Na he hasn’t fallen. The fact he’s protecting those natives kinda kills the theory. As far as to why Sabine found em so soon, I blame the fact Dave only had 8 episodes to work with….there are going to be inherent pacing issues with so few episodes.
Yeah, if anybody has a dark secret to hide, it's Sabine. She's the one who made the choice to put their galaxy in danger just to get to him. A choice he wouldn't have made for himself. There's a reason why she didn't just tell the truth right away when asked. As far as she knows right now, they are stranded with no way back and Thrawn will be returning to the main galaxy.
They could have cut most of the first 4 episodes. Senselessly slow for no good reason. The first two episodes could have been cut completely. It was a very poor use of time.
8 episodes by Disney is same shit, different day. All of their projects with 8 episodes suffer from pacing issues and unexplored potential, all or most of them I guess.
I would like to think Ezra is not wearing the dog tags as trophies. But as morning for the storm troopers that have been killed and reanimated by the knight sisters. He has seen the terrible things that Thron and the night sisters have done.
I don't remember which book I read long ago in Legends, but Storm Trooper Dog Tags are made out of Beskar so it probably just made his own chain mail armor to protect himself.
He could have been a hero among the Stormtroopers during the early years but when the Night Sisters showed up, their was a miniature civil war between Ezra's side and Thrawn's side leading to the creation of the Night Troopers
I dont see the Noti species as having one evil bone in their body so it makes no sense to me that they would stay by Ezras side so happily and willingly.
How Sabine found Ezra, was the most archetypal "trust in the force" version of coincidences stumbling together. Raider ambush, sensor destroyed, wolf horse finds local sentients, local sentients are part of the rebellion, leads her to Ezra in a location they wouldn't be in tomorrow. No one but a Jedi would have found him so fast and in this way.
It seems too good to be true but I think it’s him. I think he did kill a lot of Thrawn’s soldiers but, he’s not the big bad Baylon is sensing. Especially seeing him with those cute little ugly rock snail creatures. I think people really need to get over dark vs light in these situations. He is a survivor and he can no longer live the rules the Jedi order enforced. I think whatever is calling Baylon, is protecting Ezra and that’s what Thrawn is afraid of. When Ashoka arrives the shizz is gonna hit the fan.
I'm one of the posters that question Ezra. ... From my view it has a lot to do with Baylan's description of the planet itself. ... It's not that I believe he's turned to the dark side. It's that I don't believe it was him. ... He wasn't concerned enough about how Sabine got there & where others were. ... I mean, he must have seen Thrawns ship arrive to the Night Sister's fortress & know that they know Sabine is there. ... He was just too relaxed about it all, IMO. As said in this video, I also believe the odds are low it's anything but Ezra & simply not enough time in the episode/series to develop things with it all. Hey, shall see & know soon enough 🎉
It would be interesting if it was abeloth controlling Ezra. You mentioned that he could be a bit mad. Who is an ancient demon that is known for causing madness? Abeloth. Instead of baylen being attracted to abeloth, Abeloth could be using Ezra as a conduit of some sort. She has had thousands of years to plot her return. She may be using it as a trap to kill all who can sense her power. In other words, she may be using Ezra to kill baylen to keep her presence unknown until the time is right.
@@LegendaryGoetz while I don't know how to feel about the theory, you can't blame them. Abeloth was the first fresh thing in SW for a long time, and is certainly fresher than the sequels. Hell, the Jedi and Sith didn't even kill her, they just put her back to sleep because she is far beyond their means to destroy. For star wars, that's fresh as fuck.
Fun fact, and something I didn’t think about/notice till just now. The fight between Shin and Sabine in the first episode of Ahsoka was the first live action lightsaber fight between 2 women. Also, I never felt there was anything romantically going on between Ezra and Sabine, besides Ezra flirting with her when he first met her. That’s why I’m in the Sabine and Shin shipping camp, which would also be the first gay/lesbian couple on screen in star wars, and makes sense for those 2 characters, cause they’re both not very “girly”, and if Thrawn ends up killing Baylan for actually not killing Ahsoka off, Shin could very likely join Sabine and Ezra to get revenge on Thrawn, and/or continue Baylan’s cause in some way, depending on what that ends up being. And Sabine and Shin both have that rebelish, stubborn, and dark tendency nature, the latter Shin more than Sabine of course, so I think they could compliment each other well, learning a lot together and from each other. I don’t know if Dave would go there, but I’d love to see it, not for the sake of representation at all, which I don’t care about, but because it could actually make sense for the characters and the story.
@ncard00 honestly that would be great just the problem is that Disney or any other network been adding more gays which is not bad but lately they been over doing it especially in cartoons in my opinion star wars wasn't really about gays I think they would keep it straight as possible that's what I think
Him caring for the turtle people kinda kills the theory that he’s turned dark, I believe if he turned dark we would’ve found him in kind of a darker, more solo situation. I don’t think that’s the kind of picture they were trying to paint for his character 🤷🏽♂️
@flykhai9672 could be as simple as staying hidden and fed till he's ready. They never dive into this but fr what're you gonna eat if you show up on a planet you've never been to 😂
@@TheGoldenBoot-cz1do it just seems really out of his character to do that because he was always super compassionate to others in general. But anything is possible for sure, being stuck on a foreign planet can do that to a man 😂
If we compare what Ezra was wearing before and after, his clothes seem to be in taters, and he could be wearing the tags as a form of armor in this unknown/uncharted galaxy to protect himself since resources could be scarce. The same could be said with Thrawn, due to resources being scarce he wants to focus on not losing as much as possible and stays away from Ezra bc that could cause further problems for him. In legends (not sure about cannon), there were sith who only existed without being bloodthirsty, or Ezra has become a Grey Jedi or even surviving by only acting in defense of himself like a Jedi.
I’m cool with that, that actually sounds awesome!! If baylan &/o shin challenge Ezra and he says oh yeah? And goes full sith eyes in response, then just turns it off and starts joking with Sabine after flattening them 😮🤷🏼♂️👍🏻
I don’t think Ezra has turned, but I do think that just like Sabine he is hiding the details of what living in this graveyard of a planet has cost him. It would, however, be very interesting if he was part of Skoll’s plan to break the wheel
If you watched the show Supernatural for the 15 years it was on the air, then, you know never to expect a character who's been gone for an extended period of time to be the same person.
Thank you for bringing back the fun introductions. Missed them. Much better than "What's up guys." This is what sets you apart and puts you on a higher level of commentator as you show respect for the property more than others. Major props!!
in episode 7 I wonder why Ezra was so eager to pick up a blaster but not the light saber after he said he didn't need a weapon. Does the light saber color change immediately to identify which side of the force the holder is on? It happened in the Star wars visions anime but i didn't know if it happened in the live action world too. Do you think that is why he wasnt eager to take it?
Exactly, people just want that nostalgia factor. They crave it, like the dark side of the force.... This talk of Abeloth is after Marrok dying without any backstory. Nobody has mentioned him since.These People want familiarity and total dark edginess because that was star wars to them. Same crowd that got mad at their sisters for playing with their Boba Fett Action figures... at the age of 35.
