General Star Wars Animated Series

I think the Inquisitor was afraid of death. He was just much more afraid of death at the hands of his master, or his master's master.

That was my impression, yeah. Death on his own terms was better than what Vader or the Emperor would give him.

I also really appreciate how the season finale stepped up with the villains. Tarkin is, I think, the first villain in the series to take into account the possibility that the Rebels might outmaneuver him at some point and plan accordingly. The all-clear signal was an excellent touch. Without the appearance of the other rebels (which was also set up nicely) the gang would have failed miserably.

Filoni gave an interview about his plans for season 2 earlier today:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2015/03/03/star-wars-rebels-season-finale-exclusive/24245017/

This bit is interesting:

Both Vader and the newly reintroduced Ahsoka will be used sparingly in future episodes of Rebels. With Vader especially, “we don’t want to diminish this guy,” Filoni says. “We cannot have him on a TV scenario where he is going to suffer weekly defeats. ”That’s just not going to work — that’s not what he’s about.”

Sorry, spoilered.

edited 3rd Mar '15 4:26:52 PM by ManchuCandidate

DAMN YOU CLIFFHANGER. Damn you.

http://www.starwars.com/video/rebels-recon-inside-fire-across-the-galaxy

You really should spoiler that.

So how long until Sam Witwer shows up as another Dark Side user?

Sarah Michelle Gellar is joining the cast of Rebels for Season 2.

Mesa thinken shesa voicen Leia.

There's a thread about that over on theForce.net, and I think Leia would not be that far off.

Woooow. What an excellent finale. Disappointed Mustafar just sort of lurked back there and we never touched down...but... The Inquisitor choosing death simply magnifies how AWESOMELY EVIL Vader is and hopefully will be on this show.

I laughed when Ezra started to fight The Inquisitor with Kanan's lightsaber. He had no idea what he was doing!

Another little link diving into the return of Ahsoka-

http://io9.com/a-shocking-return-on-rebels-begins-a-new-era-for-star-w-1689149913

-I liked her look. Just proves how different Rebels is to TCW.

edited 3rd Mar '15 7:03:29 PM by yellowturtle

It occurs to me that following the events of the episode The heroes now have two transport ships and three fighters. That's quite a sizeable fleet for six characters, I sincerely hope they get to hold onto them.

I wonder what returning to Lothal will be like now EVERYONE knows they're rebels now; they no longer have secret identities, who are they going to go to for food if their current trader becomes unfavourable?

Well, now we're seeing more and more established characters in the show, my wish list is probably as follows; Leia, Wedge (I really love the guy, what can I say, normal guy, talented pilot.) Rex (I wanna know what fate had instore for the clone troopers) I'd also be interested to see a dark side wielder join the rebel alliance to explore that, but I'm not sure who, The Inquisitor seems unlikely Because he's dead.

Also, about the episode itself Why set it at Mustifar at all? It just amounted to an ominous backdrop in the end.

To increase dramatic tension? The implication of Mustafar being a place where "jedi go to die" is fucking terrifying, given what we know happened to Anakin Skywalker there.

On the Inquisitor's death, you guys do have a good point. Still surprised me given how darksiders have been described lately, though. There's also the mention of "things more fightening than death," so I wonder if that meant that the Sith would do more to him than just kill him, like torture and humiliation (or maybe I'm taking this too literally - I did see what Filoni said in that interview XD).

All of this news that has come out has been great to hear. Firstly, the mention that Ahsoka was going to be in twelve episodes after Season 5 of TCW is quite curious, and not just the 4 with Bo-Katan and presumably Maul. The mention of her story going up to Order 66 also makes me wonder if she would have appeared in the final arc of the entire show. Anyway, with Fulcrum, it was quite surprising to hear that there were times when Ashley didn't voice her just to help misdirect viewers more. Also season 2 sounds exciting, with the new rebels and possible new guest stars.

I don't think this is the last we've seen of Mustafar. Not only is it a Jedi prison of some kind, now the biggest bad of them all is back and that place has personal implications for him. We'll be on the surface at one point in the series I am sure.

