#minister tua

[kathrahender]

Have you noticed a lot of villains who met Ezra Bridger were redeemed? Alexsandr Kallus, the Grand Inquisitor, Anakin Skywalker, and Maketh Tua (and Darth Maul wasn't technically "redeemed" but I think he felt remorse at the end). And some of the morally grey characters also softened because of him or am I hallucinating???

What's happening here people?

[lieutenantselnia]

You ever get that feeling like you're f/o-ing characters by proxy? Like, you don't necessarily want to f/o them yourself, but you still want them to be f/os to someone and see other people self ship with them? Well, because I think I do ...

So I started rewatching Star Wars Rebels a few weeks ago and oh boy I think my dormant Star Wars hyperfixation is no longer dormant but instead coming back full force - AND NOW I WANT TO SEE THESE DORKS GETTING KISSES GODDAMMIT

These are just the first few that came to my mind but there's more (it's just that it's half past 5am and my brain is soup), but I'd love to see some self-inserts (or OCs) being shipped with them! And even if you don't like Imperials you could also just make them defect with/for you😌

In oder: Lieutenant Yogar Lyste, Commandant Cumberlayne Aresko, Minister Maketh Tua, Admiral Kassius Konstantine, Agent Alexsandr Kallus, Grand Admiral Thrawn

I wasn't quite sure about including Kallus (bottom left) and Thrawn (bottom right) in this list, because 1. they're not nearly as underrated as the others (although I haven't really seen them around in the self ship community), and 2. I also very much ship Kallus with Zeb (I'm rarely crazy about canon x canon pairings but those two are really cute), and well Thrawn is also on my own f/o list anyway xD (I usually don't mind sharing though)

Bonus: Admiral Yularen, however I prefer his look in The Clone Wars, but he makes an appearance in Rebels too!

(I really want to rewatch TCW as well once I'm finished with Rebels it's always been such a joy to watch when I was younger😭 I hope I can get my sister to watch it together with me like we used to)

[seth-shitposts]

Soon >:]

(Re: we are scrapping the clock for time to write and string things together properly so WE CAN GET FUN STUFF DONE)

In the meantime, have these Playlists

[locitapurplepink]

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[gia-batmm-crickle22]

From the video you posted yesterday, how would it be in an au if Tua never died, and she just expressed her feelings to Pryce, who knew Thrawn and Eli?

I finally have a response to this :D

So my take on this AU, where Tua and Pryce are together, would be Tua expressing to Pryce her problems and her fears after the execution of Grint and Aresko. Pryce is a little close to the Chimaera Trio in this AU too, and she asks them a favor.

They manage to save Tua from the explosion, but now Tua has to hide out, so Pryce keeps her hidden in her home in Coruscant, away from Lothal. Then Pryce commits her own act of treason in Batonn, so she hides away with Tua.

In the end, Thrawn sends the three of them to the Ascendancy for safety and usefulness.

[thecrusadercomrade]

Rebels day. The start of season 2 how was The seige of Lothal. Minster Tua switch sides but it was to late, figure Vader knew this, sending up assassination to turned people against the heros. Kanan reluctantly makes sense After everything during the Clone Wars it just lend to the Empire. Wasn't excepting to see Lando again but it was nice. Vader learning Ahsoka alive.

Quite a way to start off the season! Vader is causing serious problems for the group, the rebel fleet is taking some bad damage. I can't wait to see where it goes from here.

They're really killing off all the milder villain characters from the first season, huh? They really want us to know that things are getting serious.

Vader knew exactly what to do to take them down. They were lucky to survive.

Definitely wouldn't have expected to see him, but he's always fun to have around.

Vader knows! It's going to be insane to see how that works out. Poor Ahsoka had no idea all these years...

[ideemthatsheyetlives]

65: Empire Day and Gathering Forces (Rebels 08 and 09)

In which the podcast crew discusses the racial profiling policy on Lothal.

[jedi-enthusiast]

You've already heard all about it, but I will now be inflicting my Rebel!Pryce AU on the wider Tumblr community---so here we go!

