"then you will die braver than most" one of the things disney has always done right is vader, they've made him so powerful and intimidating in every piece of media. love it
Oh yeah fs, vader in disney is absolutely perfect imo, what we’ve seen in rogue one, here in rebels, and especially in kenobi, they really made him the brutal monster he’s supposed to be
Just imagining the guilt Ahsoka feels now knowing fully what Anakin became. Ahsoka could have relayed a message to him through Yoda during the siege of Mandalore but chose not to...
But what she did or rather didn't do shaped the galaxy for the better. The jedi were so obsessed with the force being brought into balance that Anakin/Vader did just that, just not in the way they expected. Wiping out the jedi almost entirely did bring balance to the force. 10,000 jedi against 2 sith
@@DarthRevan8976that's not how balance defined by Lucas works. The light side îs the natural state of the Force, the dark side îs a cancer and perversion
@lordvastor98 You're right, but the Jedi Order did have to get wiped out to bring balance. Most of those Jedi were not following the force the way they were meant to. They were actually causing imbalance themselves because they practiced a false doctrine. Qui Gon Jinn and Jedi like him were the true Jedi. Most Jedi were like Mace or Luminara. Anakin and Ahsoka were closer to being true Jedi as well but of course Anakin took it a bit too far and went dark and Ahsoka started saying she was no Jedi but she was. Eventually Obi-Wan and Yoda learned from Qui Gons force ghost and Anakins redemption that the old way was not the right way. Luke was supposed to build a New Jedi Order the way it was meant to be but Rian Johnson and Disney screwed that up
The bird was the Morai... The servant of the Sister, who gave her life to save Ahsoka in Clone Wars, The one where she and Obi Wan had to save Anakin from the Brother on Mortis... Morai is often seen near Ahsoka, watching over and guiding her...
@@thatnerdtara Yes, really... Morai is tied to the daughter, and since Ahsoka carries part of the daughter within her, she is tied to Morai too You may not see Morai when you see Ahsoka, but if you see Morai, Ahsoka is usually around too... But, this time was a different, more mysterious tone to her presence...
@@thatnerdtara we can see the bird multiple times. Here and in the last moments of the clone wars when Vader finds Ahsokas sabers and look up into the skie, ( I seem to remember you wondering about the bird then too) and then later on, maybe some moments you haven't gotten to yet.
@@thatnerdtara they spoiled you!!! LOL ... Well you also saw Morai at the end of clone wars ... watching over vader .... I know you just finished Ahsoka so you saw her there too ... but she also shows up again in live action you can hear her and then see her in a tree branch ... I'll let you know when you reach that episode
Ahsoka's confrontation with Anakin was devastating but so good! Not only did we see a part of his face like in the Kenobi series, the two most important people in Anakin's life (aside from Padme) have now seen one side of his face. To me this represented Anakin's leftover humanity, Obi Wan and Ahsoka :(
Watched this w/ my HighSchool daughter when it first came out, it was a great learning journey for her as we just had a death of an elder in our family. Its time for you padawan/kids to take over.
The reason Kanan wears the mask is: 1) In-story reason, he's trying to utilize his old Jedi training of wearing a mask to recall his training days when he would block his sight and rely on the Force to guide him. 2) Meta reason: Animators didn't want to show the injury he sustained. I imagine it was difficult to animate, so they just decided to put a mask on to save some effort.
Easily a fan favorite episode Twilight of The Appearance 🧡💙 Vs 🌋 Ashley Eckstein and Matt Lanter and James Earl Jones mix voices in that moment Legendary 👏
@@thatnerdtara Malicor is place where most of Jedi and "Fallen Jedi" Siths die. Only one "survive" Darth Nihilus. "Old Republic era" = Knight of the old Republic
If you look at Anakin, you can see the pain in his expression even if it's hidden under his mask. Other than plot purposes, Ahsoka couldn't save him because of 2 reasons. 1, he remembered the moment she said, "I'm sorry master, but I'm not coming back" which was as big a reason for becoming Vader as padme and the kids. 2, she brought out a shred of good and he hated that
The last time Obi wan saw Anakin he was at the height of his darkness hence why he didn't believe he could be saved when he spoke to Luke. When Ahsoka refuses to abandon Vader it brings back a small spark of light, not enough for her to bring him back but enough that Luke is able to feel when they fight and help Vader turn on the Emperor in the end.
I remember watching that for the first. My kid, who I watched it with, noticed at the end that it wasn't just Ahsoka walking down into the sith temple, but it was Ashoka's force ghost.
One of the most somber endings in Star Wars and a hell of a cliffhanger. At this point we didn’t know what happened to Ashoka. There was a faint trace of her in the ending scene where she’s walking down into the temple but we didn’t know if that was real or symbolic. Kanan is blinded by Maul, he’s able to use his Jedi training to defeat him but still can’t see. Meanwhile Ezra is blaming himself for all of it. He realizes Maul used him and if he hadn’t trusted him Ashoka would be alive and Kanan wouldn’t have gotten hurt. Mauls words, the holocrons message, and his encounter with Vader are influencing him, feeding his guilt. I remember gasping at the last scene where he opens the holocron because I couldn’t believe he would knowingly use the dark side. But then I thought about it and with everything he just experienced, he wants something good to come from it and he knows the holocron contains knowledge. As the old saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. We know Ezra isn’t opening it because he’s bad, but he’s using his pain to fuel his search for power so he can beat people like Vader.
