Star Wars Rebels "Fighter Flight" S01E02

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The Story:

In this episode of Star Wars Rebels, we follow the adventures of Zeb and Ezra as they visit a market after causing too much ruckus on the ship. Hera, the captain of the Ghost, demands that they must bring her a special fruit, or they won't gain access back onto the ship. While Zeb and Ezra are in the marketplace, we see an old friend of Ezra's family. We learn that the Empire has offered the farmer compensation for his land in order to set up production facilities, however, the farmer denies the offer.



Zeb and Ezra soon get all the supplies they need, except for the fruit, as they aren't native to the planet Lothal and that the Imperials had just purchased them. However, Ezra finds a crate of the fruits being loaded onto a Trooper Transport and decides to go after it. Of course, this attempt fails and the two soon become surrounded by Stormtroopers. As they run away, the two get separated. Ezra goes along the roof tops while Zeb steals an Imperial Tie Fighter. Zeb soon rescues Ezra on top of the rooftops from the Stormtroopers. They fly off to meet up with the Ghost crew.


Meanwhile, the farmer we saw earlier is now at his farm when two Troop Transports roll up. They inform him that they are now taking his land by force an he has no choice in the matter. They blow up his home and take him into custody. They put them where the troopers would normally go to prevent Rebels attacking them, because the likely hood that the civilians would die is higher.



Zeb and Ezra see the smoke from the farm and decide to investigate before meeting up with the Ghost crew. While using the Tie Fighter as a cover, they hover over the moving transports and Ezra jumps down to free the civilians. Ezra then spots the fruit box from earlier and uses the fruit to knock the Stormtroopers down from the transport. Zeb then lowers altitude to pick him up once the civilians got away, and they make their way to the Ghost. Luckily, Ezra kept one of the fruits and gave it to Hera as an apology.

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Score:
7/10

This episode is very family friendly, but that's not a bad thing. It was extremely entertaining to watch and had some good character development and bonding between Zeb and Ezra. Not to mention the dark implications it had of how the Empire handles things. This is a perfectly reasonable light hearted episode, especially when considering what next week's is about. The music is spectacular as always. Though my gripe is, this really felt like a filler episode. While a good filler episode, this is the second episode of the season. Seems a bit early for filler if you ask me.

It just looks like shitty Clone Wars and since Clone Wars itself was shitty after season 3 or so, we're looking at some Class A Shit here.

CW picked up after Season 3, IMO. when they did episodes that didnt have Anikin or Ahsoka, those were the shining episodes.

How would you rate this against Clone Wars?

If we're comparing apples to apples here, then it might as well be fair. The second episode of The Clone Wars was Shadow of Malevolence. While Shadow of Malevolence had a darker tone, I'd have to say I enjoy this more.

Art style, it's Ralph Mcquarrie inspired, so it has it's ups and downs, as did Clone Wars. However, visuals like lighting and explosions blow The Clone Wars out of the water for the second episode.

Both are great. Why compare. It's all Star Wars

I saw Rise of the Old Masters last night. Great episode. It's available on Disney XD. I think they release the episodes ahead of time on it.