Basic Concept:

Pryce is the rebel spy, Kallus stays the bad guy but he's more scary/competent, and we're removing all the unnecessary villains that weren't really used well and didn't serve any point.

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First, Main Villains:

Grand Inquisitor and Kallus are the main villains, the other inquisitors can still be around to pop in every now and again for some drama/higher stakes but they're framed more as Grand Inquisitor's underlings than they are in the original Rebels---Vader can maybe have a cameo in an episode or two, but he's still given minimal screentime.

Every other villain character is tossed into the trashcan, they're not needed.

Kallus and Grand Inquisitor work together a lot more than they do in the original, since Grand Inquisitor is hunting Kanan and Ezra and Kallus is supposed to "know the Ghost crew better than anybody" just because of how many times he's faced them.

Kallus is formidable, even without the Grand Inquisitor, and he's allowed to actual win and win well.

He's actually a threat and not just some loser who thinks he is.

Grand Inquisitor gets a little longer runtime than he does in the original, maybe 2 seasons since there's 4. When he does die, Kallus gets a cushy promotion because of how successful and formidable he's been against the rebels- (maybe he can destroy a really big rebel base and force the rebels to have to run and find another one, like they had Thrawn do, and that's what gets him this big promotion---or maybe the higher ups just recognize his potential).

The next 2 seasons, Kallus is one of the worst thorns in the Rebellion's side---winning some battles, losing some battles, but always persistent and good at what he does.

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Now, Pryce:

Pryce joined the Empire when both she and it were young, when it was still possible to believe that it stood for something more than the horror it really was. She joined with Minister Tua, a close childhood friend of hers, and the two of them watch each other grow and succeed and change. Maybe this is where they put the queer romance, rather than what- (imo) -was implied between Kallus and Zeb at the end of Rebels.

Pryce loves Lothal, it's her home, and maybe deep down as she gets older she realizes the Empire isn't what she thought, it isn't good. But she has nothing else---her family is either dead or estranged, the people of Lothal hate her, and Tua is working for the Empire too- (Pryce doesn't know that Tua's questioning her place in the Empire as well, and they're both too scared to ask---she never finds out until it's too late).

So.

She has no one to turn to, and nowhere to go, and she's in too deep now to turn things around. She tells herself a lie, she convinces herself that maybe she's just not seeing the bigger picture, maybe the Empire is good and she's just blinded by the fact she grew up on Lothal.

But then Tua dies and Pryce's world crumbles from beneath her.

Now she really and truly has nothing. No one.

Because of her potential and prowess, she is assigned to Kallus's detail. The Empire doesn't care that she lost the one person in her life that truly made her happy, the only good she saw within those stark gray halls, it only cares that she works.

And she does.

Pryce had heard, through whispers, that Kallus had really been the one to cause Tua's death---but she refuses to believe it. It's too painful to think that the system---the man---she's working for, she's worked her entire life for, killed the one she loved. She can't face it, not now.

But then she meets Ezra---maybe in a similar situation to Kallus and Zeb, where they have to work together to survive.

They both care so much about their home planet and she can see that he loves Lothal just as much as her, but she's still trying desperately to hold onto the only thing she has left in her life. The Empire. Her work. The last bit of control she has over her life.

During their time together, though, Ezra manages to get through to her and tells her that Kallus is the one who killed Tua---and this time she finally accepts the truth for what it is, and that coupled with what Ezra has told her the Empire is doing to their homeworld, what she can see the Empire doing to their homeworld, is what finally shakes her free of her loyalties---ones built by fear and desperation.

And she gains a new loyalty, to the Rebellion---one built by hope for a brighter future, by the good she wants to bring into the galaxy, by her love for Tua and in honor of her memory.

She goes back to the Empire and becomes a spy, Ezra doesn't know until they eventually have to save her because the Empire has found out they have a spy in their midst.

Now "by the light of Lothal's moons" actually means something.

I am proposing two alternate ships for poor Zeb whose only popular fanon love interest is apparently the dude who committed a genocide against his entire species and honestly Zeb deserves SO MUCH better.

The first is Chewie because, obviously. They've got a lot in common they can bond over!