@@thatnerdtara It’s so ominous, like are we about to witness his dark side origin or is it a sign of something else? Needless to say my excitement for Season 3 was palpable.
Imagine not having the knowledge of an Ahsoka show, nor any other news about her. only this ending... for a long time we did not know if she survived. then one moment in a panel, the director and show runner Dave Filoni wore a T-shirt with the text "Ahsoka lives?!"
Ahsoka, Vader, Maul - this is the series beginning to stretch its legs and become an essential part of the Star Wars canon. The introduction of Maul into this series adds an element of chaos like a jolt of electricity.
This scene is so much more heart breaking hearing Matt Lanter say , "So you will die," instead of the great James Earl Jones. I love these voice actors.
The last time Obi wan saw Anakin he was at the height of his darkness hence why he didn't believe he could be saved when he spoke to Luke. When Ahsoka refuses to abandon Vader it brings back a small spark of light, not enough for her to bring him back but enough that Luke is able to feel when they fight and help Vader turn on the Emperor in the end.
Classic Vader, making a super dramatic entrance like always. Remember a couple episodes ago, when Kanan tells Hera "We'll see each other again." And then this happens...
I have started watching your in order reactions in order and I love them! I always love seeing people that get so invested in the characters! Your reactions are so honest and heartfelt! An interesting bit of trivia that I don't remember where I watched it, but I think it was someone 'official' talking about it. The area on Vader's mask that Ahsoka cuts away was done in a way to match a scar that is seen when you get to Return of the Jedi, and in Obi Wan, it was the same portion of the mask and you can see the scar.
When I first saw this fight I was literally excited. And when I saw the Sith Temple explode and when I thought Ashoka died, I was literally on the verge of tears on the day this episode came out all those years ago.
Hearing Matt Lanter's voice, calling out to Ahsoka again, but as Darth Vader.. this scene hit like freight train. This moment was hard to get through, but it was equally epic. Such a great scene.
That's why I always say: Rebels is the backbone of the new StarWars (at least in my opinion). It has the most world-building (some of the most important parts of that world-building are yet to come) and the most important new characters (because they are good new characters that people want to see more of). But it also has some really good scenes and storylines that are in Fact good enough that other parts of StarWars take massive inspirations from it. Like the mask-scene of Rebels which many years later was used in Obi-Wan as well or Ezra as a Character who is in many ways a blueprint for Rey but was made a year earlier (and in my opinion is better executed)
"Two Jedi and a... part-timer." You can always rely on Maul for a biting insult! Vader's entrance on his TIE fighter is a great moment, and I love how Ahsoka almost gets through to Anakin. When she says "I won't leave you. Not this time", he hesitates. You can see him thinking "Is there still a chance for me?", before Vader reasserts control. The reaction of Hera and Rex when Kanan and Ezra return is really poignant - even AP-5 looks depressed! Most concerning is Ezra's ability to open the holocron, because he's using the dark side of the Force to do so.
You know what is low key heartbreaking about the last scene? Kanan's last words to Hera before he leaves with Ezra were "We'll see each other again. I promise."
10:59 Dave Filoni has said the three people Vader feels he NEEDS to kill are Yoda, Obi-Wan...& Ahsoka. The last few pieces of "Anakin Skywalker" left are tied to those three people. Thas done everything he cano balance himself psychologically, Vader has disassociated himself from his past life to distance himself from the pain of all he lost. He eventually called his memories as Anakin "the Jedi's memories."
This came first before the Obi-Wan series, obviously, but the two are meant to mirror each other. Each took a different half of the mask, but neither could remove the whole thing to bring Anakin out in Vader. This one is always sadder to me, though. At the beginning you could almost hear Vader being childishly naive in saying Palpatine would offer Ahsoka mercy when we understand that he would happily kill her, or force Vader to do it, to keep his apprentice under his control. Then, when Ahsoka talks about avenging Anakin, the first thing he did instinctively is admonish her and remind her that revenge is not the Jedi way. Part of me always thought that if Ahsoka had reached out to "Skyguy" rather than Anakin there she might have pulled more of his old self out. Vader hated Anakin, hated that part of himself, for failing to save Padme. Palpatine conditioned him to think of Anakin as a different person that Vader needed to overcome as a Sith, but he never said anything about Snips and Skyguy. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Ahsoka could have saved him there, but she could have pulled more of Anakin to the surface for a moment.
Now imagine YEARS of thinking you had seen Asoka die, never knowing her Master was still alive, never finding out about his redemption and sacrifice to save the Galaxy. Only to finally notice a single grammatical mark change on a T Shirt as the wink and nod that Asoka WAS still alive. Dave wore a T Shirt to Star Wars Celebration that simply read Asoka Lives? Then played a trailer that seemed to indicate she DID live and would return. Then, after the trailer, the astute noticed in the darkness he had changed his T Shirt. It now read Asoka Lives!
