SPOILER WARNING!!! I am watching all Star Wars in Chronological order; I have seen the Original Trilogy but nothing else beyond the Kenobi so please be careful of spoilers in the comments.
I always thought it was really cool when Kanan said "...there were around 10,000 Jedi knights protecting the galaxy." Really puts into perspective how big the order was during the Prequels and just how devastating Order 66 was!
Yeah it's cool but so depressing too 😂 Order 66 was so much more devestating that what the movies and shows have shown but lines like these are amazing at capturing the impact of it.
Holocrons are basically "living" libraries. They can even be imprinted with the personalities of caretakers (think like Jor-El, Superman's Dad). The knowledge they can hold is massive to say the least, from hyperspace lanes and cultural archives, to massive lists of people and hidden knowledge. They are very powerful. Edit 1: Depa Bilaba seems to have been a level-headed yet affectionate Master to Caleb. And they shared a bond slightly deeper than other Jedi, more like a mother figure to him. Seeing her die broke him, evidently. And he was all alone afterwards. I believe there is a comic run about Caleb specifically, but I don't remember the title at the moment
Oh wow, so Kanan having this opens up so much then rather than it just warning him to stay away from Coruscant. Love that we're seeing his relationship with his master through how he is with Ezra, the parental dynamic wouldn't be there if Bilaba was distant and like other Jedi so I love so much that Kanan got to experience this form of training and attachment but of course it makes her death so much more painful for him.
This show has done an outstanding job of introducing a new set of heroes and villains and making the audience care about them in such a short time. The writers even connected this unknown crew to the greater Star Wars universe via Bail Organa and Yoda.
Yoda's self-exile and training led to him gaining omnipotence through the Force. Hence him already being aware of much about Luke when they first met. Since he appeared similar to how Qui-Gon did, the training probably involved some form of out of body experiences too.
Love so much that Yoda was actually being productive in his exile and not just sitting around waiting for Luke, having him being aware like this and being able to help Kanan and Ezra makes me think he must have helped other Jedi who needed him.
I’ll start with Qui-Gon's words, which add depth to these episodes: "I didn't turn toward the light because someday I will win some sort of cosmic game. I turn toward it because it is light." Ezra doesn't fully understand what the dark side and light side mean, nor does he grasp Jedi and Sith philosophy. This is all new to him. In the first episode, he's consumed by darkness in the form of fear, and symbolically, the giant creature represents Ezra's fear, which challenges the Grand Inquisitor. Plus, Ezra didn't remember it, he did it in a trance and was completely consumed by fear. The second episode is crucial for Ezra because it forms the foundation for his future lessons. The first thing he has to confront is his fear. The Grand Inquisitor is a literal symbol of fear, and every time he appears, Ezra becomes highly vulnerable to the dark side. Referring to Qui-Gon's words, you can feel fear, anger, and hatred-those emotions exist in everyone-but you can't let them guide or define you. Ezra is very vulnerable to the dark side, and the test was to confront that darkness in all forms, represented by the Grand Inquisitor. He had to understand that fear would lead him nowhere, and only by maintaining inner peace he could survive. At first he runs away, afraid of confronting his own fear. but then it changes. 27:45: Logic: Ezra didn’t know if those illusions were real or not, but he kept going. If he had been led by fear, he would have either given up or acted irrationally, and he wouldn’t have succeeded. His words emphasized this lesson-Ezra decided to be calm - light, which helped him pass. However, the lesson ends there. Ezra didn’t accept the existence of his fear (the darkness); he just let the light guide him in that situation. In the end, we get a conversation with Yoda that emphasizes this. Ezra passed the test, but he is still influenced by his emotions, and he even begins to talk about revenge (avenging someone is a form of revenge). From revenge and the desire to cause harm, it’s a short path to obsession, which is dangerous. At the same time, Yoda speaks to Kanan, forcing him to confront his own fear of failure in his new role. As a survivor, Kanan likely abandoned the Jedi path to some extent, and I believe he might have used or been influenced by the dark side to survive at some point. Kanan's greatest fear is when he sees Ezra controlling the beast-he knows this is the dark side and knows exactly where that path leads. That's why he reacts the way he does. A normal Jedi wouldn’t react so nervously, but someone familiar with that path would. As for the temple itself, it clearly dates back to the Old Republic era. This is suggested by its location in the Outer Rim and its hidden. It makes sense, considering the Sith often built their empires in that region. Hiding the temple and its contents would have been crucial to avoid risk. Now, it's used as a test for Padawans, but what it was previously used for is up for speculation-perhaps a stronghold, a small temple aiding the local population, a place to train Padawans, or something else entirely. We don’t know. (The Old Republic trailers won’t show specific locations or events connected to Rebels, but they do add depth to past events, and we’ll see more references to that era like that one.) As for Ezra’s midichlorian count, this is speculative because there's no official list, and the information we have comes from either legends or observations. Windu likely had around 17-18k. Yoda and Palpatine had around 20k. It’s hard to say, but many fans believe Ezra might be stronger in the Force than Windu or have a very similar strength. For Kanan, I’d estimate 13-14k. If it were lower, experience would be more important, as in Kenobi's case, but Kanan definitely lacks that.
Loved this entire sequence and all the detail behind it, the fact that Ezra has no idea about the Dark Side makes all of this even more dangerous as he has no clue he’s meant to be resisting it, Qui-Gon really put it best and I hope this is something Ezra will learn. I love how this Temple worked and basically highlights the Padawan’s fatal flaw in basically a simulation, now he knows what he needs to work on and can do it in real life. His journey through the Temple was amazing and I just hope he can become like this when facing The Grand Inquisitor in the future. His conversation with Yoda was so interesting, the desire to protect I think is a good base, but he still wants to bring harm against those who do harm to people he fails to protect. It’s weird to think that Yoda passed him even with this going on, guess it means Yoda’s confident he can get through it and still sees potential in him. Kanan was amazing in these episodes, these highlighted so much about him and his past and how that’s affecting his relationship with Ezra, him seeing Ezra use the Dark Side like this must have been terrifying for someone who has experienced it and managed to turn away from it so I can only imagine his desire to help Ezra grew so much at this point. I never even considered that this place would have been used for anything other than a test, it’s so cool how much history this Temple brings to the Galaxy and so fun to think of this place being used to hide things in the time of the Sith Empires. I can totally see Ezra having a higher force count than most seeing as he’s progressing rather quickly at an older age and already proving to be quite powerful.
About the weird looking temple room with the circles: Interesting you picked up on certain things there and this might become very important in the future, but I'm not telling you more. Also Yoda comunicating with them at the Temple even though he is on Dagobah is something that will get explained later. Maybe him showing up as the light particles is showing his training for becoming a force ghost and he is already connecting with the realm of the cosmic force. I could imagine that you would have to dip your toes into the cosmic force and partially take the light particle form as practice in order to be confidently able to become a full ghost once you die... We also saw that Qui Gon first only managed to appear as particles and later as a ghost, but for Yoda this might be a little different, since he is still alive...
Love that I'm picking up on all the weird stuff 😂😂 I think it's so cool that Yoda actually helped out here, makes it so much better knowing he isn't just sitting around doing nothing on Dagobah. Also really like how this displays his progression with his training since we know he's alive right now but he's able to do the same thing a dead Qui-Gon did.
Ezra doesn't have a confirmed Midiclorian count (to my knowledge), but he definitely has crazy high potential in the Force. Obviously he isnt a Skywalker, but bro is (and does become) someone to be excited about. Also Kanan's master is Jedi Master Depa Billaba. Knowing Mace Windu was Billaba's master, Billaba had a seat on the Council, plus the moments in the comics, she was pretty good.
Knew it had to be high with the stuff he's been able to do and how relatively easy he's doing it, so looking forward to seeing the person he'll become because of this and how he's been trained differently to the Jedo of the past. Also, love that we're seeing a Windu lineage, feel like seeing how Kanan trains Ezra could tell us more about Mace and Billaba.
The setup for Sabine's feelings about parents was also referenced during her episode with Hera. Sabine talked about being at the academy and people not liking her asking question, and then her being part of the team, there's massive gap there, all of which was prefaced with Sabine saying Hera is already aware of what happened back then.