The second is Rex because if I'm going to give Zeb a human love interest who was a soldier that has trauma in his past, it's not going to be the fucking fascist dickhole. Rex is RIGHT THERE, he's beautiful, he's strong, he's a sarcastic bastard with the best of them, he's loyal and honorable. Why WOULDN'T Zeb be interested in Rex? Plus, they could probably both use some stress relief and they often work together on the same team, so the proximity is helping my case here, too.

[bikananjarrus]

it does make me a little crazy that the secrets of the lothal temple (ie the world between worlds and palpatine’s search for it) were foreshadowed in the very first ep of s2 and then it’s not addressed again until s4. like we’re there bigger plans for it? was there supposed to be more lothal mythology? it could mean nothing (most likely means nothing) but it’s a very deliberate bit of foreshadowing and for it to not come up again for so long seems strange.

[itstimeforstarwars]

It wouldn't be star wars if it wasn't at least a little bit shitty and regardless of the medium this seems to hold up across all of star wars.

[laughhardrunfastbekindsblog]

I love it when what may at first seem to be a minor detail or throwaway line in a show turns out to be critical information that comes into play several seasons later.

Things like this, from Rebels season 2:

Minister Tua: "I've discovered the true reason the Empire came to Lothal."

Hera: "We know that one. The Empire has a factory and they are stripping the planet's resources to fuel it."

Minister Tua: "No. There is another reason, known only to a few and ordered by the Emperor himself."

Given that we don't learn about the Emperor's true intentions and the portal to the World Between Worlds until season 4, it's just awesome to see hints that the story was so well thought out early on.

[ahsoka-its-all-of-us]

I am never gonna shut up about Kallus and I’m making it all of your problem

He hid it very well, even for himself, but deep down he was horrified to find out Minister Tua was shipping T-7 disruptors to Lothal. Just like Zeb, he knows very well why they were banned, and the cries of the Lasat are something he still hears echoing in his mind at night sometimes. While he has been very careful not to let it outwardly show, he had privately agreed with the Senate’s decision to ban the weapons.

Skystrike was his first official Fulcrum act. He overheard three cadets planning to defect, and, knowing exactly what the Empire does with defecting cadets — not that long before he had arrested Swain, a former ISB trainee he had coached himself in Yularen’s brief attempt at having him become an instructor, for defection —, he decided he did not want them to die, so instead he contacted the Rebellion using his skills in tracking them down.

Even while he was already working as Fulcrum, at first he did not support the Rebellion’s mission. This one act of kindness became two, then three, and then even more as he continued running into situations in which the Empire didn’t do what he thought was right, until eventually he grew fully disillusioned with the whole corruption of the system, and turned against it.

Zeb didn’t recruit him, back on Bahryn, but he did open his eyes. Where earlier Kallus would have just looked the other way when encountering something like Skystrike or the disruptors on Lothal, now he couldn’t anymore. And not one to simply sit around in horror, he immediately turned to taking action instead.

He never actually intended to join the Rebellion, even after fully betraying the Empire. He would send them whatever intel he could as Fulcrum, protected as many rebel operations and lives he could, and expected to at some point get caught and executed for treason. When Ezra came to extract him, he was genuinely surprised and annoyed because the idea hadn't even crossed his mind, and also it would end his usefulness to the Rebellion.

For that reason it takes him a long time to adjust to being a full-fledged rebel, because he deep down doesn’t believe he can be one, doesn’t believe he should be one. He should have died in the Empire, and now he’s living in borrowed time. Both Zeb and Rex can relate to him in this; feeling guilty about his perceived failure on Lasan, Zeb knows what it’s like to think you should have died before, and Rex knows better than anyone how difficult it is to become something other than a soldier for a specific cause when that’s all you’ve ever been.

[inquisitor-apologist]

As I’m rewatching Rebels (read: forcing myself through like 5 episodes over 2 months) one of the things that I think is really interesting is how they handled Kallus, and how, in at least season 1 and the season 2 premier, it doesn’t seem at all like they were setting him up for redemption.

He taunts Zeb about the fall of Lasan without a hint of remorse, he manipulates Minister Tua into running and then kills her, and he burns Tarkintown to the ground without hesitation. I think it’s going to be very interesting to see if/how the writing around him changes leading up to The Honorable Ones.