Hi Tara, Just found your channel recently & have been binge watching for this episode ever since :D. This is such a special episode & that scene with Anakin reaching out to Ahsoka through Vader was just so brilliant that they chose to put a similar one in Kenobi (probably for folks that didn't watch Rebels). The layers to that scene are mind blowing. There are instances of both Sam Witwer (Voice of Maul & many other fan favs) & Dave Filoni himself talking about it during an interview. The way I see it, Ahsoka knocks Vader out & Anakin awakes as if from a deep slumber with no memory of things & all he can see is 'Ahsoka'. He calls out to her as if he doesn't believe it's real. As his pupils dilate & turn red again, one can imagine all the pain of his life flashing before his eyes & the regret/shame of his deeds takes over & Anakin sinks back into hiding behind the mask that is known as Vader. Vader on the other hand, seething with anger over the pain of Anakin's memories, proclaims, 'then you will die' & Anakin's lost all over again. Reminiscing over the feelings I had watching this for the first time & now watching new fans going through similar feels is just precious to me. Thanks for sharing your* reaction. Looking forward to your foray into more Star Wars content. May the force be with you, always :)
I remember watching this back when I was 15 and the wait for even the season 3 reveal was agonizing cause I was so curious if we would lose Ezra in the sith holocron.
And so Dave took his place alongside his master to create some of the most HEARTWRENCHING Wars content since ROTS. That slice to his mask still hits like an AT-TE. This season united the fanbase behind Dave after they thought he sold out to Disney when CW got canceled. Your reaction is EXACTLY why I recommend new viewers 1 go chronological and 2 not skip the animated series. Dave proves AGAIN and AGAIN that animation can be mature if you don't talk down to your audience. Minor side note when we got this live, I'd finished the first 6 seasons, so when she sees his mask cut it was DEVESTATING
Anakin came out for a few seconds ... I think that was more of warning ... then you will die ... basically saying everyone around me dies ... basically saying stay away from me
Anakin's descent into darkness was well portrayed. Because some Jedi never completely loved him, didn't respect him, didn't trust him, didn't take him seriously and even despised him. As a child before Obi-Wan started teaching him, he was hated and psychologically bullied by other children "Anakin is a slave to his feelings" and that was only because of envy because he was much more gifted and skilled than them.
The bird is called Morai, she tends to follow Ahsoka around. In the Clone Wars Mortis arc, The Daughter gave her life to save Ahsoka by transfering her lífe essence in to her. Morai was spiritually linked to the Daughter or possibly even a manifestation or extension of the Daughter in another form. After she died Morai started following Ahsoka and watching over her. She apprears almost everywhere Ahsoka goes.
The voice in the sith temple kind of sounds like Mother Talzin. I was not ok after Ahsoka and Vader's encounter. Matt Lanter's Anakin voice was heard when he said "then you will die". 😭😭 Hopefully the rest of the rebellion, and everybody close to Ahsoka, like Rex, eventually found out that she survived. I couldn't stand seeing Rex sad again. 😭😭 Wasn't Ahsoka shown walking out of the ruins of the temple after the explosion? I think the ship Maul took was the Inquisitor's ship and then Vader took his own ship back.
This is where the fun begins...Edit: I remember this coming out. Audiences were absolutely CRUSHED when Anakin instead attacked her. Only Luke could save Vader and that was the true tragedy of Anakin Skywalker.
And think about us poor speechless fans who saw this when it aired for the first time. There was no word of an Ahsoka's series, yet. Everybody rewatched that last few seconds in slow motion and high contrast, trying to get a clearer vision of THAT frame in which there could (or could not) be a tiny figure entering the Sith temple, right after Vader limping away... Then Dave Filoni showed up at a SW panel with the shirt "Ahsoka lives?" and people began to hope again for real. Keep going with Rebels, girl, Kanan and Ezra (and Sabine too in my opinion) have a really beautiful arc ahead of them.
Because of the gravity on that planet and the temple itself ... that jump Erza made ... it has to be done like they did it ... but true sith can't work together ... thats why the emperor and vader never could claim it ...
I love how both Obi-wan and Ashoka take off a different side of Vader’s mask. It tells me that their bond to anakin was strong, but not enough to free him of Vader. It took Luke to to fully remove it.
It's true that Ahsoka is getting her own show, but when that show takes place is a different matter. So just because she's getting a show doesn't mean she didn't die
I just pushed play and OMG I'M SO JEALOUS OF YOU EXPERIENCING THIS! This episode made me cry for years. GUH! Have you watched Kenobi? It rhymes with this episode and it KILLED me. Edit: You did see it. So this episode rhymes SO hard with Kenobi's last fight with Vader. There are a few differences that stand out in amazing ways. - Kenobi opened the right side of his helmet, and Ahsoka opened the left, symbolizing both of their effects on Anakin and how important they were, but neither was the only one that knew him, and only their two relationships show the true Anakin. (Also note: Only Luke can remove his entire helmet) - Ahsoka seeks vengeance for the death of her master. Kenobi mourns the death of his friend. - Vader drops both of them off of the high ground (he learned his lesson) - The dialog is virtually the same. It's the same fight from the perspective of master vs apprentice. Feloni is the Star Wars God.
That’s honestly almost the only episode of this season i wanted to see you watch :) From now, you’re going to meet one of the most badass character of the entire SW universe, be prepared!
I like this arc very much; Maul kills two inquisitors the 7th sister & the 5th brother almost with ease, Vader fighting Ahsoka almost to the death, Ahsoka getting to see Anakin’s face one last time (if you remember from the Kenobi series Obi-wan sliced open the right side of Anakin’s helmet and now you get see Ahsoka doing the same thing but on the left side). Your reaction to the two episodes were top notch, nice Pink Avengers 💪 sweater.
