist fighters.
16:08 The hole on the nose though reminds me of the MiG-15, which was a Soviet designed fighter
16:12 jet used in the Korean War.
16:14 It's also kind of reminiscent of the P-47 Mustang with the rounded cowlings and the
16:17 nose of the F-2F Brewster Buffalo.
16:20 Whatever.
16:21 It just looks old and scrappy.
16:22 It sounds awesome.
16:23 The rapid rate of blaster fire is sick.
16:25 A lot of fun watching these, even if Ahsoka's T6 should have been obliterated several times.
16:29 Just the dogfight in here is great.
16:31 Because George Lucas originally based his aerial combat imagery for the first Star Wars
16:34 film on actual World War II air battle footage.
16:37 So it's always been part of the franchise's DNA.
16:39 Sabine complains.
16:40 "I see you got rid of my presets.
16:42 I never needed them."
16:43 Yeah, Ahsoka claims to not need computers to aim because she can use a force.
16:46 Kind of sounds like these two got a lot of shit in their time after the Rebels finale.
16:50 We need some flashbacks to that.
16:52 So after Ahsoka tried to train Sabine to learn to anticipate, and before rejecting urgency
16:56 as a way to improve one's skills, now Ahsoka gives in.
16:59 And she adapts.
17:00 "Sabine, tell me what you need."
17:03 This teamwork between the pilot and the gunner is just what makes this all so fun.
17:07 Hera and Chopper did it in that cool move in Episode 2.
17:10 Rey and Finn did it with the Falcon in The Force Awakens.
17:12 And hey, we do it every time we ride Smuggler's Run.
17:15 Hey, you can keep pilot and gunner.
17:16 I like the engineer.
17:17 I like pushing the buttons when they light up.
17:19 Ahsoka uses the unique function of the T6.
17:22 It's rotating wings to surprise the two pilots with a game of chicken, going vertical at
17:25 the last second, catching them off guard so Sabine can take one of them out and give herself
17:29 some confidence.
17:30 "I got one!"
17:31 Her exaltation may remind you of Luke's "I got one!" from A New Hope.
17:35 "I got him!"
17:36 "Great tip.
17:37 Don't get cocky."
17:38 But whereas Han Solo responded to him with "Nice work, kid, but don't get cocky," Ahsoka
17:42 just gives Sabine a very wholesome "good work" and forgives her when she misses one.
17:46 Now from the Eye of Scion, Morgan Elsbeth fires turbo lasers.
17:50 Hu Yang says, "See if you can get a little closer."
17:53 "Are you Prof.
17:54 Weiner?"
17:55 "Closer, please."
17:56 I don't know if it's just me, but David Tennant's tone here, as Hu Yang, totally reminds me of
18:00 Hannibal Lecter's line to Clarice in Silence of the Lambs.
18:03 "Closer, please."
18:04 "Closer."
18:05 Like Sabine pushing it with that explosive HK droid head in Episode 2, Hu Yang pushes
18:09 it here.
18:10 "Just a moment."
18:11 "Scan complete."
18:12 Now Shin radios to Morgan.
18:13 "Congratulations."
18:14 "You almost got them."
18:15 "I'm glad you're here."
18:16 "I'm glad you're here."
18:17 "I'm glad you're here."
18:18 "I'm glad you're here."
18:19 "You almost got them."
18:20 "I have eyes on them."
18:21 Like the high-res Dark Sister holoprojections on the Eye of Scion at the end of Episode
18:26 2, now even the audio communication has a smoother fidelity.
18:29 Like the hardware Morgan is using on the ship might have been designs transmitted to her
18:33 from Thrawn's new galaxy, or his old galaxy.
18:36 I'm reminded of the alien technology transmitted to Earth in the movie Contact, which were
18:40 blueprints for creating a ring-based transportation device to take us through a wormhole back
18:45 to them.
18:46 The tech that Thrawn and his forces use could be based on some long-forgotten but superior
18:51 technology of the Rakatan builders, or the celestial gods of Mortis, or whoever it's
18:55 going to end up being.
18:56 Also, I gotta point this out, the shots of Shin Hati in her cockpit, she wears the comms
19:00 headpiece so that the band goes under her bangs.
19:03 She will not mess up her due for this.
19:05 And yes, it's the same kind of headset that Anakin wears in the Battle of Coruscant during
19:08 this fun moment.
19:09 "This is where the fun begins."
19:11 Meanwhile, the headset that Sabine wears looks like the wiry one that Han Solo wears when
19:15 he was in the Falcon gunner's seat in A New Hope.
19:17 Now, craziest moment of this episode, Ahsoka suits up in this fly space suit with custom
19:21 designed headgear that perfectly fits her liqueur.
19:24 And yes, I do not understand the gravity of her walking out on the wing like that, or
19:27 when she leaps, why the jump would form an arc and not kick her out directly off into
19:31 space according to Newton's third law.
19:33 But you know what?
19:34 There is no Newton in Star Wars, folks.
19:35 There shouldn't even be sound in space.
19:37 None of this has ever adhered to the laws of physics, but there might be like magnetic
19:41 clips in her boots.
19:42 Now on her second flip jump, Ahsoka uses her lightsaber to sever the fighter's wing, reminding
19:47 us of Rey's big flip move in the Rise of Skywalker on Pasano when she used her lightsaber to
19:51 wreck Kylo Ren's TIE Interceptor.
19:53 Now this just causes Ahsoka to float loose, but if you look closely, some sparks fly off
19:58 her back tech.
19:59 So this may have been some kind of jetpack thruster, maybe a localized gravity regulator.
20:02 I don't know.
20:03 I'm doing my best here, folks.
20:04 Sabine ends up using the same rotating wing mechanism that Ahsoka used before now to rake
20:09 Ahsoka back into the hatch.
