Star Wars Rebels

It's years after the fall of the Galactic Republic and the destruction of the Jedi. The Galactic Empire with its Emperor has risen in its place. On the outer planet of Lothal, street kid thief Ezra Bridger comes upon a group of rebels who are stealing some Imperial cargo. The group takes in the young kid and forms his new family.

I heard that this is a good show, but I was never going to watch it. As I started to watch Ahsoka, it becomes obvious that it's a sequel to Rebels and watching that would help getting into Ahsoka. So I quickly binge the whole show. This is a good show. First, it has a good Scooby gang. That is a prerequisite for this type of show. Of all the guest characters, the most compelling has to be Maul. Quite frankly, he deserves his own show. If I have a complaint, this keeps bending over backwards to show the rebels as the good guys. There are small instances but there is the one big instance with Rukh. I could not believe that they would release him. Sometimes, it gets ridiculous. Finally, I do like the return to the mysticism of the Force even when it gets excessive. It doesn't all have to make sense. All in all, this is a fine entry in the Star Wars saga. It rides the divide between adult story telling and childlike fantasy. I can also see the desire to make a sequel.

Back then around 2014 i gave 4/10 without watching the series, just based on some clips. I was so dissapointed that after my beloved Clone Wars show was cancelled, i got only some downgraded, childish looking replacement series. But i was so wrong... Now in 2023, I finally gave it a real chance and maaan, i got hooked. This show has way less fillers than BadBatch. Characters are built up great, as the show goes forward, you start to connect with them. Similarly as we got to love Ahsoka (I cannot wait for the live action show). This show adds so much to the story of the rebellion. One of the best SW content I recently had, again, my apologies.

For me this was just magic, and to think I accidentally watched episode 2 and just got hooked wow season 3-4 are the best

Imperial forces occupy a remote planet and are ruling - and ruining - its inhabitants' lives with an iron fist. A clever, disparate crew aboard the starship Ghost takes a stand against the Empire, facing new villains and colourful adversaries as they attempt to ignite a rebellion. The rebels on the Ghost include leader Kanan, ace pilot Hera, feisty heroine Sabine, tough guy Zeb and 14-year-old con artist Ezra.

The series has some great stories too tell introducing some new characters with great backstories and expanding the lore of the Star Wars universe! We also see a lot of characters from past movies and shows! The cast do a good job voicing their characters. Only thing I did not like about the show was the animation. Clone wars had great animation and I thought this show would have the same or better but it looks like they took a step down and there are a lot of episodes that are filler you can skip a lot of episodes and only watch the important ones and still know what is happening in the story.

Overall it's a good show with some great stories to tell but it suffers from all the filler it has.

Season One (2014) There's a familial heart to this first season which makes it immediately appealing, centering on building a strong foundation in the relationships of our main cast and giving us an idea how tightly knit they would become over the series. The first season flounders a little when it comes to properly conveying the threat of the Empire, a flaw which is rectified very efficiently by the arrival of Grand Moff Tarkin; and it builds to a bold and satisfying resolution that lets the audience know that, like Clone Wars before it, Rebels is not afraid to push boundaries and embrace the Darker Side of Star Wars stories.

Season Two (2015) Where the first season placed a lot of focus on Kanan and Ezra, the second expands that focus to envelop the entire crew, taking their small weekly victories and allowing the events of the series to greater influence those on a galactic scale. It builds on the familiar and begins to dabble in new and darker ideas, opening the story up to unimaginable levels of potential; and the raw emotion at the heart of the season's climactic finale, an epic confrontation years in the making, gives fans the duel they never knew they wanted and makes them pay for it tenfold in heart-wrenching tension.

Season Three (2016) By far the most stylistic and best looking the series has ever been, the third season deals heavily with the consequences of the previous two, moving the story forward and making our heroes pay for every small victory they have achieved. Though a thorough and calculated slow burn to the finale, we are rewarded with some of the most visually stunning sequences in Star Wars animation; building toward a conclusion so rife in tension and nail-biting action as to be worthy of Grand Admiral Thrawn's inclusion to the series.

Season Four (2017) The fourth and final season is by far the strongest and most coherent of the series, blending the classically episodic nature of previous seasons into one long continuous story that grows and evolves week on week. But even through a season of some of the best action and most revolutionary additions to the mythology, the heart of the show is still its family of central characters and their powerful bond; forcing them to choose between their allegiances to the Rebellion and their relationships with each other as they face their hardest challenges and most tragic losses ever.