Great reaction to probably the best rebels episode.Ahsoka removed the left side of his mask,obi-wan the right side but only Luke could remove his whole mask🙂
So fun fact this was originally where Ahsoka died, which is weird because right after it shows Vader coming out of the rubble it shows her walking deeper into the temple but after this episode came out the creators said this was the end of her story and she wouldnt be in anything after this which is no longer true if it ever was in the first place
The official end of the Inquisition. After this event, they will not rise again. As for Maul's plan His plan A was to use this knowledge and the power of the temple to kill the Emperor and Vader. He knew they would lose as soon as he sensed Vader. Right after sensing Vader, he decided to go with plan B. Attempt to lock Vader in the temple taking Ezra and the holocron. Maul has already trained one apprentice who will even disturb the Emperor, but she has one minus - she is not force sensitive, that's why he wants Ezra Kanan is now blind but he won duel with Maul because as always Maul is arrogant and never underestimates his opponent. That's why he always loses. And finally Ahsoka and Vader's duel Tano used all the lessons. Anakin prepared her to fight General Grivess, who is taller and slower than her, Yoda helped her with the Jarkai style, Barriss gave her advice on using the Force during combat/duel. However, Ahsoka lost that fight anyway. At the end of the fight, Vader does not attack for a while. It is Anakin who tries to fight to stop Vader, but only for a moment. Ezra opened the holocron. He opened himself to the dark side. What the Grand Inquisitor said is coming true.
It's a sith holocron and can only be opened either by a sith or a jedi giving in to the dark. Either Vader wants to learn from the holocron, hide it or destroy it. Remember, Vader like all sith wanted to overthrow his master but Palpatine intentionally limited his suit for this reason
6:10 I wish we got the rest of the 10 still unfinished Clone Wars arcs ,which Disney cancelled after taiking over Star Wars back on screen again. We would have seen what happened to Asajj Ventress in the cancelled "Dark Disciple" arc which was also turned into a book, btw. That arc would have apparently been 8 episodes long and would have been the longest in the series.
12:56 neither Obiwan nor Ahsoka alone could take the mask of Vader off wholly. We see in these shows they get half the mask the off. Only Luke, his son, could free Anakin from Vader.
rip Ahsoka Tano .. No this is the first time we saw Anakin's face like that the Kenobi series was disappointing because they copied it But yeah as of right now Ahsoka is gone... Is it really her later..lol Also a little fact that little owl that you see is the same one You saw at the end of the clone wars flying above Darth Vader ...
The temple "Presence" is the voice of Nika Futterman she played Asajj Ventress in Clone wars as well as a lot of Star Wars projects and games going back decades. There is a theory that the Presence is Darth Traya. And the battle station is Dave's idea of the Mass Shadow Generator. That left the planet in ruin. Check out the history of Malachor V and the the great battle that took place there. Both armies Jedi and Sith where wiped out. The aftermath seen here is inspired by Pompei.
You should be somewhere around 3 BBY now, Season 3 will address what happens to a major character in Andor which is 5 BBY. Just in case you want to double back and watch that before continuing.
This is my favorite Rebels episode, when i saw this i remember thinking this should have been a movie, it left me with empire strikes back feelings, of things are looking bleak, we wont see what happened to Ashoka until season 4, we all thought she was dead for 2 years, the next 2 seasons have a lot great episodes but for me they are close at best, your journey is just started getting interesting in the next 2 seasons
We waited long for that that one. I know you’re still on idea of watching everything in chronological order, i would still suggest you to watch ep IV and V (but not VI !!) as soon as possible ;)
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Tales of the Jedi. i see it so i am crying lot that show for Star Wars: Bad Batch and Solo: A Star Wars Story
damn watching how emotional you are watching this.. makes me wanna date you.. for real
"then you will die braver than most" one of the things disney has always done right is vader, they've made him so powerful and intimidating in every piece of media. love it
Strolling in on top of his modified Tie Fighter, saber lit and cape billowing was also pretty bad ass I must add.
Badass bad guy *DING DING DING*
Oh yeah fs, vader in disney is absolutely perfect imo, what we’ve seen in rogue one, here in rebels, and especially in kenobi, they really made him the brutal monster he’s supposed to be
@@hdudhehdhd2222 dont forget jedi fallen order :0
@@branchie8979 oh yeah definitely
Just imagining the guilt Ahsoka feels now knowing fully what Anakin became. Ahsoka could have relayed a message to him through Yoda during the siege of Mandalore but chose not to...
But what she did or rather didn't do shaped the galaxy for the better. The jedi were so obsessed with the force being brought into balance that Anakin/Vader did just that, just not in the way they expected. Wiping out the jedi almost entirely did bring balance to the force. 10,000 jedi against 2 sith
and when ashoka show come u see the tears after finding out her master had returned to the light
@@DarthRevan8976that's not how balance defined by Lucas works. The light side îs the natural state of the Force, the dark side îs a cancer and perversion
@lordvastor98 You're right, but the Jedi Order did have to get wiped out to bring balance. Most of those Jedi were not following the force the way they were meant to. They were actually causing imbalance themselves because they practiced a false doctrine. Qui Gon Jinn and Jedi like him were the true Jedi. Most Jedi were like Mace or Luminara. Anakin and Ahsoka were closer to being true Jedi as well but of course Anakin took it a bit too far and went dark and Ahsoka started saying she was no Jedi but she was. Eventually Obi-Wan and Yoda learned from Qui Gons force ghost and Anakins redemption that the old way was not the right way. Luke was supposed to build a New Jedi Order the way it was meant to be but Rian Johnson and Disney screwed that up
An absolutely gut wrenching episode every time anyone watches it
“I’m no Jedi” is iconic
But I do love “Then you will die, braver than most”
The bird was the Morai... The servant of the Sister, who gave her life to save Ahsoka in Clone Wars, The one where she and Obi Wan had to save Anakin from the Brother on Mortis... Morai is often seen near Ahsoka, watching over and guiding her...