He's 100% not turned to the darkside. He acts civil and kind when he sees Sabine again, he protects the Noti natives, and he doesn't have any yellow eyes. And I doubt that he had knowledge of the same ability Palpatine used to hide his sith eyes.
At the beginning of this video I imagined Ezra being Abolth in disguise. That weird armor Ezra is wearing is really a depiction of Aboloths teeth. If anyone is Aboloth in disguise it's probably Baylan. Just Saiyan awsome show
as for sabine finding him so quickly. i think it has allot to do with Andor and how that show was stuctured. lots of people complained about it been slow. with only 8 episodes to establish all main characters and setting up the plot people would complain if there was 2 episodes of sabine and her dog just looking for ezra.
There are only two episodes left in the season. Some storytellers know when it is time to move the story along so they can get to the finale. Also... continuing to fight the enemy, regardless of the new environment, isn't proof of going dark; it is proof Ezra is still fighting the same fight.
Dont. forget Ezra was a teen and fighting a rebellion he 100% has PTSD. Second humans are social imagine the isolation he must feel. However, he was allowed access to the world between worlds which has we know is a gateway through all time and space. The world would know Ezra would turn into something evil and would never have allowed him access. Good Ole Palps couldn’t get in he had to access to access it through a vision using night sister magik. I think Ezra is just a much Harder and Stoic version of his old self. But as we all know this could age like milk on a summer day.
I think a lot of people are forgetting the Son and Daughter in the clone wars cartoon play a huge roll in Ahsoka. Ahsoka literally has the life force of the Daughter in her and I think that maybe the Son is going to be present at some point in the series. Maybe, this isn't Ezra at all and secretly the Son who is going to manipulate Ahsoka by turning her padawan towards the dark. If I remember correctly, the Son has the ability to shape shift and show people their dark futures.
I do not think Ezra has fallen to the dark side, as for how Sabine found him so fast was Ezra could sense her and sent out people to find her and lead her to him. Why else would the have been so happy to see the rebel emblem on her. On a side note Ezra is also a book with in the Tanaka as George liked too take people names out of difrent cultures for characters I see Dave doing the same thing and that gives us a clue as to the character.
Yeah he's fallen so bad he's performing selfless Jedi acts like assisting that race of beings with packing up to move to another location. Very dark stuff
I think they're trying to push it along since there's currently only 2 episodes left in the series, it was more to bring the characters back and setup a continuation of rebels :)
Reading too much into this. Yes Sabine found Ezra fast. Artoo found Kenobi in two days. Luke found Yoda in about a half an hour. On quite large planets. They have to cut down search time on planets or it would take its own TV series or movie just finding them on one planet, let alone the entire galaxy.
Ezra corrupted or driven to madness would be interesting, but the simpler explanation is more likely. Disney Star Wars tends to avoid complexity in stories and characters, so Ezra is probably just a pure, straightforward good guy.
Nah, Ezra Falling makes no sense for me, based on his Character Arc in Rebels. I can accept a Possesion of some sorts, but not Ezra himself falling. But when I watched the episode I felt that Ezra was actually running away from that "Power" that calls for Baylan. More in the sense that he knows there is something out there and that's why he is eager to leave as much as Thrawne and the Night-Sisters. Maybe Ezra won't be mad at Sabine for higing the Truth on how she find him, because he may be also Hidding whats in the Planet.
We dont onow that yet. For all we know those were tags of the troopers were maee of beskar, and he fashion an formidable chainmail- and he probably caused the damage of the death troopers of thrawn, subsequently resurrected by the night sister witches. What we do know is that ezra was bokkan who knew the light as well as the dark. I find it unlikely hes been drawn by the dark for selfish reason; hes been hiding amonhst those creatures as like a learner and security. He had hope. And force his ally. Where as thrawn sought a destructive end and desperate measures for getting out the system, where fear and coldness was his marching order. He used these damaged storm troopers as means of intimidation. When i saw thrawn in that episode it gave me chills and made me believe he truly is palpatine successor.
If Anakin is the new one above all and Ashoka is the new light side I am not surprised. We are missing the aspect of the darkside for our new Mortis gods. Ezra slides in to that roll just so very nicely.
I don't think Ezra does. He's walked down that path before and rejected it. But, if Maul's tagging along with Ezra (holocron & dathomirian witch mind potions, remember), then he could conceivably be a good candidate.
Let's talk about Abeloth first. I don't know about Abeloth being a factor because we haven't seen any obvious signs pointing to her. The "power" Baylin has been talking about might be the natural presence in the Force that the planet possesses. Kinda like how Dathomir has one. Turning to the dark side? I don't know. I'm going to draw on the second Rambo movie and the Traitor novel here. After Rambo escaped from the prison camp, his main focus was surviving long enough to complete his mission and getting back to base. He did whatever he needed to do to accomplish that. Used whatever was available. Used any means necessary. Jacen Solo did the same thing during his captivity with the Yuuzhan Vongs. He did what he needed to do to survive and later to escape. Used whatever resources were available. Used any means necessary. Both followed the belief: The ends justify the means. Ezra might have done the same thing - doing what he needed to do to survive. He probably escape the Chimaera after arriving at Peridia, then spent the past decade taking out any squads of stormtroopers sent to eliminate him. The main difference Ezra had from Rambo and Jacen was his empathy. He probably found the Noti, befriended them, and started to shift his focus towards protecting the Noti as well. He'll probably need some psych therapy after returning to the galaxy. Just like Rambo needed and got. Just like Jacen needed, yet didn't really get. That's assuming he survives. I originally thought that the Ghost crew would find a clue to Ezra's whereabouts and learn about Thrawn's as well. They head to the Unknown Regions, find them, and stop Thrawn once and for all. But in the process, they learn about rumors about Exegol and Palpatine's survival. They go to investigate, but are captured and later killed. Now I'm thinking that Ahsoka and company are about to learn a terrible secret about Peridia. I saw some preview clips on TH-cam for Episodes 6 and 7. I'm wondering if they're fake now, but I thought I saw a figure that I didn't recognize. It led me to believe that maybe Thrawn encountered a race that would be a substitute for the Yuuzhan Vongs. Formed an alliance and intended to bring them back to the galaxy. The Yuuzhan Vongs appearing? No. Now I'm wondering if it has to do with those stormtroopers he has. No self-respecting Imperial commander would allow his troopers to wear armor in such disrepair. Anyways, back to the main point. Whatever it is they learn, they realize they can't let Thrawn bring it back. So they wait until the Chimaera links up with the Eye of Sion, and destroy both ships. Sacrificing themselves to eliminate Thrawn, the Nightsisters, the dark Jedi, and the new threat. but they do it before entering hyperspace. Last thing the galaxy needs is another Great Disaster.