[seth-shitposts]

Random thing i find interesting and think about from time to time.

Beginning of s2, Minister Tua and Agent Kallus both were served a heavy reminder of what happens with repeated failure, a demonstration performed by the Grand Inquisitior ordered by Grand Moff Tarkin.

Under the stress of the pressure and knowing what her fate was going to be after her final failure, Tua made the choice to defect. Not for any other reason other than to save her own life. Which is a response that many people would have, realistically. She offered up valuable information for the rebellion in exchange for safe passage out of the empire.

It had been cowardly and purely to save her own hide, her resolve and loyalty fizzling out, and in the end, her only goal was to secure her own life.

And then, on the flip side, there's Kallus.

Throughout most of s2 he threw himself at walls, certain that he'd accomplished his goal. Serve his empire. Loyalty unwavering, not even questioning it. And when the rebels flew head on into a destructive space anomaly and won, he realized that this will only ever end in his failure. He was inadequate and slipping. He knew he had an expiration date that was quickly approaching. He served his purpose to the empire and his line of failures will only lead to the same fate given to Tua. So the pathetic attempt in the station above Geonosis wasn't another attempt to successfully capture the rebels, it was a just a desperate struggle to go down with a fight. At this point, his loyalty to the empire may have already been in question to him, to some level. The speech he gave to Zeb may have been him trying to convince himself.

And then he does as Zeb dared him; looked for answers. And he found them. And rather than wallow, or immediately run off to the rebellion to fight, he took action. He took action that aligned with his morals. He stayed to his morals despite the grave danger he was in by remaining within the empire as a defector.

Even when he was warned about the empire closing in on him, he chose to keep fighting, to keep being of use to the rebellion.

Tua and Kallus both have immense faults, their defections from the empire similar yet couldn't be more different. Kallus choosing to do what would save others while Tua chose to do what would save herself. And then Tua leaving immediately to flee to the aid of the rebels while Kallus rejected the aid from the rebellion in favor of trying to help them more.

Dunno, it's just a train of thought that crosses my mind often.

[kanerallels]

For my 501st follower celebration from this ask, a fic for @ladywren7! Au #73, the Time Travel Au. Rated G, with major character death implied

The first time it happened, he didn’t really understand.

One minute, he was on the bridge of the Chimaera, facing off with Thrawn. Or, rather, he was defeating Thrawn. And launching himself into the unknown with a ship full of enemies and a handful of purrgil as backup.

Generally speaking, it wasn’t Ezra’s best idea.

But it was the only one he had. It was the only way out for his home. Sometimes, you had to make the sacrifice. Like Kanan had taught him.

So he’d done it. And as hyperspace had rushed to meet them he felt this awful twist, and—

He reeled backwards, his head spinning. Every bone in his body hurt, like he’d been shoved into a small space he didn’t really fit in. Stumbling backwards a little, he caught himself on the low wall behind him and gasped for breath. Ow. What just— wait.

As he blinked the spots out of his vision, Ezra registered the familiarity of his surroundings. He wasn’t on the Chimaera any more. He was on a rooftop in Lothal.

What? Frowning, Ezra cautiously stepped forward, looking around. There was something strangely familiar about this particular rooftop, like he knew it somehow. Is this real? Or is it just a Force vision? He was too familiar with those to totally rule that possibility out. Swiping his hair out of his eyes, he started towards the roof’s edge— and then froze again.

His hair. His hair was supposed to be short. Cut close to his scalp.

So why was it long enough to brush his jawline? Like he hadn’t had a haircut in months. Like… when he’d first met the crew.

No way, Ezra thought. That’s impossible. But he remembered how he’d rescued Ahsoka, and how the hyperspace jump had felt, like he was being shoved into a too small space.

Or… a too small body?

Reaching up, he touched his cheek where the two scars from the Inquisitor’s lightsaber were. But his fingers met only smooth skin. Oh, crap. Does that mean—

Taking a step forward, he peered over the edge of the roof— and saw the ponytailed figure of Kanan Jarrus. His dead master. Looking years younger than the last time Ezra had seen him.

