The latest trailer for the
second half of Star Wars: Rebels shocked fans with the amount of connections to
both the Clone Wars series and J.J. Abrams Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Speaking to Entertainment
Weekly, showrunner, writer, and executive producer Dave Filoni offered some insight
into what the characters will go through in coming episodes.
Here are just a few of
Filoni's words.
"I wanted to put a nod to this new history we’re
seeing in The Force Awakens. It’s
important to have these links between stories in major ways and subtle ways,"
he says. "Here you find a sword we’ve encountered before, and it gives a
little more context to something that turns up later." As for when and
where Ezra find this weapon, Filoni says you'll have to wait and see.
"It
is an ancient place. And it is a dangerous place and one that will challenge
our characters. They come out the other side and are not the same," Filoni
teases before adding, "this place would be well liked by the Sith, I’ll say that
much."
The temple itself was originally suggested in an
unfinished episode of The Clone Wars, which
was posted to StarWars.com.
In a moment not
dissimilar to one in The Force Awakens where we are witnesses to Starkiller
Base's power, we see in the trailer a big red energy blast coming from what
seems to be the surface above the temple. "History repeats itself,"
Filoni says. "There are always these ideas in Star Wars about
power, control, and might. This wouldn’t be the same thing as Starkiller Base,
but you’re picking up on the visual similarities, which I think strengthens the
mythology."
Seeing Ahsoka's duel
with Darth Vader is
a moment Rebel fans have been waiting for quite some time.
"Vader
and The Emperor think that if they can get Ahsoka, she would be a key that
leads them to other Jedi survivors," says Filoni, who promises he will wrap
up that storyline by the end of the season. "The Emperor has a
most-wanted list. Yoda and Obi-Wan are right up there."
"It
occurred to me that as Ezra had a Holocron because of Kanan. It had a recorded
message from Obi-Wan Kenobi in there, so maybe one of the things, some of the
lessens the Holocron was teaching, was how do you sword fight? And who would be
better at teaching that than the great Anakin Skywalker?"
For
a very brief moment in the trailer we see a new mysterious Inquisitor fighting
alongside the Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister. "Gotta
have another," Filoni says. "It's fun to design bad guys because
they always have fantastic outfits."
The second half of Rebels will
reintroduce Jedi Temple Guards, whom were last seen in The Clone Wars, and
while at the time they served the Jedi Order, now their allegiance are to no
one.
"I will say that it plays very
strongly into Kanan’s character and who he is, and becomes an important
moment for him," Filoni says.
In the trailer one of the
Guards warns Kanan of Ezra's susceptibility to the Dark Side. But who is this
masked figure?
"For
anybody in Star Wars, I think one of the questions you’re going to get
asked is, 'Is that Snoke?' It's one of the mysteries right now. So,
anybody could be seen as Snoke," he says, while joking that Chopper could
be Snoke. "Maybe Chopper’s Snoke, you know, and his hard drive gets
uploaded into the mind of an organic being. Chopper seems kind of evil at times."
Clone Wars fans should remember the name Cham
Syndulla, a Twi'lek freedom fighter who SURPRISE! his Hera's father.
"This
poor guy, right? His whole life has been war when you look at it
— fighting in the Clone Wars, and probably right when it looked like
things are breaking in a good way for him with a Republic and the end of the Separatists,
here comes an Empire."
Sabine Wren, the colorful and
explosive Mandalorian will meet two unnamed Mandalorians in future episodes,
who may or not return.
"People
have been very excited about Sabine, and we wanted to get more into her
background and her history and her family history, and [actress Tiya
Sircar] has done a great job at evolving the character. So there will be
some episodes which dive back into the Mandalorian realm and show a couple new
things about them that perhaps fans didn’t know," Filoni says. "I
think it opens up the door for more Mandalorian madness in the future."
Darth Maul is back!
"Even if they guess right about
everything they think they’re seeing, they won’t know how it comes
together, which really becomes the fun part for me," Filoni says. "So if you’re guessing right and the character is who you think it is, it
still doesn’t answer: What in the world is that character up to?"
Star Wars Rebels returns
January 20 on Disney XD.
Source
- EW
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