#swrebels

[saltyseaturtle]

WE KNOW TECH TAUGHT OMEGA HOW TO FLY! WATCH HER ROLL UP INTO YAVIN 4 LIKE THIS! 🤣

The Empire couldn’t handle her crazy antics, but can the Rebellion? 😅🥰

[the-radio-star]

SENATOR JAI KELL… RYDER AZADI… LOTHAL’S ENVIRONMENT HEALING AFTER THE EMPIRE… LOTH CATS… EZRA BRIDGER “WE GREW UP TOGETHER(😭😭)… YOU’RE LIKE A SISTER TO ME”… THE LOOK ON HERA’S FACE WHEN REALIZING EZRA COULD BE ALIVE… THE PARALLEL SHOT TO THE OPENING SHOT OF REBELS… THE SCORING???…

REBELS FANS WE WIN

[sunnyxjarrus]

did they actually expect us to believe that Hera and Kanan hadn’t been married for like five years by the time of rebels season one

did they

Look at how in the first one Hera just tucks a comforting hand around him and then the second one what do you mean they aren’t married or even a couple at this point and that they didn’t become a couple until season 4 I know I’m just talking season two right now but have we seen any of season one pick any episode you like out of season one and I can tell you an exact moment where they were very clearly an established relationship

[stopthatmyhandsaredirty]

ngl I almost forgot The Bad Batch and Resistance

[mzminola]

Similar to the fic premise of "Wouldn't it be fucked up if...?" we have "Wasn't it fucked up when...?"

Which is fans exploring moments in canon that could have had big, long-lasting consequences, yet just...don't, often because of constraints of the genre or story.

Betrayal, manipulation, injuries. "They need to forgive each other because this is a serial format with an ensemble cast." "We didn't do enough research into this injury before the character got it, pretend it didn't happen." "Hm, a realistic fallout for this doesn't fit the vibes of our kids show."

Hera & Kanan keeping the Bridgers' survival and location a secret from Ezra until it's too late for him to help was really fucked up, and for most people would've been too huge a betrayal to get past. But Ezra thanks them for doing what they could and turns to Kanan for a hug; this forgiveness is now part of his canon characterization, yet it probably came about because Ezra getting angry enough to leave, or asking himself "What else are they hiding from me?" would break up the cast to the point of breaking the show.

Tim Drake loses his spleen on Brucequest...but after the scene where he's told his impalement resulted in the loss, it never comes up again. They skip over his recovery, focusing on the actual plot of "working under duress with the LoA", never mention in dialogue or thought boxes that he's needed to make lifestyle adjustments, never show him with pills, and flat out have him fake a completely DIFFERENT injury when he decides it's the best way to protect his secret identity.

With the asplenia, it's easy enough to say all that was just off-page, and incorporate it into fics without altering canon. With Hera & Kanon's secrecy, really digging into it necessitates writing a canon-divergent AU. With some incidents of emotional injury, fics can dig into the characters' hypothetical thoughts and emotions over it without changing their canon actions. Though of course, if it's a media that gets us into their heads, doing so without breaking canon characterization gets trickier.

A fic were Damian's murder attempts permanently injure or kill Tim is a "Wouldn't it be fucked up if...?" Fic where Tim noticeably loses trust in Batman after the 16th birthday incident is a "Wasn't it fucked up when...?"

It's all a big game of "Hey, let's explore this scenario!" but the latter tends to result in a lot more arguments over characterization (at least in my experience). It helps if we're upfront about what we view as Doylistic versus Watsonian choices in canon when discussing them.

[saltyseaturtle]

Jk jk 🤣 But fr I was wondering

Me: Why was Sabine being trained by Ahsoka? There was never an indication that she had force-sensitivity!

Huyang: Out of all the thousands of padawans I have trained… Sabine sucks ass the most. She is not very force sensitive.

Me: Oh, thanks Huyang!

[newtonrunar]

The Mechanic | Star Wars Rebels - Chapter 1 (on Wattpad) 

https://www.wattpad.com/story/338667622-the-mechanic-star-wars-rebels

Revenge burns her insides, fuelling the fire inside, to the point where she will kill the Empire with her bare hands. 

Revenge is all she has to live for. She lives to spite them. 

What happens when the misfit Rebel crew gives her a new purpose and helps to reinstate her once strong moral compass? 

Zeb and Kevras have a rocky start, both wanting to kill each other the first time they meet. 

Will he be the one to help her live again? 

props to dave filoni, this is just a fanfic

[saltyseaturtle]

YOU GUYS SHE HAS A BAD BATCH PATCH ON HER JACKET!!! THAT'S SO SWEET! SHE'LL HAVE HER BROTHERS EVERYWHERE SHE GOES 🥰 😭

[sunnyxjarrus]

“I actually need that episode injected into my bloodstream… both of them actually” “ honey it might as well be”

~me talking to myself about the first two episodes of rebels

[musewrangler]

@kanerallels @accidental-spice

Just in case you haven’t seen it 😉

Needed some fluff Space Mom and Dad.

[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! 

[newtonrunar]

The Mechanic | Star Wars Rebels - Prologue (on Wattpad) 

NEW FANFIC OUT NOW!!

Zeb and Kevras have a rocky start, both wanting to kill each other the first time they meet. Will he be the one to help her live again? props to dave filoni, this is just a fanfic

[saltyseaturtle]

Sabine: I want one.

Ezra: no.

I just keep thinking that if Ezra comes back with a purple lightsaber, Sabine is gonna insist they trade

[saltyseaturtle]

Sisters 💕

[dapurinthos]

today's fun things researched for star wars fic:

1) chemical composition of a rose because i need to know how to break it down to the atomic level.

2) history of chess, related to shah-tezh (precursor to dejarik), an obvious play on the name of shatranj itself descended from chaturanga (which could be as old as the indus valley civilization, if gaming boards found in lothal* were used for such a game).

badly done on the naming front, tho, wendig. i can see you folklore etymologicized the 'sha' part of shatranj was for the 'shah' piece and went from there but the original a term means 'four hands' and refers to the divisions of the military (elephants, cavalry, chariots, infantry).

(there are too many types of chess)

[stopthatmyhandsaredirty]

Star Ware Rebels Bechdel Test Rewatch- 2x17 ‘The Honorable Ones’

Plot

Zeb and Agent Kallus find themselves stranded on an icy moon of Geonosis after a failed Imperial ambush of the rebels. Bitter enemies, they must put aside their differences and work together in order to survive

Female Characters: 2

Hera Syndulla, Sabine Wren

Male Characters: 6

Zeb Orrelios, Alexsandr Kallus, Ezra Bridger, Kanan Jarrus, Rex, Kassius Konstantine

Droid Characters: 1

Chopper

Does it pass?

No, it does not pass. Hera and Sabine are featured pretty well in the first act of the episode, but they never speak to each other. 

Were there Zeb and Kallus shippers before this episode or was this when they were born? I’m all for some gay representation so no hate there, I can’t quite get past the interspecies thing but who am I to kink shame anyone. 

Seriously though, Kallus’ about-turn is one of my favorite things about the show. He is sympathetic for the first time here....and honestly he has been pretty fucking despicable up to this point. This is a really great episode for Zeb too. I love how he gets Kallus thinking about actually asking some questions. 

I also totally forgot Geonosis is in this episode and that we get some Death Star lore. Attack of the Clones has not aged well for me, but I loved it when it came out and I’m always happy to see Geonosis.... and I was genuinely curious what happened to them after the war.