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* RousingSpeech: Ezra gives one using the hijacked Imperial communications tower. At the very least, everyone on Lothal heard it. It's said to have enough range to reach several systems.
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* RousingSpeech: RousingSpeech:
** Ezra gives one using the hijacked Imperial communications tower. At the very least, everyone on Lothal heard it. It's said to have enough range to reach severalsystems.systems.
*** Interestingly, he seems to think that it didn't have any effect. Given that the next two episodes are called "Rebel Resolve" and "Fire Across the Galaxy", it's pretty apparent that it ''did''.
** Ezra gives one using the hijacked Imperial communications tower. At the very least, everyone on Lothal heard it. It's said to have enough range to reach several
*** Interestingly, he seems to think that it didn't have any effect. Given that the next two episodes are called "Rebel Resolve" and "Fire Across the Galaxy", it's pretty apparent that it ''did''.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tarkin gives a brutal dressing-down to just about everyone in charge on Lothal, especially Minister Tua.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tarkin gives a brutal dressing-down to just about everyone in charge on Lothal, especially Minister Tua.
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** The Imperial March, which had previously appeared in-series as an upbeat military anthem, returns in all its dark glory to signal Tarkin's arrival.
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** Tarkin wears battle armor that is very similar to that worn by General Veers in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
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* ScottyTime: Sabine says that she can do a good job in five minutes, and a fast job in three. When the Empire arrives, she gets one, and it does the job well enough.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Ezra uses a loth-cat to disable the Probe Droid so the Imperials won't be alerted to the fact that they're scouting the communications tower. Unfortunately, a feral Tooka isn't quite as thorough as a blaster, so it's still able to transmit an image of them back to base.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Ezra uses a loth-cat to disable the Probe Droid so the Imperials won't be alerted to the fact that they're scouting the communications tower. Unfortunately, a feral Tooka cat isn't quite as thorough as a blaster, so it's the probe droid is still able to transmit an image of them back to base.
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this kinda seems like a stretch, or accidental
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-->'''Sabine''': Five minutes ''is'' optimistic!
-->'''Kanan''': Three is better.
-->'''Sabine''': You can have it fast, or you can have it good.
-->'''Kanan''': Three is better.
-->'''Sabine''': You can have it fast, or you can have it good.
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-->'''Sabine''': Five minutes ''is'' optimistic!
-->'''Kanan''':optimistic!\\
'''Kanan''': Three isbetter.
-->'''Sabine''':better.\\
'''Sabine''': You can have it fast, or you can have it good.
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'''Kanan''': Three is
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'''Sabine''': You can have it fast, or you can have it good.
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* DoubleEntendre: Ezra, Kanan and Sabine debate on how to execute their plan of hijacking the main communications tower of the Empire.
-->'''Sabine''': Five minutes ''is'' optimistic!
-->'''Kanan''': Three is better.
-->'''Sabine''': You can have it fast, or you can have it good.
-->'''Sabine''': Five minutes ''is'' optimistic!
-->'''Kanan''': Three is better.
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* NeverSayDie: An odd variation. After the speeder chase through town, Aresko reports that there were no casualties, which Tarkin takes as proof that the crew is more principled than other rebels. Note that Kanan shot a Stormtrooper in the chest and another tumbled into his exploding speeder after a crash. Sabine goes on to shoot six more over the course of the episode. Aresko might be referring to civilian casualties, which would make more sense.
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** Ezra uses his animal control ability to make a tooka sabotage the probe droid, which he learned how to do in the "Empire Day"/"Gathering Forces" two-parter.
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** Ezra uses his animal control ability to make a tooka loth-cat sabotage the probe droid, which he learned how to do in the "Empire Day"/"Gathering Forces" two-parter.
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* KillerRabbit: The Tooka that Ezra reaches via the Force is nearly strong enough to nearly disable a Probe Droid. Nearly.
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* KillerRabbit: The Tooka loth-cat that Ezra reaches via the Force is nearly strong enough to nearly disable a Probe Droid. Nearly.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Ezra uses a Tooka to disable the Probe Droid so the Imperials won't be alerted to the fact that they're scouting the communications tower. Unfortunately, a feral Tooka isn't quite as thorough as a blaster, so it's still able to transmit an image of them back to base.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Ezra uses a Tooka loth-cat to disable the Probe Droid so the Imperials won't be alerted to the fact that they're scouting the communications tower. Unfortunately, a feral Tooka isn't quite as thorough as a blaster, so it's still able to transmit an image of them back to base.
