Star Wars Rebels Season 2 episodes 12-13 review - Legends of the Lasat/The Call

Star Wars Rebels continues its tales, and we shall look at them now

Legends of the Lasat

It’s been a while since we looked at Zeb’s character. If you remember, the Empire, led by Agent Kallus destroyed his home world of Lasan whilst he was a Captain in the honour guard. It’s sometimes kinda jarring as his general demeanour does not really match someone who has lost that much to the Empire

Having said that, this episode allowed Zeb to get a lot of closure whilst providing a pretty exciting adventure with good humour and good drama. The humour comes with the return of Hondo to the fray, his switching sides on a dime to make the most profit out of a situation is great humour and so within his character, much more so than his last appearance really.

But the big the big thing of this episode was the spectacle of that collapsed star system, it looked gorgeous and the music was brilliant for it. The last 5-8 minutes took what was already a decent episode that looked into the heart of Zeb, whose character gets the spotlight even rarer than Hera or Sabine and elevated it into great territory.

Of course there is a bit of a dues ex-machina when it comes to exactly how they traverse it but it works within what the story was trying to tell them. The prophecy involved a warrior and a child but Zeb turned out to be both of them and needed to embrace all of himself and unlock the full power of his staff, guiding his ship through what should never be charted space

I thought it was a bit convenient that Lirasan, the world they were heading towards turned out to be another population of Lasats, but it worked with Zeb needing to remain a part of the rebels and their fight against the empire. Now they’ve made it through once, somehow they have complete access, and for now at least it’s a rest stop out of sight of the empire. If only the entire Rebel fleet could pass it, they could establish a base.

Again there isn’t a lot of advancement in the main story. The rebel fleet are not in this story at all and we are no closer to finding them a base. But this episode was strong without that and I’m very impressed with this particular character episode

Rating 8.5/10

The Call

Star Wars Rebels is not a heavily serialised show, there are overarching themes and potential mission objectives that span multiple episode but the fair majority of the show is standalone, this result is it does allow time for characters or particular aspects to get focus. In this episode, it’s about Ezra’s connection with animals. His ‘unique trait’ as it were

So desperately low on fuel, the crew of the Ghost are searching for an Imperial fuel base, they come across space whales called the Pergil, which Hera immediately marks as a problem since they’re dangerous and she’s lost many friends that way (oh, look, a character acknowledging the death of someone outside of the Ghost, that’s a novelty)

OK, so whales in space, there’s clearly a message here, right? Well, yeah, but it’s done fairly subtly. Hera isn’t the villain of the episode; her reasons are genuine. It’s Ezra’s force connections to the creatures that truly unveil their nature and it’s, as per usual, the Empire, or pathetic facets thereof, that are the designated villains.

There were some nice visuals in the episode, that freefalling sequence looked amazing and it was nice to see some action. The honest truth is, I kinda want the inquistors back to provide something more threatening to the rebels. The main villain here was uninteresting and bland.

The problem, however, with a show that does have some ongoing story but isn’t heavily serialised is that this does feel like a filler episode. The rebels gain some fuel, but that’s hardly ground-breaking stuff in the grand scheme of things

Personally, I enjoyed this episode mostly from a visual and emotional standpoint. I love the idea of the Pergil and seeing them head off into hyperspace is exactly the level of goofy fun I’ve come to expect from the series.

Rating 7.5/10

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