WAIT REALLY?!? Mortis was my favorite arc of Clone Wars!!
@@thatnerdtara Yes, really... Morai is tied to the daughter, and since Ahsoka carries part of the daughter within her, she is tied to Morai too You may not see Morai when you see Ahsoka, but if you see Morai, Ahsoka is usually around too... But, this time was a different, more mysterious tone to her presence...
Keep an eye out for other animals: Filoni uses them well.
@@thatnerdtara we can see the bird multiple times. Here and in the last moments of the clone wars when Vader finds Ahsokas sabers and look up into the skie, ( I seem to remember you wondering about the bird then too) and then later on, maybe some moments you haven't gotten to yet.
@@thatnerdtara they spoiled you!!! LOL ... Well you also saw Morai at the end of clone wars ... watching over vader .... I know you just finished Ahsoka so you saw her there too ... but she also shows up again in live action you can hear her and then see her in a tree branch ... I'll let you know when you reach that episode
I don't know why but I like that they used Asajj Ventress's voice for the Sith Holocron.
Every season of Rebels just gets better and better and I love this two parter so much.
Ahsoka's confrontation with Anakin was devastating but so good! Not only did we see a part of his face like in the Kenobi series, the two most important people in Anakin's life (aside from Padme) have now seen one side of his face. To me this represented Anakin's leftover humanity, Obi Wan and Ahsoka :(
Breaks my heart!!
I’m glad I’m not the only one who had this reaction to this episode. I saw this when it was first released and balled my eyes out.
Watched this w/ my HighSchool daughter when it first came out, it was a great learning journey for her as we just had a death of an elder in our family. Its time for you padawan/kids to take over.
The reason Kanan wears the mask is:
1) In-story reason, he's trying to utilize his old Jedi training of wearing a mask to recall his training days when he would block his sight and rely on the Force to guide him.
2) Meta reason: Animators didn't want to show the injury he sustained. I imagine it was difficult to animate, so they just decided to put a mask on to save some effort.
Easily a fan favorite episode Twilight of The Appearance 🧡💙 Vs 🌋 Ashley Eckstein and Matt Lanter and James Earl Jones mix voices in that moment Legendary 👏
Matt Lanter’s voice saying “Then you will die” truly broke my heart. I was in shock.
@@thatnerdtara Malicor is place where most of Jedi and "Fallen Jedi" Siths die.
Only one "survive" Darth Nihilus.
"Old Republic era" = Knight of the old Republic
@@adriankuban2904 yeah, the mass shadow generator is the most horrifying superweapon in star wars
If you look at Anakin, you can see the pain in his expression even if it's hidden under his mask. Other than plot purposes, Ahsoka couldn't save him because of 2 reasons. 1, he remembered the moment she said, "I'm sorry master, but I'm not coming back" which was as big a reason for becoming Vader as padme and the kids. 2, she brought out a shred of good and he hated that
The last time Obi wan saw Anakin he was at the height of his darkness hence why he didn't believe he could be saved when he spoke to Luke. When Ahsoka refuses to abandon Vader it brings back a small spark of light, not enough for her to bring him back but enough that Luke is able to feel when they fight and help Vader turn on the Emperor in the end.
I remember watching that for the first. My kid, who I watched it with, noticed at the end that it wasn't just Ahsoka walking down into the sith temple, but it was Ashoka's force ghost.
Ahsoka and Obi-wan could only break one half of Vaders mask, only Luke could take off the whole mask. "It's like poetry, they rhyme"
One of the most somber endings in Star Wars and a hell of a cliffhanger. At this point we didn’t know what happened to Ashoka. There was a faint trace of her in the ending scene where she’s walking down into the temple but we didn’t know if that was real or symbolic. Kanan is blinded by Maul, he’s able to use his Jedi training to defeat him but still can’t see. Meanwhile Ezra is blaming himself for all of it. He realizes Maul used him and if he hadn’t trusted him Ashoka would be alive and Kanan wouldn’t have gotten hurt. Mauls words, the holocrons message, and his encounter with Vader are influencing him, feeding his guilt. I remember gasping at the last scene where he opens the holocron because I couldn’t believe he would knowingly use the dark side. But then I thought about it and with everything he just experienced, he wants something good to come from it and he knows the holocron contains knowledge. As the old saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. We know Ezra isn’t opening it because he’s bad, but he’s using his pain to fuel his search for power so he can beat people like Vader.
And if you think about it, that's exactly how Anakin fell to the Dark Side.
I was so overwhelmed that I didn’t notice the reflection of red in Ezra’s eyes in the end scene until I was editing 😳
@@thatnerdtara It’s so ominous, like are we about to witness his dark side origin or is it a sign of something else? Needless to say my excitement for Season 3 was palpable.
Imagine not having the knowledge of an Ahsoka show, nor any other news about her. only this ending... for a long time we did not know if she survived.
then one moment in a panel, the director and show runner Dave Filoni wore a T-shirt with the text "Ahsoka lives?!"
