[CaptainCrunch]

Really interesting episodes this week, they split into the spirituallity of Ezra and Kanan's force journey and the second episode was more in the mundane world of the Empire's exploration of Lothal.

Thoughts on Episode 4-7

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this episode was all about connections, the romantic connection between Kaanan and Hera, Ezra's connection with the Loth-Wolfs and Kanaan's connection with the Loth-Wolfs as well.

First of all we got a very sweet moment between Kanan and Hera as they final share a on screen kiss, I can't help but feel that this is going to lead to a lot of heartbreak for Hera as usually in these shows as soon as the guy gets the girl the guy dies horribly. We know that there aren't a lot of Jedi in the future, and the question of Kanan and Ezra's fates is getting closer to being resolved.

We finally met the Noghri, and Rebel's creator Dave Filoni went out of his way to make Ruhk give off the vibe of creepy and deadly efficient as he had no fear of fighting a Jedi, though his role was short in this episode there's no way this isn't the last of him.

Clearly the Loth-Wolfs have a deeper connection with Kanan then with Ezra and they are going to be a part of Kanan's journey from here on, they are using Ezra as a conduit to reach Kanan.

We saw the cave drawings with the Jedi coming down from the sky which answers some questions about why there's a Jedi temple on the planet, clearly the animals on this planet have a deep connection with the force through the planet.

I keep thinking that this is one of the paths or reasons why the Empire is so interested in Lothal. Sure the Tie Factory is important, but clearly the Emperor is after something else on the planet.

The Wolfs have the ability to travel long distances through the Force which allowed the Rebels to escape.

We saw about two seconds of Thrawn tonight, but it was a pretty meaningful two seconds, clearly he's getting tired of Pryce's incompetence and when Hera made an awesome escape by hyperspacing through a construction sphere you could see the murderous look in Thrawn's face.

To be clear his Thrawn is not the same as the Thrawn in the legends EU, you ge the sense that unlike the completely logical and cool and calculating EU Thrawn, this Thrawn underneath it all is a bit of a sociopath.

Are the Wolves linked to Ashoka? I don't know if I believe that they are related, and I remain convinced that she won't be all that involved in the conclusion of this series, I think she's beyond wanting to or being able to help

The animation this year is beautiful, the Wolves walking through the force tunnel was pretty to look at, and even the facial expressions on the characters is really well done, at times you forget that they're animations

Thoughts on episode two

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They decided to lighten things up in this episode on one side, and did a strong job of developing Hera on the other.

In this episode they decided to steal a mining guild crawler to use a long range transmitter.

First of all we saw the return of the Trandosians, the mining guild captain is far different for the cold reptilian nasty evil ones that we saw in the Clone Wars.

We also saw the return of Vizago, can Hondo be far behind, I'd love to see him show up and do something heroic.

We also saw the return of Ezra to crawling through conduits as he complained that he doesn't do that anymore.

We had a pretty dark moment where Ezra watches the Crawler Captain falling to a horrible death and he smirks and says watch out.

We finally got a epsiode where Zeb was more then background muscle as he had a great fight scene he also had a great background comedy bit when he goes into the closet and punches out the Captain.

On the Hera side she took another leadership step as she convinces the Rebels to attack Lothal and stop the production of the Tie Elite Defenders. However the Rebels are concerned about the Empire using protocol 13 which is the evacuation of Imperial personal from an occupied planet. Could we be seeing the early events of Rogue One taking place as Jedha was basically evacuated before the test firing of the Death Star.

The Rebels have had a series of small victories over the Empire but you have to feel that we are moving into the tragedy phase of the story as there are only a handful of episodes left.

It could also be possible that if the Rebels beat the Empire at the battle of Lothal that it might be a hollow victory, thinking of Protocal 13 maybe its to do with Lothal, and the Empire who has killed populations to keep things quiet like they did on Geonosis are going to use Protocal 13 on Lothal if they lose the manufacturing plant and Thrawn is going to initiate a Base Delta Zero on Lothal , which could have tragic effects on our Rebel Family.

We know that things are going to come to a head on Lothal, the attack is coming and I have my doubts that they will move this rebel cell away from Lothal at this point in the series.