Thrawns comment seems to be something that is more to get information out of Sabine with her reaction...after all, him seeing the situation as her viewing him as a threat to the galaxy there and she's letting him come back because she wanted to find Ezra. One thing that could be interesting is if several of the Imperials, essentially, defected at some point in the past... You have the ones that are seemingly in a Thrawn cult, and probably several that were getting worried about the fanaticism of others for the "alien" while also several, potentially, blaming Thrawn for stranding them there. Even conscripts now with no way home and in another galaxy when they may not have even wanted to be in the military in the first place. Having a pile of them turning against Thrawns forces could have happened and been a very interesting twist. Another thing might be that Ezra, potentially, just blames himself for stranding everyone so far away from home, taking the dog tags of the dead in order to at least let their families know what happened to them in the end does also seem like something that Ezra might do
One theory I wanted to put out there is the idea that we have a huge, world-ending battle coming. The reason I say this is because of Baylan and Shin's last names. Baylan "Skoll" and Shin "Hati" is suspicious as someone who understands Norse myths. In Norse mythology, Skoll and Hati are the giant wolves that chase the sun and the moon and are considered as one of the precursors to Ragnarok. Once they eat the sun and moon then Ragnarok begins. I don't know what Baylan and Shin would "eat" in order to begin this battle, but I feel like their names are significant.
No WAY! Ezera did one of the most Selfless things in Star Wars history. She found him do the series timing she had to it’s simple as they no Easter Eggs it’s just time
I actually have another theory, while the idea of Ezra being manipulated is an interesting concept what if this isn't Abeloth herself. She's incredibly powerful, a literal force of nature that is embodiment of chaos. While that may seem evil to there is something to consider, the powers of which she can tap into. She could in theory take the form of Ezra and basically use him like a skin suit to escape back to the Star Wars galaxy and bring wrath and ruin on everyone who sent her to the hellish exile. Her taking his form and protecting those beings are part of a plan to gain support in getting her back. Plus, this would also explain the night sisters knowledge and belief system of the daughter and the son and their forms. She could have taught them about her family and overtime the Night sisters came to understand just how deranged and dangerous Abeloth really was and why they are so insistent to getting as far away as possible. Her presence could also be affecting the planet in a way that is made it to what it is now.
Perhaps Peredia as the same darkness as Dathomir slowly corrupting force sensitve people in the same way Taron Malicos exile turned him to the dark side. In the game Taron was not hostile to Cal at first.
I know I’m late to comment, but i read somewhere that it cant end well for most of the good guys in these shows because then they would be in the sequel trilogy. So maybe he turned to the dark side and the destroy each other in the end, giving rise to the first order. Shifting the whole mandoverse from the good guys winning battles to the bad guys winning more and it ends with someone like Ezra helping the emperor return and in the process they all kill/destoy each other.
I'm not really sure if stormtroopers even have dog tags. If that's what Ezra's undershirt is actually made of, it still wouldn't really be weird for him. He always used to collect their helmets before, so collecting stuff from stormtroopers fits what he already used to do.
I reckon it is possible that Ezra has encountered a local force entity like the Bendu, who does not bother themselves with distinctions like light and dark, but rather something more primal.I reckon that is the reason Ezra refused to accept the light saber, since that was a symbol of the Sith - Jedi duality.
Stupendous Wave you're close. Ezra and Thrawn are undead just like everyone else on Thrawn's ship. There is no way they survived an intergalactic hyperspace jump on a ship that wasn't built for it, plus the windows were broken from the Star Whales.We are in uncharted territory now and I'm here for it.
Just throwing it out there. Would the dog tags be made of beskar (probably spelt wrong)? This is something I have thought about since I first saw the tags
I think they are using part of the unused Rebels Season 5 script. It was stated in that that in the other galaxy Ezra learned unbelievably powerful dark side force powers from an ancient Rakatan Darkside force user. It would explain the need to name drop that specific race in Andor. So the interaction between them feeling like it lacked emotion is because they are both hiding something with Ezra hiding the former and Sabine hiding the fact that she has to help Thrawn.
Ngl Ezra taking dog tags from the stormtroopers he’s killed and fashioning them into a chain mail like armor has to be the most hardcore shit I’ve seen in Star Wars in a long time
If anyone was paying attention, the difference between his recorded goodbye, talking about making the ultimate sacrifice vs saying he was hoping someone would find him indicate two contrasting order of priorities. I'm curious how he reacts when he finds out she gave Thrawn a ticket out to find him.
I think that the hero going to the dark side is a tired narrative that they dont repeat. Also....then conclusion of the season 1 kinda killed most of that argument. He built a new BLUE saber.
In my opinion, the uneasiness is because Sabine is trying not to acknowledge a more companioned feeling towards Ezra, since he said she was like a sister to him before he left.
I really think he might have fallen and been using an illusion to appear like a peaceful hippie dude. He was WAY too eager to leave Peridia even knowing that Ahsoka and Sabine were trapped
Let's look at the fundamental philosophy of Grandmaster Yoda before jumping to these conclusions..."too quick you are to find truth without knowledge". Now let's look at how easily Luke found Yoda when he crash landed on Degobah. Its hasty to draw conclusions without the bigger picture. The Ashoka series has a budget, and it could also be that certain events are forced before they can be properly fleshed out due to that budget. How does one know for certain that Ezra hasn't been fighting for the light and is growing tired of the violence...much like Ashoka herself did. I feel it's way too hasty to draw the conclusion of Ezra's "fall" just as many assumed falsely about Luke's turn to the dark side in his attempt to defeat Vader, which he ultimately rejected. Its all speculation, and as Obi-wan would likely phrase it, 'your suspicion (based out of fear) clouds your judgement in the force'. Assuming isn't the Jedi way, but that of a sith acolyte...
Every week youtubers theorise the heck out of each episode, and it always turns out to be wrong: Fake Anakin, Yuzong Vong, Starkiller Marrik, and now Dark side Ezra, along with Abaloth. Even though Filoni seems to be bringing in the overall Heir to the Empire plot into the canon with this series, so far it seems to me like he's been going at it in a pretty safe manner. When the knowledge of the new galaxy dropped, the whole fandom became excited due to the limitless prospects this could entail. But with what I've seen, I reckon the production leadership might have been too afraid to take such a massive risk, fearing it would be perceived as "not Star Wars enough" by the fandom. So they allowed the new galaxy plot point to exist, but refrained from doing anything too outlandish until they had tested the waters with this season. Heed my words: This Ahsoka season will most likely end up being pretty mild. I wouldn't expect any big reveals, such as Abaloth, on this season. If they do have it mind, they'll merely tease it at most, in order to test reception without actually committing. Anything of substance will likely happen next season, once they've gotten a good read on the audience. I expect that Anakin will be the biggest fan-service we'll get this time around.
I don't think Ezra has turned to the dark side. He's grown so much and sacrifice so much to turn back. However, while I don't think he has gone crazy, I do believe that like Sabine, being isolated had given Ezra some PTSD. We need to remember that Ezra was orphaned at the age of 7, lived 7 more years on the streets, became basically a child soldier at 14 years old, found out his parents died about a year later, gave in to the Dark Side not too long after that, lost his master about 2 years later, rejected Palpatine's second chance to bring back his parents, and resolved himself to bring Thrawn's fleet to the Unknown Regions while leaving his second family behind. Now add 10 years of being alone with no one who he can really confide him, being hunted by Thrawn's troops and perhaps other forces, fending off the power of the dark side on that planet, and protecting a nomadic people that do not seem to be able to defend themselves. Ezra is going to be different. Whatever shred of innocence he had during Rebels is going to be gone by now. All these events are going to leave mental scars and wounds on him that he doesn't have the time to heal. We've seen a broken Sabine that has yet to heal her PTSD and Ahsoka who is only starting to mend hers. Those 2 had people and droids that have tried to help them. Ezra didn't have anyone. While I'm sure that he cares for the nomads, I highly doubt that he has opened up to them much. They probably haven't helped him deal with his mental trauma. Ezra here is probably darker than how we remembered in Rebels, but then again so is everyone else. As for the dog tags thing, I don't think he's flaunting them. Rather, there isn't much to come by on Peridea. He has to make the most of what he can get and maybe that's why Thrawn doesn't pursue him. Any Stormtrooper doesn't stand a chance against Ezra and once they're taken down, Ezra can just loot them for supplies. It would take a lot of troops to successfully bring down Ezra, more than Thrawn can afford to spare, and given that no one can reinforce them, every little bit of manpower is precious.
