How did it go from 14 to 12 to 5 Y-Yings?

Chop flew 1, slaved 4 others, then Sabine, Rex and Zeb flew 3 more. Thats 8?

I think a few got destroyed when the command center overrode the conveyor belt. I also assumed a few got destroyed in the battle (although I didn't see any blow up on screen, maybe I missed it).

However, 8 y-wings participated in the Battle of Yavin, so where did the other three come from?

We have been told that the ghost crew is not the only Rebel cell so we can assume that others were liberated by other cells.

How did it go from 14 to 12 to 5 Y-Yings?

Chop flew 1, slaved 4 others, then Sabine, Rex and Zeb flew 3 more. Thats 8?

I think a few got destroyed when the command center overrode the conveyor belt. I also assumed a few got destroyed in the battle (although I didn't see any blow up on screen, maybe I missed it).

However, 8 y-wings participated in the Battle of Yavin, so where did the other three come from?

We have been told that the ghost crew is not the only Rebel cell so we can assume that others were liberated by other cells.

True, but thematically it flows better to connect all the dots, from the Ghost crew grabbing Y-Wings which will be given to Dodanna, which are used to assault the Death Star. The writers are grabbing all age groups, because adults will understand the reference to Dodanna, while kids will now know a new leader for the Rebellion. I find it unlikely these fighters survive that long with how quickly the rebel pilots get shot down in this show and the movies, but it is plausible. And it always feels good to bring everything full circle.

Thrawn could also die in rebels. He doesn't need to survive this series.

Quite true, that is an option. Though Thrawn is an incredibly popular character, letting the Ghost Rebels kill him off... it doesn't sit right.

If Thrawn does die in Rebels, my money is on Agent Kallus killing him. It's already been proven that the voice of Fulcrum from the season 3 trailer is Kallus, and it would be fitting that an Imperial Thrawn believes is loyal would betray him. Mirroring how he was killed off in the books. This way he isn't outsmarted or truly "beaten" by the heroes, but betrayed by one he thought he could trust.

A variable he couldn't account for.

True, and I didn't know that aspect, Kallus = New Fulcrum. Betrayal doesn't mean death either, he could just alert the Rebels that an attack is inbound or an ambush is planned. Or any numbering of things, that way Thrawn is kept available as a character for additional seasons or even new projects.

So I wonder when we will see the 181st.

So I wonder when we will see the 181st.

Well the third episode is about the elite Imperial Academy which is more then likely connected to those red striped interceptors from the trailer. If we were to ever get them again that would be the time.

Wedge!

And more Recently:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/creator-dave-filoni-explains-how-the-fire-of-the-jedi-i-1786920687

I got reading the comments on this one and all I can say:

"Go for the eyes Boo!"

Also, I think this season is going to be far darker and grittier than we think. Thrawn isn't going to be killed, maybe he'll suffer a defeat at the end of the season or it'll be like ESB and end with the Empire in victory.

As someone who admittedly disliked Rebels until recently, and I am still slightly pessimistic. However like TCW the show has improved a lot in the course of three seasons. This season so far has proved to me the show is good. However there's a few story threads such as Ezra and how they handle Thrawn that has me nervous.

SPOILERS:

I personally found the Antilles Extraction to be one of my favorite episodes to date, just behind the season three premiere. However i've read some oddly salty comments about it. For me they finally showed the Empire capable and largely victorious. Sure the Rebels got Wedge and Hobby but at what cost? They lost an entire squadron of A-Wings and pilots as well as the crew and supplies of the rebel cargo ship. The colony they were supplying will most likely starve to death. The Corellian Corvette was constantly being hammered by the Tie Interceptors.

Governor Pryce is a force to be reckoned with. I actually like Kallus as a character now, he works much better as a conflicted Imperial then simply another evil Imperial.

So can someone tell why kallus did what he did in the latest episode?