This was the day he’d first met him. Somehow, Ezra had wound up in the past.

He did his best to keep up after that. Followed along with events similarly to how they’d gone the first time through. But it was so much harder to just toss Kanan a snarky salute and zip out of there, instead of hurling himself into his master’s arms. His master, who he missed so much.

Still, Kanan didn’t remember him— Ezra’s prevailing theory was that only people on the Chimaera, or possibly only him and Thrawn, since they’d been most directly involved with the purrgil, could remember what happened— so he played along. Pretended like his heart didn’t leap with joy at the sight of Sabine, and Hera, and Zeb. Force, he was even glad to see Chopper.

He stuck to the timeline as long as he could.

And then, he didn’t any more. Ezra figured he was here for a reason. It was his job to figure out that reason, and help as many people as possible.

So he saved lives. He helped them evade the Grand Inquisitor, and Gall  Trayvis. He tried to save Kanan at the comm tower— but his master wouldn’t leave. Ezra reluctantly let him, knowing they’d get him back. And they did.

He managed to prevent Minister Tua from dying, and got the Rebellion important intel. He played mediator on Seelos and kept them out of the way of the two new Inquisitors. When the question of a base came up, Ezra nudged them towards the planet where Chopper picked up AP-5.

He hadn’t been sure if it was the right idea. But when they made it to Malachor, and he ran into Maul again, Ezra let him come with. But when Kanan voiced doubts, he made sure his master knew he agreed. “Just stay out of his way,” Ezra begged him. “Be careful, okay? Trust that I can keep myself out of danger.”

A confused Kanan had agreed— and somehow, made it out with his eyesight intact. Ezra breathed a sigh of relief. The months between Malachor and Kanan’s return had hurt, and he knew it would still hurt, even knowing what he did.

Things had gotten… a little confusing at that point.

Mainly because Ahsoka made it out alive.

And Ezra was pretty sure that was something he did.

So he did a little casual snooping, while Kanan and Hera reunited, and everyone else tried to figure out what was next. And it turned out that the Ahsoka who was here? This wasn’t the Ahsoka who’d been fighting with them the past few months.

This was the Ahsoka from Ezra’s timeline. And she had her memories, same as him.

She still needed a little catching up, but it was nice to have someone else who knew what was going on.

Unfortunately, there was someone else who knew what was going on. Sort of. And he showed up right on time, in all his red-eyed, blue-skinned glory. Thrawn had his memories, same as Ezra. But he seemed to be playing it safe, just to see what Ezra would do.

So Ezra kept going, kept saving people. He handled Maul, made sure Sabine found the darksaber, supported her through that. (And still teased her a little. This was the one area he was better at something than her— was he supposed to resist it?)

And when Thrawn’s fleet found Atollon, Ezra was ready. He made sure everyone escaped safely, even Commander Sato. And when the crew, plus Kallus, made it out, he let out a sigh of relief. Maybe this could be better this time.

But then. Lothal came. Hera still ran the blockade, the Rebellion still refused any real help until the last minute, and Pryce still caught Hera. 

Ezra did everything in his power to convince Kanan to stay. But his master wasn’t about to let the woman he loved be in danger and do nothing.

So, for the second time, Ezra lost his master. And despite everything, despite all his frantic working and planning, he still wound up on the bridge of a Star Destroyer. Just him, Thrawn, and the purrgil.

But then he woke up as Kanan helped him and the crate of blasters onto the Ghost. And that was when Ezra realized it.

He was stuck in a time loop. This wasn’t a second chance. This was a “get it right and you get your second chance, otherwise you’re stuck reliving this over and over again”.

So Ezra went to work.

It didn’t really go as planned. For one thing, Thrawn seemed to have put this together, too. And he had decided to hound Ezra as long and hard as he could, ruining every plan he could. But Ezra was stubborn, too. He would go through this loop as many times as he had to— a loop that he quickly became aware was growing smaller with every go round. Every time he woke up, time had passed since his previous awakening— in order to get it right.