I’ve always wondered why Ezra was in that stormtrooper suit in TWBWs, maybe that’s how Thrawns troops were thinner. Ezra threw on some armor and went agent 47 on em, and when they finally figured it out, he somehow escaped to there. He was much younger then in the episode, so it would have happened in his past at this point
Backtracking character development is what Disney does best. Did we not see in Obi Wan, after Vader travels halfway round the galaxy chasing Obi Wan we are given that epic retort, “ have you come to destroy me Obi Wan.”
Because of Ezra's affinity and training in the Dark Side it is natural to look at him giving himself over to the Dark Side. It's actually possible for a time he was moving towards this direction, as Thrawn undoubtably pursued him once they arrived on Peridia. With Thrawn's troops and marauders looking to attack him at every turn, and nobody around to guide him anymore, he likely would have drawn on training he received from the Sith holocron, Maul and Kanan to survive. Yet, as you stated, he had learn to hate the Empire, accept his parents death and remembered what they had died for. Along with Kanan's sacrifice, it is all enough I believe for Ezra to push away any permanent pull to the Dark Side. It may be why he isn't feeling the same calling Baylan is. Ezra also doesn't seem to be "desperate" or fearful to leave, just really wanting his life to return to something closer to what it once was. Finally I agree with your point about Ezra protecting the Noti species. Based on his life experience, what he knows best is protecting others. He's naturally drawn to it, as were his parents. I believe Ezra sees this as a life venture for him to accomplish. Always helping others in need. As long as Ezra has this job to do, the Dark Side has no chance.
maybe he got more meaningful interaction with the Whills , maybe he is more neutral grey force-user , he looks mighty laidback for someone lost in another galaxy for 20 years , and found by his lover that never gave up on him. it was underwhelming .(i dont know if it was poor acting or bad story telling), could be a spell to keep Sabine distracted. Ahsoka will see thru in the end. May the force be with you.
I think Thrawn has had Ezra on his radar the whole time. Basically they have kept up with Ezra's location as they move the camp. And this is why Sabine could find him pretty easily. It is not like they had to go out and gather the data on where Ezra was. It was probably on one of their scouting reports. Thrawn as a practical man has calculated that it is a waste of his men to go after Ezra as he ain't going anywhere and neither is he. No point in poking the bear if you have nowhere to run and this goes both ways. Thrawn could crash Ezra's party, if he messes too much with his imperial troops. Sort of a cold war setting between the two sides. I don't think Ezra has been corrupted... Things are probably more straight forward than we like to believe. Those raiding parties that are around points to a civilization of sorts and this is still widely unexplored here. There is life on Peridea and there is probably some form of civilization there as well. I would like to see how the natives live there... Probably not going to happen with all of one episode of the season remaining. And it will likely end up with all or most of the protagonists and antagonists ending up back in the known galaxy...
If Ezra is bad or has fallen, Filoni will have failed his own legacy. I am not at all down for an evil Ezra, especially after the massive character arc he’s undergone.
Also we gotta remember the dark side was veryyyyyy attracted to Ezra for example the sith holocron willingly opened up to Ezra. All Star Wars nerds know holocrons are different to open up
Turned to the dark side? Not unless they've pulled a last jedi on Ezra and totally screwed up his character. Why did we find him so quickly? Because some Jughead only ordered 9 episodes.
Honestly, I think Thrawn and Ezra agreed to part ways. He isn't going to waste soldiers on a rebel with no galaxy to defend. Better each man for himself. The armies numbers could have dwindled at what looks like a harsh environment with bandits everywhere, until Thrawn eventually discovered the Nightsisters. Him having a former tie to Elsbeth, they struck a deal.
Na he hasn’t fallen. The fact he’s protecting those natives kinda kills the theory. As far as to why Sabine found em so soon, I blame the fact Dave only had 8 episodes to work with….there are going to be inherent pacing issues with so few episodes.
Yeah, if anybody has a dark secret to hide, it's Sabine. She's the one who made the choice to put their galaxy in danger just to get to him. A choice he wouldn't have made for himself. There's a reason why she didn't just tell the truth right away when asked. As far as she knows right now, they are stranded with no way back and Thrawn will be returning to the main galaxy.
@@straighttalkwithkyle7947 Thats another thing.. How are they even supposed to be able to leave the Galaxy?
They could have cut most of the first 4 episodes. Senselessly slow for no good reason. The first two episodes could have been cut completely. It was a very poor use of time.
@@earthstar7534i think they made it that way i
8 episodes by Disney is same shit, different day. All of their projects with 8 episodes suffer from pacing issues and unexplored potential, all or most of them I guess.
They used the shell beings to establish his goodness. He’s clearly been helping them and is admired.
This guy is just clickbait. He makes stuff up and is trying to make TH-cam money off of the controversy with each new episode.
or are the rebel necklaces some form of slave tag?
@@Memememe-is1ynpretty much. Most of these videos are so far from the truth it's just for clicks
The shell beings are gonna be sold at a retailer near you this holiday season
@@PsychedelicRug Have you also noticed its pretty common to see virtually the same video reup'd again under a different title
I would like to think Ezra is not wearing the dog tags as trophies. But as morning for the storm troopers that have been killed and reanimated by the knight sisters. He has seen the terrible things that Thron and the night sisters have done.
i think this would be the most likely.
I agree. Or maybe there was a mutiny against Thrawn, and those were the dogtags of those who chose to fight with Ezra against Thrawn
I don't remember which book I read long ago in Legends, but Storm Trooper Dog Tags are made out of Beskar so it probably just made his own chain mail armor to protect himself.
@@JadoCast That would be a good explanation. Bullet- and lightsaber proof armor would definietely help him stay alive all this time.
He could have been a hero among the Stormtroopers during the early years but when the Night Sisters showed up, their was a miniature civil war between Ezra's side and Thrawn's side leading to the creation of the Night Troopers
I dont see the Noti species as having one evil bone in their body so it makes no sense to me that they would stay by Ezras side so happily and willingly.
How Sabine found Ezra, was the most archetypal "trust in the force" version of coincidences stumbling together. Raider ambush, sensor destroyed, wolf horse finds local sentients, local sentients are part of the rebellion, leads her to Ezra in a location they wouldn't be in tomorrow. No one but a Jedi would have found him so fast and in this way.
It seems too good to be true but I think it’s him. I think he did kill a lot of Thrawn’s soldiers but, he’s not the big bad Baylon is sensing. Especially seeing him with those cute little ugly rock snail creatures. I think people really need to get over dark vs light in these situations. He is a survivor and he can no longer live the rules the Jedi order enforced. I think whatever is calling Baylon, is protecting Ezra and that’s what Thrawn is afraid of. When Ashoka arrives the shizz is gonna hit the fan.