Love how much this is setting up for her, it already feels so personal while staying mysterious, every member of the crew seems to have family issues or something like that with Zeb's race being wiped out, Kanan losing his master and Ezra losing his parents so I can't wait to see how Sabine's situation relates to theirs.
happy Birthday Ezra bridger! i just love this scene so much this first time Sabine call Ezra full name it just how much the bond and respect start there best ... in star wars
Kanan actually has his own comic series. I've only read the first few when I was quite young but I really enjoyed it. Kanan's progress is such an interesting development into the young padawan, to the young soul that lost his way, to rebel doing what good he can in a world out to hurt others. One way or another, Kanan and Ezra are more alike than many stop to think. Kanan is the reason Ezra never lost his way like he had after all.
Loving their relationship so much and how similar they are, it's so cool that Kanan sees it as his duty to prevent Ezra from going down the same path he did.
So, Kyber crystals CAN be found all across the galaxy, TECHNICALLY speaking, however it is EXTREMELY rare to find. Ilum just turned out to have had, presumably, an unusual high amount of it, so the Jedi used it as their main area for new Padawans to get their crystals from. The only other place I know of that might've had a similar concentration of kyber crystals would be a place named Exegol, but that place was probably SO hidden away, not even the Jedi knew of it's existence. The Jedi, having been around at least since the birth of the Republic some 25'000 years ago, with it's ancestral religion, the "Je'daii", dating back approximately 35'450 years ago. So the Jedi might have temples all across the galaxy, though the one on Coruscant was their primary temple, even if it's been trough some events in history, most recently, being turned into Palpatine's personal palace. So kyber crystals and other Jedi temples DOES exist elsewhere in the galaxy, not just on Coruscant and Ilum, they just turned out to be the primary ones.
It's honestly so cool that Kyber Crystals aren't just located on Ilum, with the Empire in control now it would have made it impossible for new Kyber Crystals to be found plus I love that this made it so difficult as it feels so earned for Ezra.
Two more stellar episodes, and wonderful reactions! I love when Star Wars draws outside of the lines and explores trippy situations. The Grand Inquisitor is insanely frightening. You know he means business when he ignites both blades of his lightsaber. Ezra's journey to creating his own lightsaber was so well done. The staple gun comment took me out!
Loved both of these episodes so much, the trippy stuff was insane and I can't wait for all of that to be explored more! The Grand Inquisitor is amazing as always, he owns every scene he's in, and Ezra's lightsaber was amazing 😂😂 Love how it's so different to anything we've seen before!
Hi, Ben! Hope you are well! I think I've said this before, but this entire series is indeed one very long, subtle story arc. While each episode can be "self-contained" at times, they all connect when you look at the broader picture. Also, your "Rebels" journey is just beginning, but another channel's journey is about to end (Melissa Hime).... but I look forward to both of your channels Rebels experience every week. I watch a lot of Reaction channels (and do a few here and there myself, but mine are more "nostalgic" than actual series), and love to see how you younger people see these Star Wars movies and shows. It reminds me of how **I** felt watching them for the first time. So, yeah.... "Nostalgia" is a big thing for me, but also "seeing things through a new set of eyes". But, enough of that... let's get on with it. 3:30 - Ezra's anger here is understandable "in the moment"... but the reality is that Tsebo (I think I spelled that right) couldn't have prevented the Empire from taking his parents. 5:40 - Yes, Chopper IS an Astromech, just an earlier model than R2-D2. Which kinda says something, if you consider that R2 wasn't exactly "brand new" in Episode I.... but Chopper is even older. Also, (not a spoiler, but some backstory).... Droids who do not have their memories wiped every so often will develop "personalities" based on their experiences. Chopper, like R2-D2 never had his memory wiped. Most Protocol droids (Like C-3PO) have their memories wiped regularly to prevent this, however 3PO does have a "baseline" personality in his programming. 6:47 - Not entirely true. Ezra is "part of the Ghost family", and Sabine DOES care about him as a younger brother. Sabine has noticed how this is affecting Ezra, and wants him to come to terms with it. She has her reasons... but "no spoilers". 13:55 - I was waiting to see if you spotted that comparison. I'm glad you didn't disappoint! But yes, Ezra did tap into the Dark Side there. Kanan knows it, and I think deep down it troubles him. Also, remember, Kanan was still a Padawan when Order 66 happened, so it's not like HE had full training, either. So, naturally, he will have his own doubts about his abilities to train Ezra. 17:00 - I know you have questions, and while I can't/won't give you answers right now... I'll go ahead and say that your questions will be answered in time. I'll give you that much information, but no more. Rebels is a series that doesn't "set up" things like that without resolving them at some point. That's what make this show so damned good. 21:30 - There are Jedi temples scattered across the galaxy. The Empire hasn't raided/destroyed them all. 23:00 - Kinda reminds one of Stonehenge, doesn't it......? 24:30 - Remember one of the earliest Jedi teachings: "Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them." 26:46 - Ezra, like the younglings in the Clone Wars episode, is having to face his fear. In order to pass the trial (test), he must not give into his fear. His fear is about self-doubt, abandonment and trust issues. 28:55 - Remember in Episode V.... Yoda said, "A long time have I have watched (Luke). Always has he looked away, to the horizon, never his mind on where he was. What he was doing." Yoda is powerful enough in The Force to watch Luke on Tatooine from Dagobah, so he's strong enough to connect with a Jedi temple on Lothal. 29:40 - The funny thing is, that Kanan also has issues with his own self-doubt, and fear of potentially losing Ezra to the Dark Side if he's not up to training him properly.
I’m absolutely loving the structure of this show and these episodes were just amazing, love how these developed both Ezra and Kanan and added so much trauma to both of them, after this I’m sure Kanan must have touched the Darkness in his past and seeing Ezra go through this must have brought those memories to the surface which just deepens their bond as there’s no way Kanan will let Ezra fall to the Dark Side now. Then Ezra got to do so much, having him experience the Dark Side was inevitable since he just hasn’t learned about it yet so the danger was going to get him sooner or later, but then he got to learn of his fatal flaw, now he knows that he must overcome his fear if he ever wants to be a Jedi and this is how he avoids falling back into the Darkness. Also loved the seeds of info we got on Sabine here, it’s only crumbs but I love how we can just read her actions and gather some parts of her past.
@@benspiller Yeah, the structure of this show is amazingly well done. It's why Rebels is my favorite animated series. I will say that we don't get a whole lot of Kanan's backstory, but just enough to flesh out his character. I would love to see a new series that shows us what happened to him between The Bad Batch and Rebels. (technically a spoiler, but a minor one) I will not say anything about Ezra "touching the Dark Side", except in regards to this episode. But do understand, as I commented above, Kanan has his own self doubts about being a capable teacher, since he was still a Padawan when Order 66 happened. I will say this much: We will get to see them both grow as characters. Lastly, "seeds" get planted a LOT in Rebels, for all of the characters. Seeds that you will get to see "in full flower". So, on that, worry not. Just pay attention to those seeds, so that when you DO see them "flower", you'll appreciate them even more.
Kanan speaking of having lost himself is because the events of the beginning of the show are meant to be the first time he used his saber/the force in a very long time, hence him listening to Obi-Wan's message.
Kanaan's Master Depa Bilaba was padawan to Master of the order Mace Windu. Both of them were great force users and lightsaber duelists but they were also hard into the jedi dogma.
Star Wars The Clone Wars S3:E15 "Overlords" Qui-Gon: Obi-Wan, have you done as I asked? Have you trained the boy? Obi-Wan: Master Qui-Gon, how are you here? Qui-Gon: I am here because you are here. Star Wars Rebels S1:E10 "Path of the Jedi" Kanan: The kid's taking too long. Yoda: Patience. Remember you nothing of your own training? Kanan: Master Yoda. It can't be. I'm losing it. Yoda Losing? Lost. Yes. But what loss, hmm? The question, that is. Kanan: Master? How... How can this be? Yoda: Be not concerned with how. Know I am here because you are here.
Kyber crystals can be technically found in a lot of places, its just that Illum (the icy planet) had an abundance of them, hence the Jedi order favored going there for the training and lightsaber building of padawans.
The illusions in a Jedi trial are par for the course, remember Luke ha one, very briefly on Dagoba, when he was with Yoda, he went into that cave and suddenly Vader was there and he cut his head off, seeing his own face in Vaders mask.