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* NotQuiteDead: Ezra has a tooka sabotage the probe droid guarding the communications tower, but it's still able to transmit an image of them leaving on speeder bikes, giving Tarkin a heads up so he can arrange a trap.
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* NotQuiteDead: Ezra has a tooka loth-cat sabotage the probe droid guarding the communications tower, but it's still able to transmit an image of them leaving on speeder bikes, giving Tarkin a heads up so he can arrange a trap.
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* KillerRabbit: The Tooka that Ezra reaches via the Force is nearly strong enough to nearly disable a Probe Droid. Nearly.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Ezra uses a tooka Tooka to disable the probe droid Probe Droid so the Imperials won't be alerted to the fact that they're scouting the communications tower. Unfortunately, a feral tooka Tooka isn't quite as thorough as a blaster, so it's still able to transmit an image of them back to base.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tarkin lets the Imperials on Lothal know that he is ''not'' pleased with their inability to deal with a five-person rebel cell.
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* ShooOutTheClowns: Tarkin's first order upon arriving on Lothal? [[YouHaveFailedMe Execute]] the [[GoldfishPoopGang incompetent comic relief villains]].
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* ShaggyDogStory: Ezra goes out of the way to destroy the Probe Droid without using weapons, so as to not alert the Empire to their presence and their planned attack. Unfortunately, the droid still manages to identify them when they escape on their speeder bikes.
* ShooOutTheClowns: Tarkin's first order upon arriving on Lothal? [[YouHaveFailedMe Execute]]the [[GoldfishPoopGang the incompetent comic relief villains]].
* ShooOutTheClowns: Tarkin's first order upon arriving on Lothal? [[YouHaveFailedMe Execute]]
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* ShooOutTheClowns: Tarkin's first order upon arriving on Lothal? [[YouHaveFailedMe Execute]] the [[GoldfishPoopGang incompetent comic relief villains]].
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Both Kallus and Maketh Tua are extremely put-off by how coldly Tarkin has Aresko and Grint executed. This is a bit weirder with Kallus, who has himself spitefully murdered a comrade in the pilot and participated in genocide with no regret.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Both Kallus and Maketh Tua are extremely put-off by how coldly Tarkin has Aresko and Grint executed. This is a bit weirder with Kallus, who has himself spitefully murdered a comrade in the pilot and participated in genocide with no regret. Then again, it might have to do with the fact that Kallus realizes that if he makes one more major screw-up it will be ''his'' neck up next on the chopping block.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Kanan sabotages the elevator to the communications tower after the rest of the crew has used it, stranding most of the Imperial forces outside. This also means he has nowhere to go, forcing the crew to leave him behind.
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* WhamEpisode: This episode really hits hard. Tarkin arrives and isn't playing around, Kanan is captured, and the crew broadcasts a message to all of Lothal.
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* WhamEpisode: This episode really hits hard. Tarkin arrives and isn't playing around, Kanan is captured, and the crew broadcasts a message to all of Lothal.Lothal - which is the biggest impact on the Empire that they've left thus far.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: The Inquisitor decapitates Aresko and Grint for their repeated losses to the Rebels.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: The Inquisitor decapitates Aresko and Grint for their repeated losses to the Rebels.Rebels on Tarkin's orders.
* YouShallNotPass: Kanan sabotages the elevator to the communications tower after the rest of the crew has used it, stranding most of the Imperial forces outside. This also means he has nowhere to go, forcing the crew to leave him behind.
* YouShallNotPass: Kanan sabotages the elevator to the communications tower after the rest of the crew has used it, stranding most of the Imperial forces outside. This also means he has nowhere to go, forcing the crew to leave him behind.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Double subverted. The Inquisitor offers Kanan the chance to spare his friends if he surrenders, since Tarkin wants him taken alive. The Inquisitor is surprised when Kanan turns off his saber, having expected him to reject the deal out of hand. Then Kanan's communicator beeps; he was just stalling for time until Hera could show up in the ''Phantom'', at which point he holds off the Inquisitor as long as possible.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: It's incredibly brief, but the lightsaber starts to cut into Aresko's and Grint's necks just before the shot switches to Kallus' reaction.
