Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Trailer: A beloved Legends character returns!
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Oeh I saw some TIE-Interceptors in there. I wonder how close this is then to the Battle of Yavin.
The line was actually "The key to destroying the Sith..."FPLOON said:
Of course we know Ezra and Co. won't accomplish this; that's Anakin's job. However, I'm guessing they'll help ensure that final confrontation will eventually come about in some indirect way.
Looks interesting. Makes we wonder if this new season is going to take a darker turn, similar to Clone Wars after the first few seasons. For example, I've noticed Ezra doing stuff in the trailer that is noticeably more violent and lethal than before.
A good example of this is in one of the books (can't remember which one). Thrawn had laid a trap for Luke in his X-Wing. They dragged him out of hyperspace and were just about to reel him in with a tractor beam, when Luke pulls a highly unorthodox and dangerous to throw off the tractor beam lock. The officer tried something risky too in a last ditch effort to compensate, but it backfires and causes the tractor beam to malfunction, allowing Luke to escape. Thrawn confronts the technical officer in charge of that tractor beam, asking him why he failed. The officer then explains that he wasn't trained to handle the move Luke pulled because no one believed anyone would be stupid enough to try something so inherently dangerous, so the Imperial training protocols never accounted for it. So he did the best he could with what he had and tried something new, but it wasn't enough.
If it were Vader, that technical officer would've died there on the spot for having 'failed him for the last time'. Thrawn instead promotes him and charges him with improving their tractor beams and training so the situation doesn't happen again. Because, while the officer failed, he did take initiative and thought outside of the box. It's not incompetence that Thrawn punishes, it's stupidity and negligence. The technical officer's superior who just tried to save his own hide? Not so lucky.
Scarim Coral said:
Indeed, people like Thrawn because he's a different kind of villain compared to the usual Star Wars fare like Vader and Palpatine. He is ruthless and evil, but not an unreasonable or needlessly cruel card-carrying megalomaniac.Sniper Team 4 said:
A good example of this is in one of the books (can't remember which one). Thrawn had laid a trap for Luke in his X-Wing. They dragged him out of hyperspace and were just about to reel him in with a tractor beam, when Luke pulls a highly unorthodox and dangerous to throw off the tractor beam lock. The officer tried something risky too in a last ditch effort to compensate, but it backfires and causes the tractor beam to malfunction, allowing Luke to escape. Thrawn confronts the technical officer in charge of that tractor beam, asking him why he failed. The officer then explains that he wasn't trained to handle the move Luke pulled because no one believed anyone would be stupid enough to try something so inherently dangerous, so the Imperial training protocols never accounted for it. So he did the best he could with what he had and tried something new, but it wasn't enough.
If it were Vader, that technical officer would've died there on the spot for having 'failed him for the last time'. Thrawn instead promotes him and charges him with improving their tractor beams and training so the situation doesn't happen again. Because, while the officer failed, he did take initiative and thought outside of the box. It's not incompetence that Thrawn punishes, it's stupidity and negligence. The technical officer's superior who just tried to save his own hide? Not so lucky.
Don't you think that is taking way too much from Jacen? I mean, I do want them to bring back Legends character in either full character or in concept (like Fenn Rau), but I want the only similarity between Jacen and Ben to be that they are sons of Han and Leia that fell to the dark side.Jadak said:
It's looking much darker. Before this trailer showed up, they released a little clip of the episode with Hondo in it. Ezra and crew are breaking him out of prison. As they're doing so, a Stormtrooper shows up and Sabine yells, "Watch out!" Ezra calmly turns around and blasts the guy and immediately goes back to work. It's very cold and casual for him because up until that point, he's never actually killed anyone (maybe one Stormtrooper when he deflected the blaster bolt back at him), and for me it was very jarring. We then get the scene of him tacking out the Stromtroopers in the hall, cutting one of them likely in half with his lightsaber, which you see in the trailer. Ezra is certainly getting more aggressive, and I think it's telling that he's willing to kill so casually now.Chimpzy said:
I think that might be taking it too far as well (in regards to Mara Jade). At that point, you may as well have just named Kylo Ren Jacen, because you've basically taken all of his important parts in the later E.U. story. I mean, Rey is pretty much already Jaina (good with machines, natural Force talent, excellent pilot), but she has a different backstory at least.Jadak said:
Plus, Jacen kind of earned the ability to kill Mara--and even then, the only reason he barely pulled it off was because he used a cheap trick to save his life. And let's face it, Kylo's character is...kind of whiny. He comes across more as a spoiled, angst-filled teenager than a dark, imposing villain. Finding out that someone like him got the best of Mara, a trained assassin who became a Jedi Master in the E.U., would not be a good call in my book. I feel like the only way Kylo could beat someone like Mara would be if Mara screwed up so bad that it's unbelievable. That it's the writers forcefully making her make a mistake out of character.
