Being a Star Wars Fan

Sep 30, 2016

Grand Admiral Thrawn entry in Star Wars rebels season 3 ...

.... Not as I expected

First of all I have to say that I do not know much about Thrawn. I never red the Trilogy and as a consequence I did not know from the beginning what to expect.

I made my first idea based on the Trailer and the short clip ("Enter Thrawn") we got upfront of season 3 start.
The image of Thrawn I got was extremely powerfull. I imagined a very calm character with a very strong fame in the Empirial ranks creating full respect from the other officiers. What I mean is: When Thrawn talks nobody talks back because he is right ! No doubt about that!
Very similar to the Tarkin we can find in the novel: calm and precise, strong analyst that prefer to look at the large picture in order to maximize the effect of the actions instead of rushing to the action.

But then The first Episode came and Thrawn made his entry. And it looked like a different character to me. It appears that he actually does not have yet a large fame all across the imperial officers. Indeed, when he enters the scene in the middle of a briefing, Admiral Konstantin and Agent Kallus are actually making comments and questions to him! That was pretty surprising for me. Nobody of this rank would dare to do so with Grand Moff Tarkin.
So Thrawn character and his reputation will evolved probably during this season.

The quote : "They will be the architect of the own destruction" in the trailer is enforced by images and music and it made me think of a very strong and determined quote that he could have pronounced to one capture rebels for example.
In the Episode during this briefing with all these "minor characters" around him, this quote losses a lot of impact to my mind.

So the entry was a bit less strong than I expected. But I am anyway happy because we will see Thrawn further make his name instead of having a established villain like Vader or Tarkin are. This brings strong expectations for Season 3.

Actually, already at episode end, nobody dares to contradict him when he gives order to let the rebels fly away. That is the first step of establishment of his authority.

According to the Insight Discovery profile tool :

As for personality Thrawn is clearly a BLUE personality (...like his skin...) as opposed to Agent Kallus that is clearly a RED.

I expect Kallus not to go very good with Thrawn and I go further : I do not think that he can openly act against him or parallel to him to avoid behing crushed to a minor officier... but perhaps he can help the Rebels to make Thrawn fail! This way he could make his return and become the main player.

What do you think of the Thrawn Entry ? Do you agree with me that Kallus can be a threat that Thrawn could not take into account ?

By the way : look how good the Lucasfilm designers are : just looking at the face of these 2 fotos you can relate the behavior to the color profile description! well done!

Sep 23, 2016

Darth Vader Comic Book 7 to 12 - Review

Today I would like to continue to write about something really stunning :

The MARVEL StarWars comic book . DARTH VADER.

I continue the review with the tome #2 (French edition) that collect US editions tome 7 to 12 (2015)

As a reminder : The comic scenario is from Kieron Gillen(Young Avengers, Iron Man) and the drawings are from Salvador Larocca(various X-Men series and Iron Man).

Thanoth

At the beginning of this 2nd arc, Darth Vader just discover that he has got a son. His son destroyed the Death Star. So his quest to find him continues with the help of Aphra, 000, BT1, Bobba Fett and a droid army !

In parallel to his missions for Grand Amiral Tagge, Vader tries to build his own power in order to find Luke and be prepare to defeat his villain competition (the creatures of Cyclo)....

But the most problematic for him is the incredibly smart inspector that is in charge to support him in solving some mysterious actions against the Empire : Inspector Thanoth.

The relationship Vader / Doctor Aphra is still very interesting because it is always very uncertain and we keep always the impression that Vader can dispose of her anytime... but she starts also to use this to her advantage.

The comic is really awesome for the scenario, the drawings. We really get the feeling to be together with Darth Vader and we see him as a "hero" in the middle of the Empire most dangerous peoples.... and that is weird because at the same time he his merciless with rebels, criminals and whoever can endanger his plans .... This will definitely modify my view of the films.

Darth Vader #12

Especially the "I am your father" moment: this series gives a new dimension to his wish to make Luke join him.