Love this place now, it goes so deep into Ezra's fears and there is so much to look at with the Grand Inquisitor actually being on the Ghost, first having the crew talk about him like they did and then having them slaughtered, the Temple really knows how to traumatise people 😂😂
so for ep 9 yeah sabine's push for ezra to connect and learn about his family comes her past and even hera's push for him to learn about them comes from her how family history is. one thing to remember is that for force sensitives especially those who have often focus in the light side is that the dark side often feels cold like a chill or ice especially later in the series. they sort of hint at this with the luminara trap. on to ep 10 yes there were many Jedi temples across the galaxy the one on corasant was just the main temple of that era as they were many across the galaxy there were also many other planets with kyber crystals. Illum was just one of the earliest known planets found to have them and thus become sacred to the jedi, other locations that had them were the planet we see in the clone wars movie Christophsis, the planets where obi- wan and ki-adi mundi are when order 66 in ROTS is called in just to name a few. as you see star wars in order you will see other places but chronologically those are the ones we know have them from the prequal era. of the Original trilogy the only place that is mention to have both a place for kyber crystals and a temple is Dantooine. the place that leia gives as the planet the rebels are hiding on when Tarkin threatens to destory her home planet. now on to why kanan feels like he's not ready. outside of his incomplete training. pretty much he had almost completely cut himself off from the force after order 66. it wasn't till he met hera that he actually tried to use it. and even then those were often very small things. remember in the first couple episodes. Kanan very much comes off as if he hasn't really used is lightsaber in a long time until they are saving the wookies and is very reluctant to do it probably because he hasn't really used since order 66 and very few times before tried to adopted using a blaster. so it not just his training being incomplete but also he's rusty. Tales of the jedi and the first arc in the clone wars with anakin getting ashoka show that sometimes even brand new masters still need some form of support to help with their apprentices. of which kanan's closest form of constant support is the ghost crew and they don't really have much advice or experience in the force. he's pretty much in a worst state then obi-wan despite only just having become a knight at least he had multiple jedi masters he could go and ask help from when training anakin and even anakin had some of qui-gon's and obi-wan's teachings to lean on for ashoka. Kanan is playing it completely by ear hoping not to fail not just ezra but himself. and ezra is just trying to not just protect his new family but also himself since he has been on his own for the last 7 years remember he is just 14 when we first meet him. he has a new family but he scared to get close in the chance he might lose them but at the same time he wants to feel like he contributing and not feel like he's taken in because he's space Aladdin king of identity fraud. so for him power is sort of like how anakin sees it a means to protect those he cares about. but ezra's want to protect isn't just limited to one, two or three people like anakin was with his mom, and after she died padme and ashoka, it goes for his home Lothal. remember anakin wanted to free all the slaves on tatoonie but it was mostly because his mom was there. when does finally go back in EP attack of the clones he doesn't even think about freeing the other slaves. he had friends who were slaves too but he didn't go to them. but ezra wants his planet free not just his family he shows this when he helps free the farmers during his maylu run with zeb because they were family friends. on to Yoda waiting for Luke. Luke wasn't yoda's first choice of the twins for him to train. Obi-wan was the one who pushed for luke to be trained. when you look into the OT you can see more of padme's personality in leia when it came to pushing aside her feelings to focus in whats in front of her. luke's only trait he takes from his mother is the belief that anakin can be turned because their is good in him. Leia completely believes like anakin does in return of the jedi that there is no good left in him. you can sort of see it with how Yoda and obi-wan pretty much tell him to kill vader even after he learns that vader is his dad and when he refuses obi-wan pretty much says that if he won't kill him its already over and their hope is for him to teach leia without probably ideally without telling her their relationship. because they've completely gave up on him by that point. obi-wan only teaches anakin how to become a force ghost because he feels guilty that he gave up on him. I believe in both canon and legends anakin tries to contact leia after return of the jedi and she wants nothing to do with him even when he begs her she doesn't. in legends we sort of have her coming to terms and accepting that he is her father after learning about his past as a slave and eventually has a kid named anakin. in canon we don't have a moment like that with her accepting him at least not yet. if anything we have a major moment in canon that has her relationship to him actually screwing up her attempts to help the galley at large.
Love how this episode sets up the story for Sabine! She’s been so mysterious and I’m just happy to get crumbs. It’s so cool that Jedi have this sort of alarm system like this where if they sense the Dark Side, they feel cold or a chill, makes me think back the Kenobi series when he was describing what the Light Side was to Leia so maybe this is how he’d describe the dark. Really like how this explored more history of the Jedi and actually explored an old Jedi Temple, it makes the history of the Jedi so much richer knowing that there were alternative and more dangerous ways of testing Padawans and obtaining crystals which actually involved and attachment between Padawan and Master where the Master would stay and die if their student didn’t return. This episode did a great job at adding more to Kanan and just elaborating on his past and how he feels about the position he’s in. Can’t wait to see him grow and develop alongside Ezra as I can only imagine how cool it would be to see a Teacher and Student grow together. So happy that Yoda has an active role in the Galaxy during the Empire and it’s so interesting that Luke was chosen to be trained because he was less like Padme, the Leia story sounds so interesting and it’s a shame that it hasn’t been done in canon yet but hopefully sometime in the future.
Love that we're actually following a Windu lineage, hopefully seeing how Kanan trains Ezra will shine some light on these past Jedi and we can get to know them more through that.
Love these two episodes and greatly enjoyed your reaction. While you provide a lot of thoughts/analysis during and after the episodes, you also show an excellent grasp of what is going on. Also love Ezra's lightsaber is so different.
Thanks 😁 loving how much these episodes did with Ezra and setting up other stuff like Sabine, absolutley love Ezra's lightsaber already and I cannot wait to see it in action!!
It's much easier for Ezra to think they're dead. Hope is a painful feeling when you hope for too long. The whole episode I wanted to say to Ezra: WHAT ARE YOU FORGIVING HIM FOR, IDIOT! WHAT COULD HE DO AT THAT MOMENT? HE SHOULD forgive you for being a fool for your mistrust and anger.
That's so true, he's been living thinking they're gone for so long that allowing himself to Hope would break him, and completely agree 😂😂 this anger felt so weird since this guy obviously could do nothing to help Ezra's parents.
21:50 Holocrons can be passed down from master to apprentice. Kanan’s master, Depa Billaba, passed hers down to him. It presumably would hold her knowledge and Mace Windu’s, as well as all the things Kanan has learned. Ahsoka also inherited Anakin’s holocron.
It's so cool that the Masters had their own Holocrons that got passed down so that they weren't all just restricted to the library, hopefully, this makes Ezra's training a little easier if the Holocron has a lesson plan or something 😂
I always though it was weird how Ezra's anger at Tsseebo was portrayed as unjustified in that episode. Not because the Rodian could have done something against the Empire taking his parents away, but it is crazy that he was a friend of Ezra's parents and he just let this 7 year old boy fend for himself. I don't think Ezra's parents would have sent these messages if they didn't know someone who would take care of their son in case something happens to them but Tsseebo just dipped
Yeah, their dynamic was super weird, Ezra never even says he's angry at Tsseebo for letting him fend for himself, he's angry that Tsseebo did nothing to save his parents, felt very clunky in general.
You’ll see Kanan’s master. At the end of the Phantom Menace movie when they celebrate, with that orb thing you see her for like a second.,, and in a few scenes in attack of the clones movie standing or sitting alongside Mace Windu… mace Windu was her master..
When Rebels gets weird with the Force, it gets weird. This is only a fraction of how the show explores the spiritual side of the Force, it gets crazier and crazier each season
Well, first the mysterious ally is making more and more voice appearance these days. The boy’s abilities as well as the terms with his past are coming out more strongly but the grand Inquisitor is getting more relentless. I can feel it. Especially that I can feel The Empire starting to get a little smarter.
Love that Fulcrom keeps getting built up, can't wait for their eventual reveal. Seeing Ezra grow so quickly is terrifying with him knowing nothing of the Dark and Light but hopefully, this was a nice wake-up call for Kanan to get that training done, the Temple is a good start but he still barely knows anything about the Force.