I'm one of the posters that question Ezra. ... From my view it has a lot to do with Baylan's description of the planet itself. ... It's not that I believe he's turned to the dark side. It's that I don't believe it was him. ... He wasn't concerned enough about how Sabine got there & where others were. ... I mean, he must have seen Thrawns ship arrive to the Night Sister's fortress & know that they know Sabine is there. ... He was just too relaxed about it all, IMO.
As said in this video, I also believe the odds are low it's anything but Ezra & simply not enough time in the episode/series to develop things with it all.
Hey, shall see & know soon enough 🎉
It would be interesting if it was abeloth controlling Ezra. You mentioned that he could be a bit mad. Who is an ancient demon that is known for causing madness? Abeloth. Instead of baylen being attracted to abeloth, Abeloth could be using Ezra as a conduit of some sort. She has had thousands of years to plot her return. She may be using it as a trap to kill all who can sense her power. In other words, she may be using Ezra to kill baylen to keep her presence unknown until the time is right.
Same thing I thought bro
star wars equivalent of mephisto from marvel😭
She's not the only Celestial being to be corrupted. Nakhash and Typhojem are there as well
Lmao all these abeloth shills… get outta here with these theories.
@@LegendaryGoetz while I don't know how to feel about the theory, you can't blame them. Abeloth was the first fresh thing in SW for a long time, and is certainly fresher than the sequels. Hell, the Jedi and Sith didn't even kill her, they just put her back to sleep because she is far beyond their means to destroy. For star wars, that's fresh as fuck.
An insane Ezra would be amazing. If he turned Dark it would make sense.
Fun fact, and something I didn’t think about/notice till just now. The fight between Shin and Sabine in the first episode of Ahsoka was the first live action lightsaber fight between 2 women. Also, I never felt there was anything romantically going on between Ezra and Sabine, besides Ezra flirting with her when he first met her. That’s why I’m in the Sabine and Shin shipping camp, which would also be the first gay/lesbian couple on screen in star wars, and makes sense for those 2 characters, cause they’re both not very “girly”, and if Thrawn ends up killing Baylan for actually not killing Ahsoka off, Shin could very likely join Sabine and Ezra to get revenge on Thrawn, and/or continue Baylan’s cause in some way, depending on what that ends up being. And Sabine and Shin both have that rebelish, stubborn, and dark tendency nature, the latter Shin more than Sabine of course, so I think they could compliment each other well, learning a lot together and from each other. I don’t know if Dave would go there, but I’d love to see it, not for the sake of representation at all, which I don’t care about, but because it could actually make sense for the characters and the story.
@ncard00 honestly that would be great just the problem is that Disney or any other network been adding more gays which is not bad but lately they been over doing it especially in cartoons in my opinion star wars wasn't really about gays I think they would keep it straight as possible that's what I think
Him caring for the turtle people kinda kills the theory that he’s turned dark, I believe if he turned dark we would’ve found him in kind of a darker, more solo situation. I don’t think that’s the kind of picture they were trying to paint for his character 🤷🏽♂️
unless he is mass mind controlling them ha
He could just be using them it doesn't mean much imo
@@TheGoldenBoot-cz1do using them for what though?
@flykhai9672 could be as simple as staying hidden and fed till he's ready. They never dive into this but fr what're you gonna eat if you show up on a planet you've never been to 😂
@@TheGoldenBoot-cz1do it just seems really out of his character to do that because he was always super compassionate to others in general. But anything is possible for sure, being stuck on a foreign planet can do that to a man 😂
If we compare what Ezra was wearing before and after, his clothes seem to be in taters, and he could be wearing the tags as a form of armor in this unknown/uncharted galaxy to protect himself since resources could be scarce. The same could be said with Thrawn, due to resources being scarce he wants to focus on not losing as much as possible and stays away from Ezra bc that could cause further problems for him.
In legends (not sure about cannon), there were sith who only existed without being bloodthirsty, or Ezra has become a Grey Jedi or even surviving by only acting in defense of himself like a Jedi.
How could this be too soon to see Ezra? There’s only two episodes left and we probably won’t get a Season 2 until 2025.
Shhhh.... we're not supposed to think about it too much else we realize YT kids are just making content for clicks.
@@codyj9983are trying to slag TH-cam…for being…TH-cam?
😂 okey bro 👍🏻
@@smartcraft919 oops I offended a fanboy.
@@codyj9983 ohhh no not at all I found it hilarious 😆
if it gets a second season or just doesn't spin off into another show
I’m cool with that, that actually sounds awesome!!
If baylan &/o shin challenge Ezra and he says oh yeah? And goes full sith eyes in response, then just turns it off and starts joking with Sabine after flattening them 😮🤷🏼♂️👍🏻
Would Ezra be the reason why Thrawn wants to leave the planet asap ? Whatever the plot twist that would be interesting indeed. Great video.
I swear, if Abeloth shows up in the Season Finale of Ahsoka, I'm....going.....lose it!!!!
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I don’t think Ezra has turned, but I do think that just like Sabine he is hiding the details of what living in this graveyard of a planet has cost him. It would, however, be very interesting if he was part of Skoll’s plan to break the wheel
would be a sick twist if Ezra is actually the one that 'calls' Baylan.
Seems like an intense reach to try to force the son theory to work.
If you watched the show Supernatural for the 15 years it was on the air, then, you know never to expect a character who's been gone for an extended period of time to be the same person.
@The Stupendous Wave thank you for finally showing that Easter egg! No other channel has caught that yet! Congrats 👏🙌
Thank you for bringing back the fun introductions. Missed them. Much better than "What's up guys." This is what sets you apart and puts you on a higher level of commentator as you show respect for the property more than others. Major props!!
Stormtrooper dog tags? Or maybe its just chainmail/scalemail armor under his clothes.
in episode 7 I wonder why Ezra was so eager to pick up a blaster but not the light saber after he said he didn't need a weapon. Does the light saber color change immediately to identify which side of the force the holder is on? It happened in the Star wars visions anime but i didn't know if it happened in the live action world too. Do you think that is why he wasnt eager to take it?
Cowinkydinks and Guess Who I ran into happen all the time in the Galaxy. I'm not mad at all that Sabine found him so quickly, she's a mandalorian.
Say abloth has taken over Ezra then way would she need Baylan if she has Ezra then she could use him to open the world be twine worlds
Exactly, people just want that nostalgia factor. They crave it, like the dark side of the force....
This talk of Abeloth is after Marrok dying without any backstory. Nobody has mentioned him since.These People want familiarity and total dark edginess because that was star wars to them. Same crowd that got mad at their sisters for playing with their Boba Fett Action figures... at the age of 35.
He's 100% not turned to the darkside. He acts civil and kind when he sees Sabine again, he protects the Noti natives, and he doesn't have any yellow eyes. And I doubt that he had knowledge of the same ability Palpatine used to hide his sith eyes.