We know that the Sith way is that the apprentice tries to defeat his Master (so he needs Luke in order to kill Sidious) but I get the impression that when he says to Luke that together they could restore peace in the galaxy this is because deep inside he has seen so much brutality of the Empire killers that he thinks that through his power he can destroy the darkest part of the Empire and rule everything better by himself (and his good part deep within) and Luke.
What if Luke would have joined him and destroyed Palpatine? Could it be that they would have restored peace and democracy together with Vader redemption?

It is very hard for me to express this. I will try to develop more in future.

Sep 16, 2016

Star Wars Rebels speculation: Darth Vader kills commander Rex !

Hello Star wars fans, I would like to discuss an idea I had for future Rebels episodes.

In season 3 trailer of Rebels we still can see Captain Rex. I really like this character that represents the perfect soldier : courage, discipline, efficiency. He has also a great sense of honor and friendship to both his brothers in arms and the Jedi Generals.

We all know that commander Rex was the officier fighting together with General Skywalker.
They had a great respect and trust for each other and they have made numerous missions hand in hand. They saved the life of each other several times.

To my mind this is part of the reason why he has been used in the Rebels show. He has a connection to Ahsoka (who finds him again) but also to Anakin that is now Darth Vader. Rex talks even shortly of "The Jedi he served" has a great example.

In Season 2, Rex did not met Vader directly and I do not think that Ashoka spoke about who Darth Vader Really is before she disappeared.

I wonder if in Season 3 (or later) we could have a fight between them in which Vader recognizes Rex and eventually makes him understand that his former trusted General is now behind the mask before...killing him.
That would be a great moment full of emotions. Rex would be strongly affected (a bot the Ashoka way) by the fact that his wise and powerful Jedi now became the worst villain. I imagine he would lay down his famous 2 blasters and get crushed by mercyless Vader.

For sure Dave Felloni could make that a very emotional sequence.

Here bellow a very nice video I found that summaries the relation ship between Anakin and Rex. This relationship was created and made so intense by Dave Felloni, I really think that he cannot let that forgotten in Rebels.

Could it happen ? What do you think ?

Sep 11, 2016

New clip of Ezra Bridger "Mind trick": slowly sliding to the Dark Side.

StarWars you tube channel posted recently this new extract of Rebels.

This is a sequence that is following just the one revealed before SWCE16:

You can see my comments there. http://beingstarwarsfan.blogspot.it/2016/07/new-star-wars-rebels-season-3-clip.html

Already in this previous clip, I underlined that I was pretty chocked by the lack of mercy of the fight manners of "new" EZRA. We can see him in a very deadly lightsaber fight in which he literally exterminate the stormtroopers. We can see a lot of anger in his eyes.

At the end of the clip, Tarba (Ando's friend) is killed by a AT-DP (All Terrain Defense Pod).

Now, in the new clip we can see Ezra focusing on the pilot of the AT-DP. He get controls of pilot's mind that turns the AT-DP against the stormtrooper. Again it is very clear that he kills them without hesitation. One can think that he could have simply made them runaway....

It shows first that Ezra is now really powerful with the force. This is a new frontier of mind trick. Because we can see him not only influence the thinking for a short time but here he manages to use the pilot as a puppet for several seconds... Never see before i think ?? (do you have other examples?)

Secondly I fear that Ezra chooses this way to destroy the troopers in REVENGE for the Tarba loss.

So what else to say : ANGER, REVENGE, NO MERCY... the ways of the dark side.

Last point is the sense of surprise but also fear that one can read in the eyes and behaviour of the 3 rebels (Zeb, Sabine, Ando). I am not sure they approve the way of acting of Ezra...

EZRA - Mind control

My theory is that, due to the injuries, Kanan does not stay close enough to Ezra to keep him on the right road. He will need external help to prevent Ezra fall....

A lot of people now are talking of EZRA being a "Cannon Starkiller". Well there some base for that.

What was you reaction to this video ?

Some might say that it is a normal fight between rebles and a Jedi and the Empire.... what do you think?