Ahsoka, Vader, Maul - this is the series beginning to stretch its legs and become an essential part of the Star Wars canon. The introduction of Maul into this series adds an element of chaos like a jolt of electricity.
This scene is so much more heart breaking hearing Matt Lanter say , "So you will die," instead of the great James Earl Jones. I love these voice actors.
The last time Obi wan saw Anakin he was at the height of his darkness hence why he didn't believe he could be saved when he spoke to Luke. When Ahsoka refuses to abandon Vader it brings back a small spark of light, not enough for her to bring him back but enough that Luke is able to feel when they fight and help Vader turn on the Emperor in the end.
Classic Vader, making a super dramatic entrance like always.
Remember a couple episodes ago, when Kanan tells Hera "We'll see each other again." And then this happens...
I have started watching your in order reactions in order and I love them! I always love seeing people that get so invested in the characters! Your reactions are so honest and heartfelt! An interesting bit of trivia that I don't remember where I watched it, but I think it was someone 'official' talking about it. The area on Vader's mask that Ahsoka cuts away was done in a way to match a scar that is seen when you get to Return of the Jedi, and in Obi Wan, it was the same portion of the mask and you can see the scar.
When I first saw this fight I was literally excited. And when I saw the Sith Temple explode and when I thought Ashoka died, I was literally on the verge of tears on the day this episode came out all those years ago.
Hearing Matt Lanter's voice, calling out to Ahsoka again, but as Darth Vader.. this scene hit like freight train. This moment was hard to get through, but it was equally epic. Such a great scene.
It almost seemed like Anakin was making an attempt to break free of Vader for a split second before the dark side took back over.
@@johngoodson680 Yes, a brief moment of clarity.
That's why I always say: Rebels is the backbone of the new StarWars (at least in my opinion). It has the most world-building (some of the most important parts of that world-building are yet to come) and the most important new characters (because they are good new characters that people want to see more of).
But it also has some really good scenes and storylines that are in Fact good enough that other parts of StarWars take massive inspirations from it. Like the mask-scene of Rebels which many years later was used in Obi-Wan as well or Ezra as a Character who is in many ways a blueprint for Rey but was made a year earlier (and in my opinion is better executed)
Say it again 💘
"Two Jedi and a... part-timer." You can always rely on Maul for a biting insult! Vader's entrance on his TIE fighter is a great moment, and I love how Ahsoka almost gets through to Anakin. When she says "I won't leave you. Not this time", he hesitates. You can see him thinking "Is there still a chance for me?", before Vader reasserts control. The reaction of Hera and Rex when Kanan and Ezra return is really poignant - even AP-5 looks depressed! Most concerning is Ezra's ability to open the holocron, because he's using the dark side of the Force to do so.
As Filoni put it, the "Then you will die" was Anakin coming through for a moment to give Ahsoka an ultimatum to leave or die.
You know what is low key heartbreaking about the last scene? Kanan's last words to Hera before he leaves with Ezra were "We'll see each other again. I promise."
And he kept that promise in the most heartbreaking way possible
10:59 Dave Filoni has said the three people Vader feels he NEEDS to kill are Yoda, Obi-Wan...& Ahsoka.
The last few pieces of "Anakin Skywalker" left are tied to those three people.
Thas done everything he cano balance himself psychologically, Vader has disassociated himself from his past life to distance himself from the pain of all he lost.
He eventually called his memories as Anakin "the Jedi's memories."
Wow… I never thought of it that way but it makes sense 🥺
This came first before the Obi-Wan series, obviously, but the two are meant to mirror each other. Each took a different half of the mask, but neither could remove the whole thing to bring Anakin out in Vader.
This one is always sadder to me, though. At the beginning you could almost hear Vader being childishly naive in saying Palpatine would offer Ahsoka mercy when we understand that he would happily kill her, or force Vader to do it, to keep his apprentice under his control. Then, when Ahsoka talks about avenging Anakin, the first thing he did instinctively is admonish her and remind her that revenge is not the Jedi way. Part of me always thought that if Ahsoka had reached out to "Skyguy" rather than Anakin there she might have pulled more of his old self out. Vader hated Anakin, hated that part of himself, for failing to save Padme. Palpatine conditioned him to think of Anakin as a different person that Vader needed to overcome as a Sith, but he never said anything about Snips and Skyguy. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Ahsoka could have saved him there, but she could have pulled more of Anakin to the surface for a moment.
Now imagine YEARS of thinking you had seen Asoka die, never knowing her Master was still alive, never finding out about his redemption and sacrifice to save the Galaxy. Only to finally notice a single grammatical mark change on a T Shirt as the wink and nod that Asoka WAS still alive. Dave wore a T Shirt to Star Wars Celebration that simply read Asoka Lives? Then played a trailer that seemed to indicate she DID live and would return. Then, after the trailer, the astute noticed in the darkness he had changed his T Shirt. It now read Asoka Lives!
Hi Tara, Just found your channel recently & have been binge watching for this episode ever since :D. This is such a special episode & that scene with Anakin reaching out to Ahsoka through Vader was just so brilliant that they chose to put a similar one in Kenobi (probably for folks that didn't watch Rebels). The layers to that scene are mind blowing. There are instances of both Sam Witwer (Voice of Maul & many other fan favs) & Dave Filoni himself talking about it during an interview.