He's been able to flip eye color since the finale of rebels season 2
@@BillyBasdthere was no change in eye color
@@BillyBasd That was because the sith holocron was reflecting in his eyes.😂
At the beginning of this video I imagined Ezra being Abolth in disguise. That weird armor Ezra is wearing is really a depiction of Aboloths teeth. If anyone is Aboloth in disguise it's probably Baylan. Just Saiyan awsome show
I love how wild and rampant the Star Wars Theories get every week, just for the actual show to go nowhere near it.
Thrawn says “Your” Galaxy when speaking to Sabine does that mean that the Chiss are from this new galaxy and not from the main Star Wars one?
as for sabine finding him so quickly. i think it has allot to do with Andor and how that show was stuctured. lots of people complained about it been slow. with only 8 episodes to establish all main characters and setting up the plot people would complain if there was 2 episodes of sabine and her dog just looking for ezra.
There are only two episodes left in the season. Some storytellers know when it is time to move the story along so they can get to the finale.
Also... continuing to fight the enemy, regardless of the new environment, isn't proof of going dark; it is proof Ezra is still fighting the same fight.
Dont. forget Ezra was a teen and fighting a rebellion he 100% has PTSD. Second humans are social imagine the isolation he must feel. However, he was allowed access to the world between worlds which has we know is a gateway through all time and space. The world would know Ezra would turn into something evil and would never have allowed him access. Good Ole Palps couldn’t get in he had to access to access it through a vision using night sister magik. I think Ezra is just a much Harder and Stoic version of his old self.
But as we all know this could age like milk on a summer day.
“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
I think a lot of people are forgetting the Son and Daughter in the clone wars cartoon play a huge roll in Ahsoka. Ahsoka literally has the life force of the Daughter in her and I think that maybe the Son is going to be present at some point in the series. Maybe, this isn't Ezra at all and secretly the Son who is going to manipulate Ahsoka by turning her padawan towards the dark. If I remember correctly, the Son has the ability to shape shift and show people their dark futures.
I do not think Ezra has fallen to the dark side, as for how Sabine found him so fast was Ezra could sense her and sent out people to find her and lead her to him. Why else would the have been so happy to see the rebel emblem on her. On a side note Ezra is also a book with in the Tanaka as George liked too take people names out of difrent cultures for characters I see Dave doing the same thing and that gives us a clue as to the character.
I'm happy I'm not the only one that noticed that cause yea him wearing that bodies armor is a sign that there's a reason they're all wearing shells.
Yeah he's fallen so bad he's performing selfless Jedi acts like assisting that race of beings with packing up to move to another location. Very dark stuff
I think they're trying to push it along since there's currently only 2 episodes left in the series, it was more to bring the characters back and setup a continuation of rebels :)
Reading too much into this. Yes Sabine found Ezra fast. Artoo found Kenobi in two days. Luke found Yoda in about a half an hour. On quite large planets. They have to cut down search time on planets or it would take its own TV series or movie just finding them on one planet, let alone the entire galaxy.
They need to be careful with how they explain Ezra’s time in this new galaxy. I really hope they don’t ruin all that rebels did
I hope they don’t turn him dark. His selflessness was what was so endearing about him
Agreed
Ezra corrupted or driven to madness would be interesting, but the simpler explanation is more likely. Disney Star Wars tends to avoid complexity in stories and characters, so Ezra is probably just a pure, straightforward good guy.
True, Disney doesn't have the capacity to take steps in that direction
Nah, Ezra Falling makes no sense for me, based on his Character Arc in Rebels. I can accept a Possesion of some sorts, but not Ezra himself falling.
But when I watched the episode I felt that Ezra was actually running away from that "Power" that calls for Baylan. More in the sense that he knows there is something out there and that's why he is eager to leave as much as Thrawne and the Night-Sisters.
Maybe Ezra won't be mad at Sabine for higing the Truth on how she find him, because he may be also Hidding whats in the Planet.
We dont onow that yet. For all we know those were tags of the troopers were maee of beskar, and he fashion an formidable chainmail- and he probably caused the damage of the death troopers of thrawn, subsequently resurrected by the night sister witches. What we do know is that ezra was bokkan who knew the light as well as the dark. I find it unlikely hes been drawn by the dark for selfish reason; hes been hiding amonhst those creatures as like a learner and security. He had hope. And force his ally. Where as thrawn sought a destructive end and desperate measures for getting out the system, where fear and coldness was his marching order. He used these damaged storm troopers as means of intimidation. When i saw thrawn in that episode it gave me chills and made me believe he truly is palpatine successor.
“They don’t find the person they’re looking for til much later” I disagree with that. It wasn’t long til grogu was back with din
"Some of our researchers started to get a bad feeling" LMFAO. You got a whole team there do you guy?
If Anakin is the new one above all and Ashoka is the new light side I am not surprised. We are missing the aspect of the darkside for our new Mortis gods. Ezra slides in to that roll just so very nicely.
I don't think Ezra does. He's walked down that path before and rejected it. But, if Maul's tagging along with Ezra (holocron & dathomirian witch mind potions, remember), then he could conceivably be a good candidate.
Let's talk about Abeloth first. I don't know about Abeloth being a factor because we haven't seen any obvious signs pointing to her. The "power" Baylin has been talking about might be the natural presence in the Force that the planet possesses. Kinda like how Dathomir has one.
Turning to the dark side? I don't know. I'm going to draw on the second Rambo movie and the Traitor novel here. After Rambo escaped from the prison camp, his main focus was surviving long enough to complete his mission and getting back to base. He did whatever he needed to do to accomplish that. Used whatever was available. Used any means necessary. Jacen Solo did the same thing during his captivity with the Yuuzhan Vongs. He did what he needed to do to survive and later to escape. Used whatever resources were available. Used any means necessary. Both followed the belief: The ends justify the means.
Ezra might have done the same thing - doing what he needed to do to survive. He probably escape the Chimaera after arriving at Peridia, then spent the past decade taking out any squads of stormtroopers sent to eliminate him. The main difference Ezra had from Rambo and Jacen was his empathy. He probably found the Noti, befriended them, and started to shift his focus towards protecting the Noti as well. He'll probably need some psych therapy after returning to the galaxy. Just like Rambo needed and got. Just like Jacen needed, yet didn't really get.
That's assuming he survives. I originally thought that the Ghost crew would find a clue to Ezra's whereabouts and learn about Thrawn's as well. They head to the Unknown Regions, find them, and stop Thrawn once and for all. But in the process, they learn about rumors about Exegol and Palpatine's survival. They go to investigate, but are captured and later killed. Now I'm thinking that Ahsoka and company are about to learn a terrible secret about Peridia. I saw some preview clips on TH-cam for Episodes 6 and 7. I'm wondering if they're fake now, but I thought I saw a figure that I didn't recognize. It led me to believe that maybe Thrawn encountered a race that would be a substitute for the Yuuzhan Vongs. Formed an alliance and intended to bring them back to the galaxy. The Yuuzhan Vongs appearing? No. Now I'm wondering if it has to do with those stormtroopers he has. No self-respecting Imperial commander would allow his troopers to wear armor in such disrepair. Anyways, back to the main point. Whatever it is they learn, they realize they can't let Thrawn bring it back. So they wait until the Chimaera links up with the Eye of Sion, and destroy both ships. Sacrificing themselves to eliminate Thrawn, the Nightsisters, the dark Jedi, and the new threat. but they do it before entering hyperspace. Last thing the galaxy needs is another Great Disaster.