It's rough seeing Ezra's past get to him and his finally coming to terms with the potential they they're dead, aka, afraid of knowing, like he said. 🥲 Buuuuut then his fear of losing Kanan and the crew, caused dark side to emerge. It'd probably happen with anyone though. You could tell Ezra was shook. I feel like if you could use that power but still for good it's not all bad, like with Windu. He could use dark side power but never turned. 21:10 sounds farfetched, but that chorus part sounded like like what was played when Obi-Wan met with Yoda to discuss the missing planet in the archives in AotC. Similar to this too, they're trying to find some place. That whole temple series of scenes was messing with my mind. I couldn't tell what was real. Those floating yellow lights are also the same ones that floated near Yoda when he was being tested and when Qui-Gon was communicating with him.
This episode was so emotional in dealing with Ezra's parents and I do quite like that we never got an answer to whether they are alive or not, leaving Ezra in a tricky position in whether to hope or not. it was awesome to see how both this and the fear of losing Kanan effected him and pulled him into the Darkness, and since Ezra is part of Mace's lineage, it makes me wonder if he'll be able to use the Dark Side like he did. The Temple stuff was insane! Loved how convincing the illusions were and how they drew you into it multiple times, the best bit though was having Yoda involved and getting these callbacks with the yellow lights!!
After 66 Caleb Dume was raised by a criminal and hunted by the clones that betrayed him. After that he spent the next ten years getting drunk and sleeping with any woman with two legs. when they would get clingy, he would go off the the next planet or station working out a living to pay for his addictions.
Yes there is a test to see if you are meant to be a Jedi Knight, the trials, remember Qui-Gon told Yoda that Obi-Wan was ready to be a Jedi Knight, and Obi-Wan said he was ready for the trials.
Ahh I remember now! So cool that we're actually getting to see this and I guess this makes Ezra quite advanced if he's gone through this at such an early point in his training.
@@benspiller Well it's not really early in all ways, cause normally Ezra would have been taken as a 3 year old, so if he's a padawan around 14-16 years old that's when he would be doing the trial anyway lol.
Depa Billaba was a Jedi Master. Not everyone becomes a master and on top of that, she was one of Master Windu. So ide say shes good but hey, i only know what the shows n movies showed bout her.
I love that we're following Windu's lineage and just getting to know more about these Jedi through how Kanan trains Ezra, very impressive that she became a master on top of everything, which makes me think Kanan's training must have been better or more advanced than others who were trained by knights.
@@benspiller in my opinion. I think Kanon had an ok amount of training but definitely wasn’t on the level of Ahsoka. He was younger than her. Hes like around the age of Cal from the Jedi games. But i wanna say Kanan has more training than Cal. Both Cal and Kanan go through similar doubts in themselves. I can be wrong but thats what it feels like to me.
Makes sense Vader and the Empire wouldn't bother going around trying to destroy every single Jedi temple, the Jedi are all but gone essentially, there really isn't any new Jedi's that are a big deal till Luke. Would be a waste of time for Vader to be sent on demolition duty to just destroy old structures that really aren't doing anything for anyone.
Mace isn't the only Jedi to use the dark side and not turn evil. Dooku used the dark side but never gave in to it, he never had Sith eyes. Even Luke himself taps into it occasionally. I wouldn't be surprised if Qui-Gon did as well at some points in his life. Again never with the intention of turning to the dark side and losing yourself, just more so, I need a bit of help here in this situation so I'm going to borrow a dark side power for a moment to get out of this mess! lol
Dooku definitely gave into it, not all dark siders need to have “Sith eyes.” That’s like saying Anakin never gave into it just because he turned to the light at the end of his life, but he had “Sith eyes,” so they’re not *that* relevant.
@@EM-fl5od No Dooku didn't. Don't even bother trying to push untruth man. I don't deal with that shit. Look back, he used Force Lightning as a way to defend himself from people who were attacking him. I didn't say anything about dark siders, you mean dark force users, but those are people who aren't jedi or Sith, just force users who only use the dark side, that has nothing to do with Dooku. Anakin literally had his eyes turn to Sith eyes....proving my point. Also Anakin was the chosen one, he was made FROM the Force itself, you can't compare him in any way whatsoever to any other character lol.
@@ItApproaches You’re so right, he was a true light sider that never gave into the dark side.. it’s not like he abandoned his plans of destroying Sidious yo save the Jedi and the galaxy for… destroying the Jedi, oppressing the galaxy, and joining Sidious… You’re so pretentious pretending you know something other people don’t. You’re just wrong, Dooku was lost. It’s like saying Maul trying to take over Sidious would’ve turned to the light. Dooku and Maul lost themselves and only wanted power in the end.
@@EM-fl5od Sigh, now you try and fail to mock me. Trying to say that I was saying Dooku was a light force user? no. Dooku was a Grey Jedi. Much like Qui-Gon and Luke later on. Dooku was balanced, but manipulated by Sidious. He didn't pick sides in terms of "I'm a Jedi, I'm a Sith, I'm a good guy, I'm a bad guy!" He was just Count Dooku, a guy who was trying to balance the galaxy but alas he wasn't the chosen one. He was a guy who saw the problems coming, and nobody listened, and he saw how far the Jedi had fallen and that they had to go, they were causing more harm then helping. Qui-Gon was the last thing holding Dooku to the shambles of the Jedi Order. His death tore him way. Sidious took advantage and manipulated him. I'm not pretentious, I'm actually a genius if you want to get technical as I have a 141 IQ which is low end genius, and I have the INTP personality which is the highest intellect of all human personalities which only between 4% - 5% of humans have. I'm smarter then you and your entire family tree. That's not bragging by the way, it's just informing you. F me, I don't matter. INTP's are truth seekers, we only deal in objective truth. I know what I'm talking about. This isn't about light vs dark, YOU brought the light side into this pointless chit chat. Not me. The light side is NOT the good side, it's equal to the dark side, in order for their to be balance, BOTH is needed. P.S I have even written my own Star Wars book, was supposed to be a trilogy, but I got partway through book two before other projects took over as I am an author.
@@ItApproaches “Sigh, now you try and fail to mock me.” It’s like.. do you hear yourself? You’re not the main villain in a comic book.. You’re a person who is full of themself.
First JEJ, then Anthony Daniels, and now Frank Oz. No disrespect to Tom Kane, but there's something, SO PATERNAL about Frank voicing the grand master. For those who were bitter about the cancelation of CW, started to pay attention in episode 10
Love that they got the original voice of Yoda for this!! I can imagine a lot of OG fans might not have checked this show out but bringing back such an iconic voice would have attracted so many.
SPOILER WARNING!!!
I am watching all Star Wars in Chronological order; I have seen the Original Trilogy but nothing else beyond the Kenobi so please be careful of spoilers in the comments.
I always thought it was really cool when Kanan said "...there were around 10,000 Jedi knights protecting the galaxy." Really puts into perspective how big the order was during the Prequels and just how devastating Order 66 was!
And only 100/120 jedi survived.
Yeah it's cool but so depressing too 😂 Order 66 was so much more devestating that what the movies and shows have shown but lines like these are amazing at capturing the impact of it.
It's crazy because 10,000 isnt a lot of people considering they're hopping planet to planet full of inhabitants
There is an old proverb "The brightest stars have hearts of Kyber".
Holocrons are basically "living" libraries. They can even be imprinted with the personalities of caretakers (think like Jor-El, Superman's Dad). The knowledge they can hold is massive to say the least, from hyperspace lanes and cultural archives, to massive lists of people and hidden knowledge. They are very powerful.
Edit 1: Depa Bilaba seems to have been a level-headed yet affectionate Master to Caleb. And they shared a bond slightly deeper than other Jedi, more like a mother figure to him. Seeing her die broke him, evidently. And he was all alone afterwards. I believe there is a comic run about Caleb specifically, but I don't remember the title at the moment
Oh wow, so Kanan having this opens up so much then rather than it just warning him to stay away from Coruscant. Love that we're seeing his relationship with his master through how he is with Ezra, the parental dynamic wouldn't be there if Bilaba was distant and like other Jedi so I love so much that Kanan got to experience this form of training and attachment but of course it makes her death so much more painful for him.
This show has done an outstanding job of introducing a new set of heroes and villains and making the audience care about them in such a short time. The writers even connected this unknown crew to the greater Star Wars universe via Bail Organa and Yoda.
Could not agree more! It's outstanding how well these characters have been written to make me so attached to them so quickly!
"Kanan's doing better, this is an illusion."
