Star Wars Rebels The Seige of Lothal

Star Wars Rebels

The Seige of Lothal

By: Cannon Adams

We have finally seen the premiere episode of Star Wars Rebels Season 2 on June 20th 2015. What a amazing episode. For those who have not seen the episode yet then STOP reading and go watch it either on the Disney XD mobile app or anywhere online. 

Ok let me just get this out of the way. (Takes a deep breath, releases slowly) THE APPRENTICE LIVES! Ashoka Tano is back 100% as we all know after season 1 but now we are really going to be seeing tons of her now. Ashoka has been hiding with the rebellion fighters and went by the name Fulcrum the whole time. She is back and we will be seeing her more often once again like how we saw her in almost every episode of The Clone Wars but I just hope that we do not see her die in this season or the next. (DON'T YOU SAY THAT! TAKE THAT BACK!) I am not saying it will happen but we just never know where Dave Filoni will take Ashoka later down the road. For now let us enjoy seeing her once again. 

So now senator Tua is dead, Kallus of course is still chasing Kanan and the ghost team, and now Vader is going after them. What was really awesome to see is when Kanan went up against Vader, but we all know who is the most powerful and more experienced in that match, but it was still cool because he was helping Ezra out. What I liked was when Vader used the force to hold up Ezra's lightsaber up against his neck. And most of all, when the AT-ST's fell on Vader and Vader lifted them up and was like (Psh really that is all you got?) 

Now let's talk about Vader and Ashoka because that was the most important part of the show. During the scene when Vader was taking out the Rebel fleet all by himself (OMG SO AWESOME!) anyways, when Ashoka and Kanan both used the force and reached out to Vader's Tie Interceptor, Vader sensed Ashoka. Ashoka opens her eyes in shock and yells as she basically was overwhelmed and passed out and Vader saying "The apprentice lives". I was hoping before the episode aired that Dave Filoni and the team won't pull off a cheesy thing of Ashoka never knowing who Vader is until she actually confronts him in person or something, no that did not happen. What happened in the show I was amazed and really happy.

Now people can be mad at the fact that Ashoka did not tell Kanan and Ezra that Anakin Skywalker is Vader or this sith lord. The reasons why she kept that away from them now is most likely because she does not want them both to lose hope because of how a Jedi turned evil and went to the Sith. Eventually later down the road she will tell them, but for now until they are fighting more with the rebellion, she is keeping that away and also if they found out that Anakin was her former master, they might lose trust in her. 

How many of you enjoyed the emperor? We didn't get to see him but Sam Witwer did an amazing job on the voice of the emperor. At first when I saw this episode during Celebration 7, I thought Ian McDiarmid came and reprised his role, but Sam Witwer did a fantastic job and we get to hear more from him as the emperor. Now are we going to see the return of Darth Maul? I mean come on he is not dead, Sidious said he has more use of him back during The Clone Wars series. But we need to wait and see. But first we now need to see Captain Rex. 

Season 2 of Rebels started off fantastic once again but are we going to see more episodes during the summer? They did not mention another episode for the following week or anything. I bet we may have to wait until the fall season for the rest of season 2. 

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