[CaptainCrunch]

Another really good two episode series

Spoiler!

This laid the ground work for the end in a lot of ways

We had the luke skywalker with Ezra as he walks up from a vision of horrible things happening on Lothal, then when offered a mission to gather information on the Tie Defender Program but the planet is under lockdown and its going to be tough to get back. Ezra basically states he's probably not coming back.

Even though its not necessary to keep hammering on the Empire is evil they drove it home tonight with not only an environmentally wrecked planets with its citizen's under lockdown.

We thought we'd dismissed the whole Ezra to the Darkside thing but he was visibly angry when he finds out his friend Old Joe had been executed for treason and a Imperial Ace had taken over the bar.

The first episode was really about the cost of occupation and it was a slow buildup to the second episode where they see the new Defender Elite, and a huge plus to the animators on making a gorgeous and deadly looking fighter. We also are reminded of Ezra's connection with animals as the Loth Cats swarm him and basically help him and Sabine steal the figher.

Of course Thrawn has returned, but it was a bit of a throw away return for him as he continues to play chess with the Rebels.

As things go to their worst and Ezra and Sabine crash and are hunted by Imperials we see the Loth-Wolf that we've seen I think in the new Star Wars trailer. These animals are clearly sentient and force sensitive, and he uses force suggestion to put Sabine to sleep and then spirits Ezra back to his friends, before he vanishes he utters one word to Ezra which is Doom"

Dave Filoni in recent interviews has promised three things to end the series

The answer to the fate of Ashoka
What happens to the ghost crew and the Jedi, and Dave did say that there aren't a lot of force users in a new hope and what happens to Thrawn.

Are they all doomed?

Who will survive.

Well we know Chopper and Hera have survived right through to the end of the Rebellion. But all bets are off for the rest of the family.

When Hera and Kaanan have a nice romantic moment in the back alley during their mission, you felt sadness in Kaanan at another moment lost, maybe he knows he's doomed.

Thrawn has to pretty much bite it as well, the Emperor would certainly have had him around at key battles if hes such a prominent military commander.

The answer to the fates of Sabine and Zeb are up in the air. Its easy to say that Sabine survives she's got a home to return to, but poor Zeb has been without a story line forever and seems destined to die or give up the fight.

Like I said, Ezra returning to Lothal was the worst thing for him, he's feeling tremendous guilt and anger over the loss of friends and the complete destruction of his home, its not a stretch to imagine him giving into those feelings if someone like Kaanan or worse yet Sabine is harmed. I don't believe the theory that Snoke is Ezra at all, but its not hard to see Ezra holding the corpse of his master and giving into his repressed need for revenge and justice and walking into a final confrontation with Vader.