9 hours ago, Giledhil said:

Except facts doesn't work like law.
Thrawn managed to do an action with a low probability of success (let's say because of his high skills, but I'd say it's just relevant to the scenario at that moment, otherwise it seems too easy for the rebels); nothing says he will the next time.

Of course the precedent sets us to think that Thrawn has a probability to succeed again, but it is less than certain (and Endor is one ******* enournous mess of a battle !).

I'd expect Thrawn to pick it up in retrospect, possibly in time to do something about it.

"Sir, the death star... the emperor..."

"Calm down, and scan for survivors. ...Ensign? Ensign, focus! Scan for ships that left the deathstar in the last 5 minutes."

"Uh, yes sir. ...There it is! The Emperor's shuttle! He lives!"

"Plot a course to intercept, and have the fleet keep the rebels off of us. And tell the entire stormtrooper detachment to form up in the docking bay. If it is the emperor, he needs a proper honor guard."

"IF it's the emperor, sir?"

"The emperor seemed quite enamored with turning a certian rebel sorcerer. Unlikely... But best be prepared."

18 hours ago, flyboymb said:

As for the Empire losing just based off of the Emperor and Vader dying... Well that's simply what happened. I wouldn't have expected the Empire to fall with Palp's death any more than the Soviet Union did after Stalin's, but Endor was enough of a victory to spur the galaxy into open rebellion which the Imperial military could not withstand. I guess in the end Tarkin was somewhat right. No amount of Star Destroyers could keep every system in line without the right amount of fear keeping the populace in check.

They literally lost the battle of endor as well. Completely. Without even having the ability to DBZ the moon. ;-)

Oh and btw, Bubi (Erich Hartman) and other german aces and elite squadrons like his JG 52 got pretty quickly acces to the best avaible fighters. This is similar to how the 181st got TIE Interceptors or how Vult Skerries was first seen in a Bloodstripe Interceptor and later even in a Defender. The empire is not only inspired by Nazi Germany, but it has as well a solid technological base.

Lasty a nitpick. With only Wedge and Luke surviving the battle of Yavin, 11% of the imperial fighters survived while only 6.7% of the rebel forces. I am discounting Han here. ;-)
Naturally the mission was still a success, not really a problem considering how easy the task was. Just like hitting Womb Rats in Beggar's Canyon

1 hour ago, SEApocalypse said:

Womb Rats

Is that a Star Wars STD?

7 hours ago, SEApocalypse said:

Lasty a nitpick. With only Wedge and Luke surviving the battle of Yavin, 11% of the imperial fighters survived while only 6.7% of the rebel forces. I am discounting Han here. ;-)

Nitpicking the Nitpick.

A Y-Wing Survived as Well. Legends wise, that was Keyan Farlander.

2 hours ago, Drasnighta said:

Nitpicking the Nitpick.

A Y-Wing Survived as Well. Legends wise, that was Keyan Farlander.

Nitpicking the nitpicking nitpick, Iden Versio also survived in her TIE.

6 hours ago, Drasnighta said:

Nitpicking the Nitpick.

A Y-Wing Survived as Well. Legends wise, that was Keyan Farlander.

And canon it was Evaan Verlaine, a female Alderaanian pilot.

also, in the second death star superstructure chase, the y-wing was piloted by Norra Wexley - Temmin (Snap) Wexley's mom.

Anybody seen the new chapters? Can’t find them anywhere...

found them!

So there it is, the new season.

3 hours ago, eMeM said:

So there it is, the new season.

...and that was not a good start. Mostly just not very exciting random acts of violence, really bad slapstick, and as the icing on the cake, a monstrously stupid superweapon, that, I want to just remind everyone, was designed by an elementary school student.

So, very very Star Warsy then...

¡Oh boy, I'll surely love it!

Thanks

It was fine. Plenty of good action scenes. Culmination of a storyline they've been setting up for awhile.

Is the new season worth recording? I only watched Season 3 for Thrawn and Maul.