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** Like "Spark of Rebellion", Hera refuses to leave Kanan behind even if it's dangerous. Unlike "Spark of Rebellion", she's left without a choice.
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** Tarkin notes that the rebels here are principled, unlike other cells he's met. He's likely referring to [[Literature/{{Tarkin}} Teller's group]].
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* DarkReprise: When Kanan and Ezra are discussing sacrifice on the ''Ghost'''s ramp, the scene ends with "Binary Sunset". When Ezra leaves Kanan behind, a few bars of it play just before the door closes.
* DeterminedExpression: Kanan, after surrendering to the Empire.
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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: After the transmission cuts out, Ezra turns to Hera and says "This isn't over."
--> '''Hera''': No. It. Isn't.
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* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Kanan tells Hera to leave him behind using her code name "Specter 2". When she refuses, he calls her Hera to stress how important it is.
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* GenreSavvy: Sabine lampshades that their plans rarely go as planned, and this time is no exception.
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** Kallus mentions the scene of Kanan against a bunch of Stormtroopers is familiar, referring to his outing as a Jedi in the pilot. Kanan quips that it will have the same outcome, but this time Kallus has the Inquisitor.
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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Tarkin. Tarkin.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Both Kallus and Maketh Tua are extremely put-off by how coldly Tarkin has Aresko and Grint executed. This is a bit weirder with Kallus, who has himself spitefully murdered a comrade in the pilot and participated in genocide with no regret.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Both Kallus and Maketh Tua are extremely put-off by how coldly Tarkin has Aresko and Grint executed. This is a bit weirder with Kallus, who has himself spitefully murdered a comrade in the pilot and participated in genocide with no regret.
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* TemptingFate: Kanan boasts that to Kallus that their battle will end the same way it did last time -- in Kanan's favor. Then one of the dropships flies in and out pops the Inquisitor.
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* CrazyEnoughToWork: The general opinion of Kanan's plan to hijack an Imperial communications tower.
-->'''Ezra:''' That's a crazy plan.\\
'''Kanan:''' That's why you like it so much.
-->'''Ezra:''' That's a crazy plan.\\
'''Kanan:''' That's why you like it so much.
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* ContinuityNod: Tarkin mentions having worked with Jedi, which was shown in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' a few times. He didn't much like them then, either.
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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
** Tarkin mentions having worked with Jedi, which was shown in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' a few times. He didn't much like them then,either.either.
** Tarkin tells Kanan, "You do not know what it takes to win a war, but I do." One of Tarkin's complaints in his first ''Clone Wars'' appearance was that the Jedi were ill-suited to leading a galactic war.
** Tarkin mentions having worked with Jedi, which was shown in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' a few times. He didn't much like them then,
** Tarkin tells Kanan, "You do not know what it takes to win a war, but I do." One of Tarkin's complaints in his first ''Clone Wars'' appearance was that the Jedi were ill-suited to leading a galactic war.
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* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: When he learns that the rebels have hijacked the communications tower, Tarkin has the entire thing leveled rather than try to undo the damage. The rebels still get their message out, however.
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** Tarkin mentions having worked with Jedi, which was shown in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' a few times. He didn't much like them then, either.
** Tarkin mentions having worked with Jedi, which was shown in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' a few times. He didn't much like them then, either.
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**ContinuityNod: Tarkin mentions having worked with Jedi, which was shown in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' a few times. He didn't much like them then, either.
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* UnexpectedCharacter: Why hello there Grand Moff Tarkin. Tarkin's appearance was a surprise, to say the least.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: The Inquisitor decapitates Aresko and Grint for their losses to the Rebels.
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* SacrificialLion: Aresko and Grint's purpose in the story. Their deaths are meant to showcase just how ruthless and brutal Tarkin is along with showing the Empire is done playing games on Lothal and is kicking things up a notch.
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The Rebels plan to hijack an Imperial communications tower to broadcast a message of hope. Meanwhile, Governor Tarkin arrives on Lothal to deal with the Rebel problem.