Thrawns comment seems to be something that is more to get information out of Sabine with her reaction...after all, him seeing the situation as her viewing him as a threat to the galaxy there and she's letting him come back because she wanted to find Ezra.
One thing that could be interesting is if several of the Imperials, essentially, defected at some point in the past...
You have the ones that are seemingly in a Thrawn cult, and probably several that were getting worried about the fanaticism of others for the "alien" while also several, potentially, blaming Thrawn for stranding them there. Even conscripts now with no way home and in another galaxy when they may not have even wanted to be in the military in the first place. Having a pile of them turning against Thrawns forces could have happened and been a very interesting twist.
Another thing might be that Ezra, potentially, just blames himself for stranding everyone so far away from home, taking the dog tags of the dead in order to at least let their families know what happened to them in the end does also seem like something that Ezra might do
I belive Essenzen of Kujet is on Peridea Zeffo letters abhout him on Peridea.
One theory I wanted to put out there is the idea that we have a huge, world-ending battle coming. The reason I say this is because of Baylan and Shin's last names. Baylan "Skoll" and Shin "Hati" is suspicious as someone who understands Norse myths. In Norse mythology, Skoll and Hati are the giant wolves that chase the sun and the moon and are considered as one of the precursors to Ragnarok. Once they eat the sun and moon then Ragnarok begins. I don't know what Baylan and Shin would "eat" in order to begin this battle, but I feel like their names are significant.
No WAY! Ezera did one of the most Selfless things in Star Wars history.
She found him do the series timing she had to it’s simple as they no Easter Eggs it’s just time
What if Ezra is actually becoming a grey Jedi? This would be super cool. I am all for this..
I actually have another theory, while the idea of Ezra being manipulated is an interesting concept what if this isn't Abeloth herself. She's incredibly powerful, a literal force of nature that is embodiment of chaos. While that may seem evil to there is something to consider, the powers of which she can tap into. She could in theory take the form of Ezra and basically use him like a skin suit to escape back to the Star Wars galaxy and bring wrath and ruin on everyone who sent her to the hellish exile. Her taking his form and protecting those beings are part of a plan to gain support in getting her back. Plus, this would also explain the night sisters knowledge and belief system of the daughter and the son and their forms. She could have taught them about her family and overtime the Night sisters came to understand just how deranged and dangerous Abeloth really was and why they are so insistent to getting as far away as possible. Her presence could also be affecting the planet in a way that is made it to what it is now.
It's just lamelar armor not dog tags. Stormtroopers don't even have dog tags.
Yo, just me or Ezra looking like Moses. He leading those crabs to the promised land.
Perhaps Peredia as the same darkness as Dathomir slowly corrupting force sensitve people in the same way Taron Malicos exile turned him to the dark side. In the game Taron was not hostile to Cal at first.
I know I’m late to comment, but i read somewhere that it cant end well for most of the good guys in these shows because then they would be in the sequel trilogy. So maybe he turned to the dark side and the destroy each other in the end, giving rise to the first order. Shifting the whole mandoverse from the good guys winning battles to the bad guys winning more and it ends with someone like Ezra helping the emperor return and in the process they all kill/destoy each other.
I'm not really sure if stormtroopers even have dog tags. If that's what Ezra's undershirt is actually made of, it still wouldn't really be weird for him. He always used to collect their helmets before, so collecting stuff from stormtroopers fits what he already used to do.
There would be nothing "dark side" about killing storm troopers, who are trying to kill you. That is called self-defense.
I reckon it is possible that Ezra has encountered a local force entity like the Bendu, who does not bother themselves with distinctions like light and dark, but rather something more primal.I reckon that is the reason Ezra refused to accept the light saber, since that was a symbol of the Sith - Jedi duality.
Stupendous Wave you're close. Ezra and Thrawn are undead just like everyone else on Thrawn's ship. There is no way they survived an intergalactic hyperspace jump on a ship that wasn't built for it, plus the windows were broken from the Star Whales.We are in uncharted territory now and I'm here for it.
Just throwing it out there.
Would the dog tags be made of beskar (probably spelt wrong)?
This is something I have thought about since I first saw the tags
Ezra is giving me those Sinbad vibes ⚔️
Ezra maybe the only Jedi that can use the Darkside without being controlled by it. Perhaps Anakin has been tutoring him. So, Grey Jedi????
I think they are using part of the unused Rebels Season 5 script. It was stated in that that in the other galaxy Ezra learned unbelievably powerful dark side force powers from an ancient Rakatan Darkside force user. It would explain the need to name drop that specific race in Andor. So the interaction between them feeling like it lacked emotion is because they are both hiding something with Ezra hiding the former and Sabine hiding the fact that she has to help Thrawn.
Ngl Ezra taking dog tags from the stormtroopers he’s killed and fashioning them into a chain mail like armor has to be the most hardcore shit I’ve seen in Star Wars in a long time
'Searching a whole planet for someone does not usually come so easily'. Cut to Luke finding Yoda on Dagobah almost by accident
If anyone was paying attention, the difference between his recorded goodbye, talking about making the ultimate sacrifice vs saying he was hoping someone would find him indicate two contrasting order of priorities. I'm curious how he reacts when he finds out she gave Thrawn a ticket out to find him.
I think that the hero going to the dark side is a tired narrative that they dont repeat. Also....then conclusion of the season 1 kinda killed most of that argument. He built a new BLUE saber.
He would have those tags because Thrawn likely had troopers on the ground either hunting Ezra himself or hunting the locals.
In my opinion, the uneasiness is because Sabine is trying not to acknowledge a more companioned feeling towards Ezra, since he said she was like a sister to him before he left.
erza would never fall to the darkside, filoni said it
Ezra is a war criminal who has literally always kept trophies from his kills. him having new ones doesnt mean hes gone dark
I really think he might have fallen and been using an illusion to appear like a peaceful hippie dude. He was WAY too eager to leave Peridia even knowing that Ahsoka and Sabine were trapped
Let's look at the fundamental philosophy of Grandmaster Yoda before jumping to these conclusions..."too quick you are to find truth without knowledge". Now let's look at how easily Luke found Yoda when he crash landed on Degobah. Its hasty to draw conclusions without the bigger picture. The Ashoka series has a budget, and it could also be that certain events are forced before they can be properly fleshed out due to that budget. How does one know for certain that Ezra hasn't been fighting for the light and is growing tired of the violence...much like Ashoka herself did. I feel it's way too hasty to draw the conclusion of Ezra's "fall" just as many assumed falsely about Luke's turn to the dark side in his attempt to defeat Vader, which he ultimately rejected. Its all speculation, and as Obi-wan would likely phrase it, 'your suspicion (based out of fear) clouds your judgement in the force'. Assuming isn't the Jedi way, but that of a sith acolyte...
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Every week youtubers theorise the heck out of each episode, and it always turns out to be wrong: Fake Anakin, Yuzong Vong, Starkiller Marrik, and now Dark side Ezra, along with Abaloth.
Even though Filoni seems to be bringing in the overall Heir to the Empire plot into the canon with this series, so far it seems to me like he's been going at it in a pretty safe manner.