The way I see it, Ahsoka knocks Vader out & Anakin awakes as if from a deep slumber with no memory of things & all he can see is 'Ahsoka'. He calls out to her as if he doesn't believe it's real. As his pupils dilate & turn red again, one can imagine all the pain of his life flashing before his eyes & the regret/shame of his deeds takes over & Anakin sinks back into hiding behind the mask that is known as Vader. Vader on the other hand, seething with anger over the pain of Anakin's memories, proclaims, 'then you will die' & Anakin's lost all over again.
Reminiscing over the feelings I had watching this for the first time & now watching new fans going through similar feels is just precious to me. Thanks for sharing your* reaction. Looking forward to your foray into more Star Wars content. May the force be with you, always :)
Rex's face...still breaks me
I remember watching this back when I was 15 and the wait for even the season 3 reveal was agonizing cause I was so curious if we would lose Ezra in the sith holocron.
Tales of the Jedi. i see it so i am crying lot that show for Star Wars: Bad Batch and Solo: A Star Wars Story
And so Dave took his place alongside his master to create some of the most HEARTWRENCHING Wars content since ROTS. That slice to his mask still hits like an AT-TE. This season united the fanbase behind Dave after they thought he sold out to Disney when CW got canceled. Your reaction is EXACTLY why I recommend new viewers 1 go chronological and 2 not skip the animated series. Dave proves AGAIN and AGAIN that animation can be mature if you don't talk down to your audience. Minor side note when we got this live, I'd finished the first 6 seasons, so when she sees his mask cut it was DEVESTATING
Anakin came out for a few seconds ... I think that was more of warning ... then you will die ... basically saying everyone around me dies ... basically saying stay away from me
Anakin's descent into darkness was well portrayed.
Because some Jedi never completely loved him, didn't respect him, didn't trust him, didn't take him seriously and even despised him.
As a child before Obi-Wan started teaching him, he was hated and psychologically bullied by other children "Anakin is a slave to his feelings" and that was only because of envy because he was much more gifted and skilled than them.
The bird is called Morai, she tends to follow Ahsoka around. In the Clone Wars Mortis arc, The Daughter gave her life to save Ahsoka by transfering her lífe essence in to her. Morai was spiritually linked to the Daughter or possibly even a manifestation or extension of the Daughter in another form. After she died Morai started following Ahsoka and watching over her. She apprears almost everywhere Ahsoka goes.
The voice in the sith temple kind of sounds like Mother Talzin.
I was not ok after Ahsoka and Vader's encounter. Matt Lanter's Anakin voice was heard when he said "then you will die". 😭😭
Hopefully the rest of the rebellion, and everybody close to Ahsoka, like Rex, eventually found out that she survived. I couldn't stand seeing Rex sad again. 😭😭
Wasn't Ahsoka shown walking out of the ruins of the temple after the explosion?
I think the ship Maul took was the Inquisitor's ship and then Vader took his own ship back.
As P.T. Barnum said, "Always leave them wanting more."
Your channel is awesome.
This is where the fun begins...Edit: I remember this coming out. Audiences were absolutely CRUSHED when Anakin instead attacked her. Only Luke could save Vader and that was the true tragedy of Anakin Skywalker.
And think about us poor speechless fans who saw this when it aired for the first time. There was no word of an Ahsoka's series, yet. Everybody rewatched that last few seconds in slow motion and high contrast, trying to get a clearer vision of THAT frame in which there could (or could not) be a tiny figure entering the Sith temple, right after Vader limping away... Then Dave Filoni showed up at a SW panel with the shirt "Ahsoka lives?" and people began to hope again for real. Keep going with Rebels, girl, Kanan and Ezra (and Sabine too in my opinion) have a really beautiful arc ahead of them.
Because of the gravity on that planet and the temple itself ... that jump Erza made ... it has to be done like they did it ... but true sith can't work together ... thats why the emperor and vader never could claim it ...
Just to answer your question on why vader hasn't claimed it ...
I love how both Obi-wan and Ashoka take off a different side of Vader’s mask. It tells me that their bond to anakin was strong, but not enough to free him of Vader. It took Luke to to fully remove it.
and now the show really gets good, hold onto your hats, here we go.
I always wondered who "fortold" thier meeting, supposedly
Hmm good question!!!
It's true that Ahsoka is getting her own show, but when that show takes place is a different matter. So just because she's getting a show doesn't mean she didn't die
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I just pushed play and OMG I'M SO JEALOUS OF YOU EXPERIENCING THIS! This episode made me cry for years. GUH! Have you watched Kenobi? It rhymes with this episode and it KILLED me.
Edit: You did see it. So this episode rhymes SO hard with Kenobi's last fight with Vader. There are a few differences that stand out in amazing ways.
- Kenobi opened the right side of his helmet, and Ahsoka opened the left, symbolizing both of their effects on Anakin and how important they were, but neither was the only one that knew him, and only their two relationships show the true Anakin. (Also note: Only Luke can remove his entire helmet)
- Ahsoka seeks vengeance for the death of her master. Kenobi mourns the death of his friend.
- Vader drops both of them off of the high ground (he learned his lesson)
- The dialog is virtually the same.
It's the same fight from the perspective of master vs apprentice. Feloni is the Star Wars God.
That’s honestly almost the only episode of this season i wanted to see you watch :)
From now, you’re going to meet one of the most badass character of the entire SW universe, be prepared!