Watching Season 2, Episode 15 "The Honorable Ones" ... Will answer that question

Geonosis according to wookiepedia had a population of 800 billion. Had. That's why Kallus is turning.

double agent kallus

could the reason that the Heroes ships get so easily pummeled is that they are all off the shelf civilian models, while the empire is fielding military grade equipment? That could be a plot point to come... the formal creation of the Rebel Alliance allows for the distribution of better equipment, Upgrades, Training, and production of war materials.

As someone who admittedly disliked Rebels until recently, and I am still slightly pessimistic. However like TCW the show has improved a lot in the course of three seasons. This season so far has proved to me the show is good. However there's a few story threads such as Ezra and how they handle Thrawn that has me nervous.

SPOILERS:

I personally found the Antilles Extraction to be one of my favorite episodes to date, just behind the season three premiere. However i've read some oddly salty comments about it. For me they finally showed the Empire capable and largely victorious. Sure the Rebels got Wedge and Hobby but at what cost? They lost an entire squadron of A-Wings and pilots as well as the crew and supplies of the rebel cargo ship. The colony they were supplying will most likely starve to death. The Corellian Corvette was constantly being hammered by the Tie Interceptors.

Governor Pryce is a force to be reckoned with. I actually like Kallus as a character now, he works much better as a conflicted Imperial then simply another evil Imperial.

To be honest, that all the A-wing pilots do in this show: die. Not that anyone seems to care.

So can someone tell why kallus did what he did in the latest episode?

Season 2, Episode 17 "The Honorable Ones"

Ezra does NOT have to die. Someone at my local hobby shop suggested that Ezra is Snoak. Chew on that for a bit. Kannan dies, Ezra loses it, disappears for a while, comes back after RToJ all Sithy.

Ezra does NOT have to die. Someone at my local hobby shop suggested that Ezra is Snoak. Chew on that for a bit. Kannan dies, Ezra loses it, disappears for a while, comes back after RToJ all Sithy.

Novelization of TFA said Snoke was "humanoid but not human".

Ezra does NOT have to die. Someone at my local hobby shop suggested that Ezra is Snoak. Chew on that for a bit. Kannan dies, Ezra loses it, disappears for a while, comes back after RToJ all Sithy.

I find this acceptable. Far from the dumbest thing I've heard in Star Wars theories. Beats me telling the XWMG guys locally that Snoke is Darth JarJar

Speaking of little things, did anyone else catch what the Bandu called the light/dark side of the Force? Ashla and Bogan.

So what are you saying? That Australia is the land of the Dark Side?

I take offence at that.

Australia's only the dark side during the British summer. At Christmas time, Britain is the dark side.

Guys they have said snaok is an original character like 80 times

Guys they have said snaok is an original character like 80 times

I just like keeping people on their toes. Watching the XWMG guys twitch is always fun.

I might not be a good person.

Ezra does NOT have to die. Someone at my local hobby shop suggested that Ezra is Snoak. Chew on that for a bit. Kannan dies, Ezra loses it, disappears for a while, comes back after RToJ all Sithy.

And I will walk out of the theater if they reveal that. Look it wouldn't even be a bad twist if Ezra was a more interesting character but right now he's too goofy and childish and whiny. That's fine for Ezra but just like Hayden Christensen and Darth Vader, not what I want to picture when I see this really cool bad guy.

It's definitely a possibility, and it would certainly solve the Ezra situation as it were lol, but I feel that they should've made Ezra far cooler if that were the case.

Is Ezra any different than Anakin.... or Luke? This over powered force sensitive? A whiny character that no one likes? A questionable history with dark twists and turns? A penchant for emotional outbursts? He falls in line PERFECTLY with the story line of the fallen Jedi. The tragic hero

Is Ezra any different than Anakin.... or Luke? This over powered force sensitive? A whiny character that no one likes? A questionable history with dark twists and turns? A penchant for emotional outbursts? He falls in line PERFECTLY with the story line of the fallen Jedi. The tragic hero

Except that would be the reason to not give Snoke that background considering Kylo Ren ALSO is. That would make them all practically the same character with the same arc.

True. And I hate to cast dispersion on Disney, (or Lucas), but, they DO have a habit of recycling character paths. Just saying