20:10 Now again, Balin saw some Purgle in the cloudy skies over C-TOS last episode, and now Sabine
20:15 and Ahsoka see them up close.
20:26 They look so good.
20:27 The closed captions on Disney+ actually describe this sound as melodic rumbling.
20:31 It is a huge deal for Sabine to see these.
20:34 The Purgle were, of course, the hyperspace whales that Ezra summoned in the final episode
20:39 of Rebels to defeat Thrawn, fulfilling Bendu's prophecy to Thrawn in the season three finale
20:43 that Thrawn would be defeated with many arms surrounding him in a cold embrace.
20:47 And those whales zipped both of them off into hyperspace.
20:50 The Purgle were first introduced in Rebels season two, episode 15, The Call, when the
20:54 Ghost crew came across an asteroid gas refinery where Purgle feed on that gas to survive.
20:59 Ezra made a connection with the Alpha Purgle by looking into its eye, forming this lifelong
21:03 connection that he would call upon in his hour of need in the series finale.
21:07 I wonder if the clouds of Cetos might be composed of a similar gaseous substance as what was
21:11 in that planetoid structure in The Call episode.
21:14 Now in the Rebels finale episode, and we see in this series, Sabine has actually added
21:17 a Purgle to the pauldron of her armor.
21:19 So she has been dreaming of this moment.
21:21 Purgle do actually show up in the constellations of the closing credits, along with a single
21:25 Loth-Wolf by the planet Lothal.
21:27 I actually translated every single rune, planet, and hidden clue on that star map in another
21:31 video.
21:32 Definitely watch it.
21:33 It's extremely important to know what the series is really doing.
21:36 And with Dave Filoni so obsessed with wolf imagery, the character name of Marok is based
21:41 on Arthurian legend, a character associated with wolves.
21:43 Filoni's X-Wing pilot character is named Trapper Wolf.
21:47 Everything about the Loth-Wolves that you can learn by watching that Rebels 4 recap
21:49 video is just worth reminding everyone that wolves and whales share a common evolutionary
21:54 ancestry.
21:55 As the reason whales are mammals and not fish is that they had a common Mammalian ancestor
22:00 that lived close to water and eventually evolved into a whale.
22:03 Now while in the Rebels finale, there was a mix of Big Purgle and smaller ones, here
22:07 there only seem to be big ones.
22:09 Have they grown?
22:10 Sabine pilots right by the Big Purgle's eye.
22:13 So it is also important in this moment that Sabine is piloting, not Ahsoka.
22:18 It's Sabine's time to fly.
22:20 I haven't seen those creatures since the day Ezra disappeared.
22:22 And I wonder if when this huge Purgle looks into this cockpit, it might see, it might
22:27 zero in on the friend who desperately misses the boy that they flew off with.
22:31 The Purgle actually helps them during this chase.
22:34 Its undulating tentacles fold down behind the T6, closing it off from view from Shin.
22:38 And when Sabine finds an opening, it might have been one intentionally created by the
22:42 Purgle moving its tentacles out of the way.
22:43 They end up parking the T6 in this grove of red trees, masking it as these red leaves
22:48 match the T6's red paint.
22:49 This setting reminds me of the mystic Weirwood trees in A Song of Ice and Fire.
22:53 Just a lot of interesting stuff going on here visually.
22:56 Actually its name, Cetos, like Arcana, clearly referencing the word arcane, Cetos must mean
23:01 something as either the seat of power, or maybe these ruins are kind of tossing themselves
23:05 into the sea.
23:06 While these Stonehenge inspired ruins are positioned by the sea, its just interesting
23:10 to me that the true open gulf that this point jumps out into is up into the clouds with
23:15 the whales, and beyond that, into the stars.
23:17 Hu Yeng identifies the Eye of Scion as a hyperspace ring.
23:21 Smaller versions of these were used by Jedi starfighters like the one Obi-Wan piloted
23:24 in Attack of the Clones to dock up with and then let the ring carry the hyperdrive.
23:28 This one has SEVEN engines so that it can jump galaxies.
23:32 I like how the final shot of Sabine and Ahsoka frames them on either side of this ring, both
23:36 of them equally propulsive to move this union forward.
23:39 But Hu Yeng has an interesting line here.
23:41 The Jedi archives speak of intergalactic hyperspace lanes between galaxies, which used to follow
23:46 the migration paths of star whales named Pergol.
23:50 Jedi archives.
23:51 The Jedi knew about other galaxies, and they knew about the Pergol as the link to them.
23:56 In Rebel Season 4 Episode 12, we meet a character named Minister Hyden outside the Lothal Jedi
24:01 Temple right before the World Between Worlds episode, and he discusses Jedi lore with the
24:06 Emperor.
24:07 The symbols and iconography are reminiscent of a report I discovered in the Jedi archives.
24:15 The Mortis Gods.
24:17 The Mortis Gods in Jedi archives.
24:20 So if these Mortis Gods are Star Wars Celestials, if they come from another galaxy, and if the
24:24 Jedi archives knew about that, this could all be connected through the Mortis Gods and
24:29 the World Between Worlds, a dimension that transcends time.
24:32 Look folks, most of the trailer footage has been seen now.
24:35 All that's really left that we have not seen in the episode are the duel between Ahsoka
24:38 and Balin in this star map ruins on Cetos, and a duel between Shan and Sabine in the
24:42 nearby trees.
24:43 That's probably coming next episode, since this episode ends with Balin sending his forces
24:47 into that forest.
24:48 Trailers have also given us two shots of Thrawn, one from behind, one from in front.
24:51 So think about that, episodes 5 through 8 could look like anything.
24:56 Dave Filoni is directing episode 5, so I think after Ahsoka and Balin's duel next episode,
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