😂😂 There's no way he'd do that good on his own in reality yet!
Kanan is good master
He choose to teach survival over regular training like meditation or something
Yoda's self-exile and training led to him gaining omnipotence through the Force. Hence him already being aware of much about Luke when they first met.
Since he appeared similar to how Qui-Gon did, the training probably involved some form of out of body experiences too.
Love so much that Yoda was actually being productive in his exile and not just sitting around waiting for Luke, having him being aware like this and being able to help Kanan and Ezra makes me think he must have helped other Jedi who needed him.
"What is so weird about this temple" good questions good questions
I’ll start with Qui-Gon's words, which add depth to these episodes:
"I didn't turn toward the light because someday I will win some sort of cosmic game. I turn toward it because it is light."
Ezra doesn't fully understand what the dark side and light side mean, nor does he grasp Jedi and Sith philosophy. This is all new to him.
In the first episode, he's consumed by darkness in the form of fear, and symbolically, the giant creature represents Ezra's fear, which challenges the Grand Inquisitor.
Plus, Ezra didn't remember it, he did it in a trance and was completely consumed by fear.
The second episode is crucial for Ezra because it forms the foundation for his future lessons. The first thing he has to confront is his fear. The Grand Inquisitor is a literal symbol of fear, and every time he appears, Ezra becomes highly vulnerable to the dark side.
Referring to Qui-Gon's words, you can feel fear, anger, and hatred-those emotions exist in everyone-but you can't let them guide or define you. Ezra is very vulnerable to the dark side, and the test was to confront that darkness in all forms, represented by the Grand Inquisitor. He had to understand that fear would lead him nowhere, and only by maintaining inner peace he could survive.
At first he runs away, afraid of confronting his own fear. but then it changes.
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Logic: Ezra didn’t know if those illusions were real or not, but he kept going.
If he had been led by fear, he would have either given up or acted irrationally, and he wouldn’t have succeeded. His words emphasized this lesson-Ezra decided to be calm - light, which helped him pass. However, the lesson ends there.
Ezra didn’t accept the existence of his fear (the darkness); he just let the light guide him in that situation.
In the end, we get a conversation with Yoda that emphasizes this. Ezra passed the test, but he is still influenced by his emotions, and he even begins to talk about revenge (avenging someone is a form of revenge). From revenge and the desire to cause harm, it’s a short path to obsession, which is dangerous.
At the same time, Yoda speaks to Kanan, forcing him to confront his own fear of failure in his new role.
As a survivor, Kanan likely abandoned the Jedi path to some extent, and I believe he might have used or been influenced by the dark side to survive at some point.
Kanan's greatest fear is when he sees Ezra controlling the beast-he knows this is the dark side and knows exactly where that path leads. That's why he reacts the way he does. A normal Jedi wouldn’t react so nervously, but someone familiar with that path would.
As for the temple itself, it clearly dates back to the Old Republic era. This is suggested by its location in the Outer Rim and its hidden. It makes sense, considering the Sith often built their empires in that region. Hiding the temple and its contents would have been crucial to avoid risk. Now, it's used as a test for Padawans, but what it was previously used for is up for speculation-perhaps a stronghold, a small temple aiding the local population, a place to train Padawans, or something else entirely. We don’t know.
(The Old Republic trailers won’t show specific locations or events connected to Rebels, but they do add depth to past events, and we’ll see more references to that era like that one.)
As for Ezra’s midichlorian count, this is speculative because there's no official list, and the information we have comes from either legends or observations.
Windu likely had around 17-18k.
Yoda and Palpatine had around 20k.
It’s hard to say, but many fans believe Ezra might be stronger in the Force than Windu or have a very similar strength.
For Kanan, I’d estimate 13-14k.
If it were lower, experience would be more important, as in Kenobi's case, but Kanan definitely lacks that.
Loved this entire sequence and all the detail behind it, the fact that Ezra has no idea about the Dark Side makes all of this even more dangerous as he has no clue he’s meant to be resisting it, Qui-Gon really put it best and I hope this is something Ezra will learn.
I love how this Temple worked and basically highlights the Padawan’s fatal flaw in basically a simulation, now he knows what he needs to work on and can do it in real life. His journey through the Temple was amazing and I just hope he can become like this when facing The Grand Inquisitor in the future.
His conversation with Yoda was so interesting, the desire to protect I think is a good base, but he still wants to bring harm against those who do harm to people he fails to protect. It’s weird to think that Yoda passed him even with this going on, guess it means Yoda’s confident he can get through it and still sees potential in him.
Kanan was amazing in these episodes, these highlighted so much about him and his past and how that’s affecting his relationship with Ezra, him seeing Ezra use the Dark Side like this must have been terrifying for someone who has experienced it and managed to turn away from it so I can only imagine his desire to help Ezra grew so much at this point.
I never even considered that this place would have been used for anything other than a test, it’s so cool how much history this Temple brings to the Galaxy and so fun to think of this place being used to hide things in the time of the Sith Empires.
I can totally see Ezra having a higher force count than most seeing as he’s progressing rather quickly at an older age and already proving to be quite powerful.
It's OG Yoda, Frank Oz himself, who voiced Yoda in movies.
Love this!!! It's amazing that they actually got the original VA back for this!!
About the weird looking temple room with the circles: Interesting you picked up on certain things there and this might become very important in the future, but I'm not telling you more. Also Yoda comunicating with them at the Temple even though he is on Dagobah is something that will get explained later. Maybe him showing up as the light particles is showing his training for becoming a force ghost and he is already connecting with the realm of the cosmic force. I could imagine that you would have to dip your toes into the cosmic force and partially take the light particle form as practice in order to be confidently able to become a full ghost once you die... We also saw that Qui Gon first only managed to appear as particles and later as a ghost, but for Yoda this might be a little different, since he is still alive...
Love that I'm picking up on all the weird stuff 😂😂 I think it's so cool that Yoda actually helped out here, makes it so much better knowing he isn't just sitting around doing nothing on Dagobah. Also really like how this displays his progression with his training since we know he's alive right now but he's able to do the same thing a dead Qui-Gon did.
So, here's a fun fact: Kanan's Master, Depa Billaba, was Mace Windu's Padawan
Love that we're seeing this lineage!!
Ezra doesn't have a confirmed Midiclorian count (to my knowledge), but he definitely has crazy high potential in the Force. Obviously he isnt a Skywalker, but bro is (and does become) someone to be excited about.
Also Kanan's master is Jedi Master Depa Billaba. Knowing Mace Windu was Billaba's master, Billaba had a seat on the Council, plus the moments in the comics, she was pretty good.
Knew it had to be high with the stuff he's been able to do and how relatively easy he's doing it, so looking forward to seeing the person he'll become because of this and how he's been trained differently to the Jedo of the past.
Also, love that we're seeing a Windu lineage, feel like seeing how Kanan trains Ezra could tell us more about Mace and Billaba.
Ezra: "Sorry I'm late, I was with Sabine."
Ben: "What were you doing with Sabine?"
* Chopper in the distance stuck in a flaming circle *
I don't know why, but the thought of seeing Chopper inside of a circle of fire surrounding him on all sides, is honestly terrifyingly demonic.
😂😂😂
Whenever Kanan talks about the Jedi and the mythical side of the Force, a remix of Yoda and the Younglings soundtrack from Episode II plays.
Love this, makes the atmosphere feel so mystical and nostalgic.
The setup for Sabine's feelings about parents was also referenced during her episode with Hera.
Sabine talked about being at the academy and people not liking her asking question, and then her being part of the team, there's massive gap there, all of which was prefaced with Sabine saying Hera is already aware of what happened back then.
Love how much this is setting up for her, it already feels so personal while staying mysterious, every member of the crew seems to have family issues or something like that with Zeb's race being wiped out, Kanan losing his master and Ezra losing his parents so I can't wait to see how Sabine's situation relates to theirs.
When Season 1 was airing, marketing could barely contain themselves from revealing Ezra's blaster-saber a few episodes earlier.
I can only imagine 😂😂 This would have been a kid's dream toy being a sword and a gun 😂
Some irony in the Empire's new tracker being based off the ones used by the Jedi.
On one end of the Master Spectrum, there's Luminara. On the other end of the Spectrum, are the Masters who refused to leave the Temple, lol.