I like this arc very much; Maul kills two inquisitors the 7th sister & the 5th brother almost with ease, Vader fighting Ahsoka almost to the death, Ahsoka getting to see Anakin’s face one last time (if you remember from the Kenobi series Obi-wan sliced open the right side of Anakin’s helmet and now you get see Ahsoka doing the same thing but on the left side). Your reaction to the two episodes were top notch, nice Pink Avengers 💪 sweater.
12:13 Ezra opening the sith holocron at the end means that he uses the dark side there, btw.
Great reaction to probably the best rebels episode.Ahsoka removed the left side of his mask,obi-wan the right side but only Luke could remove his whole mask🙂
"Ahsoka?"
"Ahsoka"
"I won't leave you, not this time"
"Then you will die"
Truly heartbreaking
So fun fact this was originally where Ahsoka died, which is weird because right after it shows Vader coming out of the rubble it shows her walking deeper into the temple but after this episode came out the creators said this was the end of her story and she wouldnt be in anything after this which is no longer true if it ever was in the first place
Anakin came out for a few seconds. Then Vader took over. What Ahsoka does next is hinted by the Ahsoka cards Filoni made.
Best scene
The official end of the Inquisition. After this event, they will not rise again.
As for Maul's plan
His plan A was to use this knowledge and the power of the temple to kill the Emperor and Vader. He knew they would lose as soon as he sensed Vader. Right after sensing Vader, he decided to go with plan B. Attempt to lock Vader in the temple taking Ezra and the holocron.
Maul has already trained one apprentice who will even disturb the Emperor, but she has one minus - she is not force sensitive, that's why he wants Ezra
Kanan is now blind but he won duel with Maul because as always Maul is arrogant and never underestimates his opponent. That's why he always loses.
And finally Ahsoka and Vader's duel
Tano used all the lessons. Anakin prepared her to fight General Grivess, who is taller and slower than her, Yoda helped her with the Jarkai style, Barriss gave her advice on using the Force during combat/duel. However, Ahsoka lost that fight anyway. At the end of the fight, Vader does not attack for a while. It is Anakin who tries to fight to stop Vader, but only for a moment.
Ezra opened the holocron. He opened himself to the dark side. What the Grand Inquisitor said is coming true.
It's a sith holocron and can only be opened either by a sith or a jedi giving in to the dark. Either Vader wants to learn from the holocron, hide it or destroy it. Remember, Vader like all sith wanted to overthrow his master but Palpatine intentionally limited his suit for this reason
Such a powerful episode, glad you've made it this far!
Told you that episode may bring you to tears. Love your reaction!
Rip ahsoka
Don't give up، I hope someday you'll become a great TH-camr.
Ezra used the dark side at the end
I didn't fully process that until I was editing 😳
6:10 I wish we got the rest of the 10 still unfinished Clone Wars arcs ,which Disney cancelled after taiking over Star Wars back on screen again. We would have seen what happened to Asajj Ventress in the cancelled "Dark Disciple" arc which was also turned into a book, btw. That arc would have apparently been 8 episodes long and would have been the longest in the series.
I love your reactions ❤
This show was made before Kenobi, so Kenobi actually ripped this episode off
12:56 neither Obiwan nor Ahsoka alone could take the mask of Vader off wholly. We see in these shows they get half the mask the off. Only Luke, his son, could free Anakin from Vader.
Rebels is probably the best Star Wars ever made
rip Ahsoka Tano .. No this is the first time we saw Anakin's face like that the Kenobi series was disappointing because they copied it But yeah as of right now Ahsoka is gone... Is it really her later..lol Also a little fact that little owl that you see is the same one You saw at the end of the clone wars flying above Darth Vader ...
The temple "Presence" is the voice of Nika Futterman she played Asajj Ventress in Clone wars as well as a lot of Star Wars projects and games going back decades. There is a theory that the Presence is Darth Traya. And the battle station is Dave's idea of the Mass Shadow Generator. That left the planet in ruin. Check out the history of Malachor V and the the great battle that took place there. Both armies Jedi and Sith where wiped out. The aftermath seen here is inspired by Pompei.
I knew I recognized the voice, I thought maybe it was Mother Talzin!
@@thatnerdtara me to I was confused 50/50 whether it was mother Talzin or Asajj ventress.
And then came season three…
After which, rewatch the beginning of Bad Batch if you don’t already know why.
You should be somewhere around 3 BBY now, Season 3 will address what happens to a major character in Andor which is 5 BBY. Just in case you want to double back and watch that before continuing.
Vader to Ahsoka
Then you will die!
Anakin said it as a warning
Vader said it as a promise
I have been waiting for you to see this altercation
Finally... Not too long,.. Just worth the wait...
This is my favorite Rebels episode, when i saw this i remember thinking this should have been a movie, it left me with empire strikes back feelings, of things are looking bleak, we wont see what happened to Ashoka until season 4, we all thought she was dead for 2 years, the next 2 seasons have a lot great episodes but for me they are close at best, your journey is just started getting interesting in the next 2 seasons
Spoiler...
We waited long for that that one. I know you’re still on idea of watching everything in chronological order, i would still suggest you to watch ep IV and V (but not VI !!) as soon as possible ;)
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Her hand a different race
neeerd =P love this series...
Have you watched clone wars?
Yes
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Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ he is our only hope, just repent and have child like humble faith God bless!!!