He grew bolder. Prevented bigger things, or at least he tried to. Some things seemed to be a fifty-fifty chance, like Kanan going blind. He got rid of Inquisitors and… well, he tried to get rid of Maul. He seemed to be pretty consistent, though.

But Thrawn kept throwing bigger things at him— more Inquisitors, more troops, more everything. And Ezra was finding it hard to keep up on his own.

And then he did something that he hadn’t tried before. He brought someone else into the time loop with him.

~~~

Sabine knew what Ezra was planning. She’d seen the look in his eyes, and knew the odds just as well as he had. So she’d let him go.

And about five minutes later she’d regretted it.

And so, somehow— she still wasn’t quite sure how— she’d snuck onto the Chimaera after him. She’d made it onto the bridge just as the purrgil showed up, which she hadn’t expected. But Ezra had this really bad habit of making plans and then refusing to share them with others, so it wasn’t really her fault.

Diving under a tentacle, she pushed her way into the bridge, where Ezra had Thrawn pinned. Around them, Sabine could feel the thrumming in the air that was the Force— and something else, as the tentacles surrounding them flashed.

We’re about to jump to hyperspace.

This was his plan?

Ezra was saying something as she moved out into the open. A stormtrooper moved towards her, and Sabine shot him before he could take another step. The sound of blaster fire caught Ezra’s attention, and he looked towards her. His eyes went wide with horror. “Sabine?”

And then they made the jump and everything hurt, in a way that was Wrong. Sabine stumbled backwards, smacking into something. Her stomach churned, and she clenched her teeth, eyes squeezing shut. Don’t be sick. Don’t be.

The turmoil swirling around them seemed to still as Ezra’s voice came again, this time closer. “Oh, boy. Uh, Sabine? Are you okay?”

“Fine,” Sabine mumbled, taking a deep breath. Opening her eyes, she said, “That plan was— AHHH!”

Letting out a very undignified yelp, she leapt backwards from Ezra Bridger. But it wasn’t her Ezra. It looked more like Ezra when they’d first met him— long hair, scruffy clothes and an overall scrawny look. “What the kriff?” she demanded.

“Don’t panic,” Ezra said, holding up his hands. “It’s okay— we just went back in time a little bit.”

“We WHAT? How? Wait, what color’s my hair?”

“Orange and blue,” Ezra told her. “I think this is… right after Zeb and I stole that TIE fighter?”

Sabine rubbed at her face as she blearily took in their surroundings. They were in the Ghost kitchen— but it looked different. Some of the paintings she’d done on the wall were gone, as were some of Kanan’s newer implements. This can’t be happening.

But she took another look at the much shorter Ezra, who was gazing at her earnestly, and knew it was.

“What. Just happened,” she said, propping her hands on her hips. “Particularly how and why, too.”

Clearing his throat, Ezra said, “So, in coming on the bridge of the Chimaera— like I specifically told you not to—”

“You did no such thing. Also, since when do I listen to you?”

“Fair. Well, when you did that, you kinda got yourself… caught in a time loop with me?”

Sabine’s eyebrows shot up. “What?”

“I’ve been reliving my time with the crew repeatedly,” Ezra said matter of factly. Then he frowned. “Well, kinda. Some parts seem to kinda get skipped over. Like, I’ll go to sleep and you and Ketsu’s mission already happened when I woke up, and I was there. Some things are on autoplay, I guess. But other things aren’t, which is where I change stuff.”

Rubbing her face with one hand, Sabine said, “Okay, let me get this straight. You’ve been time looping your way through the past four years, and changing stuff?”

“Trying to,” Ezra said. The expression that flashed across his face was far, far too old for a fourteen year old to be wearing. Although Sabine supposed he wasn’t technically fourteen.

“Okay,” she said slowly. “It’s because of the purrgil, I’m guessing?”

“Yeah, but Thrawn and I seem to be the only ones who remember anything,” Ezra said with a frown. “Well, except Ahsoka.”

“Ahsoka?”