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The Rebels plan to hijack an Imperial communications tower to broadcast a message of hope. Meanwhile, Governor Grand Moff Tarkin arrives on Lothal to deal with the Rebel problem.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Ezra uses a tooka to disable the probe droid so the Imperials won't be alerted to the fact that they're scouting the communications tower. Unfortunately, a feral tooka isn't quite as thorough as a blaster, so it's still able to transmit an image of them back to base.
* NotQuiteDead: Ezra has a tooka sabotage the probe droid guarding the communications tower, but it's still able to transmit an image of them leaving on speeder bikes, giving Tarkin a heads up so he can arrange a trap.
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* RealityEnsues: You didn't think the local garrison's repeated failings to stamp out the Rebels wouldn't go unnoticed by Imperial High Command did you?
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* GoryDiscretionShot: The camera pans away just before Aresko and Grint lose their heads.
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* RousingSpeech: Ezra gives one using the hijacked Imperial communications tower. At the very least, everyone on Lothal heard it. It's said to have enough range to reach several systems.
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* KnightOfCerberus: Things get ''dark'' when Tarkin shows up. Aresko and Grint get killed for their failures, and Kanan is captured.
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The Rebels plan to hijack an Imperial communications tower to broadcast a message of hope. Meanwhile, Governor Tarkin arrives on Lothal to deal with the Rebel problem.
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* CallBack:
** Gall Trayvis is shown pledging his support to the Empire in a holo-transmission, after he blew his cover in the previous episode.
** Ezra uses his animal control ability to make a tooka sabotage the probe droid, which he learned how to do in the "Empire Day"/"Gathering Forces" two-parter.
** The transmission equipment used by Ezra's parents is used by the crew to transmit their message.
* ContinuityNod:
** Tarkin mentions having worked with Jedi, which was shown in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' a few times. He didn't much like them then, either.
* HeroicSacrifice: Kanan sabotages the elevator to the communications tower after the rest of the crew has used it, stranding most of the Imperial forces outside. This also means he has nowhere to go, forcing the crew to leave him behind.
* HopeSpringsEternal: The theme of the episode. Tarkin recognizes that the Rebels are a threat not for their strength, but as a symbol of hope. Likewise, Ezra's transmission stresses that they have to keep fighting for something better.
* KnightOfCerberus: Things get ''dark'' when Tarkin shows up. Aresko and Grint get killed for their failures, and Kanan is captured.
* OffWithHisHead: Goodbye Aresko and Grint, courtesy of the Inquisitor.
* TookALevelInBadass: Kanan actually manages to land a decent kick on the Inquisitor, who notes that he must have been training. He still loses, but it's progress nonetheless.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Inquisitor decapitates Aresko and Grint for their losses to the Rebels.
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* CallBack:
** Gall Trayvis is shown pledging his support to the Empire in a holo-transmission, after he blew his cover in the previous episode.
** Ezra uses his animal control ability to make a tooka sabotage the probe droid, which he learned how to do in the "Empire Day"/"Gathering Forces" two-parter.
** The transmission equipment used by Ezra's parents is used by the crew to transmit their message.
* ContinuityNod:
** Tarkin mentions having worked with Jedi, which was shown in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' a few times. He didn't much like them then, either.
* HeroicSacrifice: Kanan sabotages the elevator to the communications tower after the rest of the crew has used it, stranding most of the Imperial forces outside. This also means he has nowhere to go, forcing the crew to leave him behind.
* HopeSpringsEternal: The theme of the episode. Tarkin recognizes that the Rebels are a threat not for their strength, but as a symbol of hope. Likewise, Ezra's transmission stresses that they have to keep fighting for something better.
* KnightOfCerberus: Things get ''dark'' when Tarkin shows up. Aresko and Grint get killed for their failures, and Kanan is captured.
* OffWithHisHead: Goodbye Aresko and Grint, courtesy of the Inquisitor.
* TookALevelInBadass: Kanan actually manages to land a decent kick on the Inquisitor, who notes that he must have been training. He still loses, but it's progress nonetheless.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Inquisitor decapitates Aresko and Grint for their losses to the Rebels.
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