True!! 😂😂 Goes to show what a mess the order became when there were masters who would die by their Padawan's side like this.
happy Birthday Ezra bridger!
i just love this scene so much this first time Sabine call Ezra full name it just how much the bond and respect start there best ... in star wars
Loved this too, their relationship is growing so much and I can't wait for it to get stronger so she isn't just Ezra's crush anymore 😂
Kanan actually has his own comic series. I've only read the first few when I was quite young but I really enjoyed it. Kanan's progress is such an interesting development into the young padawan, to the young soul that lost his way, to rebel doing what good he can in a world out to hurt others.
One way or another, Kanan and Ezra are more alike than many stop to think. Kanan is the reason Ezra never lost his way like he had after all.
Loving their relationship so much and how similar they are, it's so cool that Kanan sees it as his duty to prevent Ezra from going down the same path he did.
Ezra: "All of it was an illusion."
Grand Inquisitor: "It may have been, but I am not!"
The force sure like to mess with the kid, doesn't it? XD
😂😂 The Force has such a sick sense of humour with this!
So, Kyber crystals CAN be found all across the galaxy, TECHNICALLY speaking, however it is EXTREMELY rare to find. Ilum just turned out to have had, presumably, an unusual high amount of it, so the Jedi used it as their main area for new Padawans to get their crystals from. The only other place I know of that might've had a similar concentration of kyber crystals would be a place named Exegol, but that place was probably SO hidden away, not even the Jedi knew of it's existence. The Jedi, having been around at least since the birth of the Republic some 25'000 years ago, with it's ancestral religion, the "Je'daii", dating back approximately 35'450 years ago. So the Jedi might have temples all across the galaxy, though the one on Coruscant was their primary temple, even if it's been trough some events in history, most recently, being turned into Palpatine's personal palace. So kyber crystals and other Jedi temples DOES exist elsewhere in the galaxy, not just on Coruscant and Ilum, they just turned out to be the primary ones.
It's honestly so cool that Kyber Crystals aren't just located on Ilum, with the Empire in control now it would have made it impossible for new Kyber Crystals to be found plus I love that this made it so difficult as it feels so earned for Ezra.
Two more stellar episodes, and wonderful reactions! I love when Star Wars draws outside of the lines and explores trippy situations. The Grand Inquisitor is insanely frightening. You know he means business when he ignites both blades of his lightsaber. Ezra's journey to creating his own lightsaber was so well done. The staple gun comment took me out!
Loved both of these episodes so much, the trippy stuff was insane and I can't wait for all of that to be explored more! The Grand Inquisitor is amazing as always, he owns every scene he's in, and Ezra's lightsaber was amazing 😂😂 Love how it's so different to anything we've seen before!
Hi, Ben! Hope you are well! I think I've said this before, but this entire series is indeed one very long, subtle story arc. While each episode can be "self-contained" at times, they all connect when you look at the broader picture.
Also, your "Rebels" journey is just beginning, but another channel's journey is about to end (Melissa Hime).... but I look forward to both of your channels Rebels experience every week. I watch a lot of Reaction channels (and do a few here and there myself, but mine are more "nostalgic" than actual series), and love to see how you younger people see these Star Wars movies and shows. It reminds me of how **I** felt watching them for the first time. So, yeah.... "Nostalgia" is a big thing for me, but also "seeing things through a new set of eyes". But, enough of that... let's get on with it.
3:30 - Ezra's anger here is understandable "in the moment"... but the reality is that Tsebo (I think I spelled that right) couldn't have prevented the Empire from taking his parents.
5:40 - Yes, Chopper IS an Astromech, just an earlier model than R2-D2. Which kinda says something, if you consider that R2 wasn't exactly "brand new" in Episode I.... but Chopper is even older. Also, (not a spoiler, but some backstory).... Droids who do not have their memories wiped every so often will develop "personalities" based on their experiences. Chopper, like R2-D2 never had his memory wiped. Most Protocol droids (Like C-3PO) have their memories wiped regularly to prevent this, however 3PO does have a "baseline" personality in his programming.
6:47 - Not entirely true. Ezra is "part of the Ghost family", and Sabine DOES care about him as a younger brother. Sabine has noticed how this is affecting Ezra, and wants him to come to terms with it. She has her reasons... but "no spoilers".
13:55 - I was waiting to see if you spotted that comparison. I'm glad you didn't disappoint! But yes, Ezra did tap into the Dark Side there. Kanan knows it, and I think deep down it troubles him. Also, remember, Kanan was still a Padawan when Order 66 happened, so it's not like HE had full training, either. So, naturally, he will have his own doubts about his abilities to train Ezra.
17:00 - I know you have questions, and while I can't/won't give you answers right now... I'll go ahead and say that your questions will be answered in time. I'll give you that much information, but no more. Rebels is a series that doesn't "set up" things like that without resolving them at some point. That's what make this show so damned good.
21:30 - There are Jedi temples scattered across the galaxy. The Empire hasn't raided/destroyed them all.
23:00 - Kinda reminds one of Stonehenge, doesn't it......?
24:30 - Remember one of the earliest Jedi teachings: "Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them."
26:46 - Ezra, like the younglings in the Clone Wars episode, is having to face his fear. In order to pass the trial (test), he must not give into his fear. His fear is about self-doubt, abandonment and trust issues.
28:55 - Remember in Episode V.... Yoda said, "A long time have I have watched (Luke). Always has he looked away, to the horizon, never his mind on where he was. What he was doing." Yoda is powerful enough in The Force to watch Luke on Tatooine from Dagobah, so he's strong enough to connect with a Jedi temple on Lothal.
29:40 - The funny thing is, that Kanan also has issues with his own self-doubt, and fear of potentially losing Ezra to the Dark Side if he's not up to training him properly.
I’m absolutely loving the structure of this show and these episodes were just amazing, love how these developed both Ezra and Kanan and added so much trauma to both of them, after this I’m sure Kanan must have touched the Darkness in his past and seeing Ezra go through this must have brought those memories to the surface which just deepens their bond as there’s no way Kanan will let Ezra fall to the Dark Side now.
Then Ezra got to do so much, having him experience the Dark Side was inevitable since he just hasn’t learned about it yet so the danger was going to get him sooner or later, but then he got to learn of his fatal flaw, now he knows that he must overcome his fear if he ever wants to be a Jedi and this is how he avoids falling back into the Darkness.
Also loved the seeds of info we got on Sabine here, it’s only crumbs but I love how we can just read her actions and gather some parts of her past.
@@benspiller Yeah, the structure of this show is amazingly well done. It's why Rebels is my favorite animated series.
I will say that we don't get a whole lot of Kanan's backstory, but just enough to flesh out his character. I would love to see a new series that shows us what happened to him between The Bad Batch and Rebels. (technically a spoiler, but a minor one)
I will not say anything about Ezra "touching the Dark Side", except in regards to this episode. But do understand, as I commented above, Kanan has his own self doubts about being a capable teacher, since he was still a Padawan when Order 66 happened. I will say this much: We will get to see them both grow as characters.
Lastly, "seeds" get planted a LOT in Rebels, for all of the characters. Seeds that you will get to see "in full flower". So, on that, worry not. Just pay attention to those seeds, so that when you DO see them "flower", you'll appreciate them even more.
Kanan speaking of having lost himself is because the events of the beginning of the show are meant to be the first time he used his saber/the force in a very long time, hence him listening to Obi-Wan's message.
Very specific ship shown when Hera delivered Tseebo to her contact.
I'm no good with ships so this went way over my head 😂😂
Kanaan's Master Depa Bilaba was padawan to Master of the order Mace Windu. Both of them were great force users and lightsaber duelists but they were also hard into the jedi dogma.
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Qui-Gon: Obi-Wan, have you done as I asked?
Have you trained the boy?
Obi-Wan: Master Qui-Gon, how are you here?
Qui-Gon: I am here because you are here.
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Kanan: The kid's taking too long.
Yoda: Patience. Remember you nothing of your own training?
Kanan: Master Yoda. It can't be. I'm losing it.
Yoda Losing? Lost. Yes. But what loss, hmm? The question, that is.
Kanan: Master? How... How can this be?
Yoda: Be not concerned with how.
Know I am here because you are here.
Love this!!
Kyber crystals can be technically found in a lot of places, its just that Illum (the icy planet) had an abundance of them, hence the Jedi order favored going there for the training and lightsaber building of padawans.