When the knowledge of the new galaxy dropped, the whole fandom became excited due to the limitless prospects this could entail.
But with what I've seen, I reckon the production leadership might have been too afraid to take such a massive risk, fearing it would be perceived as "not Star Wars enough" by the fandom. So they allowed the new galaxy plot point to exist, but refrained from doing anything too outlandish until they had tested the waters with this season.
Heed my words:
This Ahsoka season will most likely end up being pretty mild. I wouldn't expect any big reveals, such as Abaloth, on this season. If they do have it mind, they'll merely tease it at most, in order to test reception without actually committing.
Anything of substance will likely happen next season, once they've gotten a good read on the audience.
I expect that Anakin will be the biggest fan-service we'll get this time around.
I don't think Ezra has turned to the dark side. He's grown so much and sacrifice so much to turn back. However, while I don't think he has gone crazy, I do believe that like Sabine, being isolated had given Ezra some PTSD.
We need to remember that Ezra was orphaned at the age of 7, lived 7 more years on the streets, became basically a child soldier at 14 years old, found out his parents died about a year later, gave in to the Dark Side not too long after that, lost his master about 2 years later, rejected Palpatine's second chance to bring back his parents, and resolved himself to bring Thrawn's fleet to the Unknown Regions while leaving his second family behind. Now add 10 years of being alone with no one who he can really confide him, being hunted by Thrawn's troops and perhaps other forces, fending off the power of the dark side on that planet, and protecting a nomadic people that do not seem to be able to defend themselves.
Ezra is going to be different. Whatever shred of innocence he had during Rebels is going to be gone by now. All these events are going to leave mental scars and wounds on him that he doesn't have the time to heal.
We've seen a broken Sabine that has yet to heal her PTSD and Ahsoka who is only starting to mend hers. Those 2 had people and droids that have tried to help them. Ezra didn't have anyone. While I'm sure that he cares for the nomads, I highly doubt that he has opened up to them much. They probably haven't helped him deal with his mental trauma. Ezra here is probably darker than how we remembered in Rebels, but then again so is everyone else.
As for the dog tags thing, I don't think he's flaunting them. Rather, there isn't much to come by on Peridea. He has to make the most of what he can get and maybe that's why Thrawn doesn't pursue him. Any Stormtrooper doesn't stand a chance against Ezra and once they're taken down, Ezra can just loot them for supplies. It would take a lot of troops to successfully bring down Ezra, more than Thrawn can afford to spare, and given that no one can reinforce them, every little bit of manpower is precious.
I’ve always wondered why Ezra was in that stormtrooper suit in TWBWs, maybe that’s how Thrawns troops were thinner. Ezra threw on some armor and went agent 47 on em, and when they finally figured it out, he somehow escaped to there. He was much younger then in the episode, so it would have happened in his past at this point
Backtracking character development is what Disney does best.
Did we not see in Obi Wan, after Vader travels halfway round the galaxy
chasing Obi Wan we are given that epic retort, “ have you come to destroy me Obi Wan.”
Because of Ezra's affinity and training in the Dark Side it is natural to look at him giving himself over to the Dark Side. It's actually possible for a time he was moving towards this direction, as Thrawn undoubtably pursued him once they arrived on Peridia. With Thrawn's troops and marauders looking to attack him at every turn, and nobody around to guide him anymore, he likely would have drawn on training he received from the Sith holocron, Maul and Kanan to survive. Yet, as you stated, he had learn to hate the Empire, accept his parents death and remembered what they had died for. Along with Kanan's sacrifice, it is all enough I believe for Ezra to push away any permanent pull to the Dark Side. It may be why he isn't feeling the same calling Baylan is.
Ezra also doesn't seem to be "desperate" or fearful to leave, just really wanting his life to return to something closer to what it once was.
Finally I agree with your point about Ezra protecting the Noti species.
Based on his life experience, what he knows best is protecting others. He's naturally drawn to it, as were his parents. I believe Ezra sees this as a life venture for him to accomplish. Always helping others in need. As long as Ezra has this job to do, the Dark Side has no chance.
GAH! you can't just put up creepy full-screen pictures of Abeloth like that without warning!!
Sabine finds Ezra quickly because there’s only 8 episodes
maybe he got more meaningful interaction with the Whills , maybe he is more neutral grey force-user , he looks mighty laidback for someone lost in another galaxy for 20 years , and found by his lover that never gave up on him. it was underwhelming .(i dont know if it was poor acting or bad story telling), could be a spell to keep Sabine distracted. Ahsoka will see thru in the end. May the force be with you.
Cool stuff Hannity.
Can hardly blame Ezra as"WE ALL GO A LITTLE MAD SOMETIMES "😂 Anyone in these comments who said this infamous line??
He seemed like a completely normal person to me, not sure there is any reason to speculate all of the other things.
I think Thrawn has had Ezra on his radar the whole time. Basically they have kept up with Ezra's location as they move the camp. And this is why Sabine could find him pretty easily. It is not like they had to go out and gather the data on where Ezra was. It was probably on one of their scouting reports.
Thrawn as a practical man has calculated that it is a waste of his men to go after Ezra as he ain't going anywhere and neither is he. No point in poking the bear if you have nowhere to run and this goes both ways. Thrawn could crash Ezra's party, if he messes too much with his imperial troops. Sort of a cold war setting between the two sides.
I don't think Ezra has been corrupted... Things are probably more straight forward than we like to believe. Those raiding parties that are around points to a civilization of sorts and this is still widely unexplored here. There is life on Peridea and there is probably some form of civilization there as well. I would like to see how the natives live there... Probably not going to happen with all of one episode of the season remaining. And it will likely end up with all or most of the protagonists and antagonists ending up back in the known galaxy...
If Ezra is bad or has fallen, Filoni will have failed his own legacy. I am not at all down for an evil Ezra, especially after the massive character arc he’s undergone.
Still patiently waiting and excited to see ezras response to lukes jedi order.
His eyes, are very blue, stands out!
Also we gotta remember the dark side was veryyyyyy attracted to Ezra for example the sith holocron willingly opened up to Ezra. All Star Wars nerds know holocrons are different to open up
I thought it was odd that he wasn't curious as to how Sabine found him. He also just seemed way too happy being a castaway.
He did ask Sabine but she shut him down before he could get an answer.
Turned to the dark side? Not unless they've pulled a last jedi on Ezra and totally screwed up his character.
Why did we find him so quickly? Because some Jughead only ordered 9 episodes.
I don’t see dogtags, I see chainmail. Ezra is a good guy, I don’t think they would subvert his character growth in Rebels.
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I don't believe Ezra has turned evil. Possibly used some dark side abilities, sure, but I think Ezra would be in balance.
Same thought here
Filoni has shown that he just “does the thing”.
I think Ezra is exactly the same with maybe a little more power. The season is almost over. Pretty sure it isnt to soon
We need a Rebels style version of this reunion.
Honestly, I think Thrawn and Ezra agreed to part ways. He isn't going to waste soldiers on a rebel with no galaxy to defend. Better each man for himself. The armies numbers could have dwindled at what looks like a harsh environment with bandits everywhere, until Thrawn eventually discovered the Nightsisters. Him having a former tie to Elsbeth, they struck a deal.