“Yeah, she… long story short, she gets her memories of the original timeline back on Malachor.”

Sabine lifted her eyebrow at him. “What’s the long story?”

“Really, really long,” Ezra said. “But I’ll tell you someday.”

“I’ll hold you to that,” Sabine told him. Starting to pace back and forth, she said, “Okay. So you’ve been changing stuff. Like what?”

“Well, for one, Ahsoka doesn’t always come back with us from Malachor,” Ezra said. “For another… we lose people. Commander Sato, some of the others. I’ve tried to save him in as many loops as possible. In— in some of them, I even kept Kanan from getting blinded.”

The catch in his voice was obvious, and Sabine felt an internal pang at the memory of how much both he and Kanan had been through during those six months. But that hadn’t been the first time he’d handled that.

“Ezra— how many times have you done this loop?”

Ezra’s gaze flicked downwards, and his voice held a note of forced casualness as he said, “Oh, like eighty-six or so.”

“EIGHTY-SIX?”

“SSSSH! The others will hear you!” Ezra hissed. “But… yeah. Not all of them were the full loop, though. Turns out that when you die, the time loop resets.”

Sabine stared at him, shock stabbing through her. “You— you’ve died?”

“A couple times, yeah. First time Thrawn did a little orbital bombardment thing. A couple times the Inquisitors got me, and Vader did once. Oh, and Maul, obviously. And the fight on Atollon, once— what?”

Sabine shook her head. “Nothing, I just— you’ve been doing all this alone?”

Shrugging, Ezra said, “No one else knew. And no one would have believed me. I couldn’t really ask for help.”

“You have it now,” Sabine told him firmly, and a smile crossed his face.

“Thanks.”

“So,” Sabine said briskly. “How do we break this time loop?”

Sighing, Ezra said, “I have a theory. The one thing that’s been the same every time has been… Kanan.”

Sabine swallowed hard, pain shooting through her chest. He’s not dead here. Which means… we can save him. “Challenge accepted,” she said with a shrug. “We have a Jedi to save.”

[stopthatmyhandsaredirty]

Star Wars Rebels Bechdel Test Rewatch- Season 2 Recap

I’m all done with Season 2! I’m flying through this rewatch. This show is great in a binge watch. In terms of the Bechdel Test, Season 2 was a marked improvement. Let’s see how it did overall. 

15 out of 22 episodes in Season 2 pass the Bechdel Test. This is up from 8 out of 15 episodes in Season 1. This is also more passing episodes than any single season of The Clone Wars which peaked at 11 passing episodes in Seasons 3 and 5. 

The passing Season 2 episodes are: “The Siege of Lothal (Parts 1 and 2),’ ‘Always Two There Are,’ ‘Wings of the Master,’ ‘Blood Sisters,’ ‘The Future of the Force,’ ‘Legacy,’ ‘A Princess on Lothal,’ ‘The Protector of Concord Dawn,’ ‘Legends of Lasat,’ ‘The Call,’ ‘Homecoming,’ ‘Shroud of Darkness,’ ‘The Forgotten Droid,’ and ‘The Mystery of Chopper Base.’ 

The strongest episodes in terms of representation with 4 female named female characters with speaking roles each are ‘The Siege of Lothal (Part 1)’, ‘The Future of the Force,’ ‘Shroud of Darkness,’ and ‘The Mystery of Chopper Base.’  I terms of actual dialogue exchanged between women, I’d say ‘The Future of the Force’ was the strongest overall 

There are 13 named female characters with speaking roles in Season 2, up quite a bit from the measly 4 we got in Season 1. By comparison, there are 29 named male characters with a speaking role in Season 2, which is only slightly up from 26 in Season 1. Of the 13 characters, 9 were new to the series. It’s also worth noting that 3 out of the 13 are killed before the end of the Season (Minister Tua, Deiser, and the Seventh Sister). Ahsoka also disappears at the end of the Season. 

The characters who recurred the most frequently are: 

Hera Syndulla- (20 Episodes) 

Sabine Wren- (20 Episodes) 

Ahsoka Tano (9 Episodes)

Seventh Sister (6 Episodes)

Ketsu Onyo (2 episodes) 

Every episode in Season 2 featured at least 2 female characters with speaking roles. This is a big improvement from The Clone Wars. The only characters to appear in every episode were Ezra, Kanan, and Chopper. 

Season 3 let’s goooooooo!