History Recap / StarWarsRebelsS1E03RiseOfTheOldMasters

** The fact that Trayvis' tip turns out to be a trap is not a coincidence.

** Kanan admits he never really understood Yoda's "Do or do not, there is no try", he's ''very'' determined to get another master for Ezra, and the Inquisitor points out that he never finished his training in Soresu Form 3. He was a 14-year-old padawan when Order 66 came down. (Although people who read ''Literature/ANewDawn'' would already know this.)
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: Zed and Chopper have a bit too much fun throwing cartons at Ezra for his training, so much so they knock him off the ''Ghost'' so he almost falls to his death.

* {{Bookends}}: The episode begins and ends with Kanan training Ezra, but with Ezra willing to train at the end.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: The Inquisitor is able to determine which Jedi Master that Kanan studied under simply by the fact that Kanan specializes in Form 3 of Soresu, and that he never finished his training. Kanan, naturally, ends up being no match for the Inquisitor.

* EnemyMine: The tibidees Hera catches on her ship are used to intercept the enemy TIE fighters on the way out.

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* RealityEnsues: [[AllThereInTheManual Kanan never]] [[IncompletelyTrained finished his training]], so unsurprisingly he shows a lack of skill with a lightsaber and is no match for a much better-trained duelist.

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* FightingFingerprint: See AwesomenessByAnalysis above.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: To mask their presence from the Empire on Stygeon, Hera alters the ''Phantom'''s electronic signals... inconveniently, to what is also a mating call for tibidees (flying manta ray-like creatures related to [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars neebrays]] and mynocks), and they start aggressively rubbing up against the top of the ''Phantom'' while it's attached to the cliffside. Hera is disturbed by this to say the ''least''.

* {{Expy}}: The Spire seems to be one of [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars the Citadel]], [[TheAlcatraz another highly fortified prison that was used to contain rogue Jedi]]. Granted, Stygeon Prime and the Spire would have appeared in ''The Clone Wars'' too, had it not gotten cancelled (as noted above, that storyline got adapted into ''ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir'').

* ImprovisedTraining: Chopper and a box of cartons stand in for the remote.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Kanan wants to rescue Luminara so she can teach Ezra properly, but to Ezra it seems like Kanan just wants to get rid of him.

* LeeroyJenkins: After Kanan makes his entry into the Spire by jumping down to the entryway from above, Ezra decides to follow him when he and the rest of the team were supposed to wait until the ''Phantom'' descended to let them off. This results in a squad of stormtroopers showing up after he flies face-first into the door, prompting Zeb and Sabine to follow along as well. However, this is only a minor hiccup in the plan.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Inquisitor activates the lockdown sequence in the prison. The crew exploit this by getting two doors ahead of him, buying themselves some time as he cuts through.

* RealityEnsues: [[AllThereInTheManual Kanan never]] [[IncompletelyTrained finished his training]], so unsurprisingly he shows a lack of skill with a lightsaber and is no match for a much better trained duelist.

* ThereIsNoTry: Kanan says this to Ezra, who's trying to perform the Jedi exercises. Seemingly {{Deconstructed}} when Ezra says that it makes no sense to do something without trying and Kanan admits that he never understood what Yoda meant by it anyway. At the end, [[DeconReconSwitch Kanan figures out what it means]] — if he simply ''tries'' to do something without believing that he can, he's guaranteed to fail.

* RealityEnsues: [[AllThereInTheManual Kanan never finished his training]], so unsurprisingly he shows a lack of skill with a lightsaber and is no match for a much better trained duelist.

'''Kanan:''' I--Actually, that one always confused me too, but Master Yoda sure used to say it a lot.\\
''(later)''\\

!!Tropes in this episode:

** Sabine tunes into a [=HoloNet=] News broadcast about the stolen TIE fighter from "Fighter Flight".
** Form 3, Soresu, was the lightsaber style Obi-Wan specialized in. The Inquisitor saying that Kanan favors it to a ridiculous degree and was a poor student are both accurate, given Kanan spends a decent chunk of their duel attacking him. Soresu is a predominantly defensive style, using it offensively like he does shows both that Kanan doesn't understand it very well and doesn't know much else. And he still [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsSparkOfRebellion doesn't get the opening stance right]].