3 hours ago, Celestial Lizards said:

Is the new season worth recording? I only watched Season 3 for Thrawn and Maul.

Season 4 will have way more Thrawn, it'll have Rukh, and I hear it might have a bit of Vader.

Edit: That said, this first episode was just okay. With just a couple changes, it could've been a fantastic episode, but as it stands, it's certainly not bad. As DarthEnderx said, it's the culmination of a story line that's been in the works for quite a while.

I always feel like Rebel's larger arcs suffer from being two episodes rather than the three or four we saw in Clone Wars.

I mean, a bad four episode arc can be very exhausting, but a good one also gives you a lot more time to dig into characterisation and following through on interesting ideas. Some of these two parters end up feeling a tad rushed.

I enjoyed it, and understand why we don't see the four episode arcs we did in TCW, but an event like the liberation of Manadalore feels like it needs a bit more exploration, and to save time we get more info-dumps instead.

10 hours ago, DarthEnderX said:

It was fine. Plenty of good action scenes. Culmination of a storyline they've been setting up for awhile.

Seriously though, that was the dumbest ******* villain ever. It could NOT have been more obvious how that was going to go.

Was it wat Tambor taking on windu on ryloth bad?

34 minutes ago, FlyingAnchors said:

Was it wat Tambor taking on windu on ryloth bad?

I'd have to look that up to see. But it was an extreme hoisting nonetheless.

1 minute ago, DarthEnderX said:

I'd have to look that up to see. But it was an extreme hoisting nonetheless.

I think it was season 1 when that happened. It was right after the waxer /boil episode.

I am tired of the Mandalore and their story. I wish the Death Star had taken it out in ANH. Thing is, if the Death Star had targeted Mandalore, the Rebellion probably would have joined the Empire as a show of Thanks.

That was...

That was probably one of the weakest season openings I've ever seen for any show, ever. Wow, I just... God. That was really bad, guys. I'll be linking this because I have to.

Karabast. These two episodes were C-Team productions in terms of writing, ****.

New U-wings at the end, with two engines and significantly shorter wings. I guess this is the civilian variant from R1 visual guide.

I am fine with the episodes, except for one complaint:

1 hour ago, Admiral Deathrain said:

I am fine with the episodes, except for one complaint:

Sabines rage at the devastation her weapon cause would have been a lot more convincing and meaningfull had she actually started cutting down people with the darksaber in that moment instead of disarming them. Here is where being a kids show holds rebels back. Although seriously, you can turn people into ash, but a bit of stabbing is off limits?

Other than that I didn't have much of a problem. I liked Ezra struggeling with something, even if that went into slap-stick territory a bit, and Sabine showing a bit of her darker side was good, too. The weapon was a bit goofy in practice, but the build up was really good with how the rebels learned of its effect. That field of corpses turned to ash was pretty spooky. The cop-out at the start of episode 2 wasn't great, but I guess they still want the characters around.

The kid's show argument doesn't work. Ezra has outright killed Stormtroopers without a second thought, blaster and lightsaber.

Just now, Captain Lackwit said:

The kid's show argument doesn't work. Ezra has outright killed Stormtroopers without a second thought, blaster and lightsaber.

Sure about the lightsaber? I only recall them cutting weapons and killing with deflects. Might be some weird rule that the characters may not...I don't know, touch to kill?

4 minutes ago, Admiral Deathrain said:

Sure about the lightsaber? I only recall them cutting weapons and killing with deflects. Might be some weird rule that the characters may not...I don't know, touch to kill?

Season 3 premier.

Ezra flat out shoots one with blaster and I believe basically guts two more as he goes.

I like Star War and I like Star Wars Rebels but there are still some very cheezy writing going on. And there were several lame plot points.

P.S. how do you hide spoilers.

7 minutes ago, Ken at Sunrise said:

I like Star War and I like Star Wars Rebels but there are still some very cheezy writing going on. And there were several lame plot points.

P.S. how do you hide spoilers.

It's [-spoiler]stuff you want to hide[-/spoiler] (without the dashes of course)