The illusions in a Jedi trial are par for the course, remember Luke ha one, very briefly on Dagoba, when he was with Yoda, he went into that cave and suddenly Vader was there and he cut his head off, seeing his own face in Vaders mask.
Illusion bringing the nightmare to life by depicting the Inquisitor on The Ghost.
Love this place now, it goes so deep into Ezra's fears and there is so much to look at with the Grand Inquisitor actually being on the Ghost, first having the crew talk about him like they did and then having them slaughtered, the Temple really knows how to traumatise people 😂😂
so for ep 9 yeah sabine's push for ezra to connect and learn about his family comes her past and even hera's push for him to learn about them comes from her how family history is. one thing to remember is that for force sensitives especially those who have often focus in the light side is that the dark side often feels cold like a chill or ice especially later in the series. they sort of hint at this with the luminara trap.
on to ep 10 yes there were many Jedi temples across the galaxy the one on corasant was just the main temple of that era as they were many across the galaxy there were also many other planets with kyber crystals. Illum was just one of the earliest known planets found to have them and thus become sacred to the jedi, other locations that had them were the planet we see in the clone wars movie Christophsis, the planets where obi- wan and ki-adi mundi are when order 66 in ROTS is called in just to name a few. as you see star wars in order you will see other places but chronologically those are the ones we know have them from the prequal era. of the Original trilogy the only place that is mention to have both a place for kyber crystals and a temple is Dantooine. the place that leia gives as the planet the rebels are hiding on when Tarkin threatens to destory her home planet.
now on to why kanan feels like he's not ready. outside of his incomplete training. pretty much he had almost completely cut himself off from the force after order 66. it wasn't till he met hera that he actually tried to use it. and even then those were often very small things. remember in the first couple episodes. Kanan very much comes off as if he hasn't really used is lightsaber in a long time until they are saving the wookies and is very reluctant to do it probably because he hasn't really used since order 66 and very few times before tried to adopted using a blaster. so it not just his training being incomplete but also he's rusty. Tales of the jedi and the first arc in the clone wars with anakin getting ashoka show that sometimes even brand new masters still need some form of support to help with their apprentices. of which kanan's closest form of constant support is the ghost crew and they don't really have much advice or experience in the force. he's pretty much in a worst state then obi-wan despite only just having become a knight at least he had multiple jedi masters he could go and ask help from when training anakin and even anakin had some of qui-gon's and obi-wan's teachings to lean on for ashoka.
Kanan is playing it completely by ear hoping not to fail not just ezra but himself. and ezra is just trying to not just protect his new family but also himself since he has been on his own for the last 7 years remember he is just 14 when we first meet him. he has a new family but he scared to get close in the chance he might lose them but at the same time he wants to feel like he contributing and not feel like he's taken in because he's space Aladdin king of identity fraud. so for him power is sort of like how anakin sees it a means to protect those he cares about. but ezra's want to protect isn't just limited to one, two or three people like anakin was with his mom, and after she died padme and ashoka, it goes for his home Lothal.
remember anakin wanted to free all the slaves on tatoonie but it was mostly because his mom was there. when does finally go back in EP attack of the clones he doesn't even think about freeing the other slaves. he had friends who were slaves too but he didn't go to them. but ezra wants his planet free not just his family he shows this when he helps free the farmers during his maylu run with zeb because they were family friends.
on to Yoda waiting for Luke. Luke wasn't yoda's first choice of the twins for him to train. Obi-wan was the one who pushed for luke to be trained. when you look into the OT you can see more of padme's personality in leia when it came to pushing aside her feelings to focus in whats in front of her. luke's only trait he takes from his mother is the belief that anakin can be turned because their is good in him. Leia completely believes like anakin does in return of the jedi that there is no good left in him. you can sort of see it with how Yoda and obi-wan pretty much tell him to kill vader even after he learns that vader is his dad and when he refuses obi-wan pretty much says that if he won't kill him its already over and their hope is for him to teach leia without probably ideally without telling her their relationship. because they've completely gave up on him by that point. obi-wan only teaches anakin how to become a force ghost because he feels guilty that he gave up on him.
I believe in both canon and legends anakin tries to contact leia after return of the jedi and she wants nothing to do with him even when he begs her she doesn't. in legends we sort of have her coming to terms and accepting that he is her father after learning about his past as a slave and eventually has a kid named anakin. in canon we don't have a moment like that with her accepting him at least not yet. if anything we have a major moment in canon that has her relationship to him actually screwing up her attempts to help the galley at large.
Love how this episode sets up the story for Sabine! She’s been so mysterious and I’m just happy to get crumbs. It’s so cool that Jedi have this sort of alarm system like this where if they sense the Dark Side, they feel cold or a chill, makes me think back the Kenobi series when he was describing what the Light Side was to Leia so maybe this is how he’d describe the dark.
Really like how this explored more history of the Jedi and actually explored an old Jedi Temple, it makes the history of the Jedi so much richer knowing that there were alternative and more dangerous ways of testing Padawans and obtaining crystals which actually involved and attachment between Padawan and Master where the Master would stay and die if their student didn’t return.
This episode did a great job at adding more to Kanan and just elaborating on his past and how he feels about the position he’s in. Can’t wait to see him grow and develop alongside Ezra as I can only imagine how cool it would be to see a Teacher and Student grow together.
So happy that Yoda has an active role in the Galaxy during the Empire and it’s so interesting that Luke was chosen to be trained because he was less like Padme, the Leia story sounds so interesting and it’s a shame that it hasn’t been done in canon yet but hopefully sometime in the future.
Kanan's master was Dava Felipa, who was a member of the high council and Mace Windu's former Padawan.
Love that we're actually following a Windu lineage, hopefully seeing how Kanan trains Ezra will shine some light on these past Jedi and we can get to know them more through that.
Love these two episodes and greatly enjoyed your reaction. While you provide a lot of thoughts/analysis during and after the episodes, you also show an excellent grasp of what is going on. Also love Ezra's lightsaber is so different.
Thanks 😁 loving how much these episodes did with Ezra and setting up other stuff like Sabine, absolutley love Ezra's lightsaber already and I cannot wait to see it in action!!
I love the clues that you pick up.
Good to know I'm on the right lines 😂😂
And what is this Jedi temple? With doors in the rocks, portals, parallel worlds and more. As if it was built by the Celestials of Mortis?!
The ability is dalled Beast Control/Beast Taming. Some force users can do it easier than others. But both light n dark side users can do it.
Think I remember this from Ahsoka's Tales of the Empire episode, so cool to see it used again here with a much more powerful presence to it.
@@benspiller oh yeah!! They did do it there lol. I honestly forgot xD
It's much easier for Ezra to think they're dead. Hope is a painful feeling when you hope for too long. The whole episode I wanted to say to Ezra: WHAT ARE YOU FORGIVING HIM FOR, IDIOT! WHAT COULD HE DO AT THAT MOMENT? HE SHOULD forgive you for being a fool for your mistrust and anger.
That's so true, he's been living thinking they're gone for so long that allowing himself to Hope would break him, and completely agree 😂😂 this anger felt so weird since this guy obviously could do nothing to help Ezra's parents.
21:50 Holocrons can be passed down from master to apprentice. Kanan’s master, Depa Billaba, passed hers down to him. It presumably would hold her knowledge and Mace Windu’s, as well as all the things Kanan has learned. Ahsoka also inherited Anakin’s holocron.
It's so cool that the Masters had their own Holocrons that got passed down so that they weren't all just restricted to the library, hopefully, this makes Ezra's training a little easier if the Holocron has a lesson plan or something 😂
@@benspiller Ahsoka’s Holocron had several lesson plans actually… 💀
I always though it was weird how Ezra's anger at Tsseebo was portrayed as unjustified in that episode. Not because the Rodian could have done something against the Empire taking his parents away, but it is crazy that he was a friend of Ezra's parents and he just let this 7 year old boy fend for himself. I don't think Ezra's parents would have sent these messages if they didn't know someone who would take care of their son in case something happens to them but Tsseebo just dipped
Yeah, their dynamic was super weird, Ezra never even says he's angry at Tsseebo for letting him fend for himself, he's angry that Tsseebo did nothing to save his parents, felt very clunky in general.