** Kanan sensing Luminara in the Force but noting the "cloudedness".

** The fact that Trayvis' tip turns out to be a trap is not a coincidence. We find out in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E10VisionOfHope "Vision of Hope"]] that Trayvis is actually an Imperial agent.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: To mask their presence from the Empire on Stygeon, Hera alters the ''Phantom'''s electronic signals ... inconveniently to what is also a mating call for tibidees (flying manta ray-like creatures related to [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars neebrays]] and mynocks), and they start aggressively rubbing up against the top of the ''Phantom'' while it's attached to the cliffside. Hera is disturbed by this to say the ''least''.

* JediMindTrick: Kanan uses it on the Stormtroopers guarding Luminara's cell.
* LeeroyJenkins: After Kanan makes his entry into the Spire by jumping down to the entryway from above, Ezra decides to follow him when he and the rest of the team were supposed to wait until the ''Phantom'' descended to let them off. This results in a squad of stormtroopers showing up after he flies face-first into the door, prompting Zeb and Sabine to follow along as well. However, this was only a minor hiccup in the plan.
* LuredIntoATrap: And Luminara was the bait. Even the stormtroopers don't know the truth.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Kanan tears his way through Stormtroopers, but when the Inquisitor shows up he barely manages to keep himself and Ezra alive.

* PropagandaMachine: Holo-Net News shows up in this episode.

* SeekingTheMissingFindingTheDead: Alas, poor Luminara . . .
* ShaggyDogStory: Luminara was dead the whole time, and the ''Ghost'' crew had only fallen into a trap that several other Jedi had fallen into. This then gets subverted: By escaping the Spire with their lives, the ''Ghost'' crew not only lives to fight another day, but they spread the truth of Luminara's fate so other surviving Jedi don't fall for the same trap.

* TemptingFate: [[LeeroyJenkins Ezra tries to show off by emulating Kanan during the infiltration of the prison and ends up making a racket]]. Kanan immediately asks him what he's doing, and states that they are lucky now if every stormtrooper in the prison doesn't know they're here. Cue a stormtrooper patrol coming to see what the noise was.
* ThereIsNoTry: Kanan says this to Ezra, who's trying to perform the Jedi exercises. Seemingly {{Deconstructed}} when Ezra says that it makes no sense to do something without trying and Kanan admits that he never understood what Yoda meant by it anyway. At the end, [[DeconReconSwitch Kanan figures out what it means]] -- if he simply ''tries'' to do something without believing that he can, he's guaranteed to fail.

-->'''Ezra''': What happened to her? I don't understand.
-->'''Inquisitor''': ''[standing behind them]'' No? It doesn't seem complicated!

--> '''Inquisitor:''' [[DeadAllAlong Yes, I am afraid that Master Luminara died with the Republic, but her bones continue to serve the Empire.]]

'''Kanan:''' I--Ezra. I'm not gonna try to teach you anymore. If all I do is try, that means I don't truly believe I can succeed. So from now on, I ''will'' teach you. Look, I may fail. You may fail. But there is no try.

* WhamLine: "[[DeadAllAlong Yes, I am afraid that Master Luminara died with the Republic, but her bones continue to serve the Empire.]]"

-->'''Inquisitor'': ''[standing behind them]'' No? It doesn't seem complicated!

* TemptingFate: [[LeeroyJenkins Ezra tries to show off by emulating Kanan during the infiltration of the prison and ends up making a racket]]. Kanan immediately asks him what he's doing, and states that they are lucky now if every stormtrooper in the prison doesn't know they're here. Cue stormtrooper patrol coming to see what the noise was.

* LuredIntoATrap: And Unduli was the bait. Even the stormtroopers don't know the truth.