Legends-wise Palpatine is the kind of guy who'd kill you and revive you just to torture you again. Rinse and repeat.

...If I was the Inquisitor, I'd choose being burnt alive over Vader and Palpatine any day.

edited 4th Mar '15 11:50:50 AM by yellowturtle

It wasn't being burned alive. It was burning in an exploding reactor of an exploding Star Destroyer falling out of orbit and probably into a moon made of lava. The Inquisitor ain't leaving anything to find.

I love how just brilliantly academic The Inquisitor is in everything. You get the impression everything is mealy a curiosity to him.

I can see how that ties into the dark side in a completely different way from other characters. The Sith are all about anger and resentment and spite; but I never got the feeling The Inquisitor hated anything. It's as if he connected to the force, found himself in a symbiosis with all of creation and said 'How interesting.' and then nothing more.

I believe I read on the main Rebels page it being described as being 'incinerated alive'.

edited 4th Mar '15 1:48:30 PM by yellowturtle

Nice. I think that's a very good description.

He was such an awesome 'villain'. Originally only had it over 'was', but that was kind of a giveaway...

He seemed very amused at everything, and I give major credits to him for choosing how he died. I know someone's probably like, 'Coward', but his position on it was so awesome. I can image Vader's rather frustrated, so +1 for that too. Now that he's (probably most definitely) dead, I kinda wish they kept him around for another season. He was such a badass character.

edited 4th Mar '15 1:57:53 PM by yellowturtle

I'd love to see more of the Inquisitor, learn about his mindset and what ever form of Dark Force Art is is he employs. But I'd like him to stay dead. If only to allow escalation. Really I'd love to learn about any force arts outside of Jedi and Sith, we know they exist, but are there ANY which are named?

I believe, since he wasn't a Sith (again, one word would be a giveaway...) I'm pretty sure the label was Dark Jedi? That's sort of universal, though.

edited 4th Mar '15 3:02:39 PM by yellowturtle

I'm pretty sure a Dark Jedi is a dark side user who has Jedi teachings. Jedi is a school of teaching, not a catch all term for 'Force User' though the ignorant public of the galaxy might conflate the two terms.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

The Inquisitor's outlook is so delightfully refreshing to me I'd like his school of teaching to be named so we can have future characters elsewhere who can further explore his outlook.

I mean, Asajj Ventress just felt like a Sith to me (From what little I've seen of her) but The Inquisitor seems distinctly new in his outlook. Dark Side, sure, but not necessarily Sith.

I'm hopeful that other Inquisitors will appear in Season 2. Perhaps they'll have similar philosophies?

I'd like that too. I'm curious to know just how many people Vader is training. Though I'd like them to contrast Our Inquisitor in some way to avoid a Organisation Of The Copyhats

edited 4th Mar '15 4:36:13 PM by Whowho

While I haven't read the most recent interview yet, i must say; I'm also a bit curious about how Rebels will handle the inclusion of Darth Vader.

While I am happy to see one of the most (if not the most) iconic Star Wars villains make an appearance, i can sort of see why they didn't use him right away. Not only would not using him give the show the chance to experiment with more original baddies (i.e. Kallus and the Inquisitor), but Vader is supposed to be one of the toughest and scariest (if not the toughest and scariest) villains in the Star Wars universe, do you really think the crew of the Ghost could come even close taking him down? Especially when they had a hard time dealing with the Inquisitor, who's nowhere near Vader's level of power? Luke was able to hold his own against Vader, but that was understandable, Luke's Force abilities were implied to almost rival Vader's (at least enough to make him a threat in the Emperor's eyes and to make him a suitable replacement for Vader), which made sense, given that they were of the same bloodline. Point is, if Vader came after the crew, they'd have been dead within a month at the latest. The only way i can see his inclusion working is if he were a tactician and coordinator who sent threats the crew's way, but never actually physically engaged any of the Lothal rebels. Or, at the very least, when they did actually see Vader, their first course of action would be to run for their lives, knowing fully well that they couldn't attack this guy and survive

edited 4th Mar '15 6:40:11 PM by srebak