You’ll see Kanan’s master. At the end of the Phantom Menace movie when they celebrate, with that orb thing you see her for like a second.,, and in a few scenes in attack of the clones movie standing or sitting alongside Mace Windu… mace Windu was her master..
When Rebels gets weird with the Force, it gets weird. This is only a fraction of how the show explores the spiritual side of the Force, it gets crazier and crazier each season
Oh if this is only the start I can't wait!! This was already super weird so thinking it can get weirder seems insane!
There is Trial to be a jedi!
Well, first the mysterious ally is making more and more voice appearance these days.
The boy’s abilities as well as the terms with his past are coming out more strongly but the grand Inquisitor is getting more relentless. I can feel it.
Especially that I can feel The Empire starting to get a little smarter.
Love that Fulcrom keeps getting built up, can't wait for their eventual reveal.
Seeing Ezra grow so quickly is terrifying with him knowing nothing of the Dark and Light but hopefully, this was a nice wake-up call for Kanan to get that training done, the Temple is a good start but he still barely knows anything about the Force.
It's rough seeing Ezra's past get to him and his finally coming to terms with the potential they they're dead, aka, afraid of knowing, like he said. 🥲
Buuuuut then his fear of losing Kanan and the crew, caused dark side to emerge. It'd probably happen with anyone though. You could tell Ezra was shook.
I feel like if you could use that power but still for good it's not all bad, like with Windu. He could use dark side power but never turned.
21:10 sounds farfetched, but that chorus part sounded like like what was played when Obi-Wan met with Yoda to discuss the missing planet in the archives in AotC. Similar to this too, they're trying to find some place.
That whole temple series of scenes was messing with my mind. I couldn't tell what was real. Those floating yellow lights are also the same ones that floated near Yoda when he was being tested and when Qui-Gon was communicating with him.
This episode was so emotional in dealing with Ezra's parents and I do quite like that we never got an answer to whether they are alive or not, leaving Ezra in a tricky position in whether to hope or not. it was awesome to see how both this and the fear of losing Kanan effected him and pulled him into the Darkness, and since Ezra is part of Mace's lineage, it makes me wonder if he'll be able to use the Dark Side like he did.
The Temple stuff was insane! Loved how convincing the illusions were and how they drew you into it multiple times, the best bit though was having Yoda involved and getting these callbacks with the yellow lights!!
After 66 Caleb Dume was raised by a criminal and hunted by the clones that betrayed him. After that he spent the next ten years getting drunk and sleeping with any woman with two legs. when they would get clingy, he would go off the the next planet or station working out a living to pay for his addictions.
Yes there is a test to see if you are meant to be a Jedi Knight, the trials, remember Qui-Gon told Yoda that Obi-Wan was ready to be a Jedi Knight, and Obi-Wan said he was ready for the trials.
Ahh I remember now! So cool that we're actually getting to see this and I guess this makes Ezra quite advanced if he's gone through this at such an early point in his training.
@@benspiller Well it's not really early in all ways, cause normally Ezra would have been taken as a 3 year old, so if he's a padawan around 14-16 years old that's when he would be doing the trial anyway lol.
Depa Bilaba (Kanan’s master) had Windu as her master. Make of that what you will.
Love that we're seeing this lineage, knowing Mace it's already so interesting seeing how different Kanan is.
Depa Billaba was a Jedi Master. Not everyone becomes a master and on top of that, she was one of Master Windu. So ide say shes good but hey, i only know what the shows n movies showed bout her.
I love that we're following Windu's lineage and just getting to know more about these Jedi through how Kanan trains Ezra, very impressive that she became a master on top of everything, which makes me think Kanan's training must have been better or more advanced than others who were trained by knights.
@@benspiller in my opinion. I think Kanon had an ok amount of training but definitely wasn’t on the level of Ahsoka. He was younger than her. Hes like around the age of Cal from the Jedi games. But i wanna say Kanan has more training than Cal. Both Cal and Kanan go through similar doubts in themselves. I can be wrong but thats what it feels like to me.
The Grand Inquisitor was real... from a certain point of view. Ezra's fear of him was real, and that was enough in the Force vision.
if you want know more of Kanan past read A new dawn and then Kanan the Last Padawan Comics
I'll definitely check this out! Heard some really interesting stuff so I can't wait to find out all the details.
Makes sense Vader and the Empire wouldn't bother going around trying to destroy every single Jedi temple, the Jedi are all but gone essentially, there really isn't any new Jedi's that are a big deal till Luke. Would be a waste of time for Vader to be sent on demolition duty to just destroy old structures that really aren't doing anything for anyone.
Mace isn't the only Jedi to use the dark side and not turn evil. Dooku used the dark side but never gave in to it, he never had Sith eyes. Even Luke himself taps into it occasionally. I wouldn't be surprised if Qui-Gon did as well at some points in his life. Again never with the intention of turning to the dark side and losing yourself, just more so, I need a bit of help here in this situation so I'm going to borrow a dark side power for a moment to get out of this mess! lol
Dooku definitely gave into it, not all dark siders need to have “Sith eyes.”
That’s like saying Anakin never gave into it just because he turned to the light at the end of his life, but he had “Sith eyes,” so they’re not *that* relevant.
@@EM-fl5od No Dooku didn't. Don't even bother trying to push untruth man. I don't deal with that shit. Look back, he used Force Lightning as a way to defend himself from people who were attacking him. I didn't say anything about dark siders, you mean dark force users, but those are people who aren't jedi or Sith, just force users who only use the dark side, that has nothing to do with Dooku.
Anakin literally had his eyes turn to Sith eyes....proving my point. Also Anakin was the chosen one, he was made FROM the Force itself, you can't compare him in any way whatsoever to any other character lol.
@@ItApproaches You’re so right, he was a true light sider that never gave into the dark side.. it’s not like he abandoned his plans of destroying Sidious yo save the Jedi and the galaxy for… destroying the Jedi, oppressing the galaxy, and joining Sidious…
You’re so pretentious pretending you know something other people don’t. You’re just wrong, Dooku was lost. It’s like saying Maul trying to take over Sidious would’ve turned to the light. Dooku and Maul lost themselves and only wanted power in the end.
@@EM-fl5od Sigh, now you try and fail to mock me. Trying to say that I was saying Dooku was a light force user? no. Dooku was a Grey Jedi. Much like Qui-Gon and Luke later on. Dooku was balanced, but manipulated by Sidious. He didn't pick sides in terms of "I'm a Jedi, I'm a Sith, I'm a good guy, I'm a bad guy!" He was just Count Dooku, a guy who was trying to balance the galaxy but alas he wasn't the chosen one. He was a guy who saw the problems coming, and nobody listened, and he saw how far the Jedi had fallen and that they had to go, they were causing more harm then helping. Qui-Gon was the last thing holding Dooku to the shambles of the Jedi Order. His death tore him way. Sidious took advantage and manipulated him.
I'm not pretentious, I'm actually a genius if you want to get technical as I have a 141 IQ which is low end genius, and I have the INTP personality which is the highest intellect of all human personalities which only between 4% - 5% of humans have. I'm smarter then you and your entire family tree. That's not bragging by the way, it's just informing you. F me, I don't matter. INTP's are truth seekers, we only deal in objective truth. I know what I'm talking about. This isn't about light vs dark, YOU brought the light side into this pointless chit chat. Not me. The light side is NOT the good side, it's equal to the dark side, in order for their to be balance, BOTH is needed.
P.S I have even written my own Star Wars book, was supposed to be a trilogy, but I got partway through book two before other projects took over as I am an author.
@@ItApproaches “Sigh, now you try and fail to mock me.”
It’s like.. do you hear yourself? You’re not the main villain in a comic book..
You’re a person who is full of themself.
First JEJ, then Anthony Daniels, and now Frank Oz. No disrespect to Tom Kane, but there's something, SO PATERNAL about Frank voicing the grand master. For those who were bitter about the cancelation of CW, started to pay attention in episode 10
Love that they got the original voice of Yoda for this!! I can imagine a lot of OG fans might not have checked this show out but bringing back such an iconic voice would have attracted so many.
@@benspiller agreed
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Fuuny note Mace is The Master of Kanan's Master....
He knows
I did find out about this, love that we're getting to see this lineage continue!
10,000 jedi really isnt a lot of people in the